vitamin d
clark kent x justice league! doctor! reader
mentions/tw: fluff-ish? she/her, bullets, clark is lowkey down bad, also pathetic but rlly cute pathetic ykwim, reader takes care of clark, so painfully obvious that there’s a bet going on, luthor mentioned like three times, justice league mentioned, corenswet! superman based!
(roster finished! might do one more if i have the motivation to lol but this was so fun to write i absolutely love justice league!doctor reader i need more fics of them frfr. apologies if clark is ooc its my first time writing him anddd yeah, enjoy!)
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the watchtower orbited around earth like it always did. outside the watchtower in space was always quiet, the faint hums and beeps coming from the satellite headquarters of the justice league as the sound died out in space like it always did
but inside? quite the complete opposite
“where is he?” you requested, walking quickly towards the medical bay of the watchtower with bruce on your left and diana on your right.
“med bay 2” bruce responded. “luthor hit him with kryptonite bullets— two of them” diana nodded before adding. “we took him here right after we got luthor arrested”
“where did the bullets land?” you asked bruce
“left chest and external abdomen” he replied quickly
you let out a scoff. “luthor has tech yet still has terrible aim.” your comment made bruce resist the urge to hold a smirk and instead, nodded in agreement while diana smirked amusedly
once you, the billionaire and the amazonian reached the med bay, you turned to them and giving them a silent nod— the same nod you always gave them whenever a league member was injured, basically reassuring them.
diana and bruce nod back, trusting your skills like they always had for years. “we’ll be outside if you need anything” diana offered
you smiled one last time from diana’s words before turning back to the doors of the med bay as they opened and closed shut behind you
you’ve been with the justice league as long as you can remember, originally treating the founding members at first before they decided to put the U in the JL. you’ve treated them through thick and thin and you always made sure they came back alive and healthy, thus the league’s massive respect for you
and as for clark, he had both respect and a crush on you ever since you joined as the league’s medic and it didn’t help that you were conveniently attractive for a doctor, which made it even worse.
the tension between you two was so painfully obvious that a bet pool was placed whether he’ll put the man in superman and ask you out on a date— spoilers, that bet pool has done nothing but pile money up for years now.
the bet started off between hal and barry and then, oliver came in and the three would start bickering in the cafeteria on how clark fucked up his chance to ask you out. dinah soon got dragged in after overhearing oliver on the phone, gossiping with hal and barry on how clark stammered heavily when you asked him something from the last meeting
kara also joined in so she can talk about the sheer naiveness of her cousin and how it doesn’t take for her to use her super hearing to hear clark’s heartbeat fasten whenever he breathed the same air as you
and lastly, diana and bruce joined in. even though diana repeatedly advised that betting on their colleagues’ love life “wasn’t right”, her words gave up when she saw clark almost dropping a mug of coffee while trying to hand it over to you, making her sigh and shake her head in both disappointment and embarrassment.
and though bruce was basically dragged in the betting pool against his will, he used to find clark’s behavior around you secretly amusing. now, he just finds it sad that the man couldn’t form proper words in front of you even after all these years
and now, it was just bruce and diana— standing outside of the med bay
bruce wasn’t the type of person to bet. he’s a billionaire, what was the point? “twenty bucks says he’ll make a fool out of himself again”
and diana was an amazonian princess, her morals stood against gambling and betting. “forty says the kryptonite will have him talking and he’ll take her out”
inside the med bay, you let out an exhale from the sight, seeing a half conscious clark on the bed— costume basically ripped with his family crest half on his chest and sweat almost drenching his forehead as he was hooked into machines. this was going to take a while
“clark?” you spoke, quickly going to the box of gloves. “clark, can you hear me?”
you heard mumbles of confirmations leaving his chapped lips but barely. the gloves slid in your hands, bringing your chair and sitting on clark’s left side as you examined the bullet holes
even though your finger barely touched the small wounds, a hiss still left his lips. “its—“
“kryptonite, bruce told me” you informed him, eyes not leaving the bullet wounds as you bit your bottom lip and furrowed your eyebrows in frustration. you inhaled a breath of air, focusing and knowing what to do
“alright— clark, are you with me?” you spoke, making sure he heard your voice as you took out a pair of thumb forceps. and your voice let a small, weak chuckle from clark. “always” he murmured
a small smile graced on your lips from his words, meeting with his blue eyes before turning your gaze back at the bullet holes in front of you. you immediately locked in, bringing your chair closer
“i’m gonna take out the bullets right now, okay?” you murmured a warning under your breath and he just weakly nodded in silence.
you took his nod as a yes and you immediately started going to work, lowering the forceps gently into the hole. the tip of your forceps grabbed a bullet and you started to pull it out very carefully
a hiss would leave clark, gripping onto the sides of the bed for dear life (and flattening a part of the mattress where he was gripping it) as grunts of pain was heard from him
“i got you, big guy” you placed your other hand flat on his chest not just to steady yourself but also to reassure him. your touch almost sent clark flying out of the bed, literally. and you felt his heartbeat fasten from your palm and heard it from the monitor
“you okay?” you checked up on him quickly, turning to meet his gaze and he just nodded again, but more dreamily. “uh huh” clark mumbled under his breath, making you nod and quickly turning away so you can focus on the matter at hand— or rather, the matter at his chest
you resumed, slowly taking the bullet out and a choked sound of pain left clark before his hand unknowingly went from the edge of the bed to now resting on top of yours
you ignored your heartbeat suddenly speeding up from his touch, convincing yourself that the kryptonite was just affecting him bad, like always
and clark heard your heart as his breath hitched from his sudden action. if he was in his right mind, he would immediately pull his hand away and stammer out apologies, but the kryptonite was so stuck on his body that he just gripped your hand. clark always wondered how your hand felt, especially considering that your hands were the same ones that always nursed him back to health
so when your hand felt soft and warm, it made the urge for clark not to let go even more
“careful not to crush my hand” you joked and before clark could even chuckle, a large sum of pain shot up in him, making him shut his mouth and grit his teeth
you pull the forceps out, the blood covered kryptonite bullet now captured as you tossed it into the lead covered trash bin. “one down, one more to go” you turned to face clark. “think you can handle it for me?”
‘for you, always’ was what he wanted to say. but instead, he let out a sudden high pitched “uh huh” that made him sound desperate. he immediately closed his mouth in embarrassment before clearing his throat and catching himself. “yes, i- uh, i can”
the corner of your lips lifted into a smirk, giving him an amused look before turning back to the last kryptonite bullet wound and slowly inserting your forceps like you did with the last one, like how you always did
through clark’s gritted sounds of pain, you spoke. “you think from the amount of times luthor shot you, he’d think not to miss”
clark let out a laugh choked with a hiss of pain, trying to catch words to add on to your joke but he just fumbled from both his nervousness and the pain
“andddd got it” you took out the last bullet, dropping it down to the same trash can before rolling your chair besides the stand and placing your forceps back. clark let out a sigh of relief, sinking into the mattress in comfort. and his reaction made you smile as you turned to face him
you chuckled, biting your lip to hold your smile from widening even more and clark’s eyes trailed down to the sight as he watched you reach over for the operating sunlight beam that hung from the ceiling, wondering how soft your lips would be if they were placed on his
his thoughts were interrupted when you turned on the sunlight beam and shined it on him, feeling the warmth of vitamin d regenerate his cells from the two small bullet wounds. clark inhaled sharply from the burning ache as in seconds, the wounds were now healed, leaving only his suit as a reminder of the previous bullet holes he had
“vitamin d always does the trick” clark sighed, slowly sitting up right before he turned and noticed you giving him an eyebrow raise that silently reminded clark who just saved him.
“and a doctor” he nervously added with a chuckle, making you roll your eyes with a smile as you turn around and take off your gloves, while clark shook his head to himself and wondering what was wrong with him
you turned back around with a towel at hand before you walked towards clark and turning off the sunlight beam, moving it away from both you and clark’s direction. “how’re you feel now?” you asked, gently cleaning the sweat off clark’s face due to the previous kryptonite
he already missed your touch on his chest, yet you cleaning off the sweat on his face made him stutter yet again. “i-uh, um” clark cleared his throat before flashing a smile. “amazing.” that was the worst save ever and he knew it, his mind cringing internally
the corner of your lips twitched into a smile as you heard his kansas accent slip. “glad to hear.” after wiping his face, you placed the towel away on the side and replacing it with your clipboard. you took out your pen from your doctors coat and clicked it, writing on the paper
“kryptonite extracted, wounds healed from sun…” you murmured to yourself as you wrote everything down, making clark smile to himself without realizing that his eyes were lingering for far too long on your face, scrunched in concentration as your pen moved on your clipboard
you felt eyes on you and stopped your writing to look up to clark curiously. “what?”
“go out with me” he murmured before he could stop himself and that made both your eyes widened, while his eyes widened in realization and blinking out of trance, stammering and stuttering to catch himself
“i mean if you want— if not that’s completely fine and we-“
a small laugh left your lips and that made clark blink twice. were you laughing from how he made a fool out of himself? he didn’t know, but he wanted to hear you laugh forever
and once your laugh died out, you smiled before nodding. “yes, clark kent. i will go out with you” you accepted his offer and that made clark short circuit for a split second before a laugh was heard from him, more relaxed and even relieved
“cool, are you um— free tonight? by any chance?” he was trying so hard not to fidget with his fingers in front of you
you just nodded again, your smile growing. “7 pm?”
a smile mirrored on clark’s lips, nodding. “7 pm” that was one of the only times where he actually didn’t stutter around you, and he gave himself a mental pat on the back for that
“then i’ll see you then” you got up, clipboard at hand and your smile growing by the second before walking towards the door. and once the doors hissed shut behind you, clark gave himself a quiet fist bump in the air and mouthing yes
when you left the med bay, your smile died out when you say bruce and diana acting weird— like they weren’t listening in on you and clark’s conversation so they could see who from the two would win the bet
“bruce? diana? everything okay?” you raised an eyebrow and they nodded simultaneously, maybe too simultaneously
“o…kay..” you trailed off, blinking before snapping out of it and reading from your clipboard. “kryptonite is extracted, wounds are healed” you looked up to bruce and diana with a smile. “he should be good to go”
“good news, like always” diana nodded with a smile of her own. “thank you, doctor”
you just smiled one last time before walking away, on your way to the other med bay stations to check up on everyone else
and while you were out of earshot, diana turned to bruce with a smirk and her palm open. “we agreed on forty, if i’m correct”
bruce just grumbled something under his breath as his hand dug through one of the pockets on his belt before handing two twenty bills over to diana, who proudly placed it under her top
then diana broke it. “who’s telling barry, hal and oliver?”
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(a/n: oh yeah clark come give me that vit d ahaha anyway—! snowstorm has begun to all of my american readers, stay warm and stay safe)
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