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𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 | 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐧 ([personal profile] theknightshift) wrote2024-11-12 08:56 pm

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-28 02:32 am (UTC)(link)

Tim gives Bruce a look. "You've already hacked into my stuff. That means you've seen my schedule, too. I know you wouldn't have just skipped over that temptation."

Which means Tim needs to keep a paper schedule instead. At least for a bit. To keep to himself and away from Bruce.

"So you know my schedule. Wayne Enterprises business with Lucius until midday. Then I'm head down in my own cases, big patrol on the East end tonight."

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-28 03:51 am (UTC)(link)

Tim hesitates. He's pushing Bruce away, and that's the right decision. It is, it has to be. If he lets Bruce stay or worse goes back to being some shadow version of his partner while Damian is still there being the real thing, it'll end in the same pain and heartache. It's this or it's--hurt.

Those are the only options.

So Tim stays to clean up and pour a big thermos of coffee to take with him once he leaves.

"Bruce?" he asks, leaning into the bedroom to look at his mentor gathering his things. "I---need to ask you again. To give me space. Last night can't happen again." Much as Tim would have loved it to happen every night.

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-28 05:27 am (UTC)(link)

"I mean it," Tim says, forcing himself to sound as serious as he needed to for Bruce to get it. "No watching. No swinging by because you're in the neighborhood. No knowing my schedule and reaching out if I don't adhere to it. Okay? Please."

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-28 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)

It's the right call. It's the right move. It's exactly what he asked for, what he wants. So why does the look on Bruce's face absolutely destroy Tim? It leaves a thick lump in the back of Tim's throat, a knot in his stomach.

But it's--better this way. Tim needs to be away from Bruce. He can't just fall back into place by his side when Bruce came here last night just to check up on him, just to ensure he was still under his thumb. Right? He stayed the night but so what? That was the trouble with Bruce: it was hard to tell what was real and what was just part of some unseen plan.

"Thank you." Tim moves around Bruce to gather his things, to get changed into his suit for Wayne Enterprises.

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-29 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
It's been---well. It's a mixed bag. The loneliness is bone deep, to the point that Tim has been going to the bars more often, hooking up more often. He even found himself looking for the biggest guys, usually the ones who aren't his type but who currently remind him most of Bruce. The ones that grab him a little too roughly, hold him down or make him blow them until he chokes. He's addicted to it, a little, burning the candle at both ends, and nothing seems to help. It's never enough.

But. Bruce kept his word. That's something. Tim isn't going to go back on this. He needs his freedom. Right...?

And getting locked out of parts of the Batcomputer that he had access to before is fine. It's fine. He can get by without knowing every single thing. After all, space goes both ways. And he's not even a little angry about it...

"Last I checked, the docks of Gotham don't belong to just Batman." It's not cold, exactly, just letting Bruce know Gotham is protected by more than just one hero. "That guy-" Tim gestures, "--the one in the track jacket. I need a list he has on that hard drive in his computer."

It's a coincidence, he tells himself
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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-29 03:49 am (UTC)(link)

This, Tim tells himself, is much better. For both of them. To help one another without actually being glued to each other. It should be good for them, to work as partners in a single mission. To have each other's backs. But Tim can't help but feel lonely being in Bruce's presence again after how close they were the last time.

"Where's Robin?" he asks, before he can help himself. It's normal to ask. Right? Damian is Bruce's partner, after all.

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-29 04:56 am (UTC)(link)

This is pretty normal for Bruce and the way he speaks to people, but it feels off. It feels short. And directed at Tim.

"Yeah, we're all busy." Tim's a little short too, and he hates that this is what it's come to, but it's necessary. Right? He takes a deep breath. Work comes first. They can snark at each other after. "I'll go down first. Draw them in. Give you an opening."

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-29 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)

Tim nods, and he's a good boy as ever, waiting for the go ahead. Despite his actions to the contrary lately, he takes The Mission very, very seriously. And because of that, he takes Bruce very, very seriously. Jason would have cursed him and jumped into the fray wherever. Even Damian would have likely shirked the order. But Tim dutifully switches to channel two on his comms. It's a private channel, and that doesn't go unnoticed. But that's normal for these kinds of things. Means the two of them can keep in touch during the fight without getting in anyone else's ears.

That Bruce looks him over is neither here nor there and certainly doesn't redden Tim's cheeks under his own cowl thinking about it. And he doesn't at all wonder how he looks to his mentor. If he measures up. Or if Bruce can smell all the men who've been on him these past few weeks.

When Bruce gives him the go ahead, Tim slips down through the shadows, focusing on the plan of attack. It's easy enough to get the guys away from the stairs. They're the biggest, bulkiest ones. Hardest to take down but easiest to lure away.

"Hey!" the guy by the window yells. "Where you two think you're going?"

"Somethin' weird down there by the shipments," one of the guys said. "Me and Dom'll check it out."

The guy by the window cocked his gun. "Shoot first, ask questions later, Travis."

"Cool," Travis said, cocking his own gun, a thing too big for his meaty hands. Which would make it easier for Tim to get it once the guys get close enough. But now the steps are clear. Bruce could choose to sneak in or go for window guy or exit guy.

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-30 12:07 am (UTC)(link)

The goons seem to get bigger and bigger every year, but it's nothing that Tim hasn't handled before. In fact, as Robin, he'd have distracted worse so that Bruce had the opening he needed. Currently, when he hears Batman's gravely voice in his ear, Tim is busy fighting off Travis, who is actually a better fighter than he looks. The gun is disabled, long gone kicked under some boxes so nobody can reach it, so it's just Red Robin versus the huge bulk of this guy until Tim can get a good hook and jab in. Then it's easy to get the opening he needs to get his arm around Travis's thick neck, to choke him into he crumbles to the ground.

A little less finesse than Batman but Tim had taken the big guys, after all.

"Two down. Meet you by the exit." Even though his side is throbbing. Travis had managed one really good punch after all.

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-30 03:57 am (UTC)(link)

"They were big," Tim says, a little tersely, as he gathers the weapons. Bruce is tagging them, so that takes care of that, but they'll need to confiscate the more dangerous ones. Get them out. Not all of them but enough to stop them from getting into the city streets and in the hands of Sionis's men. Or worse. "It's fine, I got them both, they aren't getting up, so you can stop nitpicking my style."

It's not Tim's style. But he's annoyed and a little embarrassed that Bruce noticed. Of course he did.

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-30 04:47 am (UTC)(link)

"Just because I didn't get to it in five seconds doesn't make it sloppy." But Tim's not exactly disagreeing. He's not in his best form. He's tired, he's lonely, he feels absolutely eviscerated in front of Bruce whenever the other man looks at him. "Of course I've been training." He stops then, looks at Bruce, watches him work. The efficient way he catalogues and gathers. God, he misses him. "You really haven't been following my schedule?"

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[personal profile] wingsfordays 2025-07-30 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)

"I did say that," Tim murmurs, finishing up his own gathering and preparing it for pickup from the Batwing. He misses the tech too, he's not going to lie. Having access to everything that Bruce has at his whims. Red Robin doesn't exactly have a special Red Robin Wing. He figured Lucius could help there, but Tim never wants to feel like he's owing anybody anything. It's better to do things on his own. Simplify it.

As he considers Bruce's offer--because it is an offer, clear as day where Bruce is concerned--Tim finds the track jacket guy and unzips his laptop bag, crouching down at the man's unconscious side. He fingers out a tiny screwdriver from one of the canisters on his bandolier, using it to make quick work of getting the hard drive out. That goes into a pocket on his back, secured in tight so it doesn't fall out. Then Tim's moving on to zip-tying the guys' hands and feet for police pickup.

"I could swing by." He glances up between zipping Travis nice and tight. "For a few."

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