[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Damian refuses to admit that he misses Jason's presence.

He is a well-trained fighter, so he will not grumble like Drake every day, as if he is the only one who cares about Jason the most in the world. This weak and stupid performance is just to win his father's attention It's just a ridiculous trick!He won't lower himself to the same level as Drake!

Even if there is only one person, he can take care of the Red Hood's territory perfectly, and there is no need for the hypocritical Drake to "help" him. In fact, he simply wants to please the little ghosts on the Red Hood's territory. The idea of ​​letting them speak well of Red Robin in front of Red Hood in the future is really despicable and shameless, and it is completely discrediting the honorable task of night watch!

Red Robin is a pervert, he can admit and accept that there are many outstanding perverts in this world, they have extraordinary achievements in specific fields, but meanness is definitely not one of them!

"You know... you can pick up your phone and call him, right?" Jonathan Kent Jr. sat across from Damian with his chin in his hand, moving his spoon left and right on the fruit sundae, thinking about which to eat first The peach next to it is still ice cream.

Damian scooped up a big mouthful of ice cream from the bottom, and the other part that lost its "foundation" immediately tilted to the side, and was about to fall out of the cup, Xiao Qiao gasped and quickly reached out to stop the falling part, carefully Pushed the ice cream into the cup, and then scraped off the precarious parts around it and put it into his mouth.

--ah!Wayne's Alfred's homemade sundae tastes better than the well-known restaurants in the metropolis. I am so happy.

"I won't be like a child who hasn't been weaned, making phone calls and begging for sweets." Damian snorted disdainfully, "It's an insult to gentleness."

"Isn't it humiliating to miss my family... Ah, what I want to say is that this is normal, just like when my mother is on a business trip, I miss her too!" There is a way to make his tongue move smoothly, and he can spit out difficult words like Damian, but he still tries to comfort the young master in front of him, just like his father said-if you want to be friends with the Bat family, you have to get used to it. Their insincerity, when they say "I'm okay" basically means "I'm not okay".

"Tt, only children want to cling to someone at any time." Damian let out his trademark smacking voice again, raising his head and trying to show the expression of a mature adult accusing a young child.

Xiao Qiao gave a calm "Oh" and pointed out the most crucial point: "But you can't be considered an adult, can you?"

"I am more sensible than most 'adults'." Damian said this almost through gritted teeth. He has always hated being treated as a child and being forced to go to school with a group of empty-headed people. It's shameful enough for a kid to "socialize"; it's even more humiliating to be pointed at and said "you're a kid".

"Yes, yes, you have the final say." Xiao Qiao nodded pretending to be serious, and at the same time quickly scooped up the piece of ice cream with the most chocolate rice before Damian.

Damian refused to accept this perfunctory, he puffed out his chest and narrowed his eyes dangerously (if Clark was around, he would recognize this as Bruce's annoyance): "Don't take me for a fool, Kent."

Xiao Qiao felt that his temper was already very good, but every time he faced Damian, he felt that his nerves were being severely tested.When he complained to his father angrily: "Why is Damian always like this!", Clark always smiled wryly and shook his head, telling him: "Typical bat. Believe me, if Damian really hates you, don't want to If you want to communicate with you, you will definitely know."

"I don't take you for a fool, but obviously you don't want to take my advice, so...you can do whatever you want." Xiao Qiao values ​​Damian as a friend, but he doesn't intend to be a doormat either. Therefore, if Damian wants to find a submissive answerer, Xiao Qiao is not sensitive to this position.

"Your opinion is too broad, it's the same as not saying anything." Damian spoke with an expression, as if the suggestion Xiao Qiao just made was some kind of epoch-making innovative technology, and it could not be implemented without more detailed guidelines.

"I told you to call him, may I ask where is this emptiness?" There was a strong urge to kneel down, how did these bats grow their brains?Why can you make a phone call as if you are going to defuse a bomb?

Damian sighed dramatically, inexplicably making Xiao Qiao feel that he was the stupid one in this conversation: "First of all, why did I call him? His Gotham construction plan is very smooth, redhead There was no serious commotion in the hood. Secondly, even if I found a reason, I would not be able to produce a meaningful report without the necessary information. Therefore, the conclusion is-this call will be meaningless , a waste of time."

"Why do you need these!" Xiao Qiao couldn't help knocking his head on the table, "Pick up the phone, find his number, and after connecting, say 'Hey, brother, what are you doing?' Is it that difficult?" ?”

"I have his complete itinerary in my hand. Why would I call to ask him knowingly? It's ridiculous." If Damian didn't laugh from the beginning to the end when he said this, Xiao Qiao would have doubted him Are you messing with yourself?

"This is called showing concern! It has nothing to do with whether you know his itinerary!"

"But I've put a tracker in his luggage."

"What does that have to do with caring!"

Once again, Joe felt that his father was the greatest hero in the world.

Not just because he's Superman, protecting the planet from evil aliens or crazy villains, but because he can be friends with Batman and keep that friendship for such a long time.

"We're off topic." Damian looked like a manager who received the company's quarterly negative growth report, and said with a stinky face that Xiao Qiao wanted to roll his eyes and turn the back of his head, "You're not helping at all, Kent. "

That's enough for now!

Xiao Qiao slapped the table with both hands. He had to control his strength so as not to break someone else's table, but the loud slap still made Damian stare at him with wide eyes.

"You, stay here!" Jumping off the chair, Xiao Qiao strode away with an unstoppable domineering arrogance. Not long after, she came back with an indoor telephone handset. Beep, "Take it!"

"What are you doing?" Damian didn't even need to think about who was on the other end of the phone. He looked at the phone as if it wasn't a daily appliance, but some kind of poisonous trap, "Hang it up, Now!"

Maintaining the movement of raising the phone, Xiao Qiao looked at the garden outside the window until there was no more beeping on the phone, but Damian's familiar voice: "Hello?"

"Hello?" Without waiting for a response, Jason's voice on the phone sounded a little tense, "Is there anyone? Ah Fu? What happened?"

"Talk to him." Xiao Qiao moved the phone closer to Damian and said with mouth.

Damian finally reached out to answer the phone, looking like a gladiator about to go to the Colosseum, saying, "Hello."

"No, nothing happened."

"I am……"

"What are you doing now? Oh, what have you been watching?"

Xiao Qiao watched with satisfaction as Damian stumbled and began to talk to Jason on the phone, smiled and pulled the sundae with more than half a cup left in front of her, scooped a scoop of ice cream mixed with whipped cream, full of satisfaction The milky fragrance lingers on the tip of the tongue.

He's a really good friend.

***

Alfred seemed to be the only one in the family unaffected.

He took good care of everyone, and Nuo Da’s house was kept spotless in his hands. The bat cave, which was always chaotic after the night patrol, would always return to a clean and tidy state the next night. appearance.

This morning's job was to tidy up the greenhouse. First, he came to Groot's room, found a tree man who was already about the height of a teenager from the intertwined vines, picked up the remote control and turned off the tree man neatly. The big-screen TV in front of everyone ignored the fact that the blood bar of the final big boss on the screen was about to bottom out.

"I'm Groot!" (I'm almost done!)

"If I'm right, you've been playing games all night again." Alfred calmly stated as if he didn't see the anger of Groot throwing the controller, "Didn't we agree that the game time is every afternoon , and no later than ten o'clock in the evening."

"I'm Groot!" (I have nothing else to do.)

"If this is the case, may I ask you to help tidy up the greenhouse? My old bones really need the help of a young and strong tree like you." Alfred said while tapping his shoulder, as if genuine Feeling sore all over.

The little tree man looked at the old man in front of him, then at the game controller he threw into the corner, and at the pitch-black screen, and he knew without thinking that he must have been killed by the final boss. He worked so hard I practiced the protagonist of the game for one night.

"I'm Groot." (Whatever.) The little tree man stepped on purposely with heavy steps, exuding an "unhappy" atmosphere, and walked past Alfred to the greenhouse in Wayne Manor.

The old man looked up at the room that had been turned into a primitive jungle, shook his head helplessly, stepped over a particularly thick vine on the ground and walked out of Groot's room.The cute little branches grow very fast, and their temper is as unpredictable as a child who has entered adolescence.However, the only ones in the room who can communicate with him barrier-free are Jason and Master Damian. When Master Jason is at home, he can still listen to music and dance with the little tree man, and so can Master Damian. Have a serious and serious conversation with him, but Master Jason is away on vacation, Master Damian needs to go to school during the day, and the night watch time at night is also extended because of Master Jason's absence, and Groot stays at home alone Also getting longer.

It's really hard to blame him for his decadent behavior of huddling in his room and playing games all day long.

When Groot was young, they could hide him in a coat or take him out of the manor for a walk in a disguise. Now if there is a tree wandering around the street, it will definitely expose the Wayne family and the night The secret between vigilantes, but Alfred always felt that doing so was too pitiful for a young and good tree, and such a closed environment was really detrimental to the physical and mental health of young people.

Maybe he should find some time to chat with Master Jason about Groot's arrangement-Master Jason's teammates seem to often run around in spaceships. Will it be too abrupt?

In the afternoon, it was time for the Batcave. Alfred came to the medical area of ​​the Batcave with a water basin in his hand, and spread a small towel on the medical examination table. The water basin, small comb and pet shampoo were positioned. The butler A nod to Brucey on the Batcomputer.

"Alpha classes are numbered one to ten, take a bath in order!" Bat Brucey flapped his wings and gave orders to the crowed bats deep in the cave, and soon a small group of bats lay obediently on the examination table, letting Al Fred grabbed them and wet them, rubbed them all over with animal shampoo and combed them, and finally wrapped them in a towel to wait for the moisture to dry.

"Next shift! Get moving!" Bat Bruce shouted to the honest bat squad that he had already trained, and they accepted the cleaning procedures of bathing, combing and drying in units of ten. This is Alf After confirming that the AI ​​bat brought back by Master Jason is so powerful that it can ravage the small animals in the bat cave to form a biological army, Red insisted on adding the health check-in the humid cave for a long time, the bat Ticks are easily infested, and tick bites can cause muscle paralysis and eventually death from respiratory failure.

Alfred would never let a tick-infested bat get close to the master and the young master.

Every one of Wayne's bats is healthy, beautiful and clean!

***

Jason looked at the juvenile bats lined up in front of him. Their big black eyes and the appearance of sucking on the pacifier were so cute that he didn't know whether to take a photo first or catch one to pet and hug.

Groot's hands formed a cradle in front of his chest, and the vines were intertwined to form a grid of small spaces, just for Alfred to stuff the bat babies wrapped in towels into the small grid.The tree man went upstairs with at least five baby bats, ready to take a walk in the yard of the manor. Damian was holding one in his hand, and the other hand was busy raising the milk bottle so that the baby bats could drink the special formula smoothly. milk.Although Tim was doing the same set of movements, his body language was obviously more than ten times stiffer than Damian's.

"What's going on here?" Jason asked cautiously, while reaching out to push Dick away who wanted to stuff the baby bat into him.

"Your future working partner, Master Jason, your AI Brucey suggested that it would be better to start training from a young age. These are orphan bats. You are all responsible for taking good care of them. In the future, they can be under the guidance of Brucey. Help with night work." Alfred said as if it was no different from raising a dog, "Please hold it, Master Jason, and hold the bottle like this."

Before he knew it, a baby bat with watery eyes, furry body and a pacifier was stuffed into Jason's hand.

Looking down at the little animal in his palm, Jason felt like he couldn't leave Gotham for a while.

"That's great, Fu." Jason muttered in a low voice, and started to feed the baby bat. Seeing the cuteness of the little animal devouring it, he really couldn't say out loud that he hated the idea.

——It’s so cute, he can raise ten more!