he expects the grunts and hums bruce usually gives as answers to shit that's directed at him. has learned to translate those, to pick apart the ones that mean he's mulling it over, the ones that say he heard it, but he's not going to acknowledge it further, the ones that mean yes, he agrees. or the way he clicks his tongue just like damian does when he's especially irritated. jason knows bruce wayne's cues, or at least his bruce's. he spent his early teen years getting them down, knowing how to play off of bruce, off of batman. he spent his later teen years finding all the ways he could pull them apart. he's had serious conversations with bruce, he's had ones that felt more like bruce was talking at him despite him verbally saying nothing at all. he's talked at bruce, going on and on while bruce looked at him, stone-faced and unresponsive to anything jason threw at him.
i can't promise i won't upset you isn't the low hum he was anticipating, nor is the i don't want it to be like that with any of you even close to anything he was expecting. this isn't the closed off bruce who fucked off and turned away the moment jason started getting in his face, this is--someone who's trying.
jason isn't sure how to feel about it. he raises the hand with the least amount of blood up to rub at his eyes, only to remember there's a fucking mask there and instead just. squeezes his eyes shut under it, like that'll help with the almost-tears that threaten to fall. he's not taking it off, especially when he's this close to losing it.
the last stitch gets tied off, and jason grabs onto the tape to tape straight over them. no bandages, only tape. bruce can have fun yanking that off over still-healing skin if he decides to say fuck it and disregard his injuries. )
I think your no killing rule is stupid. ( pointing out all the reasons for bruce to be upset with him feels like the right way to handle this. piss him off, so it doesn't cut any deeper. ) That sometimes the people we fight are just garbage, monsters, that need to be taken out. They're not gonna stop killing an' hurting people unless they're put in the ground. I get why you do it. ( he's seen what happens, when batman resorts to murder. it never ends, and maybe it's more--peaceful like that, quieter, but it's not right. ) But I'm not gonna follow your rules. I do things my way.
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he expects the grunts and hums bruce usually gives as answers to shit that's directed at him. has learned to translate those, to pick apart the ones that mean he's mulling it over, the ones that say he heard it, but he's not going to acknowledge it further, the ones that mean yes, he agrees. or the way he clicks his tongue just like damian does when he's especially irritated. jason knows bruce wayne's cues, or at least his bruce's. he spent his early teen years getting them down, knowing how to play off of bruce, off of batman. he spent his later teen years finding all the ways he could pull them apart. he's had serious conversations with bruce, he's had ones that felt more like bruce was talking at him despite him verbally saying nothing at all. he's talked at bruce, going on and on while bruce looked at him, stone-faced and unresponsive to anything jason threw at him.
i can't promise i won't upset you isn't the low hum he was anticipating, nor is the i don't want it to be like that with any of you even close to anything he was expecting. this isn't the closed off bruce who fucked off and turned away the moment jason started getting in his face, this is--someone who's trying.
jason isn't sure how to feel about it. he raises the hand with the least amount of blood up to rub at his eyes, only to remember there's a fucking mask there and instead just. squeezes his eyes shut under it, like that'll help with the almost-tears that threaten to fall. he's not taking it off, especially when he's this close to losing it.
the last stitch gets tied off, and jason grabs onto the tape to tape straight over them. no bandages, only tape. bruce can have fun yanking that off over still-healing skin if he decides to say fuck it and disregard his injuries. )
I think your no killing rule is stupid. ( pointing out all the reasons for bruce to be upset with him feels like the right way to handle this. piss him off, so it doesn't cut any deeper. ) That sometimes the people we fight are just garbage, monsters, that need to be taken out. They're not gonna stop killing an' hurting people unless they're put in the ground. I get why you do it. ( he's seen what happens, when batman resorts to murder. it never ends, and maybe it's more--peaceful like that, quieter, but it's not right. ) But I'm not gonna follow your rules. I do things my way.