Black Sheep final part
CTitle: Black sheep stick together.:
By Cat_13145
Pairings: Jason Todd, Roy Harper
Rating PG13, don't think there's anything too bad, but better to be safe.
Author's Notes: I did mention I wrote this before Reboot right? and that it completely ignores Reboot?
FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T GUESSED, SPOILERS FOR ARSENAL RISE AND FALL.
Summary: What if Jason had found Roy and the cat instead of Dick?
Chapter 5
“Told you she’d be back Harper.” Jason called over the roar of the Bat mobile.
Roy didn’t bother to tell Jason that there were no guarantees. That Lian could still be dead.
Dick had emphasised that enough back at Babs.
He also didn’t bother pointing out that Lian hadn’t technically being dead either. Dick had started to do that, until Oracle had fixed him with her glare (which Roy was sure could have given Bruce Wayne a run for his money) and basically told him to shut up.
Once Dick had realised the mistake (accident), he’d check the dead. No unclaimed bodies in Lian’s age range, so either someone else had made a mistake, or they hadn’t found her. Damian had apparently confirmed that of the nineteen other children in the age range correct for Lian there were only three bodies that fit the rough description.
Samples were obtained (and that is something he really didn’t want to think about the how, especially as he’s fairly certain he saw a shovel in the Bat mobile trunk) and tested. All the other children were correct.
That just left the living. Nearly 21 unclaimed children, again of the right age and race. Dick, it turned out, hadn’t been completely worthless during those weeks. Just busy.
He’d eventually narrowed down their Lians to just one. Right age, right ethnicity, and suffering from head injuries that had left her in a medically induced coma until they were more stable.
He hadn’t dared run the tests until...the combined force of three Bat glares (and Roy wasn’t sure if he should be worried Damian was on his side or not) forced Dick not to finish that sentence, not that it really made any difference.
Without Jason interference, Roy almost certainly wouldn’t have been in a fit condition, and he hopes some (no names mentioned) remembers that.
He’s certainly going to give Lian a chance to get to know her “Uncle Jason”. If it’s Lian.
But one glance at that small, fragile looking body lying in the big hospital bed is enough. He doesn’t need batman’s test to tell him what he knows.
This is his daughter. This is Lian Harper.
A fact that she confirms by opening her eyes when he calls her name.
“Daddy?”
The End