Interlude: Alfred
Alfred starts visiting three days after Jason and Tim moved into their (second) new apartment. Tim is still a little hoarse from the smoke inhalation and Jason is a lot frazzled from trying to put an entire home together and take care of Tim and be a criminal mastermind. So when Alfred shows up at the door bearing food, Jason goes with it. He doesn't even have the energy to worry that Alfred might be there on behalf of Bruce.
Not that Jason really thinks that of Alfred. Al always treated Jason well when he was at the manor, talked to him like an adult, made him soup when he was ill. A part of Jason knows Alfred would never show up on one of his boys' doorstep with food out of anything other than genuine care and concern. Even Bruce doesn't have the kind of sway over Alfred that would get in the way of him taking care of his family.
So Alfred shows up two or three times that week, to make sure his boys are relatively healthy and well fed, and that their home is (relatively) clean. During the first couple of visits, Al just brings food over and asks after the boys. Then one morning he shows up with clean laundry that neither boy had noticed was missing. Jason appreciates the thought, he does, but he can't help feeling bad that Alfred is doing so much for them when Jason hadn't even had the courtesy to visit the man when he returned to Gotham.
Tim, on the other hand, is a bit offended when he figures out what is going on. Jason worries for half a second that Tim might throw a fit about how much Alfred is doing for them; then he remembers who his baby bird is and starts worrying that Tim might think Alfred has stepped in because Tim isn't doing a good enough job taking care of Jason, instead. Fortunately Alfred is Alfred, so he picks up on Tim's unspoken discomfort with the situation almost immediately and switches tactics so fast Jason's head spins.
The second week in the new apartment starts with Tim actively avoiding Alfred, Alfred very carefully assessing the situation whilst washing dishes and cleaning the bathroom, and Jason trying to decide if he should tell Tim that he's doing great at the domestic-thing or if bringing it up will just make things worse. Wednesday, however, Jason gets home and is greeted by the scent of a Moroccan stew that Alfred made him all of the time at the manor. When Jason enters the kitchen, he is possibly more surprised than he's ever been in his life by the sight of Tim in an apron covered in flour helping a much-less-messy Alfred kneed Khobz dough. When the three of them sit down to dinner an hour or so later, Jason has trouble containing the orgasmic sounds the food inspires in him.
Alfred continues his lessons on domesticity for the rest of the week, and Tim starts to build up pretty respectable skill sets in both cooking and cleaning. Jason has never seen Tim look so proud of himself, and he can't help but hope that things will continue to be this good.