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Title: If a man's hands show his trade, does it suit me then?
Author: Munnin
Rating: PG.
‘Verse: Band!AU
Characters: Tim, in all his many forms
Disclaimer: No ownership, no profit and no offence meant. Everyone is of the age of consent in their country and period of history
Author’s notes: 100% organic. May contain minor flaws and imperfections that beta-treated slash wouldn’t.
Bingo card: [livejournal.com profile] the_protagonist and [livejournal.com profile] alexiel_neesan’s
Tim Drake, not a bingo card.

Summary: Tim Drake. Bassist.


Tim strummed Terry, not so much playing as letting his fingers wander over the instrument with the rhythm of his thoughts.

He’d been playing bass for nearly two years now and the pads of his fingers hardened perfectly to the strings. Two lines of calluses formed along the palm of one hand but he no-longer felt the stretch in his muscles as he wrapped his fingers around the neck of his guitar. It was an extension of him now, just as the bo staff had been in a previous life.

The scars were still there but they faded. Memories of bygone triumphs and failures seceded to fresh makings – the graze across his knuckles where he scraped his hand getting Jay’s drum kit out of the van, the tiny cut where the mike stand had nipped his skin as he folded it up, the shiny burn where a frayed cable had nearly killed him.

But there were other marks too, marks of choice – the Bat emblem tattooed over his heart; both memorial and insignia of belonging, the pattern of bruises over his shins where he and Damian sparred; everyday just a little faster and more evenly matched, the twin hickies in the hollows of his collarbone where Dick and Jason held him down and marked him as their own; making him writhe with pleasure.

The hole in his heart - losing Bruce, losing Gotham, losing Robin and all the parts of himself that belonged to that life, healed over slowly like scar tissue, forming a new surface on which to scribe his history. A new page in a heavily annotated book.

But as Tim Drake, bass player and song writer for the Robin, strummed his guitar in the afternoon sun, he mussed that this page at least bore his name...well one of them anyway.


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Date: 2010-07-01 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-protagonist.livejournal.com
Waaahhhhhh!

The hole in his heart.... Tim! That's so heartbreaking. And this:

A new page in a heavily annotated book. What beautiful imagery!

This was so beautiful! Thank you so so so so much for sharing, love!

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Date: 2010-07-01 12:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] munnin-odanin.livejournal.com
thank you for the brilliant idea! I'm so in love with that card!

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Date: 2010-07-01 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darthbatgirl.livejournal.com
Awww this is a beautiful look at who Tim is now compared to who he used to be.

And I so want to read the story about the frayed cable that nearly killed Tim.

And the hickies on Tim's neck. (because the is no such thing as too much smut)

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Date: 2010-07-01 11:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] munnin-odanin.livejournal.com
Oh yes, there must always be smut! Always!

Very true, I need to write that...

So glad you liked it, thank you.

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Date: 2010-07-01 03:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] me-ya-ri.livejournal.com
Nice! I love how he's healing up, scarred yes, changed yes, but still slowly healing and moving on into a new identity.

Thank you for sharing!

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Date: 2010-07-01 11:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] munnin-odanin.livejournal.com
That’s the thing with the boys, they're always evolving.

My pleasure, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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Date: 2010-07-01 07:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexiel-neesan.livejournal.com
:D Thank you so much for playing along! I really, really like the 'a new page in a heavily annotated book' - and 'one of his names'. :D

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Date: 2010-07-01 11:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] munnin-odanin.livejournal.com
I loved the card so much I just had to. Thank you sooooo much for the idea. I really want to write more too.

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Date: 2010-07-01 08:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyblkrose.livejournal.com
Thank you for sharing your evolving, growing, living Tim with us. I love the way he refuses to forget his past while embracing his future. This was so beautiful.
Thank you for sharing........(wishing I was Terry)

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Date: 2010-07-02 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] munnin-odanin.livejournal.com
My pleasure! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

(don't we all!)

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