Title: Normalcy
Characters: SupermanxBatmanxWonder Woman
Rating: T
Warnings:
Description: They, all three of them, have different ideas of how the world works.
Diana is a princess and Bruce is a billionaire industrialist with more money than 99.99% of the world's population. He also has issues, lots of issues, by his own admission. That doesn't detract from the fact that he's one of the top ten richest people in the entire world.
Meanwhile, Clark is the son of a couple of small town farmers who know the value of good hard work, but have never seen a gala or scoop of caviar or the name Louis Vuitton in their entire lives. At least, not up close or with their own eyes. Clark works for a newspaper company as a news reporter and it's not exactly a grand salary. He has a modest income.
They all three of them have different ideas of how the world works.
Which isn't to say that Diana or Bruce both disdain the idea of hard work, but seriously? Bruce has Alfred who does everything for him, the cooking, the cleaning, the sewing of his various Batsuits, and as for regular clothing, it is tailor made and from the finest materials.
Something breaks beyond fixing? No problem. Bruce can easily pay for a newer, better one. He funds more than half of the Justice League on hidden programs in Wayne Enterprise's budget alone.
Diana is far too used to people listening to her. She asks for something and expects to be obeyed. Clark's still working on getting her to realize that not everyone around her is supposed to respond to her whims. Yes, she's a princess on Themyscira. Here? Not so much.
Sometimes, it's enough to make Clark want to tear his hair out in frustration. Oh, he loves them both, their idiosyncrasies and all, but when it comes to extravagant presents and private suites and silk-lined undergarments, Clark feels like he's the only normal one.
.o.o.
Clark is an alien from another world given ridiculous powers because of the radiation of a yellow sun. Diana is an Amazon princess and kinda-sorta the daughter of a god, depending on who you ask.
Meanwhile, Bruce cannot fly. He has no super-strength or near-invulnerability. He can't shoot laser beams from his eyeballs, see through anything (except lead) with his x-ray vision, or be capable of freezing an enemy in his tracks with the force of his breath. And no, he hasn't flown around the world so fast that he's managed to reverse time. Of course, he's also not laid low by a piece of green glowing rock either.
To each his own.
He also doesn't have magical artifacts that enable him to deflect bullets or get the truth out of anyone with a piece of rope. Nor does he have a shiny tiara that's capable of doubling as a boomerang. Though Clark has mentioned on one occasion – and it's in his best interest that he's merely joking – that it would be amusing to see Bruce in a tiara.
Instead, Bruce is smart. He's trained himself to the limits of the human body and even a bit further. He reads and studies and investigates and uses his brain, unlike the two muscle-headed supers he calls lovers. And yes, he has an array of expensive, useful, and often times life-saving objects. He calls the shadows home and uses fear to his advantage.
But he's still just a human. So when he's crashing to the ground because the Batplane got shot out of the sky, or he's facing down an army of undead monsters armed with nothing but an axe, or manipulating Lex Luthor's cronies into betraying him, Bruce feels like the only one normal one in their little triad.
.o.o.
Diana is not a man.
Bruce and Clark are two of the most empathetic and open-minded men that she has ever met, but when it comes down to it, they are still men. She loves them with all the force of her heart, but she has never forgotten this fact. To be fair, she enjoys a lot of the perks that comes with them being men, but sometimes, it can be annoying as well.
They argue. A lot.
Clark is stubborn, Bruce is twice as much, and neither of them listen to reason when they are toe to toe and convinced the other is wrong. They don't want to back down, and Diana knows that a certain element of machismo is to blame.
She's wanted to take them by the neck and smash their heads together more than a couple of times, but she doesn't, of course, because it wouldn't hurt Clark at all and Bruce would be unconscious. Which means, in their idiotic way of conclusions, that Clark would win the argument by default, Bruce would sulk, and none of them would enjoy the next month of living because Bruce sulks better than most three year old children.
To be fair, Diana can be stubborn, too. But she bends where they refuse to, and more often than not, finds herself the mediator between the two of them. And, Hera help her when it comes to discussing emotions.
Bruce is offended by something Clark does (or is sometimes, it's hard to say with Bruce) and says nothing. He wanders off in a snit, hiding in his Batcave, and Diana has to play the peacemaker. Or Clark gets frustrated by Bruce taking greater risks with his safety (pot calling the kettle black, if you ask her) and disappears to his Fortress of Solitude and it's up to Diana to get the whole story because far be it for either of them to just talk about it.
It's enough to drive her insane and there've been occasions she's wanted to throw her hands up in the air and go sulk in a corner herself. But she doesn't because someone's got to be the reasonable, normal one among them. And if it's got to be Diana, than so be it.
a/n: In case I haven't mentioned this before, I would like to shout-out to all my livejournal readers as their prompts are what give me the inspiration for these flash fiction. If you'd like to participate, you can post on my flash fiction Fridays, which is usually the first Friday of the month or if not, I state what day it is in my sticky post. No livejournal accounts are required as I have anonymous commenting turned on, I just ask that you leave a name that I can dedicate the prompt to. :)
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