Comments | mithen: WFGE fic: Cold Iron

mithen

WFGE fic: Cold Iron

Dec 28, 2012 22:13

Title: Cold Iron
Pairing: Clark/Bruce
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 3900
Summary: On a Solstice night, under a full moon, Batman is drawn into a world of beauty and danger.
Notes: Written for the World's Finest Gift Exchange! Prompt F8, "Clark/Kal is one of the Fey and Bruce is only human, how could it possibly work out?"

( Between the pale trunks of the yellow beech trees he saw them coming, a retinue of white horses carrying figures in full plate armor that glimmered like moonlight on water. Most were silver, but a few were a pale steel-blue, and they were led by a knight wearing armor that seemed to be carved from pure sapphire. )

ch: bruce wayne, ch: clark kent, wfge12, p: clark/bruce

Comments 28

northernwalker December 28 2012, 14:05:22 UTC

This is just beautiful and haunting. *sniffles*

mithen December 28 2012, 15:06:25 UTC

I fell in love with this prompt! Glad you liked the results!

zolac_no_miko December 28 2012, 17:15:53 UTC

(Man, I hope someone else was on duty to take care of Mr. Freeze, and watch over the city while Bruce was gone!)

What a fun take on things! I loved Bruce quoting the First Law as if it were scripture and he were performing an exorcism. XD

I find myself dissecting the choices of targets; if I were the faerie I'm not sure I'd have chosen Goodall. Maybe Rosalind Franklin instead. (Mostly I found myself wanting to clutch them all protectively to my bosom. SAGAN, NOOOOOO!! DDDD:)

mithen December 30 2012, 04:40:50 UTC

You know Dick and Tim and the rest can take care of Gotham! :) Even if obviously Superman wasn't there to help out...

I debated on the scientists as well! I ended up going with Goodall because of the way she's raised awareness of how human the primates are, and therefore how close humans and animals are. But Franklin would have been a good choice too... hmmm...

(But Sagan was always a given! I LOVE YOU, CARL!)

zolac_no_miko December 30 2012, 04:47:14 UTC

Ooooh, that's a good point about Goodall, I didn't think of it that way. ...Don't get me wrong, I adore her. I was very privileged to have seen her speak when I was in college. ...I want her to be my grandmother. ♥_♥

queen0fcups December 28 2012, 18:10:14 UTC

I found this almost painful to read for both its sadness and sheer beauty, well done. I hated knowing that the Fae were doomed and that Bruce was going to hasten their demise, Kal being saved or not. The triumph of reason and skepticism isn't always a good thing.

mithen December 30 2012, 04:42:10 UTC

Oh, I know! When I realized that Faerie had to equal Krypton in this version, it kind of broke my heart. And I'm glad it comes across as a heartbreaking thing despite their desperate actions, because losing Krypton and/or Faerie should always be sad!

jestana December 28 2012, 19:20:14 UTC

This is amazing. I love how you illustrated the clash between belief in fairies and scientific reason. I do love the elements of Superman and Batman working together that you managed to weave into the story. Some things are constant regardless of whether it's an AU or not. :D Bravo!

mithen December 30 2012, 06:38:28 UTC

Thank you so much! Krypton is such a science-y place that I wasn't sure it would work as Faerie, but once things fell into place it was a real joy to write (and Kal and Bruce working together always is as well!)

jestana December 30 2012, 08:32:18 UTC

Any technology, sufficiently advanced, seems like magic. :) You write these two so well. I love reading your work.

starsandsea December 28 2012, 19:40:28 UTC

Between the pale trunks of the yellow beech trees he saw them coming, a retinue of white horses carrying figures in full plate armor that glimmered like moonlight on water. Most were silver, but a few were a pale steel-blue, and they were led by a knight wearing armor that seemed to be carved from pure sapphire. Batman waited, resisting the urge to wring the water from his bedraggled cape, beginning to realize that he was much further from Gotham than he had thought, and the white horses (their eyes were a starry blue as no mortal horse's eyes had ever been) circled around him. The knight's faces were hidden by their visors, but Batman could catch a gleam of eyes from within them as they looked at him. Their lifted lances were shafts of diamond, of starlight.

Ooooh, such pretty description!

"Well, I caught the first syllable or so of that," said Bruce, "So I guess I'll call you Kal, if I may."

The sweet, sad laughter again. "I would be honored, Bruce."

*squees a bit*

"Faeries? Like...Tinkerbell?" Batman did a quick mental ( ... )

mithen December 30 2012, 09:00:00 UTC

*wibbles* Oh, man, poor poor Alfred!

I guess Bruce was lucky it wasn't longer, really! Faerie can do odd things...

I had a lot of fun with the descriptions of Faerie (hm, reading and seeing Tolkien so much lately might have had something to do with that!) and I'm so glad you liked them!