Dp x Dc Prompt - Old Friend
At a specific time on a specific day once a week Alfred goes missing. And it has been happening since Bruce was a child but he never knew where Alfred went. Even as he got older he never quite asked the gentleman and if he tried nudging the conversation in that direction... Well Alfred would catch on immediately.
So for the time being he let it go and years passed by and he just ignores the fact that his Butler goes missing once a week. Turns out having so many eyes ears in the Manor doubles as a curious thing. He knows that his oldest probably told his siblings about it at some point.
Dick was a naturally curious kid and Alfred going missing was new when he arrived. Eventually he started making fake stories and passing it down to the younger ones. Not that Bruce was going to stop their imagination they were kids.
Eventually it landed on Damian and Duke... The youngest and newest respectfully. Neither of them took the information of Alfred going on separate adventures at face value. He doesn't blame them, they were smart kids and aren't quite fazed by bullshit.
What he didn't expect was them being the determined type to prove all of them wrong. Bruce is proud that Damian and Duke got along so well but he didn't want them to get along with this. At some point in his mind it became a secret ritual to just never investigate what this possibly could be.
Of course the children would ask him and he would either misdirect them or straight lie. Bruce can't be mad that Damien somehow inherited his stubbornness. Even worse when he decided to team up with the sassiest child in his care.
To make sure that they didn't overdo it Bruce decided that since they asked he might as well tag along from a distance respectfully. Just to see what methods they were trying to use to follow the old Butler. It's training and nothing more... Definitely nothing to do with his own curiosity.
Finding out that the manor Butler just went to a tea shop in the middle of the day wasn't actually as surprising as he thought it would be. But.. it turns out the person he was meeting was more interesting. A young man, definitely older than dick but younger than Bruce, with black and white hair and mix match eyes sat across from Alfred.
Bruce had never seen that man a day in his life and someone with such a peculiar appearance would immediately be on some sort of list. He had Barbara look into it well watching over his youngest shoulders. Yet nothing came up which is even worse.
While he was running through every scenario in his head Alfred had spotted them. Even waving them down. Ah shot they were caught—
Luckily they didn't go out in their uniform and were just incognito. Walking into the shop was like being hit with too many teas at once. The other man gestured to the seats next to them and the trio sat down.
"How cute I finally got to meet your family!"
"Daniel. Master Bruce, I do suspect that this was not your idea."
"He— I mean he followed so technically it is." Duke immediately threw him under the bus.
Bruce found the wall fascinating this time of year.
"None of that now. We expected this at some point I'm impressed it took this long."
"As lenient as ever. Proper introductions are in order. This is Daniel, my grim reaper."
"Don't worry I'm kind of slacking on my job. I was supposed to take him decades ago but I really find him too cute."
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