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Chapter 207 Father and Son Conversation (Catching Bugs)
"You don't think you can hide it from me, do you?" Bruce turned around and put the pollen in the bottle into the composition analysis instrument, then turned to look at his son's rare surprised eyes, which looked like he was "caught/raped" , almost kept Bruce from collapsing.
"You replaced the surveillance video on both of your uniforms afterwards, but the criminal's mouth is very big." Bruce crossed his arms, and the atmosphere of serious reprimand could not be broken.
Damian's shoulders slumped, he brushed his sweat-drenched hair out, and confessed in a self-defeating manner. "Harry wanted to use the Oblivion Curse at the risk of being warned by the Magical Congress of America, but I stopped her. I remember she had already been warned once." He spread his palms, "I threatened the prisoner, it seems , It’s useless. If it was me in the past, this prisoner would have died in a corner of an alley long ago, and I knew that keeping this guy’s life would cause endless troubles.”
Seeing his father's brows furrowed together, Damian rolled his eyes, feeling like he was back when he was a child when he was not trusted by his father. "Didn't I kill him in the end? He's still alive and well in the Gotham Police Department." He took off his stuffy gloves and heavy cape. It seems that this conversation tonight will end in a while .
Damian paused in the middle of taking off his gloves, his father should... not hit him, right?He didn't do anything out of line... well, no matter how "out of line" the critical point was, he stopped in time.It's unlikely that father even knew these details, right?
"How could you do such a careless thing, Damian, in front of a criminal?" Bruce almost said, "Why can't you wait until no one is around", but when he thought that the protagonist of the action was Damian And Harley, this sentence always feels wrong...
Damian was silent, and after a heavy sigh, he lowered his head to Bruce, "It was indeed my fault, and I am willing to accept any punishment."
Such a good attitude of pleading guilty really made Bruce speechless for a while, unable to continue throwing out the long reprimand he had prepared earlier in the morning.
In all fairness, this is the only mistake that Damian, who has just grown up, has made for a long time. Bruce asked himself that he could never be so perfect.
But upholding the spirit of education with clear rewards and punishments, Damian must bear the corresponding consequences——
"Before Harley starts school, you are not allowed to watch the night together again. I will take over for you," Bruce continued cruelly, "I must separate the two of you until you regain my trust."
Damian's eyes froze for a moment, Bruce was ready to meet any form of protest from his son, but he didn't say anything in the end, just nodded, "...Okay."
This made Bruce feel... more necessary to explain the reason for the punishment.
"You're a man, you're older, and you're still wearing this uniform, so you deserve to be the one with the more self-control and control of the situation," he said next, twirling around in his mouth, no matter how phrasing he felt That's right, "Even...Harry took the initiative, it shouldn't be your excuse..."
"No, it is indeed my responsibility, father," Damian interrupted his father's words, emphasizing earnestly, "I took the initiative that night. You should only punish me if you want to."
Bruce nodded, his son's attitude of taking responsibility was indeed impeccable.
"You can go back to the Titan Tower, Starfire, please Dick has mentioned it to me several times. They have been under a lot of pressure recently, and this is the first time in many years that the Teen Titans have not had Robin leading the team for a long time." Bruce said, "And Halle needs to go to school and can't take over the role. Plus, she needs to hone her skills."
"You can wear your Red Bird uniform—I know you designed the Red Bird in addition to this Bat uniform. Of course, you can also wear the Robin uniform, it's all your freedom."
Damian nodded obediently again, so well-behaved that Bruce was surprised.
"Can I go?" Damian tugged at the collar of his uniform. "I think I need to drink more water to metabolize the pollen from the poison ivy. I don't understand why Harry and I didn't respond. Maybe it's because The formula of poison ivy has not changed much, and the antibody you injected us with before is still useful. Since this is the case, you don’t need to make an antidote.”
Bruce walked to the training room, pulled out a bottle of bottled water and threw it back to Damian. At the same time, he glanced at the progress of the component analysis. At least for now, Poison Ivy has adopted a completely different formula...
Bruce decides not to tell Damian that he got away with it because of his virginity.
Maybe it hurts a little bit?Bruce really didn't know what the atmosphere among young people was like now.
Damian resigned himself to his fate and found a chair to sit down. It seemed that his father did not intend to let him go.
"You haven't answered my question yet." Bruce cleared his throat, breaking the silence.
Damian cast a questioning look behind the bottle.
"How did you and Harry get together?"
Damian put down the water bottle, "...I am willing to accept the punishment, father. What else do you want me to say?"
He subconsciously squeezed the plastic bottle in his hand, "No matter how you look at it, I don't think the relationship between me and Harley is wrong. Dick was still wearing a Robin uniform, and he rescued Starfire with the Titans back then, and How old was she when you kissed her in public? *If you were to punish us for age, I wouldn't accept that, and neither would Halle; as for blood? We're not related at all."
These few confident rebuttals proved that his son is still the confident and firm boy.
"That's not what I meant. The next conversation has nothing to do with punishment," Bruce said with some embarrassment, "This is...besides punishment, so it's just...a heart-to-heart talk between father and son?"
Damian's eyebrows were almost lifted into his hair.
Bruce regretted it after he finished speaking. He has never been good at this kind of... warm drama.Father and son talk?Almost never, his chats with Damian are generally limited to the situation in Gotham and world crises.
Like a normal person, talking to your son about how to chase girls?Just thinking about it gives Bruce... goosebumps.
"Uh..." The bottle in Damian's hand was about to be pinched and deformed. He let go of the poor empty plastic bottle. This is not a gentleman's behavior. He touched his nose and reported frankly, "Harry was resurrected by her mother in the League of Assassins When it was time, we talked about it."
"Are you talking? You have already...?"
"I don't know if Harley is, I am, long ago..."
Damian was also very embarrassed. He turned his palms and signaled his father to understand, so he didn't have to say too bluntly, "Only when I'm around her can I feel... relaxed."
Bruce nodded, and the awkward silence permeated again, but instead he thought... felt okay?
Knowing what kind of girl his son likes, he is also closer to Damian's mysterious inner world.
"Have you guys ever gone on a date?" Bruce cleared his throat, subconsciously hoping that this father-son conversation would last a little longer, "I don't remember a time when you and Harry went out alone, except for night watch."
"Dating?"
"Date, like normal people, take her to fancy restaurants, go to concerts, buy her jewelry, travel together, etc."
"Your Brucey routine?" Damian frowned, "No...no."
"When I went to London, I had a meal with her godfather." He folded his arms, as if thinking of a new strategy for fighting criminal gangs, "and then at night by a phonograph that was too old to turn. Dancing, does that count?"
"Not enough...traditional, let's count it." Bruce touched his chin, thinking of a serious question, "Why don't you guys have a date? Are you short of money?"
As he spoke, he took out his checkbook and wanted to write a big one to Damian.
"I'm not short of money...Father." Damian rubbed his forehead.
"Think of it as a love fund," Bruce had finished.
Damian's eyes widened, he was more surprised than he was "caught" by Bruce just now, "Father, you, uh, support me?"
"I'm surprised by that too," Bruce closed his pen cap and sighed, "but you're my son... I don't know, Halle is also my daughter, and I've always thought of her as my daughter. That's why I haven't put it off The reason why the clues in front of me are connected, let you lie to me for so long."
"We didn't mean to..."
"No need to explain," Bruce raised his hand and interrupted Damian, "but what I know is that if my daughter has a boyfriend like you, after getting to know you, I will be satisfied with you."
"Not [-]% satisfied, but you passed." He moved the corner of his mouth and added to Damian after a smile.
The author has something to say:
*The father-son love story can't stop anymore...
*When Dick was Robin, the savior fire and the kissing plot are all from the animation "Teen Titans Judas Contract".At that time, the eldest and the younger should not have grown up, and they were thin and small.