Title: Contingency
Fandom: DCU
Pairing: Bruce/Dick
Categories: Angst, AU, Family, Romance
Length: Medium (9,600)
Warnings: Spoilers for Comic Canon Events

Author onTumblr: thehoyden
Website:The Hoyden's Ao3

Summary:"I didn't plan for this," Bruce says after a few minutes, and he sounds bewildered.

Review: Alfred is pretty much synonymous with Bruce Wayne and the Batman. I've only ever encountered one version of "Batman" where he wasn't present. And his absence wasn't ever addressed, though it could be assumed that he was dead, due to the fact that Bruce was in his late sixties.

The Hoyden addresses this mostly ignored reality, that Alfred is old. He's been looking after Bruce his whole life, and he isn't shown as being a young man, even when he's helping Bruce after the loss of his parents. So when this story opens Alfred has just had a heart-attack. It's not a serious heart attack, but it's enough to shake up the entire Bat family, and force them to deal with some issues they've been ignoring. Namely the fact that Bruce and Dick aren't talking to each other, because neither one of them felt comfortable with their romantic feelings for each other.

So now, their forced to become a family, as they deal with the aftermath of Alfred's heart-attack and what that means for the family. Cute, sweet, and fluffy by turns, this is an awesome story to give you the warm and fuzzies with a side of angst.

Contingency