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"𝑴𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒈𝒖𝒚 𝑰 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒗𝒂𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏"

Damian: it's just a night or two, and it's not like Father doesn't have spare bedrooms available. Jason: that's not the issue, the issue is that i don't want them to fucking know i'm here. Damian: ok so i'll distract them and you can sneak in the back entrance. Jason, flatly: you want me to sneak into my old house to spend the night, when everybody thinks i'm dead and i want it to stay that way? Damian: i'm just saying that his long lost blood son showing up is a good distraction, and it IS a big manor. i'll bet you anything that i could keep you hidden in there for as long as you needed. Jason: you fucking could not. Damian: i could. Jason: could not. Damian: i could and i'll bet fifty dollars on it. Jason: Jason: Jason: alright.

Damian ends up keeping Jason hidden in Bruce's own house like a kid trying to hide a puppy they found on the street in the back of their closet. he's sneaking Jason food and building him a little hidey-hole in the attic above his bedroom and literally nobody else in the manor has a single fucking clue. Jason already knows all the hidey-holes and secret passages from when he lived there anyway, so it turns out not to be as hard as he thought.

to be clear, he still becomes the Red Hood. he's not spending every second in the manor; he's sneaking in and out on a daily basis while he sets up a rulership in Crime Alley. it gets to the point where he fully has his own apartment that he could move into at any point, but he and Damian are being so stubborn about this bet that he's just staying at the manor anyway to prove that eventually they'll figure it out. plus it's starting to get really fucking funny because he's started playing ominous ghost sounds in the ceiling above Tim's room and the poor guy fully thinks he's being haunted by his predecessor's ghost. a fact which is almost correct.

the only thing that's frustrating the hell out of Jason is the fact that after every single interaction with the bats, no matter how exhausted he is from working all night, he has to watch Bruce drive the others right back home while he waits and then has to walk back by himself. eventually there's an arkham breakout and it's so bad that the bats are readily accepting Hood's help with dealing with it and it takes so fucking long to sort everything out that when it's finally over and they're ready to 'go their separate ways', Jason is so genuinely dead on his feet/in pain and need of sleep that he stops caring about everything. Bruce tells the bats to get in the batmobile and Jason just trudges over and slides in next to Tim.

everybody freezes and. straight does not know how to respond. Jason's just half-asleep already leaning his head against the window, and Bruce eventually has to clear his throat and ask like "...would you like a ride home, Hood?" and Jason just grunts.

"where do you live?"

"Wayne Manor," Jason mumbles, barely conscious. the bats all bluescreen apart from Damian who is so resigned to his big brother's idiocy at this point that he just tells them to take him back to the cave with them.

"just- just bring him. look at him. what trouble is he going to cause? he's tired, Father. let him rest."

Bruce is... so confused. and so concerned. but if Hood's injured then what harm is there in letting him get checked over and sleep the worst off in the batcave medical suite? he did help out a lot that night, after all. except when they get to the cave Bruce and Dick start preparing to carry the asleep Red Hood onto a medical bed when Damian just kicks him in the ribs and says 'we're home', and they watch in baffled fucking silence as Hood wakes up, blearily blinks while he takes in his surroundings, and then gets up to start trudging straight up and into the manor.

the others can do nothing but watch in quiet disbelief as Hood proceeds to go through the manor like he truly knows it, gets to Damian's bedroom, and then sleepily climbs up through a secret passage in the ceiling that, when Bruce pokes his head into, reveals a fully renovated bedroom filled with the Red Hood's gear and personal possessions. Hood flops down onto the bed and passes out immediately. Damian just bids Hood a good night and calmly closes the opening behind him, before turning to face the incredulous faces of his entire family staring at him like he's a fucking alien. he narrows his eyes.

"we will talk about it. tomorrow."

"Damian-"

"we are all tired." Damian determines. "for now, let him sleep."

"IN OUR HOUSE-"

"WE WILL DISCUSS THIS TOMORROW."

the next morning Jason wakes up at like. noon. and remembers the night before. and he crawls down into Damian's room to nudge him awake and firmly tell him 'i am not giving you fifty dollars'.

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i decided to just finish it today, at last.

The main story is over, Alastor is free from Vox, Vox is suffering for what he did, dut the trauma won't go away easily. Long-long years of coping and recovery are ahead, and Alastor will have to face his feelings much more than he would like lol. Yeah i have few comics planned that are going to show his recovery, few scenes that i may even write as a fic, not as a comic, because it focused more on feelings, and texts are better at conveying that and allowing to actually feel what the character is feeling.

The main story is over, but i still have some additional parts that are just as much canon, i just decided not to include them right now, because i was noticing that some people were getting tired from the story, especially from Alastor's sufferings not ening (because the depressing part actually took much longer than it really should have, in like phasing, but i've already took out everything i could to not hurt the narrative too much and make that part of the story have reasonable lengh). Moments, that were taken out, don't have much importance to the plot, but they show more of what Alastor and Vox's relationships were specifically during the year they've "dated".

Plus some scenes from the first year of their deal, before everything went downhill. And a scene where they talk after The canon bar scene, but i actually want to do something... special with it. You really don't wanna miss it, so, stay tuned.

Alright, now! time for a test!

I decided to go against my better judgement and post it as it is lol. Disclaimer, i do not agree with Alastor on what you should do to yourself, and if you are having such thoughts, please, seek help.

I'm unsure about his future design yet, maybe it'll change. Also, look at him, he's educated now :'3

And yes, i have some ideas about how canon events are gonna go without Vox. First season isn't gonna change lol, but season 2... Velvette may have to take the spot there.

And, of course, i have some ideas about Alastor and Angel interactions! Obviously.

173 pages in 3 months... and the first draft had only 65 pages by the way!!!!!! I thought i'd be done with it in one month AND I WOULD HAVE, but i just kept coming up with more pages, more scenes, partially from the questions that were appearing in the comments, partially because i wanted to expend some secnes (like in the first draft nothing existed between first 3 pages of part 8 and last 3 pages of part 13. And then between last pages of part 13 and last 2 pages of part 20... and many other scenes.)

But for now, thank you, everyone, who have read (I MEAN ACTUALLY READ) the comic, left comments and shared your emotions. This was overall a wonderful experience for me, and i'm really glad to know, that comic did exactly what i was creating it for: helped some SA victims to process their feelings, share them freely and feel support. Also, gave more visibility to sex-repulsed aces, which wasn't planned from the start, but was a natural thing to happen.

This comic gave me SO MUCH attention, that i've never had before, even in the best days of my first era. And i don't know how i'm going to live without 100500 comments appearing just in the first hour, ATTENTION IS SUCH A DRUG GUYS, I'M REALLY ADDICTED!!!!!! PLEASE FEED ME.

I'm probably going to take a little break. In a couple of days i'm going to be reblogging all the stuff that people were making inspired by this comic (and not only) haha, there is some really good stuff! Basically (almost) everything where i was tagged.

And after that I'll continue with Breakfast or RotRD (i maybe even post a poll to decide which one to do first). And after that back to some sweet angsty radiosilence in Forced Broadcast. And of course i'll be posting for other AUs, like Blinded and Turned humans sometimes when i have the mood... and some other stuff... yeah.

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STRONGLY RECOMMEND TO TURN ON THIS MUSIC RIGHT HERE!!! (if you can't open youtube it's Rain World OST - Efflorescence)

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I SACRIFICED MY SLEEP BEFORE JOB TO FINISH AND POST THIS TODAY INSTEAD OF TOMORROW!!!!!!! I hope you see WHY it took to long tho (if we don't count my fucked up sleep schedule).

As i said before, Vox's dellusions protected HIM from the truth... and the truth quite literally destroyed his very soul.

Just one part left, it's not going to take long... and we're done... Well, there are of course additional scenes, and Alastor's recovery, but not right now. I think we all need to take a break from this.

If i hear one more comment about them SOMEHOW mending things and Al falling in love... i'm getting my shotgun. I don't have one, but i'll get it.

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