Event Horizon

Title: Safety In a Familiar Face
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: from unit82717 on Tumblr - Cassandra Cain, young!Jason Todd, 'sister'
Spoilers: None (The timeline is mixed up a little because I'm ignoring certain events that pissed me off, but it's preboot DCU and taking place maybe a year after the last time we saw our heroes in canon.)
Warnings: blood, semi-graphic car accident, de-aging, kid!fluff
Word Count: 4076
Summary: Unexpected outcomes to a patrol leads to some familiar bonding, and maybe mended bridges.
Word of the Day: climacteric, noun: A critical period.

Safety In a Familiar Face

For a town that was "owned" by Batman and his family of crime-fighting vigilantes, Gotham City sure did seem to attract a lot of metahuman and magic-using villains. That was a thought that popped into Batgirl's mind as she and Black Bat chased a self-styled 'master of the mystical arts', as he drove away from his so-far-successful heist of the small Jacobi Museum.

"At this point," Batgirl commented dryly, as the two ladies leaped a gap between buildings to keep up with the speeding Honda Accord weaving through the light traffic of mid-evening -- and one would think a 'mystical master' would drive a better car, or even some sort of magical transport, "don't you think people would learn not to bring expensive or powerful artifacts to Gotham?"

"Why wouldn't they?" Black Bat replied with a grin, "Best security guards in the world!"

Batgirl gave a short laugh and conceded, "Good point."

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Title: The Pollution of Their Foul Footsteps
Author: D.L.SchizoAuthoress
Rating: R
Spoilers: none, really, it's an AU.
Warnings: zombies, apocalyptic setting, mentions of character death, angst and suffering, mild language
Word Count: 1835
Summary: The end comes slow, and they'll hold it off as long as possible. They don't know how to do anything else.
Prompt/Fill: from calicoblue on Tumblr -- "Bart Allen and a Robin (but not Damian, pls; he's cool and all I just don't identify with him much), as for AU setting; hmm... Bart's non-powered (never been powered, I suppose) and a quiet, intimate moment during the zombie apocalypse. Oh! A Robin or more than one Robin; your choice. :D"

Note: I went for non-traditional zombies, Jason Todd for the Robin because I ship it, Steph Brown because I was allowed more than one Robin, and Bart being non-powered now due to circumstances. <3 (There are probably more stories in this verse, because I'm me.)

Word of the Day: cordate, adjective:
1. Heart-shaped.
2. (Of leaves) heart-shaped, with the attachment at the notched end.

The Pollution of Their Foul Footsteps

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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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