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[minty364]

DPXDC Prompt #58 Part 4

The living room and kitchen were deserted, neither Danny nor Jazz expected anyone as it was normal for their parents to essentially live in the basement only coming up for meals once or twice a month to ‘eat as a family’, these would consist mostly of fast food as no one trusted anything cooked in their kitchen.

They shared a glance as they opened the basement door and headed down. The dimly lit basement held the giant hole in the wall, the so-called portal, a massive metal spectacle with wires and interconnected circuitry met together to create an unholy abomination of science. Or at least that’s what Jazz called it once when they were in her room venting about the situation. 

“JAZZ!! DANNY!!” their overzealous father yelled as he bounded over.

Their mom walked over too, seeming to be happy for their return, “your father and I could barely contain our excitement all day!! Go on put on your hazmat suits.” their mom gestured over to the lockers that held the suits. Both of their parents' lockers tended to be quite empty since they practically lived in them, to the point where they had several copies of the same suits that they’d wash and reuse. Danny and Jazz only had the ones, Jazz had a nice dark violet color with black gloves and boots. Danny had black gloves and boots too but his was white to make it look like he was an astronaut, something that he had mixed feelings on. Both of these used to have a giant picture of Jack’s head on it but it was quickly removed by both siblings. 

They quickly put the suits on over their uniforms and joined their parents behind some glass near the portal. It wasn’t closed off or anything and Danny didn’t think it would be able to prevent something like an explosion from charing all of them but it’s hard to have faith in parents who've missed so much because of the stupid portal, or at least that’s how Danny felt. 

Jazz and Danny huddled together behind their parents as their mom did some final checks on a clipboard, “alrighty we should be all good, Hun you ready to throw the switch?” their mom asked their dad. “As ready as I’ll ever be!” Jack yelled as he threw down the switch.

…

A few sparks erupted from the portal but other than that nothing happened. 

Their dad, frustrated at this angrily tried turning it off and on again but nothing but another smaller spark and then truly nothing. 

Another low frustrated growl left their dad as he and mom walked back up the steps, “alright I’m taking a break.” Jack said, almost defeated, sounding, “I’m sorry but I really thought we had it this time.”

“Oh come on, Jack, let’s go out, I’m sure the kids were probably going over to the Wayne’s again anyways. Let’s go out and have a fun night then sleep on it.” their mom said, patting dad on the shoulder. They shared a fond look and then went upstairs probably to get ready. 

Danny and Jazz stood at the bottom of the stairs and shared a look.

“They gave up too fast again…” Jazz noted.

“I guess, what do we do now?” Danny asked.

“I’m still a little curious about the portal but I don’t want to keep Damian, Tim or Alfred waiting,” Jazz said with a hand on her cheek.

“We could invite them in, I know we haven’t before but maybe Tim would know how to get it working, he is pretty good with technology.” Danny reasoned. Neither of them really wanted to involve the Wayne’s in their family’s shenanigans but at this point they were all friends and Damian and Tim were bound to find out how weird their family was at some point anyways.

Jazz stood there seeming to think things over before she nodded, “alright I trust your judgment but we’ll have to be careful okay?” 

Danny smiled at her, “of course, what’s the worst that could happen?” 

This is what led to the four of them standing at the bottom of the stairs. Their parents had left about an hour ago. Danny and Jazz were still in their suits with Tim without one and made to sit with Jazz behind the glass and Damian and Danny planning to explore the actual tube.

“I don’t want to chance you getting hurt,” he said to her as he made her stand next to Tim.

Damian and Danny shared a look and nodded before heading into the tube. 

They looked around for a while but didn’t see much besides the interconnected wires on the floor of the lab. Damian took the right side while Danny took the left. They worked their way up and down the tube. Damian was a little ahead of Danny on their way out. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary.

When they were almost out Danny lost his footing, his hand flying out in front of him. A soft click was heard and time seemed to crawl to a stand still.

Danny couldn’t stand the thought of his friend getting hurt because of him and he felt a rush of adrenaline. He ran as he felt a swirl of energy and electricity surround his body. 

“DANNY!! DAMIAN!!” he heard both Tim and Jazz shout as he reached Damian who was at the mouth of the portal.

A quick shove was all it took to get Damian, who had turned towards him at the sound of the shout, out of the portal. 

“DANIEL!!” he heard Damian shout as the portal activated on top of him, surrounding his body with swirling green.

Blinding pain shot through Danny, feeling as if he was being torn apart and put back together again and again.

He figured he was dying but at least he could protect those he cared about. He was able to shove Damian out of the portal in time, and Tim and Jazz were safely behind the blast glass.

He wouldn’t ever be able to fly among the stars as an astronaut but he was able to protect. His family and friends were safe and that’s all that mattered. 

He could allow himself to succumb to the darkness as the electricity and pain consumed him whole.

[tennessoui]

how have i never done a 5 + 1 fic ? ive been writing fic for 3 years and ive never done a 5 + 1 fic?? incredulous. shocked. horrified.

[elysianymph]

lily writing down her and james' plan on how to woo regulus in her bullet journal <3

[daddy-long-legssss]

sometimes i think if i put as much effort into other things as i did as arctic monkeys/tlsp stuff, i could be so successful.

why can't my passion BE my job???!

[skitskatdacat63]

"Bring on The Dancing Horses"(x) - Echo and The Bunnymen × Ferrari Drivers

[sibylsleaves]

The dodgers officially love gay people and buddie yayyyyyyyyyyy !!!!!!!!!!!!

YAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LA Dodgers are officially buddie fans <3

[tigtree]

reading jane eyre and sobbing my silly little eyes out because i can’t stop picturing adelé as elodie. this might finish me off

[johnslittlespoon]

on a scale of 1-10 how likely is it that you’ll post tas before the weekend?🤗 obviously no rush but i am so beyond excited i literally can’t function with the anticipation haha :)

likee. 1.3/10. :smile: LOL sryy, still being beta'd and still debating reworking a scene in it <33 and only just getting started on ch11 today since i've been focused on my halloween fic, so waiting till the weekend will give me a bit of a buffer while i write the next one :-)

also just wanna say thank u to u/the other ppl in my inbox who are always so sweet and considerate with the 'no rush/no pressure' sentiments, it always makes me smile!! i promise i can feel the energy in your msgs/tones, i feel the appreciation more than anything else and it's so v motivating– i don't feel rushed at all, pinky swear <3 ik i say it lots but i mean it when i say i feel so very lucky for how kind and positive 99% of the comments/msgs i get about TAS are, it's such a joy to have good vibes surrounding this passion project :')) mwah

[cubbihue]

there are 45 asks (that i could find) about chimmy amongst the 200 or so in my inbox right now

chimmy was supposed to have finished his move like. by the 4th or so ask he got

this man is.

he's in for a rough 48 hours. oh my god. this guy will NOT reach his destination anytime soon.

[quigzahhutt]

sighs

I really want to write transman Logan . like a lot .

[areyougonnabe]

I did so much writing this week... pretty much all i did... that's because... I am a professional writer..... crazy but true

[unicornsaures]

gaslighting myself by saying "dpdr isnt that bad!!" while i forget things/vaguely remember things that should have been some of my happiest moments just because i was dissociated during it

[mochiwrites]

me when… isat fic….

[demonsandpieohmy]

Me: editing a fic I need to post tomorrow, trying to concentrate on emotionally poignant word craft and artistry

My brain, whispering into my ear: You should write a parody of My Immortal with Crowley as the main character

Me: Leave me alone. Also let’s title it My Ineffable

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

Okay y'all have been warned

(also, I partially blame @skoulsons for this bc we cried over the Hands™ last night and today my brain couldn't shut up)

Okay first a little bit of a reminder/spoilery trivia bc I know besties who didn't see the show/haven't watched that far might read it:

Rachel is physically linked to her evil half brother, meaning whatever injury he gets, she gets it too. He bleeds, she bleeds, etc. Dick contacts a friend from London who specializes in all things magic to find a way to break that connection and he learns of The Clavis Noctem ritual. Quote:

In English, "The Key of Night." It finds inner evil, gives it a physical form. A form that can be destroyed.

So the ritual is supposed to give her inner evil a physical form, and requires the person who loves her to kill it. And in the episode, said "evil" takes this form:

And I guess, yeah, it makes sense in the context that it's supposed to take that connection and give it a form so it can be destroyed. But the thing is, I don't remember there being a scene where Sebastian puts a spell on her or creates this connection in any other way, he just randomly reveals it to Rachel in 4x08 when he cuts his wrist with a knife and her own wrist opens. As if this connection was always there???

And here I am thinking: the details aside, why turn it into some zombie version of Sebastian (bc in case you didn't know, this is Joseph Morgan under all that makeup and prosthetics), a guy who, yeah technically is her brother but has no meaningful connection to her in the long term, when she exists.

Rachel's demonic reflection from season 1. Literal physical manifestation of Rachel's darkness, who looks like her, talks like her, has always been a part of her. Wouldn't that make more sense? Wouldn't it be a bigger emotional gut punch?

To get rid of the inner evil, someone who loves her has to kill it. Put Dick in front of a random zombie? No biggie. He'll do it in his sleep. Present him with a carbon copy of the girl he loves like a daughter? Put a blade in his hand and tell him to kill her? Now that's angst.

I won't go into further details because I think I'm gonna turn this into a fic. But one thing for sure: he wouldn't be able to fight it, not like he fought the monster in the episode. There would be no chasing it around the building, no big fight sequence.

It would be a heartbreaker.

[archangeldyke-all]

ok... 'a falls first and b falls harder' with a being reader and b being sevika... thoughts???