You Only Live Twice

by WallyWestSupremacy06

Summary:

Gotham raised them like a dare.
They lost five years to lies, silence, and the kind of grief that changes a person forever.

Everly Wayne came back sharpened by survival.
Jason Todd came back from the dead.

What they don't know, is that they never truly lost each other.

This isn't the story of what broke them.
It's the story of what happens after: stolen glances that turn into confessions, scars traced instead of hidden, and a love that refuses to stay buried no matter how many times the world tries to take it.

They survived the worst.

Now they choose each other.

Chapter 1: ᴀᴄᴛ ɪ

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I'm so tired of bein' the girl that I am
Every good thing has turned into something I dread
And I'm playin' the victim so well in my head
But it's me who's been making the bed

~ Making the Bed, by Olivia Rodrigo

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character dossier

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Everly "You bumbling shit muffin" Wayne, aka the Blackbird.

⋆ knocked on wayne manor's door on a random tuesday five years after going missing with fifty new ways to kill everyone, and a fresh suitcase of trauma
⋆ lwk flirts with her partner.
⋆do not ask her about ancient greek paintings if you value your ears.
⋆ sleeps with one sock on, for reasons unknown.
⋆ kissed her best friend before he could even confess he loved her
⋆ literally cannot be bossed around, a reason why she has a secret fanbase on pinterest only barbara knows about but finds it too hilarious to tell her.
⋆ "tf did i just read?"

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Jason "When life gives you lemons, you give them C4" Todd, aka the Red Hood

⋆ has been in love exactly once and it ended with her 'dying', and returning five years later with a knife in her boot and eyes that don't look quite the same.
⋆ absolutely feral about her but in a "I will kill for you but also hold your hand while you cry" way
⋆ his coping mechanisms include: brooding on rooftops, threatening criminals, brooding in warehouses, touching her necklace, pacing, brooding, blowing things up, brooding in general
⋆ the only person she listens to for half a second, which is insane because she listens to literally no one else ever.
⋆ fights like a war god, loves like someone who thinks he doesn't deserve to.
⋆ "I'm not jealous."
⋆ sees her after years and his soul leaves his body like a Victorian man seeing ankle.

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