As far as I'm concerned, Bruce will lie through his teeth. "I have a plan. The Justice League is already on its way. I need you to join them." He gazes tenderly at his child and says, "it’ll be all right," in a final hug. Because Bruce is the greatest self-sacrificer ass they know.
Likely referencing this post
I cannot imagine being in Bruce's position, in the hypothetical where it's either him or someone else — someone he loves, for that matter; someone he grew with and grew for, the family he crawled out of that alleyway to find
And he has to not let his voice shake when he tells them that "Everything will be okay" and keep his hands steady enough to actually follow through with getting them to safety while bracing for the cost to hit him
I just know that Bruce would think about that night, the way Thomas tried screaming through a bleeding throat for help, dragging himself through scum and garbage for someone, anyone, to help him stop bleeding in front of his little boy...
...his sweet son, who is being cradled by his Martha, shushing their sweet child as red bled through her dress, holding him and asking him to be brave, to be good, to be okay for both of them if heaven forbid the worst does come to happen.
And now Bruce has to do it for his own terrified children, subjecting them to the same bitter lies as the worst began to happen.
He has to hold them the way his mother did that night and tell them things that aren't true. He has to break through bedrock for meager hope like his father had done for him because he was the only one that could realistically survive that alleyway.
And now, Bruce can understand why they had used their dying breaths to lie and to struggle — because he too now has to make sure that the last memory his children would have of him is him doing the most and best he could for them, in death as he had in life
It's also interesting you bring up Bruce hugging them
I just know that if he did it for Dick, the lie wouldn't work. Dick would know
Because they have been here before; with every new link to their story, with every funeral and every massacre. Bruce would find a way to hold Dick like it was for the last time because it might as well be, and it is
Bruce knows that sacrifice isn't an act of love, not like this, god, not like this
But he understood comfort, he understood gentleness. He'd end their story as it started:
with a parent telling their child to be brave,
to be okay for both of them
because one of them had to be
for any of this to mean anything, one of them will have to end up okay
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