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[Jason woke up inside the mansion, gave it all a cursory look-through, and promptly noped the hell on out of there. Ain’t nobody got time for this Wonderland theme park bullshit - especially not the Red Hood.

Of the available options, the forest seemed like the best way out, so that’s where Jason is now, trampling through the brush, snapping twigs underfoot as he mutters his complaints into the comm device:]

This would be going a lot easier if there had been any vehicles worth taking …

[The sounds of movement stop, and Jason sighs loudly. He is Officially Lost, and he wasn’t in the best mood to begin with, so he’s understandably a little tense in addressing whoever might be listening.]

All right, this is officially stupid, and I don’t have time for stupid. Got much bigger fish to fry, so I’ll get right to the point. Whose head do I have to stuff in a duffel bag to get a map of the way out of here? Tick tock, losers, answer fast – Daddy doesn’t like being kept waiting.

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Should I not be? I'm nice to most people. It's kind of my thing. That and, you know. Follow the Golden Rule? Treat others as you want to be treated?

[He huffs quietly, too dry to count as a laugh.]

That actually works? Always seemed like a good way of getting yourself walked all over, or worse.

Eh, sometimes it doesn't. But then I just feel all the more justified in, like, kicking them in the shins after. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Or something like that.

But generally speaking? It works more often than not. Plus, it makes me happy, so. Why not? You get a fruit basket, I get a good mood, everyone wins.

[It won't actually kill Jason to let someone do something nice for him, he knows this. He's just - stubborn as hell, used to looking after himself and being the only one to do it. Overfilled with trust issues, but his gut tells him that if she's working this hard for something this simple, she's either incredibly crazy or just as kind as she seems to be, and none of this reads to Jason as crazy.

It won't kill him to let her do this. Honestly, it won't.]

Well ... who am I to stand between you and a good mood?

[Congrats, Cissie, you've officially won Jason over.]

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