I am ONCE AGAIN thinking about a fake dating fic in which Bruce needs to create a scandal to distract from whatever crisis is happening with Wayne Enterprises's stolen tech, and naturally this means that he needs a fake boyfriend for a while, and Barry's obviously the perfect candidate to be his fake boyfriend because he's younger than Dick, so this will really create a proper scandal that will effectively distract the media from that crisis that Tim and Lucius have been trying to fix for the last week, and it'll also get Barry out from that abandoned building he calls an apartment and under a real roof for once, it's a win win situation for everyone
Only for Bruce to catch feelings and not know how to deal with it, resulting in a lot of self-sabotaging, much to the dismay of all of his children and the entirety of the Justice League >:)
Additional notes about this because I can't write it right now:
- Barry asked why Bruce can't just fake date Dick if he needs a scandal about dating someone that much younger than him, and Bruce had to explain that Jason would probably kill him if he even thought of it, so it's better to just go with someone else entirely
- Bruce was Barry's celebrity crush when he was younger. Barry was mortified to discover that his childhood crush never went away when Bruce just showed up in his apartment to recruit him for the Justice League that one time
- Barry is very intimidated by Bruce's kids just On Principle, but now that he's practically living with them he finds that Dick's actually pretty cool, Jason and Damian are terrifying, and Tim needs a break
- the batkids have been subtly trying to mess with Bruce and Barry's fake dates because they can all agree that Barry is easily the best person Bruce has ever dated long term, even if it's fake dating
