#whaaaaaat?? something NOT in the m&m verse for the first time in like a year????

[thecrimsonhelmet]

Late Night Phone Calls ❛ No, it's okay. You didn't wake me. ❜ [dick absolutely 100% got woken up but he's never gonna admit it]

“…Yes, I did.” He can hear it in Dick’s voice—he’s doing a pretty good job of hiding it, but Jason’s still able to catch that slight sleep-rough edge to it. Plus, it’s like three in the morning and Jason knows Dick didn’t patrol tonight. There isn’t a doubt in his mind that he woke his brother up.

Which only further cements that this is a stupid fucking idea.

“Sorry. It’s nothing. Not important. I’ll just…let you go back to bed.” He really, really doesn’t want to hang up, but he’s also a goddamn adult that can handle his own dumb issues. It’s just a bad night. Jason’s rode out plenty of them on his own in the past. This won’t be any different.

The haHAhaHAhaHA ringing through his skull isn’t real. The pain isn’t real. The nightmare that’s left him so off-kilter and unsteady (that’s left him curled in on himself in the corner, face hidden in his knees, with a white-knuckled grip on the gun in his other hand, flinching at every sound) wasn’t real. Jason’s fine, he knows he’s fine, and he’s going to hang up the phone and let Dick sleep.

He is.

@dramatisperscnae (x)