Cardinal Sins (Sequel to ARS) Jason Todd x Roy Harper x fem!reader

Ready to Let Go

song by cage the elephant

A week later, you get a letter saying your parents want to see you this upcoming weekend. You can't help but think that maybe things could be looking up after all.

While reading the letter, you suddenly feel eyes on you. Your eyes shoot up instantly, catching a brief glimpse of blonde hair. If you didn't know any better, you'd swear the person had been Samantha. You blink exaggeratedly before rubbing at your eyes to confirm that you're 100% just sleep deprived and that it'd all been a mirage. After all, it's not easy to get much sleep when every time you close your eyes, you just see him.

You don't know what comes over you, but you don't mention your parent's letter to anyone. It's for the best anyway, considering both men are more preoccupied with putting a cranky, sugar-crazed Lian to sleep than they are with the wrinkled paper in your hand.

"She get into the snack cabinet again?" you ask, highly amused with the entire situation.

Roy's tired, light green eyes narrow. "What do you think?"

You snort, "When you're tired, you sound just like, Jay, baby."

Roy sticks out his tongue, which you quickly suck into your mouth. Your lips meet his chapped ones briefly before he's forced to pull apart when Lian begins to wail.

"I'M NOT TIRED!"

"That's exactly what someone who's tired would say," Roy responds tonelessly with a sigh.

"DAD, I'M NOT," she cries. Seeing dad isn't going to budge, she switches her tactics. "DADDY!"

Jason just shakes his head as he reaches down to scoop her up into his muscular arms. "You want me to read to you?"

The red, tear-faced little girl sniffles as she weighs her options. Her dark eyes move from Jason, to you, then to Roy before falling on Jason again. She gives a cute nod and cuddles into his neck while she pouts at her exhausted dad. As Jason carries Lian to her room, you hear the little girl mumble to her daddy, "Dad was mean to me."

Jason laughs, "Dad gets mean when he's tired, just like another Harper I know."

With Lian finally being put down for a nap, Roy wastes no time in picking you up and throwing you over his shoulder.

"The fuck, Roy!" you exclaim as you grasp at his shirt. You know there's no way he'd ever drop you, you know, considering he does the whole hero thing for a living and all, but still, being upside-down is never comforting.

Instead of responding, he drops you down on the bed before slinking over to you.

"Wanna makeout?" he asks.

You smirk lightly. "I thought you were tired."

"Yeah," he says as he straddles you. You quirk a questioning brow as he then leans down so that his lips are mere centimeters from yours. "That was until you fucked my tongue."

Your nose wrinkles in distaste. "What a fucking gross way to describe what I did."

"Just kiss me already, princess," he murmurs before capturing your lips with his. His soft hands gently come up to cup your cheeks, deepening the kiss steadily as he does so until, eventually, he teasingly slips the tip of his tongue into your mouth. You flick at the appendage, chasing after it when it retreats to lewdly draw him back into your mouth.

Jason walks in to see Roy straddling your torso, grinding down into you while the two of you gasp dramatically into each other's mouths. At the clearing of Jason's throat, Roy breaks away but only briefly to throw his shirt off, then yours, before diving back in.