In teen au superbat I could 100% imagine them being the couple what’s on and off every other day. They break up over the pettiest of things, Bruce is posting depressing lyrics to his MySpace, Clark is mopping around the farm, they lock eyes with eachother in the school hallways and are back together. And the cycle repeats until they are in college and become more serious.
(They are also the couple to be making out in the hallways)
I will preface this by saying this grew six legs and ran away from me and now it's a fucking....yeah....whoops
They get serious in university when the two of them are off again, and Bruce goes on the date he planned alone out of principle. Clark wakes up the next morning to everyone on campus looking at him, and has no idea why until he gets to his journalism class and everyone starts whispering at his entrance. His professor puts up a headline on the board, and tells Clark he can leave.
Clark stares at the article on the board, and sprints out of the room. As soon as he's out of sight, he uses his superspeed to race across town, and bursts into a police station.
He's searching, he sees Bruce, and runs to him. Clark pauses when police officers step in front of him, trying to stop the sudden intruder, but the commotion draws the rest of the floor's attention.
"Clark!" His eyes snap to Bruce as he stands, clutching a bundle to his chest
And suddenly there is no way he's waiting, he's across the room yanking Bruce into his arms, there's police officers groaning and getting up from the floor, and the bundle in Bruce's arms shrieks. Bruce doesn't step out of Clark's embrace but does lean back, uncovering his head from under the blanket and stroking the tear-stained, plump cheek of the kid in his arms. "Shh, Dickie, shh. It's okay. Clark's a friend."
The boy just turns his head into Bruce's neck, whimpering, and Bruce collapses back into Clark's arms. "You kidnapped a kid?" Clark hisses, holding him up, and Bruce glares at him as he cuddles closer.
"I'm not kidnapping him," he protests, and his gaze turns pleading. "Clark, I need you with me on this. I'll explain later, but—"
"I'm with you." They lock eyes. "You know that."
A police officer approaches, and Bruce stiffens. "Mr Wayne, for the thousandth time, you need to let Mr Grayson go."
"The hell I will," Bruce snaps, and this time Clark is by his side as he fights to keep the young boy clutching onto him.
Somehow, they end up managing to make their case, and are crammed into Clark's bed together, while the newly orphaned Dick Grayson is tucked gently into Bruce's bed on the other side of the room. "I couldn't not do anything," Bruce whispers. "He was screaming, and I— It was just like my parents— And everyone was running by, no one was helping him, and once he got hold of me I couldn't bear to make him let go. They wanted... I overheard them say there was no placements, he was going to a juvie hall; I wasn't letting them do that."
"So we're parents. Gosh."
"You don't have to be part of this."
Somehow it spirals into a whisper fight over Bruce not trusting Clark, if he wants him to back off just say that, and he storms out in the middle of the night. A few days of staying with Lois later, he turns back up at their dorm with flowers, and kisses Bruce's cheek.
"I'm in," he swears, and Bruce introduces him properly to Dick.
They're forced to properly commit to each other and stop with the push and pull when Clark finds Dick sobbing his heart out after one of their screaming fights, worried he's going to lose more people.
Both of them are fighting the instinct to run away from anything real, but Dick has latched onto both of them so thoroughly they don't have much of a choice. (All that making out in the hallways is because they know have a kid in their dorm and zero alone time.)
Someone in residence complains about Dick's screaming nightmares, and it was hard enough to get permission for Dick to stay, but they're booted out of residences. Bruce buys out a property close to campus and they move into that instead.
Bruce is still being moody on his MySpace, and Clark flies back home to exact his frustration on the hay bales when he and Bruce get into another fight but they're trying to be better and not force Dick to live in an unstable home.
Somehow I want the other JL members to come into this like Bruce and Clark meet them as civilians/heroes and become friends and their house gets invaded by their new teammates and Dick figures out they're heroes and Robin emerges and there's seven young adults trying to raise a six year old and also get through their first year of uni intact.
