He calls him the Red Hood, doesn't say his name aloud, because saying it makes it real, turns him into an actual person, into the twisted version of the boy that Tim watched with wide eyes through the lens of a camera, back when he was still wearing the costume that’s Tim’s now.

Saying the name 'Jason Todd' aloud makes the whole situation so much worse.

And he knows he’s making a bad decision, knows in his bones that this can only end in blood, but that doesn’t stop him from letting the man press him into brick walls in dirty alleyways and put his mouth on him, letting him mark him up purple and blue. He leaves matching spots all over Jason’s back, moans his name all pretty and breathless, and Jason grips him tighter, and… yeah.

It isn’t healthy. But it doesn’t matter.

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