The Truth ☀️🦇
Chapter 13
Extra Scene 1
Location: Clark’s apartment, Metropolis. Time: Sometime later. State: Let’s pretend there’s a sheet.
Clark: There’s… something I need to tell you.
Bruce: If you have doubts, tell me n—if you have doubts, we need to talk about it now.
Surprised, Clark watches Bruce sit, even though just a moment ago he seemed to melt next to him, like water.
Clark pulls him down to lie back again.
Clark: It’s not… really bad. But… some inappropriate pictures of me might be circulating. From recently. I don’t want you to think that… I don’t know what I want you to think, but you should know I didn’t do anything.
Bruce narrows his eyes.
Bruce: Are they illegal?
Clark frowns, thinking.
Clark: I don’t think so. There were a lot of people, they would’ve stopped us.
Bruce relaxes slightly.
Clark: They’re…
Clark doesn’t seem able to finish the confession.
Bruce: With another partner?
Not ideal, but Bruce has horrid skeletons in his closet and Clark intertwined his fingers with his during sex. He could cry just remembering. Again.
Clark: No! Just… just me… well, in underwear and a little wet…
Honestly, if that’s Clark’s level of embarrassment, Bruce will have to make a dossier and tactfully explain a lot of the things someone could find online about Brucie…
Clark: … riding a mechanical bull.
Oh.
Oh…
Bruce blinks.
That’s… different.
Slowly, he nods.
Bruce: And who has these pictures?
He can’t add “so we can stop them from circulating,” though he’ll work on that after he gets them.
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