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James and Bruce by pantomimicry
Fandom Batman (Movies - Nolan), Batman - All Media Types
07 Jul 2023
Summary
A progressive series of drabbles set during the years following TDK.
"Crime-fighting is magnetic, all-consuming in a ‘can’t look away from a train wreck’ way. It’s the arduous kind of work that leaves Jim hundreds of miles from his family. It’s work that’s left Wayne homeless, broken, and bloodied; thankless work that put Gordon’s police force at the mercy of debonair corporate sponsors.
Retirement for Jim and Batman is more nightmare than dream. There’s no such thing as one last time for them. Bruce Wayne doesn’t have the wherewithal for ordinary life and Jim Gordon isn’t a man who can leave a job half-done.
Their success metric: another night alive, together."
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Drabble inspo!!
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I love this series of drabbles as stories, I guess one might say. Sparse and beautiful. Works best I think if you read it all at once.
They will never hold hands. They will never have lunch in an open café. They will never have more than stolen, careful moments. He stands behind Jim, who has not bothered to get up, reading a thick and incomplete file. His hand moves unconsciously over the knot at the top of Jim's spine, up into his hair and back down.
"It's one thing after another," Gordon says. He leans his head back into the hard plane of Batman's armor.
"You're not alone."
Jim reaches up catching Batman's hand on the back of his neck. There are words they'll never say.
Pay no attention to this, this info is here just so I know what was here if it is ever deleted from AO3. Author omitted in case the author ever changes their name or orphans the work.
James and Bruce
Updated: 2023-07-07
Words: 7,000
Work/Series ID: 88018Relationship Tags:
Work/Series Summary:
A progressive series of drabbles set during the years following TDK.
"Crime-fighting is magnetic, all-consuming in a ‘can’t look away from a train wreck’ way. It’s the arduous kind of work that leaves Jim hundreds of miles from his family. It’s work that’s left Wayne homeless, broken, and bloodied; thankless work that put Gordon’s police force at the mercy of debonair corporate sponsors.
Retirement for Jim and Batman is more nightmare than dream. There’s no such thing as one last time for them. Bruce Wayne doesn’t have the wherewithal for ordinary life and Jim Gordon isn’t a man who can leave a job half-done.
Their success metric: another night alive, together."
Series Notes:
1: A Perpetual Leap: Batman & Jim, an introduction.
2: And Countless Shadows: Batman & Jim, a bedroom slice.
3: Below Their World: ordinary moments, Batman & Commissioner Gordon.
4: Three Dear Men: Billionaire v. Superhero; the tug of war for Jim’s attention.
5: James and Bruce: another introduction, James & Bruce.
6: The Post-it Narrative: Jim & Bruce Wayne, a flirtation masking the “what are we conversation?”
7: Imaginary Goodbye Stories: Gordon & Wayne/Batman: all the ruin, none of the consequence. No such thing as dead billionaires, or anti-heroes.--------------------------------------------------------------------------
8: The Duality Equation
9: The Criminal Chronicles
10: The End, Revisited -
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Each part has 10 oneshot vignettes about Jim and Bruce/Batman.