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[the_protagonist]

Title: Skin

Characters: Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne

Word Count: ~3k words

Notes: I inferred quite a bit with the reboot.  Red Robin still basically happened including Red Robin #26.

• Tim has been de-aged to about 16.
• Jack Drake was still murdered; Bludhaven still was destroyed along
  with his stepmother, Dana.  Janet Drake was murdered in Haiti when Tim
  was

Comments

[kyrdwyn]

Oh, wow. This just. Wow. I wanted to cry for Tim, trying to hold himself together, hold onto what he knows, what he sees himself as, and hearing what sounds to him like Bruce taking it all away from him.

Why can’t he figure out how to get the people he loves to want to keep him? *hugs Tim tightly* That and Tim doesn’t know if he has another new start in him - he really doesn’t know. just killed me.

Great story!

[the_protagonist]

Aww, I know. Poor baby bird!

I'm so glad you liked this one, love. Thanks for reading and reviewing! It means a lot to me. <3

[oroburos69]

This makes me so inexpressibly sad. And happy! It's lovely, is what I'm trying to say. So pretty.

[the_protagonist]

Aww! Thanks, Maggie! <3

I'm so glad you liked this one. :)

[ayzilia]

Wow, this is the fic I didn't even know I needed, but wow, it's perfect. It even drove a few tears out of me.

Why can’t he figure out how to get the people he loves to want to keep him?

Gah, that line broke me. Timmy is so isolated in the reboot. He hasn't had friends, just the Bats, and now he's on his own and just coherency is not with me today.

Beautiful story. Thank you for sharing.

[the_protagonist]

Oh! *gives you kleenex*

No no! There is no coherency in me either. Maybe it's just the fact that Tim, who's always had the Titans/Young Justice, doesn't have them anymore. And so much of Tim's lightness stemmed from them. From his friends. Who is he without them?

hdeighDIGh *flails*

Anyway, I'm really happy you liked the story. Thanks for reading!!!

[zolac_no_miko]

GUH. This is like a punch to the gut. Or maybe a dagger.

I'm with Bruce, but I'm with Tim, too, and god, this just sucks. TRUST YOUR FAMILY, TIMMY, THEY LOVE YOU AND THINGS WILL GET BETTER. T_T

[the_protagonist]

I wish... Bruce was more sensitive about things. He doesn't know what Tim went through trying to find him. Bruce wasn't there. I understand where he might be coming from but... Oh poor Tim. It's like... everything is taken away until he has just one thing to cling to. And then someone takes that away, and he has to scrabble to make something *else* to cling to. And then *that* get's taken away.

:(

Thanks for reading, Zolac!!! <3

[bellatrixamici]

Beautiful. So beautiful.
Fantastic work.

[the_protagonist]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for reading it and reviewing. :)