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fanfic-obsessed · 3 days ago

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Time of His life

These last few weeks I have been drawn to strange reel apps where they appear to be taking hour to two hour long Korean dramas, breaking them up into 1-3 minute chunks and charging way too much after the first sevenish free reel (14-21 minutes). I have been drawn in because the Facebook Algorithm has apparently been paid to show these apps to me and I am a sucker for drama.

There was one that I watched last week where I thought, after it was done, ‘What if this…but Jaytim’. All the normal warnings about how this is not canon apply. Also I honestly don’t remember what the drama was called and everytime I watched clips the name of the characters was different.

Let's start off with a synopsis of the drama. We start with the death of the Heroine who had an arranged marriage to a man that is both very rich/powerful and has some kind of supernatural affliction that causes madness filled fits. Before her death, the Heroine did not like her husband. She considered him cold, controlling, and somewhat monstrous. The Heroine is then killed by her uncle, who had raised her but all he and his family wanted from her was her money. As a ghost the Heroine watches as her husband killed the people who killed her and her uncle, who paid for her to be killed. Then the husband surrounded her body with her favorite flowers and committed suicide by fire to join her in death. Watching as a ghost, the Heroine realized that her husband truly loved her and felt regret for how she treated him. As the fire burns the Heroine wakes up years earlier, on the day she was meant to marry her husband. She vows to treat her husband better and cut off the greedy family that would kill her. As the drama goes on she falls in love with her husband and they navigate life with the schemes of the greedy family members as well as an ex of the husband who wants to get back together with him (the husband is not interested). There is a twist toward the end where it is revealed the Ex’s family was the one who poisoned the husband with a poison that caused the supernatural powers and the fit of madness. At the end the husband also remembers what happened in the previous timeline, and the Heroine gets to apologize properly for her behavior and they live happily ever after.

Now Picture this: Jason is in the role of the heroine, Tim as the husband. I know what you are all thinking because I initially thought of Tim as the heroine as well. Bear with me a moment and let me set up how this works.

In the initial timeline Jason does not go searching for his mother. Between suspecting Jason of murder, though Bruce does eventually clear him, and the normal growing pains of teenagehood Jason and Bruce relationship is damaged but his birth certificate is just a little bit more damaged. When Jason is 16 Willis Todd gets out of prison, he and Sheila reconnect and realize that their son is now part of the Wayne family. At the same time Damian, aged up a few years (to be 10 years old when he arrived) to work for this timeline, arrives at Wayne manor and directs all of his aggression on the current Robin (Jason). Damian also, as it seems to Jason, replaces Jason in the entire family’s affection.

Willis and Sheila use this, playing Jason’s insecurities to draw him just far away from the Waynes that they can use him to access the Wayne family fortune (a lot of ‘oh they must pity you’ or ‘you are not really family to them’ kinda things). Shelia is good at maintaining that careful balance that would not see Jason break ties completely, and thus lose their access to the money, but also having Jason distrustful of the Wayne family and their motives, and likewise extremely trusting of Willis and Sheila. Jason even gives up Robin to Damian without being asked.

The Batfam do realize something is going on for Jason to be pulling away, but they are trying to be respectful. By the time they realize how far he has pulled it seems impossible to bridge the gap. In desperation Bruce arranges for Jason (age 20) to marry Tim Drake (let's pretend that this is considered a reasonable thing for Gotham Elite), hoping to tie him closer to the family. Willis and Sheila, realizing Tim Drake's net worth, encourage Jason to go through with it with the same disdain for Tims motives.

In this one Tim never becomes a Robin, but instead his hacking skills get the attention of Oracle whom he apprentices as Apollo. He is closer to the Birds of Prey than the Bat family in this but his character and skills are very well regarded by Batman and his brood. He has also been in love with Jason Todd since Tim was fifteen (Tim is two years younger than Jason). Jason is displeased and distrustful, borderline cruel to his new husband, encouraged by Willis and Sheila. Tim continues to treat Jason well but Jason is predisposed to taking the worst possible interpretation of everything Tim, the batfam (now including Cass and Steph), and particularly Bruce ever does.

This goes on until Jason is about 23 when he starts to lose trust in Willis and Sheila. Neither are stupid and realize that their gravy train is coming to an end. They decide to make one final score and drug Jason, selling him to a gang. The gang, in turn, sells Jason to the Joker (who was looking for someone to kill to blow off steam). The Joker beats him to death and is gone by the time that Apollo (Tim) finds Jason’s body. The entire process takes less than four hours. Unseen by the living Jason’s ghost is standing next to his corpse and gets to watch first hand as Apollo crumples at sight of Jaosn’s corpse and how carefully Tim picks up his body to bring him back to the manor.

Jason gets a front row seat to how the Batfam grieves him, and how his death destroyed them.

Though they all spread out to track down his murderers, it is Dick that finds the Joker. Dick beats the Joker to death with his bare hands but the Joker gets a few good hits in and Dick succumbs to his injuries moments after the Joker stops breathing.

Cass, Steph, and Damian (who had grown to love Jason as his brother) hunt down the gang that had sold Jason to the Joker, even Cass has no intention of abiding by the no kill rule. In their grief they are reckless. Between the three of them they kill 90% of the Gang, but there are just too many and all three die with a wish to join their dead brother. Unseen Jason’s ghost is sobbing in the corner.

It is Bruce Wayne, in the Batman suit but missing the cowl, that tracks down Willis and Sheila. It is Bruce and Batman together that breaks his no killing rule to slaughter the two people who had betrayed and hurt his son. The killing does the damage he always feared it would and sparked off a 12 hour rampage that ended with Commissioner Gordon having put Batman/Bruce down, permanently.

Back at the manor Babs had been coordinating when needed between Tim, who had only left Jason’s body long enough to collect Jason’s favorite flowers, and the hunting teams. She listened while everyone fell. She was the one to report the successes and deaths. When everything else was done, Tim very calmly hired Deathstroke to kill the remainder of the gang, and gave both Barbara and Alfred a final out before his end game. Neither left, there was no one left for them.

Tim went to the room where Jason’s body was, unaware that Jason’s ghost was following behind. He laid down with Jason’s corpse, and without flinching set the flowers, and subsequently Wayne manor, on fire, intent on joining Jason. Alfred and Barbara waiting on the floor below for the end.

Jason, now outright sobbing, vowed that if he met any of them in the afterlife he would treat the mall so much better, seeing how much they loved him.

Then Jason woke up. He was back at the morning of his Wedding to Tim Drake, and he remembered everything. He does not confront Willis or Sheila right away, knowing that ‘it came to me in a dream’ would not be accepted. However he decides that he will not be alone with either of his birth parents again.

He still goes to marry Tim, but instead of seeing Tim as a cold, monstrous man trying to trap him, Jason realizes that his new husband is both smitten and shy, coming off as cold to hide his awkwardness. Frankly it is endearing. Since Tim stated in both timelines that he would not touch Jason without his consent, Jason decides to treat this as if they were dating, for all that they were married. Jason had to admit, there was something powerful in the fact that Jason could make this nearly all powerful man’s (at least in Gotham) brain ground to a halt with just a few teasing words and a smile. Even better was the times when Tim, rather than getting flustered, responded in kind with his own teasing smile.

It turned out that, now that Jason was not up in arms, Tim was exceedingly easy to fall in love with.

Jason also began to rebond with the family he had left behind. The first time he showed up for a family dinner, Tim in tow, it seemed like Dick would vibrate out of his seat, he was so excited. It was nice to know that, even beyond the grief of death he had been missed. He even found himself mentioning that he was looking to go to college, though he was not sure for what yet. In the previous timeline he had brought the idea up to his biological parents who had shattered his confidence that he was capable. This time he got an overwhelmingly positive response and enthusiasm, with Dick teasing Bruce about dropping out of medical school. Damian, 13 years old and approximately four apples tall, tells Jason that it is good that Jason is going to college so that Damian will have an actual respectable source for how good whatever college Jason goes to when the time comes. Steph is cheering about possibly having a friend on campus, or someone to complain about classes with, while Bruce and Tim get into a play argument about who ‘gets’ to pay for Jason’s schooling (as in both are claiming that it is their privilege).

The B plot is, behind the scenes, Jason is working to distance himself from his bio parents without letting on that he knows they are using him or to let them do something that is so obvious that he can cut ties without having to explain (because he does not want to deal with I have memories of a future). He is careful not to meet with them alone any longer, but is also aware that, as Tims husband, his reputation and how he is viewed is somewhat more important than it used to be (No that Tim would care, but Jason had already hurt Tim enough in the other timeline, he didn’t want to do anything to cause him harm in this one).

If we wanted to lean fully into the source Drama, we could cast Ra’s Al Ghul as the ‘Ex’ (they were never together in anything but Ra’s delusions) trying to harm or humiliate Jason to clear the place at Tim’s side, to Tim’s obvious disgust.

In this one Jason never picks up a mask again, having found he likes civilian life. But he bonds with his family and uses both Tim and Bruce’s money (with their full approval) to improve life in Crime Alley and the Bowery, notably doing it without gentrification. Jason also discovers Duke and brings him home for Bruce to adopt (‘Get the batdoption papers, old man’ ‘I told Dick we were not calling them that...’). So any attempt by Willis and Sheila, or by Ra’s, to slander/humiliate Jason fails badly and keeps failing, because Jason is well liked at every level of society. Jason also gets to go to college, accidentally ending up on a watch list because he got into a PHD program in Gotham (In Theatre Arts, which is second only to Psychiatry in ‘Degrees likely to result in a rogue, why do we keep offering these programs?’).

On the day that Jason would have died in the original timeline, Tim and the rest of the Batfam (barring Duke) do get their memories of the original timeline. This results in a cuddle pile at the Manor where everyone needs to reassure themselves that Jason was still there. By that time Ra’s has been soundly removed from the picture (Possibly killed by Talia, no one knows). Willis and Sheila are back in jail for life for their crimes against Jason Drake-Wayne.

Then they get their happy ending.

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ejzah · 3 days ago

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A/N: After far too long, this story returns thanks to @perfectcomputerfire’s request.

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Ain’t it a Kick in the Head, Part 16

Deeks ignored Kensi’s exclamation, swaggering out as though they weren’t in immediate danger and he wasn’t likely to collapse at any moment.

“I couldn’t help but notice you seem a little conflicted,” he said, and the brothers immediately stopped talking.

“This isn’t your concern, Max,” Dimitri told him. “Go back to your girlfriend. We’ll tell you once you’ve decided.

“Or, you could tell me now and then Bella and I can decide how far we want to take this.”

“You’re not in a position to barter,” Paul said through his teeth.

“And you could use all the help you can get. So, either tell me the plan, or we’re figuring our own way out,” Deeks warned, flipping from easygoing to calculating in a second.

Kensi didn’t know what he planned, or who Novikov was, but clearly he was important to Deeks. At any other time, she be impressed by his commitment. Now she hoped it wouldn’t get him killed. Either way, she didn’t intend to leave him behind.

“Or I could just shoot you and be done with all your talk,” Paul threatened. Deeks didn’t show any signs of fear, but Kensi tensed, ready to step in if needed.

“Yeah, who got us out of that warehouse? Your backup is almost gone and if you kill me, you’ll be fending for yourselves soon. I may be annoying as hell, but I’m also pretty damn useful.”

Deeks let that hang in the air, quietly smug, though Kensi noticed his left hand hovering close to his waistband in case he needed to defend himself. Paul’s wright shifted towards Deeks, and Kensi clasped the butt of her gun, sure this was about to get a lot more bloody. Then Dimitri pulled his brother back, regarding Deeks’ with disdain, but a resigned sigh.

“A business partner is arranging for a plane to take us to a safer location,” he said.

“Yeah, that’s a little vague. I’m gonna need—”

Deeks’ sentence was cut short by the door bursting open and shouts of “NCIS!” Kensi spotted Sam and Callen run in before the Kaisers’ two remaining guards charged forward, opening fire.

Kensi saw Deeks drop to the ground just as a bullet flew way too close to her face, and she ducked behind the pallet. She peeked out in time to see Sam exchanging one of the guards and Paul Kaiser. The other guard had hidden behind a piece of machinery. Deeks wasn’t anywhere in sight.

She checked her gun, preparing to pop up when there was a lull in the shooting.

“Well, this is cozy,” Deeks said, sliding in next to her. He had wood splinters in his hair and a half smirk.

“You’re insane,” she hissed, and he shrugged, looking around their barrier.

“You wouldn’t be the first to make that observation,” he told her, crouching next to her again. “You want to me to be the bait?” He nodded in Phillip’s general direction.

“No. Stay down and try not to bleed out,” she ordered, standing before Deeks could object. She aimed and fired three shots, each of them just missing Phillip, who turned and aimed, his bullets hitting the pallet a second after she’d ducked back down again.

Her second round, one of her bullets hit its target; Phillip jerked and fell backwards. Dimitri Kaiser took his place, but before she could even aim again, Deeks had moved in next to her, aimed, and fired. Dimitri grabbed his knee, collapsing to the ground with pained shouts.

In the middle of the room, Callen and Sam were taking custody of Paul, who seemed uninjured.

“See, I told you we didn’t need any backup,” Deeks said breathlessly, leaning heavily against the wall behind them. His jacket bunched up around his side, revealing fresh red blood soaking through the fabric of his shirt.

“Oh my god,” she murmured, reaching for him as he slid a few inches lower.

“But I might need that doctor now.” He gave her a faint smile, then sucked in a pained breath and went limp.

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