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She was curled up in a ball on her bed not looking at him. Jason could tell she was trying not to move as he approached the bed.
“Are you ok?” Jason asked softly
“I’m sorry” Amara’s voice cracked as she replied
He could tell how scared she was, his mind was racing through different things he could say he had little knowledge of kids let alone what to do in this situation.
“It’s alright” Jason turned his body to show off his arm more
“I’m all patched up can barely feel it”
Her eyes darted slightly towards him but she didn’t respond
“Hey you’re safe here ok”
Still no response
“No one’s going to hurt you”
They sat in silence for a moment her small hands tightly clutching her bed sheets.
“You promise” she finally said crying harder now.
This time Jason leaned in for a hug
“Ya I promise”
He said softly as she melted into his embrace.
After things had calmed down they were both watching tv and Jason started to feel more and more regret over the fact that he had not told her about what he had found out. He grabbed his computer with the files Barbra had sent him to show as evidence before sitting next to her.
“So um” Jason started off nervously “found this the other day, I double checked and it’s yours” he tilted the laptop towards Amara showing her birth certificate
“……” Amara stared at the screen reading all the words carefully
“It shows your name and when and where you were born”
“amara…..” she said quietly
“Amara.” She repeated louder smiling slightly
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Later that night Jason was heading down to Wane manor. He had gotten an invite to a family dinner from Bruce, he didn’t usually show up to things like this but he needed access to better tec if he was going to break into the chip he had stolen.
Jason was hesitant to leave Amara with Roy because of what happened this morning but her and Lian seemed to hit it off after a couple of minutes.
“ glad you could make” Bruce greeted him lightly slapping him on the shoulder as he did
“Alfred is just setting the table so we’ll eat any minute now”
Before he could step much farther into the house he got a call from Roy. As he stepped out of earshot to take it he saw Damion walk in and immediately hung up the call.
“Where did you find that?”
Bruce questioned as Damion held up his arm to show off a bright green snake that was coiled around his forearm.
“Just now, on the windowsill”
“We don’t get a lot of snakes in Gotham” Bruce observed.
Alarm bells were going off everywhere in Jason’s head ‘how did she follow him without anyone noticing?’ ‘What do I say to get her away from Damian?’
“She’s poisonous but seems to be accustomed to humans, she won’t be hard to train.” Damian said
“I don’t know you have a lot of pets.”
Bruce protested
Jason stepped forward before this got anymore out of hand
“That’s actually m-“
He was cut off by Amara jumping from Damian’s arm and turning into her human form as she hit the ground. There was a moment of shocked silence as she ran over to Jason.
Feeling Bruce’s glare on him Jason spoke up
“ Um I didn’t mean to bring her she followed me here”
Bruce looked towards the girl who was now slightly hiding behind Jason.
“I’ll have Alfred set another plate”
As Bruce left the room he gave Jason a questioning glare as if to say ‘we’ll talk about this later’.