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• Daydream, Sing With You Amid the Flowers by digeridoo

  Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Superman (Movie 2025), Justice League - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Absolute Batman (Comics)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • No category
  • Work in Progress

  30 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Eventual Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne - Relationship
  • Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
  • Bruce Wayne
  • Alfred Pennyworth
  • Clark Kent
  • Michael Holt (DCU)
  • Kendra Saunders
  • Guy Gardner
  • Barry Allen
  • Diana (Wonder Woman)
  • Justice League (DCU)
  • Original Characters
  • Background & Cameo Characters
  • Bruce Wayne's Parents (mentioned)
  • Justice Gang Members (DCU)
  • Team as Family
  • Team Bonding
  • Trust Issues
  • neurodivergent characters
  • Characters Watching Twilight Series Movies
  • Batman Played by Robert Pattinson
  • Absolute Batman Characters
  • What is this? Some sort of cross over?
  • Clark Kent is a Ray of Sunshine
  • Secret Identity
  • Selectively Mute Bruce Wayne
  • Body Horror
  • Hallucinations
  • Medical Experimentation
  • Original Character(s)
  • Graphic descriptions
  • Read with care
  • Hurt Bruce Wayne
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
  • Learning to trust

  Summary

  In the darkest corners of Gotham lies an insidious corporation benefiting from its patients, promptly plunging Bruce into a nightmare he couldn't have dreamed of. He accepted aliens were real, faced the ghosts of his own family. He wasn't afraid of death. And yet, the hardest pill still to swallow is learning how to trust.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Shadow Work

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,362

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Kudos:

  4

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  154