[Dick goes quiet for a long few minutes while drinking his coffee, considering his next words.]
I don't know what he was like in your world, Hood. In both yours and mine, you missed five years. But he was angry, Little Wing. He was so...so damned angry. All the time. I'd go so far as to classify him as suicidal, though you know he'd never admit it.
[Because Jason hadn't been there for the aftermath of what the Joker had done. Not the immediate, at least.]
He was reckless, pushing everybody away. He actually punched me when I confronted him about not contacting me about what happened. I had to learn from one of the Titans that had still been home while the rest of us went to Tamaran, and he only knew because he tried breaking into B's files. Couldn't get in, of course, but also couldn't get anybody to pick up when he called.
[It certainly hadn't helped that Danny was a little ass about it. Dick shouldn't have taken it out on the kid, but it hadn't gone well.]
Rook...he understood better than you or me what he was getting into, at least at first. I knew I couldn't be what B needed any more. But B needed...something to pull him back from the ledge. And if it couldn't be me, I could at least learn from my own mistakes and be there to support the person who could.
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I don't know what he was like in your world, Hood. In both yours and mine, you missed five years. But he was angry, Little Wing. He was so...so damned angry. All the time. I'd go so far as to classify him as suicidal, though you know he'd never admit it.
[Because Jason hadn't been there for the aftermath of what the Joker had done. Not the immediate, at least.]
He was reckless, pushing everybody away. He actually punched me when I confronted him about not contacting me about what happened. I had to learn from one of the Titans that had still been home while the rest of us went to Tamaran, and he only knew because he tried breaking into B's files. Couldn't get in, of course, but also couldn't get anybody to pick up when he called.
[It certainly hadn't helped that Danny was a little ass about it. Dick shouldn't have taken it out on the kid, but it hadn't gone well.]
Rook...he understood better than you or me what he was getting into, at least at first. I knew I couldn't be what B needed any more. But B needed...something to pull him back from the ledge. And if it couldn't be me, I could at least learn from my own mistakes and be there to support the person who could.