[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

When he first came to my house he was dirty. I took care of him and put him to bed. The next morning we had fruit porridge, but he just picked up the bowl and poured it into his mouth, which resulted in blisters all over his mouth. As a result, I had only finished half of my breakfast when I had to apply burn ointment on him.

Then I made him a sandwich, but he vomited halfway through it, and in the end he vomited bile.

That morning was a chaotic one.

It turned out that after Hydra developed a nutrient solution, they hadn't fed him food for ten years, so his stomach was no longer adapted to eating.

Damn Hydra!

……

Super soldiers have stronger recovery and adaptability than ordinary people. It is indeed not easy for them to be unable to ingest solid food temporarily, but if they start with softer food and eat while vomiting, they will be able to force their bodies to adapt in a few days.

But since everyone is living in Jason's house, Jason will definitely not let Bucky endure that.

Jason put a mask on the man to cover his face, then put on a hat and took him out by the hand to see a doctor.

Bucky had been controlled for too long and was no longer able to adapt to normal life. Jason remembered how Claw Dick had felt lost in the crowds before, so he comforted Bucky before leaving.

"Don't be afraid. If you don't know where to look, just look at me. If you think other noises are too noisy, just ignore them."

Jason sometimes has a bad temper, but in fact he never lacks patience and tolerance. He just takes care of Bucky as if he were his child, and Bucky follows him obediently like a little chicken.

Jason opened the portal and took Bucky directly to the recently opened East Gotham Clinic.

Although it is a clinic, given that Professor X has provided sufficient financial assistance, the equipment here is very complete and there is no problem with gastroscopy and X-rays.

But Bucky was very uneasy during the gastroscopy and almost got angry and beat up the doctor. Jason pressed his shoulders, sat next to him, held his good hand, and stroked the back of his hand and arm. Only then did Bucky gradually calm down.

The doctor then prescribed stomach medicine for Bucky and told Jason to give him a liquid diet for a while.

Jason nodded, went to get the medicine, then took Bucky to visit the local Chinese supermarket in Gotham to buy ingredients for porridge and soup.

Bucky gradually relaxed because of the leadership of Jason, the godfather of Crime Alley. Jason asked him to push the supermarket cart, and then walked in front, putting the things to be bought into the cart from time to time.

When passing by the fruit section, Jason asked Bucky: "Do you have any favorite fruits? I'll make juice for you when I get back."

Bucky, who hadn't eaten fruit properly for decades, was even more confused standing in the fruit area with a wide variety of fruits. Jason simply took him to the tasting area and picked up small pieces of food with a toothpick.

"Here, try it. If you don't like it or feel uncomfortable swallowing it, spit it out. If you like it, tell me."

Bucky lowered his head and took the food and the toothpick into his mouth. Jason laughed and took the toothpick away: "You can't eat this, boy."

"I'm not a boy. I'm older than you."

Bucky retorted subconsciously.

Jason ignored him and judged from the taste tasting results that Bucky liked sweeter things, so he picked some sweet fruits and put them in the basket.

"You know what? I haven't gone shopping with anyone in a long time. The last time was with my girlfriend."

He said this, leading Bucky to the cashier.

The cashier was a typical girl from Gotham's East End. Her exposed arms were covered with tattoos and she wore smoky makeup, which made her look particularly rebellious. However, her hands and feet were very neat and tidy. She packed the items and gave the change in just one minute.

"$87, $3 in change, keep it."

Behind her, a cashier wearing a hat seemed to feel hot, so he suddenly squatted down and took off his hat, revealing two overly pointy ears. His ears shook, and then he put the hat back on.

Jason recognized that it looked like one of the mutants that had moved to the sewers of East Gotham, but there was something odd about the way Bucky looked at the girl.

In his confused cognition, normal people shouldn't have such long ears, right?

The tattooed smoky girl was startled by her colleague's action. She quickly turned around and looked at Jason and Bucky with a dangerous look. She quickly determined that she could not defeat these two strong men, and she narrowed her eyes.

She hissed, "Are you locals?"

Jason replied in a super pure Crime Alley accent: "Yes, we are all locals."

The tattooed smoky girl snorted and raised her chin: "Do you know Red Hood? If you dare to talk nonsense, then..."

She ran her thumb across her neck.

Red Hood himself replied sincerely: "Understood, they are one of our own, we won't say anything nonsense."

The tattooed smoky girl was satisfied with their answers and took out a few discount coupons and stuffed them in front of them: "Flour and Pumpkin are having a promotion. If you have coupons, you can get a 7% discount. Here, I'll give you a few more dollars."

When they were about to leave, they could still hear the tattooed smoky girl scolding the long-eared colleague: "If you feel hot, go to the office and take off your hat. What if someone sees you taking off your hat here..."

When he walked out of the supermarket, Jason was in a good mood and felt that what he had done these days was meaningful.

Bucky found everything new. The East Side of Gotham was a strange place. Bucky could feel that it was not friendly to outsiders and many people had a much more powerful aura than ordinary people, but he did not hate it here.

As for Jason, he seemed to be even more at ease. He was born and raised here. Less than 15 meters after walking out of the supermarket, they ran into a robbery. Before Jason could rush forward, a burly man as strong as a bear suddenly jumped out meters away and kicked the robber away.

He seemed like a mutant who was good at long jumping. When he returned the wallet to the owner, the owner took off her high heels and beat up the robber, then grinned with her blood-red lips and asked the strong man for her phone number.

In short, here, mutants can go out openly during the day. Although criminal leaders in surrounding areas, such as the Penguin and Black Mask, are jealous of these people, as long as they dare to reach out, Jason will chop off their claws, and they will be obedient after a few chops.

He raised his hand proudly and said to Bucky: "This is my hometown. Isn't it nice?"

Bucky blinked his gray-green eyes and slowly raised the corners of his mouth: “Yeah.”

They had pumpkin porridge for lunch that day. Jason deliberately let Axel bring it to Bucky when it was warm. Bucky was very interested in this Paddington Bear. He reached out and pinched Axel's fluffy bear ears, and Axel lowered his head and rubbed him.

Jason saw Bucky smile a faint smile of joy, and he looked peaceful and beautiful.

He suggested to Buggy, "You can also bury your whole body in Akasel's belly, it's warm and soft." It was super healing. Now whenever he was in a bad mood, he would go home and hug the bear to sleep. When he woke up, his mood index would usually rise by more than 70%.

Bucky nodded seriously, committing this important point of knowledge to memory.

In the previous seventy years, the Winter Soldier has been constantly frozen, brainwashed, and exploited. He has been away from the human world for too long, and Jason wants to bring him back, teach him how to live and adapt to the current society, as well as heal his brain and his confused, scarred mental state.

He first took a week off, then bought a bunch of food and stayed at home. He didn't go anywhere. He either made some stomach-nourishing soups to feed Bucky, or taught Bucky with his computer and his own PPT.

The course content was about Bucky's past and the history from the founding of the United States to modern society. It wasn't long anyway, and as a superhuman, the Winter Soldier had a very good brain. Jason only lectured for 3 hours a day, omitting some unimportant parts, and finished it in just one week.

Fortunately, Mi Li Jian has a short history. If Jason were asked to talk about the history of flower planting, he would probably just type GG.

At the same time, Jason also taught Bucky some common sense about normal life.

No matter what you want to do, you have to resume your normal life first. If you don't have a life and are still as muddleheaded as before, everything you say is meaningless.

It was not until two days later that Jason let Bucky go out alone to buy groceries at a supermarket in East Gotham. Bucky went out with his wallet and basket, bought the groceries and returned home smoothly. Jason followed him secretly the whole time, and then opened the portal to enter the house before Bucky returned home.

He took the basket and nodded, patting Bucky's head. "Well done, you bought all the right things."

Bucky handed over the cloth wallet with the Paddington Bear pattern. “Here you go. The change is in it.”

Jason waved his hand and said, "You can keep it for yourself. Just think of it as errand fee."

Bucky didn't want to meet up with anyone he knew in the past, so Jason went straight to Kamar-Taj and remodeled the door of his apartment under the guidance of Ancient One.

Now there is a turntable on his door frame with red and yellow grids on it. When you move the pointer to the red grid and open the door, you will appear in the room of the orphanage in East Gotham. When you move the pointer to the yellow grid and open the door, you will be in the corridor outside the door of Jason's apartment.

With a bear at home who can do housework, Jason sometimes really feels like a magician in a fairy tale.

Then he had another sudden idea.

"Bucky, what do you say this Christmas, I should just dress up as Santa Claus and open a portal to give presents to the kids in Crime Alley?"

Bucky, who was finally able to get rid of liquid food, ate the fried duck breast seriously. The duck breast had been marinated before and tasted tender and juicy. After frying, lemon juice was dripped on it, which was slightly sour but very appetizing. Paired with the crispy toasted honey butter bread, it was simply impossible to stop eating.

Bucky's mouth was full of food, his cheeks puffed up, and he replied incoherently: "Okay, I'll go with you."

Jason pushed the fruit platter towards him. "Will this not be enough? This is a platter of plums, papayas, and apples. Do you want to pour salad dressing on it? Or just eat it like this?"

"Drop salad dressing on it! Delicious!"

Jason nodded and peeled another hard-boiled egg and put it on Bucky’s plate.

"I'll take you to the hospital tomorrow to have your brain checked. The doctor will know you, so it won't leave any marks."

Let's use medical means to treat Bucky first, but there are some other problems with Hydra's brainwashing, such as "insertion instructions". If Jason's remaining life in the Najim period was not too short, Talia would have planned to do this to him.

If Bucky also has "instructions", they may have to go to Professor X.