The Lazarus Effect

The Kooks- Naive

Jason: 

"This doesn't mean anything," Dick said handing me a paper bag. 

We had been on patrol all night. Caught a few idiots and left them out of the good commissioner to put away. I know it doesn't mean anything to Ilya. I know she's not going to run off into the sunset with that asshole doctor but it still pisses me off that she protected him tonight. 

I opened the bag to see he had gotten me a bag of powdered donut holes. I took one and shoved it in my mouth thinking of how I'm going to change the subject to get him off my back. I don't want to talk about Ilya right now. I'm mad at her. At least, I'm trying to be. It's hard to be mad at someone who really isn't at fault. 

"How did it go with Babs?" 

"I didn't find her," he said looking away. It's a filthy lie. He did that when he lied. 

"I'm sure she's fine," I said offering him a donut hole. He took one shoving it in his mouth. 

"I'm sure she's fine too," he shrugged. "Sun is coming up. We should go," 

"Where are we gonna go? I really don't want to be in an apartment with lost in love Roy Harper and sure as fuck don't want to go back to the mansion," 

"I have keys to Bruce's penthouse. He said I could use it if we needed space," 

"We, as in you and I?" he shook his head. "What?" 

"We were going to live under the same roof for three weeks remember?" I laughed. "You should call her," 

"I'm not going to call her. I can't even think about her right now," 

"You haven't stopped thinking about her," 

"Shut up, Dick," we both laughed. 

"Yeah, let's go to the penthouse," he got up and began to call Bruce to let him know where we were crashing tonight. I have to be up in a few hours to take Ilya to work anyway.

I put my helmet on and followed him into the underground storage unit Bruce had built under the building his penthouse is in. We had to change into something formal so the receptionist knew it was us. She let us up after telling Dick the room service number. 

I forget I used to love coming here. It's been a long time since the mansion was blown up and Bruce had to stay here. After a couple of hours, he showed up. He looks like hell. He looks like I feel, to be honest. How we all feel. 

Whatever had gone down with Babs, really screwed Dick over. He sat there staring at the T.V. I had put the Big Bang Theory on because that's what we all watched when we get together. Mostly because we think it's freaking hilarious. 

"I miss coming up here," Bruce said coming over to us with three glasses and a bottle. 

"You left Ilya alone?" Dick asked. He reached into his coat and pulled out her hard mask. I didn't think that thing could fold to become flat. 

"She's grounded," we all laughed. 

"I bet she fought you for it," he said. 

"Nope, she knows she screwed up. Probably let you take it right out of her hand," Bruce nodded. 

"You know her too well," he said pointing at me. "She was fighting with Set when I was going to ask her to come down and have dinner with me. She was really upset," 

"She made her choice," 

"I think making her choose between you and the spirit is a little unfair," Dick said pointing at me. "You, she can get rid of. She has to live with this thing, Jay. There are going to be times when she's going to choose it over you,"