SladeJay Prompt #1 – Stranger in a Familiar Land

No one must know, his mother had said, years of accumulated regret seeping into her tone. It ought to be hidden. Should never be known. There are powers within a name – especially ours.

The night at the warehouse exposed a secret – one taken to Jason’s grave to return to the land of the living. Sheila Haywood was an old god; her true nature weakened while followers dwindled with time. But during their dreadful reunion, his mother blessed him with a name known only to him.

His godly name, the reason he re-awoke from the confines of his coffin.

With no one to trust, Jason kept this secret from disappointed father figures and rejected brothers.

This changed when Slade Wilson came into the picture.

Once Jason uttered his faithful name under unforeseeable circumstances.