a moment is all it takes
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There's a strange group sitting at the main table. This wouldn't be a problem if a) Robin hadn't confirmed they were assassins for his grand-father, b) they were not heroes or even acquaintances of heroes and c) they were in space, on the Watchtower, the place no one knew existed.
The man tells him that they have proof Batman is still alive, and the other two share a look when he tells them — really barks out an order — that they have to bring him home. Once the silence settles, and they're proven correct, the feeling of unease in Clark's stomach doesn't abate. Not at all. Something is so terribly wrong and it's looking them straight in the face.
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- Part 1 of a moment is all it takes
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you know where to find me by iquirms
Fandoms: DCU, Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
14 May 2024
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Getting to Paris passes in a blur. He's not sure how long it takes since the last thing he can remember is one of the assassins — Z, he thinks his name was — explaining how much his brother suffered before dying. He hasn't lost time like this in a while.
When Dick closes his eyes, he hears the sickening sound of bones snapping and tortured cries, his own name mixing into the sounds before silence settles over the image. He smells fresh dirt, hears a coffin chink down into the ground, can taste whiskey on his tongue. When he opens his eyes, his hand is wrapped around the handle of a mortuary door.
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- Part 2 of a moment is all it takes
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"I'm glad you could make it," Dick says, like it's a surprise she shoved everything aside to be here. Maybe he's not surprised. Maybe there was the passing thought in his head that no one would come, no one who actually meant a damn to Tim. How does she tell him that there's nowhere else she'd be? This is the worst day of her life, but she's still going to sit here and look at the dirt and try to imagine that Tim's somewhere comfortable, not pressed underneath six feet of cold dirt and in the dark.
"I loved him."
Or — the funeral.
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- Part 3 of a moment is all it takes
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baby, both arms cradle you now by iquirms
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
13 Jun 2024
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"My," he starts but the oxygen mask dilutes it to some useless garbling and with a painful huff, Bruce uses a clumsy hand to reach up and pull it off. Someone goes to put it back on but he bats their hand away, turning back to see Clark as Hal's construct begins to move him towards the medical ward. "My kids," he gasps, oxygen mask clutched in one hand, "where's my kid? Where's Dick?"
Clark's eyes water inexplicably but Bruce is passed out before he can question why, hand falling limply by his side.
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- Part 4 of a moment is all it takes
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everything eats and is eaten by iquirms
Fandoms: DCU, Superboy (Comics), Impulse (Comics), Young Justice (Comics)
23 Aug 2024
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For what seems to be much too brief amount of time, it was Robin and Superboy and Impulse. Then they'd formed a proper team, had other members and girlfriends and other friends, but they were each others constants. Then Superboy died. And Impulse died.
And then Robin died.
But the other two came back and without the singular constant in their life, everything seems to be crumbling down around them.
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- Part 5 of a moment is all it takes