rec50 | Reading and Literacy & Speed Me Through

My rec table.

Claim: DC Comics, Tim Drake
Title: Reading and Literacy
Author: Betty (

brown_betty)
Characters: Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain
Prompt: 16. Teamwork
Rating: All ages
Length: Short (3000 words)
Brief summary: Robin and Batgirl are watching over Blüdhaven, and they make a good team. Tim thinks it's only due to Batgirl's talent with non-verbal communication, the silly boy. Cassandra's willing to be patient and let him figure this one out on his own.

Tim waits for her to explain what she's doing here, but the story ends with everyone in jail, seizures made, Batgirl on the side-lines, no intervention necessary.

"So... what are you doing now?"

"I patrol." She looks at him as if it was an odd question. "I think maybe, I could... We could do good for this city."

"What do you need me for?"

She looks a little sad, which is a funny reaction to the question, so he must have been telegraphing something else with his body. He dislikes his body sending messages he doesn't intend or even necessarily endorse.

Link to the story: Reading and Literacy

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Claim: DC Comics, Tim Drake
Title: Speed Me Through
Author: Weirdness Magnet (

weirdnessmagnet)
Characters: Tim Drake, Bart Allen
Prompt: 05. Sex
Rating: Adult
Length: Short (4000 words)
Brief summary: Tim needs *so much therapy*, and he has a strange understanding of gratitude and sex. Bart is perceptive enough to see this and uniquely adept at dealing with Tim's issues. Also, these two boys are very sweet together.

Tim grips his hand, just a little. "I know. It's just -- I'm not always so good at talking."

"You're working on that. Meantime, you can always be non-verbal."

*That* gets him a significant eyebrow quirk.

Bart swallows the laugh, twists up off the floor and pulls Tim into a hug. Tim acts like someone who has no concept of where to put his hands, but when Bart gives him a squeeze, he wraps his arms around Bart's back and *holds* him.

"See? Not so hard."

"Hn." Tim leans into him. "I can't go around spontaneously hugging my teammates, Bart."

"Oh. Right. Kind of throws a wrench into that whole I-am-the-night vibe, huh?"

Link to the story: Speed Me Through