[ He slides forward off his stool to set Haley on the floor where she trots off to her bed, placing his hands on Jason's shoulders to give him a steadying squeeze. ]
It turns out okay, I promise. Everything sounds so dark, I know. Let me help with that.
[ Digging around in his back-pocket for the cellphone Babs forced on him, he opens up an encoded file ... and in it are pictures. Lots of people Jason wouldn't know but there's a snapshot of Nightwing and another guy on a rooftop, the latter pulling an unimpressed face as Dick grins into the camera; big guy, brown jacket, red bat on his armour. The next photo is the entire group of four Robins in regular clothes at a diner with platefuls of burgers and Joker fries, a flustered Bruce in a suit at the back of the booth caught mid-breakup of an argument between Jason and Damian over a toy while Dick and Tim eyeball the camera.
Watching him, he offers the phone to Jason if he wants to look. ]
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[ He slides forward off his stool to set Haley on the floor where she trots off to her bed, placing his hands on Jason's shoulders to give him a steadying squeeze. ]
It turns out okay, I promise. Everything sounds so dark, I know. Let me help with that.
[ Digging around in his back-pocket for the cellphone Babs forced on him, he opens up an encoded file ... and in it are pictures. Lots of people Jason wouldn't know but there's a snapshot of Nightwing and another guy on a rooftop, the latter pulling an unimpressed face as Dick grins into the camera; big guy, brown jacket, red bat on his armour. The next photo is the entire group of four Robins in regular clothes at a diner with platefuls of burgers and Joker fries, a flustered Bruce in a suit at the back of the booth caught mid-breakup of an argument between Jason and Damian over a toy while Dick and Tim eyeball the camera.
Watching him, he offers the phone to Jason if he wants to look. ]
... See? You'll come home too.