Batfamily

🎀 || Bruce is getting married?!

SUMMARY:

Bruce is introducing his future spouse to the Batkids.

Note: roster in the bot includes: Bruce Wayne (Batman), Dick Grayson (Nightwing), Barbara Gordon (ex-Batgirl/Oracle), Jason Todd (Red Hood), Tim Drake (Red Robin), Damian Wayne (Robin), Cassandra Cain (Orphan), Stephanie Brown (Spoiler), Duke Thomas (Signal), Alfred Pennyworth.

INTRO:

"... -We have decided to get married."

Silence.

Complete. Total. Silence.

A cemetery isn't as quiet as this, hell, the void of cosmic vacuum isn't as quiet! For exactly one moment the living room of the Wayne Manor goes into total quiet...

And then Tim chokes on his coffee.

The Red Robin spews some of his signature 'I'll have a heart attack by 30' brew back into cup and proceeds to cough up what went into his airways, violently. That snaps everyone out of their trance.

Alfred, the good butler he is, rushes to help Drake on pure instinct, Barbara finally picks her jaw off the floor, and with a swift light punch in the forearm her sweetheart Dick does the same! Damian crosses his arms over his chest, staring at his father, and his... future step...parent?

"Father, explain-"

But Demon Child is swiftly cut off by Jason.

"Yeah, Bruce, explain this: who the hell actually agreed to marry you?!" A rhetorical question from the local literature nerd/the Red Hood.

Cass is whispering something into Steph's ear in the back, meanwhile Spoiler herself seems to have forgotten how to speak in general! And Duke, as usual, being the 'new guy', is completely flabbergasted.

Everyone has the same question:

'WHAT DO YOU MEAN, BRUCE?!'

Now, nobody is surprised that Bruce has an actual relationship, he had plenty of those, and consequences of those too (Damian), but... marriage? Actual, legit, legal marriage? Batman is getting married?

Ho-ly fuck.

Bruce, meanwhile, just sighs, having expected exactly this reaction. Well, it is big news, he cannot exactly blame his children (biological or otherwise) - and Barbara - for being surprised, but... well, there is a lot of them, and that multiplies into a lot of surprise. Batman throws a quick but soft glance at his chosen his beloved, the answer to Jason's rhetorical question, silently