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No, Richard wasn’t some lowlife criminal.
He was hiding something; he always had been. But he had also been leaving clues all these years, beneath those kind eyes and that smile that men would go to war for. He left them intentionally, carefully, for someone smart enough and attentive enough to see them.
Mark had seen them. Richard Grayson was begging to be saved.
And somehow, this guy was the key.
Driven by obsession, a former acquaintance of Dick Grayson’s hatches a plan to kidnap a man who has been spending an awful lot of time in Grayson’s company lately. Things don’t go to plan, and soon he has both of them chained up in a warehouse by the Gotham Harbour.
No one is having a good time.
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Know This Will Hurt Less if You Just Submit by crime_scene_psychic
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
07 Feb 2025
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“I've been watching you. You're running yourself ragged these days! Pulling double shifts at that center, patrolling every night, even making the trip to Gotham when the Bat comes calling. You're wearing yourself too thin, and your so-called friends and family don't even see it! You’re getting sick, Richard, but don’t worry. I’ll take care of you.”
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Dick gets kidnapped by a man obsessed with him who is convinced he loves him more than his family does. He couldn't be more wrong.Series
- Part 4 of Dick Grayson Whump-Shots
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a killer time by konan_konan for Pseudonymous_Elusa
Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types
01 Jan 2023
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The vent cover clatters to the floor, and Dick flings the knife at Croc, trusting that he's going to be a more of a threat than his goons. Croc roars in pain, or maybe just rage, and Dick scrambles toward the vent, Damian already inside, and -
And Killer Croc grabs him by the ankle, slams him into the wood. He feels something break, and he gasps, hardly able to catch his breath. Some sort of metallic clang echoes from behind, and he thinks if Damian comes out of the vent and gets us both killed…
or: a gate-crasher ruins the wayne charity gala in the worst way possible.
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05 May 2026
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stuck here, in the middle of nowhere by CamsthiSky
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
10 Feb 2025
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“Hello?”
“Roy?” Dick sucks in a stuttered breath. “I–I need some help.”
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Dick is hiding in a laundromat, Roy is the guy on the other end of the line, and Jason just hopes he makes it in time.
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For three months, Dick has survived Slade. Now, headed into the Canadian wilderness with his captor, it suddenly feels real in a way it hadn't before. Nobody is coming for him. He is the only person who can get him out of this.
OR: Dick and Slade, on the road to the cabin.
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- Part 17 of reversed robins!
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12 Apr 2026
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River's injured and Louisa washes his hair. That's it. That's the fic.
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Juno Steel and the Inside (wo)Man by 221Browncoat
Fandoms: The Penumbra Podcast, Drawfee (not rpf)
31 Jul 2023
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Juno Steel takes the case of Faustus Silva, a wealthy man beloved by all--except, of course, for the person that's trying to kill him. Wherein Juno gets all dressed up and goes to a party which inevitably goes terribly, horribly wrong. Feat. Rowan from the Drawfee episode 4 Artists Design Characters From the Same Description.
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An op goes south, as ops are wont to do. Illya saves Napoleon. Napoleon nearly dies anyway.
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like brothers on a hotel bed by daringyounggrayson
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
03 Oct 2020
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Dick and Bruce have been on shaky terms for a while, but they realize that none of that matters when they're both captured on an impromptu team-up. To make matters worse, one of their captors has a grudge against Dick, who already isn't at the top of his game due to injuries. Separated, Bruce can only watch and hope that someone finds them before it's too late.
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Trapped in a cage with a Deathstroke who is drugged out of his mind, Dick’s only hope lies in getting his old nemesis to recognize him.
The only problem? Dick’s wearing a different uniform now.
And Slade has never seen him in the Batsuit before.
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12 Apr 2026
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“You’re pale,” Jason continues, then jams his fingers into the side of Dick’s neck again. There’s a fifteen second pause. “Heart rate is through the roof. Are you sure you’re not bleeding anywhere?”
“Nope. My blood’s all on the inside for once,” Dick says.
And then they must come to the inevitable conclusion around the same time, because Jason says, “oh shit,” and Dick says, “get me to Leslie.”
They both went to the Bat School of Field Triage. It’s the loving term they use for Bruce’s four hundred and eighty-seven slide PowerPoint presentation on common field injuries and their treatments. Dick knows, even half out of his mind with chest pain and feeling like he can’t breathe, that just because there’s no blood on the outside of his body doesn’t mean there’s no bleeding.
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- Part 4 of spinachgarden's whumptober 2025
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08 Apr 2026
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Strange Shadows by Beauty_In_Her_Darkness
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics)
12 Jul 2020
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It was well after two in the morning by the time Dick climbed inside through his window, every inch of his body throbbing. The silence of his apartment felt oppressive after the roar of the wind had been deafening him for the last two hours. He stumbled into his bedroom, not bothering to even turn on the lights, and headed straight for his closet. He pulled off his domino mask and escrima sticks first, the motions automatic. His mind felt clouded. Foggy. He knew there were things he needed do, wounds he needed to take care of, but all he wanted to do was lie down. Not that sleep had been his friend recently.
Dick stilled as the cold, metal barrel of a gun kissed his bare neck.
"Bang. You're dead, little bird."
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31 Mar 2026
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“Jay?” Dick mumbled, clearly confused. “What’re you doin’ here?”
“This is my safehouse, dumbass.” Shit.
Dick blinked. “Yeah, but…” he furrowed his brow. “Didn’ think you’d be here….” He continued blinking at Jason, but made no further moves to enter the apartment.
Jason’s mind was running through scenarios. Drunk? High? Drugged? Some sort of mental breakdown? And why had the golden boy come here?
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31 Mar 2026
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At the end of 4x05, Patrice abducts River at gunpoint. This time, they go to a remote, isolated manor where Frank is waiting for them. The slow horses do not see or hear from River again for almost five months. During that time, Frank does his level best to break River and rebuild him into a tool he can use, with Patrice as his assisting shadow. This… doesn’t really work. In fact, the process ends up breaking not River, but someone else.
Meanwhile, Slough House is on overdrive trying to find a missing colleague who the Park is all to quick to deem presumed dead and rubber-stamp his file as such. Louisa almost quits, and finds an odd solace in working alongside Lamb to try to bring their missing agent home. She is having a bad one - the maybe-loss of her best friend is tearing her apart.
It all comes to a head when Louisa follows a lead that she knows better than to follow. She is meant to be the last blow that destroys River's resolve. It doesn't shake out like that. By the time they're both rescued, it's a long road to recovery. But there is a road, and there's help along the way.
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It's Not Always River's Fault by orphan_account
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
29 Oct 2024
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While on his first ever formal, legitimate op, River is captured in a foreign country. Luckily, he stashed the classified info his captors want from him. Unluckily, they know he stashed it and have him captured.
Was it his fault he was caught?
Warning - This is another excuse for River whump, with some plot thrown in for flavor
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13 Mar 2026
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Despite being in the Park's bad books, River has information that certain bad actors want and they are willing to do whatever to get it.
River ends up in a garden shed, high as hell, hallucinating his dead former friend and struggling to remember how he got there.
Rescue comes but that's not the end of it at all
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- Part 17 of Candle's August of Whump 2025
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River just wants to move on past all the Harkness family drama and get back to work before he drives himself insane. It's a shame his body hasn't got that memo yet.
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- Part 8 of Candle's Whumptober 2024
- Part 12 of Candle Makes Bad Things Happen
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02 Mar 2026
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It's Never a Good Day to Die in Slough House by Toffeechocolate
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV)
03 Feb 2025
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"Amazing that he would be grateful for both Slough House and Jackson Lamb on the same day. Although, thinking about it, it would make sense if it was the day he dies."
River gets chased into Slough House by some foreign operatives wanting just two things from him: his recently acquired USB stick, and his life.
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02 Mar 2026
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AU where Natasha refuses to believe that River isn't Bertrand. He manages to escape but goes from the frying pan into the fire.
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Klaus leaned down with his hands on his knees so they were at eye level. “Thing is, River, I don’t believe you. Everyone knows that you’re David Cartwright’s grandson and that the man used to spin yarns to you from the time you were a wee lad.”
River tried to think through the wall of pain but it was difficult to put coherent thought together. “Yarns,” he managed. “Stories. He didn’t, didn’t tell me…state secrets, for fuck’s sake.”
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- Part 7 of Whumptober Works
- Part 5 of Bad Things Happen to River Cartwright Bingo
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21 Feb 2026