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Hi!! Just wanna say i love your recent Tim Drake fic! It's so hard to find any Tim Drake fics that aren't for fem readers đ I'm glad you made it gender neutral!! Youre an amazing writer :D
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p.s. this genuinely gave me the first motivation to write in like 2 weeks
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Pairing: Tim Drake x nb!reader (itâs not super romance heavy but I might do a part two)
Prompts: n/a this is purely self indulgent
Summary: sometimes life gives you lemons and sometimes life tells you your best friend and the guy you hate are the same person, your not sure whatâs worse
Warnings: n/a
A/n: is this canon compliant? no. does it make much sense? not really. do I like and did I have fun writing it? absolutely. read at your own risk Masterlist also this should be totally nb but if you see anything thatâs gender solid please let me know so I can fix it
Word count: 2k it got to long but thereâs plenty of material for a second part (wink wink nudge nudge)
Secrets Spilled
Rich people suck. More specifically, rich teenagers suck. You should know, you go to school with one. Tim Drake, the pride and joy of Gotham Academy and the adopted son of Bruce Wayne. Was he actually adopted? You didnât remember but that didnât matter. Mr. Wayne has a habit of picking up strays almost as bad as Batman and Tim Drake was lucky enough to end up under his umbrella of wealth.
You had 3 classes with Tim Drake. He was smart and most of the teachers liked him well enough, in fact most of the school liked him. You however hated him. Sure he was cute and he seemed nice enough and you couldnât quite put your finger on it but something about him was just off. Like he had some big secret or something.
No one at school seemed to agree with you on that. They all thought he was a perfect angel so you stopped trying to convince them of your anti-drake agenda a long time ago. Thankfully you had one person in your life who always listened to your rants.
âHe sounds like a douchebag,â Red Robin said, sitting cross legged on your bed with an ice pack against his lip. Through some minor computer shenanigans, aka illegal hacking (nothing to bad), you had met and become close friends with none other than Red Robin.
It was a mutually beneficial friendship. For him it was an apartment almost exactly halfway between safe houses so on nights like tonight when he was a little bloody and bruised heâd stop by and youâd help patch him up. For you it was a captivated audience for your late night rants.
âOh he totally is! Thank you for that, no one ever agrees with me,â You rolled your eyes thinking about how many times youâd heard people gush about the billionaire brat. You sat down across from him and opened the first aid kit youâd just dug out from under your bed.
You were too busy rifling through the various bandages and ointments to notice your vigilante friend desperately trying to hide his smirk. âYeah no problem,â
âHeâs way smart too, which is super annoying.â You found the healing gel you were looking for. âI swear heâs hiding something, he must be like an alien or a robot or-â You looked up to see a laugh-suppressing-grin on the heros face, âDonât laugh, I'm serious! This guy is a pain and just because heâs hot people let it slide!â
Red's face went completely serious and you couldâve sworn you saw his cheeks tint pink underneath his domino mask but then again his left side had a sizable cut on it so you really couldnât tell. âYou- you think heâs hot?â
âThat is so not the point I'm trying to make!â You rolled your eyes and dabbed a bit of gel on the cut. âBut yeah, his looks are like, his only redeeming quality.â Once you had laid a thin layer against the cut you used some butterfly bandages to hold it closed. It was exactly pretty but it would heal well, and the gel would make it nothing but a small scar in a week or so. âYou know, you kinda look like him. Is that what you're hiding?â You used this opportunity to tap the bottom edge of the mask, resisting the urge to just take it off right then. âRugged good looks and a billionaire smile.â
âOh ha ha,â He retorted sarcastically, lightly moving your hand away from the fabric. Youâd be lying if you said you werenât dying to know his identity. Itâs not that he didnât want to tell you, itâs just that heâd heard you complain about his alter ego enough times to worry about your reaction, plus the whole âyour-life-would-be-in-constant-danger-if-you-knewâ thing. Lately heâd found himself going out of his way to end up knocking on your window and he didnât want what you had to change.
âYou're no fun.â You huffed, hoping off the bed stashing the first-aid kit once again. You heard a small buzz and knew that Red had gotten an alert.
He stood up, and listen for a second. You could only guess he was getting instructions via earpiece. âGot it, Iâm on my way.â He called over coms before turning back to you with an apologetic look.
You spoke before he could get an apology out. âLet me guess, some goonâs breaking open an ATM and everyone else is busy?â
âPretty much yeah,â He ducked under your windowsill onto your fire escape. âThanks for the help. I donât know where I'd be without you.â
âProbably at that robbery already,â You gently shoved him the rest of the way through the window and bid him farewell. You watched him grapple off into the dim moonlight before getting back into your bed. Over the past few weeks youâd started staying up later just in case a certain someone happened by, this of course made that full 8 hours a little harder to come by. You didnât really care though, a little less sleep for a little more time with him seemed like a fair trade.
The next morning finally came and you werenât exactly pleased to hear the familiar beeping of your alarm clock. Still you forced yourself out of bed, pulled your uniform on and got your stuff together before heading out the door to another day at Gotham Academy.
You didnât have any classes with Tim on Fridayâs but you usually saw him passing you in the hall or at lunch. Today was different. One might even say he was avoiding you, but why. You saw a glimpse of him quickly heading away from you before second period, and at lunch you got a great view of the back of his head for about 30 seconds before he ducked out to go who knows where. Sure, you werenât exactly friends but today it seemed heâd gone completely out of his way to make sure you didnât see him. And it was pretty successful, at least until you literally collided with him.
School had let out and you had almost left the building before you remembered youâd left something behind, on your way back to your locker you turned a corner without caution and slammed into him at full force. It was a classic early 2000s movie scene, papers and books flying and strewn across the floor, both parties crouching down to collect up their scattered items and inevitably accidentally grabbing the wrong paper or two.
âAh sorry, iâm so sorry I didnât see-â Thatâs when you actually saw who it was youâd bumped into. âTim?â You handed him the printed out english paper that definitely wasnât yours.
âSorry, I should have been watching where I was going.â He apologized as you both stood up and placed your papers in your respective books bags. Something about him was even more off then usual. He wouldnât even meet your eyes, in fact he kept his gaze firmly to his left. Maybe heâd somehow heard you complain about him and now he wanted nothing to do with you. Maybe youâd messed it all up.
You were about to awkwardly say bye and shuffle off when a locker a little ways away from you slammed shut, startling you both and causing Tim to finally look to his right.
âWhoa what happened to your face?â You asked leaning in slightly to see the hefty gash that had been carefully held together with butterfly bandages. âThat looks just like,â It clicked. âhOLY-â
âSHHH!â Tim acted fast, he clapped a hand over your mouth, effectively putting your mind shattering realization on silent and rushed the both of you into a thankfully unlocked maintenance closet nearby.
Suddenly a bajillion pieces were falling into place in your mind. Tim cursed. âGod, if you know now what I think you know youâre gonna have a lot of questions. So I'm gonna move my hand but you have to be quiet about it. Ok?â He spoke softly and full of concern. After all, he may have just caused a massive overload in your brain. Your kind of enemy and your closest confidant were the same damn person, who knows what that could do to someoneâs psyche.
You nodded profusely, still unable to even conjure a sound. Slowly Tim lifted his hand away from your mouth and watched you closely. You didnât say anything for a beat, you just stared back at him and then, âWhat the actual fuck! Youâre him and heâs- which means- I mean all this time- and⌠what?!?â
âUmm yeah?â In all honesty this was going better than Tim had imagined it would. Whenever heâd envisioned you finding out it usually started with you cursing him out and ended with you never talking to him again, but now here he was. You hadnât cursed him out exactly and you were kind of still talking to him so overall, better than expected. âI wanted to tell you ages ago I swear. I just know how you feel about⌠well me,â He gestured down to his civilian attire. âand I wasnât sure how youâd react.â
âAll this time,â You were still definitely in shock. âAll this time you were him and he was you! And you never told me! I talked about you to you! I called you hot!â
âOh yeah, thanks by the way.â A shit eating grin had made its way onto his face and you were not pleased.
âOh fuck off!â You sunk down to sit on a little step stool that happened to be in the closet. âI canât believe I was so dumb. I mean how did I not see it sooner!â
Tim crouched down in front of you. âTo be fair, we put a lot of effort into keeping our secrets.â
âWe? Wait a second! If youâre Red Robin, that makes Batman-â
âYup.â
âAnd Nightwing-â
âOh yeah.â
âSo Robin is-â
âA total pain in the ass. But yeah, itâs Damian.â
âHoly shit!â
Tim finally let himself laugh a bit at your reaction. You were smart and he knew that, there had been a few times over the past few weeks when he thought you might put it all together and heâd gone out of his way to cover it up. Including (but not limited to) a leaked story to the tabloids about a Tim-Drake-kidnapping-attempt that was thwarted by the one and only Red Robin.
While the tabloids werenât the most believable sources it had planted a seed in your brain that Red Robin and Tim Drake were in the same place at the same time. Of course thanks to that cut on his cheek he wouldnât need to lie to you anymore.
âDonât laugh! I canât believe I didnât see this months ago. I mean your stupid mask doesn't even cover that much!â You exclaimed, throwing your arms in the air to emphasize your point.
Tim lightly grabbed your arms and brought them back down. âOk ok, iâm serious but you seriously need to calm down.â He still had a massive grin on his face.
âI am calm!â You defended. âI mean considering. Wait, how did this start? Did you have to train long? When did you find out who Batman was? Is he really a Vampire?â You rattled off questions a mile a minute, finally the shock and slight annoyance had given way to pure curiosity.
Tim looked around the small maintenance room, contemplating a really bad idea. âI canât explain anything else here, but if you want I can take you to the Batcave? I mean youâve already guessed most of the secrets and even if I don't tell you the rest youâll probably figure it out anyway.â
a/n: I broke 2k and couldnât figure out a satisfying ending so I just called it here but if yâall show this one some love iâll do a part too (guest appearances and everything)
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