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Having a Lazy Day…
In their chosen professions, lazy days were a rarity. A real rarity.
It was almost as rare as Arkham actually holding a prisoner. So, Jason wasn't questioning his luck at having a day off, with his girl, and laying in the morning sun on the grass, in the park with a book. It was Raven's idea for their date, a reading date as she'd called it; and he just happened to have a new novel he was aching to read. She was currently his pillow as she lay on her stomach with her feet crossed in the air.
"We should buy groceries," Raven muttered.
"I'm not moving," he warned her. "The moment either of us move to do something serious is the moment something will happen and I'm not putting my book down until I finish it."
"Agreed," she replied solemnly. The best thing about dating a bookworm, and happening to be a booklover too, was that they understood the need to finish the fucking book! No one in the Bats, aside from maybe Alfred, understood the need to finish the book, and Jason liked finishing his books.
Which was why, laying the park's grass, in Gotham (because he'd managed to coax Raven to coming to visit him in Gotham for the weekend, they'd been commuting, but usually he just went to New York where she went to school), using Raven's small back as his pillow as he read his book.
'Your family might see us,' she had argued, and since Jason knew how Bruce felt about metas and knew a demon was so much worse than a meta he'd let that argument work before. However, Dick and Kori were expecting a kid and that made every 'I don't trust metas' argument Bruce had invalid. Which was why Jason had resorted to a low blow on Raven's pride.
'Are you scared of a human Bat?' he had asked her, she was there in an hour. She'd come to prove she wasn't intimidated, just like he knew she would. And he had even cleaned up his preferred safe house for her weekend here, only to remember he didn't have food. However, today was too good of a day to go shopping and enduring Gotham's insanity.
Besides, demon brat, Replacement and Agent A all knew he was dating Raven (simply because they had accidentally stumbled across their dating, at different various times), so her coming to Gotham was natural. No, he had not told Dick or Bruce, if he'd told them they'd have scared off Raven, and coaxing the pretty little bird to be with him was challenging enough.
Dick would scare Raven off with his openness, Dick and Raven while good friends, were very different people, and Dick was an open guy who would start dragging him and Raven around on double dates and stuff and Raven would bolt. Truthfully Jason would bolt to, it'd be too much pressure for them when they were figuring this thing out.
As to Bruce, Bruce would pull his disapproving father routine (not that he had any fucking right to do that, at least with Jason, in his mind) and Raven would bolt, thinking she was ruining things between him and his family. Raven took family seriously and she didn't like messing with other's families. And Jason would probably pursue her, she'd say 'no' thinking he was doing it to piss off Bruce and that would be the end of that.
Jason and Raven were cautious, not just about their relationship but approaching it. Honestly, it was so natural it freaked them both out, and it was precious enough that they both approached it like a carefully drawn up battle plan. It'd been this way for about a year, and slowly he found they were something steady, he'd have bolted, but Raven was also ready to bolt so he stuck around.
Fucking abandonment issues, they both had it and they were both careful with their relationship because of it.
And getting Raven here, for a weekend, and actually having a lazy day with her… well, it was like winning the fucking lottery in his mind and he was not going to jeopardize that. So, to keep the very good, happy, peaceful, lazy day going, he was just going to lay here with his girl and read his book as she read hers'. It was a good morning, and quiet as Gotham cautiously attacked it's day, the park would fill in the afternoon, but right now it was peaceful. Which was why the first boot to kick his ribs had him and Raven jumping as they looked at the batbrat.
"What are you two doing?" he asked.
"Reading date," they answered.
"Tt, ridiculous" Damian snorted.
"If that's all you have to say, go away," Jason ordered as he again settled with Raven as his pillow and she turned her undivided attention on the book.
"I draw here!" Damian snapped.
"Large park, we were here first, go elsewhere," Jason warned.
"Be nice," Raven ordered.
He didn't reply to his girlfriend as he resumed reading. Damian was gone the next time he looked up and Jason rolled his eyes. It was Saturday, no school, but Bruce letting the little assassin out, alone into Gotham was unbelievable, mostly because Bruce didn't let them into the city alone. But it wasn't his concern, he wasn't Bruce's kid, and he was a grown man capable of making his own decisions. Jason and Raven lay there in companionable silence, their positions shifting a little as they read.
It was around noon when he felt hungry and he peeked at Raven who was using him as her pillow now.
"Food?" he asked her.
"Is something going to explode?" she wryly asked.
"Fair point, we can skip lunch, I'll make a huge dinner," he agreed. This was Gotham, and it was a quiet day, the moment he moved to get them lunch at a hotdog vender or something the bank would be robbed. He shifted when Raven sat up and he used her lap as a pillow.
"Master Jason, Master Damian said you and Miss Raven were here," Alfred appeared which had him putting his book on his chest as he blinked dumbly at the butler.
"Uh…" Jason started.
"Did we do something?" Raven hissed at him.
"Not that I know of," he replied.
"No, you didn't, but as you and Miss Raven are here I must insist you come to the Manor for dinner," Alfred said.
"Sure," Raven answered for him.
"Hey!"
"You don't have food in that fridge, and if we get up something will happen to ruin our lazy day, dinner plans ensure lazy day," Raven said, never looking up from her book.
"Clever, but you'll deal with Bruce," he warned her.
"If nothing explodes I don't care," Raven answered.
"Glad to see Miss Raven is forcing you to take a day off," Alfred smiled a bit.
"Not forced," they answered. "It's just a coincidence nothing has happened."
"I see, well, I will leave you to your lazy day, dinner is at six o'clock," Alfred said as he walked off.
"Good book?" he asked her.
"Excellent, yours?"
"Great."
The silence ensued, and Jason did not move as the afternoon sun beat on them in the relative safety of the tree they had settled under.
"Wow, Damian said you two hadn't moved but I didn't think you'd be here," a voice said, sounding a amused.
"Next time we stay at the apartment," Raven said.
"Go away Replacement," Jason said as he turned the page of his book. "Lazy day here and Bats attract trouble, leave now."
"See you two love birds at dinner then!" Tim laughed.
"Any other relatives you'd like to spring on me?" Raven asked.
"We've been here since," he looked at his phone then and noted the missed calls from Dick and Barbara, and then looked at Raven. "We've been here since eight, it's three o'clock, we're lucky that Bruce hasn't found us."
"Mmm, reading," Raven said. He agreed as he opened his book again and resumed his story. It was nice, having lazy days, but more than that it was nice actually getting to read.
"Raven!" a loud, happy voice boomed which had him and Raven bolting up from their shade; they'd been playing follow the shadow.
"Slow down Kori!" Dick shouted.
"It is glorious to see you Raven!" Kori was hugging Raven and Jason was about to leap into a tree when Dick appeared.
"Jason!?" Dick looked shocked.
"Uh… surprise? Seriously, just one day with my girlfriend and no family would be nice," he muttered as he scowled at his book page number, he was about a hundred pages from the end. Rats, and the moment dinner was over there was going to be some fucking emergency and the lazy day he and Raven had been enjoying would be shot to hell.
"Wait? You two are dating!?" Dick asked.
"Yes! Raven said she had a boyfriend, I am most pleased that it is you Jason!" Kori announced gleefully.
"It's five-thirty, we should head to the Manor for dinner now," Jason muttered as he stood, he offered Raven a hand and she took it. "Yes, Dickhead, we're dating."
"About a year," Raven said.
"Does the family know!?"
"Alfred, Replacement and Demon Spawn," Jason answered dryly and Raven slammed an elbow in his ribs.
"But not Bruce, Kori we're going to the family dinner! This is going to be great!" Dick announced.
And there went the lazy day.
Wrapping an arm around Raven's waist they walked and Dick and Kori enthusiastically filled them in on everything. The lazy day they had had was now dead.
But it'd been nice having a lazy day. He'd have to make sure they did it more often. But next time he was going to New York for it. No bad shit like Bats or explosions happened in New York.
There was an explosion behind them and Raven sighed.
"I told you once we got up there'd be an explosion," she muttered.
He laughed as he kissed her temple and hauled her to the subway before they were dragged into a conflict. It was a lazy day!
Finally! I have time to catch up on the prompts a bit so there'll be a flood of these.
That's all for now folks!
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