Here's a fun idea: Slade and Dick end up working together on some case/contract, and end up having to climb the side of an icy mountain. There are ropes tying them together as they climb up, but something happens (they get attacked/blizzard/whatever) and Slade ends up injured and unconscious.
Dick can't support Slade's weight. He's clinging desperately to the mountain. They're both going to fall.
He needs to cut the rope. Slade will survive the fall. But Dick can't bring himself to watch another person he cares about fall.
Dick stays there in frozen agony, the rope biting into his waist, paralyzed by terror and grief.
He finally manages to cut the rope. He finishes climbing, subdues the attackers or whatever, and works his way back down to Slade. By the time he gets there, he's sobbing so hard he can barely see, and Slade's body is nowhere to be found.
Dick stumbling blindly in a raging snow storm, calling out for Slade in a broken voice, hating himself so fiercely it hurts. He can see his parents' mangled forms every time he closes his eyes and now he has Slade's to add to that.
Meanwhile Slade woke up at the bottom of the mountain and was more than a little pissed when he saw the cut rope. He can't hold onto the rage in the face of Grayson's clear breakdown, however, and rescues his little bird from both the elements and himself, reassuring him that Slade is in one piece and not angry at him.
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I’ve been snowed in at work since Thursday. I hope my county can clear roads tomorrow so I can get home. If not I’ll be here responding some asks and catching up.
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Walking the dog in a snowstorm in Washington Square Park, ca. 1950s.
Photo: TimeOut NY
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My Commission of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen off to establish New Valyria. Illustrated by the amazing @elenyaart!
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