Chapter 40: The Cat and the Bat (I)
As Bruce lay in the hospital bed, Harvey raised his upper body a bit and poured him a glass of water.
Bruce said with some distress, "She's cloudy, moody, and really like a cat." I can't figure her out, now I'm just worried that her irritability will hurt others, after all, I have the best medical resources in all of Gotham, but others don't. ”
"You should be glad you didn't have a ruptured kidney, the dagger was very short, and it only left a very shallow scratch on your organs, otherwise you would have only one kidney left now."
Harvey put down the kettle and said, "When I was in school, I had a girl I liked, and I was crazy about her. I pursued her passionately, and one day, while we were on a date, she deliberately threw the bottle away in order to tease a cleaner. ”
"I thought, how could she do that? She's so bad and doesn't deserve my liking. But then I thought about it, it was my love for her that molded her into a perfect person in my mind. In fact, she has always been so bad-tempered, likes to mock others, looks down on anyone in the service industry, she has never changed herself, but I have infinite expectations for her because of my strong love. ”
"I broke up with her, she felt inexplicable, I didn't know at the time, I did look like a psychopath, first desperately crazy to pursue her, confess to her, but suddenly and neatly proposed to break up, which is a humiliation in anyone's eyes, so she was very angry."
"Thinking about it later, this is also normal."
Bruce felt a little ashamed to say it, but he still said, "That girl's problem is much more serious than your ex-girlfriend's, and it could hurt someone else, physically." ”
"The problem is not here, the problem is that when you know her and fall in love with her, don't you know this problem?"
Bruce thought, doesn't he know? He knew it all too well, and he even knew Catwoman on her way to commit a crime.
He couldn't help but wonder a little ridiculously, how could he possibly fall in love with a criminal? Or at the scene of her crime?
After Harvey left, Bruce fell asleep due to sleepiness.
In the dream, the brilliant lights of the jewelry store shone on the pearl necklace scattered on the ground, and suddenly all the lights went out, as if everything was back in that dark alley, and only the pearl necklace shone faintly.
Batman has never been a fan of jewelry, and especially hates things that shimmer, like a real bat.
But his mind was full of the girl with the shiny jewel and the sly smile.
In the haze, the luster of pearls in his memory suddenly became less odious. And at the end of the dream, it is still a group of bats with shadows streaked across the sky.
The next day, when Schiller met Bruce in the counseling room, he was quite surprised. He looked Bruce up and down and said, "Your injuries are healed?" Able to walk so quickly?
"It's actually still a little painful, but it's okay anymore, my internal organs aren't badly injured and they're almost healed now."
Schiller said, "Then it seems that you don't have to waste my cup of coffee." With that, he just poured himself a cup of hot coffee, and Bruce was a little speechless, and he said, "Bring me a glass of water." ”
After the two sat down, Bruce said, "Harvey doesn't know my true identity yet, so I think it's better not to tell him yet, but I'm very distressed right now, the female thief who gave me a knife appears in my dreams every day." ”
"I'm even a little resistant to putting on a batsuit now, and I don't even know what to say to her when I meet her."
Schiller never dreamed that the first psychological counseling problem that Batman opened up to him would be Bruce's teenage love troubles.
As we all know, in the comics, Batman and Catwoman are true love, and the screenwriters use a lot of pen and ink to describe the love story of the two people, indeed, a dark knight with a blood feud, and a cunning and beautiful criminal, even if all this is set in the dark Gotham City, there will still be a large number of readers to buy it.
Schiller said: "It looks like Harvey should have enlightened you, but it doesn't seem to work?" ”
"Harvey has a point, I knew she was a thief before I fell in love with her, and I even met her when he stole the jewelry store, I don't know how I could have fallen in love with a criminal, it's ridiculous......"
Schiller said, "What do you think caused you to become Batman? ”
Bruce pondered for a moment and said, "A lot of things. ”
"And what do you think caused her to become a thief?"
Bruce was silent.
"So, you're sulking here without knowing anything about a woman's past or family."
"Are you sure you really like him? Instead of just looking for a romantic one-night stand? ”
"I haven't even slept with her yet." Bruce said.
"Do you want me to applaud your innocence?" Schiller said, and then his eyes fell on Bruce's waist, and he said, "She stabbed you in the kidney before you even went to bed, and I'm a little worried about your life right now." ”
"You think I should talk to him?" Bruce said.
Schiller sighed and said, "What you like is that thief, do you want to talk to me if you don't talk to her?" Whoever you like, go and fall in love with whomever you like, you know? ”
Schiller said a little helplessly: "Otherwise, what do you think is about falling in love?" The two of them have been scurrying around on the rooftops of Gotham for days, and they still don't know who each other's parents are, you don't sleep with her, you don't fall in love with her, you don't know, if it were me, I would also give you a knife. ”
Bruce paused and said, "Okay, I'll talk to her." ”
The next day, Batman catches Catwoman in an exhibit hall again, and although he doesn't know about Catwoman's past and family, he does have a good grasp of her habits.
When Catwoman saw him, she cursed and immediately wanted to run away.
But she didn't run away, Batman grabbed her cloak again, and Catwoman scolded, took a deep breath, turned her head and said, "Let go of me!" You weirdo! Don't let me use the knife! ”
Batman said, "Let's talk." ”
"What do I have to talk to you about? Don't get in the way of me doing things! ”
Ten minutes later, the two came to the roof of the exhibition hall, and Catwoman waved her hand helplessly and said, "Okay, okay, my little boy, what are you going to talk about?" Tell me the truth? I'm about to memorize all your truths. ”
"No, I just wanted to hear your story." Batman said.
Catwoman was a little surprised, she was silent for a moment, glanced at the pair of pointed ears on the top of Batman's head, and said, "For your aesthetic in terms of dress, okay." ”
“…… I'm from the slums of the East, you know, the biggest and most chaotic. My mother was an alcoholic, and my father was a drug addict, but I was lucky not to be addicted. I grew up with an old bustard, she was a retired acrobat, she taught me a lot, of course she didn't have a good temper, I got a lot of beatings, but fortunately I learned the real thing. ”
"I ran out when she wanted to sell me to a stinking middle-aged man, and I was 12 years old."
"Then there was a nosy orphanage that insisted on me going to live there, and I said okay, then I'll go. Later, someone there tried to adopt me, but then I offended the caretaker there, and he wanted to abuse me, so I stole his diamond necklace and ran away. ”
"I met a thief leader, we all called her Lucky Mommy, she specialized in raising little girls like us, to steal for her, I practiced acrobatics, and I was also good, and I was her favorite child."
"But it didn't last long, and the diamond necklace I had been hiding on my body was found by her, you know, it was worth a lot of money, enough for her to retire, and she asked me to hand it over, but I didn't want to do that, so I ran out again."
"Then I met a sister named Maggie, and she was very nice to me, but her boyfriend always beat her and tried to kill her. I killed the man and was wanted just as he was about to do it. I didn't want to bother my sisters, so I kept wandering, but sometimes I made money and sent it back. ”
"That's it, a very ordinary story, not very exciting, I don't think it should be as wonderful as your life experience, right? Big heroes. ”
Batman seemed a little silent, saying, "Not exciting enough? Isn't that exciting enough? ”
Catwoman shook her head, and she said, "Oh, I forgot, you are a young master who grew up in a rich area, and the people there should all go to school according to the class, right?" ”
"Not in our place, there weren't a student or two in the block, and my mother loved me a lot, but she was a bit of an alcohol controll, and she spent a lot more time with her cats than with me."
"My parents didn't have much to do with my education, and so did my neighbors, and one of my parents was sane enough to be fine, at least not to starve. I've also heard of cases where both parents get drunk, and as a result, the child climbs onto the stove and burns to death. ”
"Of course, people like us have a similar upbringing, and if you're lucky, like me, learning a trade, the best way out is to work for the gangsters, and if you can become a casino dealer, it's a decent job. Maggie's boyfriend is a casino thug, and he's so popular that several barmaids stick to him. ”
"Actually, my lucky mother is also good to me, she is sometimes like a real mother, whenever I steal a lot of jewelry for her, she will praise me and even give me candy. Of course, she scolds the kids who can't steal anything, but in my opinion, they're just young, and it's almost the same if they practice hard for a few years. ”
Catwoman said intermittently in a relaxed and lively tone, and this kind of life was described by her quite interestingly.
For example, when she practiced acrobatics, she fell off the eaves for the first time and hit a man, and the hapless drunkard just got a dozen dollars from someone else, and it fell into the hands of Catwoman, who took the money to buy food for her mother's cat, and got a kiss from her mother.
Batman didn't speak, he listened quietly, Catwoman stopped talking, she looked at Batman and said, "Okay, okay, I know this story has disappointed you, I don't have a rich and wonderful college life, and I don't know what your job search goals are, we are completely people from two worlds, you rich people should not be interested in this kind of slum life, right?" After all, it sounds dirty and messy. ”
Batman's voice was a little deep, "No, it's the best story I've ever heard." ”
Catwoman raised an eyebrow and said, "You have such a sweet mouth, I'm a little embarrassed to compliment me, but I'm actually very happy, because no one wants to listen to me talk about these things." Maggie is not in good health and can't go out. When the two of us were talking, she preferred to listen to the stories of me walking through the rich districts, and listen to me tell her about the rich ladies, the dresses and necklaces they wore. ”
Batman asked, "Are you that fond of jewelry?" ”
"I knew you were going to ask that." Catwoman said with a wink.
"At first, I didn't want to be beaten just because the jewels were a little better for my lucky mother."
"But then when Lucky Mom asked me for the diamond necklace, I realized that I actually liked the sheen of them, not how much they could sell for, and the thought of Lucky Mom going to sell them for money made me heartbroken."
"That glamorous glow, especially in the light of the lights, that's the most beautiful thing in the world! My lifelong dream is to have a huge castle filled with all these beautiful gems......" Catwoman's tone grew more and more brisk, as if she were about to bubble up with happiness.