Event Horizon

Title: Angels Fall Without You There
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: PG
Spoilers: I don't even properly know. Cassandra is in Hong Kong. I allude to Batman and Robin v1 for sure, probably some Red Robin developments and Batman Incorporated.
Prompt: askbox prompt for Cassandra Cain Appreciation Month, "Roller Coaster"
Warnings: none really? The format may be a little confusing.
Word Count: 1813
Summary: Cassandra knows she doesn't like literal rollercoasters. What to do when life becomes a metaphorical one?
Word of the Day: splendiferous, adjective: Magnificent; fine.

Note: I got distracted by a different prompt also given for Cass Cain Month, which is why this one is late. And then I got bitten by multiple plot bunnies. This one was a hard one to get off the ground.

Note II: Medusa, opened in 1999, no longer exists as itself. It was retooled into Bizarro in 2009, but I'm pretty sure the track is the same.

Angels Fall Without You There

Gotham City isn't home anymore, and when Cassandra realizes that, she knows that she has to leave. (Blüdhaven had been home once, but that's one place she can't return to... no one can.) Her brothers had nearly ruined everything in their fight to succeed their father, had made a mockery of what his symbol stood for.

So she'd shoved the costume into Steph's hands, left the name she'd made her own, and packed her bags. As her flight departed from the Gotham City International Airport, the only thing that lightened the weight on her heart was knowing that passing Batgirl on to Stephanie was something that her father had wanted.

Cassandra rode a rollercoaster once.

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Title: Cigarette
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: PG
Spoilers: pre-Two Face, possibly pre-Batman (but not by much)
Warnings: smoking, of course
Word Count: 160
Summary: Harvey has bad habits.
Note: I asked daggerpen to send me a one-word prompt and this happened.
Word of the Day: ombudsman, noun: A government official who hears and investigates complaints by private citizens against other officials or government agencies.

Cigarette

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Title: Secrecy Called on Account of Winter Vacation
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: G
Spoilers: set sometime after Blue Devil #19, in Jason's Robin days
Warnings: holiday fluff, Eddie Bloomberg & Jason Todd friendship
Prompt/Fill: "Snowball Fight" from the Christmas Advent Prompts list.
Note: The title is kind of terrible, but based on the phrase "game called on account of rain". Just thought that might need explaining. This may get a second part, but no promises.
Word Count: 2145
Summary: Hollywood winters are never this white... not unless you're on a backlot set. Eddie doesn't mind.
Word of the Day: ventose, adjective: Given to empty talk; windy.

Secrecy Called on Account of Winter Vacation

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Title: All Our Best Men Are Laughed At
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: set after "The Death of Superman", goes AU from there.
Warnings: lots of canonical character death, broken grief process (your mileage may vary, but probably an over the top OOC reaction from one person in particular), eventual clonecest
Prompt/Fill: First sentence and general story idea provided by M.G. Nemesi on Tumblr.
Word Count: 1210
Summary: The nightmares are worse these days.
Word of the Day: profluent, adjective: Flowing smoothly or abundantly forth.

All Our Best Men Are Laughed At: Part One

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Part Two

Title: Touch
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Batman Annual #25
Warnings: AU
Word Count: 329
Summary: ...but this doesn't happen to Bruce...
Prompt/Fill: "coma" for my hc_bingo card
Word of the Day: remit, verb:
1. To slacken or relax.
2. To transmit money, a check, etc., as in payment.
3. To abate for a time or at intervals, as a fever.
4. To refrain from exacting, as a payment or service.
5. To pardon or forgive a sin, offense, etc.

Note: A sequel to Listen, and not understandable without reading the first part.

Touch

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Title: No Trace
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: R
Spoilers: set during Jason's tenure as Robin
Warnings: May spoil the 'twist ending', but they are serious triggers. Highlight to reveal -- implied non-con, implied statutory rape, implied sexual abuse, anti-shipping, very dark.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: The cave seems much darker when this secret comes to light.

Note: This story idea came to me and would not leave. I'm sorry.

No Trace

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Title: Not Allowed
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: PG
Warnings: AU, allusions to teacher/student misconduct, one-sided Bruce/Jason
Word Count: 477
Prompt: "1. BruJay 2. Teacher/Student (school)" from xephios
Summary: One of these kids again...

Note: 1) I suck at 3-sentence fics, I think; 2) this is probably crap; 3) this is set in a universe where Thomas and Martha are alive but the world doesn't suck any worse for not having Batman.

Not Allowed

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Title: What's Dead is Alive
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: R
Spoilers: probably none? Call it a David Cronenberg-flavored Elseworlds take on Jason Todd
Prompt/Fill: for the whole story -- Author's choice, author's choice, did the devil make the world while God was sleeping? and fills "Body Hatred" on my hc_bingo card.
Warnings: horror, body horror, violence, mentions of suicide, blood, disease, body horror, yes I warned for it twice I'm serious
Word Count: 942
Summary: What's dead stays dead. Except... it didn't.
Word of the Day: educe, verb:
1. To draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent.
2. To infer or deduce.

What's Dead is Alive
Part One

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Title: Promises to Keep
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: PG
Spoilers: none
Warnings: fantasy AU, crossdressing (unwilling participant)
Word Count: 847
Summary: Escape was surprisingly easy. It's what comes after that will be difficult.
Note: Don't worry, I'll backtrack and this will make more sense later. Part of the Princess!verse.
Word of the Day: Cimmerian - adjective:
1. Very dark; gloomy; deep.
2. Classical Mythology. Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of a western people believed to dwell in perpetual darkness.

"Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be."
--Princess Diana

Promises to Keep

"You will seek out my daughter and you will not return until you can return with her."

Bruce bowed his head. "Yes, my king," he intoned in a deep voice.

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So I finished the artwork before I finished the story, and decided that the art would be my fill for au_bingo.

Title: In the Name of the Bat...
Dimensions: 425 x 600 (.gif)
Prompt: Other - Superpowers

It's adapted from a coloring book image. Totally colored with Jasc Animation Shop.

ETA: Oh, hey, before clicking the cut, you want to make sure you aren't eating or drinking. I don't want you to choke or short out your keyboard.

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