(prompt: Brainy and Clark trying to write poetry for each other, but their poems are terrible and laughable.)
"Are you sure you're meant to be a reporter, Clark?" Brainy's asking, almost laughing as he reads what Clark gave him. Clark, at the moment, is hiding his face, only looking at the paper with Brainy's careful handwriting on it. "Because based on your poetry, I somewhat doubt that."
"Two completely different types of writing, Brainy. And it isn't like yours is any better." Clark answers. "If we were in my college creative writing class, it'd get torn to shreds. And that's supposed to be a source of constructive criticism."
"…Maybe I should only continue writing reports."
"Yeah. Good idea."
(prompt: Clark telling Brainy that he's sad that he can never sit on anyone's lap, so he turns into his big robot form to let him sit on his lap.)
"May I please sit on your lap?" Brainy asked, as Clark looked up at him from the couch.
Clark nodded, looking ever so slightly upset, and Brainy did so, being careful not to sit with his back to Clark's face.
"What's wrong, Clark?"
"You do this all the time." He said.
"And you are complaining about that?"
"No… It's just that I've never been able to sit down on anyone's lap. Because obvious reasons." Clark hadn't even been able to sit in his parents' laps without giving them bruises.
Brainy smiled. "There is a way we can make this work."
(prompt: Clark learning to bake, just so he can bake a cake for Brainy. Not for any special occasion, just because he loves his boyfriend so much.)
Clark knocked on the door, five beats, then two. "Brainy, open up. I baked a cake for you."
Brainy let out a long sigh, and Clark could hear him slowly getting up and moving to the door. "Are you going to sit me down and throw it in my face?"
"No, no, that's what you do with pie. Cake is different. Especially this one."
Brainy opened the door, Clark beaming as he presented the cake to him.
"It looks like something I'd see at home."
"Yeah. Thought you'd enjoy it."
"That assumption was correct. And you'll enjoy it with me?"
(no prompt, I just really wanted to write Brainy taking Winn and Lena on a road trip in space)
They exit hyperspace, and Lena wants to throw up. It was necessary, sure, the coordinates Brainy put in would've taken years to get to without it- but she's sure this is normal, for first-time space travelers.
Next to her, as if reading her mind, Winn nods, and makes a gagging motion of his own, but manages to swallow it.
Brainy, behind the metaphorical wheel, looks back at them.
"Don't worry." He says. "The worst part is over."
"Where are you taking us, anyway?" Winn asks, and Lena smiles to herself, looking out the window. She remembers all her mother's anti-alien sentiments, how she planned to send them to a prison planet just for daring to live in her city.
Wouldn't Lillian be upset if she saw you now? She thinks. Both she and Winn, though they have family members who are enemies of the House of El, would be far more anonymous here. Those threats were confined to Earth, thankfully.
Brainy, again silent, only continues to pilot the ship, arriving at a blue planet with what appeared to be three hollow circles on its exterior, in a now-familiar triangle.
"We're here." He says. "Since you have shown me such hospitality on your planet, Winn Schott Jr. and Lena Luthor, I thought it fitting that I show you the same kindness on mine. Welcome to Colu."
(prompt: Whenever Brainy is sitting between Clark and Kara on the couch, the two of them will sometimes kiss Brainy's cheeks at the same time, just for extra cuteness.)
Brainy didn't know how Clark and Kara did it - how they communicated so silently, looked into each other's eyes and said all the other wanted to hear without a single word.
How they were so mentally in - sync, that they'd do something at the exact same time, with barely a minute of planning.
But somehow, they did, and somehow it was always Brainy that ended up sitting between the Kryptonian cousins, and ended up being kissed on both cheeks by the two of them, simultaneously.
He'd smile, blush, look embarrassed- but he wouldn't have it any other way.
(prompt: Please imagine: Space road trip with the Legionnaires.)
"You know…" Clark started, idea forming.
"What?"
"We're always traveling around, saving different planets and all…"
"Yes, we're aware."
"But it seems like we never get to see any of what we've been saving. And we're all from different places, but we don't really get to see what those places are like. And things are pretty quiet around here lately, so I was thinking maybe we could explore that."
"You mean, go on vacation?"
"Yes! Or a road trip, with all of us. Like, right now."
"You're serious."
"Yeah."
Clark ignored the fact that they couldn't go to his planet.
(prompt: Clark learning that it was Brainy's birthday a few days/weeks ago, and feeling so bad that he didn't celebrate it.)
"You didn't tell me your birthday was last week."
Brainy didn't look at him as he answered. "Clark, it isn't a big deal. It never is."
"No way. Everyone deserves a day to feel special, celebrate how far they've come in a relatively short amount of time. Especially you, after all you've done to help the team. We should do something for it, just the two of us. What do you say?"
"Clark, that is…very sweet of you. But I cannot accept this offer."
"Why not?"
"For one thing, it's difficult to celebrate the anniversary of my mother abandoning me."
(prompt: Imagine Brainy really did end up falling for Kara in the fake dating AU.)
"Kara?" he asked, looking up at her. They were dancing together, trying not to notice Clark and Lena watching them. But then again, Clark and Lena watching them was exactly what Kara and Brainy wanted.
"Yeah?"
"I believe now is the time… for us to kiss. Don't you agree?"
She smiled at him. "Have you been kissed before?"
"Not exactly." Not by anyone real.
Kara looked confused, but didn't ask what he meant.
"Alright, now." Brainy said, standing on his tiptoes and pulling her closer. She was hesitant, Brainy felt it, but for him, it was better than any simulation.
(prompt: Clark and Brainy kissing on a ferris wheel and Phantom Girl flying all the way up there just to call them sluts.)
"You know…" Clark said, taking a hold of Brainy's hand as the two sat in the passenger car. "It's really nice, that we're doing this."
"Yes." Brainy answered. "Certainly nicer than the last time we were at a carnival together."
"It sure is. I don't miss that other Ferris wheel breaking down… using my powers in front of people for the first time…" Clark trailed off.
He turned to Brainy.
"You know, I've always wanted to do this."
Brainy was about to ask what, but Clark kissed him before he could.
A feminine voice came from beside them.
"Hey, sluts."
(prompt: So it just occurred to me that Brainy apparently can't write in English since he understands Clark because of the Flight Ring translating for him, so imagine Brainy writing Clark a love note and Clark not understanding what it is, because it's written in Coluan.)
There was a note slipped under his door, but he couldn't read it.
"Hey, what's the deal with this?" he asked various Legionnaires, who all responded with identical "I don't know"s. "Is it some kind of Legion secret code; that I don't get because I'm the new guy? Are you all trying to prank me or something?"
Coincidentally, Brainy, the only one who, Clark thought, may have been able to understand it, wasn't around.
Clark understood why when someone finally said "I dunno. Looks Coluan to me.", and when asked to translate it, answered "Brainy's saying he loves you, Clark."
