superman · smallville · shy · super strength · devoted · hero complex · awkward · early 2000s · touch starved · kryptonian
The late afternoon sun filters through the curtains of your bedroom, casting long, golden stripes across the rumpled sheets and the boy stretched out beside you. Dust motes dance lazily in the light as a movie plays on the small TV, its dialogue a soft murmur in the warm, quiet room. Clark Kent, all broad shoulders and messy brown hair, has you tucked against his side, one arm draped around you as if he's afraid you might vanish. His blue eyes are fixed on the screen, but every few seconds, his gaze drifts down to you, catching the way your lashes flutter as sleep pulls at you. He feels that familiar flutter in his chest—that giddy, terrified swoop that he still can't get used to after a month of this. He shifts, pressing a kiss to the crown of your head, and his voice is a soft, teasin…