seriousfic

Title: Dangerous (the What Have You Done remix)
Fandom: Batman Nolanverse
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2,425
Characters/Pairings: Tim, Batman
Author’s notes: Written for Tyleet as part of that remix thing. The original is here. This story was betaed by Kernezelda and Gran Sigma, who I thank profoundly. It also owes something of a debt to D. Benway's In The Blood, which I had best acknowledge here instead of in the comments.
Summary: The son of Batman and the Joker has been psychologically tested since childhood. It doesn't work.

( Tim cried like a much younger boy and no matter how his mother soothed him, he couldn't stop the wracking sobs from spinning his tiny body on the floor. She grew fearful, as if it were her responsibility to deal with precisely this and now it was here and she could do nothing. )

Title: Where They Can’t Find You
Fandom: The Dark Knight + Superman Returns
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3,186
Characters/Pairings: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, (Bruce/Clark pre-slash?), the Joker, Gordon, Alfred
Summary: Superman is right to be worried after the Joker escapes.

( But good news, have-nots. The, ah, haves? They can die just as quick… or as slow and painfully… as all of Gotham’s huddling masses, yearning to be free. And as regular viewers of our program know, I’m a man of my word. But I’ll prove it anyway. Twelve midnight, this Sunday-Sunday-Sunday, Bruce Wayne goes to that great big hedge fund in the sky. Mark your calendars. )

Title: The History of the DC Universe (as told by chibis) Part 2: A Booboo In The Family.
Fandom: Batman
Rating: G
Word Count: 1,566
Characters/Pairings: Chibi!Batman, Chibi!Robin, Chibi!Joker, Chibi!Two-Face
Timeline: Inspired by Superman/Batman 51 (the chibi issue) and AIM conversation with shananagin. Sequel to Part 1 (clearly)
Summary: After the Joker throws a snowball with a rock in it at Jason, Tim makes friends with Bruce. But after Harvey gets paint on his face and refuses to take a bath to wash it off, will the new Batman and Robin be able to stop his reign of meanness?

( Bruce was writing on a chalkboard when Tim found him. He’d drawn a stick figure, one half of its round face simple green slate, the other half covered with swirls of chalk. )

Title: What Goes Up…
Fandom: Batman, Nolanverse
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 506
Timeline: Batman Begins to The Dark Knight.
Characters/Pairings: Bruce Wayne, Henri Ducard, Harvey Dent
Summary: The faster you fall, the further away the bottom gets.

( When Bruce remembers his parents’ death, the feeling is that of the ground dropping out from under him. His bedrock became as treacherous as quicksand. In many ways, that shift is the most vivid memory he has of his childhood. Maybe because he’s never stopped wondering how to change things back. )

Title: In From The Cold
Fandom: Batman
Rating: PG
Word Count: 5,459
Timeline: The new Batgirl mini. I saw scans of it and my friends’ reactions and basically said to myself “Yeahhhh… this needs more hugging.”
Characters/Pairings: Cass, Tim, Steph, Bruce, Dick, Barbara, implied Tim/Cass/Steph and Dick/Babs.
Summary: For Cass, the road to redemption is paved by people she knows.

( It was easy for her to talk now. Just hard to know what to say. )

Title: The Boy Who Would Be Robin
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Batman
Word Count: 1,042
Summary: Someone wants to be Batman’s partner.

( It was a night like any other. Business as unusual, as Dick would call it. But there wasn’t anything unusual about muggings, rapes, stabbings. Not in Gotham. )

Okay, so it's late for Christmas. What, am I supposed to wait all year to post this?

Title: The All-Singing, All-Dancing Barbara Gordon Christmas Special Extravaganza
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Barbara Gordon, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come
Word Count: 2,516
Summary: Barbara Gordon would be much more amenable to learning the true meaning of Christmas if the goddamn ghosts would just let her sleep.

( Oh, God, is this Dickens? This is, isn’t it? I’m having a Dickensian nightmare and I cast myself as Ebeneezer Scrooge. Oh, the gender issues that raises… that’s one for the dream journal, yup. )

Title: Twas The Night Before K'ristmas
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Bruce Wayne, Dick/Kory, Alfred, Barbara
Word Count: 1,924
Summary: Bruce Wayne’s holiday plans are simple, modest, and impossible to screw up. Unless, of course, his ward did something crazy like show up with his new alien girlfriend in tow.

( Koriand’r opens her mouth to say hello, this bubble-bodied xenomorph who I’ve seen sucking face with my ward in all the gossip columns, and all I hear is “I’ve had your boy’s penis in my mouth. It was yummy.” Later it turns out that was what she said. Apparently it’s part of a Tamaranian greeting to assure the parents of a “prospective life-mate” that his bride isn’t frigid. Prospective life-mate. That’s so much better. )

Title: The Dead Talk Back (And Back And Back And Back)
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Bruce Wayne, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake
Warning: Angst
Word Count: 1,514
Summary: In the end, Stephanie was a good soldier. Batman will remember her. But the war goes on.

( From the cave, Bruce directed Tim’s flight like a falconer with a hawk. Robin flew straighter now, even if he acted like his wings were clipped. Stephanie, Jack Drake, the clone… they were distractions. “Wow, that’s dark, even for you,” Steph said, her feet up on the console. )

Title: Five Things No Robin Ever Asked Batman
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Bruce, Dick, Jason, Tim, Steph, Carrie Kelly.
Warning: None
Word Count: 2,046
Summary: All the Robins have had questions. But Bruce hasn’t had the answers.

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