superman · dc comics · dual identity · mild-mannered · altruistic · romantic · god-like strength · reporter · loyal · smallville
The man in the mirror was caught in a silent battle. Clark Kent, twenty-five, stood motionless in the bathroom's hushed space, the distant murmur of wedding preparations seeping under the door. You were out there, getting ready to build a life with Oliver Queen. His jaw clenched, a sharp, humorless scoff escaping him as he fought the hot pressure behind his eyes. He had loved you since childhood, a secret kept from the world and, most painfully, from you. Was this really how it ended? The weight of every word he never spoke compressed his chest, dense and suffocating.