novelraw Chapter 244 Take me away
Chapter 244 Take me away
Damian kicked open the door of his room.
If it wasn't for Ah Fu and his father's years of deep-rooted upbringing, he would have started throwing things.
So, now he can only pull his hair and pace up and down the carpet restlessly.
There is no outlet for anger, frustration, and grief.
Dick arrived a few minutes later and looked at the door lock that Damian had kicked.
"Are you adding more work to Ah Fu out of thin air, or do you want to sleep with the door open? You know, you don't let anyone enter your room casually when you are ten years old."
Damian ignored him.
"Go take a shower, Damian, you're going bad, no wonder Harry doesn't want to hug you." Dick patted him.
"That's right, she didn't want to be near me just for that reason..." Damian said sarcastically.
"I just chatted with Tim about her amnesia... The reason is that her head trauma is not fully recovered, and the Dionysian factor is not enough."
Dick looked at Damian who was clearly listening intently, "Tim also said that according to Halle himself, Zach never touched her, literally 'untouched'. Walking down the street today, It was Zac who held her hand for the first time. So... your clone is still a principled person."
"Tim actually asked her this?" Damian shouted annoyedly, "They are so perverted!" He pulled his hair again, "I said it, I don't mind..."
"Not for you, Damian, Harry is underage after all..."
Damian didn't contradict Dick again.
He closed his eyes and sighed deeply, as if all the strength in his body was taken away in an instant——
"I don't know what to do, Dick," Damian whispered.
Dick frowned and looked at him, "Where did your self-confidence go when you were not afraid of anything, even Superman?"
"Harry's back home, intact - in general. So what if she never regains her memory, chase her again," Dick suggested with a grin.
"I don't know..." Damian sat down at the foot of the bed, bowed his head, and rested his elbows on his knees.
"I don't know how to chase her. We have never had a date in the traditional sense. We are getting closer and understand each other... This is much more difficult than your dating with a gun!"
Thinking about it now, he couldn't understand how Harry agreed to be with him in the first place.This experience cannot be replicated at all!
"What's 'our hookup date'?" Dick said angrily, "You're slander!"
"How hard can it be to chase Harley, Damian?" he went on. "Even if it's hard, it's hard for you, Boy Wonder. You're the most powerful Robin you can make yourself out to be."
Then, Dick winked at Damian, "Or, are you afraid? Aww~ afraid of being rejected by a little girl?"
The aggressive method has always been used accurately on this kid Damian.
"Shut up!" Damian jumped up, trying to shake Dick away, "Get out, I need a shower."
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Bruce and Alfred were still arguing in the study about whether to tell Harley everything she had been through up to the age of sixteen.
Jason is splitting because he decides that both sides have a point.But before the debate was fruitful, Artemis called him away because of an emergency.
Bruce and Alfred didn't notice that Harley had walked into the study room because they were too involved.
"Don't tell me what?" She stopped the two adults who were arguing with each other with just one sentence that was so angry.
"Harry insisted on seeing you." Tim held up the drip bottle helplessly, with an expression of "I really tried my best, don't trouble me".
"It's...about whether I can know what I've forgotten." Harry said firmly.
"Have you ever asked my opinion? I have no say in this topic?" she asked quietly.
Bruce walked over quickly, bowed his head, held Harry's shoulders, and guided her to sit on the sofa to rest.
"Do you want to know?" He asked softly, "Before you answer, I must say that not all memories are good...Maybe, this is your chance to start over."
Harry swallowed, clenched his fists—
"I forgot where I read, 'Beauty, youth, wealth, not even love itself, can save God's favor from anxiety and pain, from sorrow, from loss of what he loves most For, in life, some rains are bound to fall, and some days are bound to be dark and sad and desolate.'”
"'Little Women'," Ah Fu added softly, "you read this book in this study after you came to Gotham when you were 8 years old."
So she started thinking about things after 8 years old?Even if it's just a fragment...
"I want to know my experience in the past 16 years," Harry looked up with serious eyes, "I don't want to be deceived, please tell me, please."
Bruce looked at Fu, who nodded slightly at him.
Bruce sighed and sat next to Harry. "This is a very complicated story, even with magical elements, are you sure you are ready?"
Harry nodded.
Before starting, Bruce said to Afu: "After that, we need to ask Professor Snape to come over. And Sirius, if we can contact Zatanna and the others."
In case Harley didn't believe the magic part; and, they needed to check whether Harry's magical abilities were lost along with the memory.
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As soon as he took a shower in the afternoon and made sure he didn't look messed up again, Damian collapsed on the bed, completely unaware that he was going to fall into a deep sleep immediately, and even fell asleep the night watchman.
But he didn't sleep well, and when he woke up the next morning, he actually felt more tired after sleeping than not sleeping.
The moment he opened his eyes, Damian ushered in the habitual panic of two weeks—Harry hadn't been found yet!And he was wasting time sleeping.
Wait... Yesterday, I found it...
But this joy was fleeting, followed by a long and intense depression that lingered.
He lay weakly on the bed, burying a deep sigh in the bedding.
Shuffling and listlessly, he reluctantly walked into the kitchen—he would definitely be accused by Ah Fu again if he didn't eat breakfast.
However, sitting at the dining table was a familiar figure that he absolutely did not expect, which shocked him——
Let him struggle between the two extreme emotions of "run away immediately" and "stay anyway".
Harry seemed to sense something, turned his head, and looked at him with warm green eyes.
Maybe it was the look that gave Damian his strength again.
"Uh, hi..." He pursed his lips, and the posture of waving his hand in greeting felt distorted.
Damian hesitated, and under Harry's quiet gaze, he sat opposite the small dining table, and suddenly he didn't know where to put his hands.
"Hi." Harry answered his greeting softly.
Damian swallowed, his palms sweating—
"About yesterday, I'm sorry..."
Harry cut him off—
"It's okay, I was just...not familiar with the situation yesterday. I'm not afraid of you—not now, nor will I be afraid in the future." She gave him a warm smile.
Then, she paused, and the second sentence directly stunned Damian——
"They said, you're my boyfriend and Zach is your clone."
"...Did you tell her?!" Damian gritted his teeth and asked Ah Fu who was busy by the stove. Ah Fu looked relaxed and ignored him completely.
If Harley knew everything... how could he chase after him again!
"I asked, I asked them to tell me everything about me, and I'm glad they did." Harry quickly added, "After I listened to you last night, I wanted to find you, but they said you were asleep .”
"..." Damian was speechless and really didn't know what to say.
Seeing that her "boyfriend" who was still unfamiliar to her did not speak, Harley felt a little at a loss. She unconsciously twirled her milk glass.
"Until I saw those newspapers with moving pictures, I didn't believe what they said about me being a witch." She smiled awkwardly, looking for something to say.
"It turns out that my life is so wonderful," she said to herself, not understanding why she talked so much. "I don't have the habit of keeping a diary... It's a pity that I have forgotten all these experiences."
"I'm sorry," she looked up from the glass of milk in her hand, quietly looking at Damian opposite, "I forgot about you..."
Damian has maintained an elusive "cold" from beginning to end.
This made Harry's heart flutter, wondering if he was talking too much.
"I read our correspondence when we were kids, before we started using the two-way mirror," she smiled at the milk mug, "I keep all those letters, they are cute, we are cute," she bit the corner of her lip, " I think I must have liked you very much before."
"I thought, maybe that's why I believed Zach so easily, you look exactly alike," she finally whispered.
Harry didn't know that under Damian's calm and cold appearance, there were boiling emotions.
His Halle had never been a tweaker.Even if she lost her memory.
He should have more confidence in her.
As a result, it was the injured Harley who took the first step out of the two.
She is always so beautiful...
God, he really is the world's worst boyfriend! .
Harry's distant voice came over, pulling him out of his complicated thoughts——
"But now I may have forgotten all these feelings." She looked directly at him, her eyes full of apology.
How much he wished to replace these apologies with the love he had been close to.
Damian finally recovered the voice that was lost in the Mariana Trench, "...I will give you space, as long as it takes, you don't have to be stressed."
Harry gave him a genuine smile.
Damian felt that his world, which had been dark for a long time, finally shone with a ray of light.
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For Zach's personal safety, Bruce arranged his trip to the watchtower within a few days.
Before leaving, Zach proposed to say goodbye to Harry, Bruce thought about it, and agreed.
Damian was pleased to see that there was also an awkwardness between Halle and Zack.
There was no hug, the two just shook hands, friendly and distant.
Out of nowhere, Zach wanted to talk to Damian alone.
Damian frowned, then shrugged, and led Zac to a corner.
"Say." He crossed his arms and spoke coldly.
"I heard that Harley only remembers things from around the age of 9, and there has been no progress for a few days?" Zach asked.
"We gave up on intervening," Damian replied dryly, "she's happy now."
Even knowing that I have had some misfortunes—including losing my parents and dying once.But after all, there is no personal experience. Under the love of her family, Halle quickly recovered her carefree, optimistic and sunny nature.
Everyone could see that she was more relaxed than before she lost her memory-this lightness soaked in her every move and every smile.
Zach nodded and murmured, "So we're on the same starting line now."
"What starting line?" Damian frowned, suddenly having a bad premonition.
"Follow her starting line."
Zach's calm expression...why does it become more and more provocative the more he looks at it? !
Will I look so embarrassed? !
"You have no shame in being a clone," Damian hissed. "She's mine."
"She used to be yours." Zach changed Damian's sentence into the past tense, "now everything is back to zero."
Shit... Damian gritted his teeth and thought, there are too many people in the main hall now, if Zac is beaten, he will definitely be pulled away.
"...How old are you? I mean the age when you were actually born." He narrowed his eyes.
Zach tilted his head and thought about it, and said without shame, "It's almost three years old."
So brazen, Damian showed Alfred's coolness - ie ignoring him!
"Hum -- walk slowly and don't see you off." He left a word and walked away without looking back.
This kid is going to space anyway, how much trouble can he cause?
—He really shouldn't have lowered his guard...
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A week later.
Harry was studying magic day and night at Snape's urging.
She had indeed forgotten all her magic skills, and Snape had no choice but to rush to the United States to give her extra lessons.
Sirius finally got in touch, and he ran back to Gotham overnight without even having time to change his clothes that had been burned with holes in some kind of magical flame.
Now, while arguing with Snape, he joined the ranks of make-up lessons.
Damian felt sorry for Harry a little, and told the two that even if Harry didn't learn magic, so what?
But they were yelled at by two wizards who suddenly unanimously said, one said how could Lily's daughter fail to graduate, and the other said how could James' daughter be a magic idiot? !Can't even ride a broom? !
They were crazy, Damian was sure, and planned to fight them both for Harry's freedom.
But Harry said kindly that he would like to learn magic.Damian's enthusiasm for fighting was extinguished in this way.
However, Damian has more thorny issues to worry about...
"Look at Zach's actions in just a week?" Tim kept whispering in his ear, which annoyed Damian.
"Meteorite fragments, please pass over the photos from the universe from Firestorm... It seems that Zac is serious when he said that he wants to chase Harry. This is really a tragedy, and Tim can't bear to look directly at it." Damian, you It's not good... take action! "
Damian was grinding his back molars. That guy, Huostorm, had always been at odds with him...he must have been intentionally embarrassing him!
The old doctor who constitutes the other half of the energy of the fire storm doesn't care!
"That meteorite fragment has radiation!" Damian slammed the keyboard of the bat computer hard, and took the return key to vent his anger, "He's no better than me!"
"He's so shameless!" Damian said angrily.
"Zach has always been a good plea." Tim shrugged.
"We both have the exact same face!" Damian said irritably. "The genetic material is the same! Of course I can't do what he's already done! Gifts? That's too vulgar!"
"Of course I can't go to my father and tell him to take care of that Zack, it will make me appear too incompetent!"
Tim rubbed his forehead, remembering Damian and Halle's brief trip a few days ago.
"Then do you think it's a suitable date to take Harry to the Titan Tower to visit you and defeat all the Titan members alone?"
Damian pouted.A trip to the Tower of Titans would allow Harley to see how tall and powerful he was, a reliable match to keep her safe, even if the opponent was a team of superhumans - which was not appropriate.
Tim would be crazy if he knew Damian was using animal courtship logic.
"Think about the difference between you and him." Tim couldn't stand it anymore, and decided to mention Damian a little bit, "You're a Wayne, he's not."
Damian thought for a while, "Are you suggesting that I buy Harry a lot of jewelry?" He snapped his fingers, "A car?"
Tim looked up at the sky - now of course all he could see were bats lounging on the roof of the cave - why am I still here, the kid is totally hopeless.
"...The general direction is correct and the spirit is commendable, but Harley is not Serena. So, it's not jewelry," Tim said weakly, "it's not even a car."
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With the start of the school year approaching, it is impossible for Halle to reach the 6th grade so quickly in making up lessons, and her current state is not suitable for the collective life of the school.Therefore, after discussing with Dumbledore who was far away in England, Snape and Black decided to keep Harry in the United States, and Black continued to make up lessons.
He naturally gave up all activities of the Dark Justice League.
Damian came back from his night patrol and suddenly noticed... a small figure sitting curled up on the roof of the mansion under the moonlight.
He took off his bat hood to make sure he didn't look so intimidating before he climbed up to the roof and sat next to Harry.
The two sat side by side, with an arm's length between them.
"Looks like you've finally discovered one of my favorite childhood spots." Damian said softly.
"Haven't I sat here before?" Harry turned her head, and the moonlight set off her eyes with a faint watery light.
"No..." Damian murmured.
Harry looked up at the moon for another moment, but Damian didn't speak.
"I saw... well, the record of your cooperation with Mieko, a few days ago." Hari broke the silence first.
"You knew her a long time ago?" she asked softly.
Damian doesn't have any interest in the topic.He felt that there was something in Harry's words, and he didn't want to say it.
"Before you came here," he said dryly, "she was a few years older than me."
Harry nodded, and there was another moment of silence.
"Damian," she swallowed, "about Mieko, you might... give me up and try with someone else. I don't know if I can still..."
Damian clenched his fist, took a deep breath, and interrupted her—
"Don't say anything that you will regret in the future."
Harry stopped talking because of his determined attitude.
"If I say, I miss Zach a little bit, you will be angry," Harry continued to challenge his nerves...
"Already angry." Damian said coldly.
Damn fledgling complex...
Then he sighed, "Of course I will be angry, I can't control it," he said bitterly, "What I can control is not to interfere in your life, of course you can go to him. I don't own you."
But he is not reconciled!
"I... We have been together since you were 14 years old." He has never been so wronged before!He is genuine!Zack that guy is a fake!
Harry froze for a moment, Damian's pain sounded too real.
"I...well, I didn't want him, as you said," she said. "I know now that he didn't mean to hurt me, but...he lied to me after all. I hate being lied to."
Damian looked at the moon too, and after a long while, he felt some... some dangerous urge, a desperate urge.
"Do you want to get out of here?" he said. "Leave all this trouble and just be yourself."
"Forget about making up lessons and let Professor Black and Snape do it."
"Where are you going?" Harry asked with wide eyes.
"where do you want to go."
"Where can you... take me?"
"Anywhere, even space."
"I want to get out of here," her voice trembled slightly, "take me away."
She didn't want to see everyone's sympathetic eyes and cautiousness anymore.
He understood what Tim was saying, which was "something Wayne can do that Zach can't."
Like...elope!
"Shall I pack my bags?" Harry asked excitedly.
Regardless, Damian took off the Batman uniform on the roof, leaving only the black vest and trousers on his body, and took her hand, "I have a credit card and a bank account, and we don't need to bring luggage."
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*I think this kind of takemeaway is very romantic_(:з」∠)_