Batfic Drabble: Tarnished (Dick/Tim)
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lady_bug_kayTitle: Tarnished
Author: ladybugkay
Fandom: DCU
Pairing: Dick/Tim
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 411
Summary: Dick likes to have an effect on Tim.
Disclaimer: The boys belong to DC. I like to vandalize them and get nothing but feedback for doing it.
A/N: This occurs at some nebulous time when things are less dismal for the boys, and Tim is...of age.
There is something about Tim that pulls Dick in like the tide, and he can’t keep his hands away. Usually it has something to do with rumpling Tim up, making him look lived-in, as if Dick has had an effect on him.
Dick doesn’t remember Tim from that day at the circus. To be honest, he doesn’t remember Bruce from that day—all he remembers is his parents falling. They fall forever, but they never hit the ground. Dick won’t remember that, and he can’t remember Tim.
He can imagine, though. He can just picture a tiny little Tim in a buttoned-down shirt, neatly pressed pants still with the crease in them, and his hair carefully parted to one side. And Dick knows himself. He used to give hugs and smiles to kids all the time, before and after shows. But he would never have been able to resist a little Tim; probably gave him a great big squeeze and ran his hand through the kid’s hair just to dishevel him a bit and rile up his parents by making him look like a real boy instead of a picture of one. It was doubtless the first time little Tim had ever been less than starched and ironed to within an inch of his life.
No wonder he left such a lasting impression on Tim’s life, Dick thinks, sometimes.
Years later, Dick still can’t resist the siren call of a neat and tidy Tim. Or Robin. And because of who Tim is, this means Dick can’t resist Tim at all.
It’s also a large part of the reason why their first kiss results in an embarrassingly large and obvious hickey on the side of Tim’s neck.
Dick was here.
What surprises Dick and does something disturbingly melting in his stomach, is that although Tim dutifully covers the distinguishing mark for his patrol as Robin, he displays it as Tim, pointedly selecting open-collared shirts and making no attempt to hide the evidence of his less than pristine appearance, even from Bruce.
Tim wants people to know that Dick affects him, leaves an impression, has an impact on his life. He wants it as badly as Dick does. Maybe more, judging by the way he tries to preserve the mark for as long as possible and urges Dick to bite him and leave finger-bruises on his hips.
Tim refuses to be unaffected.
Dick thinks he just might be in love with this boy.
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Date: 2007-08-21 10:20 pm (UTC)I
thinkknow I'm in love with this Dick and this Tim. This entire fic, in fact. All 411 words of it. (411?! I am in awe of quite how much you've managed to fit into less than 500 words, it's so vivid and affecting.)no subject
Date: 2007-08-21 10:25 pm (UTC)I know, I know: it's very brief. I have been writing much longer things, lately, but this little fic just came to me. I got the idea for it, and I thought it might become something longer, but then I realized I didn't have too much else to say. So a drabble it stayed. :)
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Date: 2007-08-22 05:08 am (UTC)And I adore your icon!
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Date: 2007-08-22 01:22 am (UTC)I love the way Dick wants to make his mark on Tim, and Tim allows it and revels in it! :)
I do like the way you described that awful day at the circus, too.
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Date: 2007-08-22 07:15 am (UTC)Tim just needs someone in his life to make him feel like a real boy instead of a pretend one. And Dick just needs someone who knows him and loves him.
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Date: 2007-08-22 12:55 pm (UTC)*nods, nods* Mmm hmm. Exactly. It's why they're (one of) my favourite pairings in DC.
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Date: 2007-09-11 04:15 am (UTC)Oh, I love marking behavior, and you explore the reasons behind it and the way it plays out in their history and their relationship so deliciously here! Such a gorgeously passionate story, I love it.
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Date: 2007-09-11 07:28 am (UTC)I, too, have a great love for marking behaviour, and the Batclan are so perfect for the manifestation of it. This started out as just one of those little thoughts, about the way Dick touches Tim and how their very first meeting might have gone, and then I thought about making it a longer fic, but the drabble length seemed to say everything I wanted it to. And since it worked for you, I guess it was successful!
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Date: 2007-11-25 06:51 pm (UTC)It’s also a large part of the reason why their first kiss results in an embarrassingly large and obvious hickey on the side of Tim’s neck.
Dick was here.
Hehe, the dawg ...
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Date: 2010-02-05 03:25 am (UTC)The thing I love so much about Dick/Tim is how needy they both are, and how their needs are complementary in a wonderful and completely messed-up way, so that they would be the world's most codependent couple, and yet probably the world's most stable and enduring couple, as well. Fucked up and yet they work. I love that.