[fic] Mid-life Crisis part 4 of ?
Bruce/OFC. PG-13ish rating. Seto meets his big brother.
Seto calls Bruce “Bruce-o-san” in the same lilting Japanese as his mother, and Bruce is alternatively disappointed and relieved.
However, he is always eager to hold Bruce’s hand or ride on Bruce’s shoulders when they go out for his afternoon walk, and Bruce’s heart swells just as it did all those years ago when Dick apprehended his first criminal.
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It’s on one of those afternoon walks that they run into Dick.
There are a million different things Bruce wants to say, so he says nothing as Dick looks from Bruce to Seto and then back to Bruce.
Then, because Dick is Dick, he lets loose one of those easy, easy grins that have never changed.
Dick kneels before Seto. “Hey, kiddo,” he says, his Japanese as crisp and formal as when Alfred first taught it to him. “I guess I’m your big brother.”
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Seto’s as suspicious of Dick as he was of Bruce, but he’s won over by ice-cream. Bruce dabs at the corner of Seto’s mouth with a handkerchief.
“He looks like you,” Dick says. “A chubby, cute version of you.”
Bruce gives him one of his glares because it’s required.
“I’m going to tell Emiya it was your idea to feed him ice-cream,” Bruce threatens.
Seto may not understand their words, but he knows his mother’s name, and he smiles, all sweet and uncomplicated and Bruce wishes life could stay just like this.
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Seto calls Bruce “Bruce-o-san” in the same lilting Japanese as his mother, and Bruce is alternatively disappointed and relieved.
However, he is always eager to hold Bruce’s hand or ride on Bruce’s shoulders when they go out for his afternoon walk, and Bruce’s heart swells just as it did all those years ago when Dick apprehended his first criminal.
***
It’s on one of those afternoon walks that they run into Dick.
There are a million different things Bruce wants to say, so he says nothing as Dick looks from Bruce to Seto and then back to Bruce.
Then, because Dick is Dick, he lets loose one of those easy, easy grins that have never changed.
Dick kneels before Seto. “Hey, kiddo,” he says, his Japanese as crisp and formal as when Alfred first taught it to him. “I guess I’m your big brother.”
***
Seto’s as suspicious of Dick as he was of Bruce, but he’s won over by ice-cream. Bruce dabs at the corner of Seto’s mouth with a handkerchief.
“He looks like you,” Dick says. “A chubby, cute version of you.”
Bruce gives him one of his glares because it’s required.
“I’m going to tell Emiya it was your idea to feed him ice-cream,” Bruce threatens.
Seto may not understand their words, but he knows his mother’s name, and he smiles, all sweet and uncomplicated and Bruce wishes life could stay just like this.
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