#They listened in over the coms

[flamingpudding]

Fictober23 Prompt: 2 - "Don't worry, I got you."

Fandom: DPxDC

Rating: T

Warnings: Mentions of death, implied mentions of panic attacks handling, Jason typical profanity

"Don't worry, I got you."

These were the first words Jason could finally hear after what felt like forever. His head was pounding and his vision was still tinted green but slowly he felt like he was gaining control over the rage that had taken over.

He couldn't remember what triggered it, nor what he had done when his vision turned green. All he remembers was that he had been out on Patrol before he heard a scream. But now he could feel two hands resting on his shoulder. A young voice resounded in his ears, telling him to breathe in deeply, hold it and then breathe out. He remembers this exercise, B had made sure they all knew this one, so that they could help anyone that was working themselves into a panic attack. But he wasn't suffering through one, was he?

Unconsciously his eyes closed, blocking his vision of the still tinted green world.

"That's it. Try to redirect that power, don't let the Mania take hold. Can you feel your core? Try listening for its humming."

What core? What do they mean? Yet despite not knowing what they were talking about Jason tried to follow the direction the voice gave him. He wasn't sure why he was even listening to them, but something in him made the vigilante want to trust them. Redirect the power, they had said. Maybe they meant the Pit Rage? But how? Feeling for his core? Did they mean his heart? Jason could do that, he focused on his heart beat, tried to sense how it beat rhythmically in his chest and heard the blood rushing in his veins. Now that he listened there was a humming next to his heartbeat. Was this what they meant? Probably.

"Great you found your core, focus on it. Store that power in there for now."

Nodding slightly Jason tried to do what they said. Whatever this core was, he imaged it like a box and then mentally stuffed all that Pit Rage into it. Every bit of rage and madness the Pit made him feel, everything. He pushed it all into the box he imagined as that core and once it was all in there he decided to go a step further. His eyebrows furrowed as he imagined closing the lit of the box and putting a big fat lock on it. Like the one B put on his weapon storage after he raided it 5 times in a row when he had run out of grenades to throw at drug dealers and other scum lurking in his territory.

"Hey! Hey! Don't overdo it! Your core is still tiny! To much power und you will be in big trouble if it bursts the next time!"

His eyes snapped open. The first thing he noticed was his version was no longer tinted green. The second thing he noticed was the kid floating with no legs before him. Lazarus Green eyes coupled with snow white hair stared concerned yet relieved back at him.

"What the fuck-"

"Great! You're back to your senses!" The kid cut him of grinning at him and Jason was just confused and also surprised at himself. He did not feel anymore rage or a need for violence but instead his mind for once felt calm and a whole lot Pit free. Though there was the confusion of WHO THE FUCK WAS THAT KID?

"I honestly didn't expect to find another Halfa when I was contacted by Pandora to look into something. But Clockwork did mention something before, that I should look out for his Granddaughters fan that lives in Gotham and wears a red helmet. Didn't think I would meet you this soon though or like that. I haven't even greeted Lady Gotham yet. I was just on my way to the center of her haunt when I got these real disturbing feelings and bam you appeared out of nowhere attacking and I was forced-"

He cut the kids rambling off by rudely shoving his hand over the kids mouth to make the boy stop talking. "Shut up for a second there kid and let me catch up. You just dumped a lot of info there."

The kid had the nerve to sheepishly rub the back of his neck as he floated backwards a little, away from his hand that was covering his mouth. "Sorry, I got excited there. I think this must have been how the fruitloop had felt at first before things went to shit, when he found out I was a Halfa too. It's just kind of exciting, you know? There aren't a lot of us."

"The fuck you mean Halfa?" He questioned and mentally thanked his self from a couple hours ago for choosing to go on patrol with his trusted helmet instead of listening to his brother to use just a mask because of the head. This way the kid was not able to see his facial expression escaping him with all the info bombs the kid kept dropping.

"Half death, half alive. Well more like Half Ghost, Half human but details." The kid shrugged and Jason really wanted to pinch the bridge of his nose right now through his helmet.

"Last I checked I appear to be pretty alive, kid." He would know if he weren't or at least he hoped he would know, somehow.

"Well duh. That's the half alive part. The half death part is your second form, have you not managed to transform yet? I mean your core is tiny but that shouldn't matter to much. You did die and then come back alive with the balance sort of regulated by a big amount of ectoplasm, right? Though I have to say that the ectoplasm in your system is very unusual. It's so different from what I feel from Dani, Dan or even the fruitloop. I probably should drag you to Frostbite as soon as possible but there are no portals here so I would have to drag you either to my home or Wisconsin first, or maybe find a natural portal but that's harder than just taking you to one of the permanent open ones. Speaking of Dani and Dan, they gotta be excited to hear that there is another Halfa in our age range that's not related via cloning or time shenanigans! That's gotta be so fun and we can show-"

"Kid, you're rambling again." Jason cut in suppressing a sigh. Cloning? Time shenanigans? What the fuck was he getting into by associating with this kid? "Did anyone ever tell you that you are bad at explaining?"

"My friends and older sister." The kid answered with no delay, like he had been asked that same question before. "Also I am 20."

Jason wished the kid could see how he arched an eyebrow under his helmet. He could have tricked him if he didn't look like a 14 years old. The kid appeared to sense it anyway as they huffed and pouted his way. "I swear I am! My Ghost form is just stuck at looking like the age I died at! I haven't figured out how to manipulate my ectoplasm to make my ghost self look older yet! I swear Dan has been holding this over me for years now!"

"Sure kid, let's just get back to that Halfa thing and what that means for me." Jason didn't know what exactly the kid was nor what the kid meant by Jason apparently being also an Halfa -was it?-, which meant the kid was one in the first place. "By the way, who are you?"

"Oh right! I am Danny Phantom! Nice to meet you Red Hood! And pleases stop calling me a kid! I swear I am not anymore!" Well that was at least a step forward. Now Jason just had to figure out how to get the information he really needed from the kid, Danny, without listening to excessive rambling as well as how to explain just all of this to Bruce and the rest of his siblings. He can already hear them freaking out about it.

No wait, he actually could hear them freak out right now. Oh shit! His coms were on, weren't they? Wait did Dickwing just say ETA 5? And B just said ETA 3! Shit, fuck, damit! His family were on the way and he was not sure if the Halfa Kid, or whatever, would run at the site of them. B would probably scare the shit out of the kid just to get answers.

Well at least, the good thing so far was that the Pit was quiet now and the kid could apparently help him control it and the Pit Rage better.

[snixx]

babygirl if you knew how many homewrecker fantasies I daydream about on a daily basis it's gonna be so over

[spock-smokes-weed]

Thinking about my AU again cus 🫶

So in the lore, Zoro’s labor is incredibly chaotic from Sanji being out of town and the three remaining straw hats having to act as stand-in birth partners. Well his labor is also very slow going. Like hours pass and he’s not making any progress. So Zoro being Zoro the longer it takes the more his patience is wearing thin, and towards the end he fully doesn’t want anyone but Sanji to see him anymore. He’s in a shit ton of pain, has been for hours, and is ready to rip Luffy’s head off is he keeps trying to cheer him up with Yo-Yo tricks. Zoro doesn’t do vulnerability, so it’s a struggle for him to be in so much pain and not know how to cope with it.

Sanji being the more emotionally intelligent one of the two, decides to ask all of the straw hats to go home for the rest of the night. He’s very grateful for the support they’ve given (he’s super grateful he gets sappy about it) but he can take the rest of it from here and they should go get som sleep. The straw hats are like “yes we agree” but instead of going home they crash in the hospital parking lot in Luffy’s van.

In my mental timeline of the labor, zoro realizes he’s in labor around like 9am-ish. Like he knows something is up when he wakes up. And because he’s incredibly stubborn he doesn’t alert the straw hats until like 12am because he doesn’t want to admit that’s he’s scared, or that he was wrong with insisting that sanji leave on his trip.

They get to the hospital 30 min later. Sanji shows up around 4pm. The straw hats get booted from the room around 10pm, and the baby is finally born at 3 am the next morning.

After some well deserved rest, around 7am Sanji comes running out into the parking lot, yanking open the door of the van yelling “IM A FATHER!!!!” excited and mushy crying ensues.

[klahadores]

[imwritesometimes]

currently wrestling with 'this looks too childish, having all these little hello kitty figurines all over my pc case and putting any more stuff in my car would be tasteless' and 'WHIMSY BITCH! WHIMSY! IT'S STILL ALL SMALL! IT'S CUTE! WHIMSY!'

[depresseddepot]

trying to determine which parts of my relationship with sex are asexuality, which are trauma, and which are autism is like trying to have a conversation with three people talking loudly and all at once

[tragedykery]

I hate. complicated friendships

[britneyshakespeare]

hiring a skywriter to write "i farted and it stinks"

[bluebellhairpin]

Can I ask what made you decide to permanently close your commissions? I mean this in the most genuine way, I’m just curious. I don’t have the money to commission anyone currently, but you were definitely on my list of artists

at its core, the answer would be "personal reasons". I compare my art to a lot of other people's art, I just need to learn to stop doing that. the idea of closing my commisions will hopefully help stop me thinking "of course they didn't commision me when they have all these other better artists to choose from" - and that is all on me. not anyone else.

[pingnova]

deus in absentia by ghost: noooo don't be a good guy your so sexy aha

[foucauldiantheory]

i think it's time for me to get out of undergrad so i can spend a year or two before applying to grad programs just taking long sad afternoon walks and crying on my fire escape and wasting money on lattes and feeling so brave about it all

[snixx]

pro tip never quote taylor swift in your love letters when your sister is a swiftie because you'll have to hear the songs on loop after you break up and it is excruciating

[keykidpilipili]

Speaking of Maleficent bargaining Sora’s rescue through one of Pete’s funky portals, you know how Elrena landed on her doorstep after UX?

Maleficent might know about Strelitzia as well and try to use her too as leverage, regardless of whether the one in Quadratum the real deal or data version.

[ratbefriender]

I love my friends but I think the level of validation and interaction that I need sometimes can only be attained by becoming more insane and talking to myself more. in fact it is exactly because I love my friends that I must not expose them to rambles only I should hear... god bless.

[nulltune]

@madamhatter replied: [quietly twirls hair upon seeing HAKUNO] hm :)

          ❝  ...  ❞   she seems familiar.

[scottspack]

what are your thoughts on yet to come? (if you’d like to share ofc) i’m curious to see what newer fans think of it!! i’ve Thoroughly enjoyed watching your bts journey btw

OMG????? Someone wants to hear my bts thots??? LIL OL ME????

GLADLY‼️

I liked yet to come! I will fully and readily admit to not being drawn to slower or even mid-tempo songs as easily as I am to upbeat songs, so something like yet to come is never going to initially hit me as hard as something like run bts (which, side note, is bts’s newest addition to the SONGS TO CRASH YOUR CAR TO playlist that lives in my head and I should really make happen in reality). BUT I thought it was still a nice song, if a little boring. THAT BEING SAID I understand that I am not actually the target demographic for this song, it’s first and foremost a love letter to the long term fans which is great and I love it and applaud it, so I was never going to connect to it as deeply as someone who has been balls deep in bts for 9 years! I caught like maybe 60% of the references which for me is actually pretty good since I still haven’t actually listened to every single album or watched every single music video. Another thing that makes me very much not the target demo is that I never look up the lyrics to anything, regardless of artist or genre, and that extends to bts. Which is another reason that I connect to upbeat songs more easily, since I’m focused primarily on the sound of a song and not it’s lyrical content. I’m aware that this is a personal flaw and I’m working on it! Like I KNOW the lyrics are nice, I’ve seen them on captions of gifsets, and I know they would make me feel things, but there is a little demon inside of my head that’s like nah dude who cares about the lyrics just vibe. And I am powerless to resist that temptation!

IN SUMMARY TLDR this being a slower song + obviously made for dedicated fans who have consumed all of bts’s content + I never look up lyrics = I thought it was nice :) but I’m not going to be the one to get them to the fan streaming goal for it

RUN BTS ON THE OTHER HAND HAS BEEN ON REPEAT FOR 72 HOURS!!!!!! YOU SAY! YOU HOT! ONLY! YOU NOT!!!!!!!!!!!