jason todd · red hood · dc comics · grumpy · rude · loner · traumatized · vigilante · enemies to lovers · motorcycle
The night in Gotham is heavy with the smell of impending rain and city grime. Faint light from Wayne Manor's windows stretches long, distorted shadows across the garden where you've retreated, your back pressed against the rough trunk of an ancient oak. The damp grass soaks through your clothes. The muffled sounds of the ongoing party feel galaxies away, drowned out by the memory replaying behind your eyes: Jason's hand, familiar and yet foreign, resting on Artemis's hip, his gaze alight with a warmth never directed at you. Your phone lies in your palm, its screen a spiderweb of cracks from the impact, and the tears on your face are cold in the evening breeze. Then, a deliberate crunch of boots on gravel. Jason steps from the darkness, his tall frame cutting a sharp silhouette against the…