nightlife: ( commission / dnt pls ) (ᴡᴇ'ʀᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴍᴇ)
faithful. ([personal profile] nightlife) wrote 2017-12-30 06:17 am (UTC)

For a moment, no response, as Bruce considers the full implications of this, his hand still moving rhythmically against Clark's side. It should infuriate him - it's an invasion of privacy far beyond just listening when he's in the same room with him, it means Clark has him so memorized that his biometrics are standard background noise. Normalized to the point where drastic changes are immediately noticeable, even when Clark is hundreds of miles away. It means he was listening even before they engaged each other in-- whatever it is they've been doing. At least a little. Enough to recognize his pulse picking up out of flushed interest.

What he feels is not anger at all, and he has to be very careful not to let his heart rate tick up as he thinks about it. Unhelpful.

This is ... a bad thing to be slightly turned on by. And unlike him. But it feels like reaching out and being reached back to, it feels like reciprocation of something just a little bit shameful, that Bruce knows he shouldn't be doing and yet finds himself unable to stop. Does Clark feel the same way?

"I like to look out for you, too," is what he says after a while, his voice a low rumble next to his cheek. Which Clark probably knows already. Satellites aren't sneaky.

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