Title: The Siege
Rating: PG13
Fandom: DC AU

( Once, a young kid named Bruce had a very bad night. Logically enough, he wanted it to never happen again. But bad things kept happening, again and again, until a cop with a Chicago accent figured out whyCollapse )

Title: Requiescat in Pace, Bruce Wayne
Fandom: DCU
Rating: PG13
Author Notes: DC has given some spoilers about Bruce's return (that he will return was, of course, only to be expected). I haven't seen them, but I'm guessing they have nothing to do with this.


He can rest. Human civilization is barely beginning. There's little society, and no crime to speak of. Nothing for him to do. The timestream is too fragile as it is, and Gotham is a mirage in the far future, so to preserve his city he will do, for once in his life, precisely nothing at all.

The Paleolithic sky is clean and beautiful. Bruce rests on a shallow hill, looking at the stars with eyes that feel younger than they have any right to. Perhaps it's the world, or perhaps just himself.

It's a young planet. Ten thousand years, give or take, before Earth has the technology and organization to resist invasions from space, or to keep immortal madmen like Ra's al Ghul and Vandal Savage in check. Only sheer luck had stood between humanity and them.

Bruce sighs, entirely unsurprised by what some of his least empirically-minded colleagues-to-be would call 'fate'. Standing up, he begins calculations to orient himself using the far past's stars. It's probably around a thousand miles to the nearest Lazarus Pit.

He has a long journey ahead.

.finis.

brown_betty wondered -in a very evil and enabling fashion- if I had already written the AU where a drunk driver killed Bruce's parents.

I don't know if this is a good answer, but it's a damn interesting question.

Title: Fuga
Rating: PG13
Fandom: DC AU
Summary: Gothamites are an irresponsible, careless lot.

( Your only peace lies in numbers and order, so you analyzed this, too, as you analyze everything. The auditory hallucination appears an average of seven point three times a day, triggered by traffic sounds -of course- but also sudden noises, or certain tones of voice.Collapse )

I've been feeling the need to write longer pieces; I'm getting into something of a rut. This, however, isn't one of those.


Title: Skills useful to a young boy on his way to become the Batman
Rating: PG13
Fandom: DCU

( Detecting begins with observing oneself; your biases, your preconceptions, the subtle distortions in the instrument that is your mind. Escape artistry, too, is a proactive art. It is a poor practitioner who lets himself be chained before he has ready a way out. And if you can accept pain beyond mere endurance, you can use your body to fight instead of fighting for it.Collapse )

This is another attempt at -but not another version of- The Mirror of Dreams; if you haven't read it, read this one first, I think it works better if you weren't spoiled.

Title: The Mirror of Dreams, Take Two
Rating: PG13
Fandom: DCU

( Sometimes, Bruce looks at a patent application for a new synthetic polymer and all he can think about is a dark bulletproof cape.Collapse )

I'm not quite happy with the wording of this one. At some point, I'm probably going to have to rewrite it from scratch.

Title: The Mirror of Dreams
Rating: PG13
Fandom: DCU
Summary: It's about Bruce and his dreams.

( Alfred woke him up, breakfast tray already at hand. Bruce said something unintelligible.Collapse )

From an earlier post: By the way, I'm still not writing the fic where there was never an Alfred until J'onn happened to walk by the wrong alley during the right night, took Bruce in and telepathically retconned Alfred Pennyworth into everybody's mind.

This isn't that fic, but what came out when I tried to write it.

Title: Mobius Paths
Fandom: DC AU
Rating: PG13
Summary: Sometimes there are many ways to save somebody. And sometimes there are none.

( You walked away. The boy was provided for; he only needed family and time. Neither was in your power to give, so you walked away.Collapse )

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An off-the-cuff fic fragment, inspired by katarik:

( Firing her hadn't worked the first time, and had almost gotten her killed, so Bruce was doing the next best thing. After all, it was the Amazons' technology that had brought Steph back from near death.Collapse )

Title: Fixed
Rating: PG13
Fandom: DCU
Summary: Every problem has a solution.
Author Notes: Based on -without being nearly equal to the task- a terrifying idea of brown_betty.

( The transporter's whine echoed through the Cave.Collapse )

Title: Acts of Love
Rating: PG13
Fandom: DCU
Summary: Once upon a time, Bruce was young. "Innocent" and "sane," though, are entirely different matters.
Author Notes: katarik said I should write this, *and* she gave me a link to these scans. This fic will make more sense, and perhaps disturb you more, if you check them first.

( Train first. Reduce the variables. Trust yourself. Collapse )