"You mean, am I here to cause problems?"

Jason hadn't exactly thought out how his reintroduction would go. Truth be told he might've been hoping for a lot more screaming and ranting, at least that'd feel more natural. Dick and Barbara tended to wear their hearts on their sleeves, rather than Bruce who kept any and all emotions buried under a cape and cowl. Jason himself still had a hard time thinking about it all, let alone the prospect of spilling his guts to the people he'd wronged. Barbara's reaction had left him with a dumbfounded expression on his face for the few moments of awkward silence before she not so subtly probed the Red Hood for his intentions.  

"I'm just in town for the wedding."

It felt strange, to think that after four years away from Gotham, and almost a decade away from some of the only friends he'd ever known, that he could just walk into the Manor again and everyone would just be....there. It didn't take long for him to notice the rest of the room staring at the trio, as if the entire night hinged on what would be said next. Jason could tell just by the look in Dick's eyes that he was one wrong sentence away from full-blown shouting match. It brought a mental smile to his face that everything seemed to go deafeningly silent when the eldest three of the 'family' had their little standoff. Granted the event that marked the old generation from the new wasn't exactly what he'd liked it to be.

> _“How you doing Jay?”_

Four years back in the realm of the living, and nobody had ever called him that. Not once. It was haunting to hear it again, even if it was from the person who gave him the nickname in the first place. Jason decided he should at least try to ease some of the overwhelming tension in the room by taking a seat on the nearest unoccupied couch before responding. Weird how the least casual people in the room were dressed in their civvies.

"Oh, you know, undead, dealing with a lot of deep seated emotional issues." Jason wasn't quite sure if he was doing this whole 'joke' thing right, it was always more of Dick's shtick, but hey, progress. "Nice to see you and Barbie got together. Took you long enough." whether or not Dick and Barbara would think he was avoiding their questions or childishly antagonizing them didn't exactly process into Jason's thought pattern. The deadpan manner of his delivery probably didn't help matters either. Sheesh, where was Bruce when you needed him?