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Jason was a poison to her. He made Stephanie question anything about everything, and he made her an even worse far-from-prefect soldier. She hated the way he made her feel, the way he gets the job done. She hated the effect he had on her, as if he tried to make himself look like a kicked puppy when she was watching him. She hated the way he crawled into her head and never came out, as if he could never let go. Likewise, Batgirl hatedthose same things and another thing about the Red Hood: that darkness within him, the one that turned him into what he is now, the one that made him kill. But neither could truly hate Jason and the Hood,no matter how hard she tried she still loved him.
Yet Jason was also the antidote to that poison he was.Stephanie loved the way he made her feel when he's there, no matter what happened before, everything seemed like it could get better. She loved the grace in which he fights, using whatever he can against them, until he got up to the point where he killed the enemies. She loved that she could never forget him, no matter how hard she tried, it made her feel safe in some strange way, as if he was there, protecting her. She loved the way he smiled at her, and the way his black hair would look red under the sunlight. Batgirl loved how there was light in Red Hood's darkness, it was so easy for him to cross that line even further but he didn't. Because that light in him wouldn't allow it. Stephanie Brown never wanted to fall in love with Jason Todd, but she did. And if she had thepower to stop being in love with him, she would never, ever, use it.
Stephanie was a poison to him. He hated the way she made him question if he was doing the right thing, or how she gave him a weakness he couldn't cover with Kevlar or hide in the back his mind. He hated how he couldn't just pack his bags, leave Gotham, and never return because of her. He hated the she looked at him after he had killed a drug dealer. ('If she didn't want to see that, then whydid she come?') Red Hood hated how Batgirl would get herself in trouble with everyone else because of him. (He wasn't worth it, she deserved better, far better.) But most of all, he hates himself for falling in love with her. But he doesn't regret it, it's the best thing that happened to him.
If Stephanie was a poison, then she was an antidote to something Jason had been suffering from for far too long.She fixed the constantlonesomeness that Jason was far too used to, she healed the wounds that were caused by no one showing any care for or about him. Jason loved how she would check up on him after a fight to see if he was hurt and if he was, she'd take care of him until he was better. He loved how she never seemed to care about him needingto know that she was alright. Jason loved how Stephanie would tell him he was wrong about something and try to stop him from doing that wrong again. He loved the way her blond hair would fall around her shoulders when landing from high above the ground. ('Your growing soft, Todd, that kind of softness got you killed the first time.') He loved that she cared enough about him to stand up for him in front of Batman.
Jason Todd and Stephanie Brown were a puzzle without an answer. Apart they made sense, but together they were a paradox. They were opposites in a bad way, they poisoned each other. Yet they worked together perfectly. Stephanie's happiness and cheerfulness outweighed Jason's anger and hatred. They never thought or planned how their relationship worked; they just did it without any (major) issues. No one else understood how it worked, and that was the way Jason and Stephanie liked it.
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