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Falling in Love…

To be completely honest…

And this was just him.

He Didn't Do Love. Period.

Jason Peter Todd didn't do love, not because he wasn't interested (okay, partially because he wasn't interested), but why the fuck would ever trust someone enough to love them when he had the worst track record in the love department (ANY LOVE DEPARTMENT!).

His birth mom didn't want him and had handed him over to Willis and the Joker. Willis had hated him, or just hadn't cared. His mom had loved him, but not as much as she had loved her drugs. Bruce had claimed to love him; and Jason still had reservations about that since Bruce couldn't kill the fucker who had killed him, but Jason was trying to see it how Bruce saw it. Dick had been a shitty brother the first time around and Jason knew there was still a part of Dick which didn't trust him at all. Same thing with Barbara, she didn't trust him. Tim kind of did, but if Jason moved to fast or did something sudden he could have Tim freezing. Damian hated everyone. Alfred was everyone's honorary grandfather and while Jason was sure Alfred loved him in his stoic British way, Jason didn't always feel that love. And do not get him started on the overly complicated relationship he had with Talia al Ghul.

Then there was his minimal track record with women, which wasn't great, but at least his love life wasn't as fucked up as Dick's or Tim's. Still, he'd had a good thing with Donna for the minute they'd happen, and bygones be bygones, they weren't meant to be and she was in love with a professor. Then there'd been Kara, and that had been fun, at least until Kara started sticking her high morals and perfect nose in his business, that had ended in a wonderful flaming wreck (literally, the woman had lit his minimal things on fire on the Brooklyn Bridge). Star and he were over before they started, especially when Roy walked in and Star fell for him and Roy for her, Jason had been more than happy to step aside for that. And then there was the overly complicated relationship he had with Rose Wilson; enemies/friends with benefits, an on again off again, hook up, semi-serious thing from the time they met until Rose had vanished doing whatever it was she did and he wasn't committed to waiting for her.

Which brought him to the current woman he was seeing, the one he never even looked at, who snuck up on him. Don't get him wrong, Raven was a gorgeous woman, but he hadn't been looking and now here he was at a year in his relationship with Raven and baffled that this was the longest he'd lasted (Rose Did Not Count! On again and off again wasn't a committed relationship, and the longest stretch he and Rose had gone was six months before she had bolted and disappeared into the night. And it'd been two years since he had heard from her and starting this thing with Raven so he wasn't even cheating).

Jason looked over the edge of his book at Raven who was curled up in the sunny reading nook of her apartment, and blissfully unaware of the world around her.

Had it really been a year? Jason thought about it, mentally ticked it off in his head, and remembered Dick's passing words this morning about making it to a year and Jason looked at Raven again. He frowned and then turned his attention back to his book. It hadn't been a year, Dick had to be messing with him. Jason did not do relationships, and he could barely hold a friendship for a year let alone a relationship. (Artemis and Bizarro did not count because they were family to him, like Roy and Kori, but loose contact was maintained; they weren't suffocating as the Bats were.)

"Alright, what is bothering you!?" Raven finally snapped which had his head snapping up as his girlfriend slammed her book shut and glared at him.

"Uh…?" he blinked.

"Your emotions are driving me nuts Jason! And normally you're like a storm but today you've been a hurricane, what is it!?" she snapped.

"Nothing," he lied.

"Jason," she sighed as she sat at the dining room table. "I'm not prying, but something is on your mind. You can talk to me, I'm not going to yell at you, I'm just begging you to get a handle on your emotions, you've got me so agitated I think it's my own emotion."

"Sorry," he chuckled. Sometimes it was easy to forget she was an empath and a demon with how normal and quiet she was.

"What is it? Do you want my help? Or is it your thing?" she asked as she rubbed her temple.

"Um… our thing?" he said. She gave him her blank poker face which had him nervously dragging a hand through his hair. "How long have we… been going out?"

"Um… well," Raven's brow furrowed in thought as she bit her lip and concentrated on it. "A little more than a year, I think, we had that date at the café in spring so… over a year."

"Well shit," he muttered.

"Why?"

"Dick congratulated me on making it a year steady with one girl," he said and Raven snorted then froze.

"Dick?" Raven blinked.

"Yeah."

"A year?"

"Apparently."

"How the hell did we miss that!?" she demanded, her powers making things rattle.

He shrugged.

"I think we're over a year, not by much," she muttered and looked like she was in deep thought now as she frowned and stared at nothing.

"Good sex, good food, good books, we're set," Raven decided as she settled back in her seat.

"What?"

"No point in getting huffy over an anniversary we're not even sure we have, and why worry about an anniversary in the first place? It's like a birthday, a nuisance," she stated so matter-of-factly he relaxed.

"Could have anniversary sex," he pointed out.

She looked up from her book with interest then and he felt amusement rolling through him as he looked at her dark eyes and wondered how the hell a fake date landed him here.

"It is an idea, but we have sex all the time, so it wouldn't be special or anything," Raven blandly pointed out. He bit the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing as he rounded the table on her. Her eyes never left his as he set her book on the table.

"Perhaps it's not special," he mused. "But I find you fucking irresistible," he warned and grabbed her, she wrapped around him with ease.

"You're lucky I find you addictive," she murmured in that smoky voice which had him remembering why Raven was an innocent seductress as she kissed him slowly. Her legs wrapped around his hips, and her fingers were in his hair.

He dropped her on her bed as he stared at her.

So he wasn't going to say it out loud, at least not yet, but he really just might love this little demon as he came over to kiss her.

He just hoped that if he did fall for her, she didn't break what was left of his heart.


That's all for now folks.

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