#ant fic

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is that a lonely place of dying road trip au in my pocket or am i just happy to see you?

trick question ITS BOTH !!

BUT WHO CAN GROW ME A NEW BROTHER?

gen — t — 1/?

Dick Grayson turns 20 on March 20th, Jason Todd dies on April 27th, and by May 23rd, Bruce Wayne's ward-not-son is rattling around in the bed of a 1979 Ford F-150 heading anywhere but Gotham, New Jersey. Wayne money and Bat technology can't find him, but he's got a bug-eyed shadow and a raw Robin-shaped wound to haul across the continental United States. __________ or: road trip, coming-of-age, #Grief Fic triple-threat with a healthy dollop of early accidental Tim acquisition. or about as accidental as Tim acquisition can get

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BUT WHO CAN GROW ME A NEW BROTHER? : chapter 3 - "i'll fly away, oh glory"

gen - t - 3/6 - 6.8k

tim and dick bamboozle the good citizens of arkansas and dick's wheels start to come off __________ wherein: water is wet, summer is hot, and dick grayson is an older brother

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BUT WHO CAN GROW ME A NEW BROTHER? - chapter 6 - "can i handle the seasons of my life?"

gen - T - 6/6 - 12.7k (46k total)

and gotham's shining knight returns, newfound squire at his side, ready to use his wawa rewards card again ____________ wherein anne carson's antigonick asks: a husband or a child can be replaced, but who can grow dick grayson a new brother? and wherein the fic answers: timothy jackson drake can.

closeups + unfinished timmy ver

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BUT WHO CAN GROW ME A NEW BROTHER? - chapter 5 - "go rest high on that mountain"

gen - t - 5/6 - 8.3k

dick speaks to a child and everything will be alright ________ wherein: dick finally talks, tim makes it past the interview stage, and dick gets a kick in the dick.

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BUT WHO CAN GROW ME A NEW BROTHER? - chapter 4 - "and am i born to die? to lay this body down?"

gen - t - 4/6 - 8.1k

dick talks to another grown-up and nothing will be okay ever again __________________ wherein: dick makes a bad decision, tim nearly pulls a 2003-2016 doing 0-60, and dick gets the good old warshrag treatment

DICK, for god's sake, turn the lights on!!! ↓↓↓ (light gore warning)

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second "but who can grow me a new brother" chapter just dropped

gen - T - 2/6

watch out appalachia, you ain't ready for these bombshells to enter the villa __________________ wherein: dick has only child energy, american public transportation fails us all, and tim causes problems

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five minutes in the batcave at 3:36 p.m. on october 9th

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robin wakes up in a dumpster

T | gen | 1/3 | 10.5k

(tim drake whump because whump! is the sound he made when he fell in the dumpster; dick grayson is the world's okayest not-a-brother-yet; crack treated seriously)

An impressive headache and a diabolical combination of odors greets Robin when he wakes. A list of facts: 1. He last remembers it being a disgusting hour. 3-ish, he’d say. Therefore, dark. 2. Summer patrol ends at sunrise. 3. If he gets his bell rung mid-patrol, he wakes up in the Cave, without fail. A second list of facts: 1. He’s alone. 2. It’s noon. 3. Robin is in a fucking dumpster. _________________________ or: instead of drawing a comic, i wrote it