#NOW FEATURING MY ALT BAT IDENTITY FOR TIM

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Congratulations on the increase of your followers 😘😘😘😘 how about JayTim with Dick realizing he sent Tim to Jason after battle for the cowl? Like, right when he left the cave, he went to find Jason and managed to drag him with him in the journey.

quick shoutout to @yasmindifference who just posted that 'be my robin' snippet so now i'm just thinking about THAT as hard as i can cuz like mm chef's kiss perfect interaction between jay and tim so here's uh my little twist :)

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"Be my Robin."

"No. You should be mine, instead."

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It takes Dick about three weeks to realize he hasn't seen hide nor hair of Tim or Jason since inheriting the cowl. Between wrangling Damian and trying to clean up the aftermath of Bruce's death, he can't hide from the fact he's let the two of them slip through the cracks.

"Hey, O? Have you heard from Hood or, uh," he falters slightly, realizing he isn't sure what callsign to use for Tim, "T, recently?"

"Not since the Gun Batman incident," Oracle intones, a mechanical sigh reaching through the coms. "You want me to look for them?"

"Yeah, thanks O."

"Mhm. There's been gunshots fired over by the First Bank of Gotham on 23rd."

And just like that Dick is back to being Batman.

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"I can't find them, either of them."

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Months. Months of no contact when Tim and Jason quite literally explode back into Gotham. Not that Dick knows what's going on, because he doesn't except that the city is crawling with League ninjas. Fantastic.

No time to dwell on his two missing siblings being back in town, both sporting some new costumes Dick notices idly, when Batman has a job to do.

The sun is just threatening to peak of the horizon by the time the night is over and Dick manages to track Jason and Tim down to a rooftop where both are sprawled out on the concrete. Tim's costume is closer to a Batgirl costume in style, although all the accents are emblazed in white rather than a yellow or purple. Little bat ear horns peak out from under his much longer than Dick remembers hair.

Jason's costume, Dick remembers most of it. Red Robin. A mantle he took up briefly before his untimely demise. Some of the elements have been swapped for a mixture between the Red Robin costume Dick remembers and the Red Hood, like the sleek black helmet currently sitting beside Jason, the visor vaguely reminiscent of a bird's beak.

"I see you two are getting along."

Tim sits up at Dick's announcement, propping himself up on one elbow to watch him approach. From beside Tim, Dick hears Jason snort.

"No thanks to you."

Tim reaches over and bodily elbows Jason in the stomach. Jason barely grunts.

"To what do we owe the pleasure, Batman?" Tim asks briskly, all business. It hurts, just a little.

Dick pauses. Jason is openly staring at him with contempt, okay, he probably deserves that; while the white lenses of Tim's mask give nothing away. There's so many things Dick wants to ask, where were you, what were you doing, what just happened, but instead he opens his mouth and says, "I'm glad you're okay. Both of you."

"Thank you for the concern." Tim's mouth tugs into a frown, the half face mask doing nothing to conceal it. "The League won't be a problem for a while."

Jason snickers. "Yeah, 'specially since you blew up half their bases."

Tim elbows Jason again, which only makes him laugh harder. It's... a far cry from the last time Dick saw the two of them. When Jason was constantly, and literally, at Tim's throat.

"Will you be around...?" Dick tries not to sound too desperate. Tim and Jason had already proven their proclivity for dropping off the map at a moments notice, even escaping Oracle's all seeing eyes. He just hopes they won't be doing it again. At least, not so soon.

"I think we'll be around for a while," Tim says, tilting his head towards Jason who nods. "It's Echo, now, by the way."

"And Red Robin," Jason says dispassionately from where he's lying down, giving a two fingered salute to the lightening sky.

Dick takes that as his cue to leave, giving Tim a brisk nod and grappling away to head back to the Batmobile. He looks over his shoulder as he goes, just barely catching the sight of Jason sitting up and leaning into Tim's space and.

Oh.

Looks like Jason is still at Tim's neck.

He turns his head back ahead. There will be time for processing that particular piece of the puzzle later.

#welp this is clunky but it's like 11:30 at night so blame that #NOW FEATURING MY ALT BAT IDENTITY FOR TIM #which also features in my reverse jaytim au but listen echo is just such a good name for a bat theme #jaytim #astrix writes #250 follower special #writing dick is hard #there's a pun there somewhere someone else find it for me #anyway if you're wondering i imagine tim got permission from cass to take some of her black bat outfit #and he just changed it up as he needed lmao #excellent adventures of echo and red robin