Prompt Post - Part Six [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]

[yj_anon]

THIS PART IS NOW CLOSED. YOU CAN CONTINUE POSTING FILLS, BUT PLEASE PROMPT ALL NEW THINGS HERE.

I am so sorry for the delay, guys. Life has been hectic lately (exams, haha) and I lost track.
Part one here!

Part two here!

Part three here!

Part four here!

Part five here!

Feel free to reprompt posts from parts one, two, three or four in part five once. If

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Batman in denial.

[anonymous]

I've been going back over the old posts and fills lately and there's a gorgeous story on post one where Batman is missing, presumed dead, and Robin refuses to believe it... eventually Batman does come back.

What I'd like to see is a vice versa to that. Robin is the one who is MIA presumed dead and Batman is the only one who is refusing to believe it because if he believes it then he's not only lost his parents, he's lost a son too.

Re: Batman in denial.

[anonymous]

Seconding! This is a beautiful prompt! If I didn't have a paper to write and the GRE to study for, I'd so claim it.

Re: Batman in denial.

[anonymous]

Oooh. Link to the Pt 1 fill??? Please?

Re: Batman in denial.

[anonymous]

Here you go

http://yj-anon-meme.livejournal.com/689.html?thread=344753#t344753

Re: Batman in denial.

[anonymous]

<3 do wantz

Re: Batman in denial.

[anonymous]

Possibly claiming. That's a definite possible but damn do I want to write this.

Re: Batman in denial.

[anonymous]

Ah, like the JL episode when Superman is presumed dead and Batman carries around the scrap of his cape and obsessively watches the footage of Superman's 'death'. That episode broke my heart and I loved it.

If it were Dick, I would love it even more. <3

Re: Batman in denial.

[anonymous]

which episode was that?

Re: Batman in denial.

[anonymous]

I was just gonna ask the same thing!

Re: Batman in denial.

[anonymous]

The episode was called Hereafter.

catastrophe and the cure [1/6]

[anonymous]

They search until dawn, and they find half of his domino mask and a piece of yellow and black fabric that looks like it came from his cape

catastrophe and the cure [2/6]

[anonymous]

“Sir,” his receptionist Clara says to him over the intercom, “there’s an Artemis Crock here to see you. She’s, ah, determined, to say the least

catastrophe and the cure [3/6]

[anonymous]

“Can I interest you in something to eat, sir?”

“I’m not hungry, Alfred.”

His eyes don’t move from the screen in front of him. He’s watched the video surveillance of the explosion more than a dozen times by now, and he sees the same thing every time: Dick runs through the corner of the image about a minute before the bomb goes off. There are shots of almost everyone else, on both teams, in the video, but Dick is barely there at all. He has to be missing something.

“You haven’t eaten anything all day, Master Bruce.”

“I’m fine, Alfred. Thanks.”

He switches from the video surveillance on screen to the reports he’s received from local hospitals. They haven’t admitted any boys matching Dick’s description.

“Master Bruce-”

“Alfred, I’m fine-”

“You are most certainly not fine.”

Bruce finally turns away from the screen to see his butler glaring at him.

“How could you be fine after this

catastrophe and the cure [4/6]

[anonymous]

Miss Martian is the only one who doesn’t actively go looking for Bruce. He finds her instead.

She’s sitting in an empty hallway at the Hall of Justice, clearly waiting for her uncle to finish up at the meeting that Bruce is about to go into. She straightens immediately in her seat when she sees him, and her eyes fall to the floor.

“Something wrong?” he asks, and she flinches. She shakes her head instead of answering aloud.

Bruce doesn’t leave but continues to stare down at her. Eventually, she wavers under his gaze.

“I’m so sorry,” she says under her breath.

“For?”

“Losing him,” Miss Martian continues. “Losing track of him. He was there, he was right there, I could hear him, I could feel him, and then he just wasn’t anymore and I couldn’t do anything about it.”

He doesn’t say anything, but Miss Martian isn’t finished yet, and part of him doubts she would even hear him if he said anything now.

“I’ve been listening for him. Trying to pick up on his mind or his thoughts, but I can’t. I can’t find him. He might just be out

catastrophe and the cure [5/6]

[anonymous]

It’s almost two weeks before Superboy finds him. Bruce comes back from patrol to see him sitting in Robin’s chair. He has to resist the sudden urge to throw him out of it, but Superboy stands up when he walks in anyway.

“Wally told me where to find you,” he says unnecessarily.

He takes a good look at Superboy and the resemblance to the older version is more astounding than ever. They’ve always had similar appearances, but now Superboy has the same look in his eyes that Superman did just weeks before. His eyes look emotionless and haunted all at once, and Superboy is clearly ready to break something.

“You haven’t found him,” he says, and it’s not a question.

Bruce tries to ignore him and he goes to the computer to check if anything has changed.

“Why isn’t he coming back if he’s not dead?”

Bruce almost chokes. He turns around and Superboy is glaring at him curiously.

“Why isn’t he coming back?” he repeats.

He’s not dead, Bruce says in his mind. He knows that’s what he’s supposed to say, what he tells himself everyday,

catastrophe and the cure [6/6]

[anonymous]

It’s a meeting of both teams plus Red Arrow, a premise that would have sounded chaotic and crazy before, but now, everyone is silent