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Chapter 2 - Better Off Somewhere Else

Jason runs a hand through his hair as a small smile plays on his lips. Everything is finally going right for a change. Tim is sleeping peacefully for the first time in the four months he's known him and he doesn't have to go to jail.

He honestly has no clue how it happened, but the police actually let him stay out of prison...He killed fourteen people, and they just let him go. It's almost laughable. He knows Bruce Wayne had something to do with it, but he wasn't really paying attention, too absorbed in the fact that he was able to stay with his little brother.

He told Tim about Bruce's offer of them living with him, and was both surprised and happy when Tim gave him the exact same answer he gave the billionaire.

The doctors said that they would be okay, but it would be a little while before they were fully healed. Tim had a broken leg, two cracked ribs, a broken wrist, and more bruises than there are stars in the sky. Jason wasn't near as bad. Lots bruises and scars and two sprained wrists, which were healed by now, but that's about it for him. Most of Tim's injuries had come from when Mask and his goons decided to pummel him right before they were rescued.

He had been allowed by the doctors to stay with Tim in him room, but had to inform someone when he left and returned. He didn't mind. He only left to get food for the two of them, or to take a walk if he needed to think.

Other than that he had been here, in this same room, for a week. He's happy that they were rescued, happier that Tim doesn't have to be anywhere near Mask ever again, and even happier because they get to stay together, but he's also scared. He has no clue what he and Tim are going to do once they're released from the hospital. They have no place to stay, no money, no other family, no nothing.

As much as he hates it, and he really hates it, the more he thinks about it the more he thinks that Tim would be better off without him in an orphanage. At least there he would be guaranteed a warm place to stay and food to keep him from starving.

He tried talking to the younger boy about it earlier, but Tim downright refused. He didn't want to be without Jason no matter how better off he would be.

Jason looks at Tim's innocent, childlike features and smiles. A small, innocent kid like him would immediately get snatched up if he were put into an orphanage, and an emotion Jason doesn't know sparks inside of him at the thought of Tim living with complete strangers as his new family.

But at the same time he might be, would be, worse off with Jason. Because as much as people looking to adopt love innocent little kids, so do the creeps lurking around the Gotham streets. Jason knows that from personal experience, and he doesn't want Tim out there in that. At least if he were living with the adoptive strangers Jason knows he would be safe.

Jason sighs, putting his head in his hands. But the kid's never gonna agree to that. He ran away from an orphanage before; he'd find a way to do it again. And as much as Jason hates the idea of Tim living on the streets with him, he hates the idea of Tim out there without him even more.

He's got a stubborn Babybird for a little brother, and he's gotta find a way to keep him safe while also keeping them together.


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