She lurches against his chest. He can see the blood spatter, feel the warmth of her life on his lips. Jason is paralyzed as she sinks to the ground. His fingers fumble to call Bruce, there's no time for an ambulance. He cradles her against him as the convulsions begin, watching helplessly as she coughs up her innards onto the street. He begins to kiss her, tasting love and death and holding her tighter. If she leaves, he will go with her.
It rains during the funeral; Dick and Damien are the only ones that show. As Alfred reads from a hymnal, Jason breaks down in tears. Loud, undignified, disgusting. Dick and Damien look on in shock, for they did not know her. They do nothing. He stays to die, he must feel her in his arms again.
