“Change is just a word
that people like me, laugh in the face of.” Jason said as he stared at the
ground daring not to look at Batman.
“And why's that Jason?” Batman asked.
“Because Bruce, how can you dare to change something that is just, so...
beautiful?”
“So, killing people is now considered beautiful?”
“Killing the right people, is beautiful.”
“What has he done to you Jason?”
“Nothing absolutely nothing, well except for bringing me back to life, to give
me a second chance to have the balls you lack to kill the bad to protect the
good. All while bringing order to this wretched world.”
“And the only way to protect the good is by killing the bad? Jason, I thought I
taught you better than this?” Batman said as his voice rose higher and higher
as anger grew within him.
“ Stop calling me Jason! You Bruce, have no right to call me by that name anymore,
you lost that right when
A.
you
let The Joker kill ME as well as beat the s**t out of ME, without ever seeking
revenge, and
B.
when
you gave up on ME and just let me stay dead, when you knew about the Lazarus
pit along with its abilities, and you didn't even go to Rahul ghul TO HELP ME.
But no, you were just too good for me that His daughter had to take me. And so,
NO. You Bruce have no right to call me by that name.” Jason yelled to Bruce in
anger and frustration as spit sprayed from his mouth with every single word he
yelled, he began to sweat and his hair began to become out of place.
“Don’t you think I wanted to, because of what he had
done to you. But killing a
criminal doesn't solve anything,
and it certainly does not make you any better….”
“ I’m done with your excuses, and hey, look on the bright
side you're right, it
makes me greater, now if you
excuse
me I have a joke to kill somewhere in Gotham” he said as
he composed
himself back together
“…Jason don't!”
Jason jumps off the building and goes the way of the
Joker, Batman runs to the
edge of the building with his
hand out stretched before him only wishing to
grab Jason
before his leap, but is too late and looks down only to see
no one
there below him…
“Alfred locate Jason, I’m afraid he is going to do
something that he won't regret”
“Yes, sir”
20
min. Later Somewhere Else In Gotham City
As
Jason stabs The Joker he begins to twist the knife violently around and around
in his guts to the rhythm of a ticking time bomb.
“Ha-ha ,uurrgghh, you are not like Batman whatsoever my dearest boy wonder”
“You're right, Batman saves you guys and I,... well you get the point” he said
looking down at the knife in the Joker's stomach as his blood began to cover
Jason’s hand and the knife.
Suddenly Batman comes running to Jason and quickly turns him around , the Joker
falls to the ground without the ability to catch himself.
“Ahhhhh that hurts” he groans out laughing.
Jason faced towards Batman and stared him deep within his soulless eyes. Jason
then swiftly tries to stab Batman, but Batman grabs Jason’s hand and then Jason
kicks him. Batman lets his footloose and then Jason begins to try to stab
Batman, but then he kicks the knife out of his hand. Jason stops trying for a
second and holds his head out of frustration. Jason begins to hunch over for a
few seconds.
“Aaahh, You IDIOT, WHY would you do that? You stupid, stupid man!” he said as
he crouched holding his hand within the other. Looking up to Batman as he spoke
down upon him.
“Because you're wrong about killing the evil and hurting the bad to protect the
good.”
“Enough!!!”
he said already frustrated. He began to get up straight and then stood up as he
moved his fingers to stop the pain. Soon Jason pulls out another knife from his
back and tries to stab Batman again, Batman dodges every swing thrown his way,
Jason then begins to kick Batman, Batman blocks every blow with his cufflets.
Jason stops kicking and Batman begins to throw his punches at Jason, Jason
backs away and looks at Batman as his blood dripped from his mouth and nose.
Batman stood there with a black eye and bloody ears. After a couple of hours
Jason wipes the blood from his mouth and tries one last time, Jason begins to
run towards Batman and pulls out a knife.
Batman
then takes out a batarang as Jason charges him.
#
There
Jason stood with a batarang within his stomach, standing still within his
place, paralyzed by the actions Batman had taken. Wide eyed as he stared at
Batman, Jason slowly dropped his head down, only looking down at the batarang
in his stomach. Blood soon began to come dripping out of [4] Jason’s
mouth. Jason takes hold of Batman and holds on tight to Batman's hand with the batarang
still inside and only smiles in Batman's face, Batman slowly falls back onto
his back with the face of distraught, shock, and confusion to Jason’s smile
gesture. Jason then falls on top of Batman only making the knife go further and
further into his stomach.
“Aaahh, Uurrgghh!!!” Jason screamed.
Jason looked Batman in his eyes as tears began to cloud his
vision, Batman stared Jason in the eyes as he himself begins to get teary eyed.
Jason still holds his gaze with Batman's eyes while also holding his smile to
hide the fact that he is hurt not only physically, but mentally from the fact
that his own father-like figure had stabbed him.
“Ha it's funny how life works, Huh
batty” *cough
cough*
Jason
lifts his hand up and drags it down the side of Batman’s face
“ *Cough cough* I was never
greater than you, but* cough cough he coughed some more as the blood came out of his
mouth* [5] ,
ha
but I was hurt more than you.” He said
to Batman as tears came running down the side of his cheeks only landing onto Batman's
face.
“Ha-uh hey batty, before I go for the second time I forgot
to tell you all those times before thank you, so um *urgh ahh* thanks”
Batman began to cry while he tried to hold the tears back and said to Jason as
he struggled for his last bit of breath,
“And I forgot to tell you before you left, that I love you
son”
Jason smiled a great smile that was as real as the first time he became the
next boy wonder, his pupils then dilated and his head fell against Batman’s
chest and his body fell onto the batarang completely.
Batman stared into the night sky as he got his hands and took the batarang from
within Jason’s stomach, he threw the knife far away and sat up grabbing his
face with one hand and holding Jason closely to him with the other as he sobbed
endlessly, once again for his dead son.
“*Cough*
Batman,
help me” Joker cried out from the ground far away on the building's roof.
But
Batman with a smile on his face, just laid there holding Jason's body
reminiscing on their days shared together as father and son. [6]