[DC] Feel so untouched
Title: Feel so untouched
Pairing: Bruce/Jason
Rating: R
Summary: The best part is the fighting.
Notes: Takes place during UtH. Title from the Veronicas' Untouched, which is a very Bruce/Jason song; I'm not remotely kidding when I call this a PWP without sex.
The best part is the fighting. Jason liked fighting since before he was any good at it, and against Bruce - against Batman, God, it's so good he could cry.
His body thrums with every blow and every swipe and every time Batman grits his teeth - Jason has to remind himself not to stare, because he tends to glance at Bruce's mouth a lot more than he'd do with anyone else, because he wants to know - needs to know - if he's getting to him.
Jason loves the teeth-gritting as well. It makes him just a little bit ecstatic, and really, is it his fault that a clenched jaw from Batman feels the same as a smile? It makes a good warning sign too, for someone who knows him as well as Jason does. He was trained by the man, he can read him a lot better than any supervillain or so-called ally can; Jason's been on both sides of that fence.
It feels great when Batman's teeth clench and he does that thing you don't even see coming and you've got to know it, to know him, to be able to throw yourself back before it connects; Jason only feels the wind of the kick whipping past him. His teeth are showing in a fierce grin, 'cause once upon a time he wouldn't have been able to avoid the hit, even though he knew it was coming. Yeah, he got better, and that's... insanely satisfying to be able to show it off that way.
As satisfying, as thrilling as it is to fuck with Bruce a little.
God, but Bruce had him leaping through hoops. It's so good to play the game now that he's a player, instead of just the little pawn Bruce wished for. Jason sucked at that too much for it to last, anyway, he never was as well-oiled as Bruce wanted. The hoops were designed with someone else in mind, someone more flexible, someone who'd spent his early childhood flying. You know the type. That's why it's good now.
Even talking, that's fighting too - he's known it for years.
Who's going to give first? Who's going to slip? Bruce leaves himself more open than Jason when they're talk-fighting, but Jason has to be more careful - because he still has that tendency to run off at the mouth, so he's more likely to fuck up.
And yeah, he can hurt Bruce, hurt him easy, even, it's obvious that just talking to Jason hurts him, when Jason is killing and talking about killing and taunting him, but he doesn't always, because sometimes he isn't sure what he wants with Bruce.
Sometimes it seems more important to hurt Bruce rather than make him understand, and sometimes Jason is so angry at Bruce for not getting it - for not allowing himself to get it - and so angry at himself for not just giving up on the bastard, all he wants to do is lash at him, even if when they're done Jason finds himself licking at his wounds as if he was the one who'd been hurt.
Even when it hurts, the aftermath's still good. That's part of the fighting, too.
The fighting is the best part, so much that when he's preparing himself and his traps and his plans, winning the fight before the fight starts, just the way Bruce taught him, his body is thrumming.
And when he dreams about fighting and he thinks about Bruce, the exhilaration brings him just as high.
Pairing: Bruce/Jason
Rating: R
Summary: The best part is the fighting.
Notes: Takes place during UtH. Title from the Veronicas' Untouched, which is a very Bruce/Jason song; I'm not remotely kidding when I call this a PWP without sex.
The best part is the fighting. Jason liked fighting since before he was any good at it, and against Bruce - against Batman, God, it's so good he could cry.
His body thrums with every blow and every swipe and every time Batman grits his teeth - Jason has to remind himself not to stare, because he tends to glance at Bruce's mouth a lot more than he'd do with anyone else, because he wants to know - needs to know - if he's getting to him.
Jason loves the teeth-gritting as well. It makes him just a little bit ecstatic, and really, is it his fault that a clenched jaw from Batman feels the same as a smile? It makes a good warning sign too, for someone who knows him as well as Jason does. He was trained by the man, he can read him a lot better than any supervillain or so-called ally can; Jason's been on both sides of that fence.
It feels great when Batman's teeth clench and he does that thing you don't even see coming and you've got to know it, to know him, to be able to throw yourself back before it connects; Jason only feels the wind of the kick whipping past him. His teeth are showing in a fierce grin, 'cause once upon a time he wouldn't have been able to avoid the hit, even though he knew it was coming. Yeah, he got better, and that's... insanely satisfying to be able to show it off that way.
As satisfying, as thrilling as it is to fuck with Bruce a little.
God, but Bruce had him leaping through hoops. It's so good to play the game now that he's a player, instead of just the little pawn Bruce wished for. Jason sucked at that too much for it to last, anyway, he never was as well-oiled as Bruce wanted. The hoops were designed with someone else in mind, someone more flexible, someone who'd spent his early childhood flying. You know the type. That's why it's good now.
Even talking, that's fighting too - he's known it for years.
Who's going to give first? Who's going to slip? Bruce leaves himself more open than Jason when they're talk-fighting, but Jason has to be more careful - because he still has that tendency to run off at the mouth, so he's more likely to fuck up.
And yeah, he can hurt Bruce, hurt him easy, even, it's obvious that just talking to Jason hurts him, when Jason is killing and talking about killing and taunting him, but he doesn't always, because sometimes he isn't sure what he wants with Bruce.
Sometimes it seems more important to hurt Bruce rather than make him understand, and sometimes Jason is so angry at Bruce for not getting it - for not allowing himself to get it - and so angry at himself for not just giving up on the bastard, all he wants to do is lash at him, even if when they're done Jason finds himself licking at his wounds as if he was the one who'd been hurt.
Even when it hurts, the aftermath's still good. That's part of the fighting, too.
The fighting is the best part, so much that when he's preparing himself and his traps and his plans, winning the fight before the fight starts, just the way Bruce taught him, his body is thrumming.
And when he dreams about fighting and he thinks about Bruce, the exhilaration brings him just as high.