id like to see a story with alfred kidnapped or something over a period of time. to see how bruce handles it. the batcave and his equipment would fall into a state of disrepair, hed forget to sleep or eat. hed end up like he did wen bane first showed up and ran him ragged. alfred could easily kill batman if he wanted to. poison, leading bane, joker, mr freeze, clayface twoface and killer croc to the batcave, bomb the batmobile. but then batman could kill alfred if he wanted, a nice batarang to the face when hes bringing some tea down the stairs would be pretty effective. so they both have he option of killing eachother whenever they want to really. so the winner is the one who decides they want the other one dead first.