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Jason doesn't think much of it when Tim needs his help, or Damian moves in, or even when Dick turns up looking beat all to hell. But at some point he realizes that he might be the best option his brothers have to recover from the cycle of violence that Batman has set up, and all he can think is that things were much easier when he was the villain.

Bucky is doing fine after the Blip. He has his amends, he has his exit strategies, he goes to therapy. Steve's gone, but that's fine, Bucky can deal with that, even if he can't deal with feeling like a ghost in the apartment that Steve left behind. But when Steve returns, they'll both have to deal with how to rebuild a friendship and a home that are haunted by the ghosts of who they used to be. Their methods of doing so are perhaps less than ideal, what with how they involve more sex and stealthy surprise interior decoration than any actual communication. Maybe that's all they need to make a new home together.

No matter how good his disguise was, she could always spot him.

The email itself seems innocuous, if annoying: Bruce has sent some kind of invitation out to the family and other assorted family-type individuals. Jason would have hit delete without even opening it if Dick weren't rocking back and forth on the balls of his feet in anticipation.Jason's curiosity wins out. He opens the email.

The "Pit Rage" isn’t actually a side effect of Jason’s dip in the Lazarus Pit. Or… not entirely. It’s a tool that Ra’s carefully developed before deploying him to targeted effect against Batman. Unfortunately, its intended results wore off too quickly, once away from his influence. This time, he plans to get it right.

Batman has a long, hard week and clinging to the mundane is sometimes the only way to get through.That's just how Gotham always is, though.

Sometimes, your community is you, a seal you've never actually met, a number of late-night service industry workers, 2 former grad students, and a lady who’s a leggy killer whale on land.Sometimes, that’s plenty.

It starts with the Make A Wish foundation, and ends with a funeral.   Which, Bruce supposes, is unfortunately how things involving the Make A Wish foundation usually work. But what happens in-between catches him completely off-guard.

Jason finds a new coping mechanism post-resurrection, and it changes a few things.

As far as alien invasions go, this one was pretty smooth. At least it was right up until the aliens demanded a sacrifice. A child sacrifice.Batman's child.

When Red Hood meets Dick, he seems almost friendly, compared to the violent hostility he showed Batman and Robin.Tim sees an opportunity. Dick can work Red Hood’s human angle, while Batman and Robin do more clandestine intelligence gathering out of sight.For his part, Dick’s happy to go along with the plan and make a new friend. Maybe, if he plays his cards right, he can turn Red Hood from a crime boss to a vigilante. But the closer Dick gets, the question nags louder and louder: why does Red Hood seem so familiar?

Fight computer or no, she could put him in traction. But that doesn’t matter, because she doesn’t fight people with migraines. They make her feel the same way that she does when she looks at the skinny cats outside of Steph’s apartment when it rains.

Tim and Jon pretend to date, mostly by accident, and no one is well about it. Because being in your early 20s is all about making the worst decisions of your life.

When Bruce's back pain flares up at the office, he’s hounded by demands from his lawyer for an updated Last Will and Testament.In retrospect, he could have handled his frustration in a way that didn't result in nine frantic friends and family members crowding his bedroom.

Jason is ready to set his plan in motion, the one that will topple the Crime Prince of Gotham and finally get Bruce to see. The board is set. The players are ready.What he did not account for, however, was a child. Or three.

The boys decide to play hide and seek during a gala.

Sometimes negotiations hit a stalemate and creative solutions are necessary.Or, Bruce Wayne arm wrestles Lex Luthor.

Five birthdays the twins shared together, from the Rebellion to after.

Before Titan's Tower, Jason starts thinking about just…going home