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Say It Just One Time by poisonivory
Fandoms: Super Sons (Comics), Superman (Comics), Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
02 Jun 2020
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Five years ago, Damian Wayne broke Jon's heart. Needing a change of scene, Jon moved to the future and joined the Legion of Super-Heroes. But when a family wedding—which may or may not be under threat from supervillains—calls him back to his home time, it's inevitable that he'll run into his ex again.
Luckily, he's over Damian.
Isn't he?
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“I think it’s worth the risk,” he said, still looking at the dancers. He knew Damian would know what he meant. “Even though it ends. However it ends. I think it’s worth it.”
Damian didn’t agree. But he didn’t argue, either.
Jon stood up. “Dance with me.”
Damian’s eyebrows rose. “Did you somehow manage to get drunk again?”
Jon shook his head. “No. Dance with me.”
He held out a hand. Damian looked at it skeptically. “Have you ever known me to dance?”
“No. But it’s a wedding, and I like this song, and I want to dance with you.”
Damian gave a long-suffering sigh and let Jon pull him to his feet. “I forgot how stubborn you are.”
“No, you didn’t.”
“...No,” Damian admitted. “I didn’t.”
There was a bit of awkward shuffling on the floor until they found their rhythm. Jon wasn’t a very good dancer, though Damian was so graceful that he probably would have been amazing if he could have ever relaxed enough to let himself be. But all they really had to do was sway, and even Jon could manage that.
“The moon may be high...but I can’t see a thing in the sky...I only have eyes for you…”
“See?” Jon asked. “This isn’t so bad, is it?”
“Don’t push your luck, Kent,” Damian said. But his hand tightened on Jon’s waist.
“You are here...so am I...maybe millions of people go by...but they all disappear from view…”
The song couldn’t be more than three minutes long. Three minutes to sway here with Damian in his arms, close enough that the ends of his hair shivered every time Jon exhaled, feeling his pulse beat through their clasped hands. Three minutes with a love that was already over, and in two days Jon would be a thousand years away, and he already knew it would hurt.
But he hadn’t been lying before. It was worth the risk.
“Don’t go back to the Legion,” Damian said abruptly, staring fixedly at Jon’s shoulder.
Something thrummed in Jon’s chest. He forced it down. There was risk, and then there was foolhardiness. “Why?” he asked, keeping his tone light. “You got another roster you need me to fill out?”
“No.”
“Then why?”
Damian’s eyes, still unfairly green, still heart-stopping, flickered up to his and back down again. “Never mind,” he said. “You should go back.”
“Damian.” Jon didn’t stop swaying, but he slowed. “Say what you were gonna say.”
Damian shook his head. “You shouldn’t stay,” he said. “They probably appreciate you on the Legion. You’re probably doing great things there. Then. Whatever.” He took a deep breath and looked back up at Jon, chin out like he was stepping into a fight he knew he was going to lose. “But I want you to stay because I love you. I loved you five years ago, and I loved you when I was thirteen, and I loved you all the time in between. I love you now. I never stopped.”
Jon stared at him. Damian didn’t look away. Didn’t hide. Didn’t misdirect.
“Come here,” Jon said finally, grabbing Damian’s wrist and pulling him off the dance floor and toward the door.
“Why?”
The thrumming in Jon’s chest had turned to thunder. He didn’t try to stop it. “Because I’m going to kiss you and everyone can see us in here and I’m not upstaging my cousin on her wedding day.”
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