New fic.

[loopylouise123]

Title: The strength it gave (Prologue).
Summary: The earth was suffering and heroes were falling, and while the Gods refused to do anything, there was one being that did. 
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Angst, implied Death, but doesn't stay that way.
Characters: Tim, Dick. 
Notes: New arc, called the 'It verse'. 

The world was breaking.

 

It could see it, see it in the shaking leaves, feel it in the blackened ground and smell it in the polluted air.

 

And it was unable to do anything, the Gods had forbidden it to, but this was *its* world; and whatever pain the earth felt it felt it too. Like a cruel stab to its throbbing heart that beat with painful thumps.

 

 Thump. Thump. Thump.

 

The sea crashed against the shore in angry protest at a young teenage girl being cornered by three laughing men.

 

Thump. Thump. Thump.

 

The wind whistled in helplessness as a gun shot pierced through the same air miles away and a body fell to the ground.

 

Thump. Thump. Thump.

 

The trees whispered as a hero dove through the night, reaching out with his hand to catch a falling body as bullets sailed through the air.

 

Thump. Thump.

 

The plants held their breath as the body of a young male was caught but at the same moment one of the bullets hit its mark…

 

THUMP.

 

Blood soaked the ground and tears fell, agony sweeping through the little Robin’s heart as the older bird, the older sibling lay dying after he had sacrificed his life…

 

Thump…

 

Perhaps the circle of life did state that things lived and died, that death was not something that could be escaped from by natural sources, especially from something created by the Gods; but the earth bled with the sacrifice of that one hero, feeling every ounce of his blood that seeped from his body, and it felt it too.

 

The world was breaking, and it could do nothing.

 

Until now.

 

 

 

Title: The life it gave.
Summary: Second chances are given while a future is forged.
Characters: Dick, Tim, Steph, Kon.
Warnings: None.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: First part of the It verse. 

On the edge of death everything was not as Dick had expected it to be.

 

Instead of blinding darkness there were lights, instead of pain there was elation and instead of fear there was acceptance.

 

Had others who had died before him experienced this?

 

Had they felt like everything was going to be alright when everything you built while you had lived fell away…?

 

Was he even dying?

 

Dick thought he had been, there had been pain, a lot of pain coupled with the feeling of his blood seeping away uncontrollably, and Tim. Oh God Tim. Leaning over him and crying… actually crying when he hadn’t seen emotion like that on his little brother’s face for so long… 

 

And there had even been the feel of the night air on his face, with the city lights blurring into his vision as that disappeared altogether.

 

But why were there so many lights now?

 

I am giving you a second chance hero of night, carrier of light.

 

What?

 

Use it well.

 

And then the lights disappeared.

0.0.0.0.0.0

 

“Isn’t he beautiful Tim?”

 

Her husband smiled, his eyes sparkled as he gazed down at his son, into those beautiful wide blue eyes that looked around, unseeing and so new.

 

He dipped down and kissed Steph’s cheek affectionately, his expression saying more than he ever could.

 

Kon stepped into the room unsurely, but his eyes immediately sought the bundle in the tired woman’s arms.

 

 And it looked on, happy to have provided what the future needed, secretly and away from the knowledge of the Gods, waiting while the world continued on.