The Bats are ride or die for each other but really for the small things. I'm not talking covering up for each other for murder or anything like that, just the little things.
Bruce calls Dick from the Manor and asks whether he knows who took that bottle of the 1945 Chateau Mouton Rothschild he was saving for his date with Selina and Dick just glances over to where Jason is adding it to pot roast he's making for dinner in his apartment and he just goes "nope".
Bruce comes running because he hears a crash and the shattering glass but when he comes into the library, Steph and Duke are just sitting there. Reading, quietly at opposite ends of the coffee table. Not a thing out of place... "Where's the vase?" Steph just frowns and asks "what vase?". Bruce describes it, blue and green, bought by some great-aunt, not a favourite but expensive. Duke just shakes his head, "Never saw a vase there, B". Bruce interrogates every Bat but they all look at him like he's crazy. He even digs up all the photos taken in the library because the vase... Isn't there? The Bats had removed and replaced every image file and picture because if Bruce found out they had snuck one of Harley's hyenas in to babysit it for the weekend, they are all cooked.
Bruce opens the fridge and sees that sweet treat he was saving is gone and he lays into Tim because it was his reward for sitting through that board meeting and Tim is about to apologise when Damian just ambles through the kitchen, nose on his phone and goes "Father I saw you consume that cake" and Bruce is "I did not" and Damian just looks up, "You ate it over the sink, Father." And Bruce just bluescreens because did he? Damian and Tim just share a nod, they never speak of it.
Jason accidentally gets knocked out during an intense game of tag which they are not allowed play in the house. They know he's going to be OK but he's still out and Bruce's keys are literally in the door, angling as they turn and... Cass is on the doorstep waiting for him, wanting a hug from her dad and a chat. All the while the Bats have thrown Jason into a wheelbarrow and are extracting him from the house.
And this is Bruce too. Bruce actually gets drunk at a gala, and comes home at like 4am. And he vomits all over the front hall entrance and he's stood there, gasping for breath as he studies the floor that Alfred just had waxed. He looks up to see Dick on the stairs, visiting for the weekend, and he's like, "help me" and Dick just fucking nods, and bolts downstairs before Alfred can get there. Cue Bruce taking ahold of him and yelling, "Alfred, I got him. Oh Dick, how could you?" and Dick just pockets the $200 Bruce passed him.
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