[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

Thalia never let go of her focus on Gotham.

It's just that her methods are different from Batman's. Her dear detective relies on technology-monitors and sensors are all over Gotham, and even the satellites above his head are his eyes and ears.She knew that on his team was one of the best at this kind of technology, the Prophet, they called her.

The poor girl was yet another victim of the Joker's, but privately Thalia thought that putting her in front of a computer screen would do more good than letting her wander around the city in a cape.It's not that she thinks the clown is doing a good job. In fact, among the many lunatics in Gotham, Thalia hates the clown the most.It had been there before he murdered Jason, and the loathing had only deepened now, and there was no way it would lessen.

The League of Assassins is targeting the entire world, and in this blueprint, there's no room for something as twisted as the Joker.

Thalia doesn't understand why the dear detective doesn't take some...permanent steps to make the Joker realize his place, that he never should have dreamed of standing alongside Batman, those "Only I know you best, Bat!" Thalia's speech made Talia feel sick from the bottom of her heart.

When the Joker created a panic at the U.N. General Assembly and Batman chose not to rescue the Joker from the exploding helicopter, she knew it was the closest a detective could get to killing the Joker herself, and she wouldn't ask for it Plus, if that doesn't kill that disgusting scum, Thalia wouldn't mind giving the darling detective a hand the next time she visits Gotham.

And the clown did disappear after the explosion. Everyone thought he was dead. Other forces in Gotham divided up the territory of the clown gang, and there is still no news about the lunatic.Until Batman shows up on Night Watch with the new Robin—or "Red Robin," who, according to Thalia's informant report, is a clever kid who's a little frighteningly clever.

Unlike Dick, who is full of one-liners and terrible puns, and unlike Jason, who treats every night patrol as a fierce life-and-death struggle, every move of the rookie is carefully calculated, and every attack can be hit. the most effective point.Although still raw, if he continues to develop, he will be the one with the closest mind to Batman.

Her detective doesn't seem surprised by the Joker's return, perhaps he's been waiting for the Joker to get back in the game since the day it was announced that no body was found.But honey is obviously more cautious in the face of the clown, at least Thalia's people did not see the newcomer in the encounter between the clown and Batman.Batman cared about him very closely, and demanded unbelievably high from him. According to the report, the kid was scolded bloody by Batman on the roof, just because of a trivial mistake.

Thalia's people also told her something very uncharacteristic of a detective, that he seemed to be obsessed with searching for ancient witchcraft, summoning spirits, magic beyond this world and the like.Her detective relies very little on magic, and while he's not an entirely staunch materialist, seeking the help of magic and the supernatural is not his usual practice.

But as the saying goes, extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.

Thalia came to the closed door, waved away the servant guarding the door, straightened her hair and clothes, opened the door and entered the dim room.There was a figure sitting on an armchair with her back to her, facing the clean and bright floor-to-ceiling windows, and the sky was full of stars outside the windows.She came to that person, sat down by the wide armrest, and stretched out her hand to gently stroke that person's black hair.

"Ah, are you looking at the stars today, Jason?"

Had a third person been present, he would have believed he was seriously hallucinating.The daughter of the devil, the second-in-command of the League of Assassins, Talia O. Gu, who kills without batting an eye, can speak in such a gentle tone.Even the closest to "gentle" treatment that Damian can get is the Devil's Daughter without any emotion, calmly as if reciting a line from a script: "My dear child."

She'd crouch next to Damian, put her arm around the kid's shoulders and whisper in his ear how special you were, how you were meant to be on top of the world.But anyone who's been around Thalia long enough without losing a limb will tell you that it's her usual manipulative tactic.Even if she still has maternal love for Damian in her heart, no one would dare to inquire about the depth of that maternal love after seeing many "Damians" in the laboratory deep in the alliance.

Talia doesn't care what her subordinates think of her.They just need to complete the task efficiently and accurately.Her family affairs were not something they should poke around.But for the informant who provided Jason's information, Thalia also rewarded him for his contribution without hesitation. She is a master with clear rewards and punishments, and they only need to understand this is enough.

"It's time for a checkup. After the checkup, I'll tell you a story about a star, okay?"

She took Jason's hand and led the boy out of the room.From the beginning to the end, Jason didn't resist at all. He looked down at his toes, and let Thalia lead him meekly through the winding corridor to a room that looked like a training ground.There was already a middle-aged man with bald head and old-fashioned glasses reaching out to Thalia: "Ms. Thalia."

"Dr. Hoffman." Thalia and the doctor greeted briefly, led Jason to the middle of the training field, bent slightly and comforted him softly in his ear: "It will be over soon, I will be here Watch from above, okay?"

Jason didn't respond, still looking down at his toes.The door of the training ground was automatically closed after Thalia left, and then robots with pre-set actions appeared from the small door next to the wall in sequence, and launched a series of attacks on the teenager standing blankly in the field, starting from the last From simple straight punches to fixed-sequence sequences to complex routines combined randomly.

Thalia and Dr. Hoffman stood on the heights and observed that the boy easily blocked the attack of the training robot, and took the opportunity to fight back to knock them down.

"For a patient with severe autism, his progress is pretty good." The doctor said slowly, picked up the tablet computer and clicked on it a few times, then turned off the screen after pondering for a moment, "The past few treatments I tried to stimulate his response with things he was familiar with, hoping that the uninjured areas of his brain would activate and start functioning in place of the damaged tissue."

"But?" Thalia looked at the doctor like a snake staring at its prey. She didn't like Dr. Hoffman. In the eyes of the league, it is completely replaceable.The reason why he can still look at people with his nostrils here is because Thalia endured it for Jason's sake, but her patience is limited. If Jason brings help, then there should be room for the next person.

"But I'm afraid his progress can only go so far." Dr. Hoffman shook his head and sighed pretending to be sympathetic, ignoring the flash of killing intent in Talia's eyes. It’s just action. As for him covering himself with a quilt when he’s cold, eating when he’s hungry, and sleeping when he’s tired, these are just survival instincts. The patient’s condition can only be said to be a little better than that of a vegetable, but expecting him to return to society can Normal communication..."

Thalia clenched the railing of the stand: "Before you comment on the people of O. Gu's family, you'd better pay attention to your tone, Doctor."

Dr. Hoffman pushed his glasses to hide his unease, and put on his most unchallenged academic authority: "With all due respect, ma'am. I'm talking about things from a purely scientific point of view, that boy—" He turned to the audience Jason waved his hand, "It's hopeless, at least the current medicine has no way to treat this disease. He needs someone to take care of him 24 hours a day until he dies, to feed him, clean him, and keep him from accidentally hurting himself."

"No." As long as Thalia was alive, this kind of thing would not be allowed to happen.She has given up on this child once, and there will be no second time.no way.

"Go ahead and dream." Dr. Hoffman snorted. He had seen too many family members who refused to face reality. To him, the woman in front of him was just another name on the list.

It was only when he was strangled by a woman and pressed against the wall that he couldn't breathe, did he finally remember that the person who used this name was not an ordinary person.As long as the upper lip of the woman in front of him touches the lower lip, his life's hard work can be wiped out, and even the traces of his existence in this world can be completely erased.

"I...sorry...forgive...forgive...I..." Dr. Hoffman struggled to spit out intermittent words through his teeth, and his eyes began to be covered with black spots. Professional knowledge told him that if he continues to suffer from hypoxia In the future, he will also be one of the patients with brain damage, and he will definitely not have the same standard treatment as the kid below.

Thalia waited until Dr. Hoffman had almost lost the strength to struggle before releasing the restraint on him, watching him slide to the ground and inhale, unable to show the arrogance of a medical authority anymore.

"Next time, I'll just pull out your tongue. You don't need a tongue to help patients see a doctor, do you?" Thalia lightly threw down the threat to the doctor, and walked down the stairs without looking back .

Dr. Hoffman was panting in shock, and at some point, his gaze met the boy downstairs whom he declared hopeless.The boy had put down all the training robots at some point. According to his previous symptoms, the boy should now look down at his toes in a daze, instead of staring at him like this.

And since when were those training robots knocked down?The doctor didn't hear the slightest sound, how long has the boy been looking here?The doctor had no clue.He could only wait miserably for his legs not to tremble, and watched the ghost-like woman come to the boy's side, coaxing him and himself to leave with a gentle and delicate gesture.

The boy who should be completely numb to the outside world obediently let Thalia lead him away. When he was about to walk out of the training room, Dr. Hoffman swore to God that he saw the boy grinning sinisterly at him. up.

What kind of ecstasy did he take before he agreed to accept the commission from the surname Ao Gu?

"Hail Maria, please bless me so that I can leave here alive..." Dr. Hoffman didn't want another death threat.

***

Jason was led back to the room by Thalia. When he expressed his unwillingness to go back to the chair facing the starry sky (the so-called "unwilling" was actually just a two-second pause in his footsteps), Thalia patiently, He even waited expectantly for him to reveal a little idea.When she found that her eyes had been resting on the twig potted plant by the window sill, she took the ordinary-looking potted plant with a branch stuck in the soil almost without hesitation and handed it to him. superior.

"You want your little tree?"

Jason gripped the potted plant tightly under Thalia's question, and didn't see the joyful eyes of the other party when he responded.Continue to let Thalia take him to the other end of the room to sit down on the block full of soft cushions, and after confirming that Jason is surrounded by thick cushions, she will sit opposite Jason .

"It seems that today is not the time to tell the story of the stars." Thalia stretched out her fingers to check the humidity of the potted soil, took a water bottle from the small table next to Jason, and carefully watered Jason's potted plants, "Why don't I tell Say your name, Jason."

Jason looked up at Thalia.To be honest, he was very confused.

It's been a while since Peter dealt with Ronan and Jason left the universe full of adventures, spaceships, and endless stars.With his current physical condition, it is difficult to know the time, but Jason is still clear about one thing - this is not Getan.

Heck, he's not even in America!

Jason's vision of "going home" is that he will wake up in a hospital, thinking about the last time he just climbed out of the coffin, and the couple who hit him with a car, he will be sent to the hospital It's nothing to say.And the hospital will confirm his identity, check his fingerprints and DNA, but they will not have results, and Batman is sure that all the information related to the vigilante has been erased from the official files.So next, he will be taken care of by the state government because of his status as a minor, and he may be thrown into a nursing home or something, so when he wakes up, he must figure out how to persuade the people in the hospital to let him contact Bruce, and then he can Back home, the story has a happy ending.

He couldn't wait to see the look on Bruce's face when he saw him!

So when he recovers in an elaborate garden, still holding the Groot branch given to him by Rocket (how did he follow?), Jason is physically and mentally speechless.That's why Jason didn't scream madly on the spot when Thalia appeared beside him and softly told him to go back to his room to rest.

However, with Thalia's performance of being happy for a long time with just one look at him, Jason suspected that even if he went crazy and started demolishing the yard on the spot, Talia would just applaud him and maybe demolish it together.

What happened in the end?

Jason knew that Thalia O. Gu was Bruce's old lover, that her father, Ray Shaw, was a famous terrorist, and that she herself was not a soft-hearted angel.Why Thalia was taking care of him? The only reason Jason thought about was that she wanted to gain Bruce's favorability, but this assumption was overturned by Jason himself the next day.

Thalia will not always be by Jason's side, but every time she appears, she is responsive to Jason, even if it is something that seems too stupid to leave Groot's branch, in Thalia try After asking him to throw away the "dead branch" in vain, she seemed to interpret this action as a progress in treatment, and without hesitation asked someone to find potted plants and cultivation soil to plant the "dead branch".

Then again, as just now, anyone who dares to say that Jason is "uncurable" or "incurable" in front of Thalia will be severely threatened. If it involves disrespect for Jason himself, Talia Leah's killing speed is completely unacceptable for begging for mercy.The previous servant who took care of Jason was a bit rude when he tried to take off Jason's shirt to help him take a bath (Jason didn't mean to complain, no one would be happy taking care of an unresponsive living dead.), He sighed subconsciously, just in time for Thalia who came to see him to see this scene.Jason watched Thalia's face stained with anger, the servant didn't even have room to wail before falling into the bathtub, and blood stained the clear water under Jason's feet.

Jason didn't believe Thalia did this to please Bruce.

Come on, with the way he is now, with food, drink and a doctor, Jason owes Talia a huge debt of gratitude for that alone.She didn't need to accommodate Jason to this point.He barely knew this woman, except for...a brief encounter with her before he was taken in by Bruce.But that is not acquaintance at all, let alone friendship!

Thalia had no idea that the question mark in Jason's heart was about to explode his brain. After watering the branch of Groot, she slowly told the story of Jason's name:

"Your name comes from the Greek 'Iaso', the daughter of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, the goddess of 'healing'. You were born a healer and I wish for your existence It can heal the deep wounds in your father's heart that have never healed since the day he saw his parents die."

Thalia was telling the story, brushing Jason's black hair with her fingers.And Jason didn't know how to react other than holding Groot's potted plant in a daze.Why does this story sound...uh...as if it's implying...no no no, he must be thinking too much.

"But now it seems that fate seems to have interpreted your name as the mythical hero who took the Golden Fleece. He tried his best to get the Golden Fleece, but he still couldn't get his throne. Lives lost."

Jason knew this story. The hero Jason of Greek mythology, his name evolved from Greek to English and became Jason.But he's pretty sure he's not the type to start messing around and never give up. Well, even though there's no one to mess with now, Jason is very confident that even if the conversation fails, he will break up peacefully and will never play the routine of a heartless man. !

etc!This is not the point, the point is that Thalia's words imply that she is her own...

"I should have brought you straight back. Do you remember when we first met in Gotham? I was looking for a Red Hood meeting place, and you and your little gangster friends just knew where. You Took me to that venue and even saved my life. I should have brought you back straight back then, your soul is too bright, and the darkness of Gotham will just tear you apart. I can take you to Dar Kela, with her watching you, even if my father wanted to attack you, he would have to think twice before doing so."

Jason remembered that wonderful meeting, his friend Chris, who was a few years older than him, was a neighborhood gangster.They picked up the masks of the members of the Red Hoods, and the poor hapless two died in the shootout.Chris wants to join the gang, and he just follows along to watch the fun, and then meets Thalia...well, it doesn't look like a coincidence now.

She was going to reassemble the leader of the Red Hood Gang. Jason still remembered that Thalia had been practicing an action and formula before leaving.The action is very simple, just a fist and then push the palm, and the mantra is "Peace the heart, abandon the darkness, and embrace the light." It's just that Thalia has not achieved the effect she expected. She said that only people with pure hearts can use this method. one move.

But there was a mess at the meeting that day, the leader was not an ordinary human being, and Jason saw that Thalia couldn't use that move, which looked like an ultimate nirvana move, so he rushed out without thinking. Go up, imitate Thalia's formula and gestures and hit that blow.

He also really played "darkness".From that day on, Jason truly believed that there are phenomena in the world that science cannot explain.

"But everything will be fine from now on, my child. Mom will protect you." Thalia stretched her arms, wrapped Jason in her arms, and murmured a tune he had never heard before, "Nobody can hurt you anymore. Not even dear."

Jason's mind was a complete mess.

Except for one thought: Bruce, what did you do when you were young!