CONTRADICTORY FREAKS
jason todd/red hood x fem! reader
bookstore worker! vigilante meetcute
sfw. kind of on crack? comedy.
word could : 930ish
disclaimer : ive never written in the 2nd person pov before. there might be some grammatical mistakes. apologies in advance. jason might be ooc :)) this is my first ever jason fic, pls don't cancel me.
summary : red hood breaks into a bookstore in the middle of the night to get the sequel to the book he'd just finished reading. too bad you've got a late night shift and the mind of a freak.
why you should read this : english isn't my first language
no, but jason todd breaks into a bookstore past closing time because he got way too invested in the book and needs the sequel ASAP. could he read it on his phone and put the physical copy on his shelf anytime later? Duh. But that man is ocd about his reading habits and does not play around.
you had a shift past closing time that evening. a shipment had arrived of one of the newest, most anticipated books of the year. sucks for you, the bookstore is understaffed and you're to organize and shelve them. sucks for the general audience though, because you are in the fandom and you're totally gonna be snatching up an early copy before leaving.
you're in the storageroom, organizing the books into piles on top of the table, that's when you hear a loud bang, like a shelf dropping in the main area. you knew right then that you'd be the first to die in a horror movie because instead of calling the gcpd, you reach for the handgun in one of the lockers and head out cautiously to see what the hell is going on. of course you have a gun and your employer is okay with it, it's gotham.
you weren't really worried about it being one of batman's toxic lovers. though you had already decided in your head that by any miniscule chance if it was joker out there you'd bring the gun straight to your own head and pull the trigger. you were delusional enough to believe that you could pull aaron warner and jude duarte at the same damn time, but you were not surviving the joker-
but really, it might just be one of those crime alley lowlifes. special edition of books cost hundreds, and way more on an etsy resell afterall.
so when you do make it to the front, running all sorts of possibilities through your head, you are rather flabbergasted to see red hood obsessively browsing through one of the shelves. you don't lower your gun though, you really do not get this vigilante and whatever moral code he may be living by.
"hi?" you call, your voice filled with unease, "mr red hood? which side of the bipolar spectrum are we on today?"
he freezes and slowly turns, despite his massive built and red helmet, he appears sheepish. it's kind of endearing. no, it is not. he'd very clearly broken in. and you have a fucked up type in fictional people. you internally snap, 'be still my beating vagina. we're not getting railed tonight'
"woah, there," he speaks, noticing you aiming the gun at him, and you blush right there.
oh, fuck no, you've been listening to way too many audiobooks during work lately. it's the fucking voice modulator on him. you have to smack a palm over your mouth to shove back that growing grin on your face. fuck lights out and josh hammond ; the last book you'd listened to.
he tilts his head to the side, "you're very weird."
"i swear i go to therapy." you blurt out, almost squeaking.
"doesn' seem to be helping much. " he says dryly.











