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Date:2009-07-24 12:49
Subject:Burn It All to Ashes, Chapter 8: Regrets
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Title: Regrets
Series: Burn It All to Ashes
Author: [info]daggerpen 
Characters: Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jason Todd/Red Hood, mention of the Joker
Rating: Screw it, I'm just putting a "T" for the whole series.
Word Count: 451
Summary: The eighth installment of Burn It All to Ashes, an AU Jason and Bruce-centric series taking place roughly a year after the finale of Under the Hood. In this chapter: sometimes, Bruce can't avoid thinking about the past...
Disclaimer: Please. If I owned them, do you think I'd have let Tony Daniels anywhere near the Batfamily?

His voice is heavy, choked with tears and fury... )

 

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Date:2009-06-07 01:17
Subject:Fic: Burn it All to Ashes, Chapter 7: Prevenience
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Umm... heh. *rubs the back of her neck nervously* So, this is kind of late, isn't it? Yeah... sorry about that.

 

On the plus side, this should be the last exposition chapter for a while. Actual plot and character development will be the norm for most of , I promise!

Title: Prevenience
Series: Burn It All to Ashes
Author:

[info]daggerpen  
Characters: Warren White (the Great White Shark), Roman Sionis (the Black Mask), Andrew Albom (OC), brief appearance of Jason Todd (the Red Hood)
Rating: Definitely a T for swearing up to and including the F word.
Word Count: 1929
Summary: The seventh chapter in the Burn It All to Ashes series, an AU series taking place roughly one year after Under the Hood. This chapter's pretty much an amalgam of three things that don't have much to do with each other but didn't really work as standalone chapters. Pretty much: Shark finds out that the Red Hood is back, Mask finds out that the Red Hood is back, and Andrew Albom gets a surprise visitor.
Disclaimer: Please. If I owned them, do you think I'd have let Tony Daniels anywhere near the Batfamily?

 

 

 

Nestled unobtrusively between the dilapidated structures and time-worn architecture sat the low building, scattered lights in cracked, dingy windows the only outward sign of life. )

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Date:2009-04-16 20:58
Subject:Fic: Burn It All to Ashes, Chapter 6: Names
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See? I'm not totally hopeless at updates!

... just mostly so.

Also: okay, I know I say this with every chapter, but something about this one does seem somewhat... "off" to me. Is that just Bruce being Bruce, or do you guys notice anything?

Gah.  I get so fricking neurotic over these things- maybe I should try to get a beta to help me with this kind of stuff. Of course, that'd probably just make the updates take even more time... hmm. Quite a predicament.

Oh, sorry. You probably want me to get on with the chapter now, huh?

Title: Names
Series: Burn It All to Ashes
Author: [info]daggerpen 
Characters: Bruce Wayne (Batman), mentions of Jason Todd (Red Hood), Roman Sionis (Black Mask), Warren White (the Great White Shark)
Rating: Uh- the fic itself is only PG, but the A/Ns bring it up to a T.
Word Count: Only 675? I must be losing my touch.
Summary: The sixth chapter in the Burn It All to Ashes series, an AU series taking place roughly one year after Under the Hood. In the midst of escalating gang violence and the return of the Red Hood, Batman analyzes the situation and considers a plan of action.
Disclaimer: Please. If I owned them, do you think I'd have let Tony Daniels anywhere near the Batfamily?
Author's Notes/Warnings: For the fic itself, vague references to violence. For the A/Ns, swearing up to the F-word.


The opening line of this chapter doesn't work so well as a teaser, so you're just going to have to click to read. )

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Date:2009-04-09 14:33
Subject:Fic: Burn it All to Ashes: Chapter 5, Bad Night
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Again, originally posted on LJ, reposted here.

Title:
Bad Night
Series: Burn It All to Ashes
Author: [info]daggerpen  
Characters: Jason Todd (A.K.A the Red Hood)
Rating: T
Word Count: 1206
Summary: The fifth chapter in the Burn It All to Ashes series. While on stakeout, Jason is left alone with his thoughts. They don't really get along too well.
Disclaimer: If I owned them, do you really think I'd have let canon get to where it is now?
Author's Notes/Warnings: For this part? Swearing, mildly disturbing images. Also, swearing.

The wind blew smoothly between the tall buildings, occasionally rustling the jacket of the crouching figure. )

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Date:2009-04-09 14:31
Subject:Fic: Ashesverse: An Interlude, Part 1
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Originally found on Livejournal, reposted here.


Originally, this was supposed to be a chapter set in the current Burn It All to Ashes timeline, the general plot of which was supposed to be something involving Jason having a nightmare/flashback (I hadn't really decided at the time) about his death, but everything kind of... spiraled from there. I couldn't find a way to make something this long and detailed fit within the context I wanted, but I really couldn't bring myself to delete any of this, and since the whole “nightmare/flashback” thing wasn't really working the way I wanted it to at this particular point in the story, I decided to go ahead and scrap it. What I didn't want to do, however, was just throw away this whole wonderful (well- that may not be the best choice of words for this particular scene, but I'm still very proud of the writing) little thing, so... yeah. Consider this an interlude. An interlude that's come down with a bad case of “Death in the Family was a pile of shit, so I'm rewriting it somewhat to suit my needs.”

 

Oh, and: yes, this Joker is influenced by the Dark Knight, why do you ask?

Characters: Jason Todd (Robin II), the Joker
Summary: Jason's death, redux.
Word Count: 2828 (it's a long snippet.)
Warnings for swearing, violence. And don't take me lightly on the "violence" thing- I mean it. Also, disturbing themes, disturbing imagery. Pretty much, everything you'd expect of a young teenage boy being beaten to death with a crowbar.

 

 

He wakes up in the dark, cuffed to the pipes on the wall of a barely-lit room. )

 

First in this series: Phantasm
Previously in this series: Battlefield
Next in this series: Bad Night

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Date:2009-04-09 14:28
Subject:Fic: Burn it All to Ashes: Chapter 4, Battlefield
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Once again, originally posted on LJ.

Title: Battlefield
Series: Burn it All to Ashes
Author:

[info]daggerpen  
Characters: James Gordon, Batman, a few background OCs.
Rating: T
Word Count: 1035
Summary: The fifth installment in the 'Burn it All to Ashes' series.
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue.
Author's Notes/Warnings: For this part? Swearing, somewhat descriptive violence

 

"Now that's just not human" )

 



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Date:2009-04-09 14:27
Subject:Fic: Burn it All to Ashes: Chapter 3, Discoveries
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Title:  Discoveries
Series: Burn It All to Ashes
Author: [info]daggerpen  
Characters: Red Hood (A.K.A Jason Todd), the Great White Shark (A.K.A. Warren White), various OCs
Rating: Um... probably a T for the whole thing.
Word Count: 1182
Summary: This is the fourth part in what I plan to be a proper AU series taking place some time after UTH. For this part: a gun deal goes afoul when the Red Hood enters the equation, and the Great White Shark learns of the newest threat to his empire.
Disclaimer: If I owned them, this would be canon, not some fanfiction posted on the corners of t3h Intarwebs.
Author's Notes/Warnings: For this part? Swearing, mild violence, references to illegal gun trading.

The crisp night air of the docks was cold and still, the harsh glare of floodlights somehow only amplifying the same heavy darkness it penetrated. )

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Date:2009-04-09 14:23
Subject:Fic: Burn it All to Ashes: Chapter 2, Thoughts Avoided
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Originally posted on LJ. Now copied here.

Title: Thoughts Avoided
Series: Burn It All to Ashes
Author:  [info]daggerpen  
Characters: Jason Todd, mentions of Bruce Wayne
Rating: Um... probably a T for the whole thing.
Word Count: 1252
Summary: This is the third part in what I plan to be a proper AU series taking place some time after UTH. For this part: nearly a year after the standoff with the Joker, Jason reflects back in his apartment.
Disclaimer: If I owned them, this would be canon, not some fanfiction posted on the corners of t3h Intarwebs.
Author's Notes/Warnings: For this part? Smoking, swearing, underage drinking (well, according to my timeline- probably according to DC's, too, though the ages of any of the Batboys have always been nebulous)

 

Expression grim, Jason stared at the reflection... )

 





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Date:2009-04-09 14:21
Subject:Fic: Burn it All to Ashes: Chapter 1, Return
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Aaaaand here we have the second installment of Burn it All to Ashes. Enjoy!

Also: please note that, for all my fanfictions, authors notes are preserved, mostly because I'm too lazy to edit them out. Just a heads-up.

Sorry this is late, guys: I just couldn't get this damn thing to read the way I wanted it to- in all honesty, I'm still not happy with it, but I did say I'd try to have this up by the weekend, and it's kind of sort of Monday, so...

Title: Return
Series:  Burn It All to Ashes
Author: [info]daggerpen  
Characters: Bruce, Alfred
Rating: Um... probably a T for the whole thing.
Word Count: 511
Summary: This is the second part in what I plan to be a proper AU series taking place some time after UTH. For this part: nearly a year after the standoff with the Joker, Bruce and Alfred react to the return of the Red Hood.
Disclaimer: If I owned them, this would be canon, not some fanfiction posted on the corners of t3h Intarwebs.
Author's Notes/Warnings: For this part? Nothing.

“He's back.” )

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Date:2009-04-09 14:16
Subject:Fic: Burn it All to Ashes: Prologue, Phantasm.
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And at last, we get to the non-DCU_Free_For_All fic. Originally posted on LJ, this marks the first chapter (or prologue, whatever) of Burn it All to Ashes, an ongoing series set in the created-especially-for-this-fic Ashesverse. Taking place after Under the Hood, BiAtA is an alternate universe fanfiction in which the Red Hood returned to Gotham nearly a year after the finale of UTH. In addition to screwing with the post-UTH timeline, this fic also contains many fan-retcons, as Black Mask is currently alive and involved in a vicious gang war with the Great White Shark, AKA, Warren White. This series is still ongoing.

Title: Phantasm
Series:  Burn It All to Ashes
Author: [info]daggerpen 
Characters: In this part? Jason, Bruce (kind of), the Joker (even more kind of)
Rating: Um... probably a T.
Word Count: 555
Summary: This is the first part in what I plan to be a proper AU series taking place some time after UTH.
Disclaimer: If I owned them, this would be canon, not some fanfiction posted on the corners of teh Intarwebs.
Author's Notes/Warnings: For this part? Probably violence. The whole series will also almost definitely contain a lot of bad language, and there's a high probability of references to drugs, sex, illegal activities, and so on and so forth. Oh, and violence.

Like a knife, the footsteps cut through the still air, echoing hollowly against the concrete structure. )


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Date:2009-04-09 14:15
Subject:DCU_Free_For_All: Fic: Reminiscence (Jason Todd, Joker, mentions of Bruce Wayne/Batman, others)
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Wrote this a while ago for the DCU_Free_For_All over on Livejournal. Posting it here now just because.

Title: Reminiscence
Author: [info]daggerpen 
Claim: Batfamily
Characters/Pairing: Jason Todd/Robin II, Bruce Wayne/Batman, Joker, Sheila Heywood, Talia Al Ghul
Rating: T
Word Count: 2,530
Prompt: death
Summary: Jason looks back at his death and resurrection.
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Swearing, violence

You asked me to wait, of course. )

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Date:2009-04-09 14:13
Subject:DCU_Free_For_All: Fic: Confrontations (Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne)
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Wrote this on Livejournal for the DCU_Free_For_All a long time ago. I hated it at first, but everyone else seemed to like it, and I'll admit that it's grown on me somewhat. I may do a rewrite of it someday, though- there are a few things I'd like to change if the mood ever strikes me.

Title:
Confrontations
Author: daggerpen
Claim: Batfamily
Characters/Pairing: Bruce, Jason (non-slash)
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,256
Prompt: battle
Summary: Bruce sets out to bring Jason home... by force, if necessary.
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Foul language, violence, references to obscure weapons (the bagh nakh, if you were wondering), and dialogue. Lots of dialogue.

 
Read more... )

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Date:2009-04-09 14:10
Subject:DCU_Free_For_All: Fic: Necessary Wounds (Bruce Wayne/Batman, mentions of Jason Todd/Red Hood)
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Originally written on LJ for the DCU_Free_For_All. Posting it here because I'm copying all my fic to IJ.

Title:
Necessary Wounds
Author: daggerpen
Claim: Batfamily
Characters/Pairing: Bruce, Jason (kind of).
Rating: I have no idea- PG?
Word Count: 226
Prompt: blood
Summary: Bruce's thoughts during the infamous finale of Under the Hood.
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue.
Author's Notes/Warnings: Word of advice: there are just no good synonyms for "blood". "Bleeding" isn't much better.


 


Later, he would tell himself that it was the only choice... )

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Date:2009-04-09 14:08
Subject:DCU_Free_For_All: Fic: Reunion (Tim/Kon)
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Hey, look, I can actually write non-Jason-related things!

This was originally written on LJ for the DCU_Free_For_All.


Title:
Reunion
Author:
[info]daggerpen
Claim: Batfamily
Characters/Pairing: Tim/Kon
Rating: T
Word Count: 633, if we don't include the A/N's.
Prompt: Alive
Summary: Kon-El announces his resurrection to a certain Robin. Passionate making out follows.
Disclaimer: If I owned them, do you really think I'd be posting this here?
Author's Notes/Warnings: Slash, swearing, vaguely implied sex that probably counts as underage depending on the age of consent in Gotham and the rather fuzzy ages of the two involved.

 

He couldn't believe it. After so long, after so much time spent wanting, pining, mourning, wishing and praying, he was here. Kon-El was back. )

 

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Date:2009-04-09 14:06
Subject:Fic: Of Love and Hate (Jason Todd, mentions of Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake)
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I originally wrote this for [info]labuenaventura  on LJ in response to a meme. Now, I'm posting it here, as I am with all my other fics. Enjoy!

Category: Fanfiction
Author: daggerpen
Title: Of Love and Hate
Rating: T for liberal use of the "f-word".
Disclaimer: Don't own, wish I did.
Characters: Jason, mentions of Bruce and Tim
Summary: Jason reflects on his feelings towards Bruce (non-slash)

It would be so much easier if I could hate you... )

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Date:2009-04-09 14:04
Subject:DCU_Free_For_All: Fic: Anniversary (Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne)
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I wrote this a long time ago on LJ for the DCU Free For All. Enjoy!

Title:Anniversary
Author: daggerpen
Claim: Batfamily
Characters/Pairing: Jason, Bruce (not slash)
Rating: T
Word Count: 1694
Prompt: encounter
Summary: A conversation between Bruce and Jason on the sixth anniversary of Jason's death.
Disclaimer: If I owned Jason, do you really think I'd have let Countdown screw him up as badly as it did? (Oh, I don't own Bruce, either)
Author's Notes/Warnings: This is Jason. Do you really think his language even begins to resemble appropriate? Prolific use of the f-word, others.

It's been six years since Jason's murder now... )

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