[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

In Jason's impression, Batman always appears steadfast, sharp and agile. His figure is also tall and majestic, as if he will never fall down.

However, when he helped Bruce to the bed, treated his wounds, and then sat beside the bed to look at him carefully, he found that the former Gotham darling Bruce was almost fifty years old.

There were white hairs on his temples and wrinkles on his forehead and eyes, but he was still the most handsome man Jason had ever seen.

Well, he admitted that Bruce had an aura bonus in his heart, and even the big blue guy from Krypton who had a huge racial advantage could not compare with Bruce.

But so what?

Before meeting Bruce, Jason had never imagined that there was such a person in the world. He was obviously wealthy, handsome, and possessed an excellent mind and strength, but he would dress himself up as a scary big bat to fight crime.

He obviously didn't have to do this, but because of the existence of Batman, Gotham still has hope. At least Jason's hope in life was given by Bruce and Alfred.

To this day, the time he spent as Robin is still his happiest and purest time. Only by being with his father can he be truly carefree, even though Bruce is the father who once loved Jason so much and Batman is always stiff. Before Jason died, he could occasionally see Bruce in Batman.

But after he was resurrected from the dead, Bruce was never seen in Batman again, as if his departure took the Bruce in Batman away with him.

He felt guilty about Bruce, he took a part of Bruce away but didn't know how to bring that Bruce back.

Based on Jason's understanding of Bruce, if he still had enemies that he had not dealt with, then when he saw Jason, he would start to tell him how to deal with the enemies. However, Bruce did not do that. He just fell directly into Jason's arms and let himself faint. This meant that Jason had nothing to do with it.

He placed Bruce on his bed, treated the wound on his abdomen, and reached out to tentatively touch Bruce's hand. He pulled back at the moment he was about to touch it, but in the end he placed his hand on the back of Bruce's hand.

This hand is also different from before. The skin is no longer red, the veins are obvious, and there are countless scars on the palm. It feels a little rough when held, but it is still broad and thick, just a little cold due to blood loss.

His father is really old, and even Batman still has to face the ravages of time.

Jason found a stool and sat beside the bed to read, but he just couldn't concentrate. After a while, there was a knock on the window. Jason got up and saw that Damian had opened the window by himself and landed on the ground lightly and silently.

Jason looked at the kid and blinked, "You've grown a lot taller."

“It’s just starting to develop.”

Damian's voice was also a little hoarse. After returning from Apokolips, Damian had superpowers for a while, and after the superpowers faded, his body began to develop.

He began to grow quickly, his voice began to change, and his physical growth made him lose his childishness and look like a teenager.

Jason raised his eyebrows: "Tell me what's going on, why are you here?"

Damian glanced at him, walked over to Bruce and checked to make sure that the old Batman was sleeping peacefully, then handed a document to Jason.

Jason took it and opened it without knowing what was going on. Inside was a piece of intelligence about transnational arms deals. Judging from the information in the intelligence, Batman and Robin had almost dealt with the matter.

"My father and I came here before you, intending to resolve this matter without disturbing you."

Jason was stunned: "Don't disturb me?"

Damian nodded as a matter of course: "You have different philosophies. Meeting or acting together will easily lead to conflicts. It is better to stay far apart. Is this what you all think?"

Jason has always kept a distance from everyone in the family except Alfred and Damian, including his two exes Dick and Tim, and they also abide by Jason's rules and will not disturb him easily.

Damian thought about it and felt that when Jason and Talia separated because of their stance, Talia shot him with a gun and he stayed in the hospital for a long time. It can be seen that no matter how deep the feelings are, they cannot withstand a "stance". Therefore, Jason's distance from his family allows them to stand together in harmony and discuss some business matters.

He thought that Jason's way of handling the matter was appropriate, and it basically ensured to the greatest extent possible that his connection with his family would not be further weakened.

Bruce is doing the same thing now, he doesn't want to disturb Jason, he even managed to finish most of the work without disturbing Jason the whole time. If he hadn't realized that he was not in the right state and Damian was finishing up the investigation in a relatively far place, he wouldn't even come here.

In this strange land, the only people Bruce can trust are Damian and Jason.

Jason turned his head to look at Bruce's face and suddenly smiled bitterly. Damian looked at him in confusion, but saw Jason pick up his hat and wallet and exclaimed.

"I have a room upstairs. You can sleep there."

The young man had not originally intended to let Jason stay up late to take care of his old bat mother. After all, Jason had been suffering from hormonal disorders and irregular menstruation for many years, so it was better for him to take it easy. Therefore, before he came, he had already booked a luxurious king-size room for Jason through his mobile phone.

Jason shook his head gently: "No, I'm going out for a walk."

"Are you not sleeping?"

"After the walk, I go to bed."

"It's cold outside and it's snowing."

"As long as it's not raining."

Damian actually doesn't like to interfere in other people's affairs, so he watched the window being opened again, and Jason jumped out. The child hesitated for a while and ultimately did not chase after him.

If Jason needed some privacy right now, Damian would certainly give him some alone time.

Unlike Gotham, the security here in Zhihua is very good. When going out at night, one does not have to worry about being robbed by someone with a gun to their head. It's just that the Xiling Snow Mountain Hotel where they are located is at a high altitude, and winter has not yet passed, so the cold naturally locks people in their homes.

In a few years, people here will have their New Year holidays, and then they will take public transportation to make a large-scale migration and return home to reunite with their families.

Jason stretched out his hand, watched the snow fall into his palm, and exhaled a breath of white air.

There was a sound of breaking air, and Jason dodged, and a beer can fell to the ground. Johnny was sitting on the balcony railing on the second floor, giving him a bright smile.

"Dude, why are you out so late? Are you planning to go to the bar in the city to pick up girls? Or boys?"

Johnny gave him a "you know" look, Jason rolled his eyes and picked up the can of beer, and Johnny asked him again.

"Want to come up and have a drink with me?"

Just one drink in hand, Jason opened a portal and appeared directly next to Johnny.

Johnny was startled by him and exclaimed: "Kamar-Taj's magic is really convenient."

Then the two of them started chatting.

Johnny was a really good person to talk to, and Jason just wanted to talk. He was not used to doing so, but when he tentatively brought up a topic, Johnny immediately took it up.

He looked at Jason with a calm and gentle look, which made Jason feel very comfortable.

"I just...my father was also in this city, and then he got sick, but my relationship with him was not very good, and many unpleasant things happened between us. We avoided each other for many years."

After saying this, Jason shrugged. He felt that he couldn't go any further. Years of caution had limited him to only talk so much, and this was already too much for him.

Johnny didn't mind Jason's half-hearted words. After all, Jason worked for SHIELD, so it was normal for him to have some secrets. He didn't want to delve into Jason's past, and he wouldn't make Jason uncomfortable because of it.

But after Jason finished speaking, he also started talking about himself.

Maybe in the eyes of others, Thunderbolt is a playboy, but he actually only had one relationship experience in which he was truly committed, and it ended badly, and he still hasn't recovered from it.

During an operation, he fell in love with a girl from an underwater organization, but the base where the underwater organization was located was eventually closed, and for some reason, they would never meet again.

"Do you understand what I mean? I loved her very much, and I still love her now. After breaking up with her, I left MiLiJian and traveled around, but we can't be together anymore. Even if the base is not closed, it will be difficult for us to continue to be together. All kinds of reality are stronger than feelings..."

Jason looked at him quietly and nodded slowly: "I know, I've experienced similar things."

"Then we are in the same boat. No wonder you and I get along so well."

The two men clinked beer cans. Johnny had obviously started drinking before Jason came, so he smelled heavily of alcohol. After finishing the can of beer, he leaned lazily on the recliner, shaking his head back and forth without knowing where to put it. Finally, he just leaned his head on Jason's shoulder.

He asked Jason confusedly: "There are always more important things than love in this world, right?"

Jason replied affirmatively: "That's right."

"Right, my sister said so too, but wouldn't it be nice if that love could last forever?"

Jason looked at the snow piling up thicker and thicker on the street outside and smiled: "Nothing in this world is permanent. All we can do is grab what we have now."

"Do you regret breaking up with the person you deeply love and staying away from each other from now on?"

"I regret it."

In fact, if you think about it carefully, Jason knows that he is not a good son. He has chosen a path that prevents him from moving forward with his family and is destined to part ways with them.

So he kept avoiding spending more time with his family, because he knew that once they acted together, the conflict of different principles would only make the rift between them bigger.

He had always known that he and Bruce had always loved each other, they were just not suitable to be close. However, unknowingly, he had missed Bruce for so many years.

Because I was afraid of being hurt by you, I avoided you for so many years, until you started to grow old.

Do you regret it? Of course I do. Jason once said that life should be lived without regrets. But that was just talk. How can a person not have regrets in his life?

But if he had the chance to do it all over again, Jason knew that he would still follow the same path, and then many years later, when he reunited with his family, he would feel sad when he saw Bruce's white hair.

Everyone has to walk their own path in life, and Jason had no intention of complaining, but he suddenly felt that he shouldn't keep staying in the current situation with Bruce.

If this continues, what will happen to them in the future?

They send each other gifts at Christmas, but in fact they only see each other a few times throughout the year. Then one day, Jason or Bruce dies in the pursuit of his dreams as a vigilante, and the other one goes to the funeral of the deceased and goes crazy.

Jason could imagine that scene. If something happened to Bruce, he would definitely go crazy in front of everyone. He didn't know if Bruce would go crazy if something happened to him, but at his funeral, a silent and increasingly paranoid Bruce Wayne was definitely not something he wanted to see.

The old guy had suffered enough. Ever since the day his grandparents fell in Crime Alley, the boy in Crime Alley had always been in Bruce's heart and had never left.

It's impossible to count on Bruce to be the icebreaker. Anyone who expects Bruce to handle emotional issues has drunk too much. Anyway, even if Jason drank two cans of beer, he didn't intend to count on Batman in this regard.

Did he come in the end?

Jason was a little hesitant. He was still very angry about some things in the past, but it was a bit silly to keep brooding over the past. However, he was unwilling to just bow his head like that.

Why is he always the first to soften, right? He is not Alfred, who has a kind heart towards Bruce as an elder. He is Bruce's son and has no obligation to indulge the old man's bad temper.

Unless Bruce becomes an Alzheimer's patient who likes to act like a spoiled brat to people around him in the future, he will never spoil Bruce.

Remembering the "back view" joke he learned from the Monkey King when they were having dinner together, Jason gritted his teeth and decided to wait until daybreak to buy two kilograms of oranges, one kilogram for Damian and one kilogram for Bruce.

However, what Jason did not expect was that Zatanna also came to the Xiling Snow Mountain Hotel the next day, and after examining Bruce, she said that she would go back immediately to find materials so that she could draw a magic circle to remove the curse for Bruce.

Jason was a little confused: "He was under a spell? Why didn't I feel anything?"

Out of the Bat's damn desire for control, he cast spells on everyone in his family so that he could easily keep track of their situations. Damian knew about it and was willing, and Alfred and Tim were almost the same. Dick didn't know about it so he couldn't prevent it, but the old Bat couldn't do anything about it.

But last night, he took advantage of the old Batwoman's coma to give her a full body check-up, in order to prevent Batman, who has an incredible charm among female villains, from provoking any difficult magical characters.

Zatanna rolled her eyes and plucked a button from Bruce's collar: "Everyone knows that you have learned the white magic in the Book of Vishanti and are a student of Doctor Doom. Bruce and I asked for a prop that can cover your eyes. This is made from the treasure my father left for me."

Jason was stunned for a moment, then he checked Bruce again with a dark face, and then he found that the old bat had

"Tsk, the curse on him is not only complicated, but also quite old."

This spell is very special. Recklessly breaking it by force will cause harm to Bruce. A headache for a long time is the mildest injury. If it is not handled properly, it may even cause damage to the spiritual realm. The old guy's spiritual realm is already riddled with holes. Jason suspects that it is a world with patches everywhere.

Zatanna nodded in agreement, "Yeah, that's why I don't like coming here to grow flowers. My dad didn't like coming here either, but now I still have to go back and look for antiques to help him break the curse."

Damian nodded. "I'll also look in the Assassin's League. My grandfather collected a lot of antiques."

Johnny was sitting next to them as obediently as a chicken, but when he heard that they needed an antique that could break the curse, he raised his hand.

"Since you need antiques, why don't you borrow them from the locals here?"

Zatanna: "You don't understand. This is a faction issue. Batman won't be happy for more people to know that he is cursed, especially the superheroes on the flower-growing side."

Johnny: "But they're all very nice people."

"This is not a question of whether a person is good or not! Some things have nothing to do with character!"

Zatanna packed up and prepared to leave. Jason leaned there in silence for a while, then suddenly said, "Ancient One once saved an old lama. He was practicing in a temple on the plateau. Ancient One mentioned that he had a dzi bead in his hand, which was once an ornament of the gods. I'll go borrow it from him."

As soon as he said this, Zatanna also stopped. It was not easy to find antiques of sufficient age immediately, even with the financial resources of the Wayne family. It would of course be best if Jason had a connection.

Damian asked, "But it takes a lot of time to get to Tibet. Don't you have to go to the universe later?"

Although Jason has the powerful ability of space teleportation, if he wants to teleport over long distances, he must have space coordinates, which means he should have been to that place before.

Jason probably had never been to Qinghai-Tibet before today. With all the busy travel back and forth, can he still keep up with his job?

Damian thought that if it was too troublesome, he could take Jason's letter or call Jason's junior fellow apprentice and ask him to accompany him to borrow the Dzi beads.

Jason replied calmly, "Don't worry, I know what's going on. There's still time. You just need to take care of the old guy here."

Johnny quickly stood up and followed: "Then I'll go with you. I was planning to go to Tibet anyway, so it's convenient for me to go with you."