Nuh uh, that doesn't fly. You'd work all the time if you thought you could get away with it, I'm only distracting you into spending a normal amount of time not working.

[ tim's the worst workaholic he's ever met, and that includes bruce.

he can't help tensing up underneath tim at his response, though. it's... not a conversation they should have while groping each other, but jason stubbornly doesn't move his hands, even though he stops actively trying to work them lower.

it's a stupid reaction, considering he was the one who said it first. he just doesn't want to hear tim say aloud 'maybe it would be good if you never went into the field again.' it's ok for jason to think about that, but having someone else say it to him is going to scrape over raw nerves, which irritates him. if it's true, why should it make him upset?

of course if it's true, he should admit it to himself. he should know, for certain. he's been putting off making any kind of real decision, and he knows before the words come out of his mouth that he's not being fair, throwing it back at tim instead of volunteering which things, exactly, he'd been talking about making permanent.

lightly, ]

Yeah? Which parts?