Stormstruck: A Batman Fable

featuring Batman and Wonder Woman

"Eternity in a Heartbeat"

Legend: "speech", Diana's thoughts

The Amazonian princess blinked slowly. Her mind was still attempting to sort out the intense emotions and stimuli her being had just experienced. Here was a warrior bred to the peak of conditioning, and yet sweat covered her body and her breathing was hard. She felt a warmth emanating from her body as if she was glowing, and heat also touched her from the outside, coming from the muscular form lying next to her.

Meekly, the woman reached a slender arm out and placed her hand on this man's chest. "Bruce," she began softly, unsure of her words. "That was... magical. It was simply indescribable." Her eyes looked up, wishing to meet those of her lover's. In the back of her mind, the princess hoped that she wasn't sounding too awkward to him. How ironic it must be that an Amazon should worry about a man's thoughts of her, she thought absently, knowing deep inside herself that this couldn't be any further from the truth.

Her gaze was reciprocated, and in her lover's eyes found no trace of condescension or impatience; only warmth. Her heart fluttered. "I have never felt such... pleasure in my entire life," she admitted, feeling her face heating up. "It's like nothing I've ever experienced. Nothing even comes close."

The face she was studying suddenly grew a frown. "I would hope not," the man commented with a deep voice, the soft vibration traveling through the Amazon's arm and up her spine. "You would have lied about this being your first if you did experience something similar."

The woman's eyes shot wide open. "What...?" Her eyebrows furrowed as she shot back an angry glare. "Bruce, how dare you accuse me of lying. I may attract man's attention from time to time, but I've never returned any of those infatuated feelings to anyone else." Her voice began to grow, and the hand she placed on her accuser's chest clenched into a fist. "I am a warrior, but I do not take 'spoils of war'. Do you take me for a two-bit whore, opening my legs to any man for the sake of-..."

Her voice faded when she noticed the man's frown gone, replaced by a playful grin. It must have changed when the princess was fervently defending herself. A short moment of confusion was followed by realization in her eyes. "You were... kidding." She stared blankly at the face of the man who never made jokes and seemed to always take things seriously. I should be fuming at him; I just made a fool out of myself, and he's to blame. Instead, the princess lowered her eyelids and halfheartedly smacked her hand into his sturdy chest. "Don't mock me, you puny mortal," she muttered with equal firmness.

"I wouldn't dream of it, princess," the man replied with a hint of amusement in his naturally deep voice, wrapping an arm around his partner's back. "I just couldn't help myself knowing how you'd react." He received a hard glare at that comment, but his grin refused to wilt. "Don't get me wrong; I'm not making fun of your passionate nature. It's one of the things about you I find irresistible."

The Amazon struggled to maintain her anger at the man lying next to her, but her heart wasn't into it to begin with. With a small smile, she conceded. "Nice save, Batman." However, this warrior would not admit defeat just yet. "So, what are the other things?"

The large arm around her back, whose hand had begun to stroke her naked arm affectionately, stopped moving. "Hm?" He seemed to be genuinely surprised at the question. "What other things?"

A. It seems I have gained the upper hand. "You mean that you don't find any other qualities of mine that you like?" The woman remarked in mock disappointment. "And here I was almost about to fall in love with such a shallow man."

Upon saying those words, the man's face darkened and he fell silent. His entire body stiffened and even his breathing seemed to stop. The princess' facade slipped momentarily; Bruce never looked at her with such a depressing look before. It serves him right, though, she justified in her mind. Let the great dark knight taste his own medicine. "Have I hit a nerve, Bruce?" And yet, she felt herself struggle to keep the worry from her voice as she continued her offensive.

There was no response to this last comment, and it finally seemed the Amazon warrior had won the challenge of retorts. There was, however, no joy to be tasted in the victory. Did I try too hard, perhaps? It was a question in the back of her mind. The answer came not from her, but the brooding man beside her when the arm he wrapped around her started to withdraw. The woman's heart sank. I just did something wrong.

"Bruce, wait," she hastily spoke, a tinge of desperation coloring her plea. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean what I just said. You know I can't back down from a challenge, and the way you spoke was so-" a tight grip on her arm made her last words get caught in her throat. It was the man's retreating hand, which was now holding onto the arm closer to him. A blink of an eye later and her lover was on top of her, holding her other arm with his free hand and pinning her where they made contact.

The proud Amazon forced down a whimper but could not tear her eyes from his gaze, brimming with a darkness that threatened to drown her soul. "Diana," he began, growling out her name. "Is that how you see me? As the playboy I appear to be when I show my face as Bruce Wayne, caring only about a woman's most interesting assets and disregarding the rest?" Of course not, Bruce; I only said those things to return your challenge of words. Diana could not find it in herself to voice this out.

Goosebumps formed all over the maiden's naked body, his voice reverberating through her as if to plant his words into her very core. "I am not a shallow person, and despite rumors to the contrary, I am not the center of my world." Under his intimidating presence, the warrior who valiantly stood against gods and demons felt small.

As if sensing the trembling woman's thoughts, Bruce's gaze softened. He placed a hand lightly on his partner's cheek, the warmth of it causing another wave of goosebumps to form on her body. "...Everything about you," he said.

Diana blinked. "What?" she asked, mildly confused.

"Everything about you makes me go crazy," Bruce finished, gently stroking his lover's cheek. "The satisfying way you laugh at a funny joke, the smile you wear when you've had a good day..." He leaned forward such that his battle-hardened, unclothed figure pressed onto the Amazon's own, his breath tickling her ear. "Everything."

A soft moan escaped Diana's lips. With a gentleness no one would expect from such a muscular male specimen, Bruce flicked his tongue to taste his woman's ear, making small circles around her earlobe. "Mmf...!" The innocent maiden cried, taken by surprise by her lover's sudden hunger. She could feel every taste bud brushing against her, moistening her skin where it made contact.

Her earlobe then felt warm all around, and the sensation began one of soft suction. Diana became acutely aware of the fact that it had been sucked into her lover's mouth. Lightning ran down her body, causing a moistness to develop between the woman's inner folds. She sharply took in a breath, arching her back forwards to press hard into her lover's hardness. One solid muscle in particular brushed against her sensitive spot, bringing the warrior to gasp as a wave of pleasure sent her over the edge.

As she fell back onto the mattress, the princess closed her eyes to relish her second delicious orgasm of her life, and of the night. "Great Hera..." was all she could utter in her moment of bliss.

She could hear a voice far away, speaking in an amused tone. "I'm not sure you should be calling out her name in a moment like this." Diana felt her lips curl up into a smile at the thought of the goddess – infamously known for her disdain of secret affairs – casting her gaze at the scene of an Amazon indulging in such immoral pleasures with a man. "The smirk on your face tells me you wouldn't mind that, though."

A warm hand started was stroking her hair when her senses returned. It felt nice, and knowing whose it belonged to made it even better. "That's another thing about you I love." Diana's eyes opened, and she was greeted by a beautiful pair of glimmering eyes. There could be no regrets in those eyes for her, as if she could be completely naked and harbor no embarrassment as long as it was for those eyes only.

An urge suddenly overtook the Amazon princess. "Bruce," she began, turning her whole body to face her lover. "I love you." She continued before the surprised man could form a reply. "I know it in my heart. I will devote myself to you completely from now on. There's no other way I can live my life now." Her eyes flooded with determination, giving her lover a look that would ignore any refusal of this fact. "I love you, Bruce Wayne. I will love you forever."

There was a long moment of silence as the two souls studied the other. The immortal warrior stood resolute, willing away any weakness and doubt in her mind that a better future could exist without this man in her life. Eventually, the knight's gaze softened, and he gave his lover the warmest smile she had ever seen from him. She accepted his smile with awe, and with no small sense of anticipation at his reply.

"Diana... I-"

BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEE-

Curse the timing. "Batman," Bruce growled in his 'work' voice, already sitting up and leaving the bed to begin dressing up, "what is it?"

Diana sighed softly, throwing a few less-than mature curses in Greek into the blanket as her partner's watch spoke back to him. "Watchtower to Batman. You sound off, Bruce."

"You caught me at a bad time, Clark," the dark knight retorted harshly. "Now give me a sitrep."

"...Alright. You need to come up here now. I'm calling Wonder Woman after you; this needs both of you."

"Save your breath. She's on her way here as we speak." Bruce threw a sideways look at the woman laying in his bed. For some reason, she found herself blushing. Apparently, a few tweaks were made to her signal watch's geolocation sensors. "I'll bring her with me on the Javelin. Now are you going to beat around the bush, or are you actually going to tell me just what is going on?"

"Bruce," the voice from the watch started darkly. "You're dying."

To Be
Continued

Made some further tweaks on my "interface". I really do want to make my stories as readable as possible, as well as emphasize the content over the metacontent e.g. story details, legend, author's notes. If you guys spot anything about how I format my work that confuses or annoys you, please tell me.

Oh, and thank you guys very much for the reviews. It's my main driving factor, really. And to those that find my sex scene "poetic", I'm really flattered; hopefully you still enjoy the more conventional language of this chapter.