"I know." His pseudo remorse is more of a wince, like that's just how things go. "Bad habit."

Has to know everything. Like what Bruce got him for Christmas and the number of metal nails hammered into his spine, and the pills he didn't take with him and. On it goes. Clark kisses him again, shallower, briefer, and his mind never even enters the territory that Bruce's does. That it should not be okay.

Bruce brought him back. Bruce was manipulated. Bruce knows these things, besides, but maybe one is just evening the score and the other is unacceptable. They'll find out.

Not on Christmas.

Clark's hand finds Bruce's, pulling him along in the path they were headed. He doesn't keep that hand, but only after a lingering tangle of fingers.