SMS from Roy:
"There's never too much ʀᴇᴅ, Red."
Jason's note on the fridge:
"Except for when you have to wash the ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ from your clothes, GINGERbread Boy."
¦Bats and Stones Won't Break My Bones¦
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"ROY!"
Roy was in the shower when Jason called him. He sighed, yet another time that day. He's been doing it quite a lot, he noticed. Living with the Red Hood and all. He and Arsenal are a fiery mix. Going back to the shower incident that concerned Jason in the cabin and Roy with a flamethrower, quite literally.
"What?!" He yelled back.
"She whelped! My adorable, lovely Red has puppies!"
He's been hearing that for the last two weeks. He quickly wiped the water off himself and started putting on his clothes.
"Yes, I know, Jaybird! We share the apartment!"
"But she has puuuuuuupieeees! Twins!" Jason cooed in the parlor and it looked like he internally melted. He was lying on the floor on his back with Red's head on his stomach and two sweet little cubs on his chest. One of them was licking his face.
Arsenal walked into the room and saw the infamous Red Hood, smiling and fussing over the youngest additions to their family. The happiness was beaming from him! Roy could feel a wide grin stretching on his own face. Who would think that after all they've been through it would be such a little thing that caused so much happiness to the raven haired boy. Pure, uncontaminated laugher echoed through the room, quickly followed by two high-pitched barks and one of the lower.
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Roy didn't know how to approach the subject so he just said it without beating around the bush.
"We can't keep all of them, Jay."
The mentioned looked up from the couch. Confusion showing on his face.
"What?"
"I mean, I know you already got to love them but this place won't hold all three of them. They'll grow too big. We can keep one more but..."
The ebony lowered his glance so the loose bangs of hair were falling on his face, one of the puppies put a nose in them and sniffed.
"I Know, but I just can't separate them, Roy. They're brothers!"
"Yeaaah... but they could still see each other right? You don't live in the Manor but still spend time with the rest of your bird clan, am I wrong?"
Jason looked thoughtful. "That could work."
"Wait, what could work?" Roy was clearly confused.
A smug smirk appeared on Jason's face. Roy thought that he didn't like it one bit. So he's all in, in whatever his bro has planned.
"Were gonna pay my brother dearest a friendly visit. Circus boy doesn't even know what amazingness is coming."
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Jason jumped from one roof to the next one which happened to be Dick's apartment's. He rolled before he landed to subdue the impact. Roy did the same after him. They both made Ninja poses and did a quick once over of their surroundings. They got down and laid on the rooftop. Then they crawled to the edge. Todd poked his head over the ledge and looked at the fire stairs. "Clear." A little thing in black bag on Jason's back let out a quiet, enthusiastic bark. It caused its human to laugh.
Then he and snorting Roy jumped over the brink and onto the metal steps. Dick's apartment was on the highest floor, so they didn't have to go far. Red Hood and Arsenal, both in civies, peeked over the window's ledge and, seeing no one inside, opened it. Dick always left it open if any of his siblings wanted to crash after extracurricular activities. Jason thought that it would count too. It's not like he's doing something bad. He's certainly not smuggling any living creatures. Not at all.
He felt the puppy chewing at his jacket. "No, no, no, no, no. Don't." He reached his hand back and moved dog's mouth away. Roy looked at him. "We're going in?"
"Definitely."
"And you're sure he's not in here?"
"Yep. He's got his shift at BPD today. Won't be back home until seven p.m.."
"Good."
"Yeah." Jason slowly threw his legs over the window and crouched on the floor. He took one more glance around the room and took off the bag. Roy went right after him. In that moment he was feeling like those kids who try to avoid being seen by their parents in the malls playing Ninja. Exactly the same. He put two blue, of course, bowls on the ground, he kept them in his own bag. He quickly poured to one some fresh water and the second filled with dog food, its opened bag leaving close. Roy didn't want to make Dick go shopping for animal's supplies the first day.
Jason put the puppy down and squated in front of him. He licked Jason's hand and barked. Second Robin stroked the dog's fur and scratched him behind the ear. Then he reluctantly stood up, looking at his young ex-companion with glazed eyes.
"You're gonna come over, baby boy. And I'm gonna visit with your brother. But you'll be good here. My brother is going to take care of you just fine." He went down and hugged the confused puppy Alsatian. "Bye bye."
Roy stood by the window, one leg threw over it already. "Jason" he said. "C'mon." Jason turned around and walked to Roy but at the near end he felt something. Looking down he saw the doggy tugging on his jeans leg. He whispered "I'm gonna come tomorrow. And get you some snacks. Shh." He said with a finger to his lips and smiled. Then he gently took his jeans from between the animal's little teeth and, before he could change his mind, ran up and to the edge of the building, jumping to the next one with Roy on his heels.
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When Dick came back from work to his apartment, he stopped right in front of his door. He heard something. Something like... was that barking? He quickly put a key in the hole and opened the door. When he stepped in, there immediately was something bitting his leg. Looking down he saw a puppy. It would definitely grow up quite big, he recognized the race. Wait, doesn't Jason have one of those? He bent down and scratched it behind its ear. There, a piece of paper. He took it and read what looked like Jason's handwriting.
"Take care of him, okay? He doesn't have a name yet. Roy has the other one. P. S.: He's drolling."
Dick looked down at, apparently, HIS dog.
"I guess you're stuck with me, huh?" he said to the puppy. It, wait, he, was looking at Grayson with his big, green eyes. And Dick just melted. He took a puppy in his arms and went to sit on the wretched sofa, cuddling with his newfound friend.
Well, at least now Damian has another reason to come.
