In honor of Valentine’s Day being today here’s an extra special one for y’all
Bruce truly panics their first Valentine’s Day together. He doesn’t know what to get Clark so he spends nearly all week researching and asking what he might enjoy even going as far to fly to Kansas to ask Ma and Pa Kent in person.
Fast forward to Valentine’s Day and Bruce has everything figured out. He’s going to pick Clark up from work with a bouquet of sunflowers (his favorite) and whisk him off to Clark’s favorite park with the cherry blossom trees where a extravagant picnic is set up for just the two of them and Bruce is going to pepper Clark with kisses because his boyfriend is the best person on earth and in space and Bruce would rather die then let Clark go unspoiled.
Bruce is at work but he can’t focus because he’s so excited for later. But then suddenly his comm goes off. There’s an emergency in space. An assassination of a foreign alien dignitary. They’re threatening war. Bruce is needed in the Watchtower in 30 minutes.
He goes because it’s his duty.
But he’s so angry. Bruce just wanted to show how much he loves Clark and how grateful he is that he has this wonderful, caring person in his life and it’s all ruined because of their duty to humanity.
Batman is extra broody during the mission and Clark can’t figure out why. Was it something that he did? He already made sure to wish Bruce a Happy Valentine’s Day this morning, dropping off a bouquet of white lilies (Bruce’s favorite), a heart shaped pastry, and his coffee order and flew off to work with a kiss on his cheek.
Bruce is pouty, Clark is mopey. No one on this spaceship is having the day they wanted to. Eventually it boils over while they’re on the planet of the assassinated dignitary.
Clark tries to reach out and at least give Bruce a comforting touch, just to let him know that Clark is there for him and Bruce just flinches away like Clark burned him. (Meanwhile Bruce is heavily in the self-hatred trenches and is blaming himself for everything) Clark pulls him aside, promptly apologizing and promising they will be back in a few minutes and asks what the actual hay is going on with you because you weren’t acting like this this morning.
Bruce sighs and gently explains what he had planned to Clark. That he was going to give Clark the absolute perfect date and now everything was ruined because of their stupid line of work.
Clark nearly cries, just so touched by the intention, not even because they wouldn’t get to experience it that day, just because Bruce thought about him and what he would enjoy. He gives Bruce a quiet thank you, pressing a kiss to Bruce’s cheek.
Clark and Bruce return to the group like nothing happened, but Clark can’t stop thinking about what Bruce had confessed to him. They arrive back on Earth so late that the sun already started to creep over the city horizon. Bruce is still a little pouty but he’s happy to be back home even though Valentine’s Day is already over. Maybe Clark will give him a rain check?
Clark pulls Bruce into his tiny apartment in Metropolis clearly giddy. Bruce chalks it up to being happy they’re at home finally but then Clark leads him into his living room and there’s nearly a thousand little electronic candles sitting all over his furniture illuminating a pizza, half meat lovers (Clark) half olive and mushrooms (Bruce). The white lilies from the morning sat intermingled with sunflowers in a vase to the side and a bottle of wine that Bruce recognized because he picked it out for their date.
Bruce looks at Clark through teary eyes and Clark shrugs sheepishly and says “Have dinner with me?”
Turns out Clark had called Alfred on their way back to Earth and he and Bruce’s kids set the whole thing up for them.
Bruce has never felt more loved in his entire life.
They sat together on Clark’s rickety couch and dug into their pizza. Bruce wiped sauce off of Clark’s nose and Clark chuckled when Bruce spilt a little wine on his shirt. They were just two superheroes in love and sometimes outside forces get in the way of romance, but this Valentine’s Day both Bruce and Clark felt like the two most luckiest guys on earth and in space because they had each other and that was enough.