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Jason was running.
Sprinting through the narrow corridors of the basement, like the devil was on his heels.
He wasn’t.
For Jason wasn’t running away from something. He was running towards someone.
Running to find his Replacement.
To find the kid he had once hurt so badly.
Find the boy that he had once left, bleeding out on the towers floor, where no one came. No one came for so long.
To the child that he, the goddamn perpetrator had had to fix up, because there should never be anymore dead robins, but no one came!
Running towards the little brother he had cared for and reconciled with while the alarms blared around him.
The brother who had dug him out from bomb-rubble and treated his bleeding throat despite fearing the bat.
The brother who never judged him for going back to Talia to train. Train to kill and using that training.
The brother that had given everything for his family just to be disregarded again and again.
His brother that had been missing for weeks and no one had told him.
His little brother that was still inside this fucking basement, rigged to blow!
A low curse escaped Jason when finally saw Tim.
Red Robin was lying inside a steadily growing puddle of his own blood. Bound to the Bomb that would send them sky high in
-30 - seconds
Jason sank down next to his brother. Peeling of his mask to find icy blue eyes staring at him in a mixture of hope, disbelieve and despair.
“Everything is going to be fine Baby bird” He tried to sooth. Knowing it was a lie but wishing to wipe that pained look from his baby brothers face.
-20-
The timer ticked mercilessly as Tim tried to say something only for blood to drip from his mouth.
Jason knew he meant to say run.
-10-
He hugged the younger close carefully, unwilling to hurt him even further yet desperate to show him he’s here.
The first time he had died in pain and alone.
And he would rather die again than let that happen to his brother.
Jason smiled as the timer reached zero.
There was pain-
Then there was nothing.