#lylequerl

For you anon! This takes place after Querl wakes up from his healing tank after nearly dying from Sharn Nux's assassination attempt. Enjoy! Also on Ao3 HERE.

"You look like hell," Lyle remarked as he watched Querl ease himself into a chair. "Are you sure you should be on duty now? No, wait. Stupid question. I know how you're going to respond."

"No," said Querl as he began typing.

Lyle's eyebrows rose and he strode over to be closer to him. "No? No what?"

"The answer to your question," Querl mumbled. "The answer is 'no'."

The Strawberry Pop Society: Joan invites Alan to her book club. (One-shot)

if you should find me waiting: Lyle vies for the attention of his roommate, Querl Dox.

like oil and water: Connor and Roy become roommates to get to know each other better.

The Byline: Clark Kent and Iris West-Allen work together on an assignment.

Radio Silence: Thad moves in with Tim Drake at Bart's request.

One Night in Vegas: Jay Garrick assumes Joan forgot his birthday, and Ted takes him on a wild outing to cheer him up. (One-shot)

Impress/Empress: Andromeda takes Querl to a fashion show. (One-shot)

Cocoa Powder: Stephanie Brown starts working at a bakery with Cassie Sandsmark.

Fusion: Jade asks Roy to help out at her new restaurant.

Until I Melt: Alan's old flame shows up at Alan's family ski trip.

Here you go Anon!

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"Today is Sublime"

Summary

When Querl chooses Lyle over his own people, they get more than a little angry. Fortunately for him, he is very very loved.

Excerpt

When Querl came to his senses he was met with the apathetic boorish stares of three Coluan council members. Blinking against the bright lights that haloed his captors and his own hazy mind, Querl quickly assessed his situation starting from what he remembered last.

Right. He remembered.

That would do it.

"Querl Dox, Brainiac 5 of Colu," began one, her flat green eyes smoldered as she repressed a sneer. "Do you know why you are here?"

Querl couldn't remember her name, but he did recognize her face and how she always looked like she was just one badly perceived comment away from breaking. At her question he straightened up in his chair and found he was shackled to it, hands and ankles like a common criminal.

"Brainiac 5, do you know why you are here?" she pressed again and Querl saw a flash of her white upper teeth as she sneered his name.

"You would have to ask my mother that question to determine the reasoning behind her reproduction choices," he answered bluntly as he stared her down impassively.

"Sarcasm?!" she hissed as her expressionless facade cracked, spilling her tension everywhere. "On top of everything you have done, you now dare to face us with sarcasm?!"

Another council member, an older man Querl recognized as being called Phari Wex, silenced her with a touch to her shoulder but he never lifted his stern gaze from Querl. "I don't believe you understand the severity of the situation you are in, Brainiac 5. Your scurrilous jesting will not be tolerated in this court, do you understand?"

"It's hard not to jest when I'm starring at a circus of monkeys," Querl seethed and the third councilmen slapped him across his pale green face. It stung more than hurt, Coluans weren't known for physical prowess and the councilmen rubbed his hand, nursing it before he wiped it on his robes in disgust.

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I went with "I trust you, do you trust me."

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Summary

After Querl almost died at the hands of Sharn Nux, Lyle decided to train Querl in the art of combat where he proved to be a very competent and skilled student - but there is an intimacy that follows combat training and one that reveals how they have changed since they first met. Or How teaching pin holds accelerates things damn fast.

Excerpt

If Lyle Norg had to describe Querl to someone else in the past the word 'jerk' would have most certainly come up. After all, Querl was exceedingly unapproachable and had the social skills of a rock tumbling down a cliff face. A few lessons in etiquette would have done wonders for him, Lyle considered on multiple occasions when witnessing Querl's blunt jabs.

But now, things were different.

They both had changed in drastic ways although Lyle kept his changes locked behind a mask he metaphorically welded to his face and dared not show them to anyone.

Querl was the opposite.

His changes were obvious ever since the Rift incident. He had changed before when he made contact with the Space Anomaly that scrambled his brain for a moment, but this was different.

Organic.

It was all Querl this time, and unlike Lyle he didn't seem afraid to show those changes and let people see him more closely than he ever would. Things were different now with Querl, and them, and Lyle wasn't entirely sure how he would describe him. The word 'jerk' would probably still come up but that word too held a slightly different meaning to Lyle, just like what Querl meant to him.

Changes also sometimes happened so quickly Lyle had a hard time seeing them coming.

6. Who would they ask if they ever had a threesome?

You know it's gonna be Condo.

8. What do they like in bed?

They're pretty vanilla and that's okay! But that doesn't mean their sex is uninteresting - the things the LAB has seen will never leave that lab.

They're romantic in their own ways, Querl likes to be held and praised, Lyle loves deep kisses and being in control of Querl's gasps and moans.

They do also sometimes play with Lyle's powers (there's a thrill to not knowing where your lover is as they are fucking you) and use toys that Querl creates, my oh my the toys.

They also have dabbled in some drug use to heighten the fun, it was a challenge for Lyle to make something that would also work for Coluans, but it was worth it.

9. What is the most embarrassing thing they have done in front of each other?

Querl: Wear a monkey on his head for a year, but honestly, not realizing that the "scrap metal" he paid no mind to could have been made to make their flight rings.

Lyle: his acrophobia, all the time, and denying it.

18. When they fight, how do they make up?

The words "I'm sorry" isn't often used but they both approach resolution fairly depending on what it is they were fighting about. Making up is pretty seamless as they go back to their regular routine as if nothing happened.

Sometimes the makeup sex really is mind blowing.

25. Why do they fight?

9/10 times it's going to be a disagreement on something scientific that the rest of the team just doesn't comprehend and doesn't even understand WHY they are fighting or what the fight even is. The other 1/10 time is when Lyle takes some incredibly stupid risk that Querl believes to be ill-thought out and poorly planned.

:) :) :) Querl thought bae was gonna die and was glad he din't

The Legion #27

Please meet the Post-Zero Hour Legion of Super-Heroes that stars a huge cast, including canonly gay (confirmed by writers) Lyle Norg and canonly queer Querl Dox.

Their first meetings began in 1994 where they at first had a bit of a rivalry (but both had deep respect for the other, it was never hostile) going on because they are both geniuses with some overlap in interests. Querl is Brainiac 5 with difficulty expressing his emotions and Lyle is a genius biochemist who is deeply repressed and also has difficulty showing his real self.

It took time but in the final issues of their run they find close "friendship" with each other that the writers (Abnett and Lanning) intended to be romantic but were told 'no' because it was the early 2000s.

Regardless, they got away with showing what they did.

The Legion #26

I assume this is for Querl/Lyle?

I'm just going to do Querl/Lyle because I love them and no one else sent me any for them which whyyyyyy??

22. Where does their first kiss happen?

In canon they kissed when Querl caught up with him during the Darkseid arc, but that was not their first kiss.

Their first shared kiss was after Sharn Nux almost killed Querl.

Before then, they had been flirting, old minor hostilities had been long since buried, and something better was growing between them and both were open to some... exploration. It was slow and cautious, a mutual experiment as they dated in their own way quietly. Both valued their privacy afterall and they both would rather not be at the center of any gossip, thank you very much!

But there was no kissing. Nothing that intimate. Hand holding, shoulder rubs, a friendly hug or a drape of an arm across shoulders when nights in the lab went on for longer than they both thought was their physical affection and that alone made Querl feel like he was drowning.

Then Querl was nearly assassinated by another Coluan and right when they got him stable and before he went in the damn tank Lyle went and fucking kissed him.

It was hardly fair. Particularly when Querl blacked out afterwards.

When Querl came out of the tank he insisted on a do-over.

23. Where is their favourite place to be together?

One of the shuttles actually. While both are brilliant and thrive in a lab, when they are in a shuttle, alone, a lot of things start to make sense to them because there's not much to do in a shuttle except talk. The thing is, neither would probably say the shuttle, each would probably say something else entirely.

Querl recognizes when Lyle is gone that it was the shuttle all along.

27. Why do their friends get annoyed with them?

They complete each other's sentences and use words that are beyond their vocabulary on a routine basis. Lyle typically tones it down, but when they are talking about ✨THE PLAN ✨then the text book speak comes out and most of everyone else's eyes just glaze over.

They also disobey orders and deviate from pre-established plans on the regular and only convey their new plans to each other until it's too late.

Whoever the leader is at the moment forgives them ultimately because damnitall the new plan worked but FUCK they should have said something earlier.

"I would have given you all the days of my life, Querl. Every one would have been yours."