(prompt: BrainySupes + "What will it take to get you to believe me?")
(set in the AU where Clark meets Brainy only after he meets Brainiac)
"What will it take to get you to believe me?"
"About what? That you're from the future, or that a Brainiac actually means well for once?"
"Both."
Clark sighed, pacing back and forth in his apartment, the three Legionnaires watching him.
"Well …" he said, finally. "I believe the future part, your outfits are enough to convince me of that. But as for you… doing something worth believing in would be a good start, wouldn't it?"
Brainy smiled. "I haven't killed you yet. That's something."
"That doesn't prove anything. Maybe you're planning to lure me into a trap or something."
(prompt: Brainysupes + the color green)
It was safe to say, at least for a while, that green wasn't Clark's favorite color.
For a long time, it was associated with the meteor rocks that'd rained over his town the day he arrived on Earth– the ones called Kryptonite.
He felt stupid, having a rock as his weakness. He was so powerful, yet that could bring him down?
After joining the Legion, though, he began seeing green in a better light, given one of his closest new friends.
Maybe it wasn't the color itself that he disliked. Maybe he just needed to focus on a different shade.
(prompt: Brainy sometimes just grabbing Clark's face and kissing his forehead while Clark is talking to him because he loves his boyfriend so much and loves hearing him talk.)
"I can't believe this happened." Brainy said wistfully, looking at his boyfriend. (He couldn't believe, after all that time; that word had become truth instead of wishful thinking)
"What do you mean?" Clark asked.
"The two of us, together. It seemed impossible, don't you think?"
"Kind of. But after everything we've been through, we deserve this."
"I don't."
"Are you kidding?" Clark said. "I love you, and you've suffered a lot because of your family. But you never gave up on being a good person, and-"
Brainy kissed his forehead, and Clark smiled.
"Please, keep the compliments coming."
"Of course."
(prompt: BrainySupes + tears)
"Brainy, I'm sorry I didn't say this sooner, but…"
Brainy braced himself for the worst, as usual. Even from Clark, the most positive figure in his life, there were always caveats. Always something keeping them from being together, putting a hold on their relationship with no solution in sight.
"I love you." Clark said.
Brainy remembered, then, the Coluan who told him Clark would never love him. Remembered Clark under the effects of red Kryptonite, telling him he'd never fall in love. Remembered what he'd told himself, those things and many more.
His face felt wet, and Clark looked at him in alarm.
"Did I say something wrong?" he asked, wiping the tears away from Brainy's eyes.
"No." Brainy said, kissing him. "Everything's so right."
(BrainySupes + things you said too quietly)
(set in the "Brainy as a ghost" AU again)
The battle ends. Clark's alone.
Sure, there are people congratulating him- he's why they won, he came back to life to help Brainy defeat the Brainiac programming. But he isn't the real hero here. And he knows the person who deserves the recognition is gone.
He likes to think he doesn't need thanks, as a hero- seeing others happy with those they love is enough. But he can't say that anymore.
There's too many things he wants to say, too many things Brainy won't get to hear, but only three words he regrets not saying when he was still alive.
(prompt: Clark and Brainy being dared by Phantom Girl to eat a ghost pepper.)
"Okay, but why this one?" Clark asked, holding up the pepper.
"Ghost. Phantom. Duh." She said, first gesturing to the pepper, then to her costume. "Also, you have heat vision. I thought it'd be fun to try to find something that could measure up to that."
"Clark, that is not good for you." Brainy said. "There could be…unexpected consequences…"
"You gotta eat it too, Brainy." Phantom Girl reminded him. "I dared both of you."
"Oh." Brainy remembered, face falling.
"Don't be a weenie." She said. "Now, both of you. On the count of three. One, two, three… eat the peppers!"
(and some more Brainy and Brainiac 1 conversation)
You know they don't trust us now.
"Superman still does."
Kal-El places his trust in many things, most of them illogical. You are not special.
"He loves me."
He does not. And after what happened on Kandor? They all doubt you.
"So, what can I do to regain their trust?"
That act would be futile. It would be more efficient to follow my plan. Then you will show them who is meant to truly lead.
"I know what you consider leadership. I am not destroying planets like you did."
I said nothing of the sort. Presumption is a dangerous thing, Brainiac-5.
"So was getting information from you in the first place."
Yet you did so anyway. Do you regret that?
"No."
So you at least trusted me enough then. Why not now?
"That… is a good question."
Then do so again. You are not one of them now. I am still the only one you can trust.
"You are right."
(prompt: BrainySupes + soulmate AU)
Clark doesn't have a soulmate. That's the only explanation - he's set apart from humanity in so many other ways, why should this be any different? He'll always be an outsider.
Brainy doesn't dwell on the concept of soulmates much - the concept was dismissed by the Coluans he was raised by as illogical, and furthermore unrealistic, especially for Brainy himself. But, privately, he thinks: Whoever my soulmate is, they must be very unlucky.
Later, when he's reading about the exploits of Superman, he feels a longing, something like desire.
It isn't until the two meet that everything makes sense.
(prompt: AU where that one Justice League Unlimited episode featuring the Legion and something equivalent to the LOSH series happened in the same universe)
He's waited too long for this-the time that history records he recruits other heroes from the past.
One in particular, even though history also tells him that one is doomed.
From the moment he meets her, it's like seeing the experienced Superman all over again. She's confident, strong, so brave. Not deserving to be dismissed as only someone's cousin.
Even when she's fighting him, he understands why, and wants to tell her the truth about why he's organic. How great an impact Superman truly left on his life.
When she says she's staying, it's like hearing the words from him.
(prompt: Brainy's tarantula starts following Brainy around everywhere. Walking behind/beside him, riding on his shoulder, etc. Everyone is trying not to be creeped out by it.)
The thing Brainy likes about having Desdemona around: People give him space now. They're more hesitant to actually interact with him, once they see her. Before, they'd just start talking for no reason, a human concept.
That was not pleasant for him, especially since he was used to an environment where nobody talked to him, and almost everyone gave him more space than he'd expected. Being with the Legion changed that- suddenly he was needed.
Brainy didn't mind being needed. But honestly, if people had to stay away from him, he preferred that it'd be because he owned a spider.