@littlevictorys: “ family isn’t who you’re born with, it’s who you’d die for. ” -- jer, in whatever verse you want
Jericho signs it, slowly, mouthing it as he goes along. She’s doing everything she can to stop herself from just reaching out to read his thoughts instead, but it was important to learn to read his hands too. The sense of achievement on understanding Jericho is overshadowed by the meaning of what she has just understood.
Sometimes, she forgets that Rose and Jericho are siblings. While Rose was as prickly as her name, Jericho was so much sweeter and nicer-- Rachel especially loved holding his hand and feeling his calming thoughts and his musical inclinations-- it was almost hard to believe he really was the son of Deathstroke. That man who had haunted Dick for so long and who had managed to infiltrate the Titans in such a psychologically jarring way. Even now, she feels ashamed that she’d been conned by such tricks-- but that was the past now, and they had to move in the future.
“I’d die for you” she says, while disjointedly signing the occasional word that she’s learned and picked up from their conversations. She still hasn’t told either Rose or Jericho about the specific circumstances of her own family-- only that she understood completely how they felt when it came to their father and their friends. “That makes you my family, Jericho”