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Chapter II
Jason work up early the next morning, and like every morning he saw Dick snoozing quietly beside him. He stared at him for a few moments, admiring the outline of his face, and how each black strand of hair fell perfectly on top of each other in a beautiful yet disheveled manner. A soft smile twitched on his lips and slowly he sat up to peek out the window. The sun was not out yet.
His eyes wondered up to the alarm clock,which told him it was around around six in the morning. He tiptoed around the mattress to his room where after some searching he found a pile of sticky notes and pen. He scribbled on the neon yellow paper before returning to Dick's room and gently pressing it into his forehead.
He felt bad for leaving, but he wanted to spend his birthday with someone he had not seen for a long time. Jason tossed on a green shirt and a pair of black jeans, then sneaked out.
A few hours later Dick woke up and was surprised to see a sticky note attached to his forehead and his boyfriend missing. He was not really surprised that Jason was not in bed, there was only a handful of times that he can remember when he woke up before Jason. Making a sound that was between a yawn and grunt he reached up and grabbed the sticky note, Went to the Cemetery. -Jason. Dick knew Jason and he knew the only reason why he did not wait for him to wake up so they could go together was because he wanted to be alone. However, sometimes being alone is not the right choice, and Dick knew he had to go follow him.
Dick stood up and stumbled to the kitchen holding the note in his hand. Mary was in the kitchen, humming a song and making some coffee. "Morning..." Dick greeted her, sleepily.
"Good morning, Richard." Mary smiled up at him, while pouring some coffee in a cup. "Is Jason still asleep? I was hoping to make him a good breakfast for his birthday."
Dick handed her the note, her eyes skimmed quickly over it, "Do you think we should go meet him there?"
Dick nodded, "Yeah."
Holding a bouquet of flowers Jason entered the cemetery. He was nervous about seeing his mother. It had been so long since he had visited her yet his feet remembered where to go. There was some new headstones and new grave markers but the path stayed the same.
As far as Jason could tell, there was only one other person in the cemetery. It was a boy a few years younger than him with pale skin and dark black hair. The boy glanced up at him, and his eyes were so blue it caught Jason off guard. From the look in the boy's eyes and the name on the stone Jason figured the kid had lost his father. As he walked passed the teenager, Jason clasped his shoulder firmly, and then continued to walk away.
Jason found his mother's grave, and as soon as his eyes saw her name he froze. He stood there for an hour, or maybe it was two. Despite the wait, he found the words, "Hey Mom..." he set down the flowers. "I know its been a long time...and I -" he could feel it happening a sudden rush of emotion was threatening to overcome him.
Afraid if he became too emotional he was going to fall, he knelt down and with a choked sob admitted, "I've missed you so much."
The tears rolled down his cheek, because he missed her and he wanted her to be there. He wanted to hug her, and he wanted to tell her all the things he'd seen on road and tell her about Dick but he could not. She would never know any of the things he had done or the people that he had met and he wished she was alive.
He heard someone step behind and kneel, he figured it was the boy he had recently encountered, but when he looked back he realized it was Mary, with John and Dick who were not far behind her. Mary did not say anything, instead she wrapped her arms around Jason's shoulders. He broke at her touch, he sobbed into the base of her neck and weakly wrapped his arms around her.
"Shhhh...it's okay, it's okay Jason." Mary told him, battling the urge to cry herself.
"I miss her so much..." he revealed, in a torn voice.
Dick hated seeing other people cry, especially Jason. He turned away, and tried to hide his face by looking down. John put an arm around his shoulders, and whispered, "Remember, you have to be strong for him."
"...Yeah."
After Jason had calmed down, Mary and John lingered for a little longer before leaving him alone with Dick.
Dick had brought a blanket with him, and laid it out. He tried to ignore the awkwardness in the air, because sex last night failed and Jason was not speaking. Dick offered Jason his hand and guided him onto the yellow blanket. He wrapped his arms around the younger man's waist. Jason relaxed a little, and he could feel Dick's strong chest press against his back.
"I wonder what it's like to die." Jason thought out loud, morbidly.
The statement caught Dick of guard, and for a few moments he did not answer."You're asking the wrong person, because I have never died." he responded, speaking in a low soft tone. "You did, you don't remember anything of that?"
Jason sighed, "Nope, but I do remember waking up really scared but..." he twisted around and laid a chaste kiss on Dick's cheek. "You fixed that."
Dick blushed, and glanced down at the grass, it felt strange knowing that were on top of a casket, "I wish I could have met her."
Hearing that almost made Jason want to cry again, but he blinked away the tears. He was always sensitive when it came to talking about his mother.
"I wish you could have met her too."
Dick gazed at the plaque, and said, "Mrs. Todd, I'm going to give something special to your son for his birthday, but I figured it might be better if I give to him right now and in front of you, maybe I can get your approval?"
Jason moved off of Dick so he could see him clearly, he was curious about what Dick was doing.
"Since you're going to start school soon, I wanted you to have this so everyone knows that you're taken." from his pocket, Dick slipped out a small cardboard box and handed it to Jason.
Heart pounding, Jason took the box and glanced at his mother, then back at Dick. He opened it and inside was simple bronze colored ring.
"It's a promise ring."
Jason blushed fiercely, and wrapped his arms around Dick. The pair of them tumbled down into the blanket.
"Hey, what do you think, Mom?" Jason asked her, placing another kiss on Dick's cheek. "You think I should accept this ring?"
Dick laughed, and wrapped his arms around Jason when a robin fluttered down from one of the trees and landed on the blanket right next to them. The bird hopped closer to the pair, tweeting and singing. Jason suddenly felt at ease, and peered down and Dick, "I think I'm going to take that as a yes." "Good." Dick kissed Jason, and smiled.
They stayed at the cemetery until sunset, and down the sidewalk holding hands. On the way home they passed a newspaper stand, the front page on most of the local newspapers were about Batman and Batgirl. A few headlines were about Catwoman too, and her partner Stray.
"I just got a text from Calvin," Dick caught Jason's attention. "He says he has a present for you, you wanna stop buy his apartment on the way?"
"Ummm, yeah, okay."