fic: The Other World (Barbara, Jason, AU, R)
Title/Description: The Other World
Creator: modestroad
Claim: Barbara Gordon
Characters/Pairing: Barbara, Jason Todd
Rating: R
Prompt: #6 Protect
Author's Notes/Warnings: Un'betad. For shiny_glor_chan but I'm not sure she got what she had asked for. She asked for 'Jason Todd/Barbara Gordon, magic'd to a world where Babs is both Oracle and Batgirl' and she got this instead. AU.
She had caught him trying to steal her tires.
At first Jay thought that he was fucked up. She was Batgirl and Batgirl was the law in Gotham. He didn’t mind; jail meant food and a warm place to sleep. Instead she asked him to follow her and he did.
She was Batgirl and rumors on the street were she knew everything. Jay of course didn’t believe that; if she knew everything then why she didn’t help him when he played tricks with older dudes? She didn’t know everything and she didn’t know him! But he followed her because he was hungry and she looked scary in that costume.
Batgirl didn’t like to talk much. She said something to some Oracle dude when they left the alley and that was it. She didn’t ask him his name, his age or why he was on the streets instead of somewhere nice. Jay didn’t like the silence; the silent johns were the tougher.
“You wanna fuck me?” He asked gathering all his bravado.
More silence. “No.”
Jay bit his lips; he knew when a john was lying and she wasn’t lying.
“So what you want to do with me?”
“I’m going to give you a choice, Jason.”
The alarm bell in his head? Yeah, rang like crazy!
“How you know my name?”
She pointed a screen Jay never have notice before. Green numbers, lots of them; ones and zeros in line. It was a code or something. Jason wasn’t very good with numbers. His high school teacher used to call him ‘dumb’ in front of all the class making the blood boil in Jay’s body.
“I know everything,” Batgirl said and Jason couldn’t hold it anymore.
“Bullshit! Where were you when my dad was hitting me? Where were you when I fucked this old guy for $20? You know shit, you hear me? You. Know. Shit!”
Batgirl hit the breaks so fast that if Jason hadn’t put his seatbelt he would be flying to the street.
“I’m willing to learn if you’re willing to teach me.”
And that was the least Jason expected to hear.
14 months later
“You didn’t have to do this, you didn’t have to take the bullet for me,” Jason is angry, but he’s more worried of the gun wound in her shoulder. Barbara must be serious hurt; she let him drive the car and she never lets him drive the car.
“Yes, I did,” her voice is steady, but Jay knows when she’s angry or in pain and right now she’s in pain. And it’s all his fault. If he only had listen to her she wouldn’t be hurt and he wouldn’t be driving like a maniac.
Barbara had warned him to wait for backup; in fact she had state that she was only six minutes behind. Jay hadn’t listen to her and stormed inside. He wanted action and Babs was all about numbers and information and strategic moves and waiting.
Jason couldn’t wait; he is sixteen and thinks he can rule the world. Now he understands that’s something he’ll never do because the world belongs to her and he’s okay with that.
“Babs?” She doesn’t answer right away and for a second he’s scarred shitless.
“Yes, Robin?”
“The things you do, with the computers and stuff, being Batgirl and knowing everything, how does it feel?”
She chuckles and he stares at her; Batgirl never chuckles.
“The gun wound? It hurt less.”
Creator: modestroad
Claim: Barbara Gordon
Characters/Pairing: Barbara, Jason Todd
Rating: R
Prompt: #6 Protect
Author's Notes/Warnings: Un'betad. For shiny_glor_chan but I'm not sure she got what she had asked for. She asked for 'Jason Todd/Barbara Gordon, magic'd to a world where Babs is both Oracle and Batgirl' and she got this instead. AU.
She had caught him trying to steal her tires.
At first Jay thought that he was fucked up. She was Batgirl and Batgirl was the law in Gotham. He didn’t mind; jail meant food and a warm place to sleep. Instead she asked him to follow her and he did.
She was Batgirl and rumors on the street were she knew everything. Jay of course didn’t believe that; if she knew everything then why she didn’t help him when he played tricks with older dudes? She didn’t know everything and she didn’t know him! But he followed her because he was hungry and she looked scary in that costume.
Batgirl didn’t like to talk much. She said something to some Oracle dude when they left the alley and that was it. She didn’t ask him his name, his age or why he was on the streets instead of somewhere nice. Jay didn’t like the silence; the silent johns were the tougher.
“You wanna fuck me?” He asked gathering all his bravado.
More silence. “No.”
Jay bit his lips; he knew when a john was lying and she wasn’t lying.
“So what you want to do with me?”
“I’m going to give you a choice, Jason.”
The alarm bell in his head? Yeah, rang like crazy!
“How you know my name?”
She pointed a screen Jay never have notice before. Green numbers, lots of them; ones and zeros in line. It was a code or something. Jason wasn’t very good with numbers. His high school teacher used to call him ‘dumb’ in front of all the class making the blood boil in Jay’s body.
“I know everything,” Batgirl said and Jason couldn’t hold it anymore.
“Bullshit! Where were you when my dad was hitting me? Where were you when I fucked this old guy for $20? You know shit, you hear me? You. Know. Shit!”
Batgirl hit the breaks so fast that if Jason hadn’t put his seatbelt he would be flying to the street.
“I’m willing to learn if you’re willing to teach me.”
And that was the least Jason expected to hear.
14 months later
“You didn’t have to do this, you didn’t have to take the bullet for me,” Jason is angry, but he’s more worried of the gun wound in her shoulder. Barbara must be serious hurt; she let him drive the car and she never lets him drive the car.
“Yes, I did,” her voice is steady, but Jay knows when she’s angry or in pain and right now she’s in pain. And it’s all his fault. If he only had listen to her she wouldn’t be hurt and he wouldn’t be driving like a maniac.
Barbara had warned him to wait for backup; in fact she had state that she was only six minutes behind. Jay hadn’t listen to her and stormed inside. He wanted action and Babs was all about numbers and information and strategic moves and waiting.
Jason couldn’t wait; he is sixteen and thinks he can rule the world. Now he understands that’s something he’ll never do because the world belongs to her and he’s okay with that.
“Babs?” She doesn’t answer right away and for a second he’s scarred shitless.
“Yes, Robin?”
“The things you do, with the computers and stuff, being Batgirl and knowing everything, how does it feel?”
She chuckles and he stares at her; Batgirl never chuckles.
“The gun wound? It hurt less.”