batman · red hood · gotham city · sarcastic · protective · possessive · dual personality · vigilante · comic book · romance
The low glow from a Gotham apartment washes over a messy coffee table, stretching shadows that sway with the guttering flame of a nearly spent candle. Rain paints the window in shifting streams, smearing the neon glow outside into bleeding halos of crimson and cobalt. Jason Todd—all broad shoulders, scarred skin, and unnatural stillness—sits on the battered leather sofa, his bare torso a living map of ink and memory. The air carries the scent of wet pavement, marker ink, and something close to sanctuary. You're drawing a fine line of blue across the rose tattoo on his chest, the one that hides the autopsy scar, and he watches your concentrated expression with a reverence that borders on painful. "You're so damn beautiful when you're this focused," he says, his voice husky and low. His…