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Aaaaa! Whump, it's so beautiful! Thank you for it! I'm that anon who sent you vigilante Jay, and I absolutely loved it, thank you very much! Also, apparently, not everything made it to you, because there was one more part. Where Damian while opposing Jay actually was really attracted to him as a pup searching for omega's care, he really liked his scent from the very start and also his personality too made him secretly admire him, but he just can't admit it. It would ruin everything he was taught

2/3 and Jason himself is very confused, scared even. He may have his mom, but she is beta and while she loves him deeply, there is some things that she just doesn't understand and so can't provide, unlike batpack, who with time made themselves really tuned to him. He really loves them, but he is still painfully insecure, and Damian, young pup and Bruce's actual son, antagonizing him so fiercely really hurts him. He wishes he could take care of pup, comfort him, but it's just so uncomfortable and

3/3 and what if batpack will eventually grow tired of him? What if they find someone better? He wishes they won't, but he just can't bring himself to fully believe it. And with it, he starts to distance himself from batpack, thinking, that it's better to do it on his own, than be pushed aside by them. Batpack is miserable, Damian is alone and miserable, and Jason is alone and miserable and not quite safe firghting on Gotham's streets all alone...

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Yeey, anon, you are welcome;] You did most of the job, so hey ;]

Ok, so I can get on how the Bats started to ‘court’ Jay into their Pack.

The thing is, they didn’t. The were investigating him - and with B so invested into trying to take the kid off the streets, the rest got intrigued too and soon enough Jay had a Bat after him pretty much every other night he decided to ‘patrol’ - if they can’t get him off the streets, they can at least make sure he won’t get hurt. And it turns out to be a family effort, because the kid has spunk and the younger bats are all, well, I can’t be a hypocrite, can I?

So, they swap ‘shifts’ on the new kid, everyone wanting a look at the new potential colleague and Bruce is tearing his hair, because they need to find a way to dissuade the boy form doing this! And whereas Dick kind of understands his dad and agrees with him to a degree, he’s also impressed by how much the boy managed to accomplish with almost no means and little official training. Imagine what he will be able to do if properly trained! Titans would surely be interested! And then there’s Tim and Steph and Cass, who are just biding time, because they know Bruce and they know it will end up in a nominal adoption, so may as well stalk the kid a bit;]

And the thing is, Jason only rarely notices that he’s being followed. He has good instincts, but he didn’t have any training and so in is head he’s so far managing to avoid detection - even if sometimes he just feels that shiver running down his spine.

That’t because, his body knows. It knows that he’s being trailed by someone - by a variety of alphas, no less. And since ‘patrolling’ is a dangerous business, Jay’s stress levels go up, but his hindbrain detects a presence of alphas and decides to latch onto the idea that they’re not dangerous to him and in time learns to find safety in them. And, since it would seem that Jay is surrounded by alphas pretty regularly, his body decides that becoming an alpha himself is unnecessary. Before, it was all fired up to turn into one - Jay lived in constant danger and stress over his mom’s safety - but now? He’s apparently a part of a pack? Nah, he can chill and be a betta, yeah?

Except there came one night when Jay took on more than he could handle, ends up in a boot of a car, beaten up and bound, about to be thrown into the harbour by some very disgruntled mooks who figured out that he isn’t just a street kid and is either in cahoots with the Police or the Bats, and needs to go. And, welp, Jay is sure that this is it, he is done for, he is terrified and in so much pain...

And, at the last moment, he gets saved by no one other than Mr Fingerstripes himself. And right behind him is Batman - big and scary and growling so low Jay’s hair stand on the ends and he curls up on the ground as the two alphas make quick work of the criminals around. He manages to escape the binds on his own and makes to run - except he can’t really. There is something wrong with his leg, his nose is broken and he’s dizzy form pain, and the Bats are so imposing and so scary...

He wakes up in the morning in the Free Clinic, bandaged and taken care of, and scolded by Dr Thompkins, with his mom in the waiting room, all worried and tired. And he was so sure that he won’t wake up at all. He was going to die and leave his mom alone, and.. he needs to reevaluate his approach. The Bats saved him, but how many times can he be lucky before he bites it? He needs to get better. He needs to be more careful. He needs to be able to defend himself.

So, as soon as Jay is healed, he enrols for some boxing classes. He’s a bit scrawny, but physical workouts should put some meat on him, yes? He doesn't have a lot of time to train, with school and a part-time job, but he’s trying.

Luck smiles on the family, however, Cath finds a job that pays decently (it’s not easy to find good jobs with her history) - one of the agencies she was applying to religiously got her a position of an admin at one of the smaller branches of Wayne Foundation - and it’s not much, but it’s decent money and WF provides good healthcare to all of their employees, and Cath can finally - finally! - tell her son he can stop working and focus on school.

Jay uses the spare time on improving his skills. It’s not going badly, but his body is slow to build up muscle, which is frustrating... and that’s because the night he almost died was such a shock to his system, followed up by a pair of high-strung alphas crowding over him, touching him (he was unconscious for this part), their overbearing scent and presence, and his hormones aligned accordingly to protect him at his most vulnerable. It is a well known fact that in a pack of alphas the weakest/youngest member will more than likely present as an omega.

Jay is not aware that he’s a member of any pack, apart from him and his mom. And the Bats are not aware that they have a new pack-member too. Except Jason starts to present more and more omega traits and it’s Dick who notices their little wannabe-vigilante started to smell inviting and it doesn’t take Bruce to connect the dots and come to the conclusion.

Up oh, they’ve fucked up. They messed up Jay’s life more than anyone could have guessed - omegas had a hard time in the poorer neighbourhoods, all for how rare they were. Omegas came from safety, from the packs that were secure, and accidentally they gave Jay’s body the idea that he was a part of a ‘safe’ family... and it’s not a one-way street, because now in Bruce’s head the same is happening. He was so invested in the safety of the pup that he somehow convinced his instincts that Jay was one of his - they started to put the boy in the same place he keeps all of his pups in.

Uh oh.

#headcanon #Anonymous

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