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"I'll Be Yours (A Love Story)" is a DC Alternate Universe fic based on post-Crisis stories in Batman and related comics titles. You know the joke about little Timothy Drake being a freaky creeper and stalking the Batfamily and being obsessed with Dick Grayson? Yeah, this would be that, minus the joke part, and plus as much creep-factor as I can squish into it.

This story is rated very M (Mature) for mental illness, the recreational killing of animals, murder, violence, blood, severed body parts, discussion of sexuality in minors, etc, etc; in short, AU!Timmy is not your friend. The story is dark and creepy and fucked up. It's slash, of a sort, in that little Timmy is madly in love/creepily obsessed with Dick Grayson.

A great deal of inspiration for this fic comes from Nightwing: Year One and "A Lonely Time of Dying" in Batman and Teen Titans. A great deal more inspiration comes from music, especially "Angel" by Massive Attack. The title comes from "I'll Be Yours" by Placebo, another inspiration. There are many others; check out the official soundtrack below!

"I'll Be Yours (A Love Story)" will be posted when I have stuff to post. It will be as long as it needs to be to encompass the plot. At this point it is completely un-beta'd, so... bear with me. Beginning with Chapter Eight, beta'd by the lovely and talented ava_jamison and regonym!

This story also available on my AO3.

Disclaimer: Most of the characters and locations in this story are © DC Entertainment Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment. All content is fictional and for entertainment purposes only, not for profit.

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve

Alone In My Darkroom Later, the official I'll Be Yours (A Love Story) soundtrack! One of the songs actually contains a plot spoiler for Chapter Ten, so, keep that under advisement.

Title: I'll Be Yours (A Love Story) [Ch 7/?]
Continuity: Comics!verse AU, based on post-Crisis continuity.
Rating: Very M.
This chapter–
Characters/Pairings: Timothy Drake, Jack Drake, Janet Drake, Mrs. McIlvaine; one-sided Tim/Dick, sorta.
Word Count: 1196
Summary: Tim spends his Saturday night with broken animals, thoughts of Dick, and Plans.
Warnings: Discussion of the following: animal death (in a fair amount of detail), the recreational killing of animals, and the casual infliction of harm on another person. I believe I did mention that AU!Timmy is not your friend? No spoilers for anything more recent than the 1980s.
Disclaimer: Most of the characters and locations in this story are © DC Entertainment Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment. All content is fictional and for entertainment purposes only, not for profit.

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( Chapter Seven )

Title: Live Without [Ch 5/?]
Continuity: Teen Titans animated series, mostly, cobbled together with bits inspired by the comics verse and Batman: The Animated Series, and stuff I just made up from scratch. Sort of an AU? Takes place after the end of the Teen Titans series.
Rating: T
This chapter–
Characters/Pairings: Robin (Dick Grayson), Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, Alfred Pennyworth, Clark Kent, Commissioner Jim Gordon. Robin/Starfire.
Word Count: 2693
Summary: Batman and Robin hit the streets to investigate Bruce's murder. It's nothing at all like old times.
Warnings: Um... nothing really. Inevitable angst. No spoilers.
Disclaimer: Most of the characters and locations in this story are © DC Entertainment Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment. All content is fictional and for entertainment purposes only, not for profit.

Notes: O hay guyz, we've reached the plot! ...Or, at least, the plot for this first story arc; I'm writing War and Peace over here, fffffff. This chapter is dedicated to magusronin, my good friend and most faithful cheerleader. Happy birthday, dude!

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( Chapter Five )

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Due to a conversation I had with Ivan the other day, he is now aware of what a gigantic Batman nerd I am. And so, because he is wonderful, he gave me these links to Batman-related Robot Chicken skits. <3

Batman, Two Face, Hot Chocolate.

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg~!

So this weekend contained many exciting adventures with media. Let me tell you of them.

( Follow the cut for massive word-dump discussion of kestrels, Misfits, Young Justice, True Grit, 1940's Batman, Megamind, a one-to-one scale model of the Enterprise-D, NOLAN'S BATMAN VILLAIN CASTING CHOICES, and the holy Buddhist temple of superheroes and sci-fi action movies. )

...So, that was my weekend. In other news, I have to keep the door to my bedroom closed during the day now. Because the cat appears to have developed the habit of coming into my room while I'm gone and PEEING ON MY BELONGINGS, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Okay, so, some of you may remember when I acquired a copy of the 1949 Batman and Robin movie serial at Office Depot for $10? And it was awful and awesome and hilarious? ...I should probably mention for posterity that they did manage to hoodwink me in a major plot point, so... the writers were not as dumb as I thought they were? I dunno that it was clever writing so much as cheating....

ANYWAY. Not long after I acquired that classic gem, I found the 1943 Batman movie serial for $10... I think at a Safeway? So I bought that too, DUH. I've only just now gotten around to starting to watch it.

OH. EM. GEE.

Okay, so this one is actually a much higher-quality Batman product. Better acting all around, better costumes... Batman and Robin are actually semi-competent.... Luckily this film is saved from not being a circus of lulz by being filmed and set during WWII. So... war propaganda! And, even better, RACISM!

I started to realize what I was in for when they opened a scene on Gotham's Little Tokyo, which had become a ghost town as Gotham law-enforcement had, and I quote, "wisely rounded up the shifty-eyed Japs." At which point I say, "...HOLY SHIT DID THOSE WORDS ACTUALLY JUST GO INTO MY EARS JUST NOW?!" :DDDDDDD

The Main Villain of the piece, is, in fact, meant to be Japanese, but as all the actual ethnic-Japanese in the country have been "wisely rounded up", what we have instead is an incident of... yellow-face??? The character is very authentically named Tito Daka; his hair is black and slicked back, he has a skinny little mustache, his eyes are all made-up to look dark and squinty, and he has a vaguery Asian-sounding accent. There's a truly amazing moment when someone he's captured exclaims something about his "twisted Oriental brain!" Daka has an army of EVIL AXIS CYBERMAN ZOMBIES that he controls through a special microphone, and radium-powered ray-gun technology. :DDDD

Bruce, Dick, and Alfred are FABULOUS, btw. Dick is ADORABLE. The one in Batman and Robin is... kinda dumb as a brick. This Dick is smarter, younger, more exuberant, and SO MUCH A BETTER ACTOR OMG. He has kind of a weirdo derp face, but... HE'S PRECIOUS. You get to see him weiring PIMPIN' SCIENCE GOGGLES, and also looking like a tiny GQMF in his pimp-ass suit at a restaurant. And and and Bruce and Dick actually go UNDERCOVER in COSTUMES so we get to see PAPERBOY DICK AAAAAAAWWWW HE'S SO CUTE!!! And he does many classic Robin crotch-dives! :DDD This is important. *nodnod*

Bruce is... kind of a special panda, omg. Just... asdfjkl;ljhgsd SCENE:

[Batman and Robin have small-time crook tied up for questioning in their "Bat's Cave"... small fluttering shadows can be seen]

Crook: [terrifed] What are those?!
Batman: [airily] Just some of my bats.

Also he uses appropriated evidence, which just happens to be a high-powered future weapon, to prank unsuspecting Alfred! And he and Dick have a big jolly laugh about Alfred's terror. Wtf? XD ...Bruce, just say no to firing ray guns in the house.

Finally, in case I wasn't already in love, Batman and Robin take, like, any excuse they can get to come CRASHING THROUGH WINDOWS at people. ...Oh man, I'm only two episodes in, this is going to be SO. AWESOME.

Title: Do You Know How Many Times [1/1]
Continuity: Comics!verse, post-Crisis
Rating: T
Characters/Pairings: Tim Drake; Tim/Kon
Word Count: 107
Summary: Kon-El is dead. Tim is having issues with this.
Warnings: A swear word. Angst. No spoilers... unless someone missed the part where Kon was dead for a while? Oops, spoiled that one for you.
Disclaimer: The characters in this story are © DC Entertainment Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment. All content is fictional and for entertainment purposes only, not for profit.

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( I wrote something angsty. Color you all surprised. )

Title: I'll Be Yours (A Love Story) [Ch 5/?]
Continuity: Comics!verse AU, based on post-Crisis continuity.
Rating: Very M.
This chapter–
Characters/Pairings: Tim Drake, cameo from an original character; one-sided Tim/Dick, sorta.
Word Count: 1842
Summary: Tim thinks a lot (a lot) about things that upset him. Tim indulges in a couple of his favorite hobbies in an effort to relax. Upon further reflection, Tim has a Really Great Idea.
Warnings: General creepification, one mild swear word, roundabout sort of discussion of sexual behavior in a twelve-year-old. AU!Timmy is not your friend. No spoilers for anything more recent than the 1980s.
Disclaimer: Most of the characters and locations in this story are © DC Entertainment Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment. All content is fictional and for entertainment purposes only, not for profit.

Notes: Timmy calls everyone by their first names. Mrs. McIlvaine doesn't have a first name, as far as I've been able to find. So I gave her one. Also, can I please crawl out of my skin now?

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( Chapter Five )

Title: I'll Be Yours (A Love Story) [Ch 4/?]
Continuity: Comics!verse AU, based on post-Crisis continuity.
Rating: Very M.
This chapter–
Characters/Pairings: Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon; Dick/Barbara, sort of, if you squint at it out of the corner of your eye.
Word Count: 1140
Summary: Dick bitches about Bruce; Babs listens.
Warnings: Nothing much at all, this chapter. Some swearing. In future chapters, blood, violence, death, and icky things out the ying-yang; AU!Timmy is not your friend. No spoilers for anything more recent than the 1980s.
Disclaimer: Most of the characters and locations in this story are © DC Entertainment Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment. All content is fictional and for entertainment purposes only, not for profit.

Notes: This is a really short one. I was going to combine it with what is now going to be the next chapter, but decided there was enough here to be sort of worth it. Also, oh hey, my AU is showing.

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( Chapter Four )

Title: Live Without [Ch 3/?]
Continuity: Teen Titans animated series, mostly, cobbled together with bits inspired by the comics verse and Batman: The Animated Series, and stuff I just made up from scratch. Sort of an AU? Takes place after the end of the Teen Titans series.
Rating: T
This chapter–
Characters/Pairings: Robin (Dick Grayson), Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, Alfred Pennyworth, Clark Kent, original character; Robin/Starfire
Word Count: 3628
Summary: Robin and the Titans reach Gotham City. Introductions are made. An absence is keenly felt.
Warnings: Not much, this chapter. ANGST; discussion and description of violent death. No spoilers.
Disclaimer: Most of the characters and locations in this story are © DC Entertainment Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment. All content is fictional and for entertainment purposes only, not for profit.

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( Chapter Three )

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