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”Putting honey in the lion’s mouth, Brucie?“ Jerome asks, a serene tone to it, his throat only a little closed up. There‘s a trail of wetness running down behind Bruce‘s ear. He feels it roll over his neck, his left shoulder blade, then close to his spine like a solemn but ardent reminder of death. ”It’ll eat you up. It eats everything.“ He pauses, years caught in one halt of breath. “It ate me.“
It‘s a trap because everything‘s a trap these days, for better or worse. Bruce should know better than to encourage him, to stabilize the illusion they… are made for each other, as he once put it. He should take flight now in fact, hit Jerome in the unprotected pit of his stomach and reach the cell‘s entrance while he tumbles over in pain since otherwise he’ll never leave this circle of hate and sickened obsession they’ve built with their fists and half-deaths. But he can‘t find no reason to. He doesn‘t want to dig that deep. For once in his life, he doesn‘t want to strive for being any better than he actually is.
He’s the young hero Gotham sets its hopes on, and Jerome is a murderer who’s lost the wheel ages ago. That‘s the truth. That‘s all there is to it as long as you don‘t dive beneath the surface of a court case, bruises and the cursed hatchet of a cult.
What a terrible, terrific match we‘d make, he wonders, yanks Jerome back on his hair and kisses him with all the self-disgust and desperation he can muster. We‘d never get along. We‘d destroy each other to bits, and call it love.
… He‘s a sad, evil thing. What am I going to do with that?
Good day, night, or evening,
this is my entry for the Batjokes Gotham Exchange ( @batjokesgothamexchange ) on Tumblr. Paring is Jerome Valeska / Bruce Wayne. My giftee is @rreylos but has apparently changed to @tobeymaguire ;) ?
Since my story got a little out of control concerning the length (over 15k after some editing now) I decided to split it into three chapters in total, posting the first chapter on 9th September (Sunday), the second chap on 12th September (Wednesday) and the last chapter on 14th September (Friday) to round it all up. I hope you’re okay with this, and that you’ll like what I put together here. Have fun reading, dear (and everyone else who’d like to take a peek) :)
- Prompt #1: nsfw- bottom!bruce
- Prompt #2: jerome being really physical and loving kisses/hugs
(I mashed them up a lil so they’re both here. Expect poetical Porn with somewhat Emotions since I can’t help myself apparently.)