Missed Exit Signs
Prompts 121-140
121. Space
The one time he's asked to participate in a Justice League mission to some planet he's never heard of before, he scoffs and crosses his arms, only accepting when Wonder Woman flatly tells him Batman's in trouble and he'll be compensated if he helps track down Bruce — secretly, Jason's always dreamed of space travel, though.
122. Railroad
He's sitting on the bench outside the old railroad station, glaring out at the tracks and the graffiti-covered train cars, when Selina Kyle leaps off the roof of the station and eases herself to the bench, saying with a slanting smile, "You know, he still loves you. You just need to give him a chance," but Jason scoffs and looks away because it never made sense to him that Bruce could forgive Selina's crimes but not those of Jason.
123. Offensive
The moans from behind the closed door are almost offensively loud, and Jason starts to wonder if Roy and Kori are faking it just to get under his skin.
124. Abject
"Leave," Bruce says when Jason shows up at the manor after the Joker's latest escape from Arkham, and Tim surprisingly enough tries to get Bruce to change his mind and let Jason help find the lunatic, but Bruce exits the room and Jason laughs bitterly and throws an offhand insult Tim's way before he gives up and leaves, but he stills feels an almost abject sorrow at being cast aside that way.
125. Survival
After being resurrected, continued survival should have been more important but as he throws himself off ledges and through the glass ceiling of the subway station as Batman and Dick chase after him, with it becoming ever more obvious that Batman suspects who's behind the Red Hood mask, all Jason can think is that he enjoys taunting death almost as much as taunting Bruce.
126. Eventually
It was always going to happen eventually, especially with Dick disappearing without a word more often than usual, but now with Barbara smelling like whiskey and cigarette smoke, pulling him into his apartment with eager hands, Jason can't help that old guilt that makes everything amazing about her seem painful, so he slowly backs away and says, his voice still gravelly with the desire he's trying to bury, "Let's get you set up on the couch, Barb."
127. Despicable
His feelings for her have always been there if he's being honest, and he ignores it, pushes her away, and it makes him feel despicable, but even when she teases him, presses close and tells him it's all right, that she wants him, they both know that's not true.
128. Loser
"What kind of loser leaves a graffiti calling card?" Tim asks with a raised eyebrow as Dick enhances the crime scene photo, recognition hitting and causing his stomach to drop; halfway across Gotham, Jason is laughing.
129. Champion
"I'm the champion, bitches!" Bette Kane crows, as Wally sends her a high-five and starts pulling off his sweater, adding, "Let's see those boxers, Jay," as Jason glares and reluctantly complies, all the while wondering how he possibly got roped into playing strip-Monopoly with Bette, Wally and Artemis.
130. Fussy
The fifth time Lian spits out the mushed peas and slams her hand in the mess, he finally gives up, wondering exactly how he had managed to get suckered into babysitting the extremely fussy offspring of Jade and Roy.
131. River
"Denial isn't just a river in Egypt," Steph says in a singsong, not looking up from the book she's reading, and Jason glares at the book cover and then turns the glare to where Tim is snickering across the room because, no, Jason did not want to forgive Bruce.
132. Fear
"This is going to hurt me a lot more than it's going to hurt you," the Joker says, his scarred mouth stretching with a grin as he raises the crow bar, and Jason startles awake, sitting up and staring at the shadows in his room, fighting to breathe again.
133. Sleep
"You're overexerting yourself," Barbara observes over the comlink, no doubt checking his vitals, and Jason brushes off her concern, saying, "I'll be fine as soon as we can nab this asshole and get him off the street," but he doesn't tell her that he hasn't been able to sleep since Scarecrow brought back the nightmare he thought he'd all but put behind him.
134. Underground
"It's really dark down here," Tim complains as they make their way through the abandoned subway station to which Jason answers with a grin, "No shit, we're underground," earning him a slap upside the head from Barbara.
135. Threat
"I could have fallen in love with you," Jason says casually one day when he's with Barbara in an alleyway, waiting for a couple of bank robbers to come through in their escape attempt, but the way she gives him a sudden look of alarm makes the words seem wrong, like he'd just uttered a threat, and he doesn't meet her gaze for the rest of the patrol.
136. Hidden
It had never really been hidden, but Jason isn't quite sure what to say when Barbara looks up from the computer one day and unexpectedly asks, "So how long have you been sleeping with Dick?"
137. Ashamed
He never should have let Dick kiss him, but he did because he'd always wanted to taste those lips; that was what caused it all to go to hell because what had started out as a one-night stand had caused real, lasting feelings to surface, but now under Barbara's questioning gaze, Jason can't help but feel ashamed because he can't — shouldn't — love them both.
138. Mob
When he finds his hand slammed against the seat of his motorcycle and a man grinning down at him and pressing a knife against the joint of his ring finger, he almost groans because he really hated the freakin' mob but when he looks past the man and spots Dick in the Nightwing mantle, ready to leap from his vantage point on the shipping container and save the day like a complete douchebag, Jason figures he'd rather deal with the mafia.
139. Joint
He catches Roy smoking a joint on the balcony of their safe house one day and, knowing full well the man's history with harder drugs, he feels a bit of concern take hold and leans an arm against the railing, glancing back at the chair Roy is leaning back in, Roy's eyes tilted up and watching, waiting, daring Jason to say something, but any word of reproach dies on his lips as he recalls the little good Bruce's lecturing had done for Jason's vices, so Jason silently looks away and ignores the tendrils of thick smoke.
140. Leisure
"It's beautiful here," Kori says, stretching out her bikini-clad body in the sand as Roy takes a swig from a beer bottle, and Jason had always been one to mix business and leisure, but he'd never had such a tranquil setting to do so and it felt a bit strange to sit back in a beach chair and not have the threat of a fight looming somewhere behind him.
I'm still looking to expand this from 153 prompts to a full 160. I've had two suggestions so far and look forward to any others you might have!
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