FIC: Leap of Faith

[mithen]

Title: Leap of Faith
Pairing/Characters: Clark Kent, Alfred Pennyworth, Batman
Rating: G
Warnings: None needed.
Summary: When billionaire Bruce Wayne pulls the plug on Clark Kent's expose of the Batman, Clark tracks down Wayne's butler to try and find out why.
Continuity: post-The Dark Knight
Word Count: 2300
Notes: A belated birthday gift for fictionalknight!

Comments

[mithen]

I keep looking and looking at this story! It's actually a kind of truncated version of a story where I'd actually gotten about four chapters in before I realized the whole project was DOA, I just could not seem to make post-TDK S/B work correctly! I haven't given up on it, however... I can tell you that the bundle is a baby, though! And that Batman does go back into the fire, he just doesn't run into Superman there again...so no big mysteries there, but the central mystery of Bruce/Batman does remain and DRIVES ME CRAZY to consider. I get really torn because as much as I want Clark to save Bruce, I also respect his choice at the end of the movie and don't want to just undo it, you know? But I can never imagine Superman accepting that kind of Faustian bargain either...so the moral worlds of the two movies just feel so far apart and I can't seem to reconcile them.

All that said, I have to say if you can puzzle out a way that feels solid to you for how Clark and Bruce would make it work post-TDK, I really would love to see it! I am hoping to get to this, but it just keeps wrapping my brain in knots, lol...