He shouldn't be doing, and he knew that, but this was one of his issues about doing things he shouldn't, and right now he was doing what he wanted, not caring about consequences. This was normal for him; it had always worked out in the past so he trusted his instincts, raw knowledge of the area and the deep sense of betrayal and anger to keep him from getting caught.
Jason pulled opened he window as he dug the tip of his boots into the tiny creases in the brick wall. He quickly grabbed the open window ledge and pulled himself, flipping into the room. He was glad for his mask because everything was covered in dust. Jason licked his dry, cracked lips as he looked around the room, just like he had left it, before he had died. Bruce or Alfred hadn't changed a thing.
So many memories here, in his old room at Wayne manor. Too many to count. Jason walked over to him bed and picked up the edge of the blanket, feeling thee soft fabric between his gloved fingers.
He walked over to the desk and pulled open the drawers, everything looked shuffled as if someone had been looking for something but he couldn't remember if he had left it that way of not. It didn't matter.
Jason walked away over to the door and culled his hands around the golden knobs, he had come here to figure out who Robin was not to try and up root his past in old house memories. The only memory he cared for were the ones he needed, cared for, the ones that drove him.
He slowly turned the knob and heard a slight click, only then did he slowly open the door the smallest bit and look out into the hall threw the slit. He didn't see anyone. Jason pushed a pulled a little bit more on the door and stepped out of the way to look out once more.
Once he didn't see, nor hear anybody else he flashed into the halls and closed the door behind him with a small click. Jason looked around cautiously and started to sneak down the halls putting his feet down ever o softly knowing how good Bruce was at listening.
He opened one door only and inch to peek inside and saw Alfred cleaning the library of books Bruce had. Jason blinked once before closing it before going to the next door and smiled before walking onto the messy teen`s room.
This was it. When he lived here this had been the guest bedroom. Now it was Robin`s room. How sweet, Jason bit his tough at his cynical thoughts and locked the door; he didn't want Alfred walking in accidentally, even though the room was too messy for Alfred to have ever been in the room.
He walked over to the desk knelled down pulling the drawers out till they hung limply. He started to shuffle threw them coming across pictures of Dick and Barbara, he took one for reasons unknown and then saw more with Dick and Bruce and a young boy roughly around the age he was when he had joined. This kid was probably fourteen or fifteen at the most.
Jason turned the picture over and looked at the names, Dick, Bruce, Tim.
"Who the hell is Tim?" He growled quietly. Jason pulled out a few more papers finding a last name, Drake. Tim Drake…the rich kid that Barbara used to talk about? Then he found a newspaper clipping the title read, Death to a Drake.
For weeks now police have been searching for the mysterious man known as captain Boomerang. Their search was too late when Jake Drake, found him on accident first. He was killed, his son Timothy was left orphaned, Bruce Wayne has offered to be the boy`s ward for the time being having experience in a loss of loved ones and….
He didn't read any further, Jason put the things back and pushed the drawers back to their position. He was about to get up when he felt hot breath breathing threw his jacket and onto his neck. He stiffened as he heard footsteps and that person came around to his side and started to try and climb into his lap.
Jason chuckled and patted the big dog, his dog, "Ace," He smiled, "You didn't forget me did you?"
The dog started to try and lick his helmet and Jason scratched the beast`s chest knowing that was an itchy spot for his puppy. Ace rolled over his tough rolling out of the side of his mouth happily as Jason rubbed the massive creature`s belly.
"You miss me?" Jason smiled lovingly behind his mask. Jason sighed and finally got up, he had gotten what he had come for and now he had to leave. The second he got up Ace did and followed his silently, tail wagging to hi old room.
Jason looked out the window, but turned around and pulled off him mask kissing his dog on the head, "I`ll be back for you when this is over Ace."
Ace sneezed in response and Jason chuckled before shoving his mask on and climbing out the window. He had to walk through the woods to the side of the house just to get to a mud road where he left his other beloved, his bike. There was no way he could have left it anywhere near the house with all the security camera`s, he had just made it past them himself.
Jason straddled his bike and the drool from Ace off the side of his mask with the back of his glove. Even though he was happy to have seen Ace, his dog, he was still angry to the betrayal of Bruce had done to him about letting…Tim, be Robin. He would never forget what Bruce had done, after he had died how could he even want another Robin?
He didn't know, what he did know was that he would never forget.
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Jason sat on the edge of the building his legs handing over the side as his hands worked to clean his gun and he whistled to a tune he didn't know. It had been only a day since e had gone to Wayne manor and was still sure he never wanted to go back, it brought things he had shoved so far back into his mind, into the light. He hated that.
He was multi-tasking, just below across the street was one of his clubs, so it all worked out on his end, except his lack of sleep witch was killing him…again.
Jason blinked and pocketed his gun before looking down at the club once more, he was surprised to see someone who he thought he would never see in this part of town no less his club, with crack-hors, drug dealers, no murdering scum or rapist though, a sign was even posted on the front about that.
He stood up and jumped down, he walked through the front doors after the person and before anyone could notice him and cause a scene he slipped behind the curtains and tried to listen to what Leslie was saying.
"I-I got the medical supplies you asked for." Se stuttered, she was obviously terrified. A tall muscular man smiled and shoved the drugs into his pocket, "Thanks doc." The man turned away and but Leslie frowned and grabbed his shoulder spinning him around, "What about our deal? You said you would tell the Red Hood`s men not to trash my supplies, I have to keep that for sick people."
The man grinned, "Sorry doc, but my boy will do as they want, no stopin` them."
Jason walked out and pulled out his gun shooting the man in the shoulder, the man fell back on to the able and Jason walked over to him and put his foot on his chest, "I did arrange that type of behavior from my people, next time you want to try that shit," Jason put a hand on the bullet wound and pressed on it, the man cried out, "Don't do it around me, or in my club." Jason pointed the gun to his head to let the man feel the cold metal against his seating forehead before Jason walked away and grabbed Leslie but her upper arm and pulled her outside.
He let go of her the second they were outside, "You shouldn't be here." He growled, Jason hadn't realized how much his anger was only here because he was scared for her, what might happen to someone like her with people like them.
"I-It`s none of your business what I do, you're a criminal, a crime lord." She growled. Jason huffed, "Yeah and I know how this works, you have no idea, you're a under paid doctor for the poor!"
"How would you know, are you spying on me? How do I know you weren't lying when you said you never let them do those things?" She snapped.
Jason narrowed his eyes, "Listen, stay out of my territory and we`ll get along just fine." Jason left the parking lot and grappled up back to the spot he was originally at and looked down at Leslie as she left quickly.
It wasn't but only five minutes before a car pulled up and went into the club.
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"So," The man smiled lighting the rag at the top of the bottle, "at the expense of your very wide but, were sending your boss a message." The man lifted the bottle and Jason didn't even need to aim to hit the bottle in a bull's eye. He jumped down and landed on the car. "Okay, what`s the message?" He asked as the man crumbled down on to the floor, the other man gasped up at him and ran.
Before he could go after him three armed men and one girl jumped from the building on the other side of the court, the girl stood at full height, "A simple one actually, wants to guess what it might be?"
They started to run at him and he smiled, "I have a good idea."
He put up his guns and shot at the girl and the others, they diverted the bullets with their swords and the girl jumped at him, and he continued to shot. Jason jumped back as she crashed down in front of him, her swords cutting through the car`s roof. He jumped to the side shooting another round as he landed on the hood of the car and then jumped away twisting in the air still shooting at her.
He landed on the ground and swerved away from and large man as he swiped at him, he shot at the girl as she swiped her sword and he jumped over her and gasped as he quickly slid under the staff the man tried the hit him with.
He flipped over on his hands and knees and shot at the man as the guy ran at him, the man diverted a bullet at him but Jason jumped back to his feet and flipped back to his feet. The man jumped at him and Jason rolled under a swipe and got up and brought his foot quickly to the guys face. The guy staggered to the side and the girl jumped at him, He ducked and was only able to take one shot at her before he jumped up to avoid the man`s stick.
Jason landed on his back then pushed off and touched the ground; he side jumped the girls swiped and leapt back at least twice to avoid the guy's attacks. He flipped over and bounced off his hands upwards grabbing onto a fire escape and shot out at the two, "Do you hired guns even know who I am?" He spat.
The man jumped to the side dodging a bullet, "You are a crook!"
The girl ran beside the man looking up at him to help him divert the bullets as the third man came up and shot a large blue energy beam toward him. Jason gasped and jumped away, he was still caught by the blast and hit the floor his guns flying from his hands as he hit. He bounced across the ground and one of the men grabbed his leg and threw him into one of the columns.
Jason gasped as his back connected with the concert and he hit the floor again, damn, he couldn't catch a break!
"Ow," He grunted picking himself up and sitting on his knees, "So you guys have all this power and all you do with it is kill for money!"
The largest man reached for him, "From what I here we have that in common." He grabbed Jason`s helmet and lifted him up.
"You heard wrong!" Jason pulled out a few micro bombs and threw them at the man`s chest. The guy was blasted away and Jason landed on his feet only to be pushed to the side by the man`s staff.
The girl jumped at him and Jason pulled out his knife and blocked her strikes with the blade. He kicked her away and turned to meet the next guy who was running at him. Jason ducked the first swipe over his head and then kicked the man in the abdomen. The man his the knife from his hand and Jason grabbed his face and pushed him away, kicked his side, sent a series of jabs at the man`s head and pulled back only to have the guy uppercut him in the jaw and made him stager back and fall over and land on his chest.
The four men gathered around him in a circle, "I thought you`d put up more of a fight," The man growled placing the staff under his chin and lifting Jason`s head so he was looking at him.
Jason let out a throaty chuckle, "Oh the fight hasn't started yet, I`m just staling."
The man didn't seem to care as he lifted his staff, Jason smiled as two batarangs pierced the man`s upper arm making him drop the staff and double over. Batman landed with a loud thud behind him and Jason struggled to his feet going back to back with Bruce, "What the hell took you so long?"
"Shut up and fight." Batman growled in annoyance. Jason moved his arms back as the girl tried to swipe at him and he punched her in the side, they switched partners and he took the big guy punching him in the face and kicking out one fat leg. He jumped up and spun around kicking the man in the face twice.
The smallest guy jumped at him and Jason jumped back and kneed the man in the gut and bended back to avoid a bow to the head, he brought up a fist to the guy`s face catching him around his one eye before bringing his foot up and kicking him in the crouch and running over to Batman`s opponent and crossed his arms over his head, blocking the blow. Jason pulled back and shoved a fit under the man`s jaw quickly before upper cutting him with his foot and twisting around and swiping the fat man under the leg again for Batman and spun back around ducking another blow from the girl, as she passed Jason jabbed her in the side and quickly grabbed her into the side, she rounded back and Jason kneed her in the gut, as she staggered away Jason punched her in the face.
She fell down and then spun around yelling as she brought the sword to his arm, he felt the cold material cut his skin and gasped before she leapt at him again, Jason turned and jumped up the column and spun back around bringing his foot over her head she bent over dodging his attack and tried to cut him again. Jason growled and grab her arm pulling it behind he back and jabbing her in the upper shoulder before spinning her around and head butting her.
Jason took a deep breath breathing in the adrenaline. He turned around and watched Batman finishing off the last of him victim`s. He smiled and walked over to the man`s unconscious body, "I gotta say, I missed watching you work." He chuckled looking at Batman who only narrowed his eyes.
Jason saw the one eyed man jump behind them and fire, "Look out!" He yelled pushing Bruce out of the way and taking the blast in the chest. He flew back crashing onto the ground.
Jason coughed forcing the black splotches in his eyes to leave and let him get up. He forced himself up and blinked seeing the man walked up to him and kick him under the chin making him fall back and hit the floor again.
The one eyed man jumped on him pining down his feet and arms, Jason smiled behind the mask, "Awful close, you're afraid you`ll miss?"
"Black Mask just wants a body; we don't need your head!" He snapped back.
"Let him go."
Jason and the man snapped their heads to Batman who held the Taser in his hands. "And step away." Bruce growled.
"A Taser?" The man almost laughed. He jumped up twisting around Jason, "AO me and you electrocute both of us!"
Jason smiled darkly behind his Red hood, "Maybe that's what he has in mind." Jason whispered, he slipped his own Taser out of his sleeve and shoved it into the man`s eye. Jason jumped away watching with cold callus eyes as the man screamed grabbing his head.
"NO!" Batman yelled to late as the man`s brains splattered against the wall.
Jason turned around to glare at Bruce, "Just be happy I killed one of them, their all assassins!"
Batman narrowed his eyes, "And what are you?"
"I`m cleaning up Gotham, more than you ever did," Jason started to walk away when he heard Bruce take a step towards him, "Let me help you, tell me what happened."
Jason looked over his shoulder, "It`s too late for that." Jason rolled a gas can over the ground and with that disappeared.