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superbat, 46k, rated T, hurt/comfort, clark w/ a terminal illness (TAGGED AS HAPPY ENDING !!)
what i love about it!!
THIS FIC IS KINDA CRAZY HEART WRENCHING, i skimmed it while trying to figure out what fic to rec and alllllll those feelings i had when i first read it came punching me in the face.... if you can handle the subject matter, i really really recommend it because its such an intense and beautiful ride ! im really about to sit down and reread it fully and cry again. its so good.
an excerpt from my favorite scene !
Clark rubs the back of his hand over his mouth. It looks like he’s about to answer, but then a cough rips through his chest, and he brings the crook of his elbow to his mouth, coughing into his arm.
When Clark catches his breath again, there’s a splotch of dark, red blood on the sleeve of his shirt. A blade of sunlight falls across his hand, but the light doesn’t seem to help Clark’s grim shape, not at this rate.
Something tightens in Bruce’s chest. There’s a rush of noise in his ears that at first he thinks is the AC. He realizes it’s his own pulse, his heart pounding at the sight of Clark with blood on his lips, like that day in the gardens.
Bruce has all the pieces to the puzzle. He knows what the truth is, but he doesn’t want to accept it. He needs to hear Clark say it, even if he doesn’t want it to be real.
“You’re sick,” Bruce says quietly, with the desperate hope that Clark will shake his head and offer some tame explanation for the blood on his clothes and the mournful look in his eyes. Anything, anything to prove Bruce wrong. Please, let him be wrong. Just this one time.
Clark looks at him, brilliant blue eyes piercing him to the core.
“I’m dying,” Clark says, and Bruce’s world stops turning.
This was on a post about BRUCE having all sort of connection around Gotham, be it as Batman, Bruce Wayne, Matches Malone, or any other identities of his. I liked the original comment, because I myself have an hc that Bruce has engaged some sex workers to come at the manor and lie to the police that they had sex all night long. And knowing how irl sex workers do not trust the cops, no way Gotham sex workers trust their scummy pigs.
Anyway, I wouldn't be making this post if it wasn't for that answer about Jason. Reminder, this is a post about BRUCE, and here we are, making it about Jason and how he is the hero of Crime Alley. They are telling someone that their hc is wrong, based on FANON bs about Jason. Because, in the comics, Jason was a pimp (see: Under The Red Hood). That's the only interaction with sex workers he had as Red Hood I know of. Wait, he also used a girl trauma from being forced into prostitution against her (see: Green Arrow: Seeing Red) He also started a gang war and a drug war (see: Under The Red Hood and Green Arrow: Seeing Red), so idk when he helped people into rehab.
I don't remember him doing any of that. You know who I know did that? BRUCE WAYNE. (And other characters, but this was a Bruce's post so we are only focusing on him) Batman protects sex workers, cries them when they die and brings their killers or abusers to justice, when cops normally turn a blind eye. There is even a Batman: Black and White issue where he calls Superman to help to save a sex worker's life. Bruce is the one to help people get into rehab, to help people get better job, to leave the life of crimes. He is the one financing community centers so the kids have somewhere to go (See: Red Hood and Arsenal), and he is the one who come see these kids so often just to listen to them and help them (see: Gotham Knights). Bruce anonymously supports financially some shady businesses in Crime Alley so they don't close (see: Batman: Black and White). Matches Malone has many friends in Crime Alley.
Where did Jason did any of that? Where the fuck did he became the "ever competent Duke of Park Row"??? I'm going to tell you: NOWHERE.
Jason doesn't own Crime Alley or Park Row, the place where BATMAN WAS BORN. He is not their protector, and they do not prefer to snitch to him than to Batman, Bruce Wayne, Matches Malone or any other identities of Bruce!
Some examples of what I talked about under the cut.
~ Under The Red Hood - Red Hood is killing everyone fighting in the gang war, and he is taking huge cuts in drug trades, racketeering and prostitution. If the boss takes bigger cuts, that means the price rises, because the guys under him still need to make money themselves. However, with prostitution, it means the sex worker is likely getting less.
~ Green Arrow: Seeing Red - Jason killing his own guys
~ Green Arrow: Seeing Red - Jason using Mia's sexual trauma against her to get her to rally with him, after he kidnapped her and while fighting her.
~ Gotham Knights - Kids defending Bruce because he comes to the teen shelter every month and listens to them
~ Red Hood and Arsenal - Jason visiting the community center he used to go to and discovering an amnesic Bruce Wayne there. Jason thinks about how Bruce is the mysterious benefactor behind the center.
~ Batman: Black and White - Bruce giving money to a bar in Crime Alley so it stays open. As you can see from the art, sex workers work there.
~ Batman: One Bad Day - Mr Freeze ~ Matches Malone hanging out with some friends, and having a karaoke
~ Batman: Black and White - Batman finding the man who ordered the kill of a sex worker and dragging him to justice, because the system will not do it itself as he is a politician.
batman #664. he is the kindest man i know
batman #665. the kindness he gave came back to him when branca beat the fuck out of him and roxy and her friends found him in the alley and she drove him to safety
We cannot forget his first meeting with Selina where he beats up their pimp after seeing child prostitute Holly Robinson.
We also cant forget Haddie McNeil [the daughter of a socialite who "sleeps with" (is raped by) older socialite men because she wants the feeling of a father who cares for her] whose death he feels very responsible for because he turned her down harshly. He is the only person at her funeral who cares that a 13 year old died. Her own parents are disgusted by her and accuse Bruce of only caring about her because he slept with her (he didn't).
And that's not the only instance he cares about a girl more than their own parents do.
Her own father, instead of grieving her, tries (and succeeds) to get batman hooked on venom. Bruce is the only one who cares about Sissy, as usual.
He cares about women and girls so much when even their own parents don't.
Wait, if I'm not mistaken, his first meeting with Selina is before he becomes Batman, while he is searching for a way to fight crime. So, his first act toward fighting crime in Gotham is punching a pimp.
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