and life is long (and you are young)
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The stare that Gordon levels him with has his skin prickling under the cowl, though he's not entirely sure why. "Batman. He's a kid."
Bruce doesn't frown, because there's not much point in frowning when no one can see it, and also the fabric on his face bends weird when he moves the muscles there too much. "He's old enough."
While Jim swears under his breath, sighing hard through his nose, Bruce looks at Robin doing handstands on a streetlight. It's the truth, he thinks. Bruce would know.
Bruce Wayne was born many years after he should have been. This, of course, changes very little, except that Batman has acne under the cowl.
(He's not sure why people keep looking at him funny when they meet Robin. When Bruce was twelve, he was already training to be a vigilante. And besides, how big of a crime is underage adoption?)
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- Part 1 of and life is long (and you are young)
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"And they've behaved...appropriately?" Alfred's eyes narrow, and the sharpness of his voice is surprising enough it takes Bruce a few seconds to realize what he's said. "No undue comments?"
"Al," he says, a little desperately. His skin must be melting, Bruce thinks, from how hot his face feels. "My God, Al. Why would you say that?"
A gathering group of superheroes contact Gotham's (unknowingly teenaged) Batman to join them. Alfred, to Bruce's horror, has some words to say about the people trying to befriend one of his charges.
(The Justice League, for their part, want to know why this grown man behaves like an angsty teenager. It doesn't occur to any of them to connect the dots.)
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- Part 2 of and life is long (and you are young)
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"Where are you going?" Robin tilts his head, the fencing he's perched on swinging precariously. "It's still early."
Barbara blinks. If Robin thinks two in the morning is early, she's not sure she wants to ask about his sleep schedule. "It's a weeknight? I have class. I'm going home."
Robin's mask stretches, widening eyes obvious even hidden behind his lenses. "You go to school? Why would you do that?"
Barbara...recalculates the odds that Batman and Robin aren't living in some cave under the city, disconnected from society as they know it. "It's called college, actually."
How one Barbara Gordon meets Gotham's (Teen) Bat and the Boy Wonder, finds out their identities, stops a bad guy, and becomes a vigilante as a fun extracurricular activity. Most definitely not all in that order.
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- Part 3 of and life is long (and you are young)