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    Bruce is lying. If he’s lying, that means Dick can’t trust him. If Dick can’t trust him, that means—

    That means there’s nobody he can tell about his parent’s murder.

    Except, except for maybe—

    “Tell me more about the Batman,” Dick says.

    “I—“ Bruce sighs, drops his face into his hands, brings it back up. “He’s supposed to defend the city. I’ve heard. People say he’s some—creature of the night.”

    “Is he—“ Dick swallows, thinks of the man looming over him and then gentle hands shielding from rain and camera flashes. “Is he a good guy?”

    “He tries,” Bruce says, at long last.

    Dick nods. He gets it. He’s trying too.

    “So he defends the city,” he says. Bruce nods along with him, slowly. “So he—he protects people. He catches the bad guys.”

    “Yes,” Bruce says. “He does.”

    Dick chews on his lower lip. “Can he kill someone?”

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    Dick Grayson, in the week after his parents' murder.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    “A field trip?” Peter said.

    “Just a little family outing,” Sue said, passing him a knife. He took it and obediently started helping her cut the crusts off a small mountain of sandwiches. “We thought you might like to join us.”

    “I mean, it sounds great,” Peter said. “But work is a little swamped and somehow whenever I take off with you guys I always manage to go missing for two months. My landlady does not love it.”

    “We really could use the extra set of hands. Also,” Sue said, “someone needs to keep an eye on Johnny.”

    Peter groaned.

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    Peter's spider-sense starts acting up on a Future Foundation field trip. He and Johnny, recently returned from the Negative Zone, have to pretend to be married. These two things are related.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Peter flailed his arms a little as he hopped, trying to pull his spandex back up. "It's the Statue of Liberty."

    Johnny rolled his eyes. "That doesn't mean anything," he complained.

    "Glove." Peter held his hand out. Johnny reluctantly passed him his glove. He reattached the webshooters to his wrists and made sure the mask was firmly in place. "See you at home, honey."

    "That wasn't a 'no'," Johnny shouted as he webbed away.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    “Don’t you dare tell me I don't know my own son’s face.” Familiar rage seethes at the base of his lungs. “Don’t you dare. Don’t you ever. I knew it against all reason. I knew it when it was impossible for it to be in front of me. I knew it faked and warped and desecrated and delusional and spitting mad. I knew it when it killed me to know it, to believe it to be true—”

    “Describe it,” Dick challenges.

    “I knew his face three years dead beneath a domino. I knew it as he carved a chunk of flesh from his own scalp and cursed my name…” His fingertips drift to a spot two inches behind his ear. Is that uneven texture the sign of a years-old scar, or just a tangle of hair?

    (Or: Jason and Bruce get bodyswapped. It takes two full days for anyone to point it out to them.)

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    24 Jun 2026

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    Their new gardner, whom Aerion had passed on the way inside, has only been there for a fortnight. He has no doubt the bumbling oaf will be gone by the end of Winter break—

    —Fast forward thirty six hours, and Aerion is on his hands and knees in the greenhouse, having said oaf rearrange his guts.

    (Or///; Aerion comes home for winter break, meets the new gardener and decides he must have him)

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    23 Jun 2026