#ailesswhumptoberdaytwentyfive

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category: M/M

fandom: DC Comics (Young Justice, Batfamily)

characters and relationships: Tim Drake x Conner Kent - romantic

warnings: faraway explosion and character death, hurt no comfort

Summary:

@ailesswhumptober Day 25: Humiliation, betrayal, “How could you?!”

Day 27: Before vs after, Alternate universe, “Well, there’s a first for everything.”

Tim refuses to join their mission. Fortunately, Kon knows exactly how to punish him.

notes: part of my brand new Konspiracy AU! featuring evil!Kon, character death, and hurt no comfort

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“Don’t do this, Kon.”

“I’m sorry, but this is the only way. Someday you’ll understand.” Kon turned away from Tim and gazed out the window. “We should be able to see it from here.”

“Kon, please. Whatever it is you want, you don’t have to hurt them. Just please let my family go.”

Kon strode over to look him in the eye. “Don’t you know, Tim? What I want is you. The only way they walk out of this is if you come with me. Help me, help us make the world everything we want it to be.” He held out a hand and smiled — smiled, despite the fact that he was holding a remote linked to the explosives that would murder half of Tim’s family. “Come with me, Rob. We can do this, together.”

But Tim was already backing away, shaking his head. “Please. You can’t hurt them.” Kon’s eyes darkened. 

“Can’t I?”

Panic spiked in Tim’s chest as he raised the remote. “Kon, please.”

“I think you need to stop telling me what to do. You’re not my team leader anymore.” He stalked over to the window. 

“But you’re still my best friend. You can stop this. You’ve always done the right thing. You can come back with me.” Tim was the one holding out a hand to Kon this time, and he tried to put all his desperation, everything he wanted to tell Kon, everything he needed him to know, into one word. “Please.”

Kon’s gaze flickered for a moment, and Tim foolishly let himself feel hope that they could fix this, that he would take Tim’s hand and they could go home and laugh about this little episode and Kon would take him to the roof like the old days and then they’d kiss and Tim would finally tell Kon how he felt and Kon would say he felt the same way and everything would be okay again. 

And then Kon pressed the button, and Tim watched his world erupt in flames. 

“NO!”

One moment he was watching the explosion through tear-filled eyes, then the next, he was on his hands and knees on the rough concrete. Bruce. Jason. Duke. Dami. My baby brothers. 

“This isn’t what I wanted for you. You were supposed to be happy. With me.” Kon knelt in front of him, put a finger under his chin and tilted it up. “I guess you won’t be either, now.” 

Tim felt like his chest was tearing in two, but he looked at the man who had been his best friend and forced his broken breathing to steady enough to speak. 

“I would have gone to the end of the world with you. I would have done anything you asked me to, said anything you wanted me to say.” He took a shuddering inhale. “I loved you.”

He wondered if he imagined Kon’s flinch. “Goodbye, Rob.”

He let the guards drag Tim away, the tumult of his heart like the roar of the explosion’s flames.