"Alfred, can I get some hair dye?"
Alfred turned around, plate he'd been drying still in hand, and stared at the boy sitting at the kitchen counter pushing around a plate of pancakes with his fork. This was a completely unexpected thing to hear over breakfast, and that from the man who's adopted son had once announced he wanted to fight crime while dressed as a bat over dinner.
"May I ask why master Jason?"
Jason's hand came up to his hair, and started to pick at the roots;
"My roots are starting to show…" he whispered almost embarrassedly
Alfred blinked and gave a closer look at the boy's hair, the roots were starting to show. He couldn't believe he hadn't noticed those ginger roots before.
"Um, I don't see why not." He answered uncertainly
Relief flashed in Jason's eyes.
"If I might ask though, why do you dye your hair, master Jason?" Alfred asked as he put the plate away, and pulled a stool up to the counter to sit across him.
Alfred could have sworn Jason immediately whispered, "the old man doesn't-"
before cutting himself off and giving Alfred a winning smile and saying
"I just like it better this way, makes me more dashing you know!"
"Alright" Alfred declared getting up "well if we're gonna go out and buy hair dye, I might as well collect the groceries as well. Just give me some time to put together a list, while you finish your breakfast."
"Yes sir!" Jason said mimicking a salute with his fork and in the process getting syrup on his forehead.
"Very good sir, we shall meet back here in-" Alfred looked at his watch, and then how much food was left on Jason's plate. "-oh forty minutes I should say, and see that you wash that syrup off your face young man."
Jason reached up to his forehead and wiped at it embarrassedly
"R-right" he said "see you then"
With that Alfred turned around, grabbing the already made list of groceries Jason didn't need to know he already had, and went to go find master Bruce. This was some very disturbing news he'd learned, and Lord help Bruce if he was the "old man" Jason had mentioned! Though that was rather unlikely considering Jason had only been living with them two weeks, he had yet to call Bruce anything but a sarcastic "B", and Jason had come to them with his hair already dyed…