To The End

by TwinEnigma

Standard Disclaimer - I do not own Young Justice or Doctor Who or any of the characters therein. I do not do this for profit, but rather for fun and skills building.

NB: AU X-over, done as a fill for the YJ-anon-meme, on the prompt that Batman is a time lord/The Doctor. De-anoning because I already admitted it was me.

Sequel to "The Clark Kent Adventures", "Gingerbread House", and "An Awful Lot of Running"

Roy never asks why Jason carries around a severed hand in a jar. It's a universal rule in the Outlaws that the past is off-limits; too much pain and misery is wrapped up in their pasts to be healthy. Sometimes, though, he sees that look in Jason's eyes, the same one that everyone who's travelled with the Bat for a while gets, and he wonders if this team and what they do is the younger man's way of paying homage to the crimefighting Time Lord.

Except, he muses, they were willing to cross the one line Batman wouldn't.

Sometimes, Roy wonders about the strange, convoluted path he's taken to get here, and then he remembers how fun it had all seemed when Dick asked the Bat if they could take him, Wally and Kaldur along with them. He recalls butting heads with the Time Lord until he'd been left behind, all because he refused to be treated like the stupid tin dog, and then the absolute fury that he'd been replaced by some standoffish girl - the rebellious daughter of a supervillain, no less!

As time moved on, he'd come to grips with that, but he's never come to grips with what happened during the Cyber Invasion. Until then, it had all seemed like good fun and the danger had been easy to laugh off. After all, Batman was with them and surely nothing would happen to them as long as he was there, right?

He's ashamed there was ever a time he was that naïve.

Not now, though. Now, Roy's calling himself Arsenal and he's a badass defender of earth, routinely putting his life on the line to take out the trash no one else realizes is there. Jason calls it a public service and Roy's inclined to agree. The Justice League, on the other hand: not so much.

Not like that's stopping them, mind.

Today, though, today, Roy wants to ask what's up with the hand. It's glowing and bubbling in the jar, shaking with tremors that don't make sense. He's even got an arrow aimed at it, just in case it turns out to be one of those nasty surprises they have a habit of attracting.

The second Jason sees what's going on, he lets out a deep breath and approaches the jar, lifting it with a reverent smile. "You're not getting away this time, pal," he says, stuffing it in his bag. Then, he's gone, running out of the safe house with a speed that belies his build. By the time Roy catches up, only the quickly fading afterimage of the TARDIS remains.

In the groaning wind, Roy hears the sound of drums and shivers.

AN:

It was sort of bashed around in comments on the meme that if the Justice League was Old!Who, then Young Justice would be Nu!Who. Roy has shades of Mickey and Jason has shades of Jack.

I'm still trying to figure out who the equivalent Master would be to Batman's Doctor, but I've always planned on continuing this series of one shots.