Fics like And I've come back changed, I can feel it in my bones

Death wasn't a friend, calling you for a game of tag—though it certainly ran towards you. It wasn't a mother, with soft hands and a comforting touch. And it wasn't a father, taking you into it's arms and tucking you to bed once you fell asleep on the couch again. No, it was early in life, earlier than he would like to admit, that Jason Todd found the truth about it. Death was cold, merciless. It wasn't delicate. It was painful. It took mothers in the middle of the night, thrashing and agonizing as the drugs finally ceased her heart. And it took children, far from home, as they begged for someone to come and help, being left alone with the sound of laughter and metal breaking skin, and the absence of the ringing one would hear after an explosion. So yes, it could be said Jason knew everything there was to know about death. He had seen it on others, had been through it himself. What he didn't know was what came after. Or: The Lazarus Pit has some side effects and Jason forgets to mention it to his family.

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