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"Date night," Tim says again. Pictures Jason in full Red Hood get-up at some cutesy candlelit Italian bistro, holding hands over a plate of spaghetti. "Oh my God."
"I should have let you get blown up," Jason says, contemplative. "It builds character, you know."
Speaking of blowing up—"You almost let a bunch of teenagers pull a Riddler because you wanted to make kissy faces at your…" A pained, deliberating pause. "Uh. Partner?"
Jason lets out a long, disgruntled breath. "Boyfriend," he finally says, each syllable punching out of him reluctantly. "He's my boyfriend."
"Ohhh," Tim says, nodding slowly. Jason knuckles at his forehead. "That's cool." Another horrifically strained beat. "I have one of those too."
Jason glances up at him again, head slightly canted, before he finally says, "Oh shit, that's right. Dick mentioned something about that." He tilts his head a little more. "I didn't know you guys were, like. Still together."
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Tim did not ask for Jason Fucking Todd to try to give him relationship advice and yet. Here they are.
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- Part 13 of night watch
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"You get to forget about all your worries. Something something team bonding. Gossip and girl talk. Et cetera, et cetera."
Jason's brow furrows harder, this time with a judgemental cast. Out loud, he says, "Is that your whole argument?"
"Pretty convincing, right?" Steph says, waggling her eyebrows. Jason scoffs. "Listen, if you want to head out, you can. I get it, it's been a long fucking night. But you did me a favor and pitched in and fought some demons or whatever, so the least I can do in return is booze you up."
She certainly couldn't blame him for leaving—fighting demons tends to sap your social battery. But then again, he didn't have to follow her back to her apartment. He's had every opportunity to call it quits and dip, but he's still here. He's still willing to be around her. That probably counts for something.
Jason's mouth twists and pinches in on itself. Finally, he sighs, holds up a finger, and says, "One glass. Then I'm going home to take a fucking shower and crash."
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It actually ends up being more like sixteen.
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Shannon's first thought when she opens the door is that he's very large. Six foot two, easy, with the bulk to match, hunching in his shoulders to no avail. It would be easy to be intimidated if it weren't for the awkward, wobbling smile he gives her and the bright red gift bag he's holding out in front of him, comically small in his comically large hands.
"Hey," he says. "Uh. Is Percy here?"
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Shannon Grant meets her son's very strange new friend—some guy named Jason Todd?
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- Part 5 of night watch
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"You know," Percy says. Jason is too well-trained to startle when she turns, but Percy has this nasty habit of sneaking up into her blind spots; emotional and otherwise. She's leaning against the doorframe, arms crossed, which incidentally does some really fantastic things for the muscles in her shoulders. "If you wanted, I could, um. Lend a hand."
Jason blinks. Percy scratches at her nose, eyes skittering away and then back to Jason. There's a distinct flush of crimson around her cheekbones, but she doesn't backtrack or elaborate.
"You…could?" Jason repeats, stupidly.
Percy shrugs. "I have some training in stabbing people with needles and whatnot," she says. "Could give you the VIP experience."
"Gee," Jason says dryly. "I feel so honored."
"You should be," Percy says. "I don't offer this to just anyone, you know."
She says it lightly, but she holds Jason's gaze all the while. Jason could tell her to go back to bitching at her stupid med drama, that Jason's done this dozens of times by now but, of course, she doesn't. Percy is extraordinarily difficult to say no to.
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Percy offers to help Jason with her e-shots. You know, like gal pals do.
Things escalate.
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Jason has two seconds to leave, but he's tired and sore and Percy is right there, and that's the thing that makes his decision for him.
The two seconds pass, and right on cue, Percy is lifting his head to lock eyes with Jason. The pissiness is immediate and all-consuming, contorting his face into proportions that would be comical if they didn't mean a lecture shouted Jason's way in the next five minutes or so. What the fuck, Percy mouths, and then he's storming over to the window and tugging it open. He wastes no time.
"Jason Peter," he starts. "What in the name of fuck is your goddamn problem?"
Jason laughs. He can't help it. Percy is here, a foot or so away from Jason's face, and his hair is falling into his eyes and his voice is falling into Jason's ears, and it's like the whole night has been worth it. It really is.
"I think I have a concussion," Jason says, because it's self-evident.
"Oh my fucking God," Percy mutters, dragging a hand down his face. Jason has a beat to feel guilty before Percy says, "Are you gonna have a concussion out on the fire escape or are you gonna do it inside?"
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Where does Jason go when he's scared or hurt or lonely?
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- Part 12 of night watch
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night watch by a_alene, Havenesc
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, The Penguin (US TV 2024)
11 Jan 2026
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local crime lord breaks bitchy paramedic's nose. what happens next will warm your heart!!
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crime matriarch and the dog she didn't want by a_alene, Havenesc
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), DCU, The Batman (Movie 2022), The Penguin (US TV 2024)
21 Sep 2025
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the au where jason is immortal and mentored by none other than THE sofia gigante
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birdie does jay todd week 2025 by a_alene
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days, The Batman (Movie 2022), The Penguin (US TV 2024)
12 Jan 2025
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what the title says
Prompts:
Day 1: Drive |Time Travel|The Batmobile Tires(the jason cannot fucking drive fic)
Day 2:Joker| Chronic Pain |Fear Toxin(the jason lives fic)
Day 3: Monster |Supernatural AU| League of Assassins (the jason vampire fic)
Day 4:Grave|Buried Alive| Immortal Jason Todd (the dick has to watch an immortal jason die and come back fic)
Day 5:Family|No Capes AU| Jason is a Literature Nerd (the jason gets into a fistfight over literature fic)
Day 6:Scars|Enemy to Caretaker| Red Hood and the Outlaws (the steph hangs with the outlaws fic)
Day 7:Return|Outsider POV|Crime AlleySub Prompt: Lifeline (the jason takes an attempted assassination personally fic)- Words:
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loosely connected series in which jason lives after ethopia, steph succeeds him as robin and tim is...around here. somewhere.
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dolly-verse fics by a_alene
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), DCU
24 Nov 2024
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gotham city senior dolores patton and the teenaged crime lord she hangs out with sometimes
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The destination he has in mind is unclear — unnamed, yet, more accurately. Jason doesn’t know where he’s going, or what he’s going to do when he gets there. A few hours’ drive just didn’t seem far enough to be away from the expanse of Gotham, not when Bristol itself rolled out several miles around the city proper, so he cranked it up a few hours. Chicago seemed like a far enough place away, until he got onto I-80 and a terror seized him as he remembered Dick had spent a brief stint as an officer in Chicago. So he kept driving west.
Keeps. Keeps driving west. Jason Todd has no idea where he’s going or no idea what he’s going to do when he gets there, but he knows with certainty three things:
Jason Todd is a wanted man.
Jason Todd is the Red Hood.
And Jason Todd absolutely cannot go back home.
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The one where Jason flees to Montana, hides from his family, and inadvertently finds another.
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09 Mar 2025
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The story of Bruce Wayne and his family as told by his insane Wayne Enterprises calendar and the poor assistant that had to manage it all.
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03 Sep 2023
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always sunny (in the rich man's world) by aloneintherain
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
20 May 2023
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Jon can barely see the delivery man behind the massive bouquet spilling out of his arms. He doesn’t know much about flowers, but he can tell this arrangement is beautiful. And expensive. Red and black wild flowers sprout up between thorny roses, held together by a dark ribbon.
“I think you have the wrong house,” Jon says.
The delivery man turns and checks the number on their mailbox. “Nope. This is it.”
Jon is just wondering whether he has to contact the Justice League about this would-be stalker when Kon thunders down the stairs. “They’re for me!”
(Or: The Kents and Waynes find out that Tim’s love language is gift giving.
Kon isn’t a sugar baby. Really, he isn’t. He isn’t.)
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03 Sep 2023
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Jason Todd is going to prove his worth to Bruce...if only Tim would stop tagging along.
(Or: Jason and Tim do some detective work, get (briefly) kidnapped, kick bad guy butt, stress out Bruce Wayne, try to blackmail Superman, become brothers, and try not to get grounded for life.
They achieve about fifty percent of their goals.)
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03 Sep 2023
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“So, let me get this straight,” Dick said, frowning, “You stole a car, kidnapped Tim, got in a high-speed chase, stole another car, fought a bunch of cartel members, and blew up a chop shop...all to get a minivan back?”
“First of all, Timothy was a willing participant,” Jason said, crossing his arms, “And when you put it like that, it sounds bad.”
“Jason, it sounds bad no matter how I put it!”