Bruce does not elaborate on that incredulity, but it is there between them in spirit, like a long scroll being unfurled, all the ways in which Clark Kal Joseph "Superman" El Kent is just about the most complicated person currently residing on planet Earth. And not just because he's an alien. Maybe not even mostly because he's an alien. Maybe, because he is such a sensitive person - sensitive as in, so aware, so careful - that he shows so little, and yet makes people feel like they're seeing all there is to him.
But Bruce likes him how he is. Scroll or no scroll. And Bruce is worse about his own complexities, blunter and less refined as they are. He turns so that he's looking at Clark, and uses their joined hands to tug the younger man forward. His other goes up to hold the back of his head, and he presses a kiss to his mouth.
I know what you meant.
"I was thinking," he says when he pulls back, "that I can probably figure out a way for you to practice without having to restructure a mountain somewhere."
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Bruce does not elaborate on that incredulity, but it is there between them in spirit, like a long scroll being unfurled, all the ways in which Clark Kal Joseph "Superman" El Kent is just about the most complicated person currently residing on planet Earth. And not just because he's an alien. Maybe not even mostly because he's an alien. Maybe, because he is such a sensitive person - sensitive as in, so aware, so careful - that he shows so little, and yet makes people feel like they're seeing all there is to him.
But Bruce likes him how he is. Scroll or no scroll. And Bruce is worse about his own complexities, blunter and less refined as they are. He turns so that he's looking at Clark, and uses their joined hands to tug the younger man forward. His other goes up to hold the back of his head, and he presses a kiss to his mouth.
I know what you meant.
"I was thinking," he says when he pulls back, "that I can probably figure out a way for you to practice without having to restructure a mountain somewhere."