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Hands Are For Shaking (No, Not Tying) by the_butler for Mini98

Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022), Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025)
17 Oct 2025
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The prompt from Mini98: "Bruce passing out after being hurt and Clark absolutely losing it and being immensely possessive and worried"
Clark Kent, becomes acquainted, and later friends, with Bruce Wayne, both civilian and caped personas. And maybe has developed a sort-of crush along the way. But thanks to a mistake he made during what would have been a routine mission, he might just lose the man that has become so much a part of both his lives.

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Say It While It Matters by the_butler

Fandoms: DCU, The Flash - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types
17 Sep 2025
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By the end of their third year, everyone in the university was convinced that Hal Jordan and Barry Allen were actively dating each other. And Barry was certain that it was all Hal’s fault.

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3,311

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1/1

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5

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154

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8

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Love Is A Gamble (And I'm Winning) by the_butler

Fandoms: DCU, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types, The Flash - All Media Types
15 Sep 2025
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Between the four of them, they didn’t need to be chauffeured by Hal in a rental. It was, he thought, actually a little bit ridiculous. It’s like a setup to a particularly bad joke- four superheroes get into a car, and so on.

One day, Bruce and Hal started getting friendly, much to Clark and Barry's confusion.

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To Keep You Safe by the_butler

Fandoms: DCU, The Flash - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
09 Sep 2025
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The princes Bruce and Clark, of Gotham and Krypton, now kings of their kingdoms, have married and settled in a new abode to raise their children Richard, Jason and Conner together. The lords Hal and Barry come to visit with their own- Wally and Bart. Beyond the matters of the realm, the two couples navigate the business of raising children, family, and some important decisions.

Sequel to my previous fic, By Your Hand.

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- Part 2 of Medieval Fantasy superbat and halbarry
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By Your Hand by the_butler

Fandoms: DCU, The Batman (Movie 2022), Superman (Movie 2025), Green Lantern - All Media Types, The Flash - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
07 Sep 2025
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Relative peace has come to the realm, but now the business of negotiations and consolidation of power has begun. The prince of Gotham required no less than an Alpha prince to wed. And there was only one unmarried Alpha prince left in the realm- Clark, or prince Kal-El.

The Kryptonian adviser lord Barry meets the Green Knight sir Hal, and though attraction strikes quick as lightning, it is tested by various trials and tribulations.

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- Part 1 of Medieval Fantasy superbat and halbarry
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amaranth by elysianprince

Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025), The Batman (Movie 2022), Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
15 Nov 2025
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The kiss was heated, like the very flames of the sun licking at his mouth. It was absolutely nothing like how Bruce imagined kissing Clark would be, all hard edges and power, and none of the gentleness he knew so well. Still, his body instinctively lit up as the press of Clark's body against his felt so right, even as his mind screamed all of the ways this was wrong, absolutely wrong.
In which Clark is acting strangely, and Bruce deducts that he must be under the influence of red kryptonite. Fortunately, he has a plan. Unfortunately, the plan means walking the fine line of playing along to save his friend or surrendering to his own desires.

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16 Nov 2025
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held up so high on such a breakable thread by mikaminato

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022), Superman (Movie 2025)
14 Nov 2025
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"Do you... always spend your heats alone?" Clark asked quietly, not quite expecting a reply, but needing to know all the same.

"There's no one else." The words were soft and hollow, and the air around Bruce smelled bitter.

That should have been the moment Clark accepted Bruce's answer and let the subject drop. Bruce wasn't angry or disappointed that Clark had found out something that was meant to stay hidden, and that alone was enough to ease the weight pressing on Clark's chest.

Still…

"I… I'm an alpha," he heard himself say. "If you ever need someone to help you through your heats, you can rely on me."

(Or, it starts as Clark helping Bruce through his heats. It ends with something else entirely.)

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14 Nov 2025
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Bad Friends by bonechocolate

Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025), Superman - All Media Types, DCU
12 Nov 2025
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Bruce has lost count of all the times he's been invited to hang out ‘off the clock.’

Usually to Clark’s apartment for dinner and board games. Sometimes to late night movies in Bludhaven. Once, to Smallville, Kansas to meet Clark’s own parents.

But he's never taken Clark up on any of it.

Because Bruce is a bad friend.

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13 Nov 2025
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Conditions May Apply by myaadoresyou for Starpanda05

Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
12 Nov 2025
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TLDR; Bruce gets drunk. Clark goes along with it.

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51

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9

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10 Nov 2025
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Servant Quarters by Anonymous for RinkaRanka

Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
21 Sep 2022
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Come morning, the King was served breakfast in servant Bruce’s quarters, while the boy slept soundly at his side, littered in bruises and bites.

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06 Nov 2025