[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

On the morning of February 2, Jason gently opened the door of his father's bedroom, took off his shoes, tiptoed to the window, and then pulled open the curtains with a rustle.

The sun shone into the room. The man on the bed opened his eyes and saw the little robin with its backlit flying towards him. He immediately closed his eyes, raised the corners of his mouth, and grabbed the quilt to cover his face.

Jason jumped onto the bed and pulled at the corner of the quilt, trying to lift it off.

"Bruce, get up! You are already a 35-year-old adult, don't stay in bed!"

Bruce said nothing, but continued to pull the quilt while holding back his laughter.

Naturally, the 13-year-old little robin couldn't compete with the muscular 95kg Batman in strength. Before the quilt was about to be torn, Bruce let go of his hand and Jason fell back and sat on Bruce's legs, sitting like a duck.

Jason realized that Bruce had been awake for a long time, so he turned over and crawled to the side to sit down, then pulled out a cylinder from his lower back and pointed it at Bruce who was sitting up.

With a snap, colorful paper tape sprayed all over Bruce's head and face.

The old father was not annoyed. He picked up a piece of paper hanging on his forehead and observed it: "Did you make it yourself?"

Jason nodded: "Yeah."

Bruce rolled over and got out of bed: "Make the bed before I finish washing up."

Jason puffed up his cheeks and said, "I know. I won't push the blame on Ah Fu."

Today was the weekend and the boy didn't have to go to school, so he got up early in the morning to help Alfred with the cleaning. While Bruce was applying shaving cream on his face, Jason changed Bruce's bed sheets.

When Bruce came downstairs, he saw the egg and cucumber sandwich on the table. Because it was close to noon, the portion was not large.

He looked at Jason and the old butler who were about to go out, and asked with a smile: "Are you going out to buy something? Take me with you."

Ah Fu nodded with a smile: "Of course, it's a good idea to go shopping in the supermarket when you're not dealing with robbers."

So Bruce, holding the sandwich, sat in the back seat of Alfred's special purchasing car. Unlike the supercar that Bruce, the richest man in Gotham, usually drove, this was a low-key SUV.

Going shopping in the supermarket with his son is an interesting thing. When Alfred was buying ingredients in the fresh food area, Jason took Bruce to browse the snack area.

Jason has always had a persistent love for food. He is not picky about food and will eat everything given to him. He is the most supportive eater. After starting figure skating, he has restrained himself a bit, but he is still a foodie and is particularly passionate about desserts.

Seeing him throw ten bags of chocolate into the shopping cart in one breath, Bruce tapped him with his knuckles, "It's not good for your health to consume too much of this high-calorie food. Don't just buy chocolate."

Jason opened his eyes wide, covered his head and explained: "I don't only eat chocolate, look, this is nut chocolate, this is chocolate wafer biscuits, and this is chocolate beans..."

In addition, he also took a few bags of corn chips. Jason's familiarity with the snack area of ​​the supermarket and his knowledge of snack brands and flavors were amazing. It was probably because he often went out shopping with Ah Fu.

There is no doubt that it was a pleasant day. When Bruce was paying the bill, he was recognized by the female cashier and asked for a photo. On the way home, Bruce even took a detour to take Jason to eat chocolate ice cream.

Batman actually eats ice cream! Jason thought that Catwoman had brought him to this store before, could it be that Bruce had also brought Catwoman here? No, no, it should be Catwoman who brought Bruce here, right?

So little Robin said to the clerk: "Add another scoop of vanilla ice cream."

Chocolate and vanilla are a perfect match!

While Alfu was making lunch, Jason secretly took his cell phone to the garden and dialed a number.

After a while, the call was connected and a clear male voice came from the other end.

"Hi, Little Wing, I have something to do here and can't make it back to Gotham in time. Please apologize to Alfu for me..."

Jason kicked the stone bench next to him.

"I made an appointment with you three days in advance, and now you tell me you have something to do?"

He burst into a swear word and asked, "If you can't come back at noon, what about at night?"

"Sorry, I have a night patrol tonight. Bludhaven has not been peaceful recently."

"Dickie Bird, you're a dick!"

Jason hung up the phone right after saying this. Shit, his cream of mushroom soup was wasted again.

But after hanging up the phone, Jason felt a little regretful. He was also a vigilante and knew how difficult this job was. There were always endless emergencies that disrupted their original arrangements, especially in Gotham and Blüdhaven, where the crime rates were high. It was normal to miss one or two appointments with others in order to save others.

Jason himself had missed several dinner dates with Sunny. Another time, he and Tim had an appointment to go to Tim's house to do homework together, but this was forced to be interrupted because of the Riddler's "Operation Arkham" and another "Riddler bank robbery and murder case."

Anyway, it didn't seem right to scold people because of this, but Jason couldn't bring himself to apologize, and he was the one who was stood up.

"Knowing what day it is today, can't you deal with those villains and gangs in advance?"

Little Robin muttered to himself. Although he had Nightwing's number in his phone so that he could contact him in case of any emergency in the future, Jason had never called Dick on his own initiative, and Dick had never called him. Given that they disliked each other, Jason was relieved that Dick could pretend that Jason didn't exist.

After all, he admired the first Robin, but when the two met, they were always tense. Both sides had cold faces and would even fight when they got angry. It would be better for them not to meet.

It was not until Sunny heard Jason worrying about what birthday present to give Bruce that the girl, whose family situation was somewhat similar to Jason's, suggested that Jason could call his brother back.

Shanni said to Jason at the time: "I understand how you feel, because my dad has an ex-wife, and his ex-wife also gave birth to a daughter with him, who is my sister. She usually works in New York, but I know my dad will miss my sister, so last Christmas, I called my sister back, and my dad was so happy that his eyes were red."

"No matter what the reason was for your brother not wanting to go home, a father will always miss his children."

Because of this, Jason thought that even if Dick Grayson would shun him when he returned home, he would just bite his teeth and accept it. At worst, he would just lower his head and eat as much as he could to reduce his presence.

So little Robin took a deep breath for two minutes before he gritted his teeth and dialed the number.

God knows how difficult it was for Jason to soften his tone and say "Afu hopes you come home" to a man who once beat him up in front of a group of young heroes.

Fortunately, Dick unexpectedly did not make things difficult for Jason. He just said "OK" when Jason was so silent that he thought he had hung up the phone. Then they politely ended the call with "See you in a few days". Then when Jason was making the cake this morning, he deliberately sprinkled a handful of corn flakes on a certain area while sprinkling the nuts.

Seriously, this isn't a conversation between brothers at all. Jason and the hot dog stand owner spoke in a more natural tone than this.

Bludhaven ====

Dick was staring at his phone and the classmate sitting next to him nudged him.

"Dick, are you okay?"

Although they are all interns, they were indeed dragged into a dismemberment case due to some accidents. In order to investigate this case in the past two days, several more responsible veterans in the police station have been so busy with the interns that they couldn't even sleep well. Now the case is about to be solved.

But the situation at the crime scene was extremely terrifying. John was so scared that he couldn't even eat. He thought Dick was the same.

Dick shook his head: "I'm fine, but I promised my...my younger brother to go back home to attend my dad's birthday today. Now I have to break the appointment. He is very angry."

John showed sympathy when he heard this: "Oh, if you said you were dumped because you cheated on a woman again, I could still gloat over your misfortune, but now I have changed my mind."

Dick is very popular with women. Ever since John met him, there have always been different girls coming to the police academy to look for him. This doesn't mean that Dick is a playboy. On the contrary, he has a good reputation. Every girl who has dated him thinks he is a perfect boyfriend.

In addition to "sometimes I can't find him", "I often cancel dates", "it feels easy to get close to him, but the more I get to know him, the more I feel I don't really understand him", "he is very honest with me, but I always feel there is a layer between us", "he has never really opened his heart to me"...

So Dick had been the one who got dumped so far, more times than anyone John knew, and miraculously Dick had maintained friendly contact with his ex-girlfriends, and those girls all felt more comfortable being friends with Dick.

Poor Dick.

John patted Dick in a friendly way, and the intern Alan who was sitting opposite them comforted Dick, "Your brother is angry because you don't go home, which is proof of your good relationship. The brother born to my stepmother would like me to never go back. Of course, I don't want to go back to that home either."

Dick couldn't help but shook his head and said, "No, we don't have a good relationship. He hates me. The number of times I can talk to him politely is no more than twice. He usually doesn't want to pay attention to me."

He was scolded just now.

……

When Jason walked into the kitchen, the aroma of cheese baked lobster had already filled the entire kitchen. Jason opened the refrigerator and took out a big cake. He took out the chopsticks used for eating Chinese food, picked out the corn flakes one by one, and sprinkled a handful of nuts to make the cake look more natural.

This was a work he started working on after getting up at six in the morning. In order to make a cool bat out of cream, Jason practiced for the entire afternoon.

The child sighed slightly, and Ah Fu smiled. He walked over to him and touched the little guy's head. Jason looked up at Ah Fu and laughed.

"The last time someone asked me to make a cake this big, I couldn't handle it, so I ended up selling a fake plastic cake. Fortunately, I can make a real one this time."

Little Robin took out candles, carefully inserted 35 of them on the cake, lit them one by one with a lighter, and then walked outside with Ah Fu carrying the cake.

Bruce, who had just walked into the restaurant, looked at this scene and couldn't help laughing: "20 inches? It's a double layer cake. The three of us can't finish such a big cake. Why not put it at the banquet tonight?"

Baby Bruce is going to hold a charity auction on his 35th birthday. Star City tycoon Oliver Queen, New York tycoon Tony Stark, Norman Osborn, Frost Group CEO Emma Frost will attend the auction.

In short, it is a gathering of rich people.

Jason thought that the upper class people would probably look down on his skill, so he just urged Bruce to make a wish and blow out the candles.

Bruce cooperated by closing his eyes, clasping his hands together, and then blowing out all the candles in one breath.

When Bruce closed his eyes, Jason prayed silently, hoping that all of Bruce's wishes would come true.

At this time, Jason still thought that when the dinner came, he would just wear a suit and hide in a corner with Tim to eat the buffet. However, only 40 minutes after the banquet started, Jason received an urgent text message from Barbara.

"Robin, there was an explosion in Arkham just now, and the Joker and Harley Quinn are missing."

Jason looked at the text message, and then at the Joker walking into the banquet hall with a group of armed robbers, and thought, he already knew.