Little Grayson |Titans|

|Chapter XLVIII: Sell Jobs|

"Jason, would you stop trying to wear a path into the floor by pacing all over it?" Victoria asked and Jason glared at her, as Victoria sighed. "Fine, Todd. Just keep up your walking, and I swear that I will put you on your ass in five seconds." Victoria stated.

"Bullshit." Jason stated calmly, easily calling her bluff out and he went right back to continuing his many attempts to make a new path in the training room floor. Victoria stood up and she was a blur, as she disappeared out of the training room and she blurred past a stunned Gar Logan, who was surprised at the wind inside.

Victoria knocked on Liliana's open door and Liliana was awake, having gotten at least three hours of consistent sleep thanks to Jason's ability to calm her down, as she stood up at the sight of Victoria. "Sorry about this, but Jason is trying to pace a path into the floor and is definitely now all too ready, to explode with anticipation of releasing his suspicions onto the rest of us about the new girl. So, I need your help." Victoria said and Liliana nodded slightly, as she silently picked up the bag of weapons and tucked her bo-staff into the back of her pants, as she followed Victoria.

Liliana listened to her music that ran through her headphones and she was briefly surprised to see Dick talking with the silver-haired girl, but she got over it quickly after they stared at her for a while and she walked after Victoria into the training room. "Seriously?" Jason asked as he spotted Victoria walking into the room and Liliana following a few steps behind. "Not cool, V."

"I was already awake, Jason. Now how about training, rather than a newfound ability to walkathon for a while?" Liliana suggested and he swung the wooden sword up, as she put the bag down and Gar immediately bolted over to take a look.

"Be forewarned, I made a lot of those myself. They might have unintended consequences for you, if you try." Liliana advised, but Gar was already combing through the devices. "Live and learn." Liliana stated, as Victoria tossed her a sword and she caught it after fumbling a little with the catch. Jason's eyes lit up with a sudden idea and Liliana raised her eyebrows at him.

"What if you fought with two short swords?" Jason questioned and Liliana looked over at Victoria, who tossed over another one and this time, Liliana caught it and she spun the two in her hands and she cracked a grim, small smile. "Better?" He asked and she was shaking her head a little.

"To be frank, I am really just kind of pissed, that I didn't figure it out for myself sooner." Liliana said and to neither one's surprise, Rachel and Gar both looked extremely confused and Jason's eyes flicked over to them.

"Bo-staff requires two hands, so do escrima. Asking her to hold just one weapon and in just one hand, it drives her completely off-balance and off-kilter. That would be why and the reason for it, why she just had so much trouble just catching one." Jason said as Liliana took a few practice swings and practice jabs at the air. She was just trying to get used to the weight of the new and somewhat foreign to her, the new and heavier weapons.

"But she can lift a heavy-ass wooden staff with one hand? You do realize that statement, makes no sense to anyone right, Jason?" Rachel asked and Liliana looked over at her and she spun the swords.

"I have been trained in Bōjutsu since the day I could walk, Rachel. It is a different way of holding it and it uses different muscles. After I got the basics of bo-staff down, I decided to do something else and I ended up starting double the work, of using escrima as well with two weapons, one in each hand instead of just one in both." Liliana responded and Rachel looked over at her.

"Then do tell us this, Liliana. Do you have a bo-staff or do you end up using escrima in all of those nightmares, when you always wake us all up or keep us all up, all of with your fucking screams, all night long?" Rachel asked harshly and Victoria blurred into the middle of Jason's path and Liliana's, as they were both ready to lunge at Rachel for that and Victoria shook her head at them.

"You're a whiny little bitch, Rachel Roth. Can you even control your powers?" Liliana questioned and Rachel pursed her lips at the question and Liliana was shaking her head at her. "That is what I thought." Liliana said coldly and she shook off Victoria's hand. "I need a brew, Jason?" She asked and he nodded, as they walked off to the kitchen.

Jason caught up and Liliana walked into her room, as she had a hidden minifridge and she opened it, pulling out a beer for each of them and Jason took one of them and she shut the door to the minifridge. "Am I that bad?" Liliana asked as they sat on the edge of her bed facing the window and cracked open the beers.

"Not with me, you're not." Jason said and Liliana elbowed him in the ribs at the words and he winced. "No seriously, you aren't. She was just trying to push your buttons, Lili. You aren't that bad at night. It is just that back in Gotham, the only people that listened to it were Bruce, Alfred and I. We didn't know anything different after it started to happen." Jason pointed out and he looked over at her, as Liliana nodded slightly, and she drank the beer.

"You aren't just saying that, right?" She clarified and Jason rolled his eyes at her words, as he nudged her arm and she sighed. "Here." She muttered and Jason took the beer and finished it as she was shaking her head. "Bruce would kill me for letting you drink beer. Secret safe?" She asked and Jason chuckled.

"Obviously. Why the fuck would I ever give your secret up about giving me beer, when the entire damn secret would get us both in trouble for this?" Jason asked and Liliana lifted her shoulder in a shrug, as he moved his arm around her and Liliana was silently looking out of the window at the darkness in the city.

"When do you think that we'll get to go back to Gotham?" Liliana asked the question that had been on both of their minds the entire time that they had been in San Francisco and Jason was looking over at her, as she had raised eyebrows in response to his look.

"Probably when Dick thinks that we're both... no sorry. Whenever he thinks that I am finally ready to go back to Gotham." Jason's tone of voice had venom in it and Liliana winced a little bit as she looked down. "Sorry." He murmured with a warmer tone in his voice, as she took one of his hands in hers.

"Just don't become another Bruce, all right?" Liliana murmured and Jason smiled a little at her words, as he was shaking his head and she rested her head on his shoulder. "Bruce trained Dick, who became him. He also trained you and I. Let's keep our independence from his personality, yeah?" She questioned and Jason squeezed her hand in response.

"You got it, Lili." He said and she rolled her eyes.

"Shut up, Bird Boy." Was the response.

"Oh, you're so gonna regret that one, Grayson!" Jason promised and Liliana, immediately was scrambling to get away from him, as Jason had begun to tickle her and Liliana was laughing as she tried to get away. "Get back here!" Jason called out as Liliana darted out of the door and took off running, as Jason was running after her, both of them laughing their heads off, while everyone looked on in complete confusion.