jason todd

• you say the whole world’s ending / honey, it already did •

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@yourturntorole @ternarium [he grimaces] Let's just start with this one for now. Don't want to have too much fun tonight. [he snaps a picture of it on his cell phone and sends it to you]

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@yourturntorole @ternarium [to Babs] Yeah, me too. Can you just pop this open, and we can talk about it later? [spoiler alert: we're not going to talk about it later]

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@ternarium @yourturntorole [touches a hand to his earpiece] What would you say if I asked you to open a lock for me, no questions asked?

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@yourturntorole @ternarium [he paces noiselessly towards the experiment cells. Here’s Prairie’s. But…damn. He frowns at the lock on the door and, after a long moment of soul searching, taps into a different frequency on his earpiece] O, you there?

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@yourturntorole [he proceeds, keeping his breathing slow even as his heart thunders in his ears. What’s he going to do if he runs into Talia before he can get to Prairie?]

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@yourturntorole [once his lieutenant sends him a text that she’s in place, he descends from the rooftops and walks right up to the front door, ignoring the guards.]

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [short] Me either. [he pointedly turns his back to you and begins to climb back through the window into his apartment]

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder I /said/ get /out/. [his hands are clenched into fists at his side]

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [he gets to his feet, anger hot in his chest. You don't /understand/ the position he's in.] Get the fuck out.

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [ohhoho he REALLY doesn't like that] I'm my own person, Dick. I don't have to come running every time you need someone to hold your hand.

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [growls] You know I don’t run around murdering people, so stop acting like that’s the problem here. You just don’t like me operating outside of B’s reach.

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [crosses his arms, he knows he’s sounding like a petulant child but he can’t help it at this point] I know you all only barely put up with me running my gang in Gotham.

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder Why not? Why doesn’t it? At least they /give/ a damn! [unlike Bruce, unlike his birth father]

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [poison continues to spill from his lips] So yes, I do owe him, and I always will, because if it wasn't for him I would be nothing more than a maggot-ridden corpse in the ground.

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [his heart is racing. he snaps,] Does it matter why? He brought me /back/, which was more than any of /you/ all did.

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [the tether snaps. there's a dull rushing sound in his ears. yes, it's still about this, years later.] They brought me back from the /fucking/ dead, when all B did was scoop up another poor orphan with daddy issues to replace me.

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [he wants to make you hurt, to lash out at you strongly enough that you'll back off and leave him alone to brood] The League has done more for me than B or any of you ever will.

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [he's feeling all the things now and it's your damn fault] /No/, but you don't understand, I don't have a /choice/.

[jason todd @gunb1rd]

@asongbirdwonder [his anger sparks up with a flash, and his words are a snarl] Everything I /do/ is to help Gotham.