Heroes of the Squared Circle 41: Knightfall
Title: Knightfall
Relationship: Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Bane, Dick Grayson, Brainiac,
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion ( click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG-13
Word Count 4000
Summary: A tag team match between the Dark Knight and Nightwing ( Read more... )
Relationship: Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Bane, Dick Grayson, Brainiac,
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion ( click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG-13
Word Count 4000
Summary: A tag team match between the Dark Knight and Nightwing ( Read more... )
Oh, oh, Alfred! And Leslie too! Oh... *wibbles*
Sandy Hawkins, former “Golden Boy” and valet for the more famous Wesley Dobbs. He hadn’t quite made it as a wrestler, but Luthor made sure he still had consistent work as a referee.
Oh, Sandy! Yay!
They could all celebrate pulling off a match for the history books backstage, and Clark would meet Alfred and then make sure Bruce got at least twelve hours of sleep after icing all his joints.
*wibbles*
Later, Clark would be able to find the moment where everything went wrong, but even the most meticulous, the most agonized, reviewing could never give a clear answer as to whose fault it was. On the recording he could see how the Dark Knight’s weight shifted just the tiniest, key fraction, but whether Bane’s weary grip gave way or Bruce’s exhausted body was unable to hold the right position, Clark could never tell, no matter how many times he watched.
How many hundreds of times.
*wibbles massively* Oh, Clark...
“I can’t feel my legs,” Bruce said below the roar of the crowd. He looked vaguely surprised.
D: D: D: Bruce!
Clark watched the two men pretending to hurt each other and felt reality crumble and slip around him.
Clark!
The Dark Knight was supposed to win this match. He wasn’t supposed to lose. Not in Gotham.
He says he’ll try to get to the Kryptonite.
*wibbles*
Nightwing was crawling toward the ring--he was supposed to be out cold, but not hell itself would stop Dick Grayson from being there for Bruce if he needed him.
Oh, Dick... *pets him*
The well-dressed man in the front row was staring at him, his face white. The woman with him was clutching his arm.
Noooo! Alfred! Leslie!
In the hush of the auditorium, the Kryptonian’s furious, heaving breaths echoed like sobs.
Clark!
Bruce looked up at him. And then he winked. He winked.
BRUCE.
“Thank you,” mumbled Bruce against his shoulder.
Oh, Bruce... *pets him very gently*
“Is he--” Dick murmured. Clark could feel him trembling, realized he was too. They were practically holding each other up.
Oh Dick... Clark! *pets them both*
The seats Alfred and the woman had been in were empty
Oh, poor, poor Alfred. I'm so glad Leslie was there.
Clark glared at him for a long moment. Then he dropped him, swinging away with an inarticulate snarl to punch the locker next to him with a deafening clangor. “Where is he?” he snapped at Jimmy.
Oh, Clark...
“Hey, relax, man,” said Oliver Queen, making calming motions with his hands. “It’s not like he’s your boyfriend or anything.”
“And if he is?” Clark whirled to glare at Ollie. “Would you have a problem with that, huh?” He scrubbed at his face. Unreal, everything was unreal. ”Would you?”
Oh... *pets Clark gently again*
He sat for a very long time in the waiting room, staring at the walls. Dick and Diana showed up and sat next to him. Diana took his hand and they sat in silence.
*hearts Diana*
Clark pauses the recording again at the moment of impact. Rewinds. The phone sits on the dresser, silent. He knows without looking at it that it has exactly forty texts to Bruce’s number over the last two weeks, and exactly ten phone calls.
None have a reply.
Oh no, poor Clark... And Bruce, meeeep!
Gosh, this was a painful chapter! Clark! And Bruce...
I'm so curious to see what will happen next!
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I've been wondering--is this the first time Alfred's ever come to a show? It's the first time Bruce has mentioned it to Clark, but maybe he's come now and then? I haven't quite decided what Alfred's opinion is about Bruce in this world--in canon at least the risk to Bruce is balanced by the fact that he's helping people! But I'm sure Leslie approves Not at All!
There's a referee in the actual WWE who has this lovely floppy pale bond hair, and so I was kind of imagining him, and I realized I had to give him a canon hook because he's really important in this match!
Switching back and forth between the match and Clark in his hotel room, watching the tape, was...really painful! I don't know quite how I wandered into that structure, but ow.
Oh no, poor Clark... And Bruce, meeeep!
Bruuuuuuce, noooo. D: I have to get writing the next chapter soon! So much aftermath to deal with...
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I loved that tribute to Sandy! He had such a sad fate in canon. :( He and Wesley Dodds (the Sandman) made quite a pair! :)
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