Owl Song
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Talon thought the tiny human — child? — might be dead at first with how still it was, but then its eyes had opened, seeing Talon, and promptly scrambled backwards.
Talon wonders what it's doing here alone. Humans this size tend to be well protected by their nest mothers and fathers. Has the little one wandered off?
Talon coos again, scooting a little closer.
No matter. The tiny human will go cold if Talon leaves it here, and unlike with Talon, humans do not become warm again once they’ve been cold.
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aka. Talon!Dick finds baby Jason and promptly decides that that's HIS little human now
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- Part 1 of Owl Song
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Dick falls victim to cuddle pollen.
Jason, growing up in Crime Alley, has only ever heard them being advertised as one thing.
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- Part 2 of Owl Song
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Talon coos softly, slipping through the window. It brings a cold draft with it, air heavy with the promise of snow, and Talon quickly slides the glass back in place in an attempt to keep the warmth inside.
The lump in its nest moves, a dark head popping up from the tangle of fabric with hair sticking in all directions, sleep mussed.
Jason yawns, blinking into the darkness, and Talon is unspeakably proud when its chick finds it immediately even though it’s standing still. Its chick is getting better at seeing in the dark.
“Talon?“ Jason asks, voice hoarse from sleep, but he still tacks on tiny chirrup. Their own unique way of greeting.
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Talon and Jason learn to be a family.Bruce is an idiot, but he means well.
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- Part 3 of Owl Song
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Talon hoots, rearranging the blankets around Jason while keeping a careful eye on the door. They’ve been left alone for now. Talon even got to wake up again, its owlet right beside it, crying and terrified, but blessedly warm and unharmed.
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The aftermath of the surprise adoption.
Bruce still hasn't gotten a hang of the whole "parenting" thing yet, but goddammit he's trying.
Thank god for Alfred.
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- Part 4 of Owl Song
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Talon hisses, nudging Jason insistently underneath his own body, crouched on all fours under the kitchen table.
Bruce sighs, running a hand through his hair, “I know this isn’t Alfred grade food, but this is actually the least burned thing I’ver ever made.”
Talon screeches, chittering angrily, and Jason likewise is glaring venomously at where the large man is half lying on the kitchen floor, trying to slide a plate of something black and foul smelling towards them.
If Bruce wants its owlet, he will have to try much harder than this!
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Bruce tries to cook despite a lifelong kitchen ban.
Jason is wholly unimpressed.
Dick just wants his cereal.
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The dinner from hell, but somehow it turns out ok? Anyway, Bruce is finally learning some parenting skills. So it counts as a win, right?
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- Part 5 of Owl Song
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Jason and Dick have their first day at Gotham Academy after getting home schooled at the manor for a couple years.
Jason is excited. Dick isn't.
Tim did NOT expect getting lowkey adopted by Gotham's vigilantes today, but he's not complaining.
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- Part 6 of Owl Song
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I heard a bird sing in the dark of December by Ghxst_Bird
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
26 Nov 2023
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“That’s because she is, and you’re just too- Hey! Dick, dang it, not again-“
“We can walk!“
Dick ignores the chicks from where he’s got them clutched in his arms and makes his way resolutely down the hallway.
His owlet is right. Bruce will be back soon, Dick just has to make sure the chicks stay warm and safe until his return.
He can do that.
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Tim, Jason and Dick are waiting for Bruce to return from a meeting at WE when the electricity dies during a snowstorm.
That wouldn't be quite so bad if Dick wasn't an overprotective older brother.
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- Part 7 of Owl Song
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Mr. Freeze is someone Dick and Bruce have fought before, back when his owlet still had to stay in the safety of the nest while Talon and the Bat took flight together.
Disturbed, is the word that came to Dick’s mind then, though he hadn’t been able to voice it. Disturbed, and sad. Lost in the throes of a grief so profound it had ripped all the goodness right out of him.
Now, years later, that grief has become twisted and all Dick can see when he finally lays eyes on the man is the same kind of shell the Court had reduced so many of Dick’s fellow Talons to.
Cold, empty.
Void.
Dick wonders if he looked like that, before his owlet.
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- Part 8 of Owl Song
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Like a Bird Whose Feathers Will Be Used for Prophecy by Ghxst_Bird
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
09 Apr 2024
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A bit of dimension travelling results in Nightwing meeting a version of himself that was found by the Court of Owls before Bruce Wayne.
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- Part 9 of Owl Song
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Tim spends Christmas at the manor, Bruce is forever banned from putting the star on top of the tree, and Dick is a happy bird enjoying his warm nest.
Oh! And Jason is there, too. Obviously.
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- Part 10 of Owl Song
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“I’m back,“ he sobs, clutching the owlet to his chest, hiding his face against hair matted with blood.
He refuses to move despite the cold seeping into his bones, refuses to get off the table they’d put his owlet on. How can they expect him to leave? It’s so cold in here. Jason is so cold. Dick needs to warm him up. Make his owlet not-cold. It will be fine. His owlet just needs a bit of warmth.
“Wake up,“ he pleads. “Please, wake up. I’m back.”
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- Part 11 of Owl Song
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Every Bird Laying Dead Inside Their Cage by Ghxst_Bird
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
17 May 2024
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Tim isn’t sure what’s going to happen now… but he knows that something has to. Something needs to change.
Robin… Robin didn’t help.
Tim didn’t- he thought it would. Help Dick. See- Jason, maybe. Just for a moment. Long enough for Dick to stop hugging Jason’s hoodie to his chest and look at him. Any of them. He thought it would- that there would at least be more of Dick inside that shell again. Just for a moment.
But now Tim is nursing five long scratches down the back of his neck where Dick had tried clawing the suit off him.
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- Part 12 of Owl Song
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Gordon takes one look at him and says, “No.”
It shouldn’t sting the way it does. Tim knows he’s not exactly the best for the job, but he’s trying, and he’s exhausted, and also on his second day of running on caffeine.
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aka. Tim has a rocky start into his career as Robin
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- Part 13 of Owl Song
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Dick launches himself at Bruce from the shadows with a scream and Tim only has half a second to comprehend that, yes, this is really happening. Right here. Right now. Before both vigilantes collide in a clash of kevlar and claws.
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- Part 14 of Owl Song
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In his dreams, Jason smiles. Breathless laughter erupting out of him like light from the sun when Dick scoops him up, not understanding the frenzy with which Dick checks him over but submitting to it all the same, confusion giving way to indulgent exasperation regardless of how many times Dick buries his face in the owlet’s hair and cries. Like he doesn’t understand why Dick clings to him like his life depends on it, like he’s just been away for a few minutes to fetch a glass of water and wonders what the fuss is all about.
And then Dick wakes up, the comforting smell dissipating along with the dream, and he wishes he could reach inside his chest and claw the heart right out of it.
But things aren’t that easy. And Tim- Tim needs him. Talon has one more nestling to protect.
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- Part 15 of Owl Song
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"You want me, right? You can have me. If you let Ro-bin go, I will not fight you."
Neither anticipates for Red Hood to take up Dick's offer so fast and throw Tim from the roof without any hesitation.
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- Part 16 of Owl Song
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Hood’s fingers twitch, anger-rage-fury shaking the Talon’s large frame. “You’ll really just lay back and let me mutilate you, huh?”
Oh. Finally. It’s not the place Dick would have chosen- but it’s not unusual for an owl to bring live prey back to its nest before killing it.
He folds to his knees again with an affirming warble, even as every line of Hood‘s body draws tight as a bowstring with murderous rage.
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- Part 17 of Owl Song
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Five dealers almost wet their pants when they notice Dick staring from the shadows when drugs and money exchange hands.
A potential buyer deadass drops down to pray a Hail Mary like he wasn’t about to purchase enough weapons to arm a small country.
And the less said about Hood’s own men, the better.
Jason doesn’t even bother with patrol that day. He’s pretty sure that—by the end of the night—all of Gotham knows that control of their resident Talon’s exchanged hands.
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- Part 18 of Owl Song