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Gar Logan ([personal profile] greentigerboy) wrote in [community profile] zandroid2025-08-18 09:21 pm
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001 - Traveling the Red to You

You are meant to fight alone. To be alone.

The words still haunted him. Even more now that he'd spent so much time in the Red. He had some of his answers and other he thought would take him a lifetime to learn. But the immediate crisis had passed and he had some time to himself. Only...he didn't want to be by himself. He followed a familiar loneliness out of the Red and into...an apartment?

"Jason," he said before it really registered in his brain whose voice he'd been following to get here. Well. That made sense. Dick was never short of friends and it never seemed like a little alone time would bother Kory. Tim and Rachel were close enough and Rachel was in school anyway. Where Tim was, Bernard was probably close by. And Conner was off with Superman.

It made sense that the echo of his own solitude would be found here. In Jason's lair. That probably had traps. Crap.

"I come in peace!" he called, knowing that the place couldn't be empty. The Red brought him to people, not to abandoned places. "It's Gar. I, uh..." How to explain how he'd appeared in a flash of light? "Thought I'd see how you were doing?"

That'd fly, right? Had to.
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[personal profile] robintoo 2025-08-19 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
There was the faint sound of a gun being put away and then Jason stepped around the corner in an oversized hoodie and jeans. He had a split lip and a bruise under his eye, but otherwise looked about like he had last time, minus the glassy look to his eyes that the fearless gas had given him then.

"So you what ... teleported in?" Jason asked, eyebrows lifting. "What's wrong?" Because why would Gar be here unless he needed Jason for something, same way that's the only time he heard from Dick.
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[personal profile] robintoo 2025-08-21 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Jason's eyes flicked downward, chin dropping a notch for a second, the only sign he'd taken that as a dig. He lifted his eyebrows a moment later. "In the Red?" Dick and him talked sometimes - but Dick didn't tell him much about the team. Probably because he thought it wasn't Jason's business anymore.

"Come on then. Let me reset the alarm," Jason said. He was still looking at Gar warily, but trusted he wouldn't just try to jump Jason out of no where. Jason walked past Gar, resetting the perimeter alert and then gesturing him to follow.

Jason led him into a large room with clearly worn out furniture Jason had probably found on curbs. Jason dropped onto a sofa, looking up at Gar. "So what do you need?"
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[personal profile] robintoo 2025-08-22 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds like some kind of weird hippie thing," Jason said skeptically. "It's been longer than a couple of months though, man. This Red thing - does it change time around?"

Jason tilted his head, skepticism fading to surprise. "You want to hang out with me? I thought I was still Titans persona non grata?"

He laughed at that, a genuine little spark of amusement. "I guess you could call it that. I mostly try to fuck with the operations of the Gotham big drug players.
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[personal profile] robintoo 2025-08-23 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, here." Jason dug into his pocket and pulled out his phone, holding it up to show Gar the date. "So it's a whole multiverse and you can just ... travel through it? Is it a new part of your powers or something that happened to you?" Jason asked curiously. "Do you get to take passengers along?"

"You're not nearly laid back enough for hippie life," Jason laughed. "I've got edibles, but no smoke." A guy he'd helped out a while back ran a store and would give Jason some for free now and then.

Jason's head tilted. "I can handle it. But if you want to hang out and help a while, you can. Not sure why you'd want to, after ... everything."
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[personal profile] robintoo 2025-08-25 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
"That sounds bizarre dude, but kind of cool," Jason plainly didn't exactly get it, but he let it go in favor of asking. "You want a beer or a soda or something?"

"You worry about everything, I bet you still weren't that laid back. Intense gaming sessions that end in yelling never happened?" Jason teased.

His eyes searched Gar's face, surprised by the reply. "Not exactly the same, I went into it willing." And then it had just always seemed to make more sense to stay. The things he'd done felt less and less real, which almost made them forgivable until he finally started to come to his senses. He's still paying penance on that one. "I'm sorry, for what it's worth."
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[personal profile] robintoo 2025-08-26 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Wasn't entirely for fun," Jason said, deadpan. But he looked pleased by the nudge. "Yeah? That's badass. What else can you do? Or can you just do any animal now?"

Jason took the offered arm up and then headed for what constituted a kitchen - a beat up fridge, a sink, and plug in electric burners. He dug in the fridge and came up with a couple of cheap beers, handing one to Gar.

He cocked his head at the question, teeth tugging on his lip for a second. "I thought I did," he said. "But I was desperate, and he played me."
Edited 2025-08-26 01:18 (UTC)
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[personal profile] robintoo 2025-09-04 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"You talk to Molly?" Jason asked, surprised. He hadn't gotten back in contact with her - hadn't wanted to bring any of his baggage back onto her. He was carrying a much heavier load these days. "Dick is probably the better choice, you're right."

Jason looked uneasy but then offered, because Gar at least deserved the truth. "I kept getting episodes. Panic attacks, I guess, about dropping off the roof, or Slade. Bruce benched me for it, and I was left with fuck all. So it felt like I had to do anything to get rid of the fear. It was a stupid move, but I do fucked things when I'm backed in a corner."

Jason had genuinely wanted to help people as Robin - people from Crime Alley, who had no where else to go the way Jason hadn't. He'd just let other things, his own ego included, get in the way.

He took a swig of his own drink, hip braced against the wall. "So why back here? Just to see little old me?"