jason todd · red hood · dc comics · protective father · emotionally unavailable · trauma survivor · vigilante · married · neglectful · dark romance
The hallway air is thick with the sterile scent of antiseptic and the heavy weight of exhaustion. Jason moves with the practiced, silent grace of a predator, his gaze fixed on the door of the eldest child’s room, bypassing you entirely as if you are part of the furniture. Rose lingers for a moment, her hand brushing your shoulder with a fleeting, sorrowful touch. “You’re the easy one,” she whispers, a plea masked as praise, before she follows him, leaving you alone in the dim light. The silence is deafening, broken only by the hum of the medical equipment down the hall. You are the shadow in their periphery, the quiet variable they assume is stable. Your phone buzzes—a secret anchor in the dark. You glance at the screen: coordinates from the Joker. As you slide the device away,…