#Promises Promises

[haleswallows]

DC x DP Dead Tired 'Fake Relationship' plot bunny

Alright, imagine me presenting you with this like a proud cat bringing you the hair tie I just murdered. (Anyone is welcome to add to this - to treat it like a prompt or to expand on it. Just, like, let me know so I can consume it with an unhinged fervor, thank you!)

Tim (no longer forever 17) finds himself in a bit of a situation. One being that he's really fed up with Dick and Barbara and Alfred and even Bruce being nosy. And why are they being nosy?

Because that's their love language. And also, because for some absurd reason Tim cannot discern, Dick got it in his head that Tim is lonely. Which, of course means everyone has accepted the mission to get Tim hitched.

Is it that Tim and Bernard broke up? Is it that Tim has gone stag to every charity gala for the last year? Is it that Bruce finally pulled his head out of his ass and made things work out with Selina? The world may never know.

What Tim does know is he isn't lonely. He's fine. Truly.

Enter Danny Phantom.

The ghost hero is interesting. Tim side eyes the guy pretty hard when he joins the Justice League. For a dead guy, he's pretty cheery and up-beat. Honestly, with all the quips & puns, he could have been a Robin in a past life.

Surprising absolutely no one, Nightwing and Phantom quickly become butt-buddies, joined at the hip, partners in crime. Tim is not jealous, no matter what Dick says. He has his own team, his own cases, CEO work, etc etc etc and even more etc. Great, Dick has a new friend.

Too bad for Tim, one of his cases overlaps with Phantom's 'jurisdiction'. No one will tell Tim what that means. No worries, Tim will find out. He always does.

Red Robin and Phantom team up. It goes... great. No grievous injuries, the case gets solved, Phantom takes the frankly disturbing relic of Red Robin's hands. Tim cares only in-so-far that the thing is out of Gotham and Phantom promises (so-signed by Batman? the actual fuck?) it will be safe and won't return to the human realm.

They're wrapping up in one of Tim's more 'civilian' passing safe-houses. Mostly because it was the closest, and Phantom said something about 'ley lines' and 'easier to open a portal'. Cool, whatever. Tim was going to burn this safe-house soon anyway.

Tim, as always, gets himself into trouble. Chronic Thinking Too Much Disease, they really ought to make a cure for it. He's reflecting, watching Phantom eat Cheerios right out of the box, sitting on the counter, looking like he belongs there. When the fuck did Tim get Cheerios?

There's no denying it. Tim liked working with Phantom. The guy is good in a fight, doesn't rely on his powers too much, and kept up with Tim. Not not physically, but intellectually. And he's shockingly earnest when he isn't being a trash-talking little shit.

So. Tim gets an idea.

"Hey," he says before he's even thoroughly thought it out, "we should date."

Phantom pauses, gloved hand suspended in the middle of shoving another handful of cereal into his mouth, wide eyed and gaping. Attractive.

"Huh?" he says, eloquently.

"Not for real," Tim scrambles to explain. "I mean fake dating. Just hang around some, be a bit performative, nothing out of masks. We can say we're taking things slow and break up. Nightwing keeps trying to set me up with a date. This will get him off my case."

"Oooooh." Phantom resumes inhaling cereal. Why a ghost needs to eat, Tim would like to know, but it's probably rude to ask. Slowly chewing, Phantom seriously thinks it over. "You know, the council has been bugging me too. About dating. This could work out for both of us."

Council? Tim would like to know why a council is interested in Phantom dating. So he asks.

Phantom sighs explosively. Finally, he sets the Cheerios down. "OK, so like, this is need to know basis only. I haven't even disclosed it to the League. And like, Nightwing only knows because he's my friend and the Observants crashed one of our mission and blew the lid."

Pulling a face, Phantom waves an arm in an arc over his head. A crown appears, spinning and shooting off beams of light like an Aurora Borealis.

"I'm the Ghost King. It's a whole thing, no I am not taking questions on it at this time. Well, technically, I'm the Prince of the Infinite Realms because I'm too young to take the throne. So, there's a council and a regent. Whatever, not important!"

Phantom claps, getting himself back on track. "What that means is there's a council and Observants that are really interested in my personal shit. Including who I date. But like, I'm enjoying my brat girl summer and being single right now, not that they care."

Tim blinks. Then blinks again, slotting the new information in place alongside everything he knows about Phantom. That's... something.

"That sounds annoying," Tim says, instead of one of the approximately 23 questions in his head that are quickly spawning more by the second. "Fake dating would solve both of our problems."

Because Tim is a professional, they make a contract. Phantom will remain Red Robin's boyfriend, since they're taking it slow and no secret identities will need to be disclosed. Tim doesn't ask why Phantom would have a secret identity... he's dead? Saves the question for the later.

Red Robin will remain Phantom's totally human badass vigilante boyfriend, since they're taking it slow and Tim won't be required to do anything in any capacity for the Infinite Realms.

Then they set boundaries. Date ideas, what they're comfortable with for PDA, how much they'll have to do to sell it.

"I mean," Phantoms says, again with a mouthful of Cheerios. "Clockwork monitors the timelines, so he definitely already knows what we're doing. And he hasn't intervened yet." When Tim gives him A Look, Phantom helpfully explains, "He only intervenes when I do something stupid enough that'll change the course of the multiverse. So," then shrugs, entirely too nonchalant for Tim's tastes.

"If Clockwork already knows, won't he say something to the council or the Observants?" The very Observants Phantom has guaranteed will pop in on Tim at some point. So Tim feels compelled to ask.

"Nah," Phantom says. He kicks his feet from where he's sitting on the kitchen table now, right at Tim's elbow. "He hates the Observants more than I do. I bet he loves this. He's always down to fuck with them."

Great. That's... great.

Nothing can go wrong, right?

[summerwages]

promising...

[spicyvampire]

Phaya promising to not leave Tharn

THE SIGN (2023) EP. 7 // EP. 8 // EP. 10

[2minutesnotice]

Doodles of a Jester and his favorite Idiot ❤️

[lisenberry]

Now that the crush of the holidays and family stuff is winding down, I'm trying to get back into my little challenge of writing 800 words a day. I won't post what I have every day, but I need some incentive to finish a few of these older WIPs so I can start some of the newer things I'm excited about this summer.

Top of the list is:

We drift in and out (Price x Reader HEA)

The mountain is you (Price x Reader BDSM)

Come on love, draw your swords (Haladriel Roman AU)

Take care of the blood your love runs through (Haladriel Appalachia/Milkman AU)

Out there's a land time don't command (Haladriel Below Deck AU)

Excited to finally start in earnest:

Western A/B/O (Price x Reader)

Mob AU (Price x Reader)

Mary Poppins AU (Haladriel)

[ghostgirl-22]

Shh… I’m gonna do it so nice for you, I promise <3

[renegadesstuff]

THE WAY HE LOOKS AT HER 🥹😍

[haleswallows]

WIP Wednesday

And survey saaaaaayyyys

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Original Plot Bunny

(If you're in the HxH server, I shared a little excerpt there too *eyebrow waggle*)

Having Phantom for a temporary roommate turns out to be a boon.

First off, the ghost is stupidly considerate. Totally non-invasive to Tim's life other than the apartment is now really clean with a slight uptick in background noise. Respects the unspoken boundaries of shared living space, isn't loud, doesn't draw Tim into talking about his day, or even his night job. Tim never thought hearing a 'welcome home, there's dinner if you're hungry' when he got in would ever something he experienced outside the Manor.

But well, now he has. Tim can say it's nice? Yeah, really nice.

Jesus Christ, he's being domesticated.

Oh, and there's more too. Phantom cleans. Phantom cooks. There's leftovers in Tupperware Tim has never seen before in his fridge that Phantom encourages him to take to work for lunch. Not even Bruce's scowl had been enough to deter Tim from enjoying his home made lunch. Sure, most of the meals were simple single pan dishes, but damn. Damn, a guy could used to this.

Wait. What was he thinking?

Contractually, this 'relationship' was to get everyone to stop looking at Tim with blatant worry since The Break-Up. It just so happened to help Phantom with his meddling eyeballs problem too. Mutually beneficial.

Even then, they hadn't really discussed co-inhabiting, hadn't even thought about it. All boundaries started and stopped somewhere in casual. Surface level shit. Living together? Totally uncharted territory, and going extremely well.

Tim feels a bit blindsided. And isn't that a novel experience. Tim can't remember the last time someone got the drop on him. Damian being dropped into Bruce's lap, probably. The 'Jason Todd is Red Hood' hadn't even shocked him much — Tim had already suspected.

So, you know. He feels totally validated as he stares at the crock pot happily chugging along on his counter top, throwing out frankly delicious smells. Tim didn't even know he had a crock pot. The contents are a total mystery, all he knows is that it smells amazing.

A second revelation, leaving Tim feeling mentally knocked on his back and breathless: Phantom is going to share with him. There will be leftovers for Tim packed in stained Tupperware with a bright green Post-It note telling him to 'kick ass, take names, and take no shit', signed only with a 'P'.

Tim has lost the plot.

[lizzievereker]

Molly in Promises, Promises on Broadway 🔥❤️

[coolthingsguyslike]

[myimaginaryradio]

Promises, Promises - Naked Eyes

[antique-ro-man]

love when musicals have The Three Women

[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

Trying to get excited about the 1000th "cure for X" announcement that comes out...

[liss-art]

I want to draw a bit for Naruto rare pair week. Day 1. Promises

[I dunno if it's rare enough]

"Everything will be alright. Trust me" I'm the doctor