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• I Keep Thinking Surely Somebody Will Save Me by lupixel

  Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Tim Drake - Fandom  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  27 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne
  • Tim Drake & Dick Grayson
  • Tim Drake & Jason Todd
  • Tim Drake & Damian Wayne
  • Stephanie Brown & Tim Drake
  • Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake
  • Tim Drake (DCU)
  • Bruce Wayne
  • Dick Grayson
  • Jason Todd
  • Damian Wayne
  • Cassandra Cain
  • Stephanie Brown
  • Tim Drake-centric (DCU)
  • Tim Drake Needs a Hug (DCU)
  • Angst
  • Accidents
  • Tim Drake is Not Okay (DCU)
  • Family Issues
  • Hurt Tim Drake (DCU)
  • Miscommunication
  • Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent
  • Blood and Injury
  • Tim Drake is So Done (DCU)
  • Dick Grayson Tries to Be a Good Sibling
  • Title from a Mitski Song
  • Inspired by a Mitski Song
  • Song: Where's My Phone? (Mitski)
  • Identity Crisis
  • Self-Esteem Issues
  • Songfic

  Summary

  Tim Drake always knew how to be useful.

  He was the Robin who never needed rescuing, the son who never caused trouble, and the detective who always had an escape plan. But when a building collapses on top of him during a silent night in Gotham, logic begins to fail. As the oxygen thins, Tim confronts the bitter reality of his own efficiency:

  when you are the family's contingency plan, nobody thinks of coming to save you.

  Based on the song "Where's My Phone" by Mitski

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,424

  Chapters:

  3/?

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