Martha, Alfred, Bruce and Clark, and John sitting in the kitchen and trying to have a peaceful conversation, when inhuman screeching from upstairs is followed by a stampede of footsteps, before Dick races down into the kitchen, running frantically, empty water gun in hand.
"What is going on?" Bruce barks, with absolutely zero effect because Jason is there a second later and tackles him through the net door on the patio.
Martha's utterly charmed watching Bruce drop the exceedingly polite guest act as he scrambled out to the cold patio to scold the gremlins.
Clark shook his head, as the drill sergeant Batman voice filtered into the house.
Both boys are grinning when they enter, still bickering, utterly unabashed. But they do apologize to Martha and John about the door.
"I'm very sorry about that. I will pay for the door." Bruce says, dropping back into his seat.
"You raised a good one, Alfred," Martha said, patting the butler's hand.
Clark grinned and Bruce frowned, confused.
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I will now be personally headcanoning that Bruce pulled Tim aside one day to ask his opinion on if Tim would ever consider changing or adding Alfred to his middle name(s). I've always interpreted Jack Drake as having been abusive towards Tim, due to some of the comics where he's been violent and such (Like the time he destroyed some of Tim's belongings and such when he was angry at him, or the straight up neglect when Jack and Janet went to explore the world regularly and leave Tim behind, forgot his birthday, etc), and so I feel like sometimes Tim would feel icky about keeping his middle name as 'Jackson' after his biological father (I'm surprised he ever kept 'Drake' and didn't just fully move to 'Wayne', but alas). I feel like Bruce would also be aware that Tim sometimes feels left out of the family, especially due to the early years of him and Damian's dynamic and constantly being told he was never Bruce's 'real son'. It doesn't take a lot of common sense to realise those kind of words will linger, even after the brothers have improved their relationship. I had originally thought to consider this with Damian, but he's already named after Thomas, so I feel as though Bruce would choose Tim so that he gets to both honour his second father, and let Tim know that he will always be Bruce's son and a part of the family, regardless of DNA. Tim accepts, and so his middle name becomes Alfred, instead of Jackson.
Alfred doesn't find out until he's going over some family legal documents and sees it. He cries when he does.
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Okay, had to do this on a separate thing @phoenixcatch7 but-
DCxDP crossover with the meat marionettes. Itty bitty bird boy Danny perched on top of one of the batclan members like,
Said Batclan member is also perched on top of their respective alien/magician/demigod, whichever is there.
Also completely unrelated sort of, but can you imagine if Danny's ghost form was something akin to their meat marionette bodies? Like visibly more monstrous looking.
Maybe it started out more human looking, maybe it's a mimicking his surroundings sort of thing, maybe this is an AU where ghosts Do Not look human except for when they look in their own reflections. Or something.
Honestly just slowly rotating ideas at increasing speeds lol
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Rereading old Batman comics has reignited my joy for just how much Alfred is loved. Yes, everyone in the Batfam is messy in their own right. Yes, they all have horrific trauma that they choose to either ignore or try to cope with/heal from. Yes, they get into very intense and emotionally fraught fights quite a lot. Yes, they've lost trust in each other and have been painstakingly trying to build that trust back up. Yes, more times than not the peace between them is extremely fragile and easy to break.
But one of the things that remains constant is that every single member of the Batfam loves Alfred and would willing drop everything just to be there for him. And by fucking god, does this man deserves all that love and more!
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