Title:  Mockingbirds & Butterflies - Chapter 3

Genre:  General/Drama/Family

Rating: PG-13

Fandom: DCU

Pairing: ???

Summary:  Old nightmares have been dredged up by the recent events in Tim Drake’s life.  Once he awakens, though, another surprise is waiting for him in his bedroom.

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Author’s Notes:

For those of you following my story “Mockingbirds & Butterflies”, here’s a preview of the chapter I’m currently working on.  I’m not sure when I’ll be done with this chapter, but I wanted to let my readers know that it is in the works and not forgotten on some backburner somewhere.

So here’s the first part of the upcoming Chapter 3…

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Since I wrote and posted a recent head!canon list about Mockingbird!verse, I’ve got this vision in my head about the university years in Europe with Tim and the girls.

When Tim decided to go to university at Cambridge, the girls closest to him and who’d been his strongest support system (save for Dick) decided as a group to follow him there.  The trio was made of Steph, Cass (Cain) and Tam. 

Bruce, without hesitation and without taking “no” for an answer from anyone, paid for everyone’s tuition. 

(Lucius almost convinced Bruce not to pay for Tam’s education, but a well-placed glare from and a smack up side the back of his head from Mrs. Fox silenced him before he could refuse Bruce’s offer.  They still have one more son to put through college in a few years.)

Steph was a music major… Tam majored in linguistics… Cass decided not to go to university (her dyslexia makes it difficult to focus on the work required for school).  Instead, she took the opportunity to experience living and working in England to develop a solid civilian persona/secret identity.

While Tim lives by himself in England, the girls end up living together with Beryl (Squire) in a large loft.  The four of them become close friends and would end up working together to keep London free of crime. 

(Tam would manage the command center and act as their version of “Oracle” while the other three were on patrol. Tim helped Tam get started and showed her how to get information and manage the others so they could fight crime more effectively… This, in small part, gave Tim the first small spark of inspiration towards creating his own Secret Six group and managing them effectively from afar.)

The four girls became lifelong best friends.  This essentially the birth of the second generation of Birds of Prey, though they made frequent references to Charlie’s Angels, the Three Musketeers, and Powerpuff Girls during some of their adventures.

Initially, Beryl was out of the loop regarding Tim.  She noticed the change in him, and how the others behaved around him.  How they’d be supportive, but avoid all physical contact with him.  She didn’t understand it, and no one would tell her anything regarding it.

Then, one day, there was a situation involving Tim and a female stalker obsessed with him as a Wayne.  The stalker relentlessly pursued him, eventually leading Tim into having an acute emotional break.  While Cass took care of the stalker and got her sent to prison, Beryl learned of what Tim had suffered from Tam and Steph.  Once she understood what had happened, Beryl was able to help Tim better as well. 

Unknown to everyone else, she’d been raped herself when she was a child.  She understands that aspect of what Tim suffered better than the others.  That ends up helping him a great deal in the long run.

During his years at Cambridge, Tim did not lack for people who cared about him and who wanted to help him though the trauma he’d been through.  Between the girls, Dick, and Alfred, he was able to piece himself back together and get back to living a normal life…

…at least in outward appearances.

Title:  Mockingbirds & Butterflies - Chapter 2

Genre:  General/Drama/Family

Rating: PG-13

Fandom: DCU

Pairing: ???

Word Count:  ~2880 words

Summary:  The Friday after being visited by his estranged father, Tim’s eldest brother Dick delivers the two people who are going to be sharing his home for the unforeseeable future.  However, Tim was not the only one kept in the dark until the last minute regarding this development.

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geekdonnatroy:

OH!  This is absolutely precious!  Thank you so much for filling my request!  This is such a perfect image for the chapter I’m currently writing!

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1. At the time of this story, Tim’s about 25-26 years old.  Seven years have passed since the events of “Innocence Lost”.
2. His current day job is as a high school math teacher, focusing on teaching college/AP math courses, like Calculus.  He’s currently in his second year of teaching.
3. Tim’s night job is as the covert commander of the reestablished Secret Six mercenary group.  He’s actually been working on this incarnation of the Secret Six for going on five years, though the group itself has only been active on missions for the past three.
4. Amusingly enough, Tim is the first and only son of Bruce Wayne who’s finished college.  He’s got a PhD in Mathematics from Cambridge University, where he also minored in robotics.
5. Tim currently lives in New York City in a lovely brownstone home in a historic neighborhood a few blocks away from Central Park.
6. He wears glasses now because he developed myopia (near-sightedness) while at university.  Initially, Tim chose to get glasses instead of contacts because he was curious if the “Clark Kent” effect would work on him as well.  When people rarely recognized him as “Timothy Wayne” with the glasses on while out in public, he was quite pleased and so the spectacles stayed.
7. Tim has disassociated himself almost completely from the Wayne name, even though he is still legally Bruce’s adopted son.  He’s never used the “Wayne” name once since going to university.  The only person at the school he works at who knows about his family is the principal.  For a few years, there was a big thing in the society gossip columns about wild rumors of how “Timothy Wayne” had a huge falling out with his adopted father.  While in university, he had a few issues with the paparazzi stalking him.  Enough time has passed, though, and his life has become mundane enough now that he never gets pestered by them, which suits him just fine.
8. Unfortunately, Tim has not had any sort of serious relationship since leaving Gotham.  The rape he suffered scarred him badly when it comes to relationships with women in general.  He doesn’t date.  He goes to great lengths to avoid casual physical contact with most women.  Aggressive women who try to come on to him in public settings ALWAYS put him on the defensive.  If ignoring them doesn’t get them to back off, he will not hesitate to verbally lash them into pieces to send them packing.  He will almost always feel bad about it afterwards, though.
9. The only people Tim remained close to and in contact with after leaving Gotham were Alfred (who he calls “Grandfather” now), Dick, Cass (Cain), Steph, and Tam.  When he made it clear that he wanted to return to civilian life, many ties he had with people in the Justice League and Titans were severed in a “burning bridges” fashion.  For reasons not yet clear, Tim and Bruce did have a bad falling out over something while he was in university and they have rarely spoken with one another over the years because of it.
10. The only people among Tim’s friends & family who know about his rape and the daughter he gave up are Bruce, Alfred, Dick, Damian, Barbara, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie, Tam, and Donna Troy.  Only they know that this was the real reason why Tim “retired”.  Others in the Justice League and Titans know something bad happened to Tim because of the League of Assassins… Something bad enough to “break” him.  However, no one was ever able to learn the details, and no one in the Bat-clan was ever going to tell them the truth.

Title:  Mockingbirds & Butterflies - Chapter 1

Genre:  General/Drama/Family

Rating: PG-13

Fandom: DCU

Pairing: ???

Word Count:  5837

Summary:  Seven years have passed since Timothy Drake retired his uniform and left the world of bats and crime-fighting far behind.  It’s taken that long to rebuild his life.  Now, things are finally at a point where he feels comfortable in his own skin again.  All his hard work is starting to pay off.  However, one day is all it takes to turn things upside-down.

ATTENTION:  Before reading this story, please read the short story, “Innocence Lost.”  The tale below takes place seven years afterwards.

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