Summary: Tim is five years old when he drowns in his parents' pool. He dies quietly, waiting for parents who love him, but will never be there, to realise that something is wrong. They never show up, and he sinks into oblivion.
TAGS Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Tim Drake & Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Ra's al Ghul, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake, Tim Drake & Prudence Wood, Tim Drake, Batfamily Members, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson Damian Wayne, Ra's al Ghul, Alfred Pennyworth, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Prudence Wood, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Tim Drake-centric, Child Neglect, Metahuman Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Feelings, Tim Drake Needs a Hug,Suicide, Suicide Attempt, is it suicide if you know you'll come back to life???, Resurrection, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better, Good Older Sibling Dick Grayson, Hurt Tim Drake, Child Death Character Undeath Character Study, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Jewish Tim Drake, Unreliable Narrator, Immortal Tim Drake, Tim Drake's Missing Spleen, Creepy Ra's al Ghul, No Bashing, the author loves all characters, Damian Wayne is Bad at Feelings, Good Sibling Jason Todd, Good Sibling Damian Wayne, Good Sibling Cassandra Cain, Tim Drake Has Issues, Tim Drake Is Deranged, (AFFECTIONATE), Tim Drake has the self-preservation instincts of a wet paper bag, blanket permission for art and podfics, Lazarus Pit Side Effects (DCU), The unreliable narrator tag is there for a REASON
I found this fic when it was at chapter 3 I believe, and I literally was checking it every day until it was finished. The clinical way Tim handles his own deaths until he can’t anymore, the fact that he is an unreliable narrator and the way that is handled by the author, the plot and writing style- look, there’s a reason this fic is in like 40 different collections on AO3.
