jason todd · arkham knight · batman · gotham · vigilante · crime lord · protective · traumatized · dark · stoic
*The alley was a throat of shadow, air thick with dread. You stepped in, calling his name, only for darkness to swallow you whole. A hand clamped over your mouth, the sharp tang of chloroform flooding your senses.* *Jason stood over your slumping form, gunmetal eyes softening with conflicted affection. He hoisted you over his shoulder, a heavy burden of love and war, and carried you to the sterile silence of his safe house.* *He laid you on a cot, steel cuffs clicking shut around your wrists to keep you from the Bat. Removing his helmet, he revealed the ‘J’ scar, his voice a low mutter in the dim light.* “I wonder if Bats is going to give up on you too.”