Dead on Main
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Jason had always loved the drawings littering his arms. As soon as he knew how to write and had markers, he would write notes to his soulmate. He knew Danny like the back of his hand. Danny was the first person he said good morning too and the last person he said good night too.
He barely managed to scribble out a message to Danny before he died, apologizing.(He prayed Danny forgave him for leaving him alone.)
After Jason was resurrected, he didn’t know what to say to Danny. Danny still wrote on his arms, and Jason would be lying he said he didn’t look over those notes and feel tempted to write back. But Danny deserved better than what Jason could give him.
(the only person Jason ever showed the notes to was Damian. He would let the little Demon trace over them silently as he explained. He knew the league’s policy on soulmates was not kind. He hoped Talia would be kinder to the kid)
Then the writing started getting sloppier. The notes became those of a vigilante, the one thing he had hoped his soulmate wouldn’t have to be. Jason wasn’t supposed to leave the League. Jason should be working towards his revenge on The Joker, his plans for Gotham.
But then Danny wrote about Vlad. About the creepy guy that made his insides crawl and Jason couldn’t keep himself from clenching his teeth.(all of the trainees got used to Jason having some days where he was worse than others. Sometimes, the pit would rage inside of him at the thought of Lasters, but oddly enough messages from Danny seemed to ground him and make it harder for the Pit to control him)(maybe that’s why the league didn’t approve of soulmates.)
It was when the writings stopped that Jason really got worried and started preparing to leave. Talya caught him quickly, but was surprisingly willing to let him go. Her only request was that He took Damien with him. (Sometimes, he noticed how Talia wore the same sleeves that he did. He wondered sometimes if Talia only pretended not to have a soulmate.)
The last message that he got from Danny was the one that made him leave three weeks earlier than planned, with a demon child to his back, and guns ready to fire.
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“Sorry“
Danny both hated and cherished that word for the same exact reason.
It was the last word his soul mate ever wrote.
Danny knew that Jason was probably dead, if not based on the word then on how it was written, shacky, desperate, bloody.
But despite knowing he would get no response, Danny kept writing to Jason.
Perhaps it was denial.
Perhaps it was just how he grieved.
Perhaps it was a vain hope that Jason would become a ghost and know that Danny missed him.
Either way Danny kept on writing.
Even after the accident, Danny kept writing.
Even after becoming Phantom , Danny kept writing.
Even after Pariah Dark, Dan and Ellie , Danny kept writing.
Danny had never expected a response, especially not after writing about Dan and Ellie, especially not the words that replaced the desperate “Sorry” that had branded his arm for years.
“I’m Coming”