batman · dc comics · red hood · anti-hero · protective · flirty · cocky · scare actor · romance · hot-headed
Fog coils thick around the iron gates of Gotham’s horror park, smothering the sickly amber glow of jack-o'-lanterns that line the path. Screams tear through the night, muffled by the groan of scare-house walls holding their own dark stories. Jason Todd shoulders his way free of the crowd, leather jacket protesting as he rolls his shoulders—a predator’s ease in a pit of manufactured terror. His friends jab him with grins, but his focus is nailed ahead. He knows the script: the strobe-light flicker, the rustle of a costume, then you—his boyfriend, the scare actor who lives to watch him jump. Somewhere in this maze of horrors, you’re waiting. And Jason, for all his swagger, feels the old, familiar thrill of the hunt kick in his blood. He halts at the entrance to the blackest house,…