(I've always made stories, but never posted them in public before. This is the first time. So please be gentle with the criticism, if this story wasn't to your liking then I'm sorry. I want to continue posting stories on here, but I won't be able to post them right away. Please be patient with me & thank you. I was inspired by @batarella ) Y/N = your name.
There you were sweating in a black tank top with black shorts, gloves & goggles on, you were in the bat cave working on one of your experiments.
Rob Zombie blasting in your earbuds.
You were in charge of making a small beam to fit in Batman's glove.
You were tinkering with it then made your way to your laptop.
Your laptop had wires sticking out of it & plugged in your experiment.
"Foxy foxy!" You said going with the music, nodding your head as you started typing away on your laptop.
"Okay, please work. Please work." You said with your fingers crossed for dear life.
You clicked the downward key 5 times then clicked the enter key.
You looked to your right where the experiment was, you had an empty can two feet away from it.
Just then the beam shot at the can & the can flew in the air.
"Holy shit! It worked!!" You screamed not realizing or careing how loud you were.
You went & put another can in front & went back to your laptop.
You started typing away on your keyboard, tapping on the upward key 10 times, just as the music had changed to Deftones.
"The change in you! Like you never--"
Looked again to your right & saw your second empty can fly into the abyss.
"Oh my God!!" You excitedly screamed while jumping up & down.
"Oh my God I can't wait for Batman to use you, who should he try it on first? Bane, maybe Killer Croc? Ohh, what if he's surrounded by both Bane & Killer Croc? I'm gonna need to keep tinkering with it so he can shoot 4 shots simultaneously, but what if--"
You suddenly felt like your back was against a wall, but instead of the normal hard exterior of a wall.
This wall felt odd, it felt very warm & soft to the touch, you turned to see what exactly it was pressed up against you.
You were looking up at this 6'0 man who towered over you, short black hair almost touching his eyelids, faint scars on his face.
You couldn't even tell he had scars unless you really examined his face thoroughly.
He was wearing a white muscle shirt with grey sweatpants on & a towel around his shoulders.
Jason Todd, your ex-boyfriend of 4 years.
Last time you saw him was a few months back.
You had walked in the manor's kitchen & saw him sitting on the counter eating one of Alfred's blueberry pies.
You knew he had left because everyone wouldn't shut up about it, especially Bruce. Before Jason even had left, he somehow managed to hack in the bat computer before taking off & stealing newly found information about The Penguin.
Bruce was trying to get ahold of Jason for the information, but Jason wouldn't answer his calls.
Ex-boyfriends were supposed to be unbearable to be around, you would hate everything they did, you would ask yourself "I really found HIM attractive?!"
But this relationship was different. You were different & he was different.
After you two broke up, you two stilled worked along side each other, joked with each other & even complainted each other from time to time. You couldn't lie to yourself, you still found him attractive.
There he was standing in front of you, you could see his flexed muscles on his arms, but then he mouthed something to you.
You could tell you were screaming because as soon as you said what, Jason moved his head away from you, he raised up his hand & pulled your earbud out of your right ear.
"Why the fuck are you yelling? You do realize you've been screaming out lyrics for hours now, right?" He said to you sounding annoyed.
"Hours? It couldn't have been that long, could it?" You asked him while taking the other earbud off.
You looked up at him confused.
"What time did you get here?" He asked you while taking off the towel from his shoulders.
"I got here at midnight."
Jason laughed, "yeah you've been here for hours, it's 5 in the morning."
You looked at him surprised "no..it can't be." you said while taking your phone out of your pocket.
"Check if you don't believe me."
You used your finger for the fingerprint on your phone. 5:45 am in a bright white shined back at you. You can feel your eyes bugging out, holy shit time really flys when your having fun.
"Told you so." He said, you can hear him smiling as he said that.
"Shut up, when did you get back? You were gone for what? 2 months now?"
"Igot back a few days ago & I was gone for a month in a half."
"It wasn't 2 months, it was a month in a half."
You laughed, your favorite thing was to see how long it'll take for him to get annoyed.
Of course you never did that when you two were together. You would only playfully annoy him, but knew when to back off. Now that you two weren't together you took the opportunity to annoy the shit out of him.
"So why are you here so early?" You asked him, while pausing the music on your phone.
"I made a deal with Alfred. If I help him bake 2 cakes & 3 dozen cupcakes for the charity that bruce is going to, he'll let me use daddy dearest's work out equipment."
He always liked to annoy bruce that way, calling him daddy dearest, dracula or even old man.
One night on patrol, Jason had the balls to yell out "WATCH OUT DRACULA, HE'S GONNA TAKE YOUR PREY FROM YOU!!" On a rooftop across the street, as he watched Batman chase a mugger. The mugger was chasing his victim on the opposite side of the street, that street happens to be the busiest street in all of gotham. Almost everyone heard him, even a civilian on the sidewalk yelled out "BATMAN IS DRACULA, I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!"
Jason fell to his knees holding his sides from laughing so hard.
Bruce would glare at Jason for 2 weeks straight & Jason would return that glare with a shit eating grin.
"Ah, I see. It still surprises me that you know how to bake. You never baked anything when we were together."
"Yes I would, those chocolate cakes or red velvet cupcakes on your birthday."
"You made those?! I thought you bought them from the store."
"I thought you would like it more if I would bake it instead of buying it."
"How come you never told me this?"
"Because I just assumed, plus you never really made a mess in the kitchen for me to hint at the facted that you baked them."
"Yeah well I do know how to clean too, unlike some people in this place."
"HEY! I so know how to clean! I would clean up all the time when we were together & now!"
"Chill the fuck out! I'm not talking about you!"
He rolled his eyes while messing with his hair & finally he looked behind you. "What are you working on?" He asked, walking towards it.
"Oh, Bruce asked me to make him a beam thingy for his glove. I like to think of it as a gun." You said following behind him.
The cave was so dark, it would have been pitched black if it weren't thanks to the lights above the gigantic bat computer & all the other lights above Batman's suits & souvenirs that he kept from his enemies.
You could already tell Jason was here to hold on his end of the deal.
This was the only place he preferred to work out at. He never liked working out in public.
He says he doesn't care if people stare at him, but you feel like he's a little self-conscious about the scars & you don't blame him.
Those scars he got from The Joker on that fatally night.
He has scars of gashes throughout his body. Memories that would keep him up at night when you two were together.
You would wake up to an empty side of the bed where Jason would sleep.
You would find him staring out the window or outside in the balcony, the moon would shine down on his body.
You would make your way to him & you wouldn't say anything.
You would just wrap your arms around him.
Your head on his bare back listening to his heat beat, but since he was so muscular & toned you couldn't clamp your hands together.
That's when he would turn to you & just stare at you. You would stare back at him, longingly.
You never wanted to stop looking at him.
He would smirk & caress your cheek.
He then would grab your chin & pull you in to kiss you.
He would hug you tight & wouldn't let go, you two would hold each other for hours without saying anything. Because there was nothing to say.
But now you wouldn't have those nights, they were just memories.
You two have been broken up for 5 months now.
You knew it was your fault that you two broke up, but you two still had each other, even if it weren't as lovers. But you two wouldn't allow yourselves to get too close to each other like before & it didn't help that you two were Leo's.
So you two are headstrong & stubborn as fuck. Waiting for the other to make the first move.
Now that you lost yourself in thought, you were facing the work out area in the bat cave.
The area was so lit up, it looked so hollow & empty.
"HEY, Y/N!" Jason yelled.
"Ah, what?" His yelling snapped you back into reality, as you turned to face him, his hand was on hip.
"Why the fuck are you standing there like an idiot?"
"I'm not! Why did you yell at me?"
"I was asking you how does it work, but you were too busy spacing out. You must be tired." He said to you as you walked towards him.
"I'm not tired, I was just lost in thought is all." You said as you put the gloves on.
" 'lost in thought, huh? Is it because I'm here with you alone & you wanted to take advantage of me, is that it?"
You stopped & turned to face him, his face was so close to yours & he had this sexy grin on his face.
He was bending over to be the same height as you.
"Oh, S-shut up. I wasn't thinking about you. You never crossed my mind."
"Oh is that so? Well that makes one of us."
What he said stopped you in your tracks, you looked up at him.
He eyed you down with his arms folded over his chest.
"Show me how this works." He said pointing to the beam thingy.
"Ah sure, but you'll need to wear these first." You said handing him a pair of goggles with your right hand, at the same time you turned to face your left side & started typing away on your laptop.
As you stared at your laptop, you noticed that your right hand was warm.
Too warm to be your own body heat alone.
You turned to see Jason holding your hand with his left hand, while putting on the goggles with his right.
You looked down to see both your hands entangled with each other, you noticed your heart racing.
It felt like it was going to burst out of your chest like an alien from the movie Alien.
You turned around, he hadn't noticed you staring.
"Okay, are you ready?" You asked him.
Pretending as if you didn't notice he was holding your hand.
You were hoping he would hold your hand the whole time, but it was too late. He let go.
"A-alright." You tried not to sound disappointed.
You grabbed an empty can from the floor & placed it where the original cans were.
You went back between Jason & the laptop.
"Alright. Here. We. Go." You said as you tapped the enter key.
The beam started up & blasted the can further than the previous cans.
Smiling from ear to ear, you faced Jason.
"So what do you think? Cool, huh?"
" 'Alright'? Really?" You asked while both of you took off the goggles.
"My guns can shot further than that thing."
"You know how Bruce feels about guns."
"Why are you making this for him in the first place? Couldn't he make it himself?" He asked while tilting his head to the side.
"He can, but he asked me to make it. He's too busy with Wanye Enterprise at the moment." You said having your back towards him, turning off the beam.
"Ah, couldn't he asked Tim or Dick to help out with the "Family" business?" He said while making quotations with his fingers.
"Dick's in california right now on a mission with the Titans & Tim is already helping out with Wayne Enterprise, were you secretly hoping he'll ask you?"
"One, he wouldn't ask me & two I wouldn't do it, even if he asked."
"Yeah, whatever. I'm gonna go do what I came down here for." He said turning his back towards you, giving you a peace sign.
"Yeah, you too." He said to you while making his way across the cave, you could never tell what he was thinking about even when you two were together.
He walked up to the weight bench, throwing his towel on the floor beside it.
He then went over to grab the weights, two 30 lbs & placed one, then went to the other side to place the other.
He was staring at a bucket on the floor, he went up to it & sticked one hand in & his hand came out covered in white. He smacked his hands together, white dust flew in front of his face.
He then noticed you standing there like a doofus, he returned your stare.
"Ah.." you muttered out & went to your experiment.
Examining & analyzing ever little piece on it. Making sure everything was a hundred percent. You made your way to the chair that was next to your laptop & sat down. You can hear the way the weights were rubbing against each other from the distance.
"One..Two..three..four..five.."
You shook your head & smacked your cheeks lightly "don't get distracted, Bruce needs you to finish this." You said to yourself.
Everything came out fine, you placed can after can god knows how many times. As you continued your work, on the opposite side of the cave, Jason continued his workout, both of you a sweating mess. You sat on the chair, typing away.
Hours later Jason finished his workout, he made his way to you, huffing & puffing, wiping the sweat off his face.
"Hey y/n, did you finally finish?" No response. Taking the towel off his face, "Hey Y/N!" No response.
"Your fucking music is too loud, your gonna go deaf-" he spinned the chair around. He was expecting a wide eyed look on your face, but instead he was staring at you peacefully sleeping. Mouth wide open, drool dripping out of it. The goggles you had on your head, was now entangled in your hair.
Jason's face softened up, he chuckled.
"God damnit y/n." He said as he started to separate your hair from the goggles.
His face was so close to yours, he felt your breath. He closed his eyes, opening them back up his eyes made their way to your lips. His heart stared racing faster than when he was working out. He stepped back. Taking a deep breath & exhaling, he started to put his arms under you. One arm under your head the other under your legs. He picked you up with no problem. Your head started to tilt backwards until he moved his arm so your head would be resting on his chest. He stood there watching you, studying every part of your face. He looked away & started walking out of the cave with you in his arms. He made his way through a brightly lit manor. The grandfather clock chimed as Jason went past it, your body twitched in his arms. He smiled.
"Good morning master Jason." Alfred said as he came out of the kitchen, his eyes went from Jason to Jason's arms.
"Yeah she's fine, she just passed out. I'm gonna take her to my old room."
He said as he passed Alfred. Alfred nodded at him.
"Alright master Jason, I do wish you two would get back together. She made you so happy." Alfred said as he went back into the kitchen.
Jason smiled as he went up the stairs, "she still does."
He placed you on his bed, putting a thin sheet over you.
"Sleep tight y/n." He kissed your forehead & started for the door. He opened the door, but before he closed it, he looked back at you. Then he closed the door.
