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 Enemies to co-parents to lovers.

Preferably sooner rather than later.

Because Dick Grayson is not subtle.

Dick Grayson notices things. Like how Bruce Wayne’s voice goes soft whenever Daniel Fenton is mentioned. Like how Bruce pretends not to care about Gray Ghost memorabilia but somehow always knows when a new piece hits the market. Like how Danny Fenton rolls his eyes every time Bruce speaks, but still somehow knows exactly how much Bruce donated at the last gala.

This is not hate. This is engagement.

Dick meets Danny properly for the first time at a charity event where Bruce is being unbearable and Danny is being incandescent with rage. Dick likes him immediately. Danny makes terrible, dry jokes. He treats Dick like a person instead of an accessory. He asks about school. He compliments Dick’s wordplay.

That seals it.

Dick decides, right then and there, that this man would make an excellent co-parent.

So Dick starts inserting himself into the situation.

He asks Danny questions about engineering. He asks Bruce questions about ghosts. He invites Danny to things Bruce “forgot” to mention. He invites Bruce to things Danny definitely did not ask him to be at. He creates scenarios. He manufactures coincidences.

Bruce suspects nothing, because Bruce Wayne is an idiot when he’s in love.

Danny suspects everything, because Danny Fenton is paranoid by necessity, but even he can’t figure out why Robin keeps showing up wherever Bruce Wayne is irritating him.

Alfred, of course, knows exactly what’s happening.

Alfred does nothing to stop it.

And somehow—through shared responsibilities, shared disasters, shared exasperation over a feral acrobat with too much confidence—Bruce Wayne and Danny Fenton start to realize that maybe this isn’t a rivalry.

Maybe it’s a courtship.

And maybe Gotham isn’t ready for what happens when Bruce Wayne and Danny Fenton stop competing and start working together.