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Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025), The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman - All Media Types, DCU Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Cat Grant/Lois Lane, Clark Kent & Lois Lane, Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Lois Lane, Alfred Pennyworth Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Communicating, But he figures it out eventually, Intimacy, and, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Touching, think: jane austen levels of yearning, Gay Panic, Clark is a hick, Scars, Fade to Black, Clothed Masturbation, POV Clark Kent, POV Bruce Wayne, Repressed Clark Kent, Touch Starved Bruce Wayne, brief mentions of past drug use, Press and Tabloids, Gay Bruce Wayne, Bisexual Clark Kent, Complete Summary:
Clark felt a heat in his belly that he felt very rarely. In fact, the last time he felt it had to have been over nine months ago. The sensation was warm, fuzzy, and somehow dangerous around the edges. It prickled like a sparkler or the zap of an electric fence, and because of this, he tended to avoid it as soon as it turned up. Those two things couldn’t hurt him, but this feeling… This feeling could. At least, it had before.
But maybe it was different this time. It had to have been. Maybe some sort of unattended admiration that had been brewing for the other man finally boiled over. He nodded internally. That had to be it, because it couldn’t be that—
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Valentine’s Day is in a month, and Clark gets assigned to a story about Gotham’s most eligible bachelor, Bruce Wayne, which is a perfect cover for him to figure out if he’s Batman or not. Things get… Well, things get complicated.
