Blood Ties
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  • Reads 134,416
  • Votes 5,198
  • Parts 25
  • Time 18h 7m
Ongoing, First published May 14, 2018
Deathstroke didn't have to.
He really didn't have to.
Finding a small black haired and blue eyed boy on the grimy streets of Gotham was never part of the plan. Taking him wasn't either. Raising him was out of the question.

But here he was, Deathstroke the Terminator, raising a wisecracking apprentice who could simultaneously make the mercenary proud and get on his every nerve.

Deathstroke trained the boy, trained him well. But something made him hesitate, something like fear.

Deathstroke would never admit it, never out loud anyway, but in all his years of killing and living up to his name... he didn't want to lose that boy. Overprotective was never in Deathstrokes vocabulary, but this boy was different, he could work wonders.

Disclaimer; I own nothing but the plot
Reverse Batfam AU
Renegade AU
Court of Owls AU
NOT SLADIN

Also warning for violence, abuse, panic attacks in some chapters, increasing severity of angst as book continues, and a few mentions of rape and suicidal thoughts.
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