1 – 20 of 62 Works in Protective Bruce Wayne
Hatchlings by maryjames_shames
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Caped Crusader (Cartoon 2024), Batman: The Animated Series, The Batman (Movie 2022)
07 Aug 2026
Summary
Alternative Title: The Life of Timothy Jackson Drake (As Seen by The Waynes)
In which you get various perspectives on Tim as the Waynes watch him grow up and as they all decide he is meant to be a one of them. With or without knowing that it’s actually Tim.
or
Tim evokes and perpetuates baby fever in the Waynes
- Part 1 of Birds of All Species
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 61,405
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Jason listens to everything that Talia has to show him about the imposter who replaced him. He listened to everything she had planned, for him and for Damian.
And then he decides, fuck it.It spirals from there.
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 102,448
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
There is a boy living in the woods between two manor houses, and he has a system, and the system is working, and he does not need anything from anyone.
The Waynes have heard that before.
OR
Timothy Drake rescues himself from a kidnapping and decides to live, for his own good, in the forest between the Drake and Wayne manors.
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 40,488
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Jason clicked the pen, and started to write on the envelope.
Dear Mr., “Gotham’s foster care is safe.”,
Thank you so much for dropping me off at Ma’s personal soldier camp.
I had a great time, truly a ten out of ten experience.
I loved the part where I got shot in the arm. A real highlight of my week.Thank you for your genius-level, billionaire insight. You really nailed it. Incredible stuff. You could teach a class on how out of touch you rich twats are.
Since you were so kind to drop me off somewhere so safe and warm. I thought you might enjoy these documents.
-Jason Todd
AKA: Jason Todd gets permanently trapped in his twelve-year-old body after Bruce dropped him at Ma Gunns's School for Boys. This time, he isn't going to Batman for help; he will take on Crime Alley by himself.
It's not like Bruce actually cares about him.
- Part 1 of Nobody’s Soldier
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 72,089
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
A series for borderline and its sequels, as well as shorts/outsider POVs of the first fic in the series.
Anthology containing:
borderline
A mysterious force connects the Batfamily's minds together.
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 73,273
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
A neglected Tim starts stalking Batman, but ends up meeting Catwoman instead. Then he meets Robin. Then Batman himself. Then Nightwing. Then Alfred. And slowly realizes that they're a much, much better family than Jack and Janet Drake ever were.
- Part 23 of that1emowitch's Batfam Fics
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 92,207
- Status:
- Completed
Identity Theft by TaraLaurel
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics)
10 Jul 2025
Summary
He tapped the screen again, his face up close in the zoomed camera.
"Whoa, ultra Tim-vision, no thank you. I think I just saw my pimple's pimple. Gross." He zoomed out and grinned at himself. "I don't know if I have ever felt so freaking happy or strong or cool, or well, anything, in my whole entire life."
And it was true. Standing atop a building as Robin. If someone were to look up, they would definitely think he was the real deal and the thought left him beaming. Jumping in place, Tim gave another whoop, punching the air and then bending over into a fit of high pitched laughter. This was all the joy he would ever need for the rest of his existence.
And then someone screamed.
OR,
Tim Drake puts together a very realistic Robin costume for Halloween and gets mistaken for the real deal.
- Part 2 of Tim Joins BatFam AUs
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 96,541
- Status:
- Completed
Deja Vu and Related Stories Anthology by AJElementus
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
14 Jun 2025
Summary
If you're looking for some time travel chaos, Batfamily Banter, and heart-pounding action scenes, you've come to the right place!
This series currently includes Deja Vu, which follows Dick as he finds himself stranded back in time... and Rewind, Deja Vu's sequel, where Past versions of Bruce and Tim struggle to use their newfound knowledge of the future to help the other members of the Batfamily.
More installments will probably be added eventually, and Deja Vu can be read as a standalone or in tandem with the other works in the series.
Thanks for stopping by and happy reading!
Anthology containing:
Deja Vu
Dick's heart flutters rapidly. What's he doing in Gotham? Alone. And on a random rooftop?
Frowning, he presses a finger to his ear, activating the comm.
"Uh... hello?"Or… the time Nightwing finds himself in the past and has to find his way home without totally destroying the timeline. Too bad it won’t be easy for him… With Bruce investigating a new, yet familiar antihero, Dick trying to unravel the mystery of how he got here in the first place, and a snooping Tim looking way younger than Dick remembers… this is going to be a long night.
Rewind
Bruce edges closer to the crater, rubble crunching under his foot. He eyes the bottom then lifts his eyes to the partially standing alley walls that surround the area.
“We were supposed to merge… right?” Tim says hesitantly. “Older Me said we were supposed to merge but—”
“We didn’t,” Bruce finishes somberly. “We didn’t merge.”Or...
After the events of Deja Vu, Past versions of Bruce and Tim are left in a new, branching timeline with vital information about the future. Bruce has learned that at some point in the future, he and Dick make up. That Jason is alive and terrorizing Gotham as the Red Hood. And that Bruce has a son: Damian Wayne, who is being kept somewhere in the world by Ra's al Ghul. Not much about this new timeline is certain, but Bruce is sure of one thing. He is going to Save. His. Sons. and bring them all home.Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 69,274
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Jason’s rage this time around is a little less focused on Tim for being Robin, and a little more focused on Bruce for letting Tim be Robin. He vows to make Bruce regret ever allowing anyone to put on that mantle in the first place. So if he nabs a few batbrats and makes Bruce think he's torturing them to death? Well, that’s just killing two birds with one stone: Bruce doesn’t get to have a Robin, and he gets to be tormented by the knowledge of his absolute failure to protect any of them. Win-win. (Or lose, if you’re Bruce).
Except now Jason has a small and growing collection of Robins, and no idea what he’s supposed to do with them.
***
a.k.a. the Titans Tower AU where Jason kidnaps Tim instead of trying to kill him. And then he kidnaps Stephanie. And Dick. And Cass. And...
Jason may have a problem.
Less crack-y than it sounds. In fact, this is mainly hurt, angst, & reckoning with canon trauma. Comfort will come eventually! There *will* be a happy ending.
- Part 1 of Red Robin Hood
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 209,057
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Street Rat Tim Drake's adventures as he steals identities, finds a family, and causes chaos wherever he goes.
Anthology containing:
Gotham Knockoff
Stalking Batman is hard as a starving orphan in Crime Alley. Tim would know; that’s his life.
Luckily, Tim is excellent at his self-appointed calling, and once he cracks Batman’s secret identity, he discovers an empty mansion next door to the Wayne estate.
Some would consider squatting uncouth; Tim calls it free real estate. Anyway, the Drakes won't mind. They'd have to be in the country for that.Besides, a little identity theft never hurt anybody.
Discount Drake
Adapting to high society after a life of living on the streets is challenging, especially since Tim’s peers are assholes.
Luckily, Tim has the perfect revenge; brotherhood.
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 58,753
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
During a mission gone wrong, Jason watches as his brothers were seized by a pendant, crushed into clouds of golden dust before disappearing into the air. Then, Jason too was seized by the pendant... but rather than being lost to the ever-shifting darkness that death was, Jason... wakes up?
Oh dear god- again?!
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 32,844
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
prompt from tumblr:
fic idea where for some reason Bruce (as Batman) has to pick up Alfred and Tim from a public event gone wrong in the Batmobile (Tim was poisoned) and it’s not an emergency but speed is of essence and this is, coincidentally, the first time Alfred has been in the Batmobile when it’s actually moving and he gets to see firsthand how absolutely insane Bruce drives without the need to obey speed limits. and Tim’s puking and generally displeased so Alfred spends the whole ride chiding Bruce to slow down, for god’s sake, only for Tim to chime in from the backseat, between heaves, that this is slow for him, Alfred—
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 2,672
- Status:
- Completed
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust (filling up my coffee cup) by LilaVaporizer9000
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
06 Apr 2024
Summary
There is occasionally a certain point one reaches during the attempt to attain a goal where one decides that the goal is just not worth it.
Unfortunately, this also often coincides with being at a point in the attainment of that goal where it’s too damn late and you’re just gonna have to suck it up, buttercup, and get your shit together and do it anyway.
Tim is pretty sure this shit is absolutely not worth it, but it’s too late now and even if it wasn’t, Mama ain’t raise no fuckin’ quitter.
Or:
Tim’s quest to bring Bruce back from his Time-Travel-Super-Vacation goes horribly topsy-turvey when Ra's takes a more pro-active approach to keeping Tim prisoner, and he ends up in an alternate universe where he never existed, and everybody is disorientingly well-adjusted and weirdly obsessed with his “wellness”, whatever that means.
Tim hates mystical artifacts.
(Alternate universe Better Batfam trope)
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 69,410
- Status:
- In-Progress
‘Perhaps A Change In Environment’ by RoosjeM
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
21 Feb 2024
Summary
Finally having found indefinite proof that Batman is not dead but lost in time, Tim flees Nanda Parbat in order to beg the Justice League to get Bruce back.
He never reaches Gotham– at least, not his Gotham.
—---------
Or, Tim gets thrown into another universe and finally finds a home.
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“Jay! Identity!”
“Don’t bother, he already knows.” Batman waved Dick’s accusation off as he lifted Tim up. “He ran the moment he saw the two of you. We need to follow protocol.”
Tim stopped struggling enough for Batman to loosen his hold, giving him the opportunity to twist himself up and twirl out of his grip. Again, Tim landed on his feet and started running.
He didn’t get very far but it was still pretty impressive all things considered.
After his little escape attempt, Tim was promptly picked up and manhandled into the Zeta a few blocks away. Jason’s grappling line was tied around his arms, tight enough for it to restrict Tim’s movement but not to hurt his side more than it already did.
The world blurred. Gotham vanished, the sterile halls of the Watchtower appeared.
Shit.
-------------- Part 3 of Mar writes Batman
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 28,329
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Tim didn’t get it. It was raining out, Blonde Harry offered him a ride, and Tim accepted. Sure, Blonde Harry was a little sketchy and overly touchy, but Tim was a vigilante and could handle one ride home with the rich man.
It was a business decision. And he was totally safe, which is why he didn’t get why Bruce was upset, Dick was concerned, Jason was bloodthirsty, and the brat, the brat of all people was giving him a talk on stranger danger!
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 23,998
- Status:
- Completed
The Stalker Saga Anthology by stormpilot_obsessed
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Teen Titans - All Media Types, Young Justice - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types
30 Dec 2023
Summary
1. Jason and Tim become friends before Ethiopia. Eventually feelings happen.
And then (spoiler alert) Jason dies.
2. Jason and Tim had been best friends that got feelings for each other.
But now Jason is dead, Bruce has lost it, and Tim needs to save the Batman from himself.
Anthology containing:
A Stalker on the Rooftop
Jason and Tim become friends before Ethiopia. Eventually feelings happen.
And then (spoiler alert) Jason dies.
A Robin on the Rooftop
Jason and Tim had been best friends that got feelings for each other.
But now Jason is dead, Bruce has lost it, and Tim needs to save the Batman from himself.
Red Hood on the Rooftop
Jason Todd is alive, back in Gotham as the Red Hood. He doesn't realize his best friend is Robin, and he nearly kills him. How can he possibly forgive himself?
Jason Todd is alive, Tim is beaten within an inch of his life, and he just wants his best friend back. Where did Red Hood go?
Jason's Miraculous Resurrection
What If:
Tim Drake is there when his presumed dead best friend, Jason Todd, crawls out of his grave?Reputation
Red Hood is busy with an interrogation when big brother Nightwing comes to crash it.
With love!
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 204,907
- Status:
- In-Progress
Let Them Be Brothers Anthology by quotidian_void
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
10 Nov 2023
Summary
Tim meets Jason while at school. He saved him from bullies, thinking that was it, but it turns out that it was not. Jason wanted to be near him. He chose to be his friend. Soon, the title of "friendship" somehow changed to "brotherhood" along the way, and it seemed like it was there to stay.
Anthology containing:
My School’s Local Mafia Boss
I think the title really explains it all? But anyway:
Jason knew that attending a rich ass school was going to be the toughest and most mind-grating thing ever. His beliefs were confirmed when he got cornered by bullies on his first day. The only thing he was surprised about was that it took them so long to find the school's new street rat. Just as he's about to be punched a fucking 10 year old (he's actually 12) steps in and... starts threatening the bullies? And they actually listen?? What the fuck???
And that isn't the only surprise that's waiting for him.
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 192,987
- Status:
- Completed
The Mafia Files (expansion pack) Anthology by quotidian_void, TristiCorde, RumoredToBeCygnus, Just_Vibing_and_Thriving
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics)
08 Nov 2023
Summary
A collection of ideas that are way too long and a tiny bit unrelated to be in the outtakes.
Most of them are Tim cuz... I say so.
Anthology containing:
My School’s Local Mafia Boss
I think the title really explains it all? But anyway:
Jason knew that attending a rich ass school was going to be the toughest and most mind-grating thing ever. His beliefs were confirmed when he got cornered by bullies on his first day. The only thing he was surprised about was that it took them so long to find the school's new street rat. Just as he's about to be punched, a fucking 10 year old (he's actually 12) steps in and... starts threatening the bullies? And they actually listen?? What the fuck???
And that isn't the only surprise that's waiting for him.
Dude, You’re Burning Hotter Than Hell
It's been a few months since Tim and Jason's first meeting at Gotham Academy. The day's going pretty normal until Jason finds out that Tim is hiding a fever. Cue sickfic.
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 213,451
- Status:
- Completed
You're moving to Metropolis? Is that even a real place? by Vamillepudding
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
07 Nov 2023
Summary
When Bruce storms into the warehouse and realises that Jason is, somehow, still alive, his decision is made just like that.
No more.
Or: After Robin almost dies, the Waynes leave Gotham behind and move to Metropolis. 13-year old Tim, robbed of his nighttime hobby and lonelier than ever, decides that it's his job to bring them back.
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 15,388
- Status:
- Completed
granules of sand (we refuse to let slip) by SolaceInSpace
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
01 Oct 2023
Summary
Bruce didn’t want to die.
But he could think of no death more beautiful for a dying father.
To have achieved it in protecting his son, cradled in the arms of a boy once too small to wrap his arms around his waist.
It pained him to leave his son so early, so abruptly, but if it had to happen, Bruce couldn’t think of a more worthwhile death.
“I love you.”
Bruce keeps dying. He does not know that he's already died multiple times today but his children do. And they're going to save him.
(Groundhog Day fic told entirely from the perspective of someone who doesn't remember the loop.)
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 50,860
- Status:
- Completed