A retired magician raises a bucket daily

"This is today's medicine. Your body is still in the process of adapting to the Philosopher's Stone. You should stay here recently." Zatana, that beautiful woman Reed had seen before Said to him, the other party gently pushed the medicine in the needle tube into his vein.

Reid is now in a private hospital in the UK. To be specific, to what extent it is private, simply put, he is the only patient in this hospital, and the resources of the entire hospital revolve around him.

Is this going to be too exaggerated?

After knowing this, Reed was a little uneasy all day, but Zatana comforted him: "You have helped the Justice League before, and it is reasonable to repay you."

"But this is really troublesome to you..." Reed sat on the bed, twisting the quilt with his fingers. He knew that Zatanna was also a member of the Justice League. Superheroes have so many things to solve every day, because He has to trouble the other party to go here every day, which is a bit morally unjustifiable to him, not to mention that he is also a pharmacist, and it is very convenient to check his own body.

"Fortunately, magic is very convenient in most cases." Zatanna raised her eyebrows and showed a friendly smile to Reed: "It is my current task to make sure your body is fine, besides The rich man has paid me, and I have a salary to take care of you, so you can just treat me as a part-time job, don't worry."

Although it is said that this is a private hospital, there are quite a few people who came to see him. Weber alone came several times in two days. Judging by the expression on his face, he should have come to scold him at first. Those large and small instruments stimulated Weber, and the man who was about to be 30 years old twisted and squeezed out a few words of comfort, and finally sat down and peeled an apple for Reed to eat.

Melvin also came here, just before evening, wrapped in the sunset, wearing a tight down coat, a fine down hat, a scarf and a mask, like a sneaky paparazzi.

"Tranbellio is in a mess. I don't know when you disappeared, and I can't find you—oh, oh, I sneaked out, so I must not be found."

The white-haired man stood by the hospital bed and smiled, looked around for a while and found that Reid was in good condition, put on the mask again, waved his hands and left.

Of course, apart from them, Tim also came. He and Connor came together, saying that the university was already on vacation. In order to escape the daily nagging of the social animal policeman Kai Dick, the two of them decided to sneak out to play for a few days. ——Dick also visited naturally, but it was by video call.Because he's been so busy lately, the cases from last year to this year, the cases of blizzard days, the new year's new weather, and the new criminals... In short, he really doesn't have much time to sneak out of the police station.

And the Flash also visited one night, but it may also be the reason for illegal entry. The other party left him a large bag of snacks, and left without talking a few words.

Recently, Jason has to spare some time every day to deal with his business, as well as the group of gangsters in Gotham. He disappeared without a word for so many days, and someone is starting to move again, but he hasn't finished solving the things here. Before, he didn't plan to go back.

Reed flipped through the book page by page. After all, he didn't think it was a pastime. The books in this room were all brought to him by Weber. The other party justly said that since he was so free, why not To help with the lesson plans, he brought a lot of information books about modern magic and asked him to study, and he was not polite at all.

"Finished?" When he looked up and saw Jason walking in, Reed readily threw the book aside, beckoned to him, took a bowl of cut fruit platter from the bedside table next to him, and pricked it with a toothpick An apple for Jason to eat.

"It's almost there." Jason bit off his hand, and said vaguely, "They're all small fish, and they can't make any big waves."

"Oh," Reed stared at the nodding blue stubble on his chin, and the cheeks on both sides slowly bulged up as he chewed. It took Reed a long time before he said slowly: "Long You have a beard, are you tired recently?"

"It's not very tired, it's better to say that it's almost like a vacation. This kind of life is quite leisurely—" Jason moved closer to his position, and showed Reed a small scratch on the side of his face. "It's because the razor here is not easy to use. If you are not careful, you will make a cut, so I am too lazy to do it..."

"However, I was really scared by you two days ago, especially when I saw you lying on the ground when I just came out of the tomb, that really scared me, and I suddenly felt very tired on the way back. "Jason sighed. He waited for Reid in the "Observatory" Carleon for nearly three hours, until Weber forcibly pulled him up, and was dragged out of Albion in a daze. The two of them stepped out of the When the crack closed, London was in the dark before dawn. Standing in the middle of the empty cemetery, he felt that he was stepping on cotton, which was more emptiness than he felt when he fell, as if he was sinking into a deeper place while walking. go in.

If it weren't for... Weber found Reed who appeared on the ground for some reason, unconscious, and he didn't know what he would do.

"At that time, your heartbeat was about to stop. Mr. Weber said that the Philosopher's Stone in your body had been broken. Ha, my brain was really blank at that time, and I didn't know what to do," Jason lowered his head and scratched his face. Reid couldn't see his expression clearly, so he heard him say sullenly: "Fortunately, Xiaohong greeted Zatanna in advance. They came here very quickly. Find us in minutes, and then it's all about surgery, stone replacement, blood flow stabilization and the long coma after that—"

He summed up what happened that day in a few words, but in fact the scene was much more chaotic, and he is still a little scared when he thinks about it now. Zatanna told him that if it was later, it might be too late, and he himself seemed to have nothing at the time. Didn’t do anything, just stood aside stupidly, watching Reed’s face as pale as a puppet, watching the rushing medical staff quickly lift him onto the stretcher, watching Zatana pull out the quilt With the Philosopher's Stone tightly held in the palm of Reed's hand, he cut open Reed's chest and took out the scarlet fragments...

Jason raised his hand and covered his eyes, "Sorry, I, sorry..."

"Why are you apologizing to me? Jason, you didn't do anything wrong." Reed smiled, raised his body and hugged Jason, he put his chin on Jason's shoulder, and said slowly: "Obviously I gave up first. I think you deserve something better, so I decided to go on alone. I broke my promise at the end... I should be the one who should say sorry."

There was a deep smile in his voice, the winter sun was like a beam of just-right spotlights coming in through the bright window and falling on them, Reed whispered, with that peaceful, slow tone of voice.

"When I was young, I didn't go out to play once. Because of my poor health, I could only stay at home all day. My mother worried that I would be lonely, so she quit her day job to stay with me at home, and only went out to work night shift at night. …At that time, I always thought that I was a burden to my mother, haha, but later Weber told me that I should be the driving force for her to live on. If it wasn’t for me, she might have given up and left the world It’s hard to imagine how that woman managed to survive at the most desperate moment in her life. The child in her belly was the child of her enemy, and she was bitten by a vampire. She was struggling on the verge of death, gritting her teeth. A baby was born.

It is said that maternal love is innate. Does a woman suddenly feel full of strength when she looks at the newly born life?She has been wandering all her life, and she has never really owned herself for a day, but at the moment she saw the child, she realized that this child came for her, it was her salvation, and it was the driving force for the rest of her life source.

"So after... my mother passed away, no one in this world needs me anymore." Reed hugged Jason tighter, took a deep breath and continued: "They, especially Lamberio.......and those people from the Magic Association, they just want my ability, the relic left by my mother, and want to study the compatibility of vampires and magicians, I am in In their eyes it's just a container that gets in their way."

The container will age, so those people are just waiting, waiting for the day when his broken body can no longer support it, and then they can easily take away other people's things as a matter of course, and call it: The legacy of magic.

"I'm not wanted by anyone," Reed said, his voice so low that it was almost a whisper, "but I also want to belong to someone."

Jason didn't speak, he could feel Reed burying his head into his neck, the thin and fragile shoulder blades under his palms rose and fell with his breathing, Jason thought inappropriately: He's lost a lot of weight, it's hard to hug him It's a bit embarrassing, how long will it take to raise the meat back?

Then Reed went on to say, "It's a good thing I met you, though."

"I'm so happy, Jason, you made me realize that I'm still needed." Reed turned his head to the side and kissed Jason's neck, "I belong to you."

The sun that fell on the back of Jason's neck seemed to be burning hot.

"..." Jason took a breath, grabbed Reed's shoulder in frustration, separated him from himself, and stared straight at him with those beautiful green eyes: "You are too cunning, I didn't even buy a ring."

"Why do you want to buy a ring?" Reed laughed again, the end of his eyes gently pressed down, and the slender and thick eyelashes left a shadow in his eyes, as sweet as candy melted.

"But in the current atmosphere, I should take out the ring and propose to you in the next second, right?" Jason muttered, his eyebrows drooping, looking really sad, "Oh, what a mistake... .”

"I don't need a ring." Reed thought for a while and said, for himself, there is already something like a ring to swear ownership, it is in his chest, in his heart, clearly written with each other's name.

"... also." Jason frowned and thought for a while, then raised Reed's hand.

"what happened?"

"Have I said it before? Living is a very painful thing," Jason squeezed Reid's palm and kissed him. "People will feel angry because of all kinds of unsatisfactory things, and they will be sad because of life and death."

Before Reed could react, he suddenly opened his mouth and bit his ring finger.

The sharp teeth rubbed against the skin bluntly, leaving a little painful mark.

"This is the only thing I can give you right now."

He bit off a ring of light red tooth marks on the ring finger, as if it had been put on a ring of thorns, imprinting another person's oath.Jason glanced at it for a few moments, then spread his five fingers, slipped in between his fingers, and clenched it tightly.Before finally bowing his head and kissing him, Jason whispered:

"Since you have chosen me, then suffer with me in this world."