(FIC) Second Chances (S/B, NC-17)

[arch_schatten]

Yay! thank you, anonymous giver, for my snowflake cookie! :D Sooo cute!!

I wrote a spin off from mithen's The Missing Moon, because I couldn't get over her ninja camouflage suit and because Bruce in New Krypton delights me and because poor Clark needs a friend over there! and. Just, in general, I love New Krypton. Beta by the awesome mithen, all mistakes are

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[mithen]

Eee, I'm so happy to see this up!

Two stars in the night, cold blue fire, and then a sigh, so soft he would have missed it if not for his heightened senses.

Gahhh, so gorgeous and subtle, I love the image of Bruce kind of...materializing out of nothing like that.

His body was made of stars and the void of space, and it seemed to him he might just... disappear.

*sigh* And the yearning of this, the bittersweet fear that he might not really be there, might disappear...

"You needed a haircut when you came back, and no one said anything for months," Bruce shot back, walking into the bathroom.

Hee, Bruce. :D Though Bruce did call him a hippy, but...that was an alternate Bruce, lol...

the smell of his neutral soap obscuring Bruce's smell. An aspect of him, lost now.

I loved this line, it made me kind of sad...just the idea of Clark treasuring even the smell of him, hating to see even that go. It's very, very Clark to me.

"For a while... I think I did lose it, Clark. My mind just... I didn't know if I could make it back. I thought of you and it was... everything was lost, I just couldn't find it. I couldn't find you." A storm behind winter blue eyes. "I couldn't bear to remember, but it was all I had left. I... it was not enough."

CANON, I SAY. THIS IS CANON.

the thought of this body broken and torn apart, tortured and destroyed by Granny Goodness and Darkseid, and before that...

*wibbles* Clark's fierce protectiveness here completely undoes me. I love so much when they want to save each other pain, when they know they can't at the same time... *happy sigh*

This was lovely! And Bruce will come back soon! :D

[arch_schatten]

Ninja suit makes Bruce harder to detect! that could be troublesome down the line... but I loved how you made him come out of nowhere in the park, I wanted to play with the suit!

Playing with their degrees of loneliness and longing was really fun, they took turns being unhinged and pulling each other up. I could not expect any less of them, though!

With Clark's super senses, I guess smell would be even more important? I mean, it's so entwined with memories for us, I can't imagine what it would be for him, like.. memory treasures.

Maybe Bruce has amnesia because he can't bear to be lost in time and not return to Clark? lol. I want to read the return of Bruce nooowwww!! hurry, Grant, hurryyyyy! This was so much fun to write, thank you for the help with it and for letting me play off your story! fun timesss :D

[mithen]

Maybe Bruce has amnesia because he can't bear to be lost in time and not return to Clark? lol.

Ohhhh, don't laugh, the idea breaks my hearrrttt (in the best of ways!) We really need to write some of this before Grant does, just for the fun of imagining it! :)