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LoS: Missing Pieces Chp 11

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Brainy had been right when he said Clark would be strongly allured to him in the shower. It wasn't bad like it had been the first time Clark had been exposed to Brainy's scent, making him loose all control and practically assault him.

Instead it was like Clark was a cat being introduced to catnip for the first time. He liked to breathe it in and rub against its source, licking it and pawing at it playfully. Part of him would like to think he could keep his hands to himself if he had wanted to but the dominant part of him wondered why he would ever want to?

The shower took much longer then normal with them touching much more than just to wash each other. Neither realized how much time went by or noticed it when the water went cold.

Even after they forced themselves out of the bathroom entirely, dried themselves and gotten dressed, Clark was still finding it difficult to pull away. Their combined scent was still hanging loosely around Brainy skin, now more like a relaxant then an aphrodisiac. They lay on the bed together, on top of the covers, just holding each other as afternoon drifted off into evening.

Noticing the time, Clark wondered if the others would be worried about where they were. He usually tried to back to the future by early afternoon, though there were times he wasn't able to make it until early Monday morning.

It was tempting to do that, to let the future wait and stay in the present with Brainy for as long as he could get away with, but Clark had to remember that while it was calm here the Legion could need them the moment they got there. Plus there were Brainy's regular duties and projects to consider.

Opening his eyes, Clark looked down at Brainy and smiled when he saw his lover had fallen asleep. He brushed back some of the golden hair, kissing his temple, his smile increasing when Brainy sighed and moved closer to him.

Very carefully, Clark removed Brainy's arms from around him and slipped off the bed, nearly laughing when Brainy reached for him and grabbed into his pillow, burying his face into it but frowning slightly in sleep, knowing that something wasn't quite right.

Floating around the room, so as not to make a sound, Clark gathered everything he would be taking with him, casually throwing the bag over his shoulder when he was done. Moving back to the bed, he began to ease his arms under the slumbering boy.

Stirring, Brainy blinked slowly, turning his head, and gazed up at Clark, his eyes half lidded from sleep.

"Clark?"

"It's okay, go back to sleep," Clark softly whispered, lifting Brainy, who was still absently holding the pillow, and holding him gently to his chest.

Closing his eyes, Brainy leaned against Clark and yawned.

"Where are we going?"

"Home."

It hadn't been too difficult for Clark to operate the time bubble while carrying both his stuff and a dozing Brainy. Soon enough he was stepping off the platform in Brainy's lab in the 31st century.

Walking out of the lab, Clark headed towards their shared room.

"Now I know what she means by sickeningly sweet," said an unfamiliar male voice.

Stopping, Clark turned to see who it was, surprised to just see Phantom Girl there.

"Phantom Girl?" He looked around. "Was there a guy here a moment ago?"

"Just me," grinned Phantom Girl, walking up to the couple. Her smile almost became scheme-worthy as she looked down at sleeping Brainy. "My buddy back home owes me twenty credits."

This only served to confuse Clark further.

"Excuse me?"

Looking up at Clark, Phantom Girl's eyes became solid green with black pupils. Her hair shrank back into her head, her skin a light orange, her costume green and black and soon she wasn't a 'she' anymore. Two antennas grew out of the would-be Phantom Girl's head and the new creature grinned at him.

"Chameleon Boy's the name, shape shifting's my game."

Still unable to believe what he had just seen, Clark stared, only half taking in the fact that this orange alien had a Legion flight ring and belt buckle.

"Yep," smirked Chameleon Boy, showing off the Legion ring. "Just got in yesterday. I was psyched to hear that you and Brainiac Five would be back today. Had to win my bet after all and meet you of course."

"Bet?" Clark's mind was still a little shell shocked.

"Yeah, my buddy Rolak didn't believe that you and Brainiac Five were," began Chameleon Boy, pausing to wink, "involved." He grinned at Clark's widened eyes and blush before continuing. "And I said you were, it turned into a bet and now I'm twenty credits richer."

"Wait," Clark raised his hand, easily able to hold Brainy with one arm, to try to give himself a moment to process this. "How did our relationship become a bet?"

The question surprised Chameleon Boy at first but then he smiled in a perfectly devious way.

"You don't know about the fan site, do you?"

"Fan site?"

It just had to be something to do with websites.

"Yeah. Of course there are lots of sites for the Legion in general but you should see the ones where people argue over the hook ups," laughed Chameleon Boy.

This worried Clark.

"You're saying there's a website where people pair up people in the Legion?"

"One? There's loads of them," exclaimed Chameleon Boy, spreading his arms out as far as they could to show his point. "The popular ones are about you and Brainiac Five though. They have pictures of you two together in public and theories about how you possibly," Wink. "Got together romantically," Eyebrow wiggle. "And even drawings and stories and-"

"Enough," said Clark, horrified that such things existed. He looked around, wishing for someone to jump out and say 'gotcha'. "It was nice to meet you Chameleon-"

"Cham."

"Huh?"

"Call me Cham," there was a sense of excitement in Chameleon Boy's voice. "Otherwise it's too long to say in battle. Can you imagine it? 'Chameleon Boy, duck!' – too late I'm fried duck. 'Chameleon Boy, we need your help with this' – too late something exploded."

"What exploded?" came a sleepy voice.

Clark and Cham looked down in surprise when Brainy began to fully wake up and looked up at them.

He frowned at the unfamiliar face.

"Who are you?"

"Chameleon Boy, call me Cham," grinned Cham, taking hold of Brainy's hand and shaking it. "Just joined yesterday while you and Supes were at your love nest of the past."

As Clark blushed again, Brainy narrowed his eyes at the new Legionnaire and pulled his hand back. And since he was now awake, Clark set Brainy to his feet.

"What we do is none of your business, Chameleon Boy," began Brainy.

"Cham," said person corrected.

Brainy ignored him. He turned to Clark.

"I should probably go check on my experiments."

"What no cuddling?" Cham batted his eyelashes.

Brainy shot a glare at the Durlan, turning to leave but, realizing he was still holding the pillow, turned back to give Clark a questioning look.

"Explain later," said Clark, kissing Brainy's cheek and taking the pillow.

Forgetting all about Cham, Brainy beamed up at Clark.

"And me without my camera," Cham sighed.

Anger returning, Brainy swung around and left back for his lab.

When Brainy was gone, Superman crossed his arms, still looking menacing even with a pillow in his arms as he towered over Cham.

"Don't pick on my Other."

"Huh, isn't it a little early in the game to call your boyfriend that?" asked Cham, nervously scratching his antenna.

"No," Superman stated before turning to leave Cham alone in the hallway.

"Don't be mad," Cham dove to the ground and held onto Superman's leg, not seeming to care that the Kryptonian could easily drag him along as he walked. "I was just teasing, I meant nothing by it. Come on, give me a chance! Don't make me use The Face!"

Superman made the mistake of turning around to ask what Cham was talking about only to fall victim to The Face.

Cham had shrunken down into a small orange kitten with giant watery green eyes, peering up at him for forgiveness.

It kinda reminded Superman of his cat Streaky when he was a kitten and he found himself forgetting why he was mad.

The kitten grew back into Cham, who wiggled his eyebrows.

"Want to see something really cute?"

Not waiting for an answer, Cham's skin turned green, his clothes purple, eyes magenta and he grew blonde hair.

Before Superman knew it he was looking at Cham as Brainy, and he was confused for a moment. He already knew that Brainy was cute.

Then Cham, with Brainy's face, made his eyes a little wider as they watered, puckered out his lower lip and… pouted, fluttering his eyelashes.

Superman's mind went completely blank as he stared.

Returning to normal, Cham smirked.

"I bet if Brainy did that he'd have you wrapped around his little finger."

Not answering, Superman turned and ran.

Brainy had just finished checking on one of his experiments when he was turned around and attacked with kisses by his Adora.

-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

"Brainy?" Superman called, sitting on Brainy's chair as he watched his Other work on numerous things.

"Hmm?" Brainy made a few notes before turning to him.

For a moment Superman hesitated, a blush spreading to his cheek.

"Umm, why- er- how did you know that we would need the lubricant?"

Watching Superman's blush worsen, Brainy felt his own face heating up.

"I didn't."

"Then why was it in my nightstand?" Superman asked, confused.

Putting down his notes, Brainy walked over to sit next to Superman. Superman pulled Brainy closer to him to sit on his lap instead. Wrapping his arms around Superman's neck, Brainy leaned fully against him.

"You obviously remember when we first talked about sex."

Moving his arms to rest around Brainy's waist, Superman nodded.

"When I first said I wanted to belong to you, you said you weren't ready," Brainy further reminded him.

Again Superman nodded, absently caressing Brainy's side with his thumbs.

"It seemed to me like you were just saying that because you thought I was just saying I wanted to belong to you because of your sexual feelings towards me," Brainy commented, looking up at the other boy.

Surprised, Superman returned Brainy's gaze and, after staring at him a few moments, smiled nervously.

"What gave me away?"

"It's just in your nature to deny something you want for the good of someone else," said Brainy, pausing to kiss his cheek. "I left the lubricant there thinking that you would find it later to show you that I was serious and give you time to think about it." He kissed Superman on the mouth and smiled at him. "I'm not at all disappointed about having miscalculated."

Remembering how the Brainiac Five he had first met would have argued that a 12th level intelligence was never wrong, Superman chuckled and pulled Brainy in for another, deeper kiss.

After about an hour of distracting Brainy, Superman let his genius get back to work. He went to the lounge and caught up on their time apart with the other Legionnaires until dinner, during which time he brought food to the lab and ate with Brainy since it had been a while since the Coluan had eaten anything.

Instead of trying to keep Brainy to himself again, Superman let Brainy get back to work when they were done eating and went back to hang out with the others. It wasn't until it was almost time to go to bed that he thought of something;

What would sleeping together be like after sleeping together?

Was he still expected to wear pajamas? How would he know when a kiss was just a kiss good night or a kiss to lead to something more? Was it proper for him to initiate something more intimate or would Brainy frown upon it? If they were to have sex again did they even have any lubricant at headquarters?

Would someone walking by be able to hear them if they-

Superman rubbed his temples, feeling like an idiot for still over thinking everything after being with Brainy.

It wasn't like they were going to become different people, right?

Still feeling a little antsy Superman went back to the room he shared with Brainy and held his pillow against his chest, breathing in Brainy's scent, it calming him better then any other possible aromatherapy.

Deciding it was best just to take things head on as they came along, Superman put his pillow to the side and started to get undressed to change into his pajamas.

Just as Superman finished taking off his shirt and started to takeoff his pants, Brainy walked in as he read an information pad.

Freezing in mid-movement, Clark watched Brainy walk around as he read, not seeming to notice him.

Out of the corner of his eye, Brainy noticed something on the floor. He glanced at it, Superman's shirt, and looked up.

Clark absently found it cute that Brainy could still blush so easily.

"Ah, sorry," stammered Brainy, quickly looking away.

Walking forward, Clark tilted Brainy's face to him, gently kissed his mouth and smiled at him.

"It's fine." He chuckled nervously. "It's not like you haven't seen me naked before."

This only served to make Brainy blush worse.

"Not that I'm naked! Just half naked- I mean, er, I'm not helping am I?" Clark said as he scratched the side of his face.

Stepping back, Brainy turned the buckle on his belt, and took off his shirt; still blushing and not quite meeting Clark's gaze.

"I- now that we've been together; it shouldn't be a big deal to change in front of each other, right?"

"We- we all get used to things at different rates, Brainy. If you want, I can put my pajama shirt on," Clark blushed, only then realizing that he hadn't even gotten out a pair of PJs to wear yet.

Pausing to think about it, Brainy shook his head. Dropping his shirt he walked up to Clark, softly grazing his hands over Clark's chest before resting them on his shoulders.

"Would it be okay if we slept like this?"

Heat rose to Clark's face but he nodded.

They finished changing into their pajama bottoms, both trying not to stare at the other and crawled into bed.

Taking Brainy into his arms, Clark kissed Brainy's forehead before claiming his mouth for a short, sweet kiss.

"Sweet dreams, my Other."

"You as well, Adora."

Long after Clark had fallen asleep Brainy laid awake, thinking. At first he thought he was just trying to get used to the feeling of Clark's skin against his own but after reasoning with himself that he had nothing to be embarrassed about something kept plaguing him in the back of his mind.

What was he forgetting?
Here comes Cham. :D

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Feiring's avatar
Yeah, Cham! I love that kid so much. The fried duck line really got me laughing!
Is Cham's "The Face" the 31st century version of Beast Boy's 21st century "The Face" that he used on Starfire?