Operation: Talk to the pretty girl (or tpg for short)
Pairing: Jason Todd x Fem!Reader (reader has she/her pronouns)
Summary: Jason and Dick are lifeguards and you’re a member at their pool desperate to beat the heat.
Warnings: None! Fluff, Jason’s a nervous wreck! Dick my social butterfly.
A/N: this is for @jackabbotsfavoritewife because that blurb brought me so much life 🤤 this also gonna get a part 2 probably
Your membership at your new gym had started on a whim between you and your best friend one night when you mentioned wanting to go swimming but not in the dingy, and quite frankly disgusting, pool in your apartment building.
You two had first started going together and once you both got busy and could no longer make time for going with one another, you started going alone but doing the stairmaster without motivation got harder and harder by the day.
One particularly hot and extremely stressful day had you wanting to either commit a crime, commit suicide, relax, or the secret fourth option. Then the thankful stroke of remembrance hit you and you quickly headed back to your apartment to change into your swimsuit and head to your gym for their pool.
Sun still beaming down on you, you check in at the pool desk with your last name and member number and place your bag of stuff on one of the lounge chairs, quite eager to jump in the pool as fast as possible.
Imagine Jason Todd’s surprise when he’s headed to swap places with Dick when he spots you putting your stuff onto the lounge chairs and whizzing past him to get into the pool. Prepared for what he thought would be the most miserable shift of his life because it’s a whopping 92° (or 33° if you use celsius), he sees this beauty in a hell of a rush to escape the heat.
Walking over to Dick and taking his rescue tube as he comes down from the stand he stops and looks at his brother in utter bewilderment, “Who is that?” A question he only asks Dick because his brother is extremely sociable and would talk to the frogs in the skimmers if he wanted to, and he has.
Dick just looks at his brother and shrugs, “I don’t know but I can go and ask her if you want me to,” now sporting the biggest grin ever while Jason’s heart drops into his ass as he scrambles onto the stand. “Don’t go talking to her, just leave it.”
“You said go talk to her,” Dick taunts, walking over to where you’re floating while Jason tries to shoo him away from you wordlessly, arms flailing around to get him away. Dick ignores his brother and proceeds to stand over your starfished floating body until you open your eyes and look at him.
“What’s your name,” Dick starts, “I ask because my brother wants to know!”
His words are only slightly muffled by the ripples of the water against your ears but you still hear him and respond but not before asking who his brother is. He shamelessly points your gaze to the lifeguard stand where Jason is actively trying and failing to be as aloof as possible.
“That’s Jason, he thinks you’re cute but obviously he’s trying to ignore this whole interaction, so it would do him lots and lots of good if you would be kind enough to talk to him because if you wait on him to make the first move, you’ll be waiting until the dinosaurs come back.” You blink at him and mutter an okay as he skips, literally skips back to his brother on the stand.
Once Dick finishes his skip back to Jason, he happily reports back, “Act surprised when she walks over to ask you out, you’re welcome,” and Dick walks into the pool shed’s office to actually take his break.
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Taglist: @jackabbotsfavoritewife, @edawgz
