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burn the treeline down by Ferox
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Superman (Movie 2025), Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
04 Aug 2025
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After breaking the story that landed Lex Luthor behind bars, Clark’s investigative journalism career hit an unexpected wall. Perry’s offer of Managing Editor at the Planet should have felt like a reward, but it felt like a punishment instead. Facing down thirty-something years behind a desk, Clark said yes to an off-handed job offer.
Four years later, Clark has been doing his best to juggle his obligation as Superman with his new career in the FBI. That balance is threatened when Clark is asked to consult on a case with Dr. Bruce Wayne, one of the FBI’s most notorious agents who can’t escape the rumors surrounding his parents' death when he was seventeen. Bruce is brilliant, but nearly impossible to work with and has a reputation for driving off his partners.
Bruce seems to have uncovered suspicious similarities in scores of deaths across the U.S. spanning decades. There is no link between the victims aside from a repeated stab pattern during their murder. Like a signature, hidden in an art piece.
Together, the two men set out to uncover whoever is behind these vicious deaths. But Bruce Wayne has secrets of his own and Clark is left wondering how many skeletons are buried at Wayne Manor.
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24 Feb 2026
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Pretty Reporters are Always in Need of Saving by Mild and Hammered (pillage_and_lute)
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
29 Sep 2024
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Bruce Wayne has no problem being Matches Malone to get the job done, but sometimes his job turns out to include rescuing Clark from the various dangers of being too wholesome in Gotham at night. He's a walking trouble magnet, and of course Bruce will pull him out of trouble, so long as Clark doesn't blow his cover. Wait...Clark does know that Matches is a cover, right?
Superbat Week 2024-Prompt fill for Day 4: This is a love story/this is a detective story- Damsel in Distress
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- Part 4 of Superbat Week 2024
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11 Feb 2026
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Good Boys Play With Matches by rumplemintz
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
29 Sep 2024
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An additional scene for @mild-and-hammered's 'Pretty Reporters are Always in Need of Saving'. This will make more sense if you read that first, but can be read alone.
Matches Malone saved Clark, but surely the goody-two-shoes reporter doesn't think his payment is only a kiss?
Superbat Week 2024 Day 4- This is a love story/this is a detective story -- Damsel in distress
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- Part 4 of Superbat Week Additional Scenes
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11 Feb 2026
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Clark Kent, a fresh MIT graduate and Gotham Racing's newest race engineer, thought the hardest part of his job would be the physics calculations and tire strategies. He was wrong. The hardest part is Bruce Wayne.
When Bruce's shameless flirting over the radio comms leads to a night that changes everything, Clark discovers that some crashes happen off the track, too.
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10 Feb 2026
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Then he took a deep breath and he changed. He ironed out every fold in his posture and his face until he looked like Superman again. His shoulders were broad, his gaze was confident, and his smile showed no sign of embarrassment or fear.
It’s genuinely uncomfortable to watch.
Especially since Bruce knows that change. He’s seen it in the mirror before entering parties or nightclubs. He’s always referred to it, internally, as 'putting on my better face.' The façade is his least favourite part of the day, ranking just below 'getting punched by supervillains.'
The idea that Superman is just Kal's better face, that would explain a lot.
It would also mean Bruce isn't alone.
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24 Dec 2025