I am back from my trip to yell excitedly at you about TWO NEW PARTS!!! OMFG! :DDD Bruce waking up slowly at the beginning of this is so beautifully written. And just the fact that Clark brought him to his mother's house makes my little heart melt.
This was always going to happen. It was inevitable, and what is inevitable can't rightly be greeted with shock, dismay, discomfort. There was all the time in the world to prepare, after all. "He won't be angry with you," Bruce says, because surely that will be the first thing on Martha's mind. Bruuuuuuuuuuce. Of course he focuses on whether Clark will be angry at Martha so he doesn't have to think about how angry Clark will be at him. Also DFGDFJGD CLARK LISTENING FOR BRUCE WAKING UP EEEEEEEEEEEEEH.
he carefully fights the urge to climb out the window. He could do it, even like this—and he wants to, with the kind of animal intensity that makes coyotes gnaw their own limbs off, the sensation of being trapped so much harder to bear than mere pain. But it wouldn't do any good. Oh, Bruce. This is such an amazing description. And then Bruce goes on and is awkward and awful at Clark, noooooooo. That entire following conversation is so, so painful, Bruce forcing himself to say all those things he doesn't really feel.
The script. Just stick to the script. "It was convenient." And it shouldn't be a surprise, but somehow Clark manages to look struck—like even after everything Bruce has done to him, he still expected better. "What?" My heart. This is so gooood.And my favourite thing is Clark finally calling Bruce out on his bullshit and not falling for it anymore.
"This thing with us, it matters to me. I don't want to let it fall apart and walk away. I don't want to never talk to you again, to never be around you again. I want to—" I love your Clark so much. <3 And I love him slowly working out the weirdness of Bruce's logic. dgbdjddf gd MY HEAAAAAAAAART. And woot, now on to the next part (the good thing about missing one update is having two parts to read in a row ;D). /OP
Re: FILL: as to which may be the true; Bruce/Clark, identity porn (22/24ish)
This was always going to happen. It was inevitable, and what is inevitable can't rightly be greeted with shock, dismay, discomfort. There was all the time in the world to prepare, after all. "He won't be angry with you," Bruce says, because surely that will be the first thing on Martha's mind.
Bruuuuuuuuuuce. Of course he focuses on whether Clark will be angry at Martha so he doesn't have to think about how angry Clark will be at him. Also DFGDFJGD CLARK LISTENING FOR BRUCE WAKING UP EEEEEEEEEEEEEH.
he carefully fights the urge to climb out the window. He could do it, even like this—and he wants to, with the kind of animal intensity that makes coyotes gnaw their own limbs off, the sensation of being trapped so much harder to bear than mere pain. But it wouldn't do any good.
Oh, Bruce. This is such an amazing description. And then Bruce goes on and is awkward and awful at Clark, noooooooo. That entire following conversation is so, so painful, Bruce forcing himself to say all those things he doesn't really feel.
The script. Just stick to the script. "It was convenient."
And it shouldn't be a surprise, but somehow Clark manages to look struck—like even after everything Bruce has done to him, he still expected better. "What?"
My heart. This is so gooood.And my favourite thing is Clark finally calling Bruce out on his bullshit and not falling for it anymore.
"This thing with us, it matters to me. I don't want to let it fall apart and walk away. I don't want to never talk to you again, to never be around you again. I want to—"
I love your Clark so much. <3 And I love him slowly working out the weirdness of Bruce's logic. dgbdjddf gd MY HEAAAAAAAAART. And woot, now on to the next part (the good thing about missing one update is having two parts to read in a row ;D). /OP