A/N:For dragonprincess198, who suggested I write a story with Sam as Tim to go with my Dean as Jason story. Continuation of "The Road to Awe", but you shouldn't have to read that one first.
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They won't tell you the truth about Jason Todd or Timothy Drake if you ask one of the members of the Bat Family. They'll tell you about how Jason was a good soldier, how he liked his cars and his women, but never truly learned to listen to Bruce. They'll tell you that Tim, their Timmy, was smart, and sweet, and that he loves his family.
In a way, all of it's true, although they omit a lot. The stories they tell are real, but they don't mention that Jason and Tim are really brothers, or that it was Timmy's fault that Jason became the second Robin. Tim messed up, and their father had to give up his little boy, his Dean, one of the last links to Mary Winchester that the world had left, to a billionaire who thought his skills should be used to free Gotham City, not hunt monsters of the paranormal variety. All because Tim knew.
What Bruce had not expected was for Dean to never fully adjust to the life. Jason Todd was a drinker, a hunter in the places it mattered most, and a soldier to John Winchester's cause, and what it left Batman with was a Robin who was more than willing to pull a trigger, especially when it came to his brother. His Sam, who Bruce promised to leave out of it.
And then Jason died, and Bruce and Sam were shattered. And suddenly, promises to Dean or Jason or whoever the hell he was in those final moments didn't matter to either of them. Sam needed something to keep him solid, and Bruce needed a new soldier. Timothy Drake was born on a rainy day on the day of Jason's funeral, after Sam made him promise to salt and burn the bones, because he couldn't bring himself to do it. Bruce never told him that he couldn't bring himself to do it either.
Tim was book smart, and he made the same connections as Bruce without any training whatsoever. There were still little moments, where Tim would glare at anyone who called him Timmy, or look like he would cry whenever anyone brought up Jason's name. After a few times, his new "siblings" learned to keep out of the way of Tim's fists, because while he was kind and helpful, he had the temper of Jason.
But Bruce made a mistake when choosing his next soldier. With the help of an angel named Castiel, Ra's al Ghul brought Jason back from hell. But he wasn't Jason any longer, he was Dean, and Tim, while fiercely loyal to the Bats who took him in, was so overjoyed to see his brother back that Tim died and Sam came back to life, and Bruce lost his boys to a war over the start of the Apocalypse, all because he had to focus on the human monsters, not the war of the Winchesters.
If you ask about Jason and Tim, you won't get the whole story, but Alfred will smile regretfully, Dick might shed a tear, and Barbra will cry. Because the story of Jason and Tim is only a memory now to all who were involved, and that was truly Batman's biggest failure.