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[petite-phthora]

I'm sorry

[DP x DC fic]

[Love at first… murder? - part 20]

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Part 1

Ao3

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The moment their lips touch, the feeling of the Pit washes over Jason, drowning out everything around him. They jerk away from each other. Two pairs of toxic green glowing eyes meet.

Jason feels as if he's disassociating as he speaks.

“You’ve died?”

It’s too much.

Everything is too much.

After a week of not feeling much from the Pit except for calmness and contentment, the sudden spike is jarring. All he can think about is how it’s back. He let his guard down, and now the Pit is acting out at full capacity again. Overwhelming his senses. Overwhelming him.

Though it's not rage.

It’s something else…

Joy? Exhilaration? Recognition? Reverence?

He can’t tell. And it doesn’t matter.

It’s back. It’s in control. He can’t help it. He can’t stop it.

But he also can’t let it hurt someone. Not again. He can’t let himself hurt someone. He can’t let himself hurt Danny.

Jason has a gun in his hand.

He hadn’t been aware he had pulled it out. But now he is acutely aware of the gun he has pointed at himself.

His hands are trembling.

 “—How'd it even happen? I didn’t think—“

Danny is rambling on about something. Jason doesn’t listen. He can’t listen. He’s dazed from the Pit madness— Though it’s not really madness at this point, is it?

Insanity? Lunacy? Craziness? Hysteria?

Whatever it is, it doesn’t matter. He can’t see anything but green.

“—so glad we’re the same, this is great news! It makes everything so much easier!—“   

Danny keeps speaking to him.

As he thinks about Danny again, the Pit hones in on him.

Danny.

It all started with him.

The change in the Pit… The change in his feelings…  

The change in him…

Somehow, someway Danny is the focus point. He’s at the center of it all. He knows something. He’s the one that started this— this—

Madness.

Jason wrenches back control over his arm and redirects what he’s aiming at.

He points the gun at Danny.

“—she saw I was her new patient clearly. But hey, th—”

His hands are still shaking.

His vision as green at the Pit.

"What is happening to me?"

---

Well fuck.

Danny thinks to himself

Danny is completely still as he gazes in Jason’s direction. He eyes the gun for a second before dismissing it and locking eyes. It’s not like it can seriously hurt him, and it seems to be a comfort for whatever is going on with Jason.

Speaking of…

“Jason—”

Danny gets cut off by a bullet to the leg. He instinctively turns intangible, the bullet getting embedded in the ground underneath him.

It’s silent as they both stare at the spot in the ground the bullet hit.

Danny opens his mouth to speak again but gets cut off but another bullet shot, quite literally, through his leg.

“Jason—“

Jason isn’t listening. Instead, he has pulled out a second gun and shoots that one at Danny as well, getting the same result. He lets out a frustrated sound before dumping both guns on the ground as he grabs another weapon.

“Ja—”

A Batarang through the head shuts Danny back up again. Danny lets out a small breath before just deciding to wait it out.

Jason seems to be considering his weapons before his eyes land on his watch.

“Don’t worry though! While it may look a little dangerous, it’s actually quite harmless to living humans!”

He glances between the watch and Danny a few times. Danny notices this and comes to the same realization. He tenses, and that’s all the confirmation Jason needs.

He aims the watch at Danny.

Danny does not move.

It’s silent for a few tense moments.

“Well? Start talking.” Jason’s voice cuts through the silence.

Danny says nothing for a few seconds, considering where he should start.

“Well, ever since I was born, my parents—” He cuts himself off with a yelp as he quickly moves his legs. The toxic green laser shot from the watch just barely missing his leg and instead singeing the ground between his legs.

“Dude—”

“Get to the point.”

“I’ll have you know this is all very important background information!" Danny pouts for a second before quickly getting back on track when Jason shoots him a look.

“So, my parents are self-proclaimed ecto-biologists. Have been my entire life—”

“The hell is an ecto-biologist?”

“I’m getting to that! You know, interrupting me constantly won’t—”

Another laser shot, this one doesn’t miss and hits Danny’s shin. He lets out a small his of pain. It’s not too bad, but it still burns.

“Alright, alright! So uhh, ecto-biologists. Yeah, so my parents are basically scientists specializing in the field of the supernatural, and in particular, ghosts, also known as ectoplasmic beings.

“An ectoplasmic being is called as such because they are made, either entirely or partially, of ectoplasm.

“Wait, do you even know about ectoplasm? You should probably know about ectoplasm. You know, toxic, green, glowing—“

At the description Jason tenses, but does not fire.

“Right, okay so you do know—”

“What do you know about the Lazarus pits?”

Danny, who has never heard of the Lazarus Pits before, gets unnecessarily defensive.

“What do you know about the Lazarus pits?” he asks in an accusatory tone with narrowed eyes. He crosses his arms and points a finger at Jason for good measure, forgetting about the watch ray still pointed at him.

Naturally, he gets shot.

“Ouch! Ah fuck, okay, okay. I’ll talk. Damn. That thing hurts, you know!”

“That’s the whole point.”

“Anyway, I have never heard of these Lazarus Pits before. I’m referring to ectoplasm. It’s the stuff we— ghosts are made of. My parents have always been fascinated by ghosts. They wanted to study them.

“The problem being that they had never even actually seen a ghost before, and so they have been trying to build a portal into the Ghost Zone—”

“The fucking ‘Ghost Zone’?” Jason cuts in incredulously.

“Ghost Zone, Infinite Realms, the In-Between, Purgatory, whatever you want to call it. It’s the in-between of every single universe and dimension, the glue between realities, yada yada yada.

“It just so happens to be the place where ecto-beings, ghosts, reside. And my parents wanted in. Their portal was their life work, and when they finally finished it and plugged it in it… didn’t work…”

“Right…” Jason’s tone is dry, his expression full of suspicion and doubt about the story Danny is telling.

Danny resolutely pushes on.

“So, being dumb teens, me and my friends went to check it out…” Danny takes a breath to steady himself, hugging his knees and gaze turning to the ground.

“I— my friend dared me to go inside. It would be a cool picture, you know? And it didn’t work. My parents’ inventions never worked— So yeah, I uh, I stepped inside…

“The inside was awfully roomy and awfully dark… So I went in further and I— I happened to trip on a cable.”

Danny doesn’t notice himself trembling slightly. Doesn’t notice his breath quickening. Doesn’t notice Jason’s frown.

“Naturally, I tried to catch myself. I tried to steady myself using the wall but…” He lets out a small laugh. “Should’ve known there was an on button on the inside…”

“D—” Jason tries to speak up but Danny doesn’t hear him, staring at nothing as he continues.

“And then my vision filled with green.”

---

The green in Jason’s vision has dimmed.

Jason frowns as he watches Danny stare into the distance, his eyes glowing green. He’s trembling, and Jason wants nothing more than to go over there and hug him, to comfort him, but…

He takes a deep breath and keeps the watch ray steadily pointed at Danny.

He can’t.

Not right now.

First, he needs to hear him out.

---

“Danny” Jason calls out to him.

Danny blinks. He looks around for a moment before taking a steadying breath.

“Right, right. You wanted the story. Right, so… While my parents had plugged the portal in, they had built the on button on the inside of the portal and then promptly forgotten it was there…

“So the portal turned on with me inside. Thousands of volts of electricity ran through my body. Green as far as I could see, as far as I could feel, as far as I could touch…

“I don’t know how long I was in there for. Screaming, as an interdimensional portal opened right on top of me... As my DNA was stripped from my body and rewritten into something other… As I died and got revived over and over and over again…”

Danny takes another few deep breaths, pausing in his speech. He runs a hand through his hair. He feels tired… heavy… mourning…

Two strong arms wrap around his body in a hug.

Danny leans his head against Jason’s shoulder.

He doesn’t cry. But neither speaks as they sit there, while the trembling in Danny’s form diminishes. Once it’s gone, Danny speaks up again.

“And then it stopped.”

“Danny—”

Danny shakes his head in response.

“No, no. It’s better to just… get it all out in the open now…”

Jason, while clearly disagreeing, keeps his mouth shut. Letting Danny choose whether or not to continue.

“So yeah. When it stopped, I fell out of the portal, different. I was a ghost, but also… not. I had died, but not quite all the way.

“I was a ghost, and human. Both dead and alive. Shrödinger’s boy, if you will. A halfa is what they me—call us— Half-alive… Half-dead…”

“And then… then they came through… Other ghosts…

“Now that the portal was open, they could reliably enter our world. Driven by Obsession, they would do anything they could to get what they wanted, often harming the living in the process. And that’s where I came back into the picture…

“No one could do anything to stop the ghosts. Yes, my parents were ghost hunters, but they weren’t all that… good at it… So I had to do something. I couldn’t let people get hurt when I was able to help, to do something.”

Danny pauses in his speech. After a while of sitting there in the embrace. Jason speaks up, breaking the silence that had fallen over them.

“When I was 15, I died.”

 Danny listens, turning to look at Jason’s face. “I was trying to find my biological mom, and followed a lead to Ethiopia, but…

“It was a trap.”

Green tinges the corners of his vision but Jason pushes on.

“She was being blackmailed by the Joker and lured me there to— She— She handed me over to him…”

A deep, calming, breath.

“He beat me… over and over and over again, with a crowbar. And that wasn’t the icing on the cake, no!” Jason lets out a laugh “He blew the place up once he was done with me…”

Danny puts his hand on one of the tensed arms still holding him. Jason pauses, forcing himself to relax some before proceeding.

“Six months later, I crawled out of my own grave… I think I  wandered around aimlessly for a while, I don’t know. My mind wasn’t quite… there…

“Then, someone found me and put me in a Lazarus Pit… They’re these glowing green bubbling pits in the ground. They heal the sick and dying but kill the healthy.

“I don’t remember much from what happened back then.” He admits. “Everything was a green haze. The Pit, it— it took over my mind, my emotions, my control…

“Eventually, I made my way back here, to Gotham. I became the Red Hood, stealing one of the Joker’s old aliases as a big ol’ ‘Fuck you’ to him.

“I tried to get revenge… I failed… Became a crime lord, grudgingly reconnected with my family, etc., etc., all while trying to deal with the Pit.

“While I was in there, in the Lazarus Pits, it didn’t just bring back my mind, it— it changed me…

“Now, I can easily get irrationally angry over the smallest things. It’s like the Pit… latches onto my feelings, and increases the anger tenfold, I—

“I remember it all…” He takes a deep breath. “Whenever the Pit madness is in effect, whatever it makes me do while it has me under its control. When I’m lost in a raging green haze…”

“I remember…”

Danny moves up a bit in Jason’s hold. Putting his arms around Jason’s head and gently pulling him against his shoulder.

They hold each other.

“I’m sorry.”

“Me too.”

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[fexiled]

sparkle on, it's wmob wmonday

[wollstonecrafted]

favorite genre of character…. absolutely delicious trope…

[entity-treasury]

Some of my work ✨✨

[buddiesmutslut]

LISTEN. If we get a bisexual!Buck arc, I will ACTUALLY LITERALLY CRY, I’m already emotional just thinking about it, it will literally bring me so much joy

BUT

I don’t want it at the expense of an Eddie coming out arc…

Bc listen, I read a post talking abt how the writers probably won’t give both of them a really flushed out Queer Realization Arc bc it would be redundant, which like, okay sure, yes, I can see why you wouldn’t want to have two main, male characters going through the exact same thing, so sure, whatever, BUT -

I feel like, out of Buddie, Eddie is going to be the one that really struggles with coming to terms with his sexuality.

Eddie, who had to be The Man Of The House at 10 years old. Eddie, who grew up in the Deep South. Eddie, whose family is Catholic. Eddie, who already had a strained relationship with his judgmental parents. Eddie, who had a WIFE. Eddie, who says that what he had with Shannon was magic & compares every relationship he had to her. Eddie, who was in the military, which is infamous for DADT. Eddie, whose aunt constantly pushes him at random women because he needs to not be alone. Eddie, who canonically suffers from comp-het, saying that dating women feels like putting on a performance, not that he understands why. Eddie, who dated Ana & was planning on staying with her, even though he was unhappy, for his son.

I think Buck would be way chiller with realizing he’s queer - if he doesn’t already know, which is my fav head-cannon - & I feel like he wouldn’t struggle as much bc it’s Eddie, & Eddie is his best friend, and gender wouldn’t play as big a part for him as I think it would for Eddie.

I would love for them both to have an arc where they worked through their expectations when it comes to relationships & realize that they’re queer, but idk man, I feel like Eddie is going to be the one to really struggle & he deserves to really have that flushed out.

Idk, I’ve been thinking about this ever since I saw that post & nobody I know watches 9-1-1 😭

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

i got a pretty sizable additional bill for a recent medical procedure that i wasn't expecting because they wound up sending it to an out-of-network provider to read the results or something (idk the specifics!!! also: could they not have just NOT done this? WHY??? surely someone in-network must provide that service!), and i'm wondering if it's worth fighting this or if i should just pay it rather than forcing myself to confront a bunch of people on the phone (a thing i fear greatly). i think i might have signed a thing that said i'd waive the no surprises act policy and just pay it, though i was in a terrified caffeineless haze at the time and i can't remember for sure. D:

any advice? is it worth calling the clinic that did the procedure to ask about it or is that just being rude at this point?

[xochilana]

i smell so good and my pussy is so wet and there's no one eating me out rn?? who do i need to call to fix this???

[barananduen-blog]

"GUARDIANS OF THE DAFENG" - EP.32

"What is the meaning of life?" "What is the meaning of love?" "What is the meaning of work?" "Wait right here. I'm dying again. We'll continue [our conversation] in my next life"

"hAvE yOu MaDe DoUyInS?"

[mecharose]

i feel like this is probably the opposite of usual but tell me if this is a common experience. why is it 10000x harder to write fanfic than it is my original books

[marimeeko]

Little does Aizawa know that katsuki is doing it on purpose. He is literally self-sabotaging his ranking because he won't allow himself to earn No. 1.

He refuses to reach No. 1 in the rankings until Izukus suit is ready. Until Izuku is in the field with him.

He refuses to reach No. 1 unless he is able to compete with Izuku.

[britney-rosberg06]

i don’t really go to Andretti but WHO insulted Logan’s emotional support best friend who lives across the ocean whom he loves and adores Kyle????

[cere-racha]

asking the real and necessary questions before emotionally investing in yet another gacha man

[stripeixii]

Current wip

[moronkyne]

If I see someone yuck someone else’s unproblematic yum I’m gonna go crazy

Just because someone posts about something that isn’t probable doesn’t mean you have to go out of your way to say something negative about it.

“Oh, I didn’t mean to be negative.” Think about what you said. If someone posts something that isn’t morally wrong, problematic, and/or won’t truly affect you and you still choose to bring you opinion, an opposing opinion, to a space where it was never asked for…it sounds like you’re being pretty negative to me.

But again, that’s just my opinion. It’s not like it’s common sense or whatever. (Ahem sarcasm)

Go ahead. If you say you want to see a character play a game that acquires character customization then say it. If you want an audio that caters towards a specific group of people then say it. It doesn’t matter if it’s not probable, it’s what you want. So wear that shit like a badge, bro.

We’re on a goddamn social media app, stop trying to trash other peoples (unproblematic) takes. Ofc people aren’t gonna always agree with you. If it annoys you then here’s some advice.

Ignore, scroll.

Okay thanks for coming to my Tedtalk.

[roseguided]

vent? call out but not really under the cut

it's come to my attention that someone within the hotd/asoiaf rpc is going into other people's dms and telling lies about me and a few other people. saying i am bullying cali (@/snowfyres) and lexi (@/bigdaddydamon / stolenfates / realmsctuelty ) when that's not true nor has it ever. i assume they're saying this because i have these two people on my dni list which i have done for my own comfort and not some personal grudge or vendetta against them. ask anyone, i am the least confrontational person alive. i hate conflict, but i can't sit here and let someone lie about me and these other people anymore. esp. when its cali and lexi, along with some others, who started the entire mess by harassing and slandering a friend of mine for MONTHS and causing them emotional and mental distress because of it.

the original call-out for these people can be found here.

i added these people to my dni list because i do not like their attitudes nor the content i've seen on their blogs in regards to the usage/writing of young rhaenyra for daemyra content. that's all there was to it and never once have i confronted, sent mean messages, anons, or spoken about these people in a bad way, or anything to others, to themselves or even posted about it on the dash. i do not make vagues because i have enough maturity to reach out and speak to someone directly if i have an issue with them. if anyone wanted to know why i have them on my dni list, all they had to do was message me to ask and i would've been honest. but, i've received no messages or asks about it.

besides, last time i checked ... people are allowed to have whoever they want on their dni list for one reason or another. in my case, it was what was listed above ^ as well as discomfort -- i am in my right to do so. just like how people use the block button however they see fit, it is a personal choice to curate your space, protect your peace, and have boundaries. no one owes anyone anything on tumblr and i dont understand why some people feel the need to act so childish and down right mean to another person when the mature thing to do is to remove people you dont like, disagree with, by blocking them and moving on. not dragging a situation on for months, after most people in said situation have moved on or are actively trying to, and causing another person mental and emotional distress constantly !

i am not a bully and nor would i ever be. having someone on a dni list doesn't automatically mean you hate them nor does it equal harassment or bullying as they seem to be claiming.

[agentem]

Agatha's crime

I have seen people say Agatha was nearly executed by her Coven for using the Darkhold. I disagree. I think she was nearly executed for fucking Rio.

Her mom came home and found her young daughter in bed with another woman (who is also Death) and flipped the eff out. And it's up to you to decide if Evanora was more upset about her being a lesbian--it was Puritan times, afterall--or interacting with a Cosmic Being when just a lowly trainee in the Coven.

All the Salemites have blue magic, so Agatha's purple is different to begin with. And what is a witch trial but persecuting those that are different?

I am not as clear on the timeline afterward. I think she had the baby later (possibly in Victorian times because we see Kathryn Hahn in a jaunty hat in the teasers). The baby died--he might also have just hit mommy with a blast of power?--and Rio had to take him. It was her job. But Agatha thought Rio should make an exception but she couldn't.

Thus, Agatha walked the Witche's Road to get the Darkhold in this century, and ultimately found it couldn't help her either. But it did make her eviler and close her off from other witches more. (Rio might be the one that "survived" but I am not sure that is the right word for Rio just continuing to exist?) Maybe the one survivor is the one Jen knew?

But Billy was someone she felt like she could be in a Coven with, and I imagine the only time she felt that was with Rio since she always ended up killing hers.

And I think I am right that Billy opened the witches road (I posted that after the first two episodes that it was weird that the Road took longer to appear per Agatha, and then just did appear later after Billy is attacked). I say this because the door glowed with blue magic. And the magic of the roots was blue. When Agatha had enchanted the basement it was purple. It might've been the first time she saw blue magic since her mom.

... and maybe that made her think he was Nicholas. And that is why the first episode held on that shot of her touching the roots so long.