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phoenix-173.livejournal.com posting in chloe_otp Jun. 17th, 2011 08:33 pm)Title: Red Hood Reborn
Characters: Chloe/Jason Todd
Rating: T
Summary: While doing a favor for Batman, Chloe looks up his former sidekick to determine if he is currently on the straight and narrow. She’s not sure what he’s up to, but he’s acting off, even for him. She’s determined to find out if he really has returned to the side of the good guys, or if this is just another head game of his.
AN: Somewhat AU, somewhat comic canon. My muse has been demanding I write a Jason Todd fic after seeing the DC Animated movie Batman: Under the Red Hood. Just imagine what a great Jason Todd Jensen Ackles would be.
AN2: Unbeta’d. Any mistakes are mine. If something doesn’t make sense or flow right, let me know and I’ll fix it. Thanks!
AN3: This was originally posted on ff.net under my other pen name BrightStar. -_^
Chloe looked around her. Gotham City was just as she remembered it; dark, gritty and imposing. She loved it when League business brought her here. It meant that the Bat couldn’t do everything by himself. Whenever he called into Watchtower for help, she always got a giddy feeling in her heart.
She shook herself out of her reverie and mentally went over what she was here to do. Batman had asked her to look into what the Red Hood was doing. He had resurfaced and his behavior was worrisome.
She knew his background with Bruce. Jason Todd was the second Robin. After Joker brutally beat him to death he was resurrected when reality shifted because of Superboy-Prime, he woke up buried in his own coffin. Having lived through the experience of being buried alive, Chloe felt a strange kinship to him.
After the Hush incident, Bruce tried to keep track of him knowing that he was a time bomb waiting to go off. When he surfaced in Gotham fighting crime, but refusing to talk to anyone from the Bat-Family, Bruce decided to call in backup in the form of Watchtower. He hoped Chloe would be able to communicate with Jason and find out what his agenda was.
It had been several years since Chloe had met Jason. He was still a teenage sidekick to Bruce’s Batman. She had been Watchtower for a couple of years and was intrigued by the intensity he brought to fighting crime. That was right before the Joker incident.
She’d gone to the funeral and mourned a life lost too early. When Bruce contacted her and told her Jason was alive, she nearly laughed out loud. She knew that kid would be able to cheat death. There was just something in him that called to her. Maybe it had been her inability to heal him that intrigued her the first time Bruce brought him to her after a particularly rough night in Gotham.
She knew when he came back he was changed. Who wouldn’t be after being pulled from what you believed to be Heaven, only to wake up buried in a coffin? That was enough to put anybody in therapy for years.
All Jason wanted was revenge and answers as to why Bruce didn’t avenge him. He eventually was able to come to terms with Bruce’s actions, but then he dropped off the radar and nobody could find him. So when he showed up in Gotham City, crime fighting again, but with a more brutal style than he had ever had.
Now Chloe was standing outside her hotel contemplating what the best course of action would be. How to get the Red Hood’s attention without committing a crime. Hmmm , I guess I’ll just go stake out the Narrows, she thought. Worst thing that could happen was that she could practice some of her archery skills. Never hurt to keep her hand in the business of crime fighting.
She chose a rooftop near Crime Alley. She knew most of the Bat-Family had past history with that particular section of town. She settled in for a wait, with her binoculars and her various weapons that she was comfortable with.
She didn’t have to wait long before a mugging caught her attention below her. She fired her zipline into the building across the street at enough of a decline to get to street level without splattering her against the sidewalk. She dropped off the zipline and landed on the mugger as he pulled out a knife. He hit his head on the concrete and was soon unconscious. The frightened woman clutched her bag to her and murmured a quiet thank you before turning on her heel and running into the next building.
She thought about tying up the would be mugger, but that would take time away from her stakeout, so she walked into the alley and scaled the fire escape to resume her perch on the roof. Before the night was over, she stopped 2 more muggings, a convenience store robbery and kept a street urchin from steeling the hubcaps off a parked car.
She was glad that she had left her bike on the other side of the river. She would be seriously pissed off if something happened to her baby. She was just thinking she would call it a night and come back tomorrow night when clapping hands behind her caught her attention.
“Well done,” he said as he stepped out of the shadows of the rooftop. “You managed to stop more petty crime with a minimum of bloodshed. What are you doing here?” he asked.
“Looking for you, actually.” She said casually. “I like the new look by the way. Black leather is definitely you. That outfit you were sporting as Red Robin made you look like Dr. Midnight. And really, who names themselves after a burger restaurant?” she quipped.
“What do you want Chloe? Did ‘Dad’ send you here? If I wanted to talk to the Big Bad Bat I know the number.”
“He’s just worried about you Jason. So am I. After what happened with Dick, I’ve been worried. You disappeared for months! Even I wasn’t able to find you. And we both know I can find anybody.”
Chloe looked at him closely. Something was different. Something had changed him. He still presented that tough as nails exterior, but something in his eyes was different.
“What happened Jason? Why are you back? And protecting the people of Gotham again? You said you were done being a hero when you felt that Bruce had failed you. What changed? I’m just trying to figure out what side you are on and if Bruce is going to ask me to take you down. I sincerely hope that isn’t the case.” Chloe realized that she had been rambling when he quirked a smirk at her.
“Let’s just say, I got a glimpse of what Fate had in store for me and I didn’t like it. I decided to take Fate into my own hands and rewrite my destiny,” he told her. “Now if you are finished playing in my backyard, you can come back to my bunker and I’ll tell you about it and then you can toddle off to the Man and report what you found out. Your choice.”
“Not much of a choice, Hood. If I want to have something to tell him, I guess you’ve got me where you want me. Lead on MacDuff. And this better not be a ploy to get me naked. I remember that time you ‘appropriated’ those prototype x-ray goggles from Cadmus so you could check out all the female leaguers in their birthday suits.”
He chuckled at her as he was reminded of that memory. He rubbed his ribs as he remembered how sore they were when Wonder Woman got done tossing him around.
“You wish, Blondie. With as little as all those chits wear, it doesn’t leave much to the imagination. Now are you coming or not? I’ve got better things to do that hangout on roof tops all night”
I’m going to regret this, aren’t I? Bruce is so going to owe me for this. She thought as she followed him across the rooftop and dropped down onto the fire escape and into the alley below. She spotted his bike in the shadows and followed him to it. As he climbed on it he looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
“Climb aboard. We’re burning time, and it’s a precious commodity.”
As she climbed behind him on the black Ducati, she shook her head and thought I’m already regretting this. Bruce is buying me a new bike for this. Jason revved the engine and with a squeal of the tires they were gone.
Characters: Chloe/Jason Todd
Rating: T
Summary: While doing a favor for Batman, Chloe looks up his former sidekick to determine if he is currently on the straight and narrow. She’s not sure what he’s up to, but he’s acting off, even for him. She’s determined to find out if he really has returned to the side of the good guys, or if this is just another head game of his.
AN: Somewhat AU, somewhat comic canon. My muse has been demanding I write a Jason Todd fic after seeing the DC Animated movie Batman: Under the Red Hood. Just imagine what a great Jason Todd Jensen Ackles would be.
AN2: Unbeta’d. Any mistakes are mine. If something doesn’t make sense or flow right, let me know and I’ll fix it. Thanks!
AN3: This was originally posted on ff.net under my other pen name BrightStar. -_^
Chloe looked around her. Gotham City was just as she remembered it; dark, gritty and imposing. She loved it when League business brought her here. It meant that the Bat couldn’t do everything by himself. Whenever he called into Watchtower for help, she always got a giddy feeling in her heart.
She shook herself out of her reverie and mentally went over what she was here to do. Batman had asked her to look into what the Red Hood was doing. He had resurfaced and his behavior was worrisome.
She knew his background with Bruce. Jason Todd was the second Robin. After Joker brutally beat him to death he was resurrected when reality shifted because of Superboy-Prime, he woke up buried in his own coffin. Having lived through the experience of being buried alive, Chloe felt a strange kinship to him.
After the Hush incident, Bruce tried to keep track of him knowing that he was a time bomb waiting to go off. When he surfaced in Gotham fighting crime, but refusing to talk to anyone from the Bat-Family, Bruce decided to call in backup in the form of Watchtower. He hoped Chloe would be able to communicate with Jason and find out what his agenda was.
It had been several years since Chloe had met Jason. He was still a teenage sidekick to Bruce’s Batman. She had been Watchtower for a couple of years and was intrigued by the intensity he brought to fighting crime. That was right before the Joker incident.
She’d gone to the funeral and mourned a life lost too early. When Bruce contacted her and told her Jason was alive, she nearly laughed out loud. She knew that kid would be able to cheat death. There was just something in him that called to her. Maybe it had been her inability to heal him that intrigued her the first time Bruce brought him to her after a particularly rough night in Gotham.
She knew when he came back he was changed. Who wouldn’t be after being pulled from what you believed to be Heaven, only to wake up buried in a coffin? That was enough to put anybody in therapy for years.
All Jason wanted was revenge and answers as to why Bruce didn’t avenge him. He eventually was able to come to terms with Bruce’s actions, but then he dropped off the radar and nobody could find him. So when he showed up in Gotham City, crime fighting again, but with a more brutal style than he had ever had.
Now Chloe was standing outside her hotel contemplating what the best course of action would be. How to get the Red Hood’s attention without committing a crime. Hmmm , I guess I’ll just go stake out the Narrows, she thought. Worst thing that could happen was that she could practice some of her archery skills. Never hurt to keep her hand in the business of crime fighting.
She chose a rooftop near Crime Alley. She knew most of the Bat-Family had past history with that particular section of town. She settled in for a wait, with her binoculars and her various weapons that she was comfortable with.
She didn’t have to wait long before a mugging caught her attention below her. She fired her zipline into the building across the street at enough of a decline to get to street level without splattering her against the sidewalk. She dropped off the zipline and landed on the mugger as he pulled out a knife. He hit his head on the concrete and was soon unconscious. The frightened woman clutched her bag to her and murmured a quiet thank you before turning on her heel and running into the next building.
She thought about tying up the would be mugger, but that would take time away from her stakeout, so she walked into the alley and scaled the fire escape to resume her perch on the roof. Before the night was over, she stopped 2 more muggings, a convenience store robbery and kept a street urchin from steeling the hubcaps off a parked car.
She was glad that she had left her bike on the other side of the river. She would be seriously pissed off if something happened to her baby. She was just thinking she would call it a night and come back tomorrow night when clapping hands behind her caught her attention.
“Well done,” he said as he stepped out of the shadows of the rooftop. “You managed to stop more petty crime with a minimum of bloodshed. What are you doing here?” he asked.
“Looking for you, actually.” She said casually. “I like the new look by the way. Black leather is definitely you. That outfit you were sporting as Red Robin made you look like Dr. Midnight. And really, who names themselves after a burger restaurant?” she quipped.
“What do you want Chloe? Did ‘Dad’ send you here? If I wanted to talk to the Big Bad Bat I know the number.”
“He’s just worried about you Jason. So am I. After what happened with Dick, I’ve been worried. You disappeared for months! Even I wasn’t able to find you. And we both know I can find anybody.”
Chloe looked at him closely. Something was different. Something had changed him. He still presented that tough as nails exterior, but something in his eyes was different.
“What happened Jason? Why are you back? And protecting the people of Gotham again? You said you were done being a hero when you felt that Bruce had failed you. What changed? I’m just trying to figure out what side you are on and if Bruce is going to ask me to take you down. I sincerely hope that isn’t the case.” Chloe realized that she had been rambling when he quirked a smirk at her.
“Let’s just say, I got a glimpse of what Fate had in store for me and I didn’t like it. I decided to take Fate into my own hands and rewrite my destiny,” he told her. “Now if you are finished playing in my backyard, you can come back to my bunker and I’ll tell you about it and then you can toddle off to the Man and report what you found out. Your choice.”
“Not much of a choice, Hood. If I want to have something to tell him, I guess you’ve got me where you want me. Lead on MacDuff. And this better not be a ploy to get me naked. I remember that time you ‘appropriated’ those prototype x-ray goggles from Cadmus so you could check out all the female leaguers in their birthday suits.”
He chuckled at her as he was reminded of that memory. He rubbed his ribs as he remembered how sore they were when Wonder Woman got done tossing him around.
“You wish, Blondie. With as little as all those chits wear, it doesn’t leave much to the imagination. Now are you coming or not? I’ve got better things to do that hangout on roof tops all night”
I’m going to regret this, aren’t I? Bruce is so going to owe me for this. She thought as she followed him across the rooftop and dropped down onto the fire escape and into the alley below. She spotted his bike in the shadows and followed him to it. As he climbed on it he looked at her with a raised eyebrow.
“Climb aboard. We’re burning time, and it’s a precious commodity.”
As she climbed behind him on the black Ducati, she shook her head and thought I’m already regretting this. Bruce is buying me a new bike for this. Jason revved the engine and with a squeal of the tires they were gone.
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