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    "You!” Damian scoffs in outrage, shaking his head, “You're the man engaged to my father.”

    Hal stops mixing the hot chocolate powder into the warm milk, turning around slowly to face the boy. He's so confused, he can only try to decode one part of that sentence at a time, “Your father? Like, your father, Batman? That one?”

    Wrong point to focus on it seems, since Damian's scowl deepens to an impossible degree, “Are you seeing multiple other men that you need me to clarify?!”

    “No! I'm not seeing any men!” Hal tries to reason, before realising that he's having the strangest conversation with Robin, of all people.

    (Due to some misunderstandings, Hal is now engaged to Batman and a stepfather of five, allegedly.)

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    28 Feb 2026

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    "How old are you anyway?"

    Bruce smirks a little, “Pretty old.”

    “How old am I?” Dick rephrases the question. Realistically, given the lines on Bruce's face and the grey in his hair, he has to be more than a decade or two in the future. But, well, Dick's still reeling from being twelve. He can't begin to imagine a world where there's anything past tomorrow.

    Bruce's smirk sinks a little, but not quite to a frown. It's a distant smile, fighting through the shadows of whatever it is Bruce sees when he looks down at him. In a quiet, mournful tone, he says, “Not that old. Not old at all.”

    (A young Robin and Nightwing swap places; Batman is always the constant.)

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    28 Feb 2026

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    Bruce realises it then with a sudden startle, all the anger and frustration that had been building up over the last couple days freezing under his skin, blood cold.

    "You're trying to make me angry…" Bruce carefully says out loud, all the pieces of the puzzle finally coming together, watching the way Jason's shoulders tense at the shift in tone from angry to a calculative calmness, "On purpose?"

    Jason's previous expression, one filled with twisted amusement at Bruce's apparent annoyance is immediately replaced with something tragic. His blue eyes grow wide and fearful, and Bruce watches in delayed understanding as the boy takes a fearful step back.

    (Jason's change in behavior is cause for concern. Fortunately, Bruce is a pretty good detective — most of the time.)

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    28 Feb 2026

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    "I kill so others don't have to," Bruce states firmly and clearly. This entire situation didn't seem like it could get any more bizarre, what with Bruce sitting in the dark and polishing guns, but somehow it just has, "While you are here you will not kill."

    Jason's throat is scratchy and dry with terror, but the insatiable feeling of being talked over and disregarded is a fresh wound. He can't back down from this if he tried, "I've killed. I still kill. Who the fuck do you think you are to stop me?"

    Bruce gently sets down his gun, and picks up the blade beside him with practised ease. Jason's blood runs cold when the man wearing his father's face says, "You will die by my hand if you try."

    (Jason meets a version of Bruce who has manifested his fears very differently.)

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    28 Feb 2026

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    Following a couple of Very Bad Weeks™ (which may or may not have involved being kidnapped and mildly tortured), Jason decides the best way to cheer himself up is to break into the Manor for a 3 a.m. snack.

    Turns out he isn’t the only one awake.

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    25 Feb 2026