Jason knew Alfred would try to get in touch with him sooner or later and he told himself he wouldn't answer. Not yet, anyway. The thing is, he told himself he would leave this place too, conduct his business somewhere else until he could shove everything else he's feeling way down deep.

But that didn't happen and now that Alfred called- his plans of not answering, of staying gone, it had gone out the window as well.

His jaw clenches at Alfred's question. "How can you even ask me that? After everything that's happened, everything he hasn't done. What else would it be?"