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"Why don't you hide them?" Stephanie asks quietly.
Although she's not looking down at Bruce's arms anymore, the white stripes of damaged skin across his knuckles and forearm are seared into her memory. Bruce doesn't need to ask what she's talking about, because he had definitely seen the way she was staring down at his scars.
He doesn't shrug, because Batman doesn't shrug, but he does something close to it while gently tightening the bandages across her abdomen, fingers ghosting the healed cut across the bottom of her stomach, "Why don't you?"
She doesn't have an answer to that.
(Stephanie Brown and people who live with talking scars.)
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07 Sep 2024
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"I'm sorry Duke, he's gone," Duke hears him say, his heartbeat loud in his ears, "Steady, son. You are safe now."
Duke blinks away the blurriness in his eyes, gazing up at Bruce helplessly. There are undoubtedly waves of tears leaving his eyes now, but Duke finds he can't stop himself, especially when Bruce squeezes his hand. There's a pin prickling sensation across his body, bubbling his blood beneath skin, but Bruce's hand is warm.
"I'm sorry," Duke whispers, devastated.
Bruce squeezes his hand, face pinched with worry and fading terror, "You're going to be alright."
(Duke gets hurt on patrol, Bruce responds.)
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07 Sep 2024
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"Just a couple of orphans," Duke mumbles sadly, laughing with just enough self-deprecation that it could be passed off as genuine, "Sitting on the roof of a mansion, all alone, wallowing in our self pity. Should we start a club? Make matching bracelets?"
Bruce gives him a funny look, his eyes impossibly soft, as he whispers, "I'm not alone."
Duke turns to him with a confused frown.
"I've got you." Bruce says, like it's that simple.
(After a painful reality check, Duke and Bruce sit on the roof and look at the stars.)
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07 Sep 2024
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Duke thinks now might be a bad time to try and convince Bruce he isn't tired, not when he's got drool on his cheek from snoring away in the batmobile for an hour, "I wanted to help." He whispers again, but it sounds childish in his own ears.
But Bruce doesn't sound any less concerned when he gently says, "I know. I want to help everyone too, but sometimes you need to help yourself first."
(Duke is not supposed to be out patrolling at night, but he's going to help his ridiculously large family — besides, he's not even that tired!)
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06 Sep 2024
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Jason doesn't move from Bruce's side until the man opens his eyes seven hours later. He did it once before, but was fast asleep before anyone could say anything. This time, Jason watches his fingers twitch, then as a grimace stretches across his face.
Finally, dazed and scared, Bruce blinks up at him, “Jay?”
Jason holds onto his hand, and squeezes, “Yeah. I'm here.”
(Bruce returns from the kind-of dead and Jason takes it upon himself to pick up the pieces.)
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06 Sep 2024
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TRICKERY BETWEEN THE LINES. by orpheusaki
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types
18 Aug 2024
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“But now what will I wear when I go out into the cold?” Hal asks jokingly with a raised brow, staring at the coat now stolen from him.
Bruce pretends to mull it over, brushing the back of his hand against Hal's arm, the hills of his knuckles brushing against the tweed, “You'll just have to wear mine for the time being. It suits you.”
If Hal raises his brow any further, he runs the risk of it flying off his forehead entirely, but his surprise is only fueled further by the fire in Bruce's irises, “That's awfully possessive, even for you.”
“Is it?” Bruce asks, pulling his arm away.
(Hal's first date with Bruce goes as well as anyone expected — not. It ends better.)
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06 Sep 2024
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Gotham's son, her Knight by ElectricFlowers
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
03 Apr 2024
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The people of Gotham like to whisper.
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02 Sep 2024
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The Dead End Quiet by ElectricFlowers
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
29 May 2024
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How is a city supposed to grieve?
Painfully, Gotham thinks.
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02 Sep 2024
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Bruce grabs Dick's face with both his hands, forcing them to meet eyes, "Dick. Talk to me. Where are you hurt? You've lost so much blood — you're —"
"Not mine," Dick whispers, furrowing his brows like he's confused as to why Bruce is here, "Not my blood."
"Dick. Whose blood is this?" Bruce asks clearly, back to locking eyes with Dick, trying to bring him back to the bathroom covered in glass and not wherever he's lost himself in, "Chum, please. Dick whose blood is this?"
(Dick kills the Joker. Bruce hides three bodies.)
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30 Aug 2024
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Bruce used to take the boys camping and showed them how to cook outside, neither can remember the recipes…
Jason wants to remake dishes, unfortunately the one person who knew the exact ingredients...isn't here anymore...
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29 Aug 2024
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YOU LOOK SO PRETTY FROM AFAR. by orpheusaki
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types
19 Jul 2024
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“Can I help you?” Hal asks after he catches the man staring again.
He'd been right to think the man hadn't been entirely adverse to catching Hal's attention, since he doesn't seem embarrassed at being noticed, almost like he was being the least bit inconspicuous on purpose.
“Sorry,” the stranger says, hardly apologetic at all, “You… look like someone I know.”
Hal snorts, “Must be one handsome fellow,” he jokes with a shrug, knowing being vain is only charming if it's true.
It seems to work, since the man's indifferent expression falters, the corner of his mouth twitching in amusement as he hums deeply. Maybe it's just a trick of the light, but his baby blues seem to twinkle mischievously, “Some would say so.”
(Hal meets a guy in an expensive suit who has a thing for chilli dogs.)
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20 Aug 2024
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Someone was sitting on the hood of the Batmobile, holding a lug wrench.
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- Part 19 of Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts
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07 Aug 2024
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Campaign Helper by koalaboy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batgirl (Comics)
16 Jul 2020
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Jim brings his daughter to see Harvey Dent as he begins his campaign for a second term. Barbara helps where she can, but she’s easily distracted.
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07 Aug 2024
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The Beginning by koalaboy
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: The Animated Series
01 Nov 2019
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Only days after acid is thrown in Harvey's face during the most televised trial in all of Gotham's history, Bruce brings young Dick to see him in hospital as he recovers. Bruce tries to come to terms with almost losing his best friend - and the fact that he still might be losing Harvey to his own mind.
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07 Aug 2024
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we can only do our best to recreate by slaapkat for railroadman
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
25 Sep 2018
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The first time Harvey meets Matches Malone, he’s sure it’s a joke.
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19 Jul 2024
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18 Jul 2024
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guilt is a useless emotion by TheResurrectionist
Fandoms: Justice League - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
10 Jun 2024
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“We’re just having a conversation,” Hal said, like Clark was crazy for even bringing it up.
“In the showers?"
“Yeah?” Hal asked, scrubbing at his back with one hand. Frowning, he twisted around in the spray so he was facing away from Bruce. “Hey, is it on my neck? I swear I can still feel it there.”
Bruce leaned over, scanning Hal’s back. “No. You’re clear.”
(or, the time Hal followed Bruce into the Watchtower showers to continue an argument and nobody but Clark thought that was weird)
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09 Jul 2024
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After inhaling her food before Bruce's even halfway through his vanilla milkshake, Stephanie seems to have sobered up a little. She's looking less green, and more like she's trying to develop x-ray vision and look into Bruce's soul.
Or maybe she's still drunk, because she very suddenly and very bluntly tells him, "I used to wish you were my dad," drowning her chips into a little pot of ketchup.
Bruce pauses. He slowly drops the chicken nugget he was about to put in his mouth — since now is probably not the time to complain about how the nuggets are a little dry today.
(Bruce Wayne is not Stephanie Brown's father, not at all.)
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13 Jun 2024
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Galas Suck by dottie_dc (dottie_wan_kenobi) for almondrose
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
27 Dec 2019
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When she doesn’t respond, he looks down to her face, finding her staring in the direction of the doors they came in through. “Something on your mind?”
He’s really asking, why did you come and get me? If it’s just nerves, she would’ve been better off with one of the others. No, it must be something else.
Steph blinks, turning her gaze upwards. Never one to back down, she meets his eyes long enough for him to see she’s not in any distress, at least. “Just thinking.”
“About?”
“I don’t know,” she mumbles. “Everything. Nothing.”
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Written for the Gen Batfam Christmas Stocking 2019, for the prompt "Wayne Gala"
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- Part 2 of Batfam Stocking 2019
- Part 10 of Batfam Fics
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13 Jun 2024
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though your eyes will need some time to adjust by popsunner
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 Nov 2020
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“I think…” Stephanie takes a deep breath, “I think I’m bad.”
“I don’t.”
“So what, I’m just supposed to believe you?”
“I am Batman.”
Stephanie snorts, “Yeah, you are… but what if I’m still bad?”
“Then I forgive you.”
_______Or: Stephanie and Bruce, figuring it out
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- Part 7 of DC One-offs
Bookmarked by CatboyBatman
13 Jun 2024