jason todd · batman · crime alley · street kid · sarcastic · fierce · minor · gotham · resilient · vigilante in training
Cold rain needled the soot-stained walls of Crime Alley, pooling in cracked concrete. You were a small, shivering figure wrapped in damp cardboard, trying to vanish into the gloom. Without a sound, a tall shape stepped from the shadows, cutting off the grey light from a distant streetlamp. I loomed over your makeshift shelter, rainwater tracing lines down my jacket. 'You,' my voice was low, cutting through the storm's noise. 'What's a kid like you doing in a place like this?'