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Terrible Sting, Terrible Storm (ARCHIVED) by airyoubreathe
Fandoms: Nightwing (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
28 Feb 2025
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This is an archived version of a story that has since been rewritten and updated with 24,000 extra words and two extra chapters
Dick stood stock still, his heartbeat hammering in his ears. As the rain pattered against his suit, his shoulder throbbed violently. The man was replying to his partner, but Dick couldn’t hear what he’d said. The rain was so loud. He felt something awful crack open inside him that he’d carefully never examined before.
Years of pain and trauma have built up a heavy debt, and it's time for it to be paid. Dick Grayson is due to face the storm.
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13 Aug 2025
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Don't You Forget About Me by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Grayson (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
17 Jun 2022
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A mysterious stranger visits the Batfamily during the holidays. He remembers all of them, but they don't remember him.
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11 Nov 2024
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Bruce wishes, as he has wished every minute of every day for nearly 20 years, that things were different for himself. But now he also wishes that for Dick. No child should have to experience what they have. But he really is selfish, it seems, because at the same time, how could he possibly want to give up a single second with this little miracle in his arms?
A small but important bonding moment.
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- Part 1 of Gentle Hands
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30 Sep 2024
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"How old are you anyway?"
Bruce smirks a little, “Pretty old.”
“How old am I?” Dick rephrases the question. Realistically, given the lines on Bruce's face and the grey in his hair, he has to be more than a decade or two in the future. But, well, Dick's still reeling from being twelve. He can't begin to imagine a world where there's anything past tomorrow.
Bruce's smirk sinks a little, but not quite to a frown. It's a distant smile, fighting through the shadows of whatever it is Bruce sees when he looks down at him. In a quiet, mournful tone, he says, “Not that old. Not old at all.”
(A young Robin and Nightwing swap places; Batman is always the constant.)
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30 Jul 2024
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When Bruce Wayne barely survives a brutal confrontation with the villain known as Bane, he comes away with a broken spine and the terrible certainty that his days as Batman are over. An unexpected discovery among his mother’s old things might offer him a second chance—but at what price?
The story of a man willing to risk his soul for the sake of his mission, the dangerous creature he decides to call Robin, and the unlikely partnership that will come to shape the legend of Gotham’s Dark Knight.
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21 May 2024