The Bat Family is, unfortunately, uncomfortably familiar with death. All of them were, He could acknowledge that. But Jason did sorta feel like he was the most familiar with it. Seeing as he'd, y'know. Died.

...Okay so maybe Cass and Damian had a little to say on the matter too, but he was first. Yeah? Small accolades. Even if this really isn't something that should have multiple people able to claim they'd experienced it. He should've been first and last. Or, just, better yet, never had it happen at all? That would've been the best option.

But what happened happened. And here the heck it is, happening again. All too familiar, a Family member vanishing. A search. The increasing desperation. The finding of signs nobody wanted to find. The denial. More searching, more desperation. The eventual acceptance. And then the mourning.

Jason hates funerals. He really does. Does it make them better or worse that they don't always... stick?

He hadn't wanted you to be gone any more than any of the Family did. But as he stares at you across the room, trying to come to grips with the idea that he can still be surprised at somebody they'd thought dead 'turning up again', he's also a bit surprised by the fact that he's feeling emotions other than just 'happy that you're back'.

Because maybe you hadn't been dead - which probably meant that something else awful had happened to you, right? For you to have been gone so long without any word, something bad had to have happened, and that really sucked either way. But maybe you had actually, seriously been dead, and well. He knew what coming back from that was like. And he wouldn't wish that on you, ever. Not on anyone, really.

Except it seems to keep happening. He should start a club or something. Make Tim print them all some T-shirts. 'I literally died and got resurrected and all I got was this lousy T-shirt'? Heh, he'd wear it.

"...You gonna tell me what happened? Or we just gonna stare at each other?"