[Day 5 DPxDC Week: Jason Todd // Soulmate AU // Funeral Rites ]
โข Anger Management ship (Jasmine Fenton x Jason Todd) No relevant warnings beyond the usual DP stuff
Jazz has always had it the worst. Danny might have been the one to die but Jazz is the one who lost not only her soulmate, but her little brother too. It doesnโt matter that heโs still around, he knows the grief weighs on her sometimes. She overcompensates by being a massive mother hen and general pain in the neck but he tries not to get too upset with her about it.
With Dani with an โiโ fresh out of high school and Jazzโs birthday coming up soon, he wants to do something special. He spends a lot of time bribing Ghost Writer in order to research his idea out.
Itโs probably the most time and effort heโs put into a project that wasnโt about space.
Proposing the idea to her is the one big thing this all hinges on. Heโs not 100% sure sheโll be on board with this but heโd like to try.
And trying is what kicks off the first part of his plan. Itโs a little awkward to bring up the fact that he doesnโt have a grave and would like one. Itโs almost physically painful to see the grief it brings to Jazzโs eyes. She tries to hide it but Danny has always been able to read her better than he lets on. Itโs part of the process though. He needs her to see how this goes and feels. How itโs a celebration of life and honoring those who have passed and not just a somber reminder to the living of what theyโve lost. He needs her to see what it means to him. And what it would mean to her soulmate.
He makes the grave marker of course. Theyโre not about to buy one when he has the strength and abilities to carve it out himself. He makes sure that itโs vague unless you know him. No names, no identifying markers like age or dates. Itโs simple and meaningful for him.
{May he rest here between walks among the stars, our friend and brother beloved}
From there itโs pretty much all fun and games. Literally.
Same brings the games while she has Tucker pack out the food. Itโs a combination of some of Grandma Idaโs homemade desserts and various junk foods. Even Tucker brings some cookies his mom helped him figure out how to make.
Jazz is in charge of the drinks while Danny and Dani handled all the decorating. Itโs a combination of solidified ectoplasm, his ice, and various flowers theyโve gathered and strung together in a flower chain.
Itโs a smashing success and he sees something in Jazz release. Some niggling worry or grief she carried that is no longer there.
Now, he decides, itโs time for part two.
What throws part two for a loop is when Dani with an โiโ brings up that sheโd like a grave and proper funeral rites as well.
Itโs not a setback. Definitely not when he sees how much more relaxed and content Jazz is at Dani with an iโs wake.
Itโs only a couple days from her birthday when he brings it up. The funeral practices for soulmates are as varied as they are sacred. He proposes her options via a PowerPoint he put far too many hours into.
By the time he finishes rambling, sheโs got this sort of startled look on her face.
He twists his shirt in his hands as he stands awaiting her judgement. The longer sheโs silent, the more convinced Danny is that sheโll reject the whole thing and not talk to him for a month.
Okay, maybe a week but still a week is a long time.
Suddenly Jazz is crying and oh ancients heโs really messed up this time. Sheโs not even mad just straight up upset by his offer.
But then sheโs hugging him, telling him she loves him, and thanking him.
Itโs not as hard as Danny feared to actually track down the location of a Jason Todd who died before Jazz reached 16 (she never wanted to look him up before, didnโt want to know what she was missing) and the day before her 25th birthday Danny, Dani, and Jazz all pile into her little car to make the drive to Gotham, homemade foods in tow.
Danny and Dani made sure to swipe one of Vladโs special rich dude credit cards to fund their trip and the stop at multiple flower shops to get enough flowers to make flower chains and crowns for all of them.
Itโs closing in on evening, the day of Jazzโs birthday when they finally roll up and upload everything. They didnโt bring any lights, but none of them really need much light to see for eating food and drinking sodas. Jazz brought some jasmine tea and an extra cup to place on Jasonโs grave. They make a funky, dark evening of it, but finally Jazz grows more somber and keeps taking long looks at the gravestone so Danny and Dani decide to make themselves scarce.
Theyโre about halfway across the cemetery when out of the shadows steps the looming menace of Red Hood.
โThe fuck are you doing at that grave?โ
Itโs not his voice or his tone, but the sub vocal ghost speak that makes Danny and Dani freeze up ramrod straight.
Thatโs a revenant and theyโre trespassing on his resting place without permission.
So of course like any sane person, Danny says something stupid. But he just canโt believe out of all the ridiculous coincidences to exist in the world, that Jazzโs soulmate is undead like him seems just too far to believe.
Almost late despite having the day off work bc I had to go shopping and bc of where I live, shopping is essentially a full day affair. This is shorter than Iโd like it but I also kinda enjoy where it ends XD imagine their next moments however you please or feel free to add onto this.
