[Closed] A fixer upper

[robintohood]

Who: Jason Todd robintohood, BatFamily members, and friends of BatFamily members who've been trusted with their secret identities
What: Jason's plan for a possible safehouse gets hijacked to multiple people's benefit, including himself
When: Early August
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: None for now. Will edit if something comes up.

[If you're a nocturnal vigilante patrolling or just taking a stroll at the edge of a seedy neighborhood tonight, you might notice that a large boarded-up brick warehouse has a dim light on. You can see what's inside if you take a peek through some tight cracks between the boards or from the open skylight window.

Inside the building is an abandoned dusty gym.

Taking up the most space is the gymnastics section. There are three balance beams, three vaults, two horizontal bars, a set of uneven bars, a set of parallel bars, a ring frame, and a pommel horse. There's also a small tumble track off to the side and mats scattered everywhere.

Behind the gymnastics section and closer to the rear of the building are exercise equipment. Specifically, there are three ellipticals, two weight benches, a rack of dumbbells of various weights, one 8-stack multi-station, two heavy bag stands, and two speed bag stands.

At the rear of the room are a dozen lockers lined up and five doors leading to the building's smaller rooms.

You may also notice that Jason, dressed in his Red Hood gear, is... trying to clean? Trying to renovate? You might've caught him vacuuming off some cobwebs on the gym equipment, trying to rearrange some mats, trying to hang a heavy bag onto a stand, etc. Whatever the activity is, it's evident he's got plans for the building.

Clearly this is a good opportunity to interrupt him]

((OOC: Feel free to mingle with each other too!))

Comments

[robintohood]

[From Jason's point of view, so much happened in the span of what? Two minutes maybe? By the time Jason realized Tim wanted to tase himself, Cass already did it. It was a surprise but he gets why she did it now. When it comes to checking for the Joker's presence, it's better to be very thorough.

As frustrating as tonight has been with his safehouse already compromised by four uninvited people, it's been a very enlightening experience. It was one thing to know that each of his siblings and one non-family Bat protégé were trained by Bruce. It's another to see them in action during noncombative vigilante situations. It's been interesting to know how much they were all on the same page. Frankly, he would've tased Tim as well if no one else was going to do it.

And then of course, a Super is upset about the Bats' approach. Jason doesn't flinch from Kon's anger. He's not sorry for being a part of this]

He'll be fine within a couple of hours.

[knight_shift]

Yes, because that's the reason.

[Terry hadn't really wanted to have to tase Tim, but it was going to be in the service of preventing something much worse than an electric shock happening to him.

He still realized it was still a pretty crappy thing to do to a person.]

For what little it's worth, I'm sorry about all this.

[louder_than_words]

[It's smart to remove the belt. She should've thought of that.

She sees anger-fear-betrayal. Doesn't react. Isn't very bothered. This was... needed. Ness-ess-air-ee. Safer to do it here with all of them than Tim doing it himself alone.

She sees love. That's... not new, but different. More? Changed? Evolved. Kon will kill and die for Tim. She can see it. Will do anything for him.

Good.]

Wait for him to be able to speak before you leave.

[Robin should have a say in where he goes.]

[mostdangerousbird]

[ Speak? Tim would like to make a good joke about The Princess Bride, but he’s too frizzled to make quippy references.

When the belt comes off, everything melts. Tim feels as floppy as a suit full of overcooked noodles, and there’s residual tingling that has to be in his head. Kon stopped it. He’s not getting zapped anymore, but it still feels halfway between ants and a charlie horse. He’d been winding up his night when he entered the warehouse, but the side effects of the taser will linger and leave him feeling like he’s had the longest workout of his life for a day. Maybe two.

So, he appreciates being caught before he hit the ground. Tim can handle the rest. Really. It’s not swaddling in his cape levels of damage. Don’t pay too much attention to how thus far the attempts to free himself amount to “stirring”. More important is clearly pissed Kon is and reassuring the red of his eyes. Which minds finding the tongue he almost swallowed. ]

’s fine. I can make it home.

[ Just don’t ask how because he forgot to buy a surge protector for his brain. ]

Still staying with you.

[ So Kon can make sure no one else tazes him and then everyone’s satisfied. ]

[lowercase_el]

[The flinty anger in his eyes fades when he looks down at Tim.]

I'll give you a lift. S'no different than any other time I've given you a lift. I'm heading to our place anyway.

[Kon is usually automatically Tim's choice of flyer to grab onto when the team has to fly somewhere. The teke means he can support him with a touch rather than Tim's shoulders taken on all the weigh.]

[And "still staying with you" is permission enough to take him home. Staying with him means going where they're staying, the rinky dink apartment they're scratching away a living in.]

Let's go home.

[The Bats all get one last glare. Cass gets an extra squint and little head shake with it because he's more annoyed at her in a friend way than deeply angry. And then fwoosh Superboy and Robin are gone.]

[robintohood]

[Jason watches Superboy fly off with Tim and relaxes slightly. There's no Joker chip on Tim and he'll recover. That's what matters]

Well this evening has been enlightening.