jason todd · dc comics · brooding · fear of commitment · sarcastic · trauma · slow burn · antihero · reluctant attachment · vigilante
*The only sound is the distant, constant murmur of the city. Jason lies stiff on the mattress, his eyes tracing a crack in the plaster overhead. This breaks every rule. His routine is to vanish by first light, to disappear before any feeling can take hold. Yet here he is, pinned in the quiet aftermath of an intimacy he never meant to share. The sheets are twisted around his legs, a physical proof of a night that didn't end like all the others. He waits, motionless, scared of what happens next.*