not deaths bitch | jason todd

[ xviii ]

[ eighteen : déjà vu ]

two days later

IT ALL SEEMED TOO FAMILIAR, she had been listening to the conversation between Bruce and Jason.

"And I though I'd be the last person you'd let him hurt." Jason told batman, lowering his gun. His eyebrows frowned as he looked down at the Joker. "If it had been you he'd beat to a bloody pulp, if he had taken you from this world, I would have done nothing but search the planet for this pathetic pile of evil, death worshipping garbage and sent him to hell."

She kept the com piece in her head and went to the first vehicle she could find. Anastasia hopped into a motor cycle as she continued listening to their conversation.

"You don't understand," Bruce informed him, "I don't think you've ever understood." She could hear Jason grumble, knowing Bruce would give him the same compute generated speech.

"What?!" He taunted, "what, your moral code just won't allow for that? It's too hard to cross that line!"

"No! God almighty! No, it'll be to damn easy, all I've ever wanted to do was kill him, a day doesn't go by when I don't think about subjecting him to every horrendous torture he's dealt out to others and then end him!"

She raced along the streets as fast as she could, it was earlier familiar. She wanted to go faster but she heard the horrid voice of the psychotic clown, she slowed down just a bit.

"Oh, so you do think about me." The Joker sounded cocky as he interrupted Batman.

"But if I do that, if I allow myself to go down and into that place...I'll never come back."

There was a six car pile up on her way to the building Jason was at, 'fuck' she thought as there seemed to be no other way to get there.

"Why? I'm not talking about killing Penguin or Scarecrow or Dent, I'm talking about killing just him and doing it because-because, he took me away from you."

Anastasia felt trapped in her shaking body, she looked around, there were emergency responders and piled up cars everywhere she looked. She needed to get to Jason before he made an impulsive decision.

Jason's next words shocked her, "and he didn't just take me from you, what about Tasi? Didn't you care about her?!"

Oh fuck, he must've seen the hundreds of new reports, though Anastasia as she tried to think her way out of the sticky situation she found herself in.

"Jason, you don't understand. I can't, I'm sorry."

The Joker chimed in, "aw that's so sweet!"

Anastasia was sickened, she hopped off the motorcycle and ran towards the ally way, her hair was being pushed back and her legs were starting to feel numb but nothing was going to stop her from getting  to him.

She had to slow down, though and pace herself because she still had a far distance to go.

She heard Jason load his gun, "well you won't have a choice."

"I won't." Batman had told him with a strong voice, Jason must've thrown him a gun, she was trembling as she continued to run through ally ways and through crowds of people.