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malfoys-demigod · 4 years

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Third Time’s a Charm - Tim Drake x Reader

A/N: This is set in the YJverse and you’re Batgirl since Barbara is now Oracle

Summary: M’gann and Conner attemp to play matchmaker on you and Tim Drake.

The weekend at Mount Justice was awfully colorless. No missions, no plans, no fun for everyone. Everyone who had a significant other were lucky enough to spend time with each other, making things seem less lifeless at the Cave. Artemis was teaching Wally to shoot, Dick was constantly flirting with Oracle, Beast boy was out with Perdita, and so on. The rest who didn’t have significant others decided to entertain each other, playing games.

For M’gann and Conner, being a motherly and fatherly figure, stood beside each other against the kitchen countertop, watching everyone get along with each other, with big heart eyes. That’s until she spotted two certain people alone.

You were listening to your favorite music on your headphones as you stared at the window, looking at the magnificent view of Happy Harbour.

Tim on the other hand was just on the couch, watching videos on his laptop while holding a coffee mug on his left hand.

M’gann, bored out of her mind, noticed something between you and Tim. She whispered to Conner point at you two, “Is it me, or is Tim and Y/N the only people in this cave single?” Conner looked at M’gann disbelief, not realizing that as well. “Oh yeah. I can’t believe I failed to see this. It’s funny how they grew up together in Wayne Manor but barely talk to each other.”

The truth was, you and Tim weren’t exactly close. You both exchanged a couple of words throughout the day, but both of you were are always too focused on either your jobs or yourselves when you had nothing to do. Back at Wayne Manor, Tim spent his time being the best student in Gotham Academy while you spent your time being the best in your extra curriculars, such as being the captain of a varsity.

Of course M’gann, wanting to play matchmaker, proposed the idea to Conner, “They have potential chemistry together. I say we play matchmaker and bring them together.” Connor looked at his girlfriend with a silly face, “You’re really bored, aren’t you?”

“Don’t worry, it’ll only take three steps for them to fall for each other.” M’gann said with a mischevious smile.

1. Friday night at the fair

After M’gann making Tim ride with you in every ride possible, Conner whistles for Tim to look up, “Hey Drake, come over here.”

Tim walks over with both hands on his pockets, “What’s up Conner?”

Conner pulls out a wallet from his back pocket and holds 20 dollars in the air. “This should be enough for you to buy yourself some a large cotton candy.” Tim shakes his head and returns the money, “Thanks but I’m alright.” Conner pushes back the money to Tim with a serious look, “I insist. Go. Buy. Youself. Cotton. Candy. Now.” Tim nods, and walks away terrified.

You just came back from the bathroom after fixing your hair when you saw Tim holding a huge stick of cotton candy. Your eyes widened and you ran quickly to him, jumping up and down. “TIM, can I have a piece? Please, please, please??”

Tim not caring about the cotton candy gave everything to you. “Uh, you can take the whole thing.” he sheepishly smiled.

“AH THANK YOU!” you bursted with joy.

“Knock yourself out, Y/L/N.” he scratched the back of his neck and chuckled.

As you happily savored the taste of the cotton candy, all Tim could see was you and the background lights of the carnival at night. His eyes were focused on you. The way you smiled with a satisfied sound as you ripped small pieces of the cotton candy, piece by piece. This is where he started to take more notice of you. He tried to look away as you took notice of his staring. You smiled and motioned for him to take a piece and he did, just a little so you could have it all. “Thanks, Y/N.”

“No thank you, we wouldn’t have had this if you didn’t have bought it.” you smiled innocently.

Tim thought, ‘I guess I have to thank Conner for lending me the money.’

Then as he looked around for Conner, he failed to find him but luckily saw a carnvial game stand. The particular one where you have to shoot all those plates with one try without missing a single plate.

He noticed that nobody was lining up for it so he grabbed your hand and ran towards it, causing both of you to blush.

“Where are we going, Tim?”

“How about I win you a prize?”

As you both stopped, you saw the booth in front of you. “Tim, you sure you can do this?”

He scoffed, “Have faith in me, Y/N. I’m getting you the biggest prize they have to offer.”

Thanks to Jason teaching him a few tricks, Tim successfully shot down all the plates with one try, making you gasp in excitement. “Oh my gosh, Tim! What’s the prize! What’s the prize!” you jump up and down.

The person in charge of the booth handed Tim the biggest stuff animal, coincidentally your favorite animal, and 100 bucks!

As Tim lovingly gave you the stuffed animal, you spotted the 100 bucks, “What are we going to do with the money?” you shot Tim a curious look.

Tim thought of a brilliant idea. “Would you like to go on a date with me, Y/N?” waving the money.

“I’d love to, Tim.” you blushed.

M’gann and Conner were just behind the booth, thanking the person in charge for handing their money to Tim as they knew he’d win.

“Can’t believe this is happening.” M’gann hugged Conner. “It’s going all so well, Conner!!”

“Can’t believe he hasn’t gave me back the change for the cotton candy.” he joked.

2. SaturDATE

Tim’s lunch date was such a Tim thing. He brought you to a coffee shop, but like one of those hipster coffee places where everything looked so colorful and vibrant.

As you walked in, you gave him a curious look. “I know you’re a coffee guy but I expected the shops you’d visit frequently to be more dark and casual.”

“I wanted a change for today. Besides, this place reminds me of you. Colorful and vibrant.” he smirked.

This day just got better and better by the minute. The both of you learned so much about each other as you started tackling simple questions to the deepest ones you could get to.

“I regret learning more about you at such a late age, Tim! Who knew we had so much in common.” you said with doubtfulness.

Tim sighed, “I totally agree. I could imgaine us right now as best of friends at Wayne Manor, staying up all night, watching movies together, and basically doing everything together.”

“Believe me, I feel the exact same way. I tried doing these things with Dick, Jay and even Damian but it never felt right.”

The two of you had so much fun that day that you were there from noon to evening, not even realizing that you both had a big mission the next day.

It was 10pm and the both of you got voice messages from Dick and Conner saying, “Hey love birds, it’s nice to see you finally bonding but we have a big mission tomorrow. I expect to see you both at the cave in 10 minutes.”

The both of you checked the clock and laughed at how neither of you knew it was getting SUPER late. “Well, we better get going.” Tim said as he held out his hand for you to stand up from the bean bags you sat on.

3. Sunday madness

Klarion, the witch boy, posed as Tempest and stole the remaining fragments of the stature, needing to resurrect Tiamat from Aquagirl. He made his escape through a portal, but was followed by Tula.

Beta Squad, led by Nightwing, arrived on the scene in the Sacred Well of Marduk’s Temple. But Klarion threw the reconstructed statue into the pool which caused a giant water snake to come out.

Klation blasted the water snake, knocking the tablet of Destiny which was bound to Tiamat ran off with it. Klarion chased after it, leaving the heroes to fight the water-snake form of Tiamat.

The watersnake knocked you out, leaving you unconcsious. Tim saw this and yelled, “Y/N!” He ran towards your body, checking for a heartbeat which he heard, sighing in relief. He stayed with you the whole time from when Aqualad came out from another room, saying the mission ended because the tablet was destroyed and Klarion escaped, to bringing you to the Cave, waiting for you to wake up.

After a few hours, your eyes started to open slowly. You were about to stand up until someone stopped you. “Hey, it’s okay. Just lay down for awhile, you still have a concussion.” a familiar voice said.

It was Tim. He smiled and stroked your cheeks with his thumbs. “Why don’t I get you some water?”

“How about some coffee from that hipster place?” you weakly laughed.

“I don’t want to be too far from you. I hope my coffee here will do.” he stood up and left the room when M’gann, Conner, and Dick came in.

“Hey kiddo, how ya feeling?” Dick sat on your bed.

“Better, especially that my favorite brother is here.” you said with a big smile. Dick playfully looked back hoping Tim wasn’t there to hear that, “You’re lucky Tim didn’t hear that! You would have broken his heart!!!” he whisper shouted.

M’gann stepped forward, “He wouldn’t have been hurt by that. She sees him as something else, don’t you Y/N.”

Before you could answer, Tim popped in with 2 mugs of coffee in his hands. “I hope she does because I see her as something else.” You blushed as you took a mug from him and kissed him. “I hope that answers it.”

Before Tim could kiss you back, Dick pushed Connor and M’gann out, “Let’s give these two some privacy, after all they already have a room.”

Dick crossed his arms and chuckled at M’gann and Conner. “I’m so disappointed in you two.” which made that look at each other with a confused look.

“How come? The both of us managed to make them fall for each other!” M’gann said.

Dick jumped in annoyance, “Don’t you see? ‘The both of us?’ YOU SHOULD HAVE LET ME BE PART OF YOUR MATCHMAKING THING! I COULD HAVE HELPED A LOT! IT’S NOT FAIR! I SHOULD HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO MY ADOPTIVE SIBLING’S RELATIONSHIP!”

Connor patted Dick on the back, “Okay you can plan out their wedding all by yourself. In fact, your whole family can deal with the expenses while we sit back and relax.”

“FINE.”

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weirdponytail · 5 years

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Okay! Story time! (The Watersnake)

I promised a story on what Florida things happened yesterday and here you are.

We have this spot in our backyard that has a couple of tires next to and against this big oak tree. There’s Creeper grasses growing over the tires, and next to them is this patch of Mondu(sp?) grass. Mondu grass is this thick grass that grows about 6-8 inches tall, droops a bit, it’s used a lot in decorative lawn stuff. Dogs love to gallomph through it. Tickles their belly I guess, but this patch in our backyard is kinda stunted due to the creeper vines that are around it.

Anyhoo, this spot is where I shot my first cottonmouth last year. Snakes like it because they can either hide in the grass, go under the tires, or slip into the spot between the tree and a leaning tire and piece of old fencing to get away from people or dogs. So if I hear Lexi, my big ol’ goof of a boxer/ridgeback doing an alert bark near here, I immediately grab whatever I can and get her to back up.

So of freaking course Lexi decides while I’m out wiht her yesterday to do two alert barks. I look over and see her doing the telltale ‘oh HI who are you?’ little head bob, leaning her head forward and pulling back a bit, rinse and repeat.

I grab a long piece of PVC pipe and speed walk over there not wanting to startle whatever she’s investigating and right as I come up and get to the point where I can see around the tire I see a big, thick body of a snake.

It takes a split second for me to register that the body, while not thin like most non venomous snakes, had only dark bands on the top and fades to a reddish and tan color as it reaches its belly, a very good indication that this is NOT a cottonmouth as their color is fairly uniform in browns and blacks. However, and I had a good laugh about it later, I was wearing my heart rate watch and there’s a very sudden spike from 72 bpm to 139 bpm that was around the time I saw that snek body.

I got that glimpse of the body and immediately looked for the head. And I saw it......

.....Right as Lexi leaned in again and, I shit you not, booped noses with the fucking snake. And it just...stayed there. If snakes could look confused this one would be wearing a ‘uh...the fuck?’ expression like it was a Prada handbag.

I pushed Lexi back and she trotted off, apparently disinterested now, and I leaned in some more to get a look at the snake’s head to confirm it wasn’t venemous. It was nice enough to stay pretty still with its head raised, and it wasn’t even in striking position. I confirmed round pupils, correctly identified it as a harmless Banded Watersnake, and got a really cool view of it finally having enough of me staring and doing a defensive display of ‘flattening’ its head to make it appear broad like a cottonmouth’s. I backed up as it slithered into the Mondu grass, grabbed Lexi and brought her in.

Not long after that Dad and one of his biologist friends dropped by to pick some things up for a camping trip. The biologist was really excited about the snake and asked me to show him where it was, and I pointed it out to him. This guy swoops down and grabs the snake, getting pegged twice in the hand in the process, brings it close to his face to examine, confirms with me that it was a southern Banded, and then releases the now very pissed off snake back into the grass. While dad gathered stuff up the biologist and I had a lengthy and animated chat about the various snakes of the area, his stories of a childhood scooping up cottonmouths and indigos and ratsnakes alike, and just had a great time discussing some very Florida Wilds things.

After they left I went back out myself in my welding gloves to see if I could either coax this poor snake out of our yard with a few gentle prods or if I could nab it behind the head and deposit it next to the creek behind the house. Lexi won’t ‘do her business’ when on a leash so she gets free reign in the backyard, and I didn’t want her killing the snake. It was deep in the mondu grass at this point and I couldn’t pull it out without a risk of it being injured, so I let it be and waited a few hours before going out again and watching it slither off under our fence into the woods at dusk.

And there you have it! A bit of Florida weirdness!

I’ll be really honest, I about pissed myself when I saw the snake’s body the first time. A bunch of stuff when through my head, including “and I was thinking in bed last night how I should take my rifle to get its broken sight fixed,” “oh fuck I’m wearing shorts and I’m barefoot,” and “Hhungk my chest ow heartrate what” but after a second it was pretty clear this guy wasn’t venomous and wasn’t even aggressive just...curious. He was very chill.

And yes, Lexi is fine. Though I really really hope she doesn’t try to boop a snake ever again!

#adventures of ket #snake #banded watersnake #cottonmouth #dog #boop da snek #florida life #wild wild woods

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