Ficlet: ... and the lived happily ever after (DC, Barbara, Jason, AU, PG)
Title/Description: ...and they lived happily ever after
Claim: Barbara Gordon
Characters/Pairing: Barbara Gordon, Jason Todd
Word Count: 315
Rating: PG
Prompt: #78 Different for 50_darkfics. For comment_fic. The prompt was 'DCU, Jason Todd/Barbara Gordon, Jason lives and both he and Babs deal with what Joker did to them together'. For shiny_glor_chan. AU!
Author's Notes/Warnings: Thanks to carnageincminor for her beta work *big hug* I'm sure that wasn't what shiny_glor_chan had in mind, but right now I'm unable to write something other than angst. Sorry Gloria!
Jason has good and bad days.
Today is a good day.
Barbara wakes him up at seven and he helps her with breakfast. It takes him ten minutes to get dressed and he wears one blue and one black sock, but he smiles like a little kid with his achievement so Barbara doesn’t correct him.
They make breakfast together; he scrambles the eggs and Barbara cooks them. She knows that he wants to cook the eggs, but the last time she let him they were cleaning eggs from the floor, so she asks him to squeeze some orange juice; he claps loudly and gives a happy cry.
Barbara smiles and when he’s out of sight, she takes a sip from her whiskey. It’s not even seven thirty and she’s already on her second glass. The chair-- she can handle the chair. But six months later and she still has to handle the new Jason.
She misses the old one. The old Jason was cocky and smartass and full of life. This Jason is a half empty shell and it kills her to see him like this. It was worst for Bruce, but Gotham needs the Batman so Barbara took Jason with her. Gotham is not the only one that needs Batman; she needs Batman too.
She needs to know that the Joker will pay for his crimes.
And if Bruce can’t do it, she will.
She’s ready to put the eggs on a plate when a loud noise is heard from behind her. She forgets all about the eggs and wheels herself frantically; Jason is okay, but he has made a mess with the orange juice. He looks at her with his blue eyes, ready to cry, and Barbara hides away her tears behind a smile.
She sends him to change his clothes and pours herself another glass of whiskey.
Today is a good day.
Claim: Barbara Gordon
Characters/Pairing: Barbara Gordon, Jason Todd
Word Count: 315
Rating: PG
Prompt: #78 Different for 50_darkfics. For comment_fic. The prompt was 'DCU, Jason Todd/Barbara Gordon, Jason lives and both he and Babs deal with what Joker did to them together'. For shiny_glor_chan. AU!
Author's Notes/Warnings: Thanks to carnageincminor for her beta work *big hug* I'm sure that wasn't what shiny_glor_chan had in mind, but right now I'm unable to write something other than angst. Sorry Gloria!
Jason has good and bad days.
Today is a good day.
Barbara wakes him up at seven and he helps her with breakfast. It takes him ten minutes to get dressed and he wears one blue and one black sock, but he smiles like a little kid with his achievement so Barbara doesn’t correct him.
They make breakfast together; he scrambles the eggs and Barbara cooks them. She knows that he wants to cook the eggs, but the last time she let him they were cleaning eggs from the floor, so she asks him to squeeze some orange juice; he claps loudly and gives a happy cry.
Barbara smiles and when he’s out of sight, she takes a sip from her whiskey. It’s not even seven thirty and she’s already on her second glass. The chair-- she can handle the chair. But six months later and she still has to handle the new Jason.
She misses the old one. The old Jason was cocky and smartass and full of life. This Jason is a half empty shell and it kills her to see him like this. It was worst for Bruce, but Gotham needs the Batman so Barbara took Jason with her. Gotham is not the only one that needs Batman; she needs Batman too.
She needs to know that the Joker will pay for his crimes.
And if Bruce can’t do it, she will.
She’s ready to put the eggs on a plate when a loud noise is heard from behind her. She forgets all about the eggs and wheels herself frantically; Jason is okay, but he has made a mess with the orange juice. He looks at her with his blue eyes, ready to cry, and Barbara hides away her tears behind a smile.
She sends him to change his clothes and pours herself another glass of whiskey.
Today is a good day.