WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Just A Kid Like Me (Trying To Figure It Out) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
01 Oct 2025
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He spent all week after school with Ms. Lemoine. He spent hours every night doing worksheets, and going over them a dozen times. He checked all of his homework over, double checked it, then checked it one more time.
And it hadn't even mattered. The 'F' up in the corner, with Ms. Lemoine's 'We'll keep working on it!' as the final insult.
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- Part 1 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Jason stared down at the growling, teeming mass below his feet, and tried to muster up… something. Sadness, at the inevitability of what was coming. Anger, at the pointlessness of it all. Fear, at his own fast approaching end.
But he couldn't. All he could feel was… tired. Tired, and exhausted, and maybe… maybe even a bit of relief.
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- Part 2 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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A Sinking Stone (Wondering How Much Farther I Go) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Arkham (Video Games)
03 Oct 2025
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When there's nothing but blackness and sounds that Jason can't see, when it'll be days where Jason won't see another person, won't hear another person. When all he'll hear is the panicked sounds of his own breathing. Days when he's not even sure he's alive, because he can't move, he can't see, and all he can hear is his own goddamn breathing, and the pipes leaking, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip onto the marble floor.
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- Part 3 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Can You Hear Me Crying For Hope (There's Nothing Left) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
04 Oct 2025
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Jason is crouched over a kid. And there's enough blood on the kid's body that Dick doesn't… He ignores the five bodies he has to step over to get to Jason and the kid, ignores the large, messy bullet holes in foreheads, as he crouches down next to his little brother.
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- Part 4 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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There's A Reckoning A-Coming (Burning Through The Grave) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
05 Oct 2025
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Robin, as a mantle, is the god of those who never lose hope. Of the ones who keep getting back up, who keep trying to help, no matter what life throws at them.
It's a child's god. The bright colors against the dingy greys of Gotham's skyline, a symbol for children to cling to, to remember is just for them. A sign that there's someone out there looking out for them, that they too can be beacons in the darkness.
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- Part 5 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Too Late, Too Late (To All Farewell) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
06 Oct 2025
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The thing is… Jason makes really, really tasteless jokes.
Not like… jokes about kids being hurt. Well, not directly. No, the problem, Dick muses as he stares at his brother, is Jason likes to make jokes about his death.
And sure, Dick gets it. Everybody grieves and processes their trauma differently. Hell, Dick is the poster child for the 'plaster it over and forget about it' method. But Jason's processing method is actually traumatizing half the family.
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- Part 6 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Count To Seventeen And Close Your Eyes (I'll Keep You Safe Inside) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
07 Oct 2025
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Jason becomes aware with nothing but the memory of something bright, and a hell of a lot of pain.
It's not unusual; explosions, as much as he hates them, are kind of par for the course for most of Gotham's goons. Blowing things up seems to be their go-to to solve any problem, which probably explains why Gotham's insurance companies charge such high premiums.
But something's nagging at the back of Jason's -admittedly probably concussed -brain. A nagging feeling that he's forgetting something, that there's something important that he should be doing right at this exact moment.
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- Part 7 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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I Just Wanna Save You (While There's Still Something Left To Save) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
08 Oct 2025
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Bruce can see it in the boy's eyes; he's going to try and run.
And sure, Bruce could track him down. It probably wouldn't even be that difficult. But he's had a long night, and apparently he still needs to put his damn tires back on.
So before the boy can run off, Bruce reaches out, and grabs his wrist. "Wait."
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- Part 8 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Can You Feel My Heart Again? (I'll Take You Back Where You Belong) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
09 Oct 2025
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It's an accident, honestly. Dick doesn't even really think about it. It just… sort of happens.
He's out on a stake-out with Jason, crouched down on the edge of a rooftop. For once, it's not raining, so it's not an absolutely miserable experience, even if it's still tedious and boring.
And it's stupid, really. It doesn't even have to do with the gang they're supposed to be watching. Dick just… sees a dog across the street.
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- Part 9 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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I Was Sent to Warn You (The Devil's Right Beside You) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
10 Oct 2025
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"You know… one of these days, I'm gonna pay you back for what you did."
Bruce turns around, a bit startled, to find Speedy -no, Arsenal -standing far too close to him. "Excuse me?"
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- Part 10 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Can't Stop and Won't Stop (Why Do We Feel Half Alive?) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
11 Oct 2025
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The mission is, to Bruce's surprise, going well.
Perhaps that's cruel to think. He shouldn't be surprised by it, after all. Jason has done amazingly well at sticking to non-violent methods, and -when working with the family -he even keeps his usual aggression well in check.
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- Part 11 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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I'm Doing The Best I Can (With Everything I Am) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
12 Oct 2025
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Jason's little apartment isn't much.
It's small, like most apartments in the area are. Not the large apartment complexes in the gentrified neighborhoods, or the run-down tenament buildings in the East End. Not the brownstone style apartments of the older districts.
Like most apartments in Chelsea, Jason only has three neighboring units. It's a small two bed, one bath with an open living/dining room, and attached kitchen. It's practically an efficiency, with the bedrooms being slightly larger than postage stamps.
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- Part 12 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Standing On The Edge Of Something Much Too Deep by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
13 Oct 2025
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It's been a really, really long night.
Dick stares out at the city skyline from his perch, legs pulled up, chin resting on his knees. And it's just…
It's been a long night. That's all.
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- Part 13 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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They Only Show You Pieces (Never Skeletons) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
14 Oct 2025
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Bruce is… not the best patient. He'll admit it. He'd probably be a better patient if he had more patience, as Alfred likes to say, but… He hates feeling useless. Hates feeling like his body has betrayed him.
So being injured is something that puts him in a bad mood, makes him moody and miserable to be around. He knows it, and he accepts it about himself. He's been this way since he first started as Batman, even before Dick came around.
However… the situation has… changed.
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- Part 14 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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You Want A Story To Tell (You Gotta Go Through Hell) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
15 Oct 2025
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Well, here he is. Tied to some sort of chair, with what feels like zipties and duct tape around his wrists and ankles. With somebody bitch smacking him in the face.
It's not the pain of it that makes him wish he had his helmet; truthfully, it barely stings. Goddamn Tim has hit him harder when they're rough housing. It's more the indignity of being bitch-smacked in the first place.
"We know you're awake, Hood."
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- Part 15 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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I Grew Up On The Corner Of Normal And Tragedy by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
16 Oct 2025
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"Clint."
"Nat," he says, still throwing the ball up in the air with one hand, and catching it with the other. Her couch pretty much has a permanent indentation from his ass at this point, from how often he hangs out here. Hell, after real bad missions, sometimes he stays the night, and makes gumbo while Nat bakes pryaniki cookies.
"Phil's worried about you."
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- Part 16 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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The thing is… if Roy didn't know about Catherine, he'd think most of the stories were just random tidbits. He wouldn't think anything about the things that Jason doesn't mention.
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- Part 17 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Sometimes he gets tired, is all. Sometimes, watching the same people do the same thing in the same way, night after night gets a little… old. Tiring. Heavy.
And Jason gets it. That kid who nearly got choked out last night for pick-pocketing the wrong guy? Of course he's back out here tonight; if he wasn't desperate as shit, he wouldn't have been out there last night either.
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- Part 18 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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When he was a kid, there were these stupid little stuffed toy things that everybody at school tried to collect. 'Pound Puppies', just these… little stuffed dogs, that had these big sad eyes, and sewn on mouths.
Even Jason had one. A gray, short-earred, pug-tailed one, missing an eye, although that probably had more to do with wherever the hell Willis got the damn thing. For lack of anything better, he'd named it Benji, because he had no idea what the hell else to name it.
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- Part 19 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025
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Hard To Stay (And Hard To Walk Away) by WakingNightmares
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
21 Oct 2025
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Dick sighs his way around a canapé and tells himself that he absolutely cannot punch a little old lady in the face for pinching his cheeks.
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- Part 20 of WakingNightmares Whumptober 2025