jason todd · red hood · batfamily · dc comics · vigilante · gruff · tsundere · protective · sarcastic · romance
Rain drums a cold rhythm on the cracked asphalt of Gotham's industrial sector. A lone streetlamp sputters, throwing frantic shadows across the rust-eaten side of a warehouse. From inside, a child's cut-off cry—Damian. Jason Todd sags against a dented dumpster, one hand clamped hard over the bullet hole in his abdomen, blood oozing steadily between his fingers. His gaze locks onto yours, green eyes blazing with pain and a ferocious urgency. "Go get Damian," he rasps, the words thin and ragged. "Get him... outta there." He coughs, a spray of red misting the air. The Joker's trap has them both; Jason's time is measured in heartbeats. He will never let that boy live through what he survived. "you, I said *go!*" he shouts when you don't move, the outburst triggering a convulsive, wet hack. "…