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AU: Lu Ten never died at Ba Sing Se, and Fire Lord Iroh rules the nation with an iron fist. Zuko is merely the son of the second prince, overlooked by his more talented younger sister and can only dream of the day when he will be finally allowed to prove himself in battle. When Lu Ten returns, triumphant, with the Avatar and his Water Tribe companions in chains, Zuko is put in charge of their imprisonment. But he soon learns that things are not what they seem with both the child Avatar and within his own family. And soon, Zuko will have a decision to make. How much good can one overlooked nephew to the throne do?
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Sins of the Father by MysticMalady, TheBestTinyDragon
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
01 Jul 2026
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The last thing Tim was expecting to find ten years in the past was another family.
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Two Nickels: Time Travel Tim Collects Kids (Alvdoption)
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Daniel is ready to die. He’s been ready. Margret and Phillip Buckley, however, are not willing to stop the battle against Daniel’s cancer. Daniel knows that they’ll use every viable piece of Evan, his little brother, his savior, until Daniel takes his final breath. They’ve been taking things from Evan his entire life. This isn’t living, for either brother. It’s ongoing, agonizing torture.
So Daniel is going to set his brother free.
Or: Daniel is ready to die. He sends Evan away with a fake ID and a handwritten guide to ensure his little brother’s survival. Evan is terrified, but he’ll do anything to make Daniel happy - even if that means leaving him to die.
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- Part 2 of Addicted to Pain
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the pain will leave you once it's done teaching you by fruitsdoesnotknow
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
29 Apr 2024
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“Hi, I’m Buck, a firefighter with the 136,” for now, the thought crashes through Buck, leaving a sour taste in his mouth. “Uh, you’re both welcome to take a tour with us, if you’d like.” Buck awkwardly scratches at his neck, running a hand through his hair, unsure what else to do, and it spurs the man in front of him to take a large step forward up to Buck’s bed.
“Eddie,” he says, thrusting a hand to him, and Buck reaches over without a second thought. His whole palm feels electric, it smarts and carries the touch of Eddie, Eddie, that Buck feels it completely. He has no idea what’s happening to him. “Edmundo Diaz, but just Eddie though, uh, no one calls me Edmundo. Right. I’m a new nurse here, at Cedars-Senai. Oh –”
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When Daniel Buckley lives a little longer, Evan Buckley dies a little more. And this is how Eddie Diaz saves him, a little later on.
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(M=graphic depiction of negative mental health issues)
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all you can take with you is that which you've given away by fruitsdoesnotknow
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
31 Oct 2024
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There’s a nudge at his hand, a careful tap that finally makes him look up for the first time since they got there. Evan wipes his face hastily, trying to sniffle up the water in his eyes before anyone can see. He doesn’t want to cry, but sometimes he just can’t help it.
Because that’s his brother. That’s his big brother, in a hospital bed, with dark smudges under his eyes and a really bad cough that keeps getting worse, but he’s smiling at Evan like it’s all going to be okay.
All Evan heard was the machine. He counted the sounds, hoarded them, and wished he could just sit there and listen to the proof of his brother’s heart beating forever.
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Daniel needed more. More surgeries, more transfusions, more time. Evan couldn't give that to him, but maybe, years later, thanks to Eddie and Christopher and Bobby, he'll realize. He was always enough for Daniel.
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- Part 13 of 911 Gotcha for Gaza Prompts
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(M=themes of abuse)
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Burning my transgressions (yet keeping the ashes close) by wolf_underneath
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
12 Dec 2025
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Glancing from his hands-tiny and small, unnatural and wrong- to the rest of his body.
Small
He’s clad in green, soft sleep robes-old familiar ones- and the realization hits him along with immediate denial.
He has to see.
He stumbles towards the closet where he remembers the door being a reflective sheet of gold-a garish, hideous thing- and stares at his reflection.
Bright green eyes and a ridiculously pudgy youthful face stare back at him.
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Unconnected stories where Azulon intervenes/bonds with Zuko in childhood, changing the overall storyline.
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Series Re-write AU for 9-1-1 where Buck ended up in fostercare as a child, Daniel lives, and everything else is shifted a little to the left.
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When Evan Buckley is six months old he saves his brother with a bone marrow transplant. He does it multiple times throughout his childhood, and it always seems to be working. For a little while. Then he turns seven, and his parents demand that he give Daniel a kidney and part of his liver, and Evan really doesn't want to do it anymore. He is a kid too. CPS intervenes and Buck ends up in foster care. Changing homes every few months whenever his parents break the no-contact order. Until one day they stop-
He finds his way to Minnesota, and as fate would have it, he meets Bobby Nash after an apartment fire that took away his last chance at being adopted. When Bobby tries to make things right, he ends up taking Buck with him to Los Angeles.
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Or: A canon re-write where Buck was in foster care and Bobby accidentally acquires an adult.
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“You two are probably the most likely to believe what I’m about to say. I’ll say it once and after that we really don’t have time. We need to get the others. Today is November 14th…”
Hen and Chim cut Buck off with another laugh, like any of this was funny.
“Thank you, Captain obvious.” Chimney chuckled nervously, knowing that something was definitely different by the way Buck was carrying himself.
“Today, is November 14th, 2029. You’ve been gone for five years and apparently now you and everyone else that blipped is back. Get in the car.”
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The blip happens, everyone but Buck and Bobby disappear, and Buck ends up with all the 118 children.
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- Part 1 of Five Years Series
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Buck & Mara :( <3
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Evan Buckley learned the reason for his existence when Daniel’s cancer came back. Since then, he knew he was on borrowed time under his parents’ roof. So, he began to plan. With the help of a friend, and people he met along the way, Evan managed to make a life for himself. Maybe he was born to save someone, but he’d learn to live for himself.
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epilogue E (long, mid section; up to break)
(Ship: only in last few ch.s, not the main/plot focus)
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If anyone in Jee-Yun's family knows what it is like to live in the shadow of someone else, it is Uncle Buck.
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Alternate universe. When Pedro Hernandez ordered the hit on Gibbs' family, only Shannon died in the car crash; Kelly survived albeit with a permanent impairment. Tony DiNozzo never met Agent Gibbs in Baltimore and therefore was never recruited by him to join NCIS.
The story starts halfway through 2009, between seasons 6 and 7; Michelle Lee, the team's probie, never killed Brent Langer, who is Gibbs' SFA, and Ziva is back in Israel for good.-
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Team Leader Tony DiNozzo is used to having Jethro Gibbs' agents beg to join his team. But when Gibbs' Senior Agent Tim McGee is willing to take a demotion, Tony decides to find out why Gibbs pushes everyone away. The deceased daughter, Tony could've expected, but the estranged wife is just the tip of the iceberg. A What if Shannon Lived AU.
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Howard Stark once said that Captain America was the one thing he made that didn't bring destruction to the world.
...Then Steve Rogers made the decision to stay in the past.
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- Part 9 of Lennie Alice Fics
- Part 1 of New Timeline
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(T/M:violence & death (not very detailed)
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A Second Chance is Like Punching a Gotham Villain.... Don't Miss by Writer_loves_tropes
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
28 Feb 2023
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Job opening: Housekeeper/Babysitter/Bodyguard for five-year-old Timothy Drake
Requirements: None. Pretending to be Mrs. Mac's son won't even cause the Drakes to do a background check (they won't even bother to check if you're a crime lord that accidentally traveled from another dimension either)
Hours: Negotiable. No extended home visits. Must only drop off food and water twice a week because a five-year-old boy and a houseplant apparently have the same needs.
Start Date: Immediately
Or: An accidental interdimensional teleportation causes the Red Hood to end up pretending to be Jason Mac and being Timmy's babysitter.
This is my story for Febuwhump 2023. 28 Chapters of Whump, Hurt/comfort, Humor, and Fluff! Updated once every day of February.
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- Part 1 of A Second Chance at Happiness
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How to Scratch a Record by TimTheToaster (tabletoptime)
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
18 Feb 2025
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There was absolutely no way this sunshine was from Gotham in April.
Not possible.
Which meant, Tim was no longer in Gotham, in April.
(In which Tim finds himself in the past, and tries to do the right thing. It's more complicated than he'd like.)
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Two Nickels: Time Travel Tim Collects Kids (Alvdoption)Loading: part 2
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Danny is finally fulfilling his dream of becoming an astronaut. But something goes wrong (because of course it does) and Danny's life is changed forever. Again.
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Tim Drake dies, then wakes up eight years old and feverish. Who knew the afterlife was so strange?
Alternative Title: How Long Tim Drake Is Capable of Living in Denial, a Saga
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Don't Wake Me Up, Not Dreamin' by DownTheRabbitTrail
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
16 Jan 2026
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At first glance Thomas was sure the victim was already long gone, just a burned, mangled husk attached to tubes and wires. But he was shocked to see that the heart monitor was slowly beeping. “What happened?” Thomas immediately questioned. “There was an explosion in an abandoned building around Park Row. He was found in the rubble. He was resuscitated on the scene and coded once in the ambulance. Aside from severe burns, broken bones and trauma the worst injury seems to be a wound at his throat caused by a sharp object.” They rattled off more information as Thomas quickly prepped for surgery. Every second was going to have to count to save this one.
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Jason dies in the explosion after his throat is cut by Batman's batarang. But somehow he wakes up he in an alternate universe where Thomas and Martha Wayne didn't die, and Bruce never became Batman. Lost and alone Jason struggles with his injuries and his own existence, but the Waynes are determined to help him every step of the way. Jason finds himself the pseudo older brother to a teenage Dick and a baby Damian. Little do the Wayne's know that Jason has a knack for "adopting" kids. He starts with his own tiny counterpart.
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Two Nickels: 'Trafficking Victim' Dimension Travel AU
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When Damian Wayne accidentally ends up ten years in the past, he's determined to find his way back on his own. Too bad a nine-year-old Tim Drake out batwatching happens upon him, immediately getting attached to this alternate Robin.
Begrudgingly, Damian tolerates his future brother's presence as he looks for a way home - all while doing everything to avoid meeting the rest of his family. He can't afford to change the past, after all.
Fate (and his love for his family) have other plans.
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The more galas one attended, the more often one was held captive by the rogues or gangs or other criminals interrupting said galas. Most of the time, it boiled down to hanging around in an unfamiliar room for a few hours until rescue came. Sometimes even a few days.
Socialite children’s lesson number one when in a new environment – assuming one wasn’t tied to a chair or shackled to a wall – was to check the room for possible exits. Lesson number two was to check for hidden cameras or other surveillance devices. Gotham’s myriad of crazies had its fair share of creeps, too, after all.
Tim would assume alley kids worked along a similar code of conduct, based on the site Jason had left behind.
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