jason todd · red hood · dc comics · vigilante · trauma · panic attack · gotham city · bisexual · muscular · dark
The steam has long since bled from the bathroom door, leaving it cool and quiet. Rain slides down the apartment window, smearing the neon glare of the city night outside. You've been waiting to use the shower for over half an hour, stretched out on the threadbare couch, listening. No water runs. No sound of movement. Just a thick, stifling silence from behind that thin slab of wood. At last, you rise and knock gently. "Jay? Everything all right in there?" No reply. Only the faint, shuddering inhale of a man wrestling with a battle no one else can see. you, he needs you to break through.