SHE WAS RAISED TO STAND SILENT, he had to scream to survive. We are all a product of our environment, but they're not as different as they think. They are both scared, hurt, longing for something.
She's an assassin, a prodigy, the granddaughter of...
"GAR? WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?" My eyes darted over to him and all my senses sparked into high alert.
He was breathing heavily and on the verge of tears when he finally got close to me, he reached out to me like he was going to fall. I didn't understand why, but instinctively, I held his arms to keep him steady. My eyes stayed fixated on him, waiting for him to tell me what the hell was going on.
"Jason... he..." Gar tried to speak. My attention was on full alert now; Jason, that idiot was in trouble.
"What happened to Jason? Why the hell were you out of the tower in the first place." I tried to look him in the eyes but his gaze was all over the place.
"Doctor Light... he... he got Jason." Finally Gar looked at me, his eyes swimming with a thousand emotions. None of them I knew or understood, but I tried the best I could.
Something in me burst, a hot feeling spread in my chest, I tried to push it down like usual but it was harder this time.
"How-? Why-?" I shook my head. "Nevermind, get back to the tower, we'll figure it out from there."
I left Gar to get back on his own, dashing into the nearby shadows. There was no time for me to wait on Gar, I had to go fast, and this was the fastest I could go. My feet barely touched the ground, and my hair whipped around my face; my thoughts found there way to a single statement 'I should've rode my motorcycle.'
When I finally entered the elevator into the tower, I'd never felt so pathetic. It was moving at a horrifyingly slow pace, something I would bring up to Dick later. They needed stairs in this place, I could move faster than this wretched machine.
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Now I was growing more and more pissed by the second, there we were, all shuffled around a computer, when someone could be dying. That was no way to treat one of your own.
"Can this thing go any faster?" My eyes trained on the loading tracker signal.
"No." Dick snapped back at me.
I wasn't in the mood. Without hesitation I pulled out a blade and brought it to his neck. And Gar, who stood nearby, his eyes grew into saucers. "If it wasn't for you Jason would be here. Do you hear that? This is all your fucking fault, so you better figure it out or I'll start doing things my way."
"Maria-"
"Speak my name again and your head will become my new sword accessory." My eyes bared into his head as I slowly lowered my sword. "I want you to think very carefully about what you're going to do about this."
Sighing he continued to work on the tracking device, only to come to the conclusion that that wouldn't work. They'd need to go underground to even get a read.
I was done wasting time, I was trained to do things the right way and sitting on your ass taping on a computer was the worst way there was.
Without another word I dashed out of the room, threw on my suit and hopped on my motorcycle, taking it right down into the sewers.
The sludge splashed everywhere as the wheels trudged through the dark water. The dim lights reminded me of home, but the sour smell was a bit more then a subtle annoyance.
"Jason Todd, where are you?" I mumbled scowering the dark tunnels for a clue, something, anything.
I went around everywhere, I found a plethora of blood and other samples of DNA, but nothing lead anywhere. No matter what I tried I was just going in circles.
It was humiliating, I was a highly trained descendant of Ra's Al Ghul, and I couldn't do a simple find and rescue. Then I realized, there was only one person who could be doing this, only one person with the training.
Deathstroke.
A panic set into me, these feelings were so foreign, so desolate, I felt sick to my stomach. Over the last few months something had changed in me. Before I wouldn't think twice about going after anyone, but this wasn't about killing someone, no this was about saving someone. Something I'd never done before.
Pushing these feelings down I pressed on, he was here somewhere, I didn't have time to take pity on myself, emotions were nothing but a nuisance, i had no place for them.
Then I heard a blood curdling scream, it was faint and far away, but I knew exactly who it was.
Moving at top speed I drove towards the sound till it finally stopped while I was at a flight of stairs. I wasted no time jumping off my motorcycle and dashing up into a large room. But the scream had fade and all that was left was a puddle of warm blood and a chair covered in cut ties I could assume were used to hold him down.
I examined the chair, looking for the tracker I assumed had been pulled out based on the way the blood was splattered, but nothing was there. Before I could come to some kind of rational thought, the blood that had gotten on my hands reminded me that this was no longer me fighting Dicks stupid little battles, this was personal, this was between me and deathstroke now. I didn't care how it started, all the Titan fuck ups that had brought deathstroke upon us, Jason was my student in some regards, and somehow I think he'd even classified as my friend.
So I sucked in the hot tears, a feeling I hadn't felt in so long it stung my eyes, and set my jaw before running back down the stairs, hopping on my motorcycle and driving out of the tunnels.
Stiffening my body and gripping tight to the handles, I stared straight ahead and brought to mind every bit of training I'd ever had. I was a cold blooded killer, assassin, with the training and blood of a legend, to some even a god. As far as deathstroke knew he was in a dog fight with the Titans, I was a glad surprize.
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AN: EXTREMELY short chapter but I felt really bad about not having anything especially as I saw that people were still reading and saving it anyway, so I thought I'd give yeah a little something for now
especially cause there are very few Titans fics for Jason (at least that I can find) so I did my best
