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    Leslie sits them both down in her office immediately after they arrive. “I’m not going to mince words,” she says as soon as they’re settled. “Jason, your blood test results came back. I’m sorry. You’re HIV-positive.”

    Time stops moving.

    Leslie, ever the professional, plows right on before the bombshell has had time to settle. Jason doesn’t need her to explain what HIV is to him. He’s well aware. He’s watched and read depictions of the illness before, in novels and musicals, most of them tragedies because sickness always ends in tragedy. Like terminal cancer, or an oncoming train while you’re stuck in the middle of the tracks. No escape. No happy endings.

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    “You got a pen?”

    Tim blinked owlishly before scrambling to grab a pen from his book bag, as if terrified Jason would change his mind in the 6 seconds he took to search. He held it out to Jason who snatched it right out of his hands.

    “If we do this, we’re doing it right. You got that, Richie?" Jason snarled. "When I sign this you’re my kid!”

    “I don’t do things in half measures. I’m gonna be there for every PTA meeting, every club invite, every fucking carpool you understand? I don’t need some white bread, pearl clutching bitch telling me I’m a shitty Guardian just ‘cause I didn’t ask for this.”

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    The only thing worse than crawling out of your own grave to find your father had replaced you with the first black haired, blue eyed preteen he could find, is said replacement begging you to sign emergency foster papers... except maybe you signing said papers and having to learn how to be a parent on the fly... Fuck it, he couldn't do any worse than Bruce.

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    “Why can’t you look at me?” Jason asks, voice barely a whisper.

    “Jason,” Batman’s voice calls from behind him, high-pitched and desperate. “Step away from the ledge,”

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    Jason Todd was kidnapped at nine-years-old and given two options. Work for his keep, or be forced to to work for his keep.

    His life was not pleasant, but Jason was nothing if not a fighter, and dammit if was he going to let the hell around him kill who he was as a person. Or his dreams of growing up and going to college.

    Those dreams suddenly came a little more into focus, when his idiot of a pimp accidentally tried to rent him to Bruce Wayne. Poor bastard could have never guessed he was the Batman himself. Heck, not even Jason figured that out, at first. And Batman had practically adopted him.

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  5. Public Bookmark 41

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    Peter's in an endless cycle. He tried so hard to break out of it, but it sucks him back in. He just has to act normal, and it'll all be okay, right?

    TW for self harm, eating disorder, etc.

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