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DC x DP Fic 9: I Will Protect You Now

Summary:

Tim is going through his family home to sell it after his parents die. He is mostly sorting the artifacts they sent home from archaeological digs, returning cultural/heritage things they really shouldn't have taken, when he finds a weird clay jar wrapped in dried roses he doesn't recognize and sealed with wax. The tag with his mother's handwriting says it's believed to be a variation of a witch bottle that was used to capture a ghost in the town of Salam by a spiritual hunter claiming to have caught a ghost that let the witch he was after escape.

Tim avoids magic things when he can so he plans to just send this to the JLD, but after he takes a sample of the mystery roses first. (Can't risk Ivy learning about something new and occult related after all.) Unfortunately for Tim, the roses pretty much disintegrate when he touches them and the wax seal cracks.

The next thing he knows is there is a bright light blinding him and he suddenly isn't alone in the room.

Notes:

An adoptable fic! Little Baby Man edition!! He is feral and free in Gotham!

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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Tim is sealing up yet another box for the 'return' pile of artifacts his parents should have never taken home. He knows archaeology toes the line of grave robbing at times, but he's starting to feel like the British Museum or Hobby Lobby with the amount of artifacts that seem stolen, illegal to have, and/or just morally wrong to have taken from their resting place. 

The current section of artifacts are all mostly from American witch hunters and the occult so he mostly has to take bundles of things like white sage and box them up to send to an Indigenous historical center to get it back to the right people. They try to not mess with the occult in Gotham, but Tim still listens to Constantine and Zatanna about how to be respectful about it, something his parents never learned if it got in the way of an archeological dig or auction. 

Tim sighs, opening a box to find a clay jar that looks like it has a bearded man's face on it, dried roses and thorns are wrapped around it. Tim finds the tag his mother puts on everything and finds it is a 'Witch Bottle' that was found buried under where a hearth was in Salam Massachusetts, the house was outside the historical town and technically not covered by the town's jurisdiction. 

His mother notes that Witch Bottles are normally filled with specific things to harm the trapped witch or ward them off a specific person, but this one only seems to have a round stone(?) and unknown liquid when they X-rayed it. A journal found in the house ruins belonging to a witch hunter, John [illegible]nightingale, mentions he was trying to make a bottle with new roses he found that work well on spirits when a witch was found, the jar didn't capture her but it did grab the evil spirit she used to protect herself and flee.    

Tim is weary about the jar and makes a plan to get this to the JLD to check if it actually has a spirit in it… after he takes a tiny sample of this spirit repelling rose. Just a small bit, enough to satisfy the Bat paranoia all Robins develop. 

Time takes the box the jar came in and heads to his old room where he kept a travel forensics kit from his early Robin days, before he moved into the Manor and let Bruce adopt him. It's not as advanced as what they developed now but it should get a good baseline for what the roses are and if they faced it before with Ivy. Tim sets the box on his desk and sets up the kit with the proper PPE before trying to get a sample, he takes up some tweezers and cotton swab and gently touches them to a rose.

He isn't expecting the plant to crumple to dust, his hand jerks and the tweezers bump into the wax seal where a large crack forms. 

Tim barely has time to realize things have gone wrong before the jar shatters and a bright, cold light sends Tim flying back into his room's door. He is dazed and blinking spots out of his eyes when he hears growling and looks up, it seems part of the jar hit his ceiling light as the room is dark except for two green lights at his desk. 

No… two green eyes at his desk. 

Tim slowly gets the penlight from his pocket and shines it at his desk, expecting some kind of evil spirit, but blinks in surprise seeing what he thinks might be an animal or fae creature. It is the size of a large cat with the front hands(paws?) of one, a human like torso and head with elf-like ears, and a snake-like lower body. Its eyes are glowing an eerie green as it glares and growls at Tim, but they also look lost and afraid as their eyes dart around the room. It reminds him of the hissy strays Damian gets close to every patrol, of a cornered animal expecting to get hurt instead of helped. 

This is the 'evil' spirit? 

 

Notes: 

  • Danny is in his 'Little Baby Man' mode (If you don't know this form, it is so fun to learn about so look it up!) because of how long he was sealed away. He didn't have any ecto to feed off of for so long that his core started eating his physical ghost form. The ghosts in the thermos have never been held in there for long enough periods of time where they start losing ecto, Danny never felt comfortable keeping them in there for longer than a few days to a week.

    If Danny had stayed in the jar any longer he would have reverted back to just a core. The longer Danny is around the others and feeding off Jason's corrupted ecto the more he grows back to normal size and his mind will mostly heal, he will still need mental help for the isolation however if he was awake the whole time. 

  • The Fenton's have a long history of hunting the supernatural, so the chances one happens to make something in the occult like the Fenton Thermos isn't that far off an idea. Danny, Sam, and Tucker actually meet Danny's witch hunter ancestor and he had so many blood blossoms he was just eating them. 

  • While Danny was trapped, Clockwork didn't get him out sooner because he would have ended back in the right time eventually and no one would really notice outside Sam and Tucker knowing he was left behind for a few days at most. Clockwork needed Danny to end up with Tim so someone outside Amity Park and its media blackout could help stop the GIW and the Anti-Ecto Acts.

    (If you want a more hurt/comfort story, Danny could have been awake for the many years of isolation in the bottle. Tim would be the first person he met after years of darkness and only his mind for company, just a half feral, ecto starving, and scared being with scrambled memories that clings to Tim.

    Danny going to his living form could be mistaken as him wanting to blend in to avoid hunters and he chose to look like Tim and his brothers with black hair and blue eyes. Tim wouldn't think to check any currently living database for a match because Danny was sealed in a bottle from the colonial era. Danny doesn't fully remember he was a halfa because he barely remembered getting Sam away from a burning stake and his death to electricity. He still has the Lichtenberg figure on his arm to show it.) 

  • Constantine will have some rude words to say about Tim touching occult objects without even calling him about it first, but he will still help what his magic is telling him is a Baby Ghost that got sealed before he was even a year past death. This leads to him scrying for his grave(body) or death location and finding out about Amity Park, the same place Tim traced the descendants of the witch hunter moved to. 

  • Jason is the second person Danny clings to, mainly as a food source but also because he is an older protector spirit too. Every instinct is saying Jason will keep him safe. This forces Tim and Jason to hang out more to not stress Danny out if they are too far from him.

Notes:

John: Yer a goddamned idiot Red!
Danny, is sad Tim is getting yelled at: (╥﹏╥)
John: …
John: Fine, I'll help the little bugger.
Danny, happy: (• ⩊ •)

 

Danny, half starving: _(´ཀ`」 ∠) _
Jason, 6 feet of curropted ecto snack: Who the fuck are you?
Danny: ( ˶°ㅁ°) !!

Tim, trying to drag Danny off Jason: No! Don't bite Jason, you don't know where he's been!
Jason, gently, trying to not get mauled: Fuck you Timberly!
Danny: Fooooood…ԅ(¯﹃¯ԅ)

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