Bruce wayne, who knew as a young boy that he looked at other boys differently
Bruce wayne, who as a teen shamefully snuck looks at others boys in the locker rooms
Bruce wayne, who when he was in his early twenties and training decided he was just broken and made himself not think like that
Bruce wayne, who's always blamed his perpetual bachelorism on the batman, ceo, father of many stuff
Bruce wayne, who in his early thirties feels so drawn to this meta human, but makes it paranoia because thats a safer feeling
Bruce wayne, who desperately tries to cling on to what ever him and Selina have going on because its the closest thing hes ever had to getting it "right"
Bruce wayne, who accepts his kids different sexualities without a second thought
Bruce wayne, who secretly and shamefully feels jealousy towards his kids every once in a while and hates himself for it
Bruce wayne, who in his forties is kissed by his best friend, overwhelming bruce to the point of tears
Bruce wayne, who sits in Clark's lap for over an hour trying to calm himself down
Bruce wayne, who oh so quietly tells Clark hes never told anyone he likes other men or let himself do anything with them
Bruce wayne, who shyly goes in for a second kiss, this time the tears are of joy
It was a rare calm evening when it first happened. Bruce was reading a book hed been wanting to catch up on in the lounge, relaxing by the fireplace. The eye before the storm.
A soft creak alerts bruce to someone entering the room, but he knows its only alfred after living his entire life with the man. The elder walks to him and bows slightly to put some tea on the small table beside bruce when-
"Your tea, Master Thomas."
Bruce's head immediately snaps to the other, brows furrowed in confusion. Alfred looks unfazed, like nothing was amiss.
"Alfred... im not Thomas, im Bruce." He prods, feeling a sense of unease build in his stomach. His father figure blinks rapidly a few times before straightening his jacket.
"Yes of course, my appologies." He speaks, voice deceptively calm. He then talks to Bruce about some house work needing to be done around the house, never acknowledging what happened. Bruce follows the conversation but is tracking the way the other moves, how he speaks, for any other discrepancys.
Eventually, alfred bids him a good night and goes to leave but stops at the door.
"Oh and Master Thomas?" Alfred says casually.
No.
"..Yes Alfred?"
"Would you please ensure Little Bruce is actually asleep when you retire for the night? We dont need him up late looking at the stars again." Alfred commented.
Bruce simply nodded, not having any words.
Bruce doesnt sleep that night. Sitting numbly on the chair as the fire died hours ago, frozen with the knowledge he now has. He knows hes going to have to talk to the kids. Figure out if this is what he thinks it is. But for now, he just sits.
Clark and bruce finnallyy get together after 15+ years of chronic yearning.
Its beautiful and everyone was happy.
It only takes a few weeks before everything goes sideways.
Bruce starts to feel a bit sick. A little nauseous, and kinda bloated but whatever. Then he starts getting these really weird cravings. Then he starts putting on more weight and feeling more sick. But what. Ever.
For some reason, clark and bruce goes to the fortress, and bruce is only not in a bad mood because he gets to snoop in the Kryptonian data. But the second they actually get inside, alarms start going off.
The robots rush towards them and usher bruce onto an exam table, making both men baffled. They do all sorts of tests and screenings and whatnot for about 20 minutes before Gary looks at the couple.
"Great news! Superman, your mate is with child. Congratulations."
What.
Clark is having an immediate existential crisis. What do they mean? How is this possible? Why did no one tell him this? He is very busy trying to get as much information to make sure bruce will be ok and diffrent steps they can take.
But bruce isnt listening to a damn thing they are saying.
He knows he should but.. he has a baby. He is creating life. Inside of him! Bruce has always had a sort of.. longing for that. An envy to women for having such a beautiful ability. Then he feels guilty, because its so much more nuanced than that, and its not always beautiful.
But now, he has the chance.
And nothing is going to keep him from having this baby.
Biology be damned.
One of the robots trys to show clark something and goes to touch bruces stomach. That robot no longer has that arm. The speed at which bruce ripped it off even shocked clark, not knowing his lover was capable of such speed (and falling more in love with him for it). But bruce was now curled away from his audience, protecting his belly baby. The message was clear, he isnt taking any chances.
If they league thought he was anti touching before, they are in for a reckoning.
When the couple finally get home, bruce is on cloud 9. He is genuinely beaming, scrolling on his phone to order all new baby things.
Clark is still freaked out but will be fine.
Alfred is actually quite pleased, since bruce is very willing to take a break from batman for this.
The kids are understandably freaked the fuck out, and try to make a thousand contingencies plans before they see bruce.
Hes glowing. So happy and soft.
All their father wants to do is share this moment with all of his babies and family. So they are quick to accept it. (Cassie is the one most visibly excited, but jason is also very happy (they all are but most are still reeling))
(Clark has to have a very long conversation with his poor parents trying to explain to them the news. They're just excited for another grandbaby)
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Bruce deserves to have a baby, and i like the trope of clark accidentally knocking him up.
Bruce describing how his friendship with Harvey used to be to the kids. Talking about their deep connection, how much they cared for each other, how bruce wanted to be by his side until he died.
The kids asking if he was in love with Harvey because people (men) dont talk about their best friends like that.
Bruce being like wdym :) thats how I think about clark :)
Bruce wayne who is an old grumpy middle aged man with 16 kids and 0 patience who meets a sweet farm boy Clark Kent with a heart of gold and couldnt hurt a fly.
Tale as old as time.
Except Clark is a very devoted Dom and when he finally gets this edgelord into his bed, he fucks him so hard that bruce goes into subspace for the first time and it takes him days to recover.
And he keeps crawling back to this sickly sweet man because no one else can make bruce lose his mind like that.
(It only gets worse when they learn eachothers identities)
I wanna write a fic of bruce having an unhealthy attachment to jasons old stuff bear after he died and when Jay came back he took it. Bruce freaked the fuck out and maybe dick knows Jay is alive so mentions it to jay. Then he puts the bear back in bruces room but with a camera and bruce had a habit of talking to the bear as if it was jason. Mmmmm angst maybe like superbat too, they were married but separated after Jay? Hgmmmm
OK i dont know how this would happen, ima just word vomiting but something like this:
Bruce has lowkey been exiled from the family for like 2 years. Occasionally they'd respond to a text and maybe hed see one at a gala, but outside of that? Nothing. Most importantly they haven't seen him, really seen him, in two years. He also got forcibly retired as the batman at the same time.
Maybe Bruce did something, thinking it was the right thing but going about it horribly. Maybe someone new came into the picture and was able to manipulate the family and Justice league into turning against bruce.
(Tbh i think that one could be more interesting since I've always thought there was a double standard with bruce. The league is always so upset at his contingencies even though hes dealing with their mind control bullshit every other week and the kids can't really separate the bat and dad. They can take his decisions as personal slights (not all the time) when hes really trying to be a good leader or a good dad. It also kind of reminds me of the stigma with black cats and bad luck)
But with either, jason was not involved. He was still not on good terms so he was out of the loop and didn't care.
Now its been two years and bruce is.. doing bad. Like really bad. He's been struggling with a drug addiction for a year now, and hes slipping further and further down that path. He doesnt want to, but he needs to feel something. Anything. He doesnt care at this point.
He rarely leaves the penthouse hes confined himself too unless its for an official event. he eats, works out, does cocaine (cuz rich people drug), and sleeps. He doesnt feel alive any more. He doesn't care anymore.
Cue jason, maybe he was bored and hadn't fucked with the old man in forever, maybe he needed information on an old case. Whatever the reason, he goes to find the man by himself. And to say he was shocked was an understatement. He's completly frozen, seeing the penthouse absolutely destroyed. Not gross, like theres food but theres holes in the walls, bookshelves broken on the floor, shattered glass. Its a visual of a broken mind.
He find the man in the tub, eyes hazy and trembling. Obviously high out of his mind. And jason? He makes his decision right then.
He picks the man up, gets him in fresh(est he can find) clothes and then hauls him out of the building. He's essentially kidnapping the man but bruce is too drugged out to even notice.
Bruce is going to get clean, if its the last thing Jason does.
The next few weeks are horrific, once the drug are out of his system enough to be coherent, bruce is mortified. He never want to have his kids find him like that, especially jason and his prior trama. So when hes conscious, jason tells him that If he loves Jay, he will get clean. And who is Bruce to tell him no, even if its the most agonizing thing hes ever done. Cold turkey is no joke.
Eventually, with a lot of patience and determination, bruce is out of active addiction and is 2 months sober. The older man is starting to wonder when Jason's going to get sick of him at his apartment but he's not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. He starts cleaning and cooking, doing fatherly things (at least he thinks it is, stitching up ur kid is normal right?)
They've got a good thing going on now, and after 6 months the relationship really flourishes. They can open up to each other and Bruce has even started to help the red hood on the side lines. Picking up an almost oracle role for the man, and patching him up. He doesnt go out as the bat or any vigilante, he... doesn't really want to. Bruce is happy just living with his son and being a dad (though his ache for his other kids is ever present). And when jason starts to finally bring roy and lian around, once he trusts his father? Oh Brucs spoils the hell out of that little girl, she has him wrapped around her little finger.
After a year, Bruce, Jason, Roy, and Lian move in together to a brownstone he had brought many years ago. The younger men have been wanting to move in together for a while now, and with bruce they could really do it.
For bruce, its perfect. He's got his boy and son in law, and his beautiful granddaughter. And of course, the other shoe drops.
Depending on what you want the cause to be it could be different. But I think it be interesting to have Jason invite the other kids to a house warming party, and properly introduce them to his family. Now I think Jason, being the little shit he is, would 'forget' to inform them of his other house hold member. Bruce would know, in fear of causing some kind of relapse and so he can mentally prepare to face his kids for the first time in 3 years.
Bruce and lian are in the kitchen, working away. The man has been stress cooking for two days, so there is quite the feast. And the rest of the kids start making there way in at the same time, thankfully the kitchen is out of sight.
Jason makes some polite small talk, just waiting for the chance to drop the bomb. Eventually Dick asks where the little squirt is, and with the most innocent smile he can muster, he tells his older brother 'oh! She's with her gramps, the two are practically conjoined'.
Everyone seems a little confused, and Tim asks Roy is they mean Oliver. Roy's face of disgust is quick sort that question out but then who is it? Jason, with now the most evil smile hes ever had stares each one of them in the eye and calls out 'dad! Can you bring lian in here? The rest want to meet her'
Shyly, bruce walks out, with an apron on that says kiss the cook, and little lian on his hip. He's almost half Grey now, more wrinkles than they remember, but his eyes sparkle. Hes... soft.
He whispers to his granddaughter to say hi to her aunts and uncles, which she does before hiding her face in his neck. Bruce looks pretty awkward, not really know what to do in the silence. Eventually he quietly says a greeting but when its obvious no one is going to say anything back he returns to the kitchen.
When its just the kids again, Jason finally explains everything. The drugs, the recovery, how their relationship is now. All of the kids have eyes to reckon with the fact Jason of all people now is the closest to their father.
With enough time, bruces relationship with all of his kids get repaired and stay that way now there is no mission, but him and jason are always very close.
TLDR Bruce has to accept help and know he is loved, Jason has to overcome his trauma and deal with his father being a broken human being.
Jason being unpresented before he dies to due malnutrition, and still hasent presented after becoming the redhood with the death and the pit.
Finally after he gets some food in him and is able to break from the leagues chains, he starts to feel sick.
And it gets worse.
And worse.
To the point were jason thinks he is dying again, and in his fear and pain riddled mind, he does the only thing he can think of.
Call bruce.
And bruce bringing his baby home fearing for super cancer or something until he finally gets all that bulky armour off and its revealed that Jay is simply going through his first heat.
Thats how jason and bruce actually start to mend their relationship, when bruce refused the leave the pack nest and cuddled Jay til the boy accepted his love. Just two very hurt omegas, trying to find something soft for themselves.
