au jason in university where him and R are at a party and sheās making out with someone and getting felt up on and jason just watches jealously. He then goes home and fantasizes about him touching you like that.
no he's insanely jealous. like he's glaring and ignoring everyone around him bc he's using all of his mental strength to not punch the guy reader is making out with
he's fantasizing about it being him for weeeeeeeeks
Summary: Jason doesn't like when you worry about him
Pairing: Jason Todd x GN!Reader
Words: 1,074
Warnings: brief description of injury, blood mention
Thereās a thin line of light slipping through the crack beneath your closed bedroom door when you wake up. As you link the sleep out of your eyes, you notice the space beside you is still empty. In the darkness, you reach blindly to find your phone. The time flashes back at you, nearly blinding you. Jason must be home from patrol.
You rise out of bed, feet cold against the old wooden floor of your apartment and quietly tiptoe towards your bedroom door.
Sitting shirtless on the edge of your bathtub is Jason. Heās already watching the doorframe for you before you poke your head around the corner. Between his teeth is a length of gauze heās measuring for his arm. Once your eyes adjust to the harsh light of the bathroom, you wince at the angry red gash running the width of Jasonās left arm.
A shiver runs up the length of your spine, your concern threatening to spill out of you. Heās watching you, waiting for your reaction. You tear your eyes away from the wound and look back up at him, swallowing the fear caught in your throat.
He frees the gauze from his teeth, and it flutters down into his lap. āYou should go back to bed,ā he says softly. The tone of voice is so gentle. If he speaks any louder, he could run the risk of waking you up too much.
This is new for the two of you. Jason hadnāt even really meant for you to find out he was Red Hood. And when you did, well, you kind of found out about everything. Itād been a whole thing that boiled down to you needing a little time to stomach it all. But you and Jason had been good the past few weeks. Things felt a little more like normal.
Jason has his guard up, but you can tell heās trying to assess how bad the damage is. Not to him, not the physical wound, but to the relationship. To you.
Wordlessly, you cross into the bathroom and pick up the scissors sitting on top of the toilet seat. His eyes never leave you.
Itās odd how you feel like pray when loving Jason is like caring for a wounded animal. You want to ask what happened. You want to ask if heās okay. But if you talk about it, if you acknowledge it too much, heāll push you away. And you want to prove to him that you can handle this side of his life.
As you step towards him, Jason holds up the gauze again. You cut. The gauze falls down and hangs from Jasonās hand. Before he can start, you take gently take it away from him and kneel in front of him at the bathtub.
The wound is already clean. Jasonās already done all the hard work. Took care of himself while you slept silently in bed because he didnāt want to worry you. The thought drops into your stomach like a peach pit.
You wind the gauze around his arm until Jason makes a disgruntled noise. Your eyes shoot up, worried to have hurt him.
His face softens when your eyes meet. āNeeds to be tighter,ā he says, nudging his chin towards his arm.
You redo the wrapping, your eyes flickering back up towards Jason. He gives a small nod of approval. You wrap until the length is used and tape it off, pressing your lips gently above the wound before straightening up.
Jason smooths a hand over your jaw. Thank you.
āGo back to bed,ā he says again.
āOnly if youāre coming with,ā you reply. Your hand runs down his uninjured arm and takes hold of his large hand.
Your millions of questions continue floating through your thoughts, but instead, you rise to your feet, pulling Jason up with you. He wraps an arm around your waist as soon as heās standing beside you. āGive me a few minutes, then Iāll be there. Promise.ā
Both your arms wind around his waist. You rest your head against him, fingertips gliding up and down the skin of his spine. āWhat do you need to do?ā you ask.
āGotta clean up,ā Jason says. āI made a mess all over your sink.ā
You glance behind you. Diluted blood is smeared across your sink, a few bloody towels sitting near the drain. āIāll tae care of it,ā you say.
Jason shakes his head. āBaby, no, go back to bed. I mean it. Iāll take care of it.ā
āDonāt ābabyā me. I said Iāll take care of it. Go get in bed,ā you shoot back playfully.
āItāll take five minutes,ā Jason replies.
You free your arms from around him and give him a little shove towards the bathroom door. He steps forward but doesnāt leave. He just keeps his eyes fixed on you, so decided against leaving you here. āYes, exactly. And youāve been out all night, so I can take care of it.ā
āItās not your mess,ā he grumbles, and you know heās not just talking about the blood.
āSo? It doesnāt have to be for me to want to help you.ā
Jason still lingers in the door. His gaze doesnāt stray from yours. It was one thing to wordlessly let you bandage him, but for some reason, he wants to draw the line at cleaning up his blood. Like the dirty work isnāt something you can handle. But thatās the point, what all of this is about; you can be there for him. You can help him. Wrapping up his wounds and cleaning up the blood is dipping your toes in the water.
Even if he doesnāt leave, you set to work cleaning out the sink and wringing out bloodied washcloths. You donāt push.
When the work is done, you flip off the light switch in the bathroom, taking Jasonās hand again and guiding him into the bedroom.
With the bathroom light off, your apartment is plunged back into darkness, but you both fall into the bed effortlessly. Your limbs wrap around each other as you huddle for warmth and comfort. Your fingertips till drag across his skin. His hand rests on the back of your head, his lips pressed against your forehead.
āAre you okay?ā you finally ask. Your voice breaks the emptiness of the silence.
Jason tightens his grip on you a little more. āYeah, Iām good.ā
i love you shy reader-inserts i love you naive reader-inserts i love you soft-spoken reader-inserts i love any and all reader-inserts and you should not complain about them in the x reader tag. by doing so you are putting down someone's creative work and efforts when you could have simply moved on, or even better, written your own story