#The next few months are a downard ride of talking hallucination

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Self-fulfilling Prophecy by chaosphere ( @the-name-of-the-rose )

“Why did you do it, Jason? Why did you pretend to kill him—why didn’t you fight me back?”

“Fuck you, Bruce! Are you seriously trying to blame me for beating me to death?”

Roy isn't close to come to Jason’s rescue, and by the time Batman stops beating Red Hood for shooting Cobblepot, it’s too late.

Batman kills Red Hood, and a month later, Bruce Wayne starts to hallucinate and see Jason Todd everywhere.That’s how the end starts. Ongoing, 8k words.

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Chap 4:

Jason gestured at the plank. “Are you goddamn insane? Alfred is right! You can’t let one bad night destroy you—destroy Batman. You’ve been beating guys harder now—who fucking cares?” “You were telling me to be careful—” “Because I didn’t know that would make you give up. You can control yourself, Bruce. What you did to me won’t happen again.” Neither of them said anything for some time. “And sure, I screwed up a lot, but I wasn’t worse than many of the people you beat up.” He looked away for a second, and then turned to Bruce again, his eyes wide, almost shining, “or do you think that of me? Do you think I’m like those—those people who murder for fun and giggles, who rape or who fucking act like other people are things, property?” “No!” For all their fundamental disagreements, Bruce had never thought that of Jason. He knew Jason was dangerous, that he’d had a hand in honing that danger, but he also knew that his son was never cruel. “Then what was so wrong with me that I’m the one you killed? The only one.” Bruce didn’t have an answer for that, and neither did he want to follow that line of questioning.   After that, Jason disappeared for a few days.