[Comprehensive British and American] Family Matters

From what it turns out, it doesn't appear to be a hoax.

The well-known second-in-command of the League of Assassins, Talia O. Gu, seemed to be his real mother.And his own dad...well, he doesn't really want to go back to Gotham anymore.What expression is he going to face Bruce with?

Classic Star Wars scene: "Bruce, I am your own son!", "No—!" Batman jumped off the building at this second.

It's still Indian Bollywood style: "Bruce, I'm actually your own son.", "What?" Sing and dance from here.

Romantic and warm family comedy style: "Dad—!", "Son—!" on the beach background, hugging each other at a speed of one step in three seconds.

Jason felt he still wanted to choose none of the above.

And Thalia is really kind to him, not the kind of kindness that is acted for others to see.That's right, she is not like an ordinary mother who cooks and bakes in an apron, arranges the garden in her spare time, or has three or five sisters drinking tea and gossip.But Jason could see that she worked very hard to learn to take care of people. From the beginning when he took a bath, both of them would be drowned, to the smooth completion of a warm and comfortable sponge bath. Thalia had never been in Jay. Mori had complained in front of him about his sluggish movements, or the results of treatments that had limited progress.

She always smiled and said, "Everything will be fine, don't worry, my baby."

And Jason could tell from the tiredness in Thalia's eyes that she was very busy.The house where Jason lives is not the only base for Thalia. From the window of Jason's room, she can often be seen getting off the car in a hurry, just to show up at the fixed meal time or reading time of the two of them every day. By Jason's side.

——Stable work and rest can help calm the patient's emotions.

This is a doctor's suggestion.So far, Thalia had only missed their shared time on rare occasions, and each time she seemed more frustrated and annoyed than Jason.

All of this has Jason looking forward to getting better, or at least allowing him to express himself clearly.But when the words came to their lips, they turned into vague whines, making everyone tense up and thinking that he was not feeling well. The servants were afraid that the mistress would think they were not taking care of them well, and Talia was worried about him. Is your condition getting worse?

Jason tried to use writing, but although he could punch and kick someone who wanted to sneak up on him, he couldn't do finer movements at all, and he even had problems eating by himself.Jason could successfully make a grasping movement, but Thalia could not allow him to eat bread for three meals, so Thalia had to scoop those delicate foods to his mouth for him to swallow.Therefore, the option of written discussion has also been eliminated.

Maybe he could use a Ouija board?Not that he has to use his mind to move the arrow, but he can spell out what he wants to say, can't he?This is a good idea, although it is a little slow but at least it is the first step of communication.The key is...how did he say to the servants who looked at him like he saw the guillotine in the room: "Hi, please give me a Ouija board, thank you."

He could only choose to go back to the room and look at Groot's twig. Looking left and right, he seemed to have grown a bit thicker.Wait, Groot is a treant, so maybe when this twig grows up, it will grow into a baby Groot?The thought brought Jason a little comfort.But when the day comes, how will he explain his little tree running around and saying, "I'm Groot."

Will he be caught as a monster and burned to death as soon as he steps out of the potted plant...

Jason felt that the responsibility on his shoulders was extremely heavy.

When Groot grew to the point where he could vaguely see the five sense organs and the prototype of limbs, Thalia brought a child to Jason.A kid who looked ninety-nine percent like Bruce, like she'd broken into the Wayne house and plucked out little Bruce from the portrait and done some magic to bring it to life.

"Mother, is he my brother?" The child looked at Jason solemnly, as if he was some important historical relic, "He seems a little... uncomfortable."

OK, looks like he has a brother.Cool, no problem, I have my parents, and it would not be unexpected to have another brother.Are there any older sisters, younger sisters, or cats and dogs raised by yourself? Come along, he is Jason. I don’t know what my last name is. He has no fear in this land!

"Yes, Damian, he is your brother." Thalia pulled Damian up and asked him to put his little hand in Jason's palm. Jason held the warm palm, and the first time One felt was a blister on the palm and a callus starting to form.

God, how old is this little devil?seven years old?eight years old?Did the League of Assassins start training from the womb!

"His condition is the handiwork of your father's enemies. That disgusting scum wounded him, even killed him at one point, and even if by some miracle he returned to us, still leaves such a grave sequelae."

Hey!Hey!hello mom!Generally speaking, shouldn't we tell children: "He is sick, but as long as he takes medicine and injections obediently, he will recover soon." Also, aren't words like "kill" and "death" at least PG12?

"Father let his enemies hurt his children?" Damian looked terrified, Jason showed a toothache in his heart, desperate to explain that Bruce didn't "make" the Joker do anything, it was himself Careless, and the clown took his chance, so different.

"No, my dear child, your father did not allow such atrocities." Thalia frowned, making a disgusted expression, "However, his enemies... are extremely insane and keen to hurt People around your father as a means of angering him. Nasty people with no humanity."

Damian seemed to be lost in thought, tilting his head so that Jason couldn't help reaching out to touch his soft and smooth hair.He now understands why when he tilts his head like this in front of Bruce, even if he is wearing a bat suit and patrolling the night outside as a dark knight, Bruce will always freeze for a moment.

Sorry, Dad, I shouldn't have wondered if you were going to have a stroke.

"Then what happened to this enemy?" Damian turned his head to look at Thalia. Jason didn't know whether to cry or laugh because of the firm expression on his face and the proudly raised chest, "If he If he doesn’t get the sanction he deserves, then I will let him know that provoking people from Ao Gu’s family is the biggest mistake in his life!”

Damn, this brat is very unusual.But considering his upbringing...League of Assassins, well, Jason is not surprised that this is going to be a vicious little devil.

Correction, very cute, cruel little devil.

Thalia just smiled and patted him on the back after listening to Damian's speech, turned around and took a book from Jason's bookshelf and returned to the boys.

"That's the end of the unpleasant topic, Damian, come and read for your brother. I'm pretty sure your literature teacher has introduced this work." Thalia handed the book to Damian, and the little boy respectfully Take it, just like the courtiers in the drama who accept the lord's reward with trepidation.

Jason wondered if Damian had been strictly required to sleep.For example, they are not allowed to kick the quilt, and they are not allowed to turn over indiscriminately. They must be tied to the bed board and lie upright.

Damian clung close to Jason, but his back was straight. He opened the book to Chapter 1, and the crisp childish voice began to recite the story: "Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, two children learn Gothic Calligraphy, "Compendium of Logic" and "Organism", and the rest of the time is spent studying reasoning, reciting classics, and studying astrology."

Aha, "The Eternal King", TH White's most famous work, the legend of King Arthur.Jason loved the story, not just because of the boy's fantasies about the famous Knights of the Round Table, but also because he read it with none other than Alfred Pennyworth for the first time.I don't know if it was out of Jason's imagination, but he always felt that the whole story seemed more fascinating under Ah Fu's British accent.

Damian's mother tongue is not English, so when he encountered some uncommon words, he would get stuck because he couldn't pronounce the correct pronunciation. Whenever this happened, the child's face would wrinkle up in embarrassment, and he would grunt. Gulu tried to combine a pronunciation that sounded more like that.At this time, Thalia will slowly pronounce every syllable of the word clearly, so that Damian can imitate it.

After mastering the pronunciation, Damian will continue the story as if nothing had happened, as if it wasn't him who was embarrassed 3 minutes ago.Mmm, super high self-esteem.Jason ticked off a mental checklist.

Of course, it is impossible to read the entire book in one night, but reading with Damian has gradually become a part of Jason's peaceful daily life.Sometimes Thalia joins them to share the story, and other times she just sits quietly in the background, leaving space for the two of them.

Gradually, instead of just reading, Damian would go into Jason's room and talk to him whenever he had time.He didn't seem to mind Jason's lack of interaction at all, telling him that this morning's class was an insult to his IQ, complaining about the poor quality of the martial arts teacher, or accusing the servant in charge of taking care of Jason for stealing and playing tricks—Jason At first, he felt that the little prince was extremely difficult, but after a long time, he realized that this was Damian's way of expressing his concern.

Those complaints are like the so-called "share your life", but ordinary families usually use: "Honey, how is the school?", "Very good, I got a perfect score in the exam!" as the content.Damian's version, on the other hand, lists in detail all the logic deficiencies of his tutor's teaching, and if he did it, he could shorten the time by one-third and enrich the content by three times. .

As for criticizing those servants?Doesn't it mean that Jason is very concerned about their wandering or wandering from time to time? He understands that everyone will fish for something when they are working, as long as it is not too much.But in Damien's eyes it looked like some serious "disrespect" and the little prince would not allow anyone to offend his brother even the slightest bit.Jason felt that this was probably some kind of royal rule or something, but it was completely different from his wild rules outside.If he had to be honest, the feeling of being defended by his little brother... was pretty good.

Definitely reward Damian with triple pats if he can move freely.

Today's Damian, as usual, got into Jason's room after his class was over, and the tablet in his hand showed Jason's medical report during this period.

"Those doctors all said that you have no cure." Damian angrily slid the medical identification on the tablet, the brain tomographic scan image, "a group of mentally retarded idiots. None of them really talk to you properly."

That's right, the group of white coats will only let him lie on the equipment to scan this and that, and then shake his head and sigh at a certain point on the image.Or just poking him here and there, patting him there, and finally giving him a desperate expression that the end of the world is near.

They should all be sent to Dr. Lesley to learn what it means to treat patients like family members.

"I don't think you're incurable. Brother." Damian put down the tablet and looked into Jason's eyes. Their eyes were similar in green, but Jason's was more blue, while Damian's was more blue. It's a green color that's close to Thalia's.

"I'm not kidding myself, as they say, when I read to you, you notice my mispronounced words one step ahead of your mother, as if you have predicted which word I will get stuck in. When I condemn lazy servants, you will show disapproval—but I still insist on the importance of discipline." At the end, Damian raised his chin high and made his usual arrogant expression, As if that would add some extra points to his stance, "You're still in it, I know. You're just... stuck."

Yeah, stuck.Jason couldn't think of a better adjective. He was trapped in Peter's body first, and now he is trapped in his own body.Could it be that his final option is to become a real ghost in exchange for freedom?Or is there a miraculous elixir in this world that can directly cure his... brain damage?

"I've been looking forward to seeing you." Damian suddenly let go of all the arrogance of the little prince, climbed onto Jason's sofa in frustration, and squeezed himself next to Jason, "When my mother told me that I have another Brother, and since the day he was an amazing talent, I have been looking forward to the day I actually see you. One day my mother suddenly started to be busier than usual, and I asked her what happened, and She's been reluctant to tell me."

Jason guessed that this was because Thalia didn't want Damian to be disappointed, because his current situation seemed to be a little far from "amazing talent".

"I'm not disappointed at all." Damian rubbed his body towards Jason, as if to prove what he said was true, "When I saw you, I saw your eyes, I saw ...I don't know how to describe it without being so silly, they're like... enigmas?"

Oh, this is the first time he heard this description.Jason's eyes flicked to the little Treant who was ready to start wriggling in the pot (he only did that when no one else was in the room, thank goodness), yeah, mystery.He stretched out his hands to hold Groot's potted plant, carried him from the coffee table next to the sofa, and handed it to Damian wordlessly.

"What? This is your little tree, isn't it?" Damian looked dazed, but he still obediently reached out to take the flower pot, "Do you want me to take care of it?"

Jason placed the flowerpot in the palms of Damian's outstretched hands, but didn't let go of his own grip.Damian narrowed his eyes and looked at the small wood in the potted plant in doubt. It had grown thick, but Damian didn't see anything special about it.But from Jason's direction, he was staring into baby Groot's innocent eyes and hesitant mouth.

Little Groot didn't know if he understood Jason's meaning, or he was just embarrassed by being stared at. He turned his head and met Damian's widening green eyes.

"No way!" Children who grew up in the League of Assassins may have seen many strange things that adults would never see in a lifetime, but this was the first time for a moving tree.

"I'm Groot." The little tree man made a gesture of covering his mouth.Jason didn't know what was going on, but suddenly he could understand Groot's eternal three-character mantra: "Oops, I was discovered."

"Can I raise him, brother?" Damian thought for the first time that a small potted plant could be so cute, until he found Jason looking at him quietly, and quickly changed his words, "I mean, can I visit him often? "

Groot looked at Jason, then turned to look at Damian: "I'm Groot." (You can come whenever you want.)

The big smile on Damian's face made him finally look like a kid, not a grown-up.

"Thank you! Brother!" Damian eagerly asked about Groot's care, "Do I need to fertilize? Do I need to change the pot when he grows up? How many times do I need to water it a day?"

"I'm Groot." (No fertilization.)

"Oh, so."

"I'm Groot." (The basin will be gone soon.)

"What do you mean you can walk out by yourself? What about the water? Do you want to prepare a basin for you?"

"I'm Groot." (I can drink my own water, Jason has a jug.)

Jason watched with satisfaction as Groot and Damian had a pleasant conversation after asking and answering.Sometimes the little tree person would kindly help him with a few words: Jason said.

What a sweet afternoon.

Wait, is he relying on a tree to translate for him?

"I'm Groot." (You're welcome, we're friends.)

Thank you so much.