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The last time Dennis had a conversation with Robby before the day they tumbled down a bridge together was a little over a year ago. It was minutes before dawn. The hallway light was just bright enough to illuminate the horror in the older man’s eyes.
“I’m sorry,” he said to Dennis, choking on the words and rubbing a palm over his eyes. His chest was heaving with breaths as if he'd just witnessed the end of the world instead of holding Dennis naked in his arms.
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A year after a drunk hook-up with his attending at the end of his rotation, Dennis is back to the Pitt as a resident.
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07 Jul 2026
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“Come on, kid,” someone says, rubbing his sternum with bruising fingers. Dennis desperately tries to swat the hands away, the bone already sensitive from the weight of the patient from just moments ago. “Open your eyes, Whitaker, come on. Look at me. Open your eyes.”
He twitches, his limbs flexing in odd and tight angles as he tries to expel the memory of the pain. He tries to speak, not to answer the question but to ask for help, help, anyone, anyone at all, his mom or one his brothers or the youth pastor who gives him bandages when no one is looking, just, God, please, please—
The best Dennis can manage is a deep gurgle from his throat.
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When he gets seriously injured after an altercation with a patient, Dennis is forced to reveal parts of himself he would rather keep hidden.
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07 Jul 2026
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Foggy catapults himself into the apartment and the flurry of his terrified pulse and rushing footsteps fills Matt’s brain like snow.
“Jesus, Matt!”
It’s overwhelming, all that Foggy is. The sounds and smells and tastes and presence. They crash into Matt’s senses like small explosions and the ashes pin him down heavy as a blanket.
“Matt, buddy, are you ok? Are you hurt?”
There’s a hole in his chest, one that is clasped tight between his cramping forearms and that sleek material that smells like dad and feels sticky tonight, sticky like that night. He can’t get it to stop feeling sticky. He can’t get it to stop.
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- Part 2 of More words than work
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06 Jul 2026
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Dex had to admit, he was kind of enjoying this.
The firm squeeze of Matt’s grip on his shoulder shoving him forward, the soft growl of his voice cursing his existence, the fire spreading up his side replacing the noise in his head—all of it drove Dex higher until he was floating above his body.
A hysterical giggle threatened to wriggle its way out from underneath his fractured ribs. The two of them—sworn enemies—forced to work together for the sake of the grand design. This was perfect. This was poetic. This was….
Or, Dex learns to relinquish control, and Matt learns to take it.
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26 Jun 2026
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Sleepover (Run, boy, run - this world is not made for you) by LostOtter
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
23 Jun 2026
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“The moon is made of Swiss cheese”, Jason deadpans and for a moment he forgets to be hurt and emo in favor of throwing Dick a look so judgy it almost burns.
Despite himself, Dick’s lips twitch. “Gouda?”
The kid scrunches his nose. “Swiss, you imbecile. Gouda is Dutch. I was thinking Appenzeller for the moon.”
“Isn’t that a dog?”
_________________Dick had a total of four conversations with Bruce’s new kid, when Jason Todd appears on his doorsteps and demands a sleepover. What follows, is the most emotionally tumultuous night of Dick’s life, a lot of card games, good food, and the realization that maybe being a brother isn’t as bad as Dick thought it would be.
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24 Jun 2026
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“Let me make this very clear, Mr Murdock. The possibility of saving his vision never crossed my mind. Right now, I’m not sure we can save his eyes.”
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Jack contends with the aftermath of his son’s accident.
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13 Jun 2026
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Matthew Murdock was a man of tragedy and he came from a long line of tragedy and his people, his person, his father, was not the subject of some bored guy’s midnight TV binge.
(A director is making a documentary series about old boxers. He interviews Matt to tell Jack's story.)
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13 Jun 2026
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therianthropy (and other goddamn lies) by thepolysyndetonaddictsupportgroup
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), The Punisher (TV 2017)
28 May 2022
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"Matt," says Foggy, severely. "We are not some white suburban couple with marital issues. We cannot fix our problems by adding a child."
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There is a child sitting on Matt’s couch. A living, breathing, human child, who represents all the pieces of Matt’s life that he’d rather forget.
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- Part 2 of these stupid hells we keep
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12 Jun 2026
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Matt turns 32 -- the same age his father was when he was killed. It's not a very "happy" birthday, to say the least, but it's still a birthday: things are opened, unraveled, unpacked, and candles are lit.
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12 Jun 2026
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Jack does his best after the accident, he really does. But there's only so much he can do.
(Jack's POV from Matt's accident to Jack's death)
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12 Jun 2026
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“I think Matty has superpowers,” he blurted out.
(Jack notices Matt's weird behavior after the accident and comes to the most logical conclusion.)
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12 Jun 2026
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Three weeks after Foggy wrote "Nelson, Murdock, and Page" on a new napkin, Matt, Karen, and Foggy are starting the new firm in the upstairs of Nelson's Meats. That means Matt can't put off moving back into his apartment any longer—an apartment that he may or may not have told Karen and Foggy he moved back into weeks ago.
It turns out, trying to sort out your affairs and come back to your old life after having a building fall on top of you, spending months recovering in a church basement, and being homeless isn't that easy. It's a little harder still when you're mentally unwell, sleep deprived, and blind.
Also... maybe Matt should have taken the whole hallucination thing more seriously.
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12 Jun 2026
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Someone has to take care of Damian’s Batman, and it’s not gonna be Dick.
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09 Jun 2026
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I'd Jump Off And Into Your Arms, But I Can't Trust The Fall by sharksarewaterdogs
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
05 Aug 2023
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The Bat's eyes narrow into thin slits. They pierce Dick, even as they're locked on Slade, and he can't move. He can barely even take in a breath. It's Bruce, his mind cries, jubilant or terrified, he can't tell. Bruce. B. He came.
He wants to run forwards. One side of his mind urges him on, spurred by words carved into the back of his skull by hopeful repetition: Bruce is safety. Bruce is a rescue. He needs to get to Bruce.
But the larger side—emotion, logic, self-preservation—urges him to shrink back. His throat shrivels closed, his heart pounds. Bruce isn't safety. Not anymore. Dick is a criminal now. Bruce hasn't come to save him.
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Or, Dick is in his Apprentice arc but Bruce comes for his kid.
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- Part 3 of out of the nest (into the fire)
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09 Jun 2026
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“Sorry.” The man had a nice voice, Matt thought. Clear. A tenor. “I’m–I’m here. Sorry, I didn’t want to say anything and startle you. Sorry.”
Matt’s lips twitched. “It’s alright.” He inclined his head, pushing off of the wall and extending his hand. “Matthew Murdock.”
The slightest bit of hesitation, before Matt found his hand grasped in a surprisingly firm grip. “Benjamin. Ben Poindexter." He cleared his throat. “But I go by Dex, usually.”
Matt grinned. “And I go by Matt.” He tilted his head, flashing a smile. “Usually.”
Matt and Dex meet each other in college.
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01 Jun 2026
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Jason is small, when Bruce first brings him home. Dick comes back from Bludhaven to meet this kid that Bruce effectively kidnapped and he’s ready to see this kid and accuse Bruce of having a complex, the kid of being a scammer, Alfred of being irresponsible, and it all wastes away when he sees this thirteen year old with scarred, knobby knees and elbows and too-big hands and a chipped tooth and his first thought is: he’s too small. His second thought: he looks like Bruce. His third thought: shit.
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Dick feels like his relationship with Jason has always, always been a struggle, one where he’s never on the right foot. After helping Jason recover from being abducted by Mask, though, he thinks he’s starting to figure it out.
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The voluntary parentification of Dick Grayson by Dick Grayson
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- Part 14 of Like Father Like Son
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31 May 2026
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27 May 2026
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The boy watches him carefully, focusing sharply on his every reaction, “You got any kids?”
Bruce makes sure the surprise at the question is not evident on his face, “I don't,” He answers heavily.
Peter closes his eyes with a slow and deliberate movement, disappointment evident in the way his shoulders relax in defeat, “So you're not my dad, huh?”
“No, Peter,” Bruce confirms gently, not sure why the truth feels wrong, “I'm not your father.”
The boy opens his eyes, expression full of grief and eyes a blazing gold flecked with green, “My name's actually Jason.”
(A strange boy covered in scars enters Doctor Bruce Wayne's emergency room.)
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18 May 2026
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On administrative leave and under scrutiny, special agent Ben Pointdexter is ordered into group therapy. He doesn’t believe in it. He doesn’t believe in much of anything.
Until he notices the blind man in the circle-
and realizes he’s not the only one in the room with something to hide.
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05 May 2026
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He took hold of one of Murdock’s ankles. “I could break this,” he said. “You wouldn’t be able to run.”
Murdock struggled against his grip, trying to pull his leg away. “You’re fucked in the head.”
“I’m not going to do it.”
Murdock laughed, harsh and rudely. “I’m supposed to be grateful?”
His body reacted before his mind did and he leaped forward, closing his fingers around Murdock’s throat. Murdock hissed through gritted teeth, his body tensed and his hands came up to Dex’ shoulders, trying to push him away but he was too weak in this state. His face grimaced in pain.
“I’m not going to do it,” Dex repeated and eased his grasp on Murdock. “Don’t worry.”
Murdock is hurt. Dex takes care of him to the best of his capabilities.
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28 Apr 2026