'Can't breathe. Maybe I'm already dead.. I was buried, wasn't I? Gotta be dead. I'm supposed to be dead. forgotten, gonna try and kill Tim.. Gonna go nuts..'Jason is clawing his way out of his coffin. His upper chest is out, his hands scrabbling at the dirt. It's falling into the space he's leaving behind, and starting to wedge him in. In the back
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"There!"
God, and there it is, the Name. No, he's not going to forget it any time soon.
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"... HEEEEY!"
Can they hear him through the dirt?
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"Jason!" Tim starts again at the dim noise from below. "Holy fuck," he says, to himself, eyes wide. "Hang in there!" God, what an asinine thing to say. But he just tries to dig faster.
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He can hear shovels. That means he should probably wedge his hand and arm back down before...
*SMACK* "GAH!"
The good thing is that Jason's got an air hole now. The fact that he got it by catching an edge of the shovel on his palm, er, not so good. He pulls his arm all the way down the way it had come in, and takes in a great lungful of air, coughing and choking.
"Ohgod... ohgod... ohgod.. If you're the Joker up there, you'd be... better be careful. I'm a lit-lit-little crazy and not afraid to use it."
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"It's us, Jason, it's Tim...s," he shoots a guilty look over his shoulder at Robin. "Both of us. Hold on, watch your head..." He scrambles up to help Robin.
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With the dirt off, he's able to push the broken casket lid up and away - without the mask and Robin outfit (Yes, they put him in a nice dress suit, gah), he looks a lot less adult or imposing than he normally would. His hands are a mess, the nails pretty much all gone, and his face and neck are caked with dirt.
"... Hi. I'm Jason Todd. And I'm a fucking idiot for not telling you guys my name beforehand. How the hell did I end up in this thing?"
He's trying to stay angry - angry means he doesn't freak out.
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"Everything was fucked up. People kept -- changing, disappearing ..." Lame explanation, but he's given up trying to understand the Nexus. "Someone lost their baby." He bites his lower lip.
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"The changes were stranger then normal."
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"Geezus. That place loves to fuck people over, doesn't it."
He'll hold still for bandaging, and when one hand is done, it's going over Tim. Er, that Tim. Hell, either of 'em.
For support. Er, physical, and maybe moral and mental.
"Did you two get through it alright?"
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"I -- yeah," he sounds miserable about the fact. "How long --" he shakes his head at himself. "Probably no idea. Where should we...?"
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Ugh. Yeah, he had to look up, see 'Jason Todd, A Good Soldier' Pretty easy to tell who paid for that tombstone.
"... I think my welcome here wore out." He doesn't know how much either of the other two know about what's supposed to happen. But it won't be the same for him, damnit. It /won't/.
"Let's... Let's go. I just need a hot shower and something to /do/ and I'll be cool."
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"Anything you need."
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