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    Everyone in the Batfamily has something that makes them different, something the others just can't do. Stephanie hasn't found hers yet, so she decides to do the one thing none of them have ever done. She's going to have a civilised conversation with the Red Hood if it kills her, she realy hopes it doesn't kill her. Pre new52

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    04 Mar 2025

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    "Hold this." She set the crown on his head, shocking some light back into dimmed teal eyes. She washed her hands before lifting his off his knee and forcing herself to look at the ugly, self-inflicted wounds.

    If Tim saw Jason the way he was then, rolling his eyes at the dumb crown, but unable to take it off his head without aggravating his open antiseptic covered palms, there was no way he'd think he was involved.

    Tim could get them to stop looking for Jason, at least for a while, at least until he was a little better, and she trusted that Tim wouldn't tell the others where Jason was unless it was really necessary, not if she made him promise.

    Jason yawned and slumped over into his pillows, while Steph got the bandages. His eyes slowly slid closed, and he was asleep, his breaths deep and even, but the time she tied off the fresh dressings.

    She trusted Tim, but Jason trusted her, at least enough to stick around despite her connection to the people he was sure would toss him right back into the situation he'd just gotten out of.

    Sliding into her chair she took in the mess she'd made of the room, little pieces of paper littering every surface, she'd even gotten a few globs of sticky glitter on most of the library books he'd left scattered on every horizontal surface but the floor.

    Jason let out a huff and turned his head a bit more into his pillow, nudging the crown until it covered a portion of his face.

    She leaned over, pillowing her head in the arms she'd folded on the mattress as she let out a sound that was somewhere between a sob and an amused snort. He trusted her enough to fall asleep with that thing on his head and a group of gangsters in the other room.

    She'd know Tim for years, he was easy to trust, and Jason? Jason was mad that a guy who'd been shot got priority over a kid with a cough, he'd threatened to mail pieces of her to her mother and thrown ice cream at her and ignored her very presence for weeks. Jason wasn't easy to trust.

    With a sigh, she pressed her head against his arm and slid her own scratchy eyes shut.

    But she wanted to trust him, she really, really did.

    In the end she didn't have to worry about whether or not to tell Tim at all. She fell asleep and the next thing she knew she was on the bed, tucked under the colorful blankets. All the glitter and clippings had been cleaned from the room, and the books were stacked neatly on the bedside stand, topped with three pieces of stiff paper the size of credit cards.

    When she sat up to get a look at what was scrawled across the cards, the crown she'd made tumbled of her head and she only barely caught it before it could smash into the floor.

    The cards all said the same thing, but each was decorated differently with an obscene amount of glitter.

    'IOU'

    Jason was gone.
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    Shit that had me feral and locked the fuck in: this.

  2. Rec 3

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    Oneshot: A conflict with Mai before the KOF preliminaries pushes an already frazzled King toward a breaking point. Seeking some form of reprieve, she soon finds herself in a compromising position.

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    21 Mar 2022

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    A real solid poke at not only a bunch of character dynamics/relationships and their road bumps, but at how the mundane fighters in KOF have it super rough. Good food all round tbh

  3. Rec 3

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    Amara's childhood.

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    27 Oct 2019