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“Shit Jason, I need to take this. It’s Jim.” Bruce said as his burner phone started to ring. Bruce just sat down for five minutes and already got up.
Jason rolled with his eyes and grabbed one of the books he was ready from his nightstand.
He must say he did like the constant company and the way everyone was caring for him but he couldn’t wait until it was just him and Peter again at his apartment.
Jason heard Bruce talking in the Batman voice over the phone. Even though commissioner Jim Gordon knows Batman is Bruce Wayne, Bruce would never use Bruce’s voice whenever he called Batman.
Bruce return not much later. “I’m sorry Jay-Lad I’ve got to go.”
“What’s going on?”
“Erm..”
Jason raised his eyebrow and looked over his book.
“Peter is in Arkham.”
Jason dropped the book and it fell onto the ground. “What?”
“Peter caught the Joker and now he’s in Arkham.”
“As in he’s in Arkham to help the GCPD?”
Bruce softly shook his head and started to head towards the suits to suit up.
Jason got up and tried to get out of bed. When he put his feet on the cold cave floor he immediately fell.
“Jason!” Bruce ran back and helped Jason to get back up. “Son I know but I’m getting him out of there.” Bruce reassured him.
“Fuck you I’m coming with you.” Jason immediately tried to get out of bed again. Bruce forced him to lay back down.
“Absolutely not. I’m coming straight back once I’m done.”
Bruce told Alfred to stay with Jason to prevent him from doing anything stupid. He hurried to park the BatMobile and went inside of Arkham Asylum. Bruce found it weird why Peter was brought to Arkham instead of Blackgate penitentiary. Peter was sane not insane.
“I’m here to see commissioner Gordon.” Batman said to the woman behind the desk.
“Interrogation room one.” The woman replied uninterested.
Batman hurried to the interrogation rooms.
“Jim, hey.” He greeted him when he saw him and his colleague standing outside of the door.
“Batman. This kid-“
“What happened?”
“A few of my men came towards a call of a possible heavy criminal get together, in fear toxin, Joker venom infected area. They instead found a very beaten up Joker and an insane looking Spider-Man.” He started. He pulled out his phone and showed Bruce footage. It was body cam footage of one of the officers. Bruce saw Peter acting weird, a way he’s never seen him like before. “He wanted to murder the Joker and he attacked an officer. They took him straight here.”
“Let him leave with me.” Bruce ordered.
“Jim this is insanity, you can’t just have Batman take this man. People could’ve died!” His colleague said.
“But they didn’t right? See we have a family situation involving the Joker at this moment. This was full emotional.” Batman explained.
“You could talk any crime right with this.” She folded her arms over each other.
Bruce opened the door and walked inside.
Peter was sitting on the chair. Still fully in his Spider-Man suit just staring at the wall.
“Come with me.” He said to Peter.
Peter didn’t even turn around to look at who it was. They gave him anti meta cuffs and an inhibitor collar. This was probably his first time without his abilities in a long time Bruce guessed.
Bruce used his own key to remove the collar around Peter’s neck and crouched down to get the handcuffs.
The first thing Peter did was throw a punch towards Bruce, who ducked away right in time.
“…Batman..” he muttered.
“Come home with me Spider-Man.”
Peter softly nodded and got off of his chair. He walked with his head low and didn’t look at Jim nor his colleague.
Batman mouthed a ‘thank you’ to Jim who nodded.
Batman led Spider-Man towards the BatMobile and opened the door to the passenger seat for him. Peter sat down and just stared out of the front window. Bruce helped him by buckling his seatbelt. Bruce hurried back to the drivers seat and started the car back to the cave.
“I almost had him…” Peter said quietly as his mask retracted.
“What?” Bruce couldn’t make out what he was saying.
“If the police never arrived I could’ve killed him, I would’ve killed him.”
Bruce nodded quietly.
“I don’t even understand why they were there..” Peter started.
“Someone called about a criminal get together.”
“Who the fuck would do that. Besides I don’t even get why they brought me in!”
“I don’t know Peter. But we’ll get to the bottom of this. All that matters now is that you’re okay, not in prison and Joker is locked up again. The police took you in because you attacked an officer and they found that you acted like an insane person.”
“That’s more than he deserves. And fuck the police.”
Bruce decided not to answer him on the first comment instead he shut his mouth and pressed the gas harder.
“You fucking idiot!” Jason started when he saw Peter and Bruce walk towards him. Jason sat in his bed with his legs hovering over the floor. “You know what could’ve happened?!”
Peter came closer and stood right in front of Jason. “I’m sorry Jay, he just. Just what he did to you, he had to go.” Peter muttered.
Jason got up on his feet again, he fell again but this time he fell into a hug.
“That’s one of the nicest things someone has done for me in a while.” He whispered into Peter’s ear.
Peter felt his own heart skip a beat and he completely forgot to say something back. Not that it mattered a lot because holding Jason, feeling his breathing and hearing his heartbeat close was more than enough.
He carefully placed Jason back in bed after holding him in a hug for a while.
“Can you like, not leave?” Jason asked in such a way that it felt like he was scared to ask something like that.
Peter’s suit retracted all the way into the compact box and he placed it on top of Jason’s very full nightstand on top of a few books.
Peter looked around to see if he could find the chairs somewhere. He raised his eyebrow when he couldn’t see them anywhere. Jason hit the bed a few times hinting that he should just sit with him on the bed. Jason groaned and let himself drop head first into his pillow. Peter chuckled lightly.
“Come on JayJay get your face out of that poor pillow.”
Jason groaned louder and went to lay on his side, because the bed was so small that gave Peter the only option of lying on his side behind Jason.
He hesitated for a second but let himself drop behind Jason anyways. He kind of felt guilty about the post fight smell he was having right now.
“So you know my biggest fight with a villain, what’s yours?”
“Hm..” Peter thought for a moment. “His name was Thanos. He was this big purple alien from outer space.”
“Aliens are normally from outer space yes.”
“Oh shut up.” Peter chuckled. “Anyways this guy had the idea of balancing the world by wiping out half of the universe.”
“Sounds… like something a villain would do.”
“Okay so one day I was driving to school in the bus and this mega spaceship appears in the air. Naturally I had to check it out. On my way there Mr Stark gave me the Iron-Spider suit. The suit I’ve been wearing here. I came inside. When he gave me the suit I was all like ‘Mr stark it smells like a new car in here!’ And you know what Mr stark did? He told FRIDAY, that’s like his Karen, to send me home! And a parachute came out of my suit! But little did he know that I webbed myself to the ship as it went up into space even more.”
“That’s very dumb of you Pete.”
“Okay story progresses I get on the ship and the wizard appears. I remember Mr Stark telling me he doesn’t want a single pop culture reference out of my mouth again for the rest of the trip, which hater. Oh and we met the Guardians of the galaxy then. The guy who I share a name with almost blast my head off until we find out we’re in the same team which, was funny. He did insult Thor which, shame on him.” Peter paused for a moment.
“What’s up? Keep going?”
“Sorry I thought I was talking a little much.”
“Are you kidding?” Jason said unbelievingly. “Don’t shut up.” He whispered.
Peter smiled widely. He continued his story until he stopped again.
“Why are you shutting up?” Jason asked.
“Erh.. this part just.”
“Go on.”
“Okay so we were on the planet Titan and Thanos was there too. So we were all working together to fight Thanos and we eventually had him. I was so close in pulling the gauntlet off, you know the one I told you about with the infinity stones, he didn’t have all of them yet though. Mantis, the girl with the crazy powers sat on top of him and I remember her saying that he mourned. And then someone asks why he had to mourn. Nebula said Gamora. Which his other daughter and Peter Quills girlfriend remember. Peter goes understandably crazy and we lose grip on the gauntlet. He then regains full power, fights dr Strange, the wizard and gets the time stone. But it was a fake. He fights more and he stabs Mr Stark and then gets the real deal. I’m not sure what happened after. He left all I know. Until…” Peter’s voice broke.
Jason turned around and instead of Peter looking at the back of his head he was met with Jason’s face.
“Until.. what?”
“Until the dust. Mantis was the first to go. Then Drax, Peter Quill, the wizard, and then. God Jason I can still feel it.”
“Feel what.”
“The way it felt, the way my Spidey Sense hurt, the way I felt sick. I didn’t understand it and I just fell towards Mr Stark in a hug. I begged him telling him I didn’t want to go, but it was inevitable. I said I was sorry and turned into dust like the rest. The next thing I know is the wizard hyping us up to go through a portal to fight Thanos again.” Jason saw Peter tear up. He wiped his tear away and looked really sad.
“I shouldn’t have asked about it I’m sorry.” He apologized.
“It’s okay Jay, I want to tell you. So we fight and we win. Just with strings attached. Tony. Mr Stark he offered himself to save the universe, he died in that battle. He died as a hero.” Peter now wiped his own coming tear. “Back in New York I reunited with Miles and Ned. Turns out everyone who was snapped as we called it, was dead for five years. Half of the universes population was dead for five years.”
“You’ve died too..?”
“I was legally dead.”
“Well I didn’t know we had that much in common.” Jason smiled at him.
Peter had enough room to lay on his back and Jason put his head on Peter’s chest. “I’m sorry for asking about it again. Are you okay?”
“No it was a nice distraction and I wanted to tell you about this sooner. And now I'm with you I'm even more than okay.”
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“So Peter is Jason’s boyfriend?” Selina broke at their late night post patrol dinner.
“What?” Bruce looked at her strangely.
The only one else at the table was Damian and Alfred who was going back and forth to the kitchen.
“Come on Bruce you’re the world's greatest detective. I was, just before dinner going down on Alfred’s orders to see what the boys would like to eat so I see Jason, out of all people lying on top of Peter’s chest. And the way Peter sought revenge on the Joker.”
“Could just be great friends you don’t know. Besides I don’t even know if Jason is gay.”
Selina gave him a look. “Well I like the kid.”
“He’s nice.” Bruce said. “Where are my other kids?” Bruce looked at Damian.
“Dicks place, I don’t know why. Probably board game night with Wally too.”
“Hm.” Bruce groaned. “They could do that here too. Why didn't you join them?”
“Yeah they could’ve but they didn’t. I didn't feel like joining.” Damian scooped more food into his mouth.
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Peter opened his eyes. The cave was quiet and dark. He got his phone out of his pocket and looked at the time.
4:37 AM
And he needed to piss so badly. He looked down at his chest, Jason was peacefully asleep. Peter felt really guilty but he had to go. He carefully lifted Jason’s head and placed it onto the pillow. He quickly gave him a little kiss on top of his head, just for sweet dreams.
He hurried his way onto the stairs and towards the clock.
He heard some commotion downstairs in the main hall. It sounded like two people either fighting or well he didn’t know what else it could be.
Peter hurried to see what was going on.
Close to the front door he saw Dick and another boy he had a ginger mullet and rocked a black hoodie with the Nightwing logo. Dick was smiling widely and the boy, who seemingly was about to leave, seeing as he grabbed the front door handle.
Dick leaned in to give him a kiss, and another, and one more. The other boy smiled widely too.
“Come on Grayson..” he whispered.
“I will miss you.” Dick whispered back.
Spidey sense
Someone came from behind him. It was Stephanie, Peter didn’t even know she stayed over but he also didn’t know that unknown boy stayed over.
“Were they kissing?” Stephanie asked him in a whisper.
Peter nodded his head.
“Watch me.” She smiled a mischievous grin. She stepped from the wall Peter had been hiding behind.
“Hey Wally! Alfred will miss you for breakfast.” She laughed.
Peter couldn't keep his laugh in. It was kind of a dick move of Stephanie but they were sorta like siblings anyways.
The boy whose name was Wally his eyes grew large and face turned red.
“Stephanie!” Dick turned around.
“Sorry!” She laughed. “Wally this is the guy we talked about by the way.” She grabbed Peter’s arm and pushed him forwards towards the stairs. Peter awkwardly walked down and waved.
“Sorry you’re the guy that took the Joker?” Wally asked and put out his hand for Peter to shake.
Peter shook his hand. “How fast does news travel here?”
“Pretty quickly!” Stephanie sung her words.
“I’m Peter.”
“Wally West.”
“So how long have you and Dick?” Peter asked awkwardly to just have a conversation instead of an awkward stare down.
“Uhm..” Dick scratched his neck. “He was about to leave.”
Wally quickly opened the front door and disappeared outside.
“Smooth Grayson.” Stephanie laughed. “Next time I’ll leave you be I promise. Wally just had to meet Peter.”
“I will kill you if you do this again.” Dick threatened.
“Cute threat, love you too.”
Peter mouthed a ‘sorry.’ Before heading back upstairs to find his bedroom again to finally go to the toilet.
When he returned to the cave he realized he didn’t even need to go upstairs all the way to the room Bruce had given him but there were toilets downstairs and even one in the cave.
When he returned to Jason’s bed and got it Jason woke up.
“Where did you go?”
“Toilet, long story. Since when does Dick have a boyfriend?”
Jason snorted. “Which one was it?”
“The guy with the ginger hair.”
“Okay that does not narrow it down, both options are ginger.”
“Mullet?” Peter said not asking about why there were two options.
“Wally West of course. Wait how do you know?”
“Stephanie and I caught them kissing in the hallway.” Peter laughed. He made himself comfortable again and Jason dropped his head back on Peter’s chest.
Peter felt his heart drop and he forgot to breathe. His hand shaking raised to touch Jason’s hair. He combed through it with his fingers.
He heard Jason’s heartbeat relax, still a high beat but relaxed.
“How do you feel?” Peter asked him quietly.
“I’m high on a lot of pain killers.”
“Ah, explains a lot.”
“And you’re awfully okay for almost being imprisoned.”
Peter shrugged. “Just a normal day am I right.”
“Just a normal day…” Jason closed his eyes again.