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Title: But he is mastered now
Summary: Batman is the good cop. It’s Robin you should be scared of.
Author’s Notes: Marcelo wrote this, and then he wrote me this in the comments. I. Really, I was totally helpless not to write a snippet of these Robins.
The first link *must* be read in order to understand this.
Petra, the first link? Does mention That Show Which Squicks You, but only a little.
Title from this stanza by Emily Dickinson: I dreaded that first robin so,/But he is mastered now,/And I'm accustomed to him grown,-/He hurts a little, though.
Vengeance ever comes
He does not, of course, *condone* killing, but the Grayson boy is determined to have vengeance for his parents. And... had it been Dexter, Zucco would already be dead. At least this Robin is asking permission.
To solve my own equations
He does not ask. Jason tells him instead, voice steady. “He fell. I pushed him.”
Bruce is silent. He has never yet had a Robin who killed outside the Mission, not even Dexter or Dick. He has never yet had a Robin who told him so clearly.
Jason does not look away. “I can give the suit back.”
And Batman says, “No.”
Secrets that you may not broach
“But I *will* be killing him, little bird. Aren’t you *my* weapon? My instrument of death? Say you are mine.”
Tim thinks about the first Robin, his job now in the forensics department; the second, Nightwing in New York; the third -- Jason’s scars and broken bones from Ethiopia, but alive. And Tim had promised to return Robin to its rightful place, as soon as Jason was entirely healed.
“Batman’s,” Robin answers, and breaks the King Snake’s fingers so that he falls.
Hear the falconer
Spoiler’s got Batman’s permission and her mouth is still tingling from Robin’s kiss, *both* Robins, Red and Green, she’s never been so happy in her life, and the knife is light in her blood-spattered hand.
That kid and her mom are going home safe tonight.
She whoops and flies and *moves*, she *owns* these streets -- the Cluemaster’s daughter is better than her father has ever, ever been.
-- Finis
Summary: Batman is the good cop. It’s Robin you should be scared of.
Author’s Notes: Marcelo wrote this, and then he wrote me this in the comments. I. Really, I was totally helpless not to write a snippet of these Robins.
The first link *must* be read in order to understand this.
Petra, the first link? Does mention That Show Which Squicks You, but only a little.
Title from this stanza by Emily Dickinson: I dreaded that first robin so,/But he is mastered now,/And I'm accustomed to him grown,-/He hurts a little, though.
Vengeance ever comes
He does not, of course, *condone* killing, but the Grayson boy is determined to have vengeance for his parents. And... had it been Dexter, Zucco would already be dead. At least this Robin is asking permission.
To solve my own equations
He does not ask. Jason tells him instead, voice steady. “He fell. I pushed him.”
Bruce is silent. He has never yet had a Robin who killed outside the Mission, not even Dexter or Dick. He has never yet had a Robin who told him so clearly.
Jason does not look away. “I can give the suit back.”
And Batman says, “No.”
Secrets that you may not broach
“But I *will* be killing him, little bird. Aren’t you *my* weapon? My instrument of death? Say you are mine.”
Tim thinks about the first Robin, his job now in the forensics department; the second, Nightwing in New York; the third -- Jason’s scars and broken bones from Ethiopia, but alive. And Tim had promised to return Robin to its rightful place, as soon as Jason was entirely healed.
“Batman’s,” Robin answers, and breaks the King Snake’s fingers so that he falls.
Hear the falconer
Spoiler’s got Batman’s permission and her mouth is still tingling from Robin’s kiss, *both* Robins, Red and Green, she’s never been so happy in her life, and the knife is light in her blood-spattered hand.
That kid and her mom are going home safe tonight.
She whoops and flies and *moves*, she *owns* these streets -- the Cluemaster’s daughter is better than her father has ever, ever been.
-- Finis