i got you flowers (i love you)
Jason Todd x Reader | Monthly Challenge (@b3o-monthly)
word count: 1k
summary: Jason does not know how to celebrate Valentine's Day, but knows you deserve a good one.
CW: no real ones, it's just a lot of fluff and Jason wanting to get you a good gift!
im behind at my own prompt list but yknow it is what it is lol hope yall enjoy you can read on ao3!
Valentine's Day was a week away and Jason did not know what he was doing. When you grow up on the streets and die at the age of 15 you kind of miss how these things worked. But this year was different, this year he had you and he needed to make it special. You were a stabilizing force in his life, even when nothing else was. Sure you were both vigilantes and constantly toed the line of death, but you did it together.
The problem was he had no clue what to get you. Your shared apartment was already cluttered with trinkets that the two of you had scavenged while on patrol. You hated when he spent money on you, so anything worth more than 10 dollars was out. He could take you out on a nice date, but even that felt too cliche. Without any ideas, he turned to the dark side: his siblings.
He figured Dick was the best place to start. He and Kory had been going strong for a while and they seemed genuinely happy together. Jason had barely brought up the subject before Dick was giving him suggestions at a million miles per minute.
“Have you considered an oversized teddy bear?” Dick rambled. “Perhaps a love letter, that one's cheap.”
“What the hell would we do with an oversized teddy bear?”
“I don’t know, it fits in with the holiday! Have you considered something for their suit?”
“First good suggestion you’ve had tonight.”
“I have been nothing but helpful. Perhaps one of those chocolate things.”
Needless to say, Dick was not the right answer, but his suggestion about armor was a good one. But there was a caveat, you were extremely meticulous about your suit and gear. Everything was hand built and customized by you down to the finest detail. Jason had barely been able to convince you to add in some bat tech for more safety, so the thought of getting you something new was a no go. Unfortunately, that’s when Tim brought in his two cents.
“You know I could just hack into their system and see their search history.” Tim said blankly.
Jason stared at Tim. He had said it so casually that you would hardly know he had just proposed a crime.
“Are you being serious?” Jason asked.
“...Yes?” Tim questioned.
“You are absurd.”
“I’m right! You’d get the answer!”
“But if they found out you’d be dead!”
“If they found out!”
Tim definitely didn’t have the answer, at least not in a morally okay way to Jason. He was getting frustrated with himself. You couldn’t be this hard to get a gift for! There had to be something out there that you would like. At this point the oversized teddy bear wasn’t looking like a bad option. It was the day before Valentine’s Day and he still had no idea what he was going to do.
Then the last person you’d expect came along: Damian. Jason was scrambling at the last minute to put together a basic card when he heard a scoff behind him.
“You know they like flowers right?”
Jason paused. “What?”
“That stupid card you're making is pathetic. Why don’t you get them flowers?” Damian stated.
In that moment Jason realized that he had forgotten the very basics of gifts in a relationship, flowers. He knew you loved them, when you first started dating he’d pick you up a bouquet every week, but somehow along the way that habit had faded.
“I guess it just slipped my mind.” Jason replied.
“Good work Todd. Now go get them flowers or I will.”
That night Jason waited by the front door holding a bouquet of flowers. He had personally chosen them himself, collecting an array of your favorites in all the shades you loved. They smelled incredibly sweet, yet never overpowering. He knew you would like them, yet the edge of anxiety still nipped at him.
Then he heard the jingle of your keys at the door and the anxiety took a full bite. He felt his breath hitch and his grip tighten on the flowers as the door creaked open. There you stood clutching onto a bouquet of red flowers, a chocolate box held beneath your chin as you prodded open the door with your foot. You looked up at Jason and wore an expression of pure shock, like you had just been caught breaking into a home.
“What are you doing home this early?” You said, not having moved position.
“I wanted to surprise you…Are those flowers?”
“I could ask you the same question.”
The two of you eyed each other for a second longer before breaking out into a quiet laughter.
“I thought that I would get you some for Valentine’s!” You blurted out.
“Well I thought the same thing!”
“We’re so creative.”
“Oh very, the most creative people you’ve ever met.” Jason said as he moved to help you inside. “Are these chocolates?”
“Come on, you can’t have a Valentine’s without cheap chocolate in a heart box.”
“I have literally never heard of this before.”
“You’re shitting me right?”
Jason burst out laughing again. “You forget I really didn’t have a reason to celebrate before.”
“Well we’re changing that tonight. You are now going to be forced to watch all the shitty rom-coms I can find.” You said grinning ear-to-ear.
“Oh no, the horror! Whatever will I do!” He sarcastically remarked.
“I guess you’ll just have to suffer through it.” You shrugged as you made your way to the kitchen to put the flowers in a vase. “Or not but where’s the fun in that.”
“You drive a hard bargain, but I am willing to accept your offer.”
The two of you spent the rest of the night wrapped up on the couch together watching as many cheesy movies as you could stomach. Behind you on the counter sat two vases of flowers, one red and one decked out in your favorite color. In a week when they would start to die off, you and Jason would go hand-in-hand to buy a new bouquet. It was something small, but it was all the two of you needed. A reminder that the two of you loved each other more than one action could explain.
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