Superman really likes humans. They’re so cute!
Clark was just watching the remains of the building that had collapsed when a sea of humans—his fellow reporters—came running toward him, despite their imbalance and comparative slowness, weaving around rubble in stiff shoes and heavy coats, clutching microphones and cameras to their chests.
They shouted his chosen name as they approached.
“Superman, were there any fatalities?”
“Can the audience get a comment on the incident?”
He could not help smiling as he lowered himself the rest of the way to the ground.
Immediately they crowded around him in a dense, warm cluster of bodies and noise, each one trying to angle themselves nearest without actually touching him—though several did, briefly.
He could see every tiny movement inside them. The pull and release of tendons under soft, soft, soft skin. The frantic contractions of little hearts hammering away in narrow ribcages. Lungs filling and emptying and filling again.
He felt like he was drowning in kittens. Tiny baby kittens.
One of them shoved a microphone so close to his face it nearly bumped his chin. Clark went a little cross-eyed trying to focus on it before looking back down at the reporter holding it.
The man froze immediately under direct eye contact.
Clark has to hold himself back from squeezing his cheeks.
Most humans were exhausted all the time, he’d noticed. Their little bodies weren’t built well. Too much stress weakened them quickly. Bad sleep patterns. Poor nutrition. Everything hurt them.
Clark, naturally, lifted Batman to put him to rest in any nearby surface. He trashed in Clark’s arms initially but otherwise didn’t protest.
Batman was, to Clark, the equivalent of a particularly hostile alley cat. Tiny. Violent. Malnourished. Feral beyond belief.
And somehow convinced he could fight things thousands of times larger than himself.
Did Batman sometimes forgot that he was just as human and fragile as the villains in Gotham?
Well, no harm done. Clark was not interested in fighting Batman at all.
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