This chapter is embarrassingly short...

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Chapter 4 - Do You Trust Me?

"Mmmm. 'Ason?" Jason looks down when he hears his name being mumbled and sees baby blue eyes staring up at him.

"Hey, Babybird. You alright?" he asks sitting up a bit more so that he's leaned back against the corner of the wall where they fell asleep the night before.

Tim looks down and sniffles before burying his face in Jason's chest. Jason wraps his arms around the smaller boy, trying to give as much comfort as possible. It happened to him too, more times that he'd like to count. A tiny kid running around Crime Alley all by himself...That's pretty much a big invitation to creeps, and he knows that all he wanted was to be held by someone he knew wouldn't hurt him, someone he knew was safe, someone he knew would protect him. He's done his best to show the Tim that he's all three of those things, and it's obviously worked since the kid seems to trust him now.

"Would you be mad if I killed myself?" Jason looks down, startled, both because he wasn't expecting the kid to talk and also because of the words that he said.

"Kid, I don't know how I would feel, but it definitely would not be good. I know how you feel. It happened to me too before. It was hard, but I got through it. The difference is, I was all by myself. I didn't have anyone who I could trust to protect me. That's what I'm gonna do for you. I promise I'll protect you from everything I can. Do you trust me to do that? Do you trust me at all?" Jason asks sincerely.

Tim studies something in his eyes before nodding, a small smile on his face, "With my life."

Jason smiles back, and brings the boy back into his chest where he plans to keep him for as long as he can. Tim doesn't seem to mind being there, and Jason is living a life-long dream. He always did want a little brother...


Like I said, embarrassingly short.

Next chapter you see Tim's side of things :D

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