The sparring and damsel fills have made me think of a newly revived Clark, depowered and feeling a bit useless, a bit lost, cranky in the way someone normal would feel with a cold, because going from invulnerability and super strength to normal must make you feel weak and slow, like everything's much harder.
Oh and Lois hugged him so hard and they cried and cuddled but in the end she gave him his ring back because she'd moved on.
Anyway cue Bruce, having a total nonreaction (that speaks VOLUMES) when 1st seeing Clark and seeing behind the easy smiles that Clark is lonely as fuck, feels particularly lost. They spend time together and somehow get involved, and then down the line Bruce makes Clark think that he did it all out of guilt (for trying to kill him, for his actual death), so that Clark breaks it off. Because Clark is doing better, he shouldn't have Bruce dragging him down. Which is Bruce's way of saying that he's fallen for hard for Clark and he shouldn't have nice things, ever.
Bruce giving in to Clark's advances because of guilt
Oh and Lois hugged him so hard and they cried and cuddled but in the end she gave him his ring back because she'd moved on.
Anyway cue Bruce, having a total nonreaction (that speaks VOLUMES) when 1st seeing Clark and seeing behind the easy smiles that Clark is lonely as fuck, feels particularly lost. They spend time together and somehow get involved, and then down the line Bruce makes Clark think that he did it all out of guilt (for trying to kill him, for his actual death), so that Clark breaks it off. Because Clark is doing better, he shouldn't have Bruce dragging him down. Which is Bruce's way of saying that he's fallen for hard for Clark and he shouldn't have nice things, ever.