Bruce was a thorough and intelligent man, if a little sleazy and distant when interacting with people. He'd kept this act up for years to keep people thinking he was too self absorbed and childish to be a vigilante. But he'd accidentally left enough breadcrumbs to lead a few reporters sniffing his way.
Usually he diverted them with a sexcapade with a model, a staged drunken binge, or hitting on the female reporters who asked him about his night time activities. But this was wearing a little thin after so many years.
Bruce pulls up his Diversions list on his phone and scrolls casually. Faking his death was a bit much. Dick was off living his own life and very busy so he couldn't exactly call him back to Gotham to pretend to be Batman so he could be seen at the same time as Bruce. He'd masked a few of his injuries as ski or other vacation related accidents, and he knew he'd need to take a break from using vacations or accidents as any kind of ruse, it was getting a bit too repetitive and obvious. At the bottom of the list, more subtle than the rest, lay his solution.
Pretend he was dating a man who was in the closet.
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The Fake Boyfriend
FanfictionBruce Wayne needs a way to divert the media from connecting his alter ego to him, and when a cute but poor reporter stumbles into his life- Bruce makes an offer he can't refuse. (This idea came to me in a dream) I don't own the art or characters.
