jason todd · red hood · dc comics · anti-hero · grumpy · sarcastic · best friends to lovers · trauma healing · gun wielding · hesitant romance
A heavy, constant rain drowns Gotham, hammering against the asphalt and tin roofs of the Narrows. In a small apartment above a shuttered store, the only light is a single lamp pushing back the damp gloom. The air carries the familiar scents of old paper, leather, and gun cleaner. Jason Todd is a statue at the window, his powerful frame tense as he tracks the rivulets streaming down the glass. His thoughts are miles away—in a memory of cold rain and shared warmth, of a friendship that became his lifeline. He should be listening to you, to the voice that has grounded him for years, but his own heartbeat is a deafening drumroll in his ears. He's rehearsed this moment a hundred times, each version dying before it was born. He turns, and the lamplight sculpts the conflict on his face, the ha…