*Milk and Honey*
Mari's place…
She would have never imagined that one day she would be waking up to Gotham's most eligible bachelor. As she watches him sleep, which she did not think he did, she became flustered with all emotions that ran through her body in that short moment. Till now, she had never been with anyone like this since John and she was not sure how to react. Especially since Bruce was not the same as a "normal" man; he carried himself differently.
Bruce moves, and the covers exposed his scarred but chiseled chest.
Mari began to focus her attention more on his chest than his face as he settled into a more comfortable position. She wondered how someone could bare so much pain and yet continue to fight crime every night without a complaint, especially someone lacking in powers. She looked at each scar, one even seemed to be new and probably from his fight with John. Reminding Mari that, she was not really dating Bruce, but Batman. Which was much hotter than the latter, but whose comparing?
"Are you enjoying yourself?" Bruce's questions her as he opens his deep blue sleepy eyes. He had been watching her watch him for quite some time, but did want to spoil the moment.
Mari blushes as he leans and gives her a morning kiss. Then he began to get up from the bed, exposing his bare chiseled butt and back as he walked towards the bathroom.
Mari watching with sheer content as he walks away from the bed leaving her upper body exposed.
Within a few seconds, the shower begins to run and the shower door closes.
She lays in bed for a while, trying to figure out how did he know and how long did he know she had been watching him sleep. How is that even possible? Mari thought to herself as she raised from the bed feeling the breeze from the air conditioner against her naked body. She reached for her cellphone next to her, trying to figure out the time and realized that Bruce was here longer than usually. She also realized she had missed her photoshoot as she looked through all the text messages from her management company. But, there was one message that stood out to her, a message from John.
Received at 2 am:
I did not mean for things to end up as it did Mari. I just got lost and we were having problems…She was just there, something familiar in harsh times. But that does not mean what I did should be excused, so I own up to my mistakes and I want to say that I am truly sorry as I don't deserve anyone like you. A woman such as you. But you yourself are not without blame. As it has been brought to my attention, this thing you have with Bruce has been ongoing for some time and was going on for the last few months that we were dating. So, I don't think it is fair that I take all the blame because you were doing the same thing too. I feel like as adults, we should be able to come together and forgive one another especially given the circumstances.
Plus, though you might think he cares for you…It is nowhere comparable to how much I care for you. It might be nice now, but what will you do when he works all those late hours and doesn't return home. Or when he does return home, he comes back broken since he lacks the ability to heal or withstand most of the things he decides to put himself through? Mar, you know I love you, so please just comeback and everything will be forgiven.
End of message.
Mari rolled her eyes at the notion of getting back to John. Her stomach turned with the idea of replying to the text. How dare he compare his cheating with hers…As hers didn't become physical until much later verse he cheated in all aspects from the beginning.
Mari's eyes began to swell with tears of anger, regret, and want as she re-read the heart wrenching text. She could not believe that the man she once gave her heart to would say anything like this. Would do anything like this… Why did it ever come down to this? What did she lack so dearly that he continuously cheated emotionally and physically with Shayera? Though she felt loved by Bruce, their relationship was still young and hadn't moved past the honeymoon phase; while with John, they had been dating over 2 years and even talked about getting married.
"Why me," she thought to herself as she made her way to the closet and picked out something to wear. She shakes her head in the effort to stop the tears from flowing. Though the nose sniffs cannot be helped.
Suddenly Mari feels a force pull her back into a hug.
"I was hoping you were going to join me in the shower, I waited, but then I go all wrinkly, so I got out." He talks to her in a smooth seductive tone as he holds her waist and kisses her neck.
Mari chuckles as she finds her way out of the hold.
Bruce can tell something is off, but before he could ask…
"Batman are you there, we need you in the Watchtower asap." J'onn rings through his earpiece.
"Mari, I have to go… I'll see you later." Bruce says as he kisses her goodbye.
She watches him fade away as she begins to prepare for the day, starting with a shower. After she was done, she decided to make her way to work, hoping to make-up for her missed photoshoot but those plans were shattered when the league asked her to come in too.
The Watchtower…
As Mari made her way to the meeting room to receive her assignment for the day, she could not help but feel like she was being watched. By both the men and women that crowded the halls of the Watchtower.
She finally makes her way there only to be told that someone else had offered to take her assignment and she was not needed now. This was upsetting as she could have gone to make-up her photoshoot instead of taking the day off for the league.
Grr… Her stomach rumbles.
Watchtower cafeteria…
The room's air fills with curiosity,jealousy, lust, and hatred as heroes pass by Mari sitting alone eating lunch at her table. She could feel eyes watching her as the gossip and giggled about personal news that surfaced through the league halls. She was not prepared for the emotions that surround her daily hero life after her public affections with Batman unveiled their sudden romance, while she was still linked to John. She couldn't tell whether it was hate or jealousy most people were giving off or were they just surprised by the whole ordeal.
Mari became trapped within her emotions and she drowns in anxiety as the eyes around her burn through her skin, she feels like she can't breathe.
"So, what is it like dating the undatable?" Clark asks her as he sits down, tray in one hand, drink in the other.
Mari snaps out of it when she realizes Clark has join her for lunch.
"Oh, hey Clark, sorry I didn't get what you just said… I was… daydreaming," She looks him in the eyes and smiles.
He smiles back at her and begins to repeat the question, but his mouth had something different in mind.
"Is everything ok?" Clark notices Mari apparent frustration.
She just smiles at him as she begins to pick at the food on her plate.
"You want to go somewhere else? There's a special place in the watchtower made just for the original seven." Clark invites her to eat lunch with her elsewhere, she agrees.
Location Unknown…
"The monitoring room, is the special place Clark?" Mari chuckles as sits beside him, eating her lunch.
He smiles at her.
"No one likes doing monitor duty Mari," Clark replies as he chuckles.
Mari lets out a small laugh too.
The room was silent for some time as both parties finally begin to enjoy their food. Clark looks up to find Mari smirking at him.
"What's so funny?" Clark asks has he takes another bite of his steak.
Mari puts her fork down, wiping her mouth before answering his question.
"I wouldn't have guessed I would be having a private lunch with the MOS." Mari can't seem to wrap her head around her new-found popularity in the tower.
Clark is flattered by her confession, more than he should be. Before now, he's never taken much notice to Mari aside from knowing she is a model and she was linked to John. He could see why Bruce became so infatuated with her. She was tall, curvy, beautiful, and soft spoken.
Through her suit, he could make out the placement of her nipples and the thickness of her thighs. His eyes trailed down every inch of her as she draws her attention to the monitor then back to her food. Clarks mind began to flash images of her and Bruce together, the day he had walked in on them. He began to wonder what she would be like or how she would taste. After seeing her and Bruce together … it made him curious about being with her.
Clark study her even more from her lips to her hips, back to her hair and with each glimpse he felt the sexual tension between the two rises. Diving further into his desire, Clark felt Mari's gaze and a tightness in his pants.
Clark sudden moves his tray over his lap which warrants Mari's attention.
"Is everything ok?" She looks at him in confusion.
He smiles at her as he tries to hide his sudden arousal.
"I almost dropped my tray," as he began to adjust himself in his seat.
Desperate to relieve the sudden urge pursue Mari on the computers mainframe, he decides to ask her about Bruce.
"How are you and Bruce?" Clark asks as the need to relieve himself becomes unbearable.
Mari cocks her head to the side.
"Bruce and I are getting along pretty well, He's nicer than I expected."
"Yea, I felt the same way when we became friends … the guy can sure put up a front. I'm honestly surprise he decided to date someone on the team. Since he was so against it when Diana offered," Clark closed his mouth when he realized what he just said.
Mari puts her fork down in shock and makes a screwed face.
Realizing what he just did, Clark tries to reassure her.
"That was before we started inviting other members to the league, so you have nothing to worry about," Clark smiles at Mari as he rubs her knee.
Mari looks as the placement of his hand before looking at him in confusion.
Before she could question his intentions, Bruce enters the room only to see his Clarks hand on Mari's knee.
Bruce lifts one eyebrow to the scene before questioning his longtime friend.
"Did she hurt her knee or are you making moves on my girlfriend Clark?" Batman chuckles as he walks towards the two.
Clark smiles with relief, yet Mari is still lost in confusion.
Clark stands up to greet the equally taller man, Mari stays seated.
"A little of both…" Clark chuckles as he tries to hide his current emotions.
"I'll have to watch you more than I would have expected Clark." Bruce laughs as he pats Clark on the shoulder, with Mari analyzing the situation.
Bruce turns and looks at Mari before returning his glaze to Clark. "I'd hate to kick you out, but I have something to tell Mari," Bruce asks Clark to be left alone with Mari, he agrees.
As Clark leaves the room, he gives both Bruce and Mari a smile as he waves bye. The door quickly closes behind him and Bruce sits in his spot.
He looks at Mari as she sits her tray aside and adjusts herself in the chair. She still looks slightly upset.
"Are you ok, you seemed upset when I left this morning and now you seem even more upset." Bruce asks as he grabs her from her seat and places her on his lap.
She looked away before, she looked at him to answer.
"I got a text from John this morning…it made me pretty upset." She confessed in a low tone.
He lowered his eyes in slight disgust. As he didn't liked John much these days, but also it was apparent Mari still had some feeling for him since she was so upset. He felt her sigh as she began to explain the message John had sent to her early today. Bruce sat in silence as Mari repeated word for word what her ex had text to her.
Bruce was unbothered.
Mari stop reading as she began remove herself from the warmest of Bruce's lap.
He protests. Instead of letting her leave her grabbed her tighter by her waist forcing her into a vulnerable position. Mari was met with a smirk.
She giggles as she tries to find a way out of the hold. But still, he protests.
She tries for the final time only to be picked up and placed on the monitoring console controls.
Bruce sits in the chair in front of her and sits back in the chair.
"Mari, I understand that you a John have some history together and maybe in those times he was beneficial to your happiness. But, now I am here, and I am pretty sure I have done more for you in four months than he has in three years. You should try to let go…" Bruce says in a caring, but serious tone. He had grown to really love Mari a lot which was unexpected, but he planned on seeing the relationship to the end.
He gets up from the chair and towers over the sitting woman. He puts his hands on the console next to both of her hips before leaning in for a kiss.
"I guess you're right…" She hesitates before giving into the kiss.
Before she knew it, Mari was caught in another "situation" with Batman, with the door unlock. But, she didn't care to stop it as she was enjoying herself way too much. Here she admitted to herself that she enjoyed the thrill of almost being caught and with someone who is known to be rather cold to affection.
Mari let out a faint moan as she felt Bruce grinding against the sweet part of her body. She let his fingers explore every itch of her body as be began to strategically massage her sweet spots through her costume. His lips trail from her mouth, to her neck, and began to spend quite some time on her breast.
Before she could catch her breath, she felt him zip down the front of her costume exposing her breast and the top of her neatly trimmed womanhood. Bruce returned his lips to Mari lips, softly kissing her before assaulting her mouth with his tongue. He had placed his gauntlets on the console opposite to him before diving his hand into her pants, exploring her warmth and exposing her weaknesses.
Mari's moaning became more persistent and louder.
Bruce knew he was doing a fantastic job.
He continued to thrust his fingers back and fourth within her, taking pleasure in every moan she makes.
She closes her eyes as she continues to moan, whine, and thrust with each of his moments. Almost as if, she was his puppet. Suddenly, his touched stopped. Mari opened her eyes to see Bruce unbuckling his belt.
"Are you sure we have time for that?" Mari says in concern. As it was much easier for her to zip up a zipper than is was for him to put back on parts of his suit. It was also much easier for her to hide her arousal… Well for Bruce…not so much.
"No one likes monitoring duty…" Bruce gives her a cheeky response before positioning himself for entrance.
"But…. Awhhhh." Her words interrupted by an intense wave of pleasure.
And before she knew it, Bruce was grinding away at her sweet spot with the intent of bringing her to the ultimate form of pleasure. Two minutes in, Bruce decides to lift both her legs and place them on his shoulder as he begins to grind deeper in her.
Mari protests as he was going a bit deeper than she was used to, so she tried to readjust herself to relieve some tension. But she was met with the hands of Bruce, around her wrist, slamming them on the console and holding them firmly behind her head.
She begins to whimper louder as the sensation becomes too much for her. Bruce continue to grind and drill away at her sweet spot, enjoying every cry that slipped from her sweet lips.
"Omg…" She moaned…
"Stop it's too much…I can't." Mari face becomes consumed with pleasure.
But instead of stopping, Bruce decided to add onto her woes. He grabbed both wrist with his left had and used his right hand to stroke the bead of her clit. She shrieked in pleasure!
"Shhh, you're making too much noise. If you continue I'm sure we'll be caught." Bruce says in a seductive joking manner.
As things began to intensify, Bruce found himself slightly moaning to every thrust that her took inside her. He felt her get wetter and wetter as he continued to play with her like a light switch.
John's new place…
"Why do you keep sending her messages John?" Shayera asks her child's father in an aggressive way.
She had saw what he had sent Mari this morning and she was upset. Highly upset.
"Why do you still try with her when you have me?" Tears begin to run down the redhead's face.
John could barely look at her as he felt the anger in her eyes would melt him. He didn't know what to do. He loved them both and in another world maybe that would be ok, but he needed to choose.
But he didn't have a choice, not really. Since his mistress was now carrying the child he sought to prevent. He wondered if he had handled the news in a different way would it be Mari, instead of Shayera.
He shook his head.
"I was drunk… I don't know what came over me. Everything just came at a shock. Getting suspended, losing Mari to Bruce, and now I am having a baby. Everything is happening too fast for me. I won't do it again Shayera, I promise from here on out I will take what we have seriously."
He picks up his cellphone and deletes Mari's number in front of her.
She is pleased. So pleased that she embraces him.
Which is welcomed with a semi-passionate kiss. Before leading her to the bathroom and undressing her.
Back in the Watchtower…
The remaining seven concrete their efforts on the disappearance of the Joker and other top villains. They have been analyzing their data hoping to find a clue to what his big plan was and why did he need so many villains involved.
"Would be nice if the Joker expert was here…" Wally whined to the others.
Diana shook her head and the notion of Batman not being here, even when he was no longer suspended.
"Well, he is here but he just isn't in the room. I left him in the monitoring with Vixen." Clark explained. "They seemed to have something really important to talk about since she looked rather upset." Clark added detail to his input.
Diana sighs. "There are some questions we need him to answer to better our search efforts and understanding of the situation." She looks at Clark with distress.
Clark crosses his arms over his chest.
"Well, I'm sure they are done talking now, so lets just go ask him?" Clark begins to make his way to the door, but is stopped by a statement made by the Flash.
"Last time we did that, he was on top of her and they both were really naked. I don't mind her, but Bruce…ahh that's a bit too much." Wally chuckles as he rubs his head.
"I'm sure that was because they were in her room and not a place where everyone can just walk in." Clark convinces the others to follow him to question Bruce.
Bruce and Mari…
Mari had finally reached her climax with Bruce following right behind her, releasing himself in her. He pulled out and began to clean himself up with wipes her carried in his belt. He handed her one.
They both began to clean themselves up as they were finally tired of going at it for 30 minutes.
Bruce watched as Mari wiggled herself back onto her suit. He watched a she whined her hips into her pant suits and how her butt slightly jiggled as she moved side to side. He felt himself getting excited once again.
But unfortunately for him, they would soon be interrupted by their friends from work and be put in an awkward situation once again. With Vixen barely zipping up her costume and Batman's lack of a cowl…Clark, Diana, Wally, and J'onn enter the room.
Once the four gathered in the room, they are hit with the overwhelming smell of perfume, sweat, and a tad bit of musk. It wasn't a bad smell per say, but it was obviously the two where up to something other than "monitoring" or "conversation". Which Clark had sworn that was the only thing he felt they were doing. And with a half-dressed Batman, the team knew exactly what had took place seconds before they had shown up.
Superman chuckles.
"If you guys keep it up, I am afraid we are going to have to sperate you two." Clark said in a joking manner as the other three were left in semi-shock.
Bruce grabs is cowl and puts it on before responding to his dear friend.
"What is that in your hand?" Bruce completely ignores the joke.
Clark hands the disheveled man the papers. The papers contained the latest data on the whereabouts of the Jokers and other villains that have spontaneously disappeared over the course of several weeks.
Bruce rubs his chin before asking Clark…
"This is all we have?" He couldn't believe that these things have been going on for almost four months, yet they only have 3 pages worth of data. Even worse, everything in the world seemed to be relatively peacefully, even in Gotham.
Bruce shook his head because within there 3 pages, he already knew 95% of what was written down. Bruce became frustrated because he could not piece together what was going on. His frustration was apparent as his jaw seem to tense up the more he read.
"Babe…Is everything ok?" Vixen asked as she sensed the frustration clouding his otherwise calm demeanor.
He looks up at her and smirks before returning his attention to Clark.
"Are you sure there isn't anything else? A small clue will help." Bruce asks Clark as he handed the document back to him.
Clark paused to think before answering Bruce's question.
"Oh, there was a small detail left on the last seen before Joker went missing. But it's in the conference room, so we have to travel there." Clark motioned Bruce to follow him out of the door.
He agrees as he begins to walk towards the door with the others, leaving Mari behind.
"I wonder what is going on." Mari says as she leaves the room.
The Meeting Room…
"This looks like it could be a piece of molecular material that dropped off some sort of teleportation devices." Bruce concluded as he examined the evidence.
Bruce hands the material to J'onn for closer analyzes and safe keeping.
"Does this mean they could have teleported somewhere?" Diana questioned Bruce.
Bruce lets out a faint sigh…
"Maybe, but why? What are they up to and who else is included in this?" Bruce asks as he finds a seat at the rounded table, the others follow suit.
"This just doesn't make sense and we can't conclude on anything without have more evidence." Diana concluded before drawing her attention to Bruce and Clark.
Wally fidgets in his chair a bit.
"While we are here I suppose we should have a formal meeting on this and last weeks matters." J'onn says as he draws the attention of the other league members.
"It seems that you and Mari have gotten fairly close and in doing so have caused a lot of distractions. You have gotten into fights and we have seen you numerous of times engaging in questionable activities that are better suited for behind closed doors." He looks directly at Bruce.
*Batglare*
"J'onn, let them be, I see no harm in it as long as they don't broadcast it to the whole tower on television. I think it's nice for Bruce to finally have someone he can carry on a relationship with." Clark replies to J'onn is a smug way.
J'onn shakes his head in disapproval.
"I agree with Clark." Wally puts his two cents in. "I think I cool Bats has a girlfriend, even though he kind of stole her from John, but they look really happy together besides that. Anyway, I don't mind the sexual escapades the two decided to take part in here, in the watchtower." Wally chuckles.
"Oh Hera!" Diana covers her ears as she storms out the room in obvious jealousy.
"Now that she has left we can start asking the real questions!" Wally leans closer into the table.
Clark shakes his head.
"So…Bruce…How is it? Is it good?" Wally says with a smirk on his face.
Clark starts to laugh uncontrollably as J'onn proceeds to run for the door unable to carry on the conversation any longer.
"The relationship is going well…" Bruce reassured Wally.
Clark finally stops laughing.
"No Bruce … Is it good…Like the sex?" Wally begins to laugh as another spell consumes Clark.
Batman's face gives way to slight disgust before answering the question.
"You would want to know that…" He comments before leaving the laughing men in the room.
8:00 pm, John's new place…
John had fallen asleep next to his pregnant mistress after the two returned home from hitting the town. Between heartbreak, ass beat, and boredom that had taken course over the past couple of the days…he was just so tired. But Shayera was full of energy, so she watched him sleep peacefully. She was happy with her place in life, she had finally gotten back the man she loved, and the child she wanted ever since she saw him in the future.
She was overjoyed, but still felt that John was not happy with all that happened over the past few months. With Bruce and Mari reminding him every time he graces the Watchtower. They were shameless when it came to public affection.
Knock …Knock…Knock…
Someone was at the door. She checked if the stranger's knocks had woken John, but he was still sound asleep. She got up from her bed and answered the door, it was Crater. When she quickly realized who he was, she pushed him away from the door and into the hallway. She slowly closed the door, so she wouldn't wake John.
"Why are you here Carter?" Shayera says as a slight twitch of pain flashes in her eyes.
He grabs her hands, holding them in his.
"I miss what we had, and I want you to come back to me, please." He begs is former lover to return.
Shayera tries to remove her hands, but he has a tight grip.
"I told you, I want to be with John. So, I will be with him." She looks away, unable to braces the pain.
He lets her and stands a bit closer to her, lowering his head before asking her…
"But what of our child? Are you going to give the baby to him too?"
To be continued…