#jaydick-flashfic: Big Plans

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Big Plans

“You know shit’s never gonna fucking change, right?” Jason makes to grab for his Zippo. Remembering Dick will happily remove his nuts from his waxed sack for even contemplating smoking inside Dick’s apartment, he stops. His fingers twitch with irritation, nothing like a little nicotine deprivation to start the day. “Gotham’s a gothic nightmare where corruption runs thicker than blood and Blüdhaven’s worse, somehow. Like looking in a funhouse mirror. Uglier. More warped.”

“I really do enjoy our little morning pep talks,” Dick replies, closing the last two buttons on his dress shirt before tucking the fabric into the waistline of his pants. In general, Jason would say he prefers the Kevlar-enhanced, ass-hugging suit Dick prowls the night in—but there’s something to be said for a crisp, white button-down with the sleeves rolled up, forearm veins on display. He doesn’t know how the Blüdhaven criminals are faring but, personally, he wouldn’t mind letting Detective Richard Grayson slap some cuffs on him. Let Dick work him over hard in a surveilled box until Jason cracks, raw and bloody under the harsh fluorescent lights. 

“These fucking places,” Jason grumbles, tired and cranky from watching Dick getting ready to leave, all that warm, gold skin about to slip right out the door. “It’s not something anyone can fix. Nothing short of dropping a bomb on the damn place and razing it to the ground.” 

Dick sighs, running a hand through his hair. It’s getting longer, strands brushing the bone of his jaw. He’s no stranger to this; Jason and the trash he talks. Words pouring out of him sharp as knives, the blades full of blood. Just endlessly spewing shit.

“No point to it all, huh?” Dick leans a hip against the dresser, arms folded, eyebrow raised. There’s an ease to him that’s inherent; the way he owns his body, his space, every room he’s in. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’re trying to lure me back to bed.”

 Jason thinks it over. Admits, “not originally,” and lets his legs fall apart slowly. Nude body lounging against cheap, synthetic pillows, he’s got Dick’s low-rent sheets strategically draped across his crotch, all tasteful and shit. Just like the Renaissance paintings cluttering the hallways of the Wayne Manor. None of the shameless, naked peacocking Dick gets up to after sex. No, Jason’s classy. Artful. The signature Jason Todd brand. “But are you feelin’ down to fuck?” he asks. 

Dick throws his head back and laughs. Really fucking laughs. Eyes scrunched up and shoulders shaking, all charisma and beauty and warmth. Laughing like that, it’s suddenly easy to see how a group of metahumans chose Dick as their leader despite his lack of superpowers or how the Blüdhaven Police Corps would accept him as their own despite him being the ward of Gotham’s favourite billionaire asshole. There’s something about Dick like there’s something about Bruce. Something captivating and inescapable that would make you launch a thousand ships for them. Burn down entire worlds for them. Jason’s not sure Dick’s aware of that. And in a way, Jason thinks he understands the Joker better than Bruce ever could. 

Dick’s laughter fades too slowly, and Jason would be annoyed but there’s a tightness to Dick’s pants that wasn’t there two minutes ago, and Dick’s always laughing. Joyful and happy. Like those are easy feelings to conjure and easy feelings to have. As if getting out of bed isn’t like crawling out of a dark pit every morning and as if life isn't like taking a suckerpunch to the gut, over and over.

“Wish I could,” Dicks says, and Jason swears he sounds like he means it. “But I got big plans today. Gotta save a city.”

“‘Save a city.’ Jesus Christ. More like go get shanked in the gut.”

Dick shrugs and slips on a watch. “Wouldn’t be the first time.”

The other bats all have their day jobs. The Police Detective, the Socialite, the rising Tech Wunderkind, and Jason’s personal favourite: the Student. Jason derives no small amount of pleasure from knowing that Bruce and the Demon Spawn get to suffer through the worst of it. Like an ill-fitted suit, Jason hopes it pulls and itches every time they’ve got to slip their disguises on. It shows how removed they are from the rot and the grit and the filth of what is Gotham. The gore at the core of it all. 

That’s where Jason lives, at its epicentre. 

He’d fallen into it naturally, being a crime lord. It had been a logical first step when he’d come home, head full of green fumes and rage. He’s proud to say, he puts the organized in organized crime. Outshines even the worst of them in calculated vicious violence. The crime part of the job, Jason can admit he’s gotten more discerning about. There’s no peddling drugs to kids or bleeding junkies dry, no people traded like cattle, and he doesn’t like selling guns to the lowlifes clogging Gotham’s streets. So, he’s become a parasite instead. Infiltrates a crime organisation and eats it from the inside out till it finally collapses. Scraps the dead beast for parts and money.

It’s not something Jason talks about with this version of Dick. His shady deals, his underground moonlighting. Never with a cop like the one making his way to the bed right now, uniform tight over thick thighs and a sway in his hips that’s nothing less than sexual warfare. 

“Try smoking in my bed again, Todd,” Dick warns, looming over him. He stops whatever threat he was going to utter, disrupted by Jason grousing at him to fucking let that go already. Perfectly pleasant, Dick does exactly that. Just stares at Jason with a face far too naked and utterly too fond. Something’s creeping under Jason’s skin at the sight of it—an itch he doesn’t know how to scratch, unable to decide whether he wants to kiss the prick or break his perfect face instead.

A little lower, there’s a bruise peeking out of Dick’s collar that looks like a handprint. Jason had put that there last night. Violently. Not even the fun kind of violent but the messy kind. The kind where something hunts Jason through nightmares and his body acts before his sleeping brain has had the chance to catch up—that kind of violence. Maybe a better person would wallow in the guilt and remove themselves from the situation. Not Dick and Jason. They just get better at hiding the batarangs and guns. The 200 pounds of well-trained muscle and murderous reflexes are a little harder to counteract but Dick’s no babe in the woods. Besides, Jason’s not exactly the first lethal bitch between Dick’s bedsheets.

Dick smiles. A teasing thing full of soft edges. “Mornings are hard. Aren’t they, Sugarplum?”

“Fuck you to hell.” Jason groans with feeling, hating the hard lumps of Dick’s mattress when he sinks back into them. “Just get lost already, Birdbrain. There’s no fucking point to you with your clothes on.”

“Nice to know I’m not completely useless.”

Jason wants to fight that far too favourable self-assessment. Would fight it, were he not half a pack of Lucky Strikes and three cups of coffee short of mustering the energy. Which is also the only reason he’s letting Dick press an off-centre kiss to his forehead. A shitty place for a shitty kiss from a shitty person, if you ask Jason. Very much Dick Grayson’s style.

“Try and behave, Little Wing.” Dick’s already moving away from the bed and shrugging on a jacket. “I really like this place. Got three South facing windows and none of the neighbours run a meth lab.”

“Prime Blüdhaven real estate,” Jason mutters darkly.

“Glad we’re on the same page.” Dick takes one last look at himself at the mirror, shoots Jason a tacky wink because his existence is a curse, and promises under his breath something that sounds suspiciously like I’ll be back or I’ll miss you. Another twenty seconds later and Jason hears the front door lock click back into place.

His day is wide open now. 

There are things to do but there are always things to do. At any time, Jason’s got about forty things in various stages of motion. Always working on something. Someone. Bigger games than the one he’s running on Dick right now, lighting one up in his bed.

Blowing smoke up into the air, Jason decides that today he’s going to crack the safe Dick keeps behind the panel in his closet. Perfectly harmless, really. Just him fishing through some of Dick’s case files—maybe even solving a few, if he’s feeling charitable. And for tonight, there’s that Malaysian place three blocks over that does a better Rendang than anything he’s found in Gotham. Dick never shuts up about it. Like he’s never going to shut up about the cigarette smell seeping into the wallpaper.

Jason smirks. Solid options. He still has last night’s terrors painted on the back of his eyelids and the feeling of Dick’s neck under his hand but they’re slowly fading. And Dick’s got him covered, said he’d take care of the big plans, so Jason doesn’t have to. And next time, when Jason’s Dick and Dick’s Jason, he’ll have Dick covered too. Jason will tackle the big plans while Dick raids Jason’s fridge and leaves wet towels all over his apartment. Jason knows it’ll happen. It has happened. Just not today.

Maybe tomorrow.

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@wethatake thanks for being the beta and basically a co-writer. You suck but I love you. <3 Here’s to hoping that your sad little sack of a co-worker doesn’t kill you. XD

[jaydick-flashfic]

New Prompt: Big Plans

In keeping with the new year and our big (and a little bit desperate, in a Leia to R2 sort of way) hopes for 2021, the first prompt for the year is “Big Plans!”

These could be hopes, schemes, new year’s resolutions, romantic gestures, or good, old fashioned villainy. No matter where your plotting (haha) takes you, we’d love to see it!

DEADLINE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST 2021

You have a month to create a fanwork inspired by these prompts. Fic, art, gifsets, podfic, headcanons, anything is welcome!

RULES:

Jason and Dick’s relationship should be a main theme. Side pairings are okay but should be less important than Jason and Dick’s relationship.

Post your work wherever you like – tumblr, AO3, etc. 

💖 SUBMIT YOUR WORK via Google Forms or add it to the AO3 collection directly. 💖

If you tag or @ us on tumblr, we’ll reblog you! @jaydick-flashfic​ or use the tag #jaydick-flashfic, or #jaydick-flashfic: transition (we’re going for consistency in using the dash in the title on all tags.)

Links: Rules/Guidelines, Tumblr

(note: new prompts now go up on 1st of the month rather than closest Sunday. this means i ended the previous prompt a few days early, sorry!)

[elwon]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jason Todd/Dick Grayson Characters: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Midnighter (DCU), Apollo (DCU) Additional Tags: Background Apollo/Midnighter, jaydick-flashfic: big plans, Dick was taken in by M and Apollo instead of Bruce, Based on a Reddit Thread, Coming Out, Identity Porn, blink and you'll miss it sex scene, Get Together Series: Part 35 of JayDick Flash Fic Summary:

After Dick gets asked to dance by a young be-suited man in a gay club, he can’t stop thinking about him. But will this reverse Cinderella be able to find his prince again? Well, yeah, probably. He is a dedicated private detective after all.

@jaydick-flashfic 

[stevieraebarnes]

author meme

Tagged by @maliciouslycreative -- THANK YOUUUU >.<

Author name: stevieraebarnes 

Fandoms you write for: DC (Batfam, jaydick), Voltron, and then historically, uh, Marvel and Supernatural. Yeah.

Where you post: AO3

Most popular one shot: By hits: uhhh does We Didn’t Give You Permission to Leave Us count? It’s a oneshot...except it’s the first in a series. Otherwise that title goes to...dissolve & rebuild. Huh. Really? By kudos: We Didn’t Give You Permission to Leave Us (or When the Music’s Over, Turn Out the Lights depending on our oneshot definition xD) By bookmarks: Again WDGYPTLU or Kaleidoscope By comments: Things Which Don’t Shift and Grow Are Dead Things...which is part 3 in that aforementioned series lmao. Otherwise it’s When the Music’s Over.

Most popular multi-chapter: By hits: The Boundary, Broken By kudos: The Boundary, Broken By bookmarks: The Boundary, Broken By comments: The Boundary, Broken

Favourite story you wrote: what. Choosing a favorite story??? Uhhh okay I had tons of fun writing A Contrast for the very first jaydick flashfic challenge. Salt was written out of a fervor of inspiration while I was supposed to be writing something else lol. And I Don’t Need Your Arms Around Me was super cathartic to have Keith and Shiro beat up on each other after watching VLD season 3.

Story you were nervous to post: I was really nervous to post the first (and at the time, only) chapter of Surprise Me When You Get Home. It was the first sheith kid fic/baby acquisition and throwing a baby into the mix can really chain the story sometimes. But I ended up loving it and wrote six more chapters after that over the course of like a year and some months.

How do you choose your titles: Usually something stands out to me that I associate with what I’m writing and I go with that. Sometimes I have a title after only writing a few lines. I think I like coming up with titles more than writing the fic...

Do you outline: Twice I have outlined. For my jaydick exchange fic You and Me (Could It Be Meant to Be) because I wanted to do my best and be diligent, and for The Boundary, Broken when I realized it was much larger than a “three chapters at most! What’s the big deal?” fic. Otherwise an idea just pops into my head and I write like I’m wringing words out of me and I don’t stop until it’s done.

Complete: 23 works completed on AO3! I’m a slow writer and that’s a lot for me haha.

In progress: I have two fics that are WIPs posted on AO3...one of them is complete I just need to upload the last one after tinkering with it a bit. The last one is...probably never gonna be finished I am so sorry. 

Coming soon: hmmm I’ve got a tiny fic I’m working on that’s a collaborative effort, so we’ll see how that goes. Otherwise, I’m making slow (nearly non-existent) progress on a Batfam/jaydick gunslinger au that I shared some info about here. 

Do you accept prompts: I sometimes collect prompts lol. I’ve written a couple small things based on some prompts sent my way and that was really fun. Otherwise, the jaydick flashfics are a good source of challenge inspiration for me :D

Upcoming story you are most excited to write: oh shit! I totally forgot that I’ve been wanting to do this jaydick We Have Always Lived In the Castle AU that I’ve got planned out. I’ve been slowly adding to that for over a year now, wow. Also, I really want to write a sheith Emma AU. I just want to write AUs now I guess idk.

Tagging @gavotteandgigue, @setsailslash, @crookedspoonfic, @paperempires, @solomonara, @elwon, @volaviwrites, @bleakeisland gah and loads of other really talented writers out there forgive me

[jaydick-flashfic]

New Jaydick Flashfic Prompt

So what’s left after the big plans of the New Year? Confronting the reality that is the present?

Or maybe we’re talking about confronting the feelings one might have towards another vigilante.

Or confronting one’s emotionally constipated father figure.

And of course, confrontations between the heroes and the villains, arguments big and small, fights to the death and fights over who ate the last of the cereal. Battles of all shapes and sizes and all kinds are welcome here.

DEADLINE: MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2021

You have a month to create a fanwork inspired by this prompt. Fic, art, gifsets, podfic, headcanons, anything is welcome!

RULES:

Jason and Dick’s relationship should be a main theme. Side pairings are okay but should be less important than Jason and Dick’s relationship.

Post your work wherever you like – tumblr, AO3, etc.

💖 SUBMIT YOUR WORK via Google Forms or add it to the AO3 collection directly. 💖

If you tag or @ us on tumblr, we’ll reblog you! @jaydick-flashfic​ or use the tag #jaydick-flashfic, or #jaydick-flashfic: confrontation (we’re going for consistency in using the dash in the title on all tags.)

Links: Rules/Guidelines, Tumblr

[elwon]

author meme!

Tagged by @stevieraebarnes

author name: elwon 

Fandoms you write for: JayDick/DC 

where you post: AO3

Most popular one shot: By hits: Not the Wallet. JayDick in titans is apparently really popular? By kudos: To the Victor; the Spoils. Which is odd as I didn’t think anyone liked BftC. By bookmarks: To the Victor; the Spoils. By comments: Holy Romantic Overtures, Batman!  Not surprised by this one, it was special.

Most popular multi-chapter: By hits: Tell Me More, Tell Me More. My first proper long fic! By kudos: Tell Me More, Tell Me More. By bookmarks: Cat Scratch Fever By comments: Bite Me to the Bone

Favourite story you wrote: I honestly can’t pick, there’s too many. but there’s a special place in my heart of Dies Irae, and The Mysteries of Wayne Manor.

Story you were nervous to post: Dies Irae, because it’s so personal to me. She Can Wear What She Pleases, and maybe At the Night Circus.

How do you choose your titles: Usually song lyrics or Shakespeare quotes, 9 times out of 10.

Do you outline: Tbh I usually end up writing the whole fic, or at least full scenes in my head before I ever start typing. So not really?

Complete: 93 works on AO3! I’m hoping to hit 100 by the end of this year!

In progress: I have one fic that is finished but needs editing, and one oneshot in progress, based on a fairytale.  

Coming soon: the above oneshot and more flashfic!

Do you accept prompts: I’m too busy with my own ideas and the jaydick flashfics to take prompts tbh. 

Upcoming story you are most excited to write: More titans fic, and flashfic. But I don’t have anything big planned at the moment.

Tagging anyone that wants to do it but hasn’t been tagged yet!

[ao3jaydickfeed]

by elwon

After Dick gets asked to dance by a young be-suited man in a gay club, he can’t stop thinking about him. But will this reverse Cinderella be able to find his prince again? Well, yeah, probably. He is a dedicated private detective after all.

Words: 5000, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 35 of JayDick Flash Fic

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Midnighter (DCU), Apollo (DCU)

Relationships: Jason Todd/Dick Grayson

Additional Tags: Background Apollo/Midnighter, jaydick-flashfic: big plans, Dick was taken in by M and Apollo instead of Bruce, Based on a Reddit Thread, Coming Out, Identity Porn, blink and you'll miss it sex scene, Get Together