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Jason wasn’t sure what to do anymore.
He had thought he hated Kyle. He did hate Kyle. That was why he had this tightness in his chest. It wasn’t because of any jealousy.
He didn’t get jealous.
Especially not when he saw Kyle happily laughing with some other guy, dressed in his civilian clothes, clearly on what could be classified as a date.
It filled Jason with annoyance not jealousy. He was annoyed by the sight of Kyle. Having to see him on his day off.
That’s exactly how he wound up at Roy’s apartment, ranting on about the green lantern as he helped lian with her English homework.
“Like seriously! In Gotham? Why? It’s literally the worst place for a date. He shouldn’t be going out with some guy from gotham” Jason complained as Roy sat on his couch, and sipped some coffee, looking like he needed a stronger drink.
“I don’t know, maybe he gets off on the risk?” Roy was being sarcastic but Jason was too deep into his “annoyance” to really take in the sarcasm.
“Yeah, right” Jason scoffed as Lian ultimately gave up on the gossip session and went to grab her coloring book. “I doubt Kyle is one of those artists looking for tortured souls to try and heal.”
Roy sighed and sat up, leaning onto his elbows that were resting on his knees.
“Did you ever maybe think that this stemmed from something other than hate, Jaybird?” Roy hummed softly with a small grin as he stared at Jason.
“What- No. Don’t even try to twist this. I don’t like that space boy” Jason argued, though he hesitated the moment he felt how that sounded in his mouth and the way his chest ached.
Roy waited with a smirk.
“Fuck.”
“Yeah, ‘fuck’ indeed” Roy laughed as Jason reached over to punch his shoulder.
“Don’t you dare tell anyone.” Jason ran a hand over my face as he sighed into his palm. “Oh my god. I’m an idiot.”
“That’s one word for it” Roy chuckled as he stood and headed to the kitchen.
“Yeah? What’s the other one?” Jason scoffed as he stood to follow.
“Pathetic? Down bad? Whipped? You do realize you do whatever he says right?” Roy pointed out with a small grin as he leaned against the counter.
“Don’t even tell me. I don’t want to know. I’m just gonna ignore it and it’ll go away” Jason muttered and before Roy could come over to speak Lian tugged on his arm and asked to go for a walk.
—☆—
They were barely even 10 minutes into their walk, Lian pulling Jason along, and there stood Kyle. It was just what Roy needed, the perfect opportunity to test something. It was almost too perfect, like whatever higher being there may be was just helping things along.
Kyle was there at the street corner, ready to cross and Roy made sure he had looked over before wrapping an arm around Jason’s middle and giving him a fat kiss on his cheek.
Lian chuckled, Jason grimaced, and so did Kyle. Roy simply smirked as he turned down a different street to avoid letting Kyle see Jason rub the kiss from his cheek. He just hoped it’d be enough for the two to finally do something with each other.
—☆—
It was a couple of weeks before Jason and Kyle saw each other again. And this time Jason had been chilling with Donna after a mission and Kyle couldn’t help but notice the way Jason smiled at her, it was a small smile, not really any teeth, but still.
That incident with Roy the other week had left Kyle feeling a specific type of bothered, a type he figured was just annoyance at Jason’s blatant display of affection in public. But seeing him with Donna, he knew now. He was jealous.
But it couldn’t be over Jason. No, he just wanted Donna…right?
Kyle sorta stood off to the side as he thought, glancing at Donna answering a text with an amused grin before she reached out to grab Jason’s arm.
…he was jealous over Jason.
Well shit.
—☆—
The next time they met was when Jason had to go to one of Bruce’s charity gala’s and he needed back up. So once he invited Roy, Roy asked Kyle to come along as well. He disguised the request as a mission. Jason wanted to argue the minute he saw the Green lantern show up, Roy could tell. But he saw the way his expression changed, eyes widening, at the sight of Kyle in a suit.
Roy knew tonight was gonna be a buttload of fun.
The minute they stepped in people were staring, whispering about Jason while trying to be subtle (they weren’t). Roy was used to the protocol at these parties, Kyle was not.
“So what’s the mission here? Cause you clearly stick out right now” Kyle muttered to Jason as he stuck with him.
“Mission? What mi-…Roy told you it was a mission” Jason groaned, watching Roy sneak off to go say hi to Kori and Dick. He ran a hand through his neatly combed hair, messing up the strands.
“No, mission. Just need to make an appearance, it’s sort of a little deal I have with the man.” Jason put it as simply as he could, giving Kyle the opportunity to leave. And he was about to as well. He didn’t like that he risked missing an actual mission for this.
But then that girl came up to Jason, clearly a little drunk and touching him a lot.
Jason was clearly uncomfortable and this was the first time Kyle had ever seen him politely trying to decline something and not snapping at the poor girl.
Kyle just watched for a second, that jealousy building in him until the girl grabbed Jason’s tie and tried to pull him towards her for a kiss. He didn’t budge and she just placed a kiss to his neck.
Kyle was green with envy now.
He marched on over and ignored the gentle scolding Jason was trying to give the girl before he just took the tie from her hand and actually tugged Jason down into a kiss.
The girl's eyes went wide in shock, and so did Jason’s.
Kyle didn’t stop though, one hand held Jason’s tie tight while the other gripped his suit jacket.
Kyle could feel the way Jason melted into the kiss, an arm around Kyle’s waist and fingers in his hair. Kyle thinks he saw a flash of a camera, but he didn’t care, just deepened the kiss as he finally got what he wanted.
There was the sound of someone clearing this throat and they broke the kiss, only to see Dick and Roy standing there. Roy has a grin on his face and a clear picture of the two, Dick on the other hand looked like he was about to put Kyle through a ruthless interrogation.
“About time” Roy teased as he slapped Jason on the back ignoring the people staring now.
“Shut up” Jason mumbled as he shoved Roy’s face, taking a step away from Kyle who was still trying to process what the hell he just did.
“We’re leaving before Bruce makes his way over and I have to deal with two of you” Jason said bluntly, turning his attention to Dick, knowing he wanted to ask countless questions. Jason grabbed Kyle’s arm and began dragging him deeper into the manor.
Jason just pulled him into one of the smaller studies near the main hall.
They stood there for a few moments before Jason spoke.
“So…what was that?” He muttered, hoping Kyle didn’t regret it.
“I…I don’t…it was nothing. I was just trying to help you get away from her…that’s all” Kyle lied quickly, thankful Jason hadn’t turned the light on yet so he wouldn’t be able to see the red on his face.
“Really? Cause I think I felt a little tongue” Jason teased, a smug grin on his lips as he walked into Kyle’s space, leaning down enough to see his face clearly.
“…had to make it convincing?” It was more of a question to himself than it was for an answer to Jason.
“Oh yeah?” Jason hummed, leaning even closer, feeling Kyle’s breath against his face.
“…oh fuck it” Jason chuckled before grabbing Kyle’a collar and kissing him.
Jason smirked into the kiss as Kyle melted into him. He felt Kyle’s hand slide onto his waist under his jacket, tugging at his button up. His other hand reached for his neck, gently resting on the side as he gently bit Jason’s lip.
“Is this convincing enough?” Jason whispered, breaking the kiss with a smirk. “Oh shut it” Kyle mumbled and pulled Jason back into a kiss, slipping his tongue between Jason’s lips.
Jason made a quiet noise as he felt Kyle begin to tug his shirt up, a hand against the bare skin of his stomach. He matched that energy by reaching for Kyle’s belt, about to yank it off until a knock on the door interrupted them.
“Jason” Bruce said as the door knob began to turn.
“Not a moment of peace in this place” Jason mumbled as he leaned down to rest his forehead on his shoulder, his hands moving to hold Kyle’s as if they didn’t look like they were clearly in the middle of something.
“Guess this’ll wait till later” Jason whispered against Kyle’s neck with a small kiss to his jaw before standing up straight and turning towards Bruce now that he opened the door.