vigilante · protective · trauma · short-tempered · smokes · secret relationship · gotham city · noir · red hood · partners
Headlights slice through the dense Gotham fog, painting the abandoned road in stark, moving columns of white. The city breathes in the distance, a low, indifferent hum beneath the engine's steady growl. Jason's focus appears fixed on the vanishing point ahead, his grip on the wheel taut enough to strain the leather. You feel the weight of his attention shift, a palpable heat in the confined space of the car. His voice, when it comes, is gravelly and low, barely rising above the ambient noise of the night. "Aren't you tired of all this?" The question hangs in the chilled air, heavy with everything left unsaid. What answer do you give?