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Captain Marvel has had a long day, which turned into a long night, so sue him if he decides to hang around the watchtower instead of in his usual hideouts. It was around four in the morning which meant it was too late for most night-owls and too early for most of the early risers.
Usually when Cap was up at this time (which happens quite often) the tower was pretty much abandoned, so he didn't even look around before making himself some coffee. Billy wasn't a big fan of the stuff but he needed a quick pick me up so coffee it was.
"Would you make me a cup while you're at it?" The tired voice startled Cap to the point that it took him longer then usual too connect the voice to the recently returned Robin. Which totally didn't fill him with nerves, I mean it's just a guy who's been trained by /the/ Batman and also has no qualms about killing.
He decided a verbal response wouldn't be necessary but the Champion of magic did take a moment to observe the vigilante.
Jason seemed older than he does most days and ragged, more so then usual, and was staring at the table as if it had personally offended him. His clothes were a mess and his eyes were a little red, almost like he'd been- nope. Billy immediately ditched that train of thought, the murderous Red Hood crying? No way.
Now that both cups were full (just by looking at the bird Billy could tell he wanted straight black coffee) Cap decided it would seem weird to move away from Jason so even though Billy was kind of scared of the man he sat across from him.
They sat in silence for a few minutes, causing Billy to regret his decision and Jason to nearly chug all of the coffee. Billy had almost decided to abandon the coffee and get out of the tense room when Jason started speaking.
"I suppose you're going to ask what I'm doing up here?" The Captain was pretty confused by this till he remembered he was supposed to be the adult in the situation and a teen up at four in the morning looking like trash was probably concerning.
"Oh-uh Do you want me too?" Billy inwardly began to curse himself, how awkward can he make it? Instead of laughing at the Captain, Red Hood seemed to consider the offer. Whatever was on his mind must have been important.
Jason seemed to stare into Cap's soul before saying, "Damn, you are as weird as they say." The first thing Billy thought was to ask who was talking about him but was cut off by Jason continuing the conversation.
"What the hell, Dick said you were pretty good at advice or whatever so here we go." Once again Billy was panicking, how the hell do you give advice to /the/ Red Hood. It was too late to back out now as Jason seemed to have made up his mind about telling Cap about whatever was going on.
"Look, you know how I died and came back under weird circumstances?" Jason received a nod from Billy, even though Batman had tried to keep it under wraps rumors had spread.
"Well, I came back through these things called the Lazarus Pits and-" the teenager didn't get a chance to finish before being cut off by a gasp.
"The Pits?! I've heard of those that's crazy, to be honest I thought they were a myth, but- wait a minute don't they make you go a little, you know, rage-y when you use them?"
Almost immediately after the words had left his mouth Marvel clapped his hand over his mouth and started apologizing, but Jason cut him off, "Yeah, those are the ones and yeah that's the problem. Bruce just doesn't seem to understand that I can't control the anger sometimes"
He took a second to finish his coffee before continuing, "Like I don't want to hate the new kid, honestly Tim's pretty cool, but sometimes I look at him and all I can see is red, you know" Cap nodded even though he didn't really get it.
"Does Batman know about the anger part of the whole resurrection thing?" He waited till he got a shake of the head from Jason before continuing, "Why don't you tell him?"
Jason seemed even more upset at this, "It's not that easy! I try but whenever I bring it up he turns into this stone wall and refuses to talk about anything." Billy could see how hard that would be to get around.
It was silent for a minute, while Billy contemplated. The older of the two seemed to get antsier the longer it was quiet.
"Ah-ha!" The Captain's outburst startled Red Hood to the point that he almost dropped his empty coffee cup, "If Batman shuts off when you talk too him, then I'll talk to him!"
Billy was feeling pretty proud of himself until he noticed Jason staring at him as though he had lost his mind.
"Are you serious? Bruce won't even talk to me, his so -his ex-robin , what makes you think he'll talk to you?"
"Oh no, I won't actually talk to him, that man scares the crap out of me. No, I'll talk to somebody else, who doesn't look like they want to kill me while he's in the room. It'll work, he's constantly easedropping on me trying go figure out who I am."
Jason appeared to be impressed by the Captain's plan, "That might just work, but who could you talk to without it being out of place?"
"Diana, she enjoys talking about magic. Trust me, man, this will work." It was silent for a while after that, but not nearly as awkward as before. It still wasn't long before Billy was making up an excuse to leave though.
And if the Bat walk in on a strange conversation about the side effects of the Lazurus Pits, causing him to be much more understanding of his sons behavior, well it's just one child superhero helping another.