#lanternbat

They feel really jerky when they see Batman using ASL to talk to Dickbin, but also, everything would have been so avoidable if Bruce hadn't preferred to suffer in silence

Anon. Anon tell me the pun was deliberate. Anon tell me the pun was deliberate. Anon please.

Imagine if they figure it out slowly. And because 1. I love the trope of the least probable character and 2. My poor shipper heart imagine if the first to clue in is Hal.

He goes to seek out Spooky, and finds him sat on the floor, Robin sat on his knee, and at first he pauses because that's a cute sight, then he pauses because what are they doing. Ohhhh. Shit. Right.

Argument forgotten, he backtracks, and can't stop thinking about it. He doesn't say anything, what would he even say. To Bruce or to the JL, and ignores the glances when he takes a step back from their groaning and grumbling about Batman being full of himself. When it's down to his silence anyway, Hal isn't blind to the fact Batman knows he's good.

It is nearly six months before Hal does anything, and he really should have expected things to end this way.

They haven't been a team for a year yet, things are still rough around the edges, and yet again a spat between all of them from a mission went wrong turned into a shouting match, that warped into yelling at Batman when he didn't rise to the challenge like everyone else.

And Hal is pissed.

And he remembers six months ago.

So he uses everything he's learned since, and snaps his fingers in Bruce's face because he's stopped even responding their yelling. Bruce lifts his head, scowling, and Hal quickly moves his hands.

"You're an asshole," he signs. Bruce freezes. Grins. Scowls.

"I followed the plan," he signs back, and Hal scoffs.

The noise of the rest of the room falls away as the two of them become more intense, words cutting through the air, sharp hand movements and harsh gestures. Both of them essentially yelling at each other, until they're forcibly separated by a confused Diana and told to take a walk.

The next week Clark clumsily signs thank you after Bruce hasn't spoken all meeting. Barry's hands blur, but Bruce chuckles and nods all the same.

Everyone starts picking it up.

Hal signs at him from a distance that he could've told them months ago and avoided all the hassle, and they argue across the room until J'onn stands between them.

Hal knows Bruce's hands by now, which is a strange thing to say, he supposes, but also maybe similar to saying you know someone's voice. So when those hands grab him, pulling him into a closet, he wonders if all the progress towards something Hal would actually like to call friends was all in his head.

Selina : Hey, you got a text from... Extended Batfam??

Bruce : Oh yeah, that's the family group chat, can you read it for me?

Selina : Okay. Hum, "Happy to be here" Said...

Happy to be here

|Hello, so, who is driving tonight?

Selina : To which "Too good to be here"-

Bruce : That's Dinah.

Selina : Alright. Replied...

Too good to be here

|I can fit five people in my car if two people sit on each other laps.

Selina : "Clone 1" and "Clone 2"? Said...

Clone 1

|Me please✋

Clone 2

|Oh yes me daddy!

Selina : Oh my god, I'm not reading that- "She's wrong" said...

She's wrong

|I VOLUNTEER! I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!

Selina : "She's right" replied...

She's right

|Only on me.

She's wrong

| ;D

Situationship 2

| Me please! I want to sit on someone laps too!

Robin hood

| Me too!

Hawkeye

| You are all adults.

Don't know what he's doing there

|What even is going on?? Where are we going?

Fashion faux pas

| LAZER GAMES!

Bruce : Okay, so who are Hal and Oliver gonna sit on? Because it's not gonna be me.

Selina : "Not paid enough"-

Bruce : That's Barbara

Selina : Said they can sit on top of each other.

Bruce : Ok.

Selina : And clone 1 and 2 are going on "One bad day from terrorism" and ”We get it you died” ?

Bruce : Yeah I could have guessed that.

Selina : Okay, who's "Don't know what he's doing there"?

Bruce : Oh yeah, that's Kyle, he's new.

Selina : Okay and whoever is "Situatioship 1" just send a picture of herself on the bathtub.

Bruce : Yeah... That's Talia.

Selina : The assasins princesse Talia? Someone worst nightmare is save as "situationship 1", In your phone?

Bruce : Yeah, can you text back that I can get the limousine so nobody as to sit on each other laps?

Selina : Alright.

Grumpy dad

|I can fit everyone in the limousine

Selina : ... They're replying with slurs?!

Bruce : Yeah...

Jason Todd — WonderBat

Timothy Drake — Batlane

Stephanie Brown — Flashbat

Damian Wayne — Brutalia

Cassandra — Either mitosis or Ghostbat

Duke Thomas — Lanternbat