Many happy returns!

[katarik]

Title: Leafless, bird-abandoned
Summary: "I shall hope little and ask for less,"/I said, "There is no happiness."
Author's Notes: For Ny, with love, on this day of her birth.
Summary from Sara Teasdale's "Red Maples". Title from "The Silent Folk".
Thanks to Petra for beta.

Comments

[rubynye]

Oh, *sweetie*! Oh, you've integrated wee-Tim's friendship with Jason/Jason's Case and Tim's relationship with Steph and Tim's fraught relationship with resurrrected Jason, and Tim's even more difficult relationship with being Robin, into a coherent and beautiful and painful, yet somehow sparely hopeful, whole. Wow. Thank you, very, very much for this!

*hugs you tightly*

[katarik]

I'm so glad the hope came through; "Red Maples," like you said, has that bit of hope at the end, and I desperately wanted that same agonized joy to at least potentially be there for Tim.

*loves on you*

[katarik]

*pets your heart gently, wipes tears up with kleenex*

[cosmicastaway]

Awwwww. Tim needs to be forced down and hugged.

Um, forced down because I'm evil (but we knew that). His head is a cycle of repeating thoughts, and each time the memories go around they're not as pretty as the times before. He needs a rescue.

♥

[katarik]

He needs a Stepha, yes he does. Poor baby.

*hugs your icon, for it needs them*

[cosmicastaway]

That icon is the penultimate in Tim-need. ♥