[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

The child who lives in Room 271, Building B, 201 Crime Alley is named Jason Todd, or Jessica Todd, who knows, anyway, given his gender, he can use either name.

Jason knew that he was a deformed child with two sets of reproductive organs. Fortunately, he knew that he was different from others when he was very young, so he learned to hide everything. He cut his hair short, wore a worn-out T-shirt, sour-smelling pants that he had found with great difficulty in a second-hand store, and shoes that had been through who knows how many hands. He looked like an ordinary boy from Crime Alley.

His father is Willis Todd, a gangster. He abused Jason and his mother on a daily basis before Jason was 8 years old. Fortunately, that scumbag has been sent to jail for taking the blame for his gangster boss. His mother Catherine used to be a supermarket cashier. She was a good person before she was crushed by life, but she became a drug addict after that.

Fortunately, she still knew to go out and make some money occasionally. Jason didn't know how, but she probably couldn't escape from fraud and sex trafficking. Since last month, she didn't let Jason eat from the same pot with her. She got a broken pot to cook for herself, and left the good one for Jason.

Jason knew that she didn't want to pass on some of the viruses she contracted from the sex trade to him, so even if Katherine didn't want to hug him, Jason still couldn't blame him.

There aren't many mothers in Crime Alley who know to stay away from their children after contracting the disease, so Jason is content.

In short, in order to buy medicine for Catherine, Jason decided to agree to Andrea upstairs and go to make some money with her.

Andrea lives in Room 303. Her full name is Andrea Martha Sionis. It is said that she is the illegitimate daughter of the once wealthy Sionis, but her father is now bankrupt and in prison, so she has to live on the streets.

Although this lady did not graduate from high school, she was not a bad person. She hooked up with a gang member and then sold alcohol in a bar, but she always dreamed of returning to the upper class. Jason always thought she was a daydreamer, but she and Jason had a good relationship.

This was probably because when she had just moved in and had not yet faced reality and was unwilling to "give in", and was raped by gang members all night and had to lie in the house with a fever, Jason had kindly put a wet towel on her head and gave her half a bag of stale bread.

But at that time, Willis Todd had not yet been imprisoned, and Jason's family was much better off than it is now, so he dared to give the bread away. Now... even if it is expired food, Jason will stuff it into his stomach.

By the way, the bread he gave to Andrea was baked by Jason himself. Before becoming a drug addict, Katherine would cook and bake simple bread, cookies, and cupcakes.

That's why Jason thought his mom was a really good person. She could actually bake cupcakes!

Of course Jason would, he was probably the smartest kid in Crime Alley, and if nothing unexpected happened, he would be able to rise to a higher level even if he got involved in gangsterism in the future. Andrea hoped that Jason could use the ingredients she provided to make some cakes, and then sell them on consignment in the place run by Andrea's man to make some money.

"The bread and cakes you make are delicious. If we are frugal enough, we might be able to save enough money to move out of here, change your school to a better one, and send your mother to a drug rehabilitation center. Of course, not in Gotham. I mean, the drug rehabilitation centers in Metropolis are well-known, and there are also good ones in New York. Tony Stark is indeed a playboy, but he is indeed a rich man who loves to donate money."

The last sentence touched Jason. He had feelings for Katherine because she was the only person in the world who could actively hug him.

Moreover, he actually still had some unrealistic expectations in his heart. What if he could be admitted to a good school in another city in the future, and then work and study while growing up, and earn money, he could have surgery to remove the extra uterus in his body and become a normal boy from then on.

But given the life trajectories of most children in Crime Alley, this is probably just a daydream.

With this idea in mind, Jason knocked on Andrea's door and told her that he was willing to partner with her to make cakes.

After all, if the family had no other income, Catherine would really die of x| disease.

In fact, at that moment Jason didn't expect to make much money from the cupcakes he made with the oven at home that was at least 10 years old, but Andrea gave him enough money to buy at least a box of medicine half a month later.

So Jason felt that the weather that day was particularly sunny. When the fat boy next door pointed at him and shouted "son of bi|tch" at school, he didn't really get angry. He just punched the boy as a token of his gratitude.

This was actually true, but considering that the people being scolded included Jason's mother, he would still take action even if what others said was true, as a way of showing his best as a son.

But perhaps his recent good luck finally ran out. The fat boy actually called his parents, and then Jason was punished to stand in the office for the whole afternoon. By the time he bought medicine and hurried home, it was already evening.

This is really not good news, because the danger index in Gotham rises sharply at night.

As expected, he encountered a gang fight on the way home. Jason skillfully hid behind a trash can and raised his index finger towards the dirty black cat. Then, the man and the cat squatted there like Gotham citizens, waiting for the trouble to end or for them to be affected and killed.

At this moment, the sound of blunt objects hitting the human body and screams were heard one after another. Jason blinked, and after a while, he poked his little head out from behind the trash can.

In the distance, teenagers wearing red, green and yellow are cleaning up the battlefield and tying up all the lawless elements with ropes. After a while, people from the GCPD (Gotham Police Department) will come and take everyone away, and then within a few days, these gangs will come out again.

But at this time, Jason just secretly looked at the boy with admiration and envy in his eyes.

Seriously, in Gotham, which kid doesn't admire and envy Robin?

Robin is Batman's sidekick, an urban legend, a teenage hero fighting crime, and an unattainable hope.

This year, Jason was 10 years old. He squatted in the shadows and watched 17-year-old Dick Grayson leave the scene with his grappling hook, like a real bird flying through the darkness of Gotham.

Ps: He later found out that he did make some money from his cakes, but the money for Catherine's medicine was paid to him by Andrea using part of the money she earned from serving customers.

She even secretly helped Jason pay for the new semester so that he could move up to the fourth grade. By then, Catherine was too confused to go to school to pay for her son.