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When You Lose Something You Can't Replace by risetherivermoon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), DCU (Comics)
02 Dec 2025
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Summary
Dick has never felt pain as striking as this. He’s kept going after everything, after all of it, because people depended on him. Damian and Tim looked up to him, he was Jason’s anchor, Duke, Steph and Cass relied on him and his guidance, his kindness. Babs needed a shoulder to lean on. Bruce needed his Robin, his Nightwing. Alfred needed his grandson. Then all of it was gone. They were all gone. Gotham was in shambles, he had funerals to plan, a league of heroes to uphold, a business to make decisions for.
He was still needed, but now? He wasn’t wanted. When he closes his eyes at night, he wishes he’d wake up anywhere else than the empty pit of a manor he resided in. What he wasn't expecting was his wish to come true…
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or: after the rest of the bat clan die to the Joker in Gotham, Dick wakes up in a universe where Dick Grayson never existed, and superheroes weren't possible. A Bruce Wayne who's only a man, a father, finds him.
Series
- Part 1 of A Handshake Of Carbon Monoxide