Chapter 2

Jason hobbled along as he was pushed back to his cell. It was hard for him to walk after the beating with the crowbar, but he would show any weakness. If he did show weakness, they would exploit it and take him down. Instead he continued to show his bad ass side, it was of course a cover, but it was how he survived. He was shoved into his cell with a grunt. Batman was yelling at them, but Jason tuned him out. They laughed and were really enjoying picking at Batman, but eventually they left the two of them alone.

Once he was sure they were alone, Batman was at the front of the cell yelling. "Hood? Hood? Hood! What's going on! Are you alright! Answer me!"

Jay groaned, "Stop yelling, I'm right here."

"Are you alright," Batman asked with worry.

"What the fuck do you think," Jason growled.

"What happened," Batman asked and Jason didn't answer. "Red, answer me!"

Jason groaned again, "I got the shit beat out of me, that's what."

"What did they do to you," Batman demanded, wanting details so he could figure out how to hurt the people who hurt his son.

Jason sighed, "Joker beat the shit out of me with his crowbar. How the hell he got a crowbar here in Arkham, I don't know, but they need to review the policies here."

"How many innocent people are still here? How many guards," Batman asked.

"The guards are free, they were released, but there's no way in without coming face to face with all the guys that broke out of their cells. There are some pretty bad ass people free, Ivy, Scarecrow, Joker, Harley, not to mention the drug lords and rapists, and they're all armed. It would not be a smart idea to break into here to take them out…"

"What about other heroes," Batman asked.

"No, Golden Boy, the Replacement, and the demon child really shouldn't come, it's too dangerous," Jason warned.

"Hood, don't call them that," Batman argued for his other sons.

"I'll call them anything I damn well please after that beating, so you can just shut the fuck up," Jason growled, taking his anger out on Batman.

"So taking these guys out is up to us then," Batman reasoned.

"It's up to you, I can't do anything, I'm too broken up and I doubt that the one beating is all I am going to face from these freaks."

Before Batman could argue any further, the group was back between them and smiling. Jason was beginning to hate those smiles and he wanted to wipe them off, but there was nothing he could do to stop it. He had made a deal, and one he would not tell Bats about if he didn't have to. He sighed when they opened his cell and he played to the "too injured to get up" card so Batman wouldn't know about the deal he'd made with these freaks. He should have known that he couldn't keep it hidden for long.

"You must be so proud of your little boy Batsy," Joker grinned as he held Jason is an almost loving embrace, if it weren't for the fact that it was Joker. "He sacrificed his free will to save all of those guards from their horrendous fates that we had planned for them."

"What are you talking about Joker," Batman growled, hoping to draw Joker's attention away from Jason.

"I mean that Hoodie here," at this Joker caressed Jason's face gently, in a loving family way and Jason pulled away, "gave up his own freedom to fight us to save the guards. When he was brought to us, we were doing all kinds of fun things to the guards and Hoodie put a stop to it. He offered to give up his free will and go along with whatever we told him to in order to save those guards. We can beat him, stab him…"

"Fuck him," Maroni inserted with a smirk and Jason glared, but didn't argue.

"Yeah, that too, if that is your cup of tea," Joker cackled. "Anyways, Hoodie here volunteered to be our own personal punching bag test subject in order to save the guards…"

"Hood wouldn't do that," Batman argued.

"Aww, do you really think that little of your Hoodie? He was quite the hero. He saved that new guard from being used by Maroni and his men and instead took on the punishment for himself," Joker said gleefully.

"Hood," Batman asked.

"Yeah what of it? You raised me after all. Just 'cause I kill these bastards for a living doesn't mean I don't have some form of a heart. I never hurt the innocent people, I save them," Jason argued, annoyed that Batman thought so little of him.

"So you see Batsie, Hoodie is now our new play thing until we get tired and break out of here. He may survive it and he may not. Anyways, it should be quite the show for you since you can't get out of that cell," Joker said gleefully as he pulled out a dagger and stabbed Jason in the shoulder. Jason bite hard down on his lip to keep from letting any noise escape, he wouldn't give the Joker that power over him.

"Now my precious little Hood, lets see what you are afraid of. I've made a new fear toxin and I've been wanting to test it out, but you stopped me from using it on the guard, so now you'll just have to be my test subject. I could always use the warden or his kid, but somehow I have a feeling you'd rather I use it on you," Scarecrow said with a smirk.

Jason sneered, "Just get it over with Crane!"

Scarecrow smirked and withdrew a needle and injected it into Jason's arm and then they shoved him back in his cell to await what would happen next. The drug was fast acting and they left to the sound of Jason's screams, which was music to their ears.

Three hours later Jason was drenched in sweat and his voice was very weak and almost gone. He kept his eyes closed and he stayed curled in a ball. He hadn't heard a word Batman had yelled at him as he went through the physical pain of every traumatic memory he had, and he had a lot of them, all the stabbing painful memories of never being enough for Bruce, of his mother's betrayal, his painful capture and beating by the Joker, his death, of waking up in a casket and having to dig himself out, of every stab, gunshot wound, drug, and all the other bad shit he had gone through. Jason was a shaking mess when they returned for him.

"Aw, look at the poor baby, curled in on himself…I'd feel sorry for him if he wasn't anything more then a cock sucker," Maroni laughed as he entered Jason's cell.

"Get the HELL away from him," Batman growled.

Maroni chuckled, "You don't get a say here Bats. Me and the boys are getting restless and it's time for Red Hood here to do his job." Maroni lifted Jason by his hair and Jason winced but didn't open his eyes.

Batman was yelling and gripping his bars. He was looking for any way to escape but he couldn't find any. He hated seeing that scumbag dragging Jason away and he swore to himself when he got out of this he was going to beat that man bloody. He also vowed never to lock Jay up here again. They had cells in the Batcave, why didn't he ever lock Jay up there. Why had he been such an idiot and brought Jay here! He had to make this right somehow! He watched with worried eyes as Jason and Maroni disappeared from his vision.