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Buying Flowers for the Other…

Jason was not the ladies' man Bruce was. He was not the big romantic kind of guy like Dick was. He was not asexual like Tim was. And he sure as hell was not clueless like Damian was.

No, he was rather quiet about his liking of girls and dating in general.

He'd dated Donna Troy for about three years in college, they were good, but not right. She got her Mister Right thought with the ginger professor, Terry Long; a really good guy. And Jason hadn't been upset about how thing had ended with Donna, they were still friends, and they talked once a week.

After Donna was Kara Danvers, it was good. Kara was an energetic young woman and she was so lively he couldn't regret the thing he had with her. They dated for about four years, when they sort of drifted apart and she fell in love with a photographer who worked with her cousin; Jimmy Olsen. They were friends still, and it was nice to have a good friendship with Kara because it'd have been an evil bitch if she'd hated his guts.

And now he was going on a blind date set up by his eldest brother and Dick's wife, Kori, and was informed that he would have flowers.

It'd been about a year since he'd done the dating thing and he was really only doing this to appease his curiosity because Dick's daughter, Mar'i would not be quiet about how great Rae was. Even Damian liked the mysterious Rae.

Well, her name was actually Rachel Raven Roth, she did not have a single photo of herself on her Facebook; he'd checked, she did not have any social media accounts, she was an editor at one of Bruce's publishing houses, and according to Kori could use a nice dinner date. Jason was up for it, mostly out of curiosity, also when he heard about Rae's horrible situation. Rachel Roth had a stalker who had been harassing her since college, and Jason had agreed to this because there were two things he didn't like in life. Men who brutalized and terrorized women. And men who brutalized and terrorized children.

Also, after hearing about Rachel's unwinnable situation, he felt she could do with something nice, and he might get to beat the shit out of an asshole harassing her. He wasn't a knight in shining armor, he knew that, however, he wasn't a schmuck who was just going to sit by and let an innocent live in hell because of an asshole if he could help he was going to help.

Trust him, he'd been through the shitter and come out the other side. He got how epically life could suck, and he also knew that sometimes receiving a gesture from a stranger was a hopeful sign that there was more to life than hell. Also, he was exceedingly curious about the woman since the only description he had of her was small, gothic, and creepy; and that was from Garfield Logan who was a friend of Kori's. Kori had hit him for that and said Rachel was a pretty, quiet girl who was not creepy.

Interest was piqued at the contradiction which was why he was here.

Standing on the corner, contemplating smoking a cigarette, flowers; simple red flowers (HE WAS NOT STANDING OUT HERE HOLDING PINK FLOWERS FOR ANY GIRL! IT WASN'T HAPPENING SO DICK COULD FORGET THAT!), in hand, and waiting in the cool autumn air of Gotham's evening.

"Jason?" a soft, smoky voice asked hesitantly which had his eyes landing on the owner of the voice.

She was tiny alright, he was pretty sure she was a foot shorter than him, she was ivory and ebony, her hair was the color of a raven's wing, and her large eyes were an exotic, undefine dark color which could either be onyx or the color of the Hope Diamond, red lips he couldn't decide if they were painted or natural, but her skin was ivory. She had that light frame, like she was a ballerina, and standing posed like a doe on the verge to bolt. It was such a contradiction as she stood there in a white sundress, black boots, and a black leather jacket. She looked like a dame in a fifties movie: gorgeous and out of place but classy.

"Rachel?" he asked.

"Hello," she said, her face was the perfect poker face as she stared at him with those huge dark eyes and he wondered what she was looking for.

"Ready for our date?" he asked.

"Where are we going?" she asked.

"Ah, that's the wonderful surprise," he assured her. "For you."

She looked s stunned as she hesitantly took them.

"No one's ever gotten me flowers before," she murmured.

"Really? What morons were you dating?" he asked as she shyly smiled at the flowers and he offered her his arm.

"I don't…" she muttered and when they were standing directly under a street light he saw the paling yellow bruise on the side of her face and frowned.

"Kori said you had a stalker," he said.

"Yeah… I get it if you tell me to go now," she said softly as they reached the cross walk.

"Nonsense, but I want to know if he's the one to give you that bruise," he said. Her eyes widened and she shook a bit, but didn't deny it. Slowly she nodded.

"Alright, we'll go from there," he said as he guided her across the street.

"You don't have to… Kori only told me to come because I can't let him control my life," she muttered sourly.

"That's okay, I only came because I'm curious and just itching to beat the shit out of an asshole who could harass a woman," he smiled. She stared at him with wide eyes again and he thought her to be the prettiest, oddest, woman he had ever laid eyes on.

"Curious about what?"

"Well, you, Gar said you were creepy and goth, Kori said you were quiet and pretty, and Dick swears you're the sweetest girl ever," Jason said.

"I'm not very nice."

"Neither am I," he assured her, she snickered as she looked at the flowers again.

"Also, I'm here because I was curious too," she admitted.

"Ah, see, this is the start of a beautiful relationship, curiosity," he chuckled.

"I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a beautiful start," Rae said.

"Valid point," he agreed. "But hey, if we have a good time and I get to beat the shit out of a stalker then I think it's a win."

"Me too," she smiled beautifully.

She was something so beautifully out of place that he decided that this might not be such a bad start to whatever this was as she sniffed the flowers again.

That's all for now folks!

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