Title: recrimination and regret
Disclaimer: not my characters; just for fun.
Warnings: spoilers for the fate of the second Robin; written after the first time I read "A Death in the Family"
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 130
Point of view: first
I should have killed him the first chance I got, damn all my self-made rules. I should have torn him limb from limb, or ripped out his throat—so many would still be alive. So many would've had chances.
Jason.
Why didn't I kill him? He didn't deserve mercy, didn't deserve all those second chances, those third chances… hundredth chances. I should have killed him, that very first time we met.
I should have killed him. Jason would still be alive. Jason would've been able to grow up, have a life beyond the mantle. Beyond his anger and pain… beyond me.
And after… I should have killed him, for Jason. But I let him live, another chance at life, despite all the lives he's taken…
I should have killed him.