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1. everybody loves a winner, so nobody loved me by rreckonerr

   Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   06 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Clark Kent/Lex Luthor
   • Clark Kent
   • Lex Luthor
   • Forced Proximity
   • Slow Burn
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • in which lex goes from one prison to another
   • out of the frying pan and into the fire
   • ive never been good at tagging
   • Rating will change
   • Touch-Starved
   • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
   • Injury
   • POV Multiple

   Summary

   Their eyes meet. Superman appraises him silently. Tracks the emaciated planes of his face down to the sharp jut of his collarbones from under the neck of his shirt. Lex doesn’t let himself wish for a door to close, for a curtain to drop, for a blanket to pull over his head. He feels like a child. Terrified and sick about it.

   “It’s Wednesday,” Superman says, voice low. Gentle, almost, as if Lex is some sort of stray animal, tense and shaking, primed to bite. Demeaning.

   Lex is not shaking. He holds his breath for a moment, wills the rhythm of his lungs to slow. He concentrates the fear into disgust, into a single heated beam of hatred. There are protections in place. Contracts, laws. Lex is government property. Superman won’t — he won’t.

   Nobody will touch Lex Luthor.

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   English

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