Mia Asking Jason About His Feelings For Roy While Cooking
Summary:
Mia asking Jason about his feelings for Roy while cooking, and Jason didnât deny it.
Notes:
English isnât my native spoken language so there can be grammatical errors.
This snippet is from an originally planned fiction revolving around Roy, Jason and Mia with Mia being the witness of Royjayâs developing relationship. I may never find a chance to finish their story so I will just post moments that I enjoyed writing while picturing their world. Hope you enjoy.
Published on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33110860
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It wasnât Mia's turn to cook today, but not like she minded it and all. Sheâs in a good mood lately given how well the day job has turned out, and the camaraderie sheâs developed with the colleagues at work.
To be frank, the two other housematesâ cooking skills just werenât satisfying. Jason was alright, if he really paid attention and invested his time to cook. Same cannot be said for Roy, however, who was an entirely different story. The only edibles on his menu might just be that ham and cheese sandwich he seemed to be barely able to assemble.
Mia hummed in joy while she poured her lasagna sauce into a rectangular Le Creuset, which had already been layered with some pre-made lasagna sheets. She raised her eyes to look at Roy whoâs sitting across the kitchen island, while still preserving her attention down at the stoneware.
âI never knew youâd be so interested in a wooden door before.â Mia chuckled.
Roy seemed to be dragged out of his lost thoughts and back to the world by her voice, quickly moving away his glaze, looking a little embarrassed. Heâd been fixed to the stool heâs sitting on and stared at Jasonâs bedroom door with his head rested in his elbow in the same position for quite a while, even the oven had been pre-heated.
Mia continued to work on layering sheets and pouring the mixture from the saucepan, the warm steam spreading the fresh smell of tomato, garlic, slightly caramelized pork and veal bolognese along with other goodness thatâs been well combined into the open air kitchen. She kept her head down while going on, âFigured whatâs getting into your head. Now that James and I are dating, Jason seems like about to start one himself, youâd be thinking of finding someone to hang out with too?â
Roy admitted almost immediately, let go of an unnoticeable sigh for Mia seemed to not be aware whatâs really going on in his mind. âDidnât you always mention that girl⌠the one on that team you and Dick were on back then, was it Danielle?â âDonna.â âDonna. Anyway. I donât know, maybe you can try contacting her again?â Roy looked a little confused by her suggestion. âDonna⌠sheâs a partner and a good friend thatâs all. Also I havenât caught up with the Titans for quite some time.â âBut there is always a chance out there somewhere, right?â
By now Roy seemed to have lost interest in this topic, and just shook his head towards the room that Jason was in, and steered the conversation back to whatâs happening in there. âYou canât know⌠that girl, she came here and was after JasonâŚâ Mia knew what heâs going on and about, âIf you ask me, well, from a female perspective, what sheâs after from Jason could not have been any more obvious.â
Just a little less than half an hour ago, a silver white long haired girl walked in from the front door of their apartment without giving any heads up, she promptly glanced over the room, including Roy who was laying on his back in the couch at the time, and Mia whoâs busy preparing their dinner behind the counter. She briefly studied the situation, confirmed with the cook which bedroom was Jasonâs, then dashed and disappeared into that room with a not-so-gentle bang as she closed the door, leaving Roy and Mia completely dazzled and curious.
Roy exchanged looks with Mia as he got up. He thought that girl looked familiar before he remembered that he, or rather, him and Jason had met her on the plane from Gotham back to Star City. She was sitting across the aisle, had started to strike a conversation with Jason around halfway of the flight. Roy hadnât paid them too much attention as he curled up comfortably in his window seat and napped almost the entire time. When their plane had arrived and the seatbelt signs turned green, and Jason stood up to reach their backpack from the overhead bin, Roy saw the girl had slipped a thin piece of paper into the back-pocket of his jeans.
Roy had never seen her again after they got back home, until just now. He bet that Jason had contacted her without him and Mia knowing, and for Christâs sake, heâd exposed their secret headquarters - an apartment on Winnick St that the three of them would scramble each month to come up with the rent for - to a stranger that hadnât gone through their little gangâs trust test.
Mia saw him shuffled around yet eyes glued to that door, so she ordered him to buy some more basil leaves from the store that apparently her topping sauce is now short of. Roy groaned before leaving the apartment, still managed to strike a last look at that door that the girl has vanished into.
Some time later, the girl has finally decided to stomp out of that room again, she glimpsed over Mia, without saying a word then bounced across the communal space before walking right out, seemingly assuming oneself to be one of, otherwise, the owner of the house.
When Jason emerged just a little later too, Mia then stared at the ceiling and started talking at loud to herself, âGotta be impressed with all the soundproof works of these walls, you canât even hear a thing that youâd expected from the other side.â
Jason said that he and Roslyn merely spoke while in there and nothing more had happened. He looked around and asked where Roy is. Mia told him that she requested him to go to the shop and get her some more basils. Jason pondered on that. Mia figured out heâs gauging whether he should go out too, âI thought he might want some air for himself seeing that both his housemates are romantically involved in a relationship.â Jason started to look confused.
Mia thought to herself, Mia Deardon, donât you screw this one up. She made an effort to calm her tone of voice before speaking up again. âThat girl and you, arenât you a thing or about to be?â She probed in a slightly joking way.
âA thing?â Jason now looked even more puzzled, as if this image of presumed future has never come across his mind before, âI donât recall anything remotely like that ever discussed in our conversation.â
Mia stopped what sheâs doing and pointed a silicon spatula at him, which was still covered with warm tomato chunks, âJason, when you let a girl walk into your room, you should be prepared to provide her the chance of a mutually respectful association that is what we called a relationship, instead of just fooling around and walk away like a jerk.â Though in this particular scenario, the female individual seemed to matched that perona more, Mia had no intention of pointing that out.
âIâve not even had a clue how she found this place, I thought sheâs just some upper manager of a business, not some sort of a detective.â
Mia squinted her eyes, clearly not buying, âYou know, usually a girl found out a guyâs address through a text message or a phone call.â
âTrust me, Mia, Iâve never even asked for her number.â Jason wiped his forehead and started to feel the angst up his gut, but he tried hard to not let it unleash upon Mia. âDo we have enough ingredients for tonight?â He indicated the kitchen bench filled with mixing bowls and food scraps with a nod. Mia gave it a thought, then answered, âWe might have just run out of paprika, can you give Roy a ring and ask him to get a jar from the shop?â
âIâll head down myself, donât think he can hear the call right now.â Jason turned around to leave. Just when the doorâs about to be opened, Mia called his name.
âJason, do you love Roy?â
His hand on the doorknob came to a sudden halt. He paused for a second, âWhyâd you say that?â
Mia took a deep breath, giving her best to not give away the fact that sheâs rehearsed over and over whatâs coming next. Instead of answering the question, she continued, âIâm not saying the kind of brotherhood youâd shared with Dick or your other partners from the cop shop, what I meant was something like Ollie and Dinah, like between me and James.â
Jason looked to be caught off guard with what sheâs just said, and Mia for one was happy with how this whole situation had been going, as he at least didnât just abruptly deny the question nor went on interrogating why the hell sheâd stir up some shit like that. She heaved a sigh of relief, carefully thanking herself for the sharp observation and analysis sheâd secretly inducted on themselves.
Jason looked at her, without saying a word, seemed to be still waiting for her to go on. So she did. âRoy is the kind of person that, how should I put this, would rather let his feelings sink than swim if you donât show anything to him first. Probably why he and Ollie never saw each other eye to eye when they came across.â Jason nodded in agreement. âIf he thinks that the other person doesnât share a mutual feeling, I bet you heâd take it to his grave than ever speaking up about it.â This actually has contradicted to Royâs impression on him, as he always saw the guy as carefree and werenât shy about showing his affections towards the others, but Jason wasnât going to oppose otherwise and just let Mia kept on.
âHe had a crush on a girl in that crime fighting group he was in before, always claimed that he wasnât good enough for her, so the girl never found out his feeling for her in the end.â Mia fixed her eyes on him, her spatula had now dropped to the bench surface as she leaned against the edge with both of her arms, looking at him demurely, âHeâs recently acting more and more like that again. I donât know about you, but hereâs what I thought, if that other person this time at least showed him some sort of hints, maybe he wouldnât have too many regretful undone deeds to carry with him to his tomb after all.â
Jason lowered his head and thought on that for a moment, his hand already loosen from the doorknob and he just noticed how his palm had been sweating all this long. He turned around to face Mia behind the island, whoâd clearly done speaking and was waiting patiently for a response. Jason found her gaze again as he meticulously raised his eyes, âAnd you think this person⌠is⌠me?â
Mia grinned, âWe both know that his current social life, or rather, his only life is devoted on bringing down that Merlinâs evil little scheme, which the whole operation comprises only two people, and heâs surprisingly one of them.â She could not have been clearer than that who the other person sheâs referring to.
Jason couldnât bring himself to let out of a word. There was too much to be said, too many questions bursting in his chest. When did Mia start to notice Royâs altered behaviours as she described? How did she work out the confidence to ask him about it and not even worry that she mightâve been wrong? Did Roy ask her to feel him out, or was her perception of Royâs feeling for him even legit?
âJason, hello, someone in there?â His thought had been interrupted with her teases as he drown, âSo let me ask again, Jason, do you love Roy? The kind of love like between Ollie and Dinah?â
The former Robin had let out a deep breath before cracking her a smile, âIâm gonna go get us some more paprika from the shop.â Then he opened the door and left the apartment.
None of the three housemates had ever demanded paprika when they had lasagna night, Jason knew better than that, and he secretly thanked Mia a thousand times as he sprinted downstairs.
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