novelraw Chapter 242 Returning to the Mansion
Chapter 242 Returning to the Mansion
"You go back to the base first, don't wait for me, I guess this family crisis won't be resolved for a while." Jason dismissed his teammates Artemis and Bizarro.
Harley didn't have the energy to continue struggling, so he could only let Jason hold her wrist, but how could she be willing?
Jason lowered his head, just in time to see Harry staring at him angrily with a puffed up face.
"Stop making trouble?" He said helplessly, "I'm not a bad guy... let alone the gangster killer that this guy said!"
He irritatedly stabbed the clone with his gun, "Go forward and knock on the door."
This guy complied, and Damian had never been so obedient.
It was Tim who came to open the door. He was rubbing his eyes and yawning, and the yawn was halfway, and it turned into an exclamation after seeing the weird trio at the door.
"My God...Bruce, come Dick! Jason has found Harley!" The sound of ding ding ding ding ding came from the corridor protruding from the direction of the kitchen.
"Let's go in." Jason took Harry's arm and led her into the mansion. He closed the door and even locked it, for fear that she would run away again.
A group of people blocked Harry in the hall like this.
Suddenly several men who were a head taller than Harry appeared, and she was so frightened that she wanted to shrink behind Zach.
Almost everyone in the family is a keen detective, and they all saw that something was wrong with Harry.
She, Harry, was staring at them with wide-eyed eyes, which were no longer as warm as before.No greetings, no names.
"This is...?" Dick was the first to speak, looking at Jason.
"Don't ask me, to be honest, I don't know," Jason said with a tangled expression, as if he didn't believe what he said immediately, "She seems to have lost her memory."
Everyone looked at each other after this shocking news, and no one had time to pay attention to the clone who was exactly like Damian.
Bruce and Ah Fu glanced at each other, and at the same time, they both thought of the history that the Dionysian factor made Bruce himself lose his memory.
"You really don't remember us?" Dick turned to Harry and asked unwillingly, "I'm your eldest brother, although I'm not related by blood...but I watched you grow up from the age of 8."
Harry looked at him carefully, frowned for a moment, then shook his head.
"This is your grandfather, who is related to you by blood, don't you remember?" Tim pointed at Harry.
Harry continued shaking his head.
"What about...Damian?" Tim asked.
Jason interjected, "She can't even remember me completely, how could she remember Damian."
Seeing that Harry shook his head again, Jason spread his hands, "Look, I don't remember."
No one in the know would say "Damian is your boyfriend" in front of Harley right now... This news must have been horrifying to her.
Dick wiped his face, looking sad at the thought of Damian's reaction.
"To be on the safe side, one of us must give Damian a tranquilizer." He seriously suggested, "If we still want to interrogate this guy in a peaceful atmosphere..." Dick finally noticed When it came to the clone who had been silent all this time, it frowned.
Dick, like Bruce, has no fond memories of Thalia's "creation."
But at least this clone looked... more human than the one that killed ten-year-old Damian all those years ago.
It is also more perfect, when this clone is standing quietly, it can almost be confused with the real one.According to the collected information, he is biologically two years older than Damian, but without careful observation, this gap is difficult to detect with the naked eye.
Coincidentally, Damian came up from the Batcave at this time...
"Why are you all in the corridor..." Damian pinched his brows wearily, he had just come out of the dark bat cave, and was temporarily unaccustomed to the bright morning light upstairs.He just wanted to come up and get another cup of coffee...well, a couple of cups.
When he finally focused his eyes, he saw Harley at the door and in the crowd...
Harry saw him too, eyes widening.
"Why does he look so much like you..." She looked up at Zach.
Zach turned his head to avoid direct eye contact with her.
"Todd, did you find her?!" Damian strode forward, pushed Dick and Tim out of the way, bent down without saying a word, and hugged Harry tightly.
But from Harry's point of view, the guy who came to hug her looked lifeless... Well, he hasn't showered for a few days.
Although Zach and Zach look more and more like one person, mentally, Zach is obviously more like a gentleman, but the person holding her looks like he is on drugs.
"Let go... let go of me," Harry thumped the other's shoulder, and she was even lifted off the ground by him, "Who are you? Are you Zach's twin brother?"
Damian's body was stiff, he was indeed dazzled by the ecstasy of regaining it, but he couldn't hear what Harry just said...
"What do you ask me?" Damian let go of his arms, lowered his head, and looked into her eyes, "Who am I?"
Harley's eyes couldn't speak, there was panic, anxiety, and doubt in it, but there was no love or nostalgia.
Damian was at a loss and looked up at Jason in a daze.
"She has amnesia," Jason whispered. "I found her like that, and I don't know why. I think we can only ask your clone."
Everyone looked at Zach.
Zach sighed, and said to Bruce with an extremely sincere pleading tone: "I will tell you everything honestly, as long as I know it. Just...don't be here, don't be in front of her..."
This face, exactly the same as his son's, made Bruce couldn't help but soften his heart.He said yes to Zach.
"I'm sorry, Halle, I lied to you," Zach said, turning around and facing the girl for the first time since being caught. "Whatever they tell you afterwards, it's true, and you can trust them."
"So... you mean, you lied to me? Everything you said these two weeks was not true?" Damian was still holding Harley's shoulder firmly, her face was completely Undisguised injuries.
It broke Zach's heart.
Damian was going crazy too, and Harry wasn't even looking at him... only at the impostor!
This stalemate is not an option, Bruce breaks Damian and Harry apart - Damian is now almost frozen into a wax figure.
"Jason, Tim, and Ah Fu, take Harry to the Batcave for a comprehensive physical examination." Bruce decisively assigned the work.
"Dick and I, let's interrogate together..." He turned to the clone and asked, "Zack, right? I heard Harley call you that."
Zach nodded, with a very cooperative attitude.The feeling of having a name... It's actually pretty good, even if the name was just given to him.
Bruce nodded awkwardly.When confronted with Zack, his feelings are... very mixed.And now at least one thing is certain, he is quite thankful that he doesn't have to continue to use "clone" to call this... a copy of his son.
"Damian, go back to your room and calm down," Bruce finally ordered.
"No!" Damian finally reacted, and he protested fiercely.
"Harry needs a quiet environment." Bruce explained patiently.
The son must be feeling bad right now, he knows.In fact, Damian didn't explode in public and dueled with Zac, which already made Bruce... quite gratified.
"He can come to my... interrogation," Zach interjected in a low voice.
Damian clenched his fists and stared at Zach.The two faces with the same appearance had different expressions at the moment.
"This is what you asked for..." Damian said through gritted teeth.
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Harley, who was led into the Batcave, was expressionless and numb, letting them fiddle with her.
She did not struggle or resist when blood was drawn and electrodes were applied.
"Where did all the energy that beat me up just now go? Because that guy upstairs lied to you?" Jason frowned, looking helplessly at the disheartened Harry, and said bitterly.
It was a forced decision to force her to check her body when she was not yet familiar with the environment of the mansion and was still panicked.
Because, they must first determine the cause of Harry's memory loss before they can prescribe the right medicine.To tell her exactly what happened to her in the past 16 years without any preparation, this operation was too sudden and violent.It's probably not acceptable to any strong adult.
Harley changed into her hospital gown alone in the dressing room, because she had to change out of her zippered pants because she had to have an MRI and she couldn't have any metal on her body.
Tim took her by the hand, led her into the MRI room at the corner of the Batcave, helped her sit on the instrument, and lay down.In the process, she emphasized over and over again that this is her home from the age of 8 to 16, and everyone loves her.
In the operating room outside the MRI, Jason stood beside Ah Fu who was operating the equipment, checking other examinations on the tablet.
"Wait, what is this hcg for..." Jason stared at the dense blood test items on the screen, digging into the depths of his mind...some kind of medical knowledge that he had almost never used, then he opened his eyes wide, Looking at Ah Fu in disbelief, "You want to check if Halle is pregnant?!"
"...I have to take all potential risks into consideration, Master Jason." Afu said lightly, but Jason saw the old butler's hand on the keyboard tremble.
At this point Tim had already stepped outside, leaving Harley lying alone on the MRI machine, and the examination was about to begin.
He had just heard the conversation between Jason and Ah Fu, so he was not surprised to see Jason walking towards the exit of the Batcave angrily.
"Come back...Jason," Tim held his forehead, "You can't kill the clone... Zack."
"We don't know if Harley has..." Tim paused, pursing his lips, the word was too difficult to say, "...pregnant. Zach's actions back then were only because of Talia's order... When we're sure, it's not too late for you to settle the score with him."
Ah Fu sighed, "Master Timothy is right, come back, Master Jason."
Ah Fu's tired tone made Jason stop, and he clenched his fists before walking back reluctantly.