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Somehow, Bruce was the only one home for the holidays.
Dick was in California on a mission with Slade Wilson, and Bruce felt he was doing very well at not freaking out over his child alone on a mission with Deathstroke the Terminator. Dick could take care of himself.
Cass was in Washington D.C.. At some point she had run into Rose Wilson, and the two of them were staying together while they worked on their respective cases.
Jason was… somewhere, with Roy and Koriand’r. They were working on some sort of case, but Jason refused to tell him what it was. Bruce was doing well at not freaking out over that one; the Outlaws would take care of each other.
Tim was still in Gotham, but stuck at home with a broken leg. Luckily, he had Bernard with him, and Bruce trusted Tim to listen to his boyfriend.
Duke was… also somewhere unknown. Why his children were so insistent on giving him gray hairs, he would never know.
Damian was in Kansas with Jon, after a long mission.
Bruce was reading Megillat Rut for them all on video call. They were mostly paying attention to him. Tim was lying on Bernard’s lap, occasionally looking up to smile softly at his boyfriend. Damian was sitting shoulder to shoulder with Jon, mostly watching his friend play whatever game it was he was playing on his Switch. Every so often Cass would look up to make faces at someone off screen, and Jason kept having to hide his grins at something the rest of them couldn’t hear. Dick, sprawled in bed, kept looking to his right. He and Cass also had to pass messages between the two Wilsons, sharing a look every time they did so.
Of course, it was Shavuot, and what was Shavuot without ice cream? Dick had orange ice cream drizzled with chocolate syrup, and Cass had found rose ice cream at a cafe near her hotel. Jason and Duke had raspberry and lemon sorbet, respectively, and Damian was sharing a tub of superman ice cream with Jon. Tim kept batting Bernard’s hands away from his cookie dough ice cream, and Bruce was almost happy Tim wasn’t home so he didn’t have to do the same for his coffee ice cream.
Bruce wished he had his kids with him, but he was so happy he could still learn with them.