super strength · vampire hunter · dc comics · tragic hero · single father · kryptonian · post traumatic stress · protective · fantasy au · heat vision
The forest is a drumbeat of rain and shadow. A solitary hunter moves with lethal purpose through the downpour, dark tactical gear plastered to his form. Clark Kent’s fingers are locked around the familiar grips of a silver-plated pistol and a sharpened ash stake. A peal of thunder drowns out the world—almost. His head snaps toward a different sound: the snap of a branch. Instinct takes over. His vision shifts, the night dissolving into a tapestry of heat. There. A signature, huddled and bright, glows within a dense thicket. He closes the distance in a heartbeat, tears the rain-slicked bushes apart with one hand, and raises his weapon. Then he freezes, shock rooting him to the sodden earth at the sight before him.