This was not the worst decision he'd ever made. Jason reserved that description for times when he actually almost got himself killed due to severely misjudging exactly how many guns he was going up against. As bad as it was, this was just realized that if he stayed in the same apartment as Eddie and Cap much longer he was going to drive himself insane, and jumping to the conclusion that going to the mall the week before Christmas was in any way better.
He snagged a coffee, hunkering into his jacket - still leather, even if the weather really wasn't suited for it anymore, even with the hooded red sweatshirt beneath it - and as he threaded his way through the knots of people, he could admit that there was something stupidly normal about teens hanging out, being cool, while parents rushed through to get the last gifts for Christmas.
He should probably put some thought into that himself. Way things were going, he should at least give a token gesture or whatever to Cap and Eddie. Cap for sure, given how he'd helped clear a HYDRA nest, and Eddie at least to keep him entertained in a manner that didn't involve governmental servers until they were ready. Come to that, he should probably throw Tim something for doing the translations and code-breaking and bringing pie, and Dick to fend him off from any excesses of holiday spirit.
Taking another long swallow of coffee, Jason had just resigned himself to wading into the crowd and seeing if a half-hour at the mall would net him any ideas about an kind of gifts or if he should just buy online like everyone did, when there was a very specific voice that just managed to cut across the chatter and clatter of the food court.
And of course that was Dick and Tim and Damian at a table not entirely far from him. Because that was how his life worked.
He had options. Option one was pulling up his hood and turning away and pretending that he hadn't noticed them. It might even worked. Option two... He sauntered up to the table, swiped a chair and straddled it backwards. "So," he said, as if he'd always been intending on meeting them here.