𝐉𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄 𝐉𝐔𝐋𝐘 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏, jasonette

xv. 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧

(part three to dead)

Jason walked out of the graveyard feeling a palpable sense of loss and yet...yet, he felt lighter than before.

And for the first time, since he came to Paris, he actually looked around. His loss hit him harder, but in some ways, it made him feel a little better too – it reminded him of Marinette.

He smiled wistfully as he remembered the times Marinette would gush about Paris and how beautiful it was. Jason could see the appeal now.

He only wished Marinette was there.

**

An hour later, as he walked into his hotel room, Jason saw that he had 283 missed calls from literally every single member of his family.

He had left his phone here so that he didn't have to deal with the constant phone calls he would have definitely gotten.

Jason picked up his phone and sighed as he waited for it to start calling.

As soon as it started ringing, the phone was picked up by a hysterical Tim screaming, "FINALLY! Why didn't you pick up the goddamn phone?"

Jason huffed, his voice raspy. "Because idiot, I left it in the room. Now is there a reason why you're screeching like a banshee in my ear?"

"Oh," Tim quietened down and Jason relished the silence. Until, well, Dick apparently snatched the phone from Tim and screeched, "Marinette's a ghost!"

Jason sat up straight. "What the hell, Dick? That's not even funny."

He heard Barbara's voice in the background. "Dick, you idiot, we told you not to tell him like that."

"Can someone tell me what is going o-" Jason was interrupted by Tim, who said, "Check your email – I've mailed you a video."

Setting his phone aside, Jason opened his laptop and clicked on the mail. It was a video...from a camera near the graveyard.

What the hell?

"Why were you spying on me?" Jason asked into the phone, outraged.

He heard Damian snort. "Why, Todd? Because we were-"

"-worried about you!" Dick finished.

"I wasn't going to say that!" Damian yelled.

"I know," said Dick, apparently exasperated. "That's why I interrupted you. Anyway, have you watched the video yet, Jay?"

Jason involuntarily flinched. That was what Mari used to call him.

"No, not yet," he said, voice raspy.

He heard Tim sigh on the other side of the line. "Then watch it already!"

When Jason clicked on the video, he had to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

It showed him walking into the graveyard with about a hundred other ghostly people watching him!

"This is not some elaborate prank it is?" Jason suddenly asked.

Dick huffed into the phone. "Do you really think we'd actually do something like that?"

"Point." Jason conceded and unpaused the video.

It showed him putting the flowers and...Jason rubbed his eyes to make sure it wasn't a figment of his imagination.

Marinette as a ghost was watching him.

"What the actual fu-"

"Language, Jason," said Bruce.