LOVE IN A SHELL REMAKE 𓇼 || LITTLE MERMAID AU!
chapter five: a scales problem.
summary: after a full of shopping with steph, jason and y/n share a moment in the car. a relaxing night in the tub leaves y/n accidentally revealing her secrets. unexpected guests come over for damian’s early celebration of his birthday. and let’s just say, a lot of the unexpected guests love to tease jason too much.
pairing: jason todd x fem!reader, damian wayne x reader (platonic), roy harper x jason todd, lian harper x reader (platonic), jason todd x lian harper (platonic), mention of Artemis and bizzaro
❗️mentions//tw: blood, gore, tail ripping in half, implied sex, depression, I suck at describing sign language (I’m sorry!)
author’s note: hi loves! so, this is going be somewhat longer chapter. thank goodness! I spent almost a full day to write this so you my loves can enjoy. now, i have two fan fics more like a bunch on the way. two relating to our hubby jason, a series and a one-shot. the rest of the details will be released soon. so enjoy this chapter and oh happy pride month as well my loves! mwuah💋
“thanks guys for dropping me off”, steph thanked y/n and jason as she scoots to the car door. as she opened it, jason watched from the mirror and y/n waved at her with a ‘goodbye’ and sweet smile. “no problem steph, you should come by the house sometime”, jason suggested to the blonde as he tapped the steering wheel. steph gets out of the car, slamming the sleek black car door. she leans down to meet the level of car with three toy guns in her arms. “hell yea I will! you see these babies? definitely will see you two this weekend”, she says.
y/n leaned her head on the leather seat, already wanting to rest for tonight. “okay steph, take care alright?”, jason said as he starts the engine.
steph rolled her eyes now walking backwards to her apartment building. “always am jay. nice meeting you y/n”, she yells out as she shoots y/n a teasing smile and a wink.
a small tired wave y/n gave before yawning. jason watched as steph went inside her apartment with a struggle with her arms of toy guns. once she went inside, she sent a wave before heading inside. moving the gear to drive, jason sends off back to the manor.
“tired?”, jason asks y/n seeing her sleepily try to stay awake. a small nod along with another big yawn. jay smiled, his smile was huge as he can see from the corner of his eye how cute she looked. “well we are almost home. get some rest for tonight”, he said. y/n couldn’t wait to go to sleep and cuddle up with chewie. the big softie was the best to get some fluffy warm cuddles from. many times when y/n would use her legs, she would always find herself with chewie all cuddled up.
for chip, he would always manage to find his way to keep watch. in her time of being on that beach, chip was always the one to keep an eye on her. you could say he was protective just like willow and chewie. her friends were the only thing she had now. too ashamed, too scared to go back home. and if she did, she wouldn’t see them again. not even jason either.
after today, she really liked to be around jason. he was…generous and…human.
the night she saw him trying to save that sweet child, she knew he was a good one. especially since the kid told her, he was a hero to many others. a lot of people from different countries know of the ‘justice league’ and ‘red hood’ as well.
two days after the shipment dock incident, yara and her mother was taken to a shelter taking care of the hostages with food and warm clothes for them until they go back home. all yara could think of was the pair of eyes that gifted her a such coin. along ones that saved her life from two men who wanted to hurt her. with a lot of thought, yara went off in the night to see the eyes again. waiting for her mother to sleep and out to went.
in the cold night, yara stood on the same dock where she stood with the crime boss. she shivered as she held her pink sweater the shelter given her tightly against her tiny body. her black hair winds back.
in her small hands, held the coin. one the eyes gifted her with such kindness. it was odd. the coin. she hide it from her mother, as to no questions from her.
as she inspected the coin in what felt like the millionth time. she heard a familiar chirp coming from below her. yara let out a surprised gasp and looks down, upon looking down. there it was. the same kind eyes staring back at her. the eyes tilted it’s eyes curiously letting out another chirp. “hello?”, she greets with a thick heavy accent. a gentle ‘eee’ comes out from the eyes.
yara admired the eyes, they were so beautiful. so much love behind them. not before, the eyes sunk down in the water leaving yara confused. yara felt saddened. had she offended the person behind the eyes?
a loud creak comes from the edge of the wooden dock. yara stared at the sound got more louder. a hand slams against the wood making a wet slap. the hand was webbed and scaly. yara stepped back in fear as the unknown was about to get her. but she quickly stopped upon seeing a pair of familiar eyes along with a wet mop of hair appears. it was a woman. a beautiful one too. she had (h/c) for hair, her features as just as gorgeous. the woman chirped at her again as a greeting.
yara steps forward to the woman with some slight hesitation. seeing her hesitation, the woman uses both webbed hands to lift herself from the cold ocean water. what shocked the child, was the woman had a tail. a fish tail.
her tail was shiny. tales from yara’s people of creatures that were half human half animal. such as ones with fish tails. ones everyone would know, a mermaid. they were always so beautiful. ones would sit on huge rocks and brush their long locks. the woman sat on the edge, looking at yara with a huge smile. human ones as well. she held out a webbed hand to yara, as an invitation to sit next to her. yara now without any hesitation sat with her, a mermaid. one that protected her.
yara and y/n sat on the dock what felt like hours. it was…amazing.
she was kind and all sorts fascinating to be around. y/n spent hours telling yara in yara’s language, of how she ended up on the beach. and what yara will never forget is how y/n says they are connected now.
the coin yara held in her hands, explains as well. that y/n is her guardian now.
a rare things to happen to anyone not alone a child. y/n gave her a conch that “in case you need me…call for me. I’ll be there”. the conch was huge yes. but yara never more protective over it. it was a light orange brown with speckles on it. the inside was pink. the conch had a very unique design on it.
and when yara returned back to the Gotham shelter, her mother was still asleep. thankful for that to save from worried eyes. yara placed her coin and conch away in her backpack the shelter gave her. keeping them safe from unwanted hands.
“andddd home at last”, jason exhaled as he parked in the huge garage filled with motorcycles and newly modeled expensive cars. he turns off the engine before sitting back in his seat. he yawns very loudly taking a huge stretch. y/n silently giggled at him for being noisy. jason smacks his lips turning his attention to y/n who was giggling. he smiled at her with his pearly whites. and a sudden memory of today’s events, he asks her “so what free things we got from nice lady and creepy father?”.
y/n remember the ‘free things’ she had be received from today. also remembering the nice woman’s father that made her very uncomfortable. from her side, she grabs the purple sheer bag handing it to jason. in his huge hands, jason untie the bag. taking out the contains out of it into his scarred hands.
in his hands, is two rings. and a necklace of a locket that opens. it was vintage-looking. worn and gold. the rings was silver, they had unique designs in grave in them. one had a fish on it swimming around a sun and the other was the same but the moon.
“huh. not bad for being free”, he says as he picked up one of the rings.
jason handed the things pieces of jewelry to y/n, she holds out her hand letting him put them there. y/n touched them, turning them to see what unique styles they had. a sudden idea runs to y/n’s as she looked at almost similar rings. unexpectedly y/n grabbed jason’s right hand in her left one. placing the rest of the jewelry on her lap. her hand grabs the ring that had the design of a fish and the sun. jason watched her in confusion of what she was doing. that was until y/n slid the ring in his middle finger on his right hand.
she let go of his hand, taking in the sight of the ring on his finger. jason looked at her with his head tilted and eyebrows raised. “you…gave me some one of the rings?”, he asks her as he brings his hand close to his face. y/n nodded quickly. her eyes looked down at the other ring. going to grab it, y/n to slids the one with the moon on it on her left hand. it now sits on her index finger.
jason grinned lightly as she showed him the matching rings they have.
he chuckled before placing his hand next to hers. the two matched. “well would you look at that…we are matching rings”, he spoke. y/n wiggled her hand at him after his sentence.
as the two compared matching rings of a fish with a moon and the sun, jason looked down at y/n as he sees her excited face.
he liked looking at her be happy.
feeling his eyes on her with his burning gaze. y/n looked up at jason. they were so close to each other. a small gap between them. jason could see the stars in her eyes. y/n can see the sky in his.
looking in each other’s eyes, jason could see how beautiful she looked. she always did. no matter what.
without thinking, his scarred hand that held the ring reaches up to y/n face. the hand glides across her cheek so everly soft. now cupping her cheek, his thumb swipes her outer cheek. y/n slightly closes her eyes basking in the touch. her eyelashes touch her upper cheek like a gentle kiss. from the garage light, jason could see how just the light complemented her features well. as she opened her eyes, y/n looks at him with the same look again. love.
her eyes draw him. nuzzling her face into his scarred hand, she couldn’t help feel knots in her stomach. she doesn’t know why but she liked it.
as the two melted into each other’s touch, a soft knock on the mustangs window makes y/n jump. meanwhile jason sighed in annoyance. he pushed his body away from y/n now turning his body to the driver’s window, he sees a familiar clad figure. one in white and black. rolling down the window, a voice asks him “sorry to interrupt master jason, I’m afraid we have some business…to attend to with master bruce tonight”.
dammit. jason nod his head tapping his finger on the cold steering wheel. “okay…thanks for informing me alfred”, he quietly spoke to the butler. alfred still stood there as if he was waiting for jason to come with him. “is there anything else you need master jason?”, the older man asks him. shit right, the shopping bags.
“oh…uh. can you take the shopping bags up to y/n’s room?”, he asks alfred so politely. with a single bow, alfred walks around the car to the trunk where you can the very visible and packed trunk full of shopping bags. jason opens the his door, getting out of the car as y/n sat in the passenger seat still. she watched him follow alfred to the trunk.
once the trunk door open, alfred and jason grab as many bags they could in their arms and hands.
watching the two struggle a little to grab all of the shopping bags, jay leaned down to meet y/n still in the car. “hey y/n, if you want you can head up inside and get some rest. alfred and I will bring your stuff in your room if that’s alright?”, he asks with a charming smile. y/n tilted her head once more before nodding slowly. she turns her body to her door, slowly gripping the handle.
slowly y/n got out of the car before accidentally slamming the car door. jumping as she did, she flinched. her fingers going up to play with each other. looking back to the trunk, jason and alfred still were struggling but still jason insisted she goes up stairs might as well.
both alfred and jason faked struggling to get the shopping bags. the two waited for y/n to go inside and once they heard shuffling of feet and a door slowly opening and closing, they stopped what they were doing.
jason put the shopping bags down, he crossed his arms leaning on the side of the car glaring at alfred. “what is it alfred?”, he whispers to the older man.
alfred didn’t look at him but continued to gather all the bags. and when he did, he easily had them in his arms and hands. “master jason, as much as I like to see you with a woman your age. remember, you are here to help her. not fall immensely in love with her”, he says so casually. jason’s eyes widen at the words ‘fall immensely in love’. he stayed quiet as his response. he stared at alfred, jason was NOT in love. definitely not. he only knows y/n for what? two days? this isn’t some fairytale. and that is what he told alfred. “I’m not in love, alfred. this isn’t some fairy tale”, he sarcastically says uncrossing his arms.
neatly groomed eyebrows raised at him now looking at him. alfred paused before sighing and rolling his eyes. his dear boy was always the same. stubborn with feelings. “as much as I would love to argue master jason. just remember, you are here to help her. do that. and maybe someday you and her can have a romantic involvement”, alfred spoke now walking away from the taller man with bags covering his upper half.
jason rubbed his temples with closed eyes. alfred really knows more about himself than anyone. he’s like his grandfather after all. even the butler knows more about him than his own adopted dad.
bending down lightly, jason grabs the bags before closing the trunk door loudly. his mood was grumpy. he was not falling in love with someone he just met. how could he? even love doesn’t work out for him.
the walk with heavy shopping bags was nothing to jason especially going up the stairs to y/n’s room. when he used his foot to try to open the door handle, he grunted angrily before just using his hand that is occupied already. and when he opened the door, he sees y/n asleep. on the bed, her figure was laying on the bed sideways with her dog in front of her. hearing him, the dog opened it’s eyes as they landed on jason. the ‘puppy’ eyes watched as jason set down the bags.
for now, jason just named her dog, dog. more appropriate and more…better? than naming it a random name.
jason stood in the room seeing as y/n was still in her clothes from today and his sweater. not wanting awake her, he walked around the bed quietly. he grabs the creased neatly and pressed bed duvet, wrapping it on y/n’s form as for her to not be cold later on. tucking her in on her sides and giving the dog a light head rub. jason goes up and leaves the girl’s room. and just before he does, he looks back at y/n on the bed. peaceful. something he couldn’t get as much when he has nightmares.
he wished her a ‘goodnight’ in his head before walking out the door. closing the door ever so silently, jason heads downstairs to where the old grandfather clock was.
he moves the hands of the clock to a specific time before the grandfather clock slides showing a dark pair of cement stairs leading down.
“come on kid you gonna tell us how it was?”, chip asks impatiently as he leaned his furry body on the side of the bathtub. in the oversized bathtub, was y/n. in all her glory with her tail out.
she leaned her body back in the bathtub, fully relaxed. the smell of jasmine and hibiscus aroma filled the bathroom in the divine scents. and with those scents were ones chewie and y/n dumped in the tub as they smelt too good. “it was…nice”, she shyly spoke to chip. if chipmunks could have eyebrows, they would be raised. “just? nice?”, he teased as he hopped forward.
playfully rolling her eyes at the silly chipmunk, she played with the bubbles and foam in the tub. “it was great chip. he was…sweet and funny. I wish I could do it all over again”, she sighed dreamily with a bundle of foam in her hands. y/n blows on them causing the foam to fall or create bubbles in the air.
“waah see I told you kid! maybe he’ll take you on a date?”, chip smugly as he too gathers some foam in his tiny hands and gives it a small sniff. his head moves away from his hands and his tiny face scrunched up in disgust. “ugh, too much scents. put more water sweetheart or I’ll get a headache in here”, he pesters.
y/n reaches over to the knobs, twisting it as water flows from the faucet.
tiny hands smack together up and down, chip lets out a ‘hmm’ in disapproval of the scents that was now imprinted on his hands. “I think they smell wonderful”, willow chirps back from the towel rack.
chip rolls his eyes before hopping to the edge of the bathtub, “yea of course you do”, he mumbles under his breath.
y/n flips her tail lightly at the chipmunk teasingly.
“I hope tomorrow is just as wonderful as today”, y/n says. cupping her hands one more time letting them dip into the warm water, raising them above her head having the water fall into her wet hair.
“oh me too. next time let me out of the room please. I couldn’t hold in my piss”, chewie grunts as he lays on the cold bathroom floor. “hey! I said I’m sorry!”, y/n gasps at the dog.
chewie grunts again in response before some water splashes on him. he feels the water on him, he shoots up in surprise. the fur on his body now wet. he whines dramatically making everyone laugh at him. “oh yea, laugh at me. I’ll get you back kid”, he huffs laying back down on the floor.
“well I said I’m sorry. now willow, can you hand me the brush please?”, y/n leans forward making grabby hands at the crow on the towel rack. willow croaks before taking off into the bathroom and onto the countertop where a gold hairbrush laid. using her feet, she grips the handle firmly before taking off once more. as she lands, it’s on the edge of the bathtub. willow gently placed it on the edge before cawing, “thank you”, y/n kindly thanks the crow.
willow hops off to take her place on the faucet that continues running, and next to the gold knobs was the bracelet y/n wears. sitting perfectly near the tub. y/n reaches over to the hairbrush, a soft hum comes from her mouth.
the song echoed throughout the bathroom. the melody was beautiful. it was new. chip listened to her beautiful voice. he always loved hearing her sing. it was effortlessly and always new. willow quietly listened to the melody as she stood on the faucet. meanwhile chewie laid on the floor listening to her sing.
as y/n sat in the tub with her tail out, she continued humming. her webbed hands clasped around the hairbrush, letting the bristles do it’s magic into brushing through the wet hair.
the singing made chewie more sleepy than ever. y/n hummed as she brushed her hair. the brush glided through her locks softly, no tangles in them. mermaid’s always have the softest hair.
from downstairs far away from the occupied bathroom, is jason. tired and angry as he leaves the bat cave. a long and annoying talk with damian and bruce in the cave. black mask has been spotted. and bruce forbid him from going out to go after the crime boss. why? he doesn’t know. perhaps thinking he fucked up last time and doesn’t want him to again. not his fault he almost died, again. stumbling out, he stomped away to the kitchen. just as he was about to open the swinging door, he hears humming. it sounded close.
but somewhat far. he turned his body to the voice. it was the same one. he recognizes it everywhere. he heard the humming and singing before in his dreams and on that night.
he doesn’t know if it’s the tiredness or he’s hallucinating again but he doesn’t care. it’s here.
his feet carried him as he searched for the voice hurriedly.
jason walked quickly around the manor to find it, that was until it stopped for a second. he turns his head everywhere to hear it again. and than it continues again, humming away.
“todd…what is that voice that is strangely in the house?”, damian sneaks up on him with titus by his side. the fourteen years old has his arms crossed as always with his signature glare as he looked at jason. the older man shushes him rudely with his hand up to damian’s face. “do not shush me todd!”, damian demanded at jason so dramatically.
“shut up damian, you heard it right?” “…you mean the voice that has been humming for a while now? why yes of course! why would I ask you if I did not heard it”, damian yells with another shush from jason.
titus’ dark ears perched up at the humming, his head turns to the stairs as he gruffs at them. jason noticed. “it coming from upstairs”, he mutters before shoving damian out of the way now practically climbing the stairs.
damian watches his desperate brother before letting out an ‘tch’. “idiotic behavior he has”, damian says as he walks away to the kitchen. “come titus, you have not had your dinner”. Titus lets out a small bark in response.
jason may look like a desperate moron right now, but he has to go to the voice. one that belonged to the woman. it has to be. he can’t be hallucinating or dreaming. damian was there. so it’s real. as he searched all upstairs, one place it could be was the rooms. just as he was about to go through everyone’s room carelessly, the humming stopped.
‘shit, shit no! keep humming’.
he thinks to himself desperately. only for it to not work. he leans his head on one of the bedroom doors. it was here. did the woman follow him? maybe taunting him? what is it?
y/n laid in the nearly spilling bathtub, her eyes closed as she relaxed into the water. how much she missed the ocean. “should we wake her?”, she hears chewie asks as his claws padded across the bathroom floor. “no…she shall rest. it’s been a long day for her”, willow says so softly before flying away from the tub to where the towel rack was. her beak hits the light switches, the bathroom darkened and the only light in the room was from the window. the moon was less bright tonight. “kid misses the ocean…and it hasn’t been a week” chip sighs out.
“you know how she gets chip. for now, she shall rest tonight”, willow ruffles her feather before flying off into the bedroom to sleep on the vanity.
not soon until chip follows but he looks back at the young mermaid before him in the bathtub asleep. he gives out a soft sigh before crawling away. chewie whines as his four legs carry him up the bath stairs. his huge body covers the stairs. with that, he sleeps softly.
jason shoots up from his drenched in sweat bed, his breathing heavy. it was warm in his room. too warm. he couldn’t breathe. either from the nightmare or the room. tonight he had the same nightmare from a night ago. the same singing taunting him. mocking him. he runs his sweaty palms across his scarred chest as a way to calm down his heart rate. a knock on the door snaps him out from having an heart attack on his bed.
“yea?”, he yells out to whoever was behind the door. definitely alfred. “master jason. have you awoken?”, Alfred asks slightly worriedly. yup it was him. alfred always knows when jason was having a nightmare. it was natural for him to check up on him.
“yea! I’m awake alfred”, he responded to alfred now getting up sluggishly from the bed.
“ah, excellent. well, today we have some guests this evening. master dick is here. including master drake, barnard,miss cain, miss brown and mr. harper along his daughter”, he explains to him from the other of side of the wooden door.
was he in trouble? where has he been? he knows he shouldn’t be talking, he’s been MIA for a while from the outlaws. but he had other things to handle. especially since him and kori aren’t on talking terms, it may be either from his older brother and the princess ending their relationship and future marriage. or that they are doing their own things. maybe both.
“alright. I’ll be down in a minute”, jason says back as he reaches down on his bedroom floor to pick up his misfits band t-shirt.
“very well. ms. y/n is waiting for you downstairs as well master jason”, Alfred says as jason hears his shoes click off away.
ah shit. great. now he’s going to hear more teasing and more ‘when’s the wedding?’ from roy. and a hopeful auntie from lian. he’s not going to be able to pass up from this. jay sighs as he rubs his temple annoyed. he felt more tired than yesterday. reaching for his phone on the his nightstand, he grabs it and enters his passcode. two new messages from Artemis.
‘can I come over?’ ‘you busy?’
he feels a huge headache right now. he feels like a dick for not answering but he knows better than to respond right now.
he liked artemis. but no more. he swipes his finger, deleting the messages before shoving his phone in his pajama pockets.
when alfred left from jason’s bedroom door, he went to go up and clean damian’s room along y/n’s bedroom. you could say alfred had a schedule when not much is needed except for extreme parties or dinner. therefore, when he went inside y/n’s room. the occasional messy bed and strange crow and chipmunk he spotted yesterday from cleaning, he carried on. but when he reached the bathroom, it was more messy. some towels and new makeup products lay on the counter unorganized. picking up the used towels and fixing the products, he could smell the jasmine and hibiscus bubble baths he had in the bathroom.
and just as he cleaned and cleaned, what caught him off guard was a scale. on the floor leading up to the bathtub. alfred raised an curious eyebrow as his polished shoes carried to the tub. in his sight, was scales, clear slime and not fully drained blood inside the tub.
alfred stood on the steps, he stared at the sight before him.
“hmm”, he says. his white gloved hand reaches into his pocket from his suit, pulling out an handkerchief. he flicks it down to unfold. stepping forward, he bends down to collect some colored scales and the slime.
once he contained them, he placed it in his pocket neatly before rolling up his sleeve.
cleaning the tub, alfred got rid of the residue of scales, slime and blood. the bathroom creaks turning his attention to it. from the little slight of the door opened, alfred sees beady four eyes staring at him. ah, the chipmunk and the crow.
they watched him silently and closely. “you don’t perhaps know if all this residue belongs to miss y/n do you?”, he asks them so clearly and curiously. both chip and willow freeze before running away from the door. alfred blinked at where the creatures once were. before letting out an ‘huh’. continuing on tidying up the bathroom.
“so, jason. when’s the wedding?”, roy yells out to his best friend with a smug smirk on his face. from the side, dick winces at the word ‘wedding’ before carrying on eating his cereal of Frosted Flakes. there sat, roy harper and his daughter lian. eating breakfast with consisted of vegan food for damian, and the typical foods but with homemade yogurt and breakfast sandwiches with alfred’s own fancy way.
“roy”, jason tiredly greets his best friend. he walks over to him, sitting next to him which so happens to be next to y/n who was conversing with cass.
“hi uncle jay!”, lian happily greets him as she hopped off her seat to run to her uncle-figure. as tired he is,he always had energy for lian. jason grabs her small body and places her on his lap as he sat down.
lian hugs jason’s huge body. as he hugs back, y/n watches in adoration at the sight of jason with a child.
“lian. I missed you”, he says giving the child a small kiss on his forehead. lian smiled, some of her teeth missing. “I miss you too uncle jay”. jason smiled as he heard the words. he always had a soft spot for kids, but for lian it was different. she was like his niece. whenever jason would crash at Roy’s all he would do is play with lian as way to not make himself bored or when roy needed help.
“I’m hurt jay…you never say you missed me”, roy pouted at jason.
“cause I didn’t. now where the hell have you been?”, jason asks him with lian on his lap.
roy put his hands in defense, his eyes turn and look at y/n. the red head’s lips turn into a smirk before wiggling his eyebrows at his best friend. “uhh what about you jay bird? what you been up to since I’ve been gone huh?”, he teases him. jason blinks at him before turning his body away from roy.
when Jason turned away from the childish red head, he now sees cass who waved at him with a smile and y/n who looked…pretty.
instead of adorning his red sweater, she wore a summer dress that was white with red flowers on it. the dress cupped her breasts perfectly and hugged her figure. y/n’s hair was wavy and shiny. he could see she is wearing some makeup that steph dragged him to pay for and he remembered steph what she called ‘swatching’ on him. various colors were on his arm and hands as y/n accidentally smeared a ruined lipstick on his skin.
and he still had the various colors and the ruined lipstick on his skin right now.
jason stared at her as roy, steph and dick looked at him.
“you going to tell y/n she looks pretty or do I have to do it myself. I indeed fact say she looks pretty three times today”, steph teases jason with her arms crossed as she sat with tim, who was half-asleep and bernard who was reading with tim’s head on his shoulder.
hearing her name, y/n looked at jason who was staring at her as he took in her new look. what surprised him even more was she used her hands to sign ‘good afternoon jason’. with the surprise behind his eyes, he shifted lian on his lap before cooly saying “hey”. maybe it wasn’t cool since he can hear the giggling from afar and one close to him.
besides the teasing and childish giggling, y/n smiled at him before signing to him ‘how did you sleep?’. jason cleared his throat. “I slept alright. what about you?”.
‘I slept great. thank you’, she signs back.
cass watched the interaction, taking a sip of her freshly brewed coffee with a smile. jason looked like a teenage boy from here. she was glad she got to teach y/n some sign language since this morning when jason was asleep for the majority of it. it was nice to teach someone some ASL since she has been away. “you, look good”, jason says as he tried to not make it obvious he was checking her out basically.
y/n shyly looked down at the compliment. she did feel good. this morning, steph came in as she promised to help y/n pick some clothes out to wear since y/n didnt know the latest fashion trends.
but since y/n fell asleep accidentally in the tub last night, she had to rush in putting her bracelet on causing her tail to shed. the pain was unbearable. with steph waiting for her from her bedroom, she had to practically bite down on a towel to hide her pained screams. still feeling the pain and sting from her legs, y/n shifted in her seat to find something to subside the pain. with a simple gesture of ‘thank you’ in ASL, y/n smiled gratefully.
with his available hand, he signs back to y/n. ‘you’re welcome’.
and now he can feel the stares and school-giggling again, jason turned his head to whoever was doing it. he glared at dick, steph, and roy who immediately stopped before carrying on whatever they were doing to avoid him. as the evening went on, jason ate some breakfast that had grown cold from this morning. guessing everyone has been down here for a while now. lian babbled to jason about her trip with her mother, jade, and how they went to the zoo. and in response, jason had a good conversation with her. the young harper was a smart one. so saying “that’s good lian” and “sounds cool” repeatedly wouldn’t work on her as she would grow upset.
from talking to lian and roy, who just teased him immensely, he watched sometimes when cass taught y/n some more ASL. already picking up some words and phrases.
approaching from the dining room doorway is damian in a simple short sleeved shirt and some jeans. beside him was titus and chewie walking side to side. behind damian is bruce dressed up casually, no need to wear a suit today. safe to assume, bruce stayed in the bat cave and went out as Batman last night. “afternoon everyone”, bruce greets everyone.
‘hey’s and ‘hey bruce’ greetings fill the dining room.
“hey damian, what’s up with the new dog?”, steph asks the younger boy.
damian sits in the farthest seat from everybody else. he tilts his head down, grabbing a glass of water he left on the table. “brown. the new member is actually y/n’s companion if you so happen to know”, he says taking a sip.
the sentence alone made everyone drop what they were doing including bruce who was eating some cold bacon.
“did he just-“, dick asks as he slowly munched on his cereal.
“you- you called her y/n”, steph states the obvious to damian who shrugged his shoulder. to jason, he raised an eyebrow at the young league leader.
damian has a crush on y/n.
solely till everyone starts to tease the fourteen year old and jason would jump in with everyone. bruce speaks up, “before all of you tease damian. and speaking of damian, I have called everyone here to announce that we will have a ball for damian. as you all know, damian’s to return to the league soon. with little time, I say we celebrate his birthday early”, he explains to the family and friends.
high pitched and teasing ‘aww’s, almost everyone except jason, roy, lian, and tim go up to damian to give him hugs and kisses. only for him to push them away with disgusted look on his face. “away! do not touch me you imbeciles”, damian yelled at them. tim, on the otherhand, now slightly awake he looked around confused and tired in seeing damian being huddled by most his siblings. “what did i miss?”, tim yawns loudly already reaching for his cup of coffee. bernard chuckled at his sleepy boyfriend. “damian’s having a party for his birthday, tim”, he explains to the coffee addict.
“…it’s his birthday?” “almost his birthday babe”.
the pair of best friends, both jason todd and roy harper sat on the vintage patterned couch in the living room, watching the movie ‘chicken little’ for the past two hours. twice. on the carpet with some snacks, laid lian harper and y/n. in the young woman’s arms was lian who was snuggled up in them. after discussing with everyone in the dining room, everyone went off doing their own thing.
in this house no one really bothered to find out what the other person was doing unless it involved them or they ended up hurt and questions needed to be given.
“oh…”, was all roy said as he watched the scenes of chicken little replay twice. over the course of watching the movie, jason explained to him what has been happening and that to his disappointment…y/n was not his girlfriend. or fiancé. or wife.
“yea…”, jason responded as well watching the movie.
the two go silent. the sound of the movie plays with the audio of ‘THE SKY IS FALLING’. lian could be heard giggling at the funny chicken.
“so…your not with her?” “nope”, jay says with the ‘p’ making a popping sound. roy nods slowly tapping his finger against his thigh. “but you like her?”, roy asks him without even looking at him.
without thinking, jason responds “yes”. a smug look on the red head’s paints it on his face. roy turns slowly with a slight side eye of mischief, as he turns jason looks at him with his head turning quickly. “wait. no I don’t. don’t look at me like that”.
roy wiggles his eyebrows faster than the flash.
jason glared at him. shaking his head with a deep sigh. “roy I don’t.” he stubbornly says crossing his arms.
“oh?”, roy says all surprised at the stubborn man. the red head turns his head to y/n who was cuddling lian. her dress pushed up slightly, could see her upper thighs lightly. a smirk at the idea in his head. sliding down the couch, roy spreads his legs wide. his hands clasp at the back of his head before tsking. “so you wouldn’t mind if I went up to y/n’s room with her then? I mean look at those legs man. man she got some nice legs…”, roy says. in his voice was smug just like his smile. the mention of his legs, jason unknowingly looks at y/n and catches the sight of her soft legs. “and thighs”, roy continues as he watches jason look at her.
and almost like a mocking. y/n shifts her positioning her to move her legs. the glimpse of her plush thighs giving jason and roy a slight show.
“so you wouldn’t mind?”, Jason’s attention snaps to roy who is already looking at him. “what?”, jason blankly asks not caring he got caught checking out y/n.
“you wouldn’t mind if I went with y/n, up to her room and-“ “if you finish that sentence I’ll kill ya”, jason threatens the red head harshly. his death stare would be scary to anybody else but to roy, it was funny.
a startled y/n and lian jump at roy’s booming laugh. the two figures on the floor watch roy laugh like manic meanwhile jason deadpanned at his best friend.
wiping a fake tear from his tear duct, roy slapped his knee before getting up from the couch. “oh man, that was great. wow. anyways lian sweetheart. come on, daddy’s gotta get some sleep tonight”, he says walking over to where lian lays. a low whine comes from the toddler as a noise of protest.
“noo daddy! I wanna stay with auntie y/n”, lian whines at roy as she snuggled close to y/n’s chest.
auntie y/n? jason thought. actually has a nice ring to it.
“I know baby but auntie y/n and uncle jay have some stuff to do later”, roy says with his hands on his muscular hips. with the last of hide sentence, roy turned to jason with a wink as a imply to the adult stuff. jay rolled his eyes as well getting up to go where roy is. “but-“, lian is cut off by jason who kneels where her and y/n are.
between lian and her uncle jay, jay clasps his hands together before holding a hand out to his niece.
“lian, sweet pea…how about when you’re daddy’s working. me and auntie y/n can watch you and we can go to the carnival? does that sound like a deal?”, he asks the toddler. her tiny hand in his as he pulls her closer to him. jason runs a scarred hand through her black hair, similar to his.
upon hearing the ‘deal’, lian jumps in the air excitedly. “really?!”, she squeals in delight.
jason smiled lightly before nodding, lian now jumps over to roy. “yes! you gotta a deal uncle jay”, she points at jason as roy picks her up in his arms. chuckling at the action, “deal kiddo”.
lian and roy excitedly talk to each other of later in the futures events. y/n rolls on her back, pushing down the material of her dress. about to get up on her own, she sees jason’s hand held out to her. her hand slips into his, her trust in the palm of his hand.
to jason, her hand was always soft. he liked that.
“let’s go and say bye to them?”, jason leans down to her ear and whispers. y/n looked at him before nodding slowly. he grips her smaller hand in his as he leads her to the front door of the manor. the same one he took her to when she arrived.
by the door is lian and roy in their jackets and shoes already. seeing the young woman, lian jumps and runs to y/n. hugging her soft legs, nuzzling into them cutely. “bye auntie y/n. I’ll see you again, okay?”, lian asks her ‘auntie’. with her hands and arms wrapped around her leg, y/n nodded before bending down to lian’s smaller height. the younger harper let’s go of y/n as she sees y/n is now near her height.
brushing a delicate finger across lian’s face, y/n cupped the child’s soft round face into her hands. leaning down, a soft motherly kiss on lian’s forehead.
pulling away from the toddler, lian wraps her tiny arms around y/n’s neck.
watching from the side, roy remember that lian hasn’t had much motherly contact in a while since jade or Cheshire has been doing whatever she does, not being able to see lian for months. as much as he would like to say it, it was nice seeing lian with a woman. not just any woman, jason’s woman.
“alright lia, let’s get goin. we can stop by and get some ice cream”, roy pulls out his car keys from his pocket. lian let go of y/n before skipping to her father. both of their hands clasped together.
the two start heading out the door meanwhile both jay and y/n watched, a small wave and a ‘call me if you need anything roy’ from jason.
once the father and daughter duo had left, jason looked at her. her face was longing. y/n always had a soft spot for children. and being around lian was nice. as much as she would love to have her own, that was simply not possible.
jason was the same. too afraid the kid will be just as fucked up as he is. he could only hope one day he could have a family of his own and a normal life with no crime. it wasn’t simple or possible for either of them.
as the night stayed young, most of the children went out in their suits of their named heroes. and one of those children was jason. giving the older man an advantage to speak to the bats alone. after saying goodnight to y/n and explaining he will going out with his family for a bit, jason wanted to track down black mask before anything else happens under his watch. all while alfred sat on the huge computer chair, typing away at a newly made file. dinner would be a little late tonight unfortunately.
BACKGROUND CHECK: UNKNOWN
NOTE: FOUND ON ONE OF BLACK MASKS SHIPPING TERRITORY, BEACH. HAS SCAR MARKS ON EACH SIDE OF HER NECK. NON-VERBAL. FOUND SCALES AND BLOOD ON TUB.
“alfred, what is important you needed for me to turn in early tonight?”, bruce asks his father figure as he walked over to him. the infamous Batman now attire in his white t-shirt and black sweats. bruce looks up at the huge computer screen only to see the file name that caught his eye. ‘Y/N’.
in the course of, alfred had not answered bruce. curious, bruce rounds to sit on the keyboard to get the older man’s attention.
“alfred…”, he calls out to him as he crosses his muscular arms.
“sire…as you know I have called for you”, alfred says still typing quickly.
“you did”. “I have found this sample from miss y/n’s room. and I will say, you should take a look at this”, alfred says as he pulls his attention to bruce. his now naked hand slides the earlier founded samples of what looks like fish scales coated with slime and blood to him on a clear round container. bruce picks it up inspecting it.
“you said you found this in y/n’s room?”, bruce asks alfred still observing the odd sample.
“more like the bathroom, sir”.
author’s note: hi my loves! so since last chapter , I feel like was weak sauce to me. I made this chapter longer and I’m trying to finish the next chapters for you guys. I’ve been stressed with this moving thing and trying to save money so it’s been a lot for me right now. but writing and fan fiction helps me take my mind of these things. and since I saw so many likes on chapter three, it made me so happy to see people like my stories! which is why I’m going to be releasing this chapter early! as a thank you to my loves! ah! yes! I will say a heads up next chapters will be sexy and dark. and more so sad cause listening to my mixed playlists, the feels be getting to me. so this is another rushed chapter so I’ll be editing sometime when the series ends! but I hope you all enjoyed the chapter! stay safe my loves!
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