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Every inch of Duke hurts. His head is pounding along with his heart,and his lip stinging with every breath he takes.
He probably should have stayed on the couch,he could have been eating whatever Jason made for dinner, while listening to him talk about whatever went down today.
Instead he’s in a filthy alley, with blood on his suit and dizziness that made it feel like the world was on tilt.
This was a terrible idea.
Jason is going to kill him.
And the worst part of his terrible idea going side ways,wasn’t even that he’s bleeding, it was that Jason definitely knows that by now that the hologram was fake by now and is probably hunting him down as he lies.
He’s so cooked.
Speak of the devil and he shall appear.
A boot splashes through a puddle at the entrance of the alley way.
Duke doesn’t even have to look up to know who it is.
“Hey, man” Duke tries
Silence.
Good. Amazing if you will.
Maybe trying to joke wasn’t the best course of action.
Duke lifts his head. Seeing Jason stand at the entrance of the alley way,with his helmet tucked underneath his arm. His expression is hard to read from a distance but Duke can probably guess what he is feeling.
Pissed.
It’s terrifying.
“Hi” Duke tries again.
Jason looks at him and starts walking.
Damn he’s fast.
Shit.
“Listen before you say anything-“
“Don’t”
Well he tried.
Jason drops down to his knees.
Duke watches as Jason’s eyes scan his injuries.
“How bad?”
Duke considers lying.
Jason gives him a look
Duke exhales
“It’s pretty bad”
“Define pretty bad”
“I think I might have gotten myself a concussion”
Jason closes his eyes for a second
“Anything else?”
“The thugs took my dignity”
Jason gives him a look.
“Wrong timing?”
“Very”
Despite the words, Jason’s hands carefully search for aby injuries that Duke might have left out.
He looks up at Jason again
His jaw is tight.
Not Annoyed tight.
But worried tight.
“..I’m sorry” Duke slips out before he can even stop it.
Jason freezes
Then a long exhale through his nose
“Yeah”
Duke waits
“That’s it?”
“The rest of the conversation will happen after Alfred says you’re not dying”
Duke groans.
“Up we go”
Jason’s arm slides under his shoulder.
Duke immediately regretted everything leading to this point.
“Ya know” Duke says as Jason lifts him up, “I think I’m all healed.”
“Real funny,Narrows.”
“I thought so, maybe I should quit being a vigilante and try comedy.”
“Keep talking and I’m leaving you to rot in this alley way”
Duke blinks
“You tracked me across Gotham”
“Ok, And?”
“You’re not leaving me here”
Jason scoffs, “No”
Duke smiles
“Yeah, that’s what I thought”