Displacement
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“Why are you even here?” Jason asked, finally. “You look like you should still be in bed.”
“It’s my house,” Tim pointed out, reasonably enough. “Why are you here?”
Or: Jason needs to apologize for what he did to Tim at Titans Tower. It goes both much worse and much better than he was anticipating.
(Part of a series, but can easily be read independently.)
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- Part 1 of Displacement
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“He’s dead,” Tim said, blankly.
“Look at me.” Jason ducked his head to catch Tim’s eyes. “Hey, look at me. You didn’t kill him. You just shot him. No big deal, right? You’ve injured lots of people. Just part of the job. Doesn’t matter it was with a gun this time. Doesn’t change anything. I’m the one who killed him. You’re fine.”
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- Part 2 of Displacement
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Tim woke with a desperate heave, like surfacing after a long dive.
He couldn’t remember what the dream had been, this time. He didn’t need to. They were all variations on the same theme, these days.
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- Part 3 of Displacement
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He'd been a tourniquet for an open wound, keeping Bruce from bleeding out.
But the thing about tourniquets is that they’re meant to be temporary. An urgent solution for a dire problem, and one that can cause issues of its own, especially if applied too long.
Anyway. Tim had been thinking about them lately. Tourniquets.
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- Part 4 of Displacement
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Time seemed to slow. A series of snapshots, separate and distinct.
Jason was bringing his own gun to bear. He was fast, and on a stable surface.
A sound. Not the familiar crack of a rifle.
Something flying toward him.
Spear gun.
(Part of a series but can easily be read independently.)
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- Part 5 of Displacement
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Stephanie wasn’t scared of Hood—Jason. Obviously.
She was…
Well.
She didn’t intimidate easily. If she did, Batman’s black disapproval would’ve been enough to put her off cape work long before now.
(Part of a series, but can be easily read as a standalone oneshot.)
For Whumptober Day 20: "That's new." and Symptomatic.
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- Part 6 of Displacement
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They’d come this far by setting aside this one irreconcilable point between them, not by actually resolving it. The fact that they’d had a longer than usual stretch since Joker’s last successful escape was the only thing that had made that possible.
Eventually, something would have to break, but neither of them were ready to concede to the inevitability of the other’s position.
Then the alert came through. Arkham breakout.
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- Part 7 of Displacement
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Jason's alive again. Legally, that is, publicly claimed by Bruce Wayne as his son and everything. Of course, there are consequences to that. Some of them are harder to deal with than others.
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- Part 8 of Displacement
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Robin was stumbling now, struggling to keep his feet under him. Exhausted and injured both. Still ahead of the pack of men as he twisted around corner after corner in the tangle of alleyways and courtyards, but not for much longer.
(Part of a series but can be easily read independently.)
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- Part 9 of Displacement
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Jason frowned. “How long have you been sick?”
“After lunch.”
“Food poisoning doesn’t usually leave people passed out on the floor, Dick. Not after, what, a few hours? If there’s something else going on here you need to tell me, now.”
(Part of a series, but can be read completely independently.)
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- Part 10 of Displacement
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“Fortunately,” Jack snapped, “he's not your child or your problem.”
“Unfortunately,” Bruce countered, “I intend to make this my problem.”
(Bruce has known for a while that something should be done about The Situation with Jack and Janet Drake. Things reach a breaking point.)
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- Part 11 of Displacement
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“Okay.” Tim raised his hands in surrender. “Okay, so I probably shouldn’t have pointed out how many times I’ve been left on my own for longer than this before. I still feel like you’re maybe overcompensating a little here.”
(Part of a series, but easily stands alone.)
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- Part 12 of Displacement
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Tim might’ve said things started to really go off the rails around when he got stabbed. And honestly, that sucked, yeah, but it was well within the bounds of normal-bad for a night like this.
No, things started to go seriously bad when Jason’s helmet got hit by the mini-EMP device the gang of thieves had been using to try to take down the bank’s security systems. If he hadn’t lost his helmet, everything that happened afterward would’ve been so much less awful.
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- Part 13 of Displacement
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“His mother’s gravestone has been vandalized.”
Tim frowned, baffled. “Why would anyone vandalize Catherine’s—”
“Not Catherine’s. Sheila’s.”
(There are things about Jason’s death that Bruce never knew. The part his mother played is one of them.)
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- Part 14 of Displacement
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Fear toxin exposure can produce wildly different results, depending on the formulation involved, the individual, the circumstances surrounding the incident. It’s difficult to predict, even knowing how a person has reacted in the past. Every situation requires its own approach, and past experience alone may not be an accurate guide.
Or: Three times Tim was exposed to fear toxin, and the different ways that Bruce, Dick, and Jason handled it.
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- Part 15 of Displacement
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“We do not hurt family.” Todd all but snarled the words, his eyes blazing. Despite that fury and the tight hold he had on Damian’s forearms, his grip was carefully controlled, not hurting yet but a firm reminder that he could. “This isn't the League, and you'd better get that through your skull fast.”
“He is not my family,” Damian spat back.
(Or: Damian’s arrival in their lives is rocky, but things play out differently with Jason already reintegrated into the family - and very protective of Tim.)
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- Part 16 of Displacement
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Damian’s early days at the Manor, as the rest of the family figures out how to adjust.
(Companion piece to Correlation.)
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- Part 17 of Displacement
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Tim gets kidnapped. This is fine, actually.
(Or: Jason picks Tim up from school in a particularly melodramatic style. It’s for Bruce’s own good, really. He could use the distraction. And if Jason happens to get a new car out of it in the process, well… everyone wins, right?)
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- Part 18 of Displacement
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“Father sent you to join me because you’re injured as well?”
“I mean, ‘sent’ is a pretty strong word. I’d say we mutually agreed it would be better for me to spend a bit of time away from Gotham, that’s all.”
(Jason and Damian are spending some R&R time at the Kent Farm. Cue misunderstandings and discussions of less than healthy coping mechanisms.)
Update: New chapter is a companion piece, Jason's encounter with the League assassins before leaving Gotham.
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- Part 19 of Displacement
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Damian remembered being struck by the dart. Poison, he had thought then. Apparently not.
He remembered Jason, still standing protectively over him as he lay on the asphalt. A shout of rage—and pain?—as his consciousness faded.
“No,” he said at last. “I recognized the insignia. It belongs to a splinter group that separated itself from the League some time ago.”
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- Part 20 of Displacement