Missed Exit Signs
Prompts 61-80
061. Pregnancy
He doesn't know what to say when Barbara suddenly comes to his apartment one day with a pregnancy test, doesn't even have the courage to ask her "who?" because he doesn't want to hear her say his name, and he especially doesn't want to hear his name, and the test turns out negative anyway, but sitting on his tattered couch with her waiting for the results, his hands shaking, Jason realizes he's never been that kind of terrified before.
062. Flag
He guesses that one time Kori called out Dick's name when they were in bed together, he should have figured it out, it should have been a flag on the play, but he honestly thought she meant something else entirely — or, well, whatever.
063. Tyranny
When Jason enters the batcave and walks right into an argument between Dick and Damian over whether the kid should train with the Titans, he thinks letting Damian be Kori's problem would be hilarious so he backs up Dick; Damian narrows his eyes, shouting, "This is tyranny! My father would never stand for such a thing."
064. Idiot
When Dick tells him that he dropped Damian off at Titans Tower and then goes on to innocuously add that Kori looks good, Jason shakes his head because that idiot didn't have a chance of getting back with Kori once she had a project on her mind and Damian was definitely a big, time-consuming, cockblocking project.
065. Loan
"So, you're the Red Hood? I've met loan sharks nicer than you," Harvey Dent mutters, carefully touching his jaw to assess the damage as Jason chuckles darkly.
066. Snow
He hates Gotham but he can't help but look out at the city with something akin to stifled awe as the first snow of the season begins to blanket the buildings, the streets, the park, and he enjoys the quiet until Stephanie comes out of nowhere and pegs him with a snowball.
067. Bigotry
"You really think they'll just accept someone like you back into the fold?" Rose Wilson asks as she runs a finger over the edge of her sword, absently testing the sharpness, and Jason leans back in his chair and wonders exactly what Dick would say about him temporarily helping the Bat family out once again, though he answers Rose with a dismissive, "That sounds like bigotry."
068. Film
Even when he resented Bruce for being tough on him, making him into a sort of replacement for Dick, Jason still loved Bruce and wanted nothing more than for the man to see him as an actual son, so when the Joker has Jason trapped in the warehouse, each time the crowbar crushes and bruises and breaks another part of his body, he finds himself remembering his time growing up under Bruce's tutelage and the one memory that somehow makes the pain seem farther away is the time Jason was sick with the flu and instead of Bruce going out of patrol without him, he had wrapped Jason in a blanket on the couch and they had watched an old film until Jason fell asleep.
069. Graveyard Shift
"I thought you quit," Barbara says, gesturing to the cigarette Jason is currently smoking and he shrugs and eyes the thermos of coffee she has in hand, which she offers to him without a word as she settles against the ledge of the roof to observe the mob-run nightclub Jason is staking out; the watch is uneventful and Barbara leaves at daybreak but he's still grudgingly grateful for the company.
070. Booklet
When he finds a booklet in his pocket for anger management classes, he shouts down the hallway of Wayne manor, "Very funny, Drake," as Tim peeks out of his room and smirks.
071. Love
"Hey, Dick, how about you go fuck yourself while I'm gone," Jason suggests as he prepares to head to the liquor store and remedy the problem of Dick removing all the alcohol from Wayne manor, to which Dick responds with an offhand, "Love you too, Jay."
072. Genius
He works hard under Bruce's tutelage, studies a handful of foreign languages, aces every exam and assignment, becomes a member of the honor society; he could be every bit the genius Bruce claims he is, but he always did lean toward self-destruction, so he smokes cigarettes behind the school during gym class and gets into fights just to balance it all out.
073. Perfection
The one thing that bothered him since the Lazarus Pit was the fact that all his scars were now gone; he didn't like the semblance of perfection.
074. Tomorrow
Jason collapses on the bed of his old apartment and falls asleep almost instantly, vowing to leave tomorrow; he can't believe he got caught up helping Dick cover a patrol of Gotham.
075. Motto
"You're making a mockery of my father's memory," Damian accuses Dick one day as he makes some alterations to the batsuit, and Jason thinks self-deprecatingly that those words could be the motto of the Bat sidekicks.
076. Likelihood
Jason agrees to spar with Cass after Tim dares him because the likelihood of that creepy chick winning against him was less than zero; when he regains consciousness a few minutes later, it's to Cass silently removing the wraps from her hands and the sound of Tim's boisterous laughter.
077. Uninformed
"Crap," Jason says when he spots the grenade roll across the ground toward him, and he manages to duck for cover if only just barely; he feels like he was severely uninformed when it came to Slade Wilson and reminds himself to thank Rose next time he saw her.
078. Yellow
He's surprised the bright yellow beacon of color was never nixed from the Robin costume design; he always hated that fucking cape.
079. Shaking
He leans his arm against the back of the wheelchair, tries to keep himself from dwelling on it, as he offers offhand, smartass remarks while Barbara sorts through data to lead Tim and Stephanie through their first mission without Batman, but Jason can't help the sudden resurgence of hatred for the Joker and every life that maniac tore to shreds; it's only later when Barbara absently reaches back and pats his arm that he realizes his hands are shaking.
080. Dark
Lying in the dark with the buzz of the city in his ears, Jason stares at the peeling and cracked ceiling of his rundown apartment and tries to pretend Gotham isn't out there waiting.
Prompts 81-100 up next. And I bumped up the rating for Jason Todd's language.