Gone

A Word: Anon asked; "Jason leaves Gotham and nobody really cares until they realize he isn't coming back. Jason's done with his rage, but he's also done with his family. Batfam feel trainwreck." Failed filling it though. Can't really wrap my mind around it.

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Even then it doesn't sink in until no one can find him after searching, and Tim had ignored the unspoken warning and gone to a Super to try tracking him down. Even with meta help though Jason can't be found and that's when they start to pay more attention to the note he left with Alfred. The explanation is succinct and goes straight to the brutal point.

He's done with being angry and the family does nothing but make him that way.

It's stunning and painful when it sinks in, and it happens slowly. Dick accepts it first. With a reluctance that's obvious, and only happens after a long conversation with Alfred that no one is let in on. Damian doesn't accept it only because he never accepted Jason as anything more than an annoyance that he's glad to see gone. He makes no secret of his feeling and it is this that helps Bruce silently close the searches he had going for his son.

Cassandra says nothing. Only shrugs when it is brought up and carefully doesn't look at anyone when they ask her if it's true. If Jason really was angry all the time around them. A damning admission that makes her eyes turn sad. Tim doesn't accept it and won't let it go, but it's more of reflexive habit that keeps him looking for Jason. That nagging what-if making him keep the trace on in the background even as he starts to move onto other cases, and admits that he's really not surprised.

In the end, they don't talk about it at all. They don't really talk about Jason and he becomes an awkward silence that would have pissed the man off to no end if her knew about it. But he doesn't know about it, and he never will.

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