Wow thanks for the reviews everyone! I actually wrote little notes on my (old) phone with prompts/ideas that I want to incorporate into this story. Most of them actually won't actually appear until future chapters, but they help me figure out where this story is going. I will explain why this took me so long at the end. Anyway, let's get to the next chapter! :D
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Guests: Well... after a year here's the next update. So sorry!
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Warning- Vague mentions of a panic attack
The door to Jason's room opened and Dick quietly made his way into the room. The sun was up at this point and the room was a lot brighter than the last time he was in there. Dick sat on a chair by the bed and looked at his sleeping brothers. Jay's face was buried in Jason's chest and Jason's arm was around Jay. The covers were pulled up to Jay's chin. They looked so peaceful as they slept.
"How couldn't we have noticed?" Dick asked himself. "How could we have let this happen?"
Dick stood up and ruffled both of his brothers' hair. Neither of them made any movement that they felt it. Then Dick left the room and went downstairs. As Dick left, Jay woke up. He didn't move. He just stayed there lying on Jason's chest. Being there was warm, and Jay liked having the comfort of warmness. He stared up at the ceiling of the room.
A loud rumble echoed in the room. Jason opened his eyes and looked down at Jay. Jay's eyes were wide open and he had a smirk on his face.
"Guess I'm hungry," Jay said.
The two boys climbed out of the bed and made their way downstairs. Once they reached the kitchen, they saw that the rest of the family was seated at the table. The whole family went silent once they saw the two of them.
"Um, morning," Jay said doing a small awkward wave.
"Morning," Dick said with his mouth full of cereal.
"Grayson," Damian scolded while slapping Dick's arm, "don't talk with your mouth full! It's disgusting."
Bruce was at the head of the table with Dick to the left of him. Damian sat next to Dick, and Tim was seated by Damian. It was a shock that the two boys got along and weren't fighting. In fact, they were having a casual conversation about a video game they both enjoy. Jay sat down to Bruce's right and Jason plopped next to Jay. A moment later, Alfred came over to the table with a tray of blueberry pancakes.
"You must be starving Master Jason!" Alfred said putting the tray in front of Jay.
He put his hand on Jay's shoulder, and smiled at the young boy.
"Actually I am," Jason said reaching out his hand for a pancake.
Alfred took his hand off Jay's shoulder to smack Jason's hand off the pancakes.
"They're not for you," Alfred said sternly looking at Jason, "I'll bring yours out shortly, these are all for him." He said referring to Jay.
"Aw, Alfred I don't think I could eat all of these," Jay said shyly smiling.
Jay grabbed 3 pancakes with his fork and put them on his plate. Then he grabbed the syrup and loaded the pancakes with it. Alfred went back into the kitchen to grab another tray of pancakes for Jason.
Once he came back out he had a smaller stack of pancakes on a tray. He placed them in front of Jason. At this point Jay was halfway through his own tray of pancakes.
"Jay don't eat so fast!" Dick exclaimed worriedly, "You could choke!"
Jay stopped eating for a moment.
"Sorry," Jay said with a sheepish grin, "Haven't had Alfie's food in 8 years."
The entire family stopped their own conversations with each other and had shocked looks on their faces. It took a moment for Jay to realize what had come out of his mouth.
"Eh, too soon?" Jay asked lifting his shoulder.
Jay went back to eating his breakfast, albeit slower.
"Agenda for today," Dick started, "we chill in the media room all day and watch Disney movies!"
"Pass," Damian said, "I got better things to do than to watch childish movies Grayson."
"You loved The Lion King!" Dick exclaimed.
"I told you never to tell anyone that!" Damian said while slapping Dick's arm.
"Damian," Bruce said, "it would be nice of you to join your brothers in watching movies. It would help you spend some time with Jay."
"What about you?" Jay asked looking at Bruce.
"I have some papers to sign for the company," Bruce said.
"Oh," Jay said looking away from Bruce, "I thought we could all spend time together as a family... Dad."
Everyone was silent waiting for Bruce's response. Alfred had a smile on his face.
"I guess the papers can wait," Bruce said.
"Wow," Tim whispered to Dick, "Jay pulled the 'dad' card and Bruce caved in 5 seconds. That's a new record."
"And here I thought Goldie could make Bruce cave quickly," Jason said.
Everyone, besides Alfred because he had to do shopping, made their way into the media room. Tim went on the two person sofa and Damian sat next to him.
"Don't question why I'm sitting next to you Drake," Damian said, "I still don't like you. I just wanted to give Little Todd more of an option on where to sit since he knows us the least."
Tim rolled his eyes because he knew that wasn't the only reason Damian sat next to him.
Dick came into the media room and went put in a movie while the Jasons' and Bruce sat on the couch. Jay was in the middle of Jason and Bruce. Dick sat in the chair as he fast forwarded past the previews of movies. Everyone, besides Jay, glared at Dick when they saw the movie title.
"Why are you all staring at me like I just stepped on Titus?" Dick asked, "If it's because I chose Frozen, come on the songs are catchy! It's even better that we have the sing-along version."
"Grayson, you incompetent fool," Damian said, "did you not think how this movie would affect Little Todd?"
"Guys, it's okay," Jay said, "I mean how bad can this movie be?"
During the course of the movie Jay was fine. Damian had a glare everytime a song came on and Dick sang. He stopped glaring when Jay attempted to sing some of the songs. Him, as well as the whole family, had a smile on their face hearing Jay's voice. Dick continued to sing so Jay wouldn't suddenly stop. It was near the end of the movie at this point.
Anna was trying to reach Kristoff so they could share a kiss to stop her frozen heart. She realized that Hans was behind her sister Elsa. She was knelling on the ice ground that she had made. Anna knew Hans was about to kill her with his sword and ran towards her older sister. She got in front of Elsa as Hans brought his sword down. She lifted her hand as the sword went down and she became frozen. The sword broke and Hans was flown backwards.
Everyone stared at the TV then looked at Jay. They dreaded this part the most. They didn't know how Jay was going to react to seeing Anna, assumedly, freeze alive.
"Hey Dick head," Jason said, "don't you think this movie is a little too soon?"
"It's okay," Jay said softly, "I don't remember being frozen anyhow."
Jay brought his knees up to his chest and put his head on his knees. Then he thought about the nightmare- or memory he wasn't sure which- he had last night. His whole body started to shake uncontrollably. Bruce turned to Jay and brought him into his chest. Jay unbuckled his knees from the top of the couch and had them on the floor once again.
The rest of the family just looked at them not knowing how to help. Dick looked at Tim and Damian. Tim had his arm around Damian's shoulders since they were shook up about Jay's reaction. Dick then looked at Jason and gave him a look to get Tim and Damian out of the room. Both of them knew that Jay wouldn't be able to calm down if those two were still in the room.
"Hey Dami, Tim I just remembered I need to go buy Barbara an anniversary gift and I need your help." Dick said as he stood up.
"Why would I-" Damian started to say before Tim nudged him, "O-Okay."
Tim took his hand off Damian's shoulder and the two of them got up from the couch and followed Dick out of the room. The front door of the manor could be heard opening and closing.
"Why did this have to happen to me?" Jay asked with his voice shaking.
Bruce and Jason didn't have an answer. Bruce was rubbing Jay's back as they stayed silent. Bruce blamed himself for what happened. He was thinking about a way he could have prevented all this from happening. Jason wished this never happened. He wished he never found out he was a clone. Jay looked at their faces and it made him feel worse.
"I'll be in my room," Jay said.
Jay got off of Bruce's lap and made his way out of the media room to his own room. Bruce and Jason didn't stop him, no matter how much they wanted to. They didn't know what to do. Jason got up and turned the TV off.
Who knew watching a Disney movie could lead to so much angst?
Holy crap. I am so sorry that this took a year to update. In hindsight this probably could've been updated much, much sooner. I had most of this in my notebook all I needed to do was type it out. The other day I did the ending.
I don't know why it took me so long. I guess I lost motivation for this for a while. This has actually always been in the back of my mind because I like this AU. (I also have ideas which could potentially be AUs for this AU XD)
Also that YouTube video I was working on for this? watch?v=oD1LdS6MZgc (If for some reason that doesn't work, look up "Jason Todd Video Thingy Alice Phantom" Lol.) That is a year old, but I haven't been able to send it to you lovely people. :) (Some of the lip flaps are weird, and I probably should've used another character to represent Jay, but oh well.)
In the year I've been gone I have acquired a new phone, so I transferred my ideas for this fic to the new phone. I also came up with some more ideas that may flesh out in future chapters. I have also taken a Creative Writing class at my school so I hope that my writing improved since last chapter. (I'm also in a Journalism class at the moment, that kind of helps me.)
I will try and not take another year to update, hopefully in the next few weeks or a month.
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