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"Go screw yourself..."
The very last words Dick heard spoken out of Jason's lips. Right before Wonder Woman caught the arrow meant to plunge into Jason's heart.
Dick misses hearing him.
Now it is only barely concealed grunts of tormented vulnerability and pain.
He paces the length of the high-rise compound suite, every window tinted out. "I hope you don't think I enjoy seeing you like this... a robin with wings clipped?" Dick murmurs, tsking and kneeling down to the figure chained on the ground. (Not that chains could keep a robin tamed.)
"Jay?"
So far, there is only heavy breathing in Dick's ears.
"Jay, I wanted you. I wanted you as my lieutenant. The one to always be by my side in the coming war. But... I'm afraid I can't trust you. Even if I had made you a vampire. I couldn't risk trusting Bruce either. But that didn't mean I wanted to see you dead. To lose you again would be..."
Dick touches remorsefully over the mounds of gauze-bandages, sensing struggle. Under orders, those who serve the 'The Vampire King' restrained Jason. He was weakened by the blood loss. They drugged Jason to the point of constant waking, but numbed entirely through. They surgically removed Jason's arms and both of his legs to bloodied, bound stumps. They informed Dick that will be a long healing process, even months in.
He leans towards Jason who stays unresponsive and sallow-expressioned.
A number of bags, full of O- and parenteral IV fluid, around them. (And, of course, the sedatives constantly pumping.)
"You're not escaping this, my little wing... no matter what happens from here. I have you now."
"So survive with me."
"Accept me."
"Love me as much as much as I loved everyone... and loved you."
Dick doesn't bother with hypnotism, leaning in closer, watching eagerly with an openly fanged smile as Jason's bloodshot eyes train on him.
Rearing his head, Jason slams a forehead against Dick's.
And a stunned-silent Dick falls back.
What...
Hot, crimson-bright blood flows quickly from the splitting wound, the exact hue of Dick's eyes glowing.
"I... hhhaf uuoh, naaho," Jason slurs out, unable to vocalize more than this.
Jason's grin, an awful thing...
An awful and maliciously savage thing in the dark to behold...
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