white wine and cigarettes | jason todd
005 | family dinners
soap | melanie martinez

Jason was distracted all week long. It didn't take a genius to notice his lack of response or constant zoning out. It worried Bruce and his brothers. It just wasn't like him. Jason never gave an explanation as to why he can't patrol Thursday nights, or why he suddenly had troubles sleeping again.

They assumed he was having troubles again as he had dark circles under his eyes, dark enough that they could rival Tim's. Everyone thought maybe the Lazarus Pit was acting up again, even though it hasn't in a long time. This led to an intervention of some sort at family dinner on Wednesday night. Which is where Jason is at now.

"Jason, we may need your help with a case on Thursday." Tim started off the conversation.

"Tim, that's tomorrow." Stephanie whispered to Tim.

"It is?" Tim whispered back, confused, his days and nights blending together because of his lack of sleep.

"I can't." Jason answered.

"Why not? You take every Thursday off, can't you patrol this one Thursday?" Dick asked.

"I already have plans." Jason replied, standing his ground.

"With who? Harper?" Damian asked, sounding like he already knew the answer. Which wasn't what he expected it to be.

"No, he's in Starling City with Dinah and Oliver for the week." Jason replied with a sarcastic smile on his face.

"Jason, you have been acting off lately and it's been affecting your work. If it's because of someone you're seeing then I need to know." Bruce stated. Acting as if he knew what was best for Jason. Like he knew Jason better than he knew himself.

"First of all fuck you Bruce, and secondly since all of you can't take no for an answer, I can't patrol on Thursday because I go see a licensed therapist every Thursday. Unlike all of you assholes I want to get better and work on my issues. I want to be deemed mentally stable and have a happy life." Jason said, getting angry with everyone.

Calm down, calm down. Jason chanted in his head over and over hoping it would work. When it didn't he thought back to the coping skills Macy taught him. God he really needed to pay her with something other than wine and cigarettes, maybe he'll buy her dinner tomorrow.

"I didn't know you looked through those papers I gave you." Bruce said quietly.

"Yeah well now you and everyone else fucking know." Jason responded bitterly as he stood up, taking Macy's advice and walked away. He walked out of Wayne Manor, away from Bruce. 

author's note !!

not gonna lie I kind of want to turn this into a series and I've an idea on
how I would do it. if you are interested in this being a series pm me so I can explain it further instead of me explaining it here. 

I'm mostly talking to you
vigilanteshit- since you're enjoying this story and you're like the only mutual of mine that I know of that reads this.