18 Works in Post-Tim Drake's Quest to Find Bruce Wayne
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I gritted my teeth for too long by unlikecharlie for DancingInTheSliverGlow
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
08 Oct 2025
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Alfred is not the best. He is not a saint. He can do plenty of wrongs. Tim is tired of pretending like that's not true.
Or: Alfred's turn at being confronted by Tim, featuring the kitchen and tea again, oddly enough.
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- Part 3 of Family is a six-letter word
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“It wasn’t until you showed up in Paris that they decided to show themselves.”
Tim scowled. “And that matters why? I hardly see how that relates to me. I didn’t even know your interest in me until after Z shot a grenade at my face.” He ignored the way saying Z’s name sends a zing of grief down his spine.
“It matters, because in addition to other… factors, it points to the Council of Spiders hunting not the League of Assassins, but rather-”
“Me.”
The revelation is alarming.
Ra’s dipped his head. “Brilliant as ever, Detective.”Or
It's been proven to Tim several times that 'dead' doesn't exactly mean gone. For once it's not Ra's being a weirdo stalker, but someone else from his past... Meanwhile the rest of Tim's family would very much like their over-caffeinated, sleep deprived brother to stop wandering off to the other side of the planet, thanks.
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A Ghost of Yourself by HollowW00ds
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
07 Oct 2025
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Tim Drake died when Robin cut his line. There was no flag pole or ledge to catch himself on. No backup grapple at the ready. Lucky for him, Gotham has never been one to give up her soldiers. Now an undead that is permanently bound to Gotham as her protector, Tim learns the importance of self-worth. And that maybe his "family" isn't what's best for him.
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Tim heard Jason joking about being a zombie and said, "hold my beer." Featuring semi-sentient Gotham.
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- Part 1 of Memento Mori
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When Tim runs into a rogue magic-user on patrol, the family is left to care for a child version of him while he slowly returns to his normal age as the spell wears off. The close proximity and the chance to see different sides of Tim provide opportunities for reflection and reconciliation (and a lot of cute pictures).
Written for the 2025 Batfam Big Bang
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Cassandra returns to Gotham after nearly a year in Hong Kong. The city that is waiting for her is not the home she remembers.
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Objects in Mirror by aurora_rising
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
19 Sep 2025
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In which Tim remembers one of his first favorite photographs and looks into the void to see if it (metaphorically) stares back.
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Caroline Hill goes to pay her daughter a visit, with hopes of spending some time with her daughter's father while she's at it.
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Not quite brothers, but something close by unlikecharlie
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
23 Aug 2025
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A quiet night out in the costume to ease himself back into being a vigilante got interrupted when Tim took a break near Crime Alley. And which of Tim's brothers-slash-family associates tended to lurk around that exact area? Hint: it wasn't Nightwing.
Aka: it's Jason's turn to have a Moment™️ with Tim
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- Part 5 of Family is a six-letter word
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Kon should argue, should protest that he’s Superboy and obviously they can track one guy in a crowd half the size of a high school gymnasium, but instead he just makes a little surprised noise utterly unbefitting of Superboy as Rob grabs the collar of his shirt and presses Kon’s mouth against his own.
Or: God, Kon loves Metropolis like his dominant hand, but Gotham really does have a certain je ne sais quoi.
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Scars that Never Heal by HollowW00ds
Fandoms: Young Justice (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
13 Aug 2025
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Tim has been them, and Kon wants to know why. So when his friend comes to the Tower to preform server maintenance in Cyborg's absence, Kon sees an opportunity. Planning to do just a simple prank to get his friend's attention (and get rid of his ugly cowl) he discovers more about what happened to friend during the time he was dead.
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Looks like it's Damian's turn for a soft moment with Tim after he brought their dad back home. Or is it Titus' turn? It's a bit unclear.
In which balls are thrown, brothers are made, art is discussed, and buried childhood trauma is unearthed despite Tim's best attempts otherwise.
(Just like the rest, this can reasonably be read as a standalone.)
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- Part 4 of Family is a six-letter word
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Tam's Multi-step Plan to Freedom by MagicMysticFantasy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
01 Aug 2025
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Looking back down at the sheaf of papers in his hand, Tim noticed that his hands were now fully trembling. It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
“This is going to kill me.”
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After Tim has some realizations about what he wants his future to look like, Tam takes over his life to help that happen.
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Tim was back at the Manor, as promised. Nothing was fixed or mended yet, not much had changed. But he had Bruce back and maybe... maybe he could have his big brother back too.
Or: sharing tea with your older brother after midnight and not really talking about everything that went wrong between you but also not not talking about it, and crying it out can sort of stitch a relationship back together. More at 12.
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- Part 2 of Family is a six-letter word
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In the Quiet Dark by MyLastWhimsy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Robin (Comics)
14 Mar 2025
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Tim didn’t know what to expect when Jason Todd found him on the brink of death, but he never imagined the line between savior and captor would dissolve into something so inescapable. Broken and stripped of his autonomy, Tim is forced to rely on the man who once inspired his dreams - before crushing them completely. Meanwhile, Jason's obsession deepens and their fragile dynamic spirals toward a breaking point, leaving both to grapple with the cost of survival and the scars they’ll carry long after.
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It's been three months since Bruce came back from the dead; three months since he came home. Replacement did not come home with him.
Replacement seems to've dropped off the face of the earth.
Jason, bein an Outlaw, doesn't get what the big deal is. He quite literally drops off the face of the earth all the time. He bets no one's ever this worried about him when he disappears without notice, even though the first time he went swannin off he fuckin died.
In other, unrelated news, Jason's bein haunted by the ghost of some ol lady's dead parrot. Like goddamn could life get any more ridiculous.
No, wait, don't answer that.
Knock on wood or some shit.
Fuck.
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Jason was surprised when Tim decided to patrol with him upon his return to Gotham, even with Dick's new rule of no solo patrols. That's a lot of time together every night. Then, Tim catches a cold from Damian, and Jason checks up on him.
With all this time together, they might get as close as they were back when Jason was the one who was Robin.
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red widow by tmarauder101
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), DCU, Red Robin (Comics), Black Widow (Comics)
22 Nov 2022
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“Suffice it to say, it was totally understandable that Tim—who was probably just a little mad with grief in hindsight—hadn’t noticed the third assassin organization gunning for his head while he was looking for Bruce.
In his defense, two out of the three organizations were spider-themed. Of course, he just thought they were in the same death cult or whatever.
Honestly, that was just bad branding on their parts.”
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AU where Janet Drake was a Black Widow. This changes a lot, but not everything.
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now's not the time for wailin', while there's water in the river by UntoldDepths for corvidspectre
Fandoms: Teen Titans (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), DCU, Young Justice (Comics)
20 Jan 2022
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After so many people who love him died, it's amazing Tim can continue to love.
But after a weekend at Titan's Tower turns bad in a situation that never seems to end, his love for his boyfriends-returned-from-the-dead will be severely tested.
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It was only supposed to be brunch and a day hanging out with the girls. But then the world shook.