road trip existentialism, chapter 2 by beemotionpicture
"You could've made a web search instead of texting me, you know," Dick says over the phone, unfairly chipper.
Jason glares at the view outside the plane's window. "You could've just texted back," he says petulantly.
"But why? You messaged me." Here comes Dick Grayson with his faultlessly illogical logic, the good older brother who makes sure to answer the phone when there are little to no stakes, only to be missing whenever Jason really needs his help.
Jason ignores him. "That was a conversation starter, not an open invitation to waste airtime."
"We're gonna have to workshop that before you ever decide to go speed dating," Dick quips.
Jason gives an emphatic, "Fuck you."
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road trip existentialism, chapter 1 by beemotionpicture
"You've got to be kidding me," Jason says bluntly, stuttering to a halt.
Bruce stares back at him with expressionless placidity. Dressed in a Brioni suit (one that costs enough to buy a month's worth of groceries), with his sleek TUMI attaché set atop a matching suitcase, Bruce is looking particularly punchable today.
Jason's feeling kind of punchable himself, considering that he'd recognized those brands on sight.
He resists the urge to groan at how unbearable the next few hours will be. And that's… The next fourteen hours.
Because this is going to be a fourteen-hour flight, just him and Bruce.
Well, fuck him.
Lex gives off vibes like. He has a stray thought of superman and it just makes him sick to his stomach. So viscerally disgusted and upset with himself for the cognitive distortion. Triggered by his own mind. He cannot help it
Bruce:
Before he knows it, April 27th has come yet again. It's surreal, the thought that today is just like any other to the people of Gotham, when to Bruce the mere date is enough to expose the deep cavern in his chest that's never seemed to go away.
Jason:
It's strange to think a year's passed since he's gotten his life together. He owes everything to the Thomas Wayne Foundation: the hospital bills from his time at West Mercy, his new job at the library, even the clothes on his back. He tells himself, this is enough, that he doesn't need his memories back, but the ache never goes away.
There's no mending a wishbone once you've lost, but the same can't be said about family.
tags: family, amnesia, Bruce Wayne is a good parent, Jason Todd returns home, he's lost but in a different way, so is Bruce, protective Bruce Wayne, amnesiac Jason Todd, trauma, drama, identity shenanigans, all the fun stuff
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"Jason," Bruce begins slowly, like he's talking to a wounded animal. Jason isn't fragile. "I know you must be confused right now—"
"I'm not confused," Jason says through gritted teeth.
Bruce shuts up, though; he always does whenever Jason is speaking, because apparently he cares about what Jason has to say. And in this moment, Jason has a lot of cruel and petty things he wants to say.
"I'm angry," is what he ends up crying out in one rush of breath.
At you, he doesn't say. At myself, is what he actually means.
"It's okay to be feeling this way. You are allowed to be angry, Jason," come the platitudes, frustratingly useless; come the reassurances, endlessly validating. It soothes him; it scares him.
Jason doesn't want to hurt Bruce. Jason doesn't want to be hurt by Bruce.
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“Are you in trouble?” Steve asked again.
His voice was quiet, barely there. “No.”
Steve looked at him. At the dark bags beneath his eyes, at his dirty hair, the sweatshirt he’d been wearing since Steve had first seen him. There was a hole in the left cuff.
It was none of his business.
“Is there anyone I can call for you? Is anyone looking for you? There are phones you can use.”
“No. I’m—” He stopped and looked at the door. His eyebrows furrowed. “I’m looking.”
“Looking for what?” If Steve could help in any way, he would.
James looked at him again. It was the first time he’d fully met Steve’s gaze. “Myself.”
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“It’s not like you to prevaricate, Romanov.”
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A. There's a woman in front of him, and it's a race against time to save her. Jason doesn't know her at all, but he really wishes that he did. There's a man above him who won't stop h-hurting him, even when he cries and cries and cries. Jason counts down from sixty and just prays for the pain to end.
B. There's a woman behind him, and with every step he takes it gets harder and harder to stay out of reach. Jason's not afraid of her, but he thinks maybe he should be. There's a man who loves him but he's so far away—too far away to hear when he says I love you too. And Jason waits and waits but the man never comes to say it back.
A or B, which hurts more?
sup! I came from your fic just wanna say it’s beloved <3 we need more amnesiac Jason in our lives.
WAHH THANK YOU FOR THE FOLLOW ANON i'm so glad you're enjoying my silly little fic! I really enjoy amnesia fics AND jason returns home fics so this was the cliche i absolutely needed to write 💗💗💗
here's the fic for those who haven't read it yet, hope you give it a read! (copy pasting the masterlist, which i'll update with chapter six in a bit!)
of wishbones by beemotionpicture
Bruce:
Before he knows it, April 27th has come yet again. It's surreal, the thought that today is just like any other to the people of Gotham, when to Bruce the mere date is enough to expose the deep cavern in his chest that's never seemed to go away.
Jason:
It's strange to think a year's passed since he's gotten his life together. He owes everything to the Thomas Wayne Foundation: the hospital bills from his time at West Mercy, his new job at the library, even the clothes on his back. He tells himself, this is enough, that he doesn't need his memories back, but the ache never goes away.
There's no mending a wishbone once you've lost, but the same can't be said about family.
FOUND family??? you think i just found them like this??? babes this is FORGED family. Me & the bros were scrap metal in a junkyard (very valuable, very sharp, very dangerous, uncared for) and we GOT IN THE FUCKING FIRE TOGETHER. WE did this. we said I AM NOT LEAVING YOU and melted into each other for better or for worse (it’s for better) and we are A FUNCTIONAL UNIT now. DO NOT SEPARATE. BATTERIES FUCKING INCLUDED. FOUND family my ass, we built this non-nuclear family unit from the ground up, don’t devalue this!!! it was is and will be a labour of love!!!
Shazam has a Twitter and everything he posts is just straight up lies but nobody can figure out if he has a super weird life or if he’s messing with all of them (it’s both)
Shazam: to answer everybody’s questions: no I’m not kryptonian. I’m actually a mutated orangutan who is functionally a human except for the fact that I’m an orangutan. The fact that I look like Superman is a coincidence. Hope this clears things up!
Shazam: did you know that while shrimp here have more color receptors than humans, in an alternate universe where shrimp gained the power of teleportation they devolved into only seeing black and white because teleporting makes you see those psychedelic color swirls?
You know what I bet billy uses this to sometimes actually talks about his actual situation, and since everyone figures he is joking he just vents, of course he will sprinkle in some lies just to throw them off their scent but still
Shazam: Today I couldn't find a warm place to sleep and had to sleep on the park bench which was awful cause the trees were being assholes again, I swear, you interrupt one gnome weeding and suddenly all nature hates you
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Bruce Wayne's son had died three and a half months before his 16th birthday. He'd been 5'3", short for his age, but the pictures from various galas had made him look fierce and strong. A spitfire. Larger than life.
He is none of that.
Jason is prickly. He's ugly, from his crooked bones, to the white streak growing from the scar at his hairline, to that godforsaken why carved onto his chest. To the fucking emptiness and rage that have him screaming himself hoarse most nights.
He's broken.
So Jason knows. He knows that this couldn't possibly be true.
He is not Bruce Wayne's son.
