Meet the father-in-law [Comprehensive]

Hodge didn't understand why Dick asked this question, but as a profiler, he was keenly aware of the ulterior motives behind the warm smile of the other party, so he didn't rush to answer for a while.

However, after a delay of two or three seconds, Elide took a step forward and deftly punched Dick on the shoulder.Dick didn't dodge, accepted Elide's attack with a smile, and immediately yelled exaggeratedly "Wow".

"I'm just concerned about him, Elied. After all, this is a matter of life and death-if Bruce really wants to throw you into the lake or sink into Gotham Bay, I hope you can swim back, Hodge."

It is true that Dick's words were just a joke and a joke, but his expression was solemn and serious, which made the nonsense he said seem extraordinarily sincere.Hodge held back his laugh, and replied solemnly, "Thank you for your concern, Dick, I can swim, and I'm preparing to train for the triathlon recently."

...Being threatened to be thrown into the lake is much better than finding Bruce waiting there holding a gun, Hodge couldn't help complaining secretly in his heart.

Compared with Hodge's face-saving, Elide's performance was much more concise and direct. She raised her eyebrows and glanced at Dick, and simply slapped him on the head: "Come on, Dick, you can only lie It’s just someone you don’t know well. Do you think I can’t see that you are full of bad water!”

After saying this, she walked back to Hodge, with a smile on her lips, and stretched out a hand to him, and the man immediately took her arm kindly.

Now Dick yelled even louder, with strong disgust and contempt in his tone: "Oh my God, it's a toothache to look so tired of you!"

Elide still had a smile on her face, dragged Hodge's hand, and walked past Dick without changing her face or hearing anything.After that, the young man who had been performing hard all the time gave a "cut" angrily, shut his mouth, turned and followed.

"...Only Bruce and Alfred live here. Dick, like me, only comes back when he's on vacation. There are a few scattered cottages over there, all on the lake like this one. The attached guest room. We can stay in the top one at night, the cabin extends at least 20 meters into the lake, as if floating on the water, the view is very good, you will love that room.”

According to Dick's past knowledge, Elide at this moment was almost chattering. She leaned on Hodge intimately, and kept introducing him to the surrounding situation as she walked.Her voice was neither high nor low, her tone was neither urgent nor slow, and her demeanor seemed particularly leisurely, and she showed this to everyone without any concealment.

Compared to her, Hodge looked a little nervous. His back was straight, and he looked very alert. When a group of three people walked along the garage to the corridor and then entered the living room of the cabin, Hodge's whole body Immediately, the person appeared as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

——Tsk, it seems that what Afu said is not completely correct, Bruce looks restless, yes, Hodge is not much better!

When the three of them finally appeared under the same roof with Bruce and Aff, there seemed to be a current flowing in the air. They "cracked" and walked endlessly in mid-air, lingering around them, exciting The hairs stand on end.

"Hey Bruce, Alfred, good evening~"

In the tense and tense atmosphere, only Elied's voice was bright and clear, with a fiery energy that was completely different from the bleak winter scenery outside the window.

"Although you all know each other before, I would like to officially introduce you to my boyfriend, Aaron Hotchner."

Bruce and Alfred are both standing at the long table with their mugs on the table, including Dick's mug.Compared with Afu, who had a kind smile on his face, Bruce still looked very irritable. He scratched Hodge angrily with a knife in the eye, and his defensive posture was enough to show his attitude.

Aff coughed just right, and Bruce couldn't help frowning and glanced at the housekeeper of the Wayne family. He walked slowly to Elide and Hodge, and stretched out his hand reluctantly to the man.

"Nice to see you 'again', Agent Hotchner."

The middle-aged man with elegant demeanor almost squeezed out this sentence through his teeth. He paused heavily before the word "again". .

Bruce made no secret of his dissatisfaction with Hodge, but probably because everyone had expected the current situation, Elide was still smiling, and even Hodge could not see the slightest bit of dissatisfaction in his expression.

Even Afu's face showed a bit of helpless connivance. In Dick's eyes, he always felt that this expression was very familiar-probably more than ten years earlier, in his or Elide's, or the two of them After doing something harmless and wrong together, Afu would stare at them silently with this look, and then criticize them with words that sound sarcastic but are actually full of concern and expectation.

In a word, seeing Bruce's expression at this moment, Afu clearly regarded him as a child!

At this moment, the two protagonists in the room, Bruce as Elide's adoptive father and Hodge as her boyfriend had finished greeting each other, and everyone was relatively silent for a while, and the atmosphere suddenly seemed a little awkward.In the end, it was Afu who came forward to break the deadlock. He walked slowly in front of Hodge, and nodded at him respectfully:

"If you don't mind, can you leave your luggage to me? It's not an easy job to always carry it in your hand, Hodge."

Compared with Bruce's blunt "Agent Hochner", Aff is much more intimate in terms of tone and demeanor as well as addressing Hodge.Hodge, who had been tense all the time, seemed much more relaxed after hearing these words. He hurriedly thanked and declined Afu's kindness. After Elide let go of his arm, he followed Afu. Go to the small cloakroom behind the entrance and put the suitcase there.

When they came back again, the atmosphere in the living room was no longer so suffocating.Bruce still had a gesture of not wanting to look at Hodge, but he didn't say anything full of gunpowder. To be precise, he didn't speak. He just sat back at the long table and stared at the lake view outside the house. He tapped the wall of the mug with his knuckles.

"Aff, we're going to live in the furthest lake house, and then, uh...we can stay until after lunch tomorrow, and then we have to go to Washington, and we've promised Jack that we'll take him to Halloween. Seriously, I would have brought Aaron and Jack to Gotham for the holidays if you hadn't been busy tomorrow night."

"Gotham has more ghosts than Washington, Ellie, and I think it would be good for Jack not to come here."

Elliott and Alfred were chatting puns about their Halloween plans, and Dick had slipped into the kitchen silently, his eyes set on the small box of apples on the countertop.

Every year during the apple harvest, Aver orders the first apples of the fall harvest from a farm near Zemmerville, Kansas—and three months earlier, he also orders corn from that farm.For tonight's dinner, some of those apples might turn into a delicious, traditional apple pie, a glass of fresh-squeezed juice mixed with other fruits, or maybe a Halloween-style toffee apple.

Dick reached out and picked out an apple from the small basket, and while tossing it alternately with his left and right hands, he watched Hodge and Bruce not far away with great interest.

A dozen seconds ago, Elide had left the living room with Afu, and it seemed that they were going to go to the farthest lake house to check the facilities in the house. They may have been unintentional, but Dick felt that they probably did it on purpose— —Leaving Hodge and Bruce "alone" in the house.

Maybe I should go out for a run. Dick bit the apple with a "click", and after hesitating for a moment, he went straight to the terrace outside the house.

... Cough, I hope the two of them don't fight inside!

>>>>>

There were too strong hints in the behavior of Elied and Aff. Before Dick could wink and run to the terrace, Hodge had already walked to the long table with steady steps and tapped Mark The man with the cup nodded slightly.

"Can I sit here?"

After two seconds, Bruce turned his head and glanced at him slowly, with a sarcastic smile floating on the corner of his mouth: "...Oh, of course, can I refuse you?"

Hodge just raised the corners of his mouth slightly, sat down happily, and didn't care about the sharp attitude in Bruce's words - heart to heart, if the identities and positions of the two were switched at this moment, his attitude would not be better than Bruce's.

"You can call me Aaron, Bruce."

Hodge clasped his hands on the table. He kept staring into Bruce's eyes when he spoke, his expression was very sincere, and his tone was deliberately light.After hearing Hodge call him by his first name, Bruce snorted with some dissatisfaction, and neither answered him nor accused him of the familiar way of addressing him at the moment.

"I know how you see me, not just as a career, but as a person, to be precise. I can understand you, Bruce, and it's not that I'm underestimating myself, but I know that in most father's expectations , 'My Daughter's Perfect Boyfriend'...isn't my type."

At this moment, Bruce didn't use his nostrils to answer Hodge. He turned his head and stared at Hodge, his eyes were as clear and sharp as a falcon. Anyone who saw such eyes would find it difficult to distinguish them from Bruce Wayne's "slutty" Playboy's public image.

"I'm glad you have such a clear self-awareness, Huo-Aaron."

In the end, Bruce used a more familiar title as Hodge wished, but even if he made a small concession in words, he still looked arrogant and extraordinary.Hodge used to think he acted like a medieval royal knight, but now he felt... Bruce was not a knight, he was a king himself.

——Elegant, arrogant, arrogant and intelligent, enough to control the king of the city of Gotham.

"I know I'm not a very good... son-in-law candidate in your opinion, I guess there are many reasons you and I know well, and some reasons I haven't figured out yet. But I also know-I can feel it , even if you act so inhumanely, you have no objection to my relationship with Elide."

Bruce didn't speak at this moment, he just raised one eyebrow slightly, and there was a sarcasm in his blue eyes, which were slightly darker than Ellie's, and Hodge knew what that meant: "Oh, The legendary Mr. Profiler~"

"It's not because you can't control Elide, or anything about 'paternal authority', I can feel your care and love for Elide, Bruce. Maybe your image in the public eye doesn't matter. Not good, but for Elide, you taught her, encouraged her, but also gave her enough freedom. I can feel her emotion in the way she talks about you. She admires you very much and you Love you."

In fact, Hodge can't understand Elide's feelings for Bruce. After all, Bruce's public image is really bad, and "good dad" is almost the last character he will have.But it's not just Elide, even Dick is full of admiration for Bruce... Maybe this playboy who is always drunk and playing games in the world in the eyes of outsiders is really a good person worthy of respect in private?

In any case, Hodge was willing to believe Elide's assessment of Bruce, and did believe it.

"She loves you, and you love him too. You have given her countless freedoms, and you will not unequivocally oppose this matter. I know you don't agree with me now, but I want to assure you that I will cherish her , love her, and do everything in my power to give her everything she wants."

"—I will never fail your daughter, Bruce."

It is of course a little strange that such a dissecting inner discourse happened between two middle-aged men who are almost the same age-after all, this is more like a young and impulsive guy, trying to please his one who has read all the world father in law.

However, Hodge is willing to play the role of such a "boy" at this moment. He has a sincere face and firm determination in his eyes.And his age, which was originally a disadvantage, has become another advantage at this moment:

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The author has something to say: the life he has experienced and the experiences he has accumulated have made his promise even more powerful enough to move people's hearts.

"Oh~ what a touching confession!"

Bruce responded slowly, and it was hard to tell whether he agreed or disagreed in his tone, but in the next second, he suddenly leaned back in the chair, his posture was casual and his expression was frivolous, even his voice sounded lazy, and it instantly became "Brucey Baby" look.

"However, the son-in-law...let me tell you frankly, I have no objection to your relationship with Elied, but I don't want you to get married."

This chapter contains easter eggs, and I always feel that Hodge has discovered something amazing233

In addition, isn't Shura field now used to describe the complicated relationship between men and women? What kind of Shura field is it between Hodge and Bruce!