(A/N) I actually wrote and finished this, like, 4 months ago... -_-" Sorry, guys... I really don't like typing... MAJOR AU! I did, like, time/age change thingys.
Warning: Angst, fluffy ending, epic
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize, I don't own.

"WHY DON'T YOU JUST GET OUT OF MY LIFE?!" Jason yelled, furious, "I never asked for you to bring me into this life, and maybe, I didn't want to be in it in the first place!"

Bruce looked at his son, calculating for a moment.

"And send you where?"

"I don't know! A foster home?!"

"I thought you didn't like foster homes,"

"I'll run away!" Jason was getting more and more confident as the argument went on.

"And live on the streets again? I don't think so," Bruce was finding an argument for every reason Jason threw at him.

"Why not?! I can do just fine on my own!" Jason was starting to get defensive, thinking he was being insulted.

"If I recall correctly-which I do-, that's not the case. The last time you were living on your own, you would've starved to death if I hadn't taken you in," Bruce reminded him. Jason scoffed at this, rolling his eyes as he did so, looking the part of the defiant 17 year old he really was for a moment.

"Yeah, right, like you care about what happens to me. And, I would've been just fine if you had just taken a minute longer to come back," Bruce's eyes widened at this, and his facial expression quickly softened.

"Jay, of course I care about what happens to you. You're my son," Bruce's voice was a lot softer and more caring, now. Jason sneered, clearly not believing a word of it, "Of course you care. Sorry, I forgot the lie that you told everyone to get them off your back. What, I don't even get a special response, like 'I'm just still not used to the thought that you're alive' or anything, Bruce?" Jason was rather heavy on the sarcasm.

"Jay-" Bruce was quickly and efficiently cut off.

"Yeah, now it's 'Jay, forgive me' and 'Jay, I care', but you know what? I don't give a damn, now! I'm not some desperate little street rat, looking for a family, now. I'm done with you, Bruce. You're constantly going back and forth, and I can't handle that right now. In case you haven't noticed, I just came back from the dead." Jason was moving toward the door as he finished his rant, leaving Bruce speechless.

All the sudden, Tim and Damian appeared in the doorway, blocking his exit. Tim carefully looked over the scene before deducing what was going on. He suddenly had a panicked and desperate look on his face.

"Jay, please. Stay." Jason stopped at Tim's pleading face, and begging words.

"Tim, I can't."

"Can't or won't?" It was amazing how intelligent 15 year old Tim was.

"Won't, Tim, won't." At seeing Tim's betrayed and hurt expression, he decided to take a different approach.

"Tim... I'm sorry. This just isn't the place for me right now."

"What? Being with your family just isn't enough? Jason. You need to stop being so selfish. You need to remember that we thought you were dead. That day, we lost a family member. Well, except Damian. But still, Bruce lost a son. Dick lost his younger brother. Alfred lost a grandson, and I lost my older brother. My role model. My idol. Jason, you were dead, not on a vacation or something." Tim's voice was thick throughout his speech, and by the end he couldn't speak anymore.

All the sudden Dick walked into the room, and hearing th last bit of the conversation, instantly knew what was going on. So he, of course, decided to join in. "And Jay, while you were..." Dick searched for the right words for a moment, "gone, me and Bruce, well, we shut down. I'm fairly sure that we both blamed ourselves for your death," looking up at Bruce, Dick received a nod of agreement, " Jay, it was so tense in the manor. There was no laughter, no joyful teasing. Nothing. We were all still at the point that everything reminded us of you."

"Jason, to us we failed you. We failed to keep you safe. And then we failed to remind ou just how much we love you. We failed to save you, Jay. We weren't there. To us, it's our fault that you died in the first place." Dick's voice lowered to a hurt whisper at the last sentence, tears threatening to run down his face.

"Dick..." Jason Todd was horrified. He'd never thought of his death from his family's point of view. He'd been so focused on his own pain, he hadn't even noticed the way Bruce and Dick always kept him in their sight, and would sit there and continually glance at him as though he were going to disappear.

"Dick, I'm so sorry..." He finally choked out. Then he did something he never thought he would do. Ever.

He initiated a hug with Richard John Grayson. And Dick, of course, hugged him back. Sure, Dick hugged everyone a lot, including Jason, but Jason had never started a hug between them. Dick had always started the hug, not Jason.

Dick blinked in surprise as a tearing up Jason threw himself at him, hugging him with all his might.

"C'mon, Jay." He said, leading his little brother to a random couch. All the other family members sat, too. Even Dami did.

After a little while of random hugging-Which "Damian Wayne, heir of Batman, does not do, Grayson!"-, Jason stayed at the Manor, and they were all back to normal. At least, normal for the Bat-Family.

(A/N) This probably looks super short... well, that was ending one. Yeah, there's more than one ending. In not too long, I'm going to post a second chapter of this with the second ending. Which is pure crack.