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1. There's Something So Lonesome About You by hoeforhoran28

   Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Justice League - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   25 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
   • Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne
   • Bruce Wayne
   • Clark Kent
   • Diana (Wonder Woman)
   • Barry Allen
   • Hal Jordan (Green Lantern)
   • Alfred Pennyworth
   • Ra's al Ghul
   • Secret Identity
   • Identity Reveal
   • Identity Porn
   • Bruce Wayne is Bad at Feelings
   • Bruce Wayne is Bad at Relationships
   • playing fast and loose with canon
   • Creepy Ra's al Ghul
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Slow Burn
   • Pining Clark Kent
   • BAMF Bruce Wayne
   • Bruce Wayne-centric
   • Rape/Non-con Elements
   • Really nothing too bad just Ra's being weirdly touchy
   • just wanted to tag it to be safe
   • Sexual Tension
   • between Bruce and Clark not Bruce and Ra's (ew)
   • Golden retriever Clark Kent
   • Eventual Smut
   • But alas it is a SLOW burn
   • Sunshine/Grumpy trope dialed up to 11
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • Brief suicidal ideation
   • Morally Grey Bruce Wayne
   • well sorta
   • Torture
   • Psychological Warfare

   Summary

   "Your identity was supposed to be a secret. Not only to protect yourself (and probably least importantly yourself) but others. Your family, your friends. Everyone who stood a chance at being ripped apart by your decision to go out there everyday and put yourself in the crossfire.

   Not that Bruce had anyone to protect, besides Alfred. But it was still a fucking given."

   Or: Bruce has been Batman for two years and if he knew anything, it was that when you don a mask, you don it for a reason. An important reason that just doesn't seem to be as important to the rest of the League as it is to him. This is going to be a story about Bruce being coaxed into allowing others behind his carefully built walls. (Specifically one person.)

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   English

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