dolly-verse fics
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i know it's over, still i cling by a_alene
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), DCU
13 Oct 2024
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Jason is so, so very tired.
There’s a split-second before the blast when he thinks he’s fifteen again. Back when he didn’t even have the time to close his eyes before everything went white-hot. Then Bru—Batman—is reaching for him, and Jason wakes up in a pile of rubble.
But at least he wakes up.
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Jason Todd, in the immediate aftermath of Under the Red Hood.
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- Part 1 of dolly-verse fics
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Dolly is the very nice old woman who lives three blocks down from Jason’s third-favorite safe house. It’s not out of the norm for her to ask him to put this or that knick-knack on this or that shelf, but it is out of the norm for him to open the closet door and nearly be swallowed by yarn.
“Oh, dear,” Dolly says. “I forgot that was the yarn closet.”
“A yarn closet,” Jason repeats disbelievingly. He places the knick-knack on top of the shelf. There is an endless rainbow of yarn pooled around his feet. “What do you even do with all this?”
Dolly says, “Hats, scarves. Hot pads if I’m bored. Blankets if there’s a baby. Honestly, you can crochet all kinds of things.”
“Crocheting,” Jason says. And this is where he makes his fatal mistake: “Is that kind of like knitting?”
Five minutes later, Jason finds himself seated on the couch, a bundle of yarn in one hand and some kind of hook in the other.
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Jason Todd learns how to crochet. It turns out that having healthy emotional outlets improves your mental health and your relationships with others--like, say, a certain set of Bats.
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- Part 2 of dolly-verse fics
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It’s a simple stick-up. A wild-eyed teen coming out of a back alleyway with a pocketknife in hand, brandishing it at Dolly in a way that suggests he’s never held a weapon before. “Give me all your money.” His poor little voice is shaking.
“You’re going to have to give me a second,” Dolly says. “I have to put down my bags.” She’s met with the knife jabbing even closer, shaking in her face.
“Don’t move!” he says.
Well, now Dolly wishes very strongly that she had both hands free so she could put them on her hips, to more pointedly express her frustration. “Now, listen here, young man—“
“Is there a problem here,” a voice says from behind. Deep. Filtered and buzzing.
The would-be mugger goes paler than Dolly had thought was possible. His mouth flaps open and closed, but no sound comes out. She has to tilt her head up and up in order to catch the figure in his totality. He’s even larger than he looks on the news, with gleaming guns strapped to seemingly every available surface. The scarlet of his helmet looks almost black in the shadow. Red Hood casts a brief glance down towards Dolly before looking back to the mugger.
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Dolores Patton gets some help with her groceries.
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- Part 3 of dolly-verse fics