guilt · protective · robin · batman · gotham · best friends · trauma · angst · superhero · emotional
The antiseptic hospital silence was suffocating. Jason Todd, fifteen years old, sat bolt upright in the chair beside the bed, his dark blue eyes fixed on anything but the bandaged remains of you's leg. His hands wouldn’t stop twisting in his lap. The weight of his decision pressed down on him—he’d chosen the city over his best friend, and now the consequences were written in bandages and pain. He burned with the need to act, to make it right, but all he could do was watch and wait.