Heroes of the Squared Circle 53: True Selves

Title: True Selves
Relationship: Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Steph Brown, Cass Cain, Barara Gordon, Tim Drake, Alfred Pennyworth, Brainiac
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion (click for notes and all chapters).
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG-13
Word Count 2400
Summary: The Dark Knight confronts the Kryptonian; Bruce and Clark have a family dinner at the Manor.

( Why haven’t you ever held the belt, man? You’re the locker-room leader. You deserve it. )

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 25

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 25
Chapter Summary: Three conversations on the road to Mordor, each about love, in their own way.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Arwen, Aragorn, Gandalf, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings. Begins in 2968, twenty-six years after the events of "Clarity of Vision" and fifty years before the canonical events of "Lord of the Rings." Thus, characters' ages and the geopolitical situation will be different than LoTR canon!
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: None
Word Count: 1900
Summary: Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo Baggins have been parted for many years now, despite the love they bear each other. Now Thorin's research has uncovered a dire threat to Middle Earth--the Ring he carried a little while and then gave to Bilbo. Together with a group of companions composed of the different Free Peoples of Middle Earth, they must attempt to destroy the artifact before its Dark Lord can re-capture it.

( I ask you, my lady, for some scrap of comfort, some glimmer of hope that I will not sit bereft in the halls of my ancestors forever. )

Clarity of Purpose, Chapter 26

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 26
Chapter Summary: The Fellowship enters Nurn, the eastern part of Mordor.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Arwen, Aragorn, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings. Begins in 2968, twenty-six years after the events of "Clarity of Vision" and fifty years before the canonical events of "Lord of the Rings." Thus, characters' ages and the geopolitical situation will be different than LoTR canon!
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: None
Word Count: 2100
Summary: Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo Baggins have been parted for many years now, despite the love they bear each other. Now Thorin's research has uncovered a dire threat to Middle Earth--the Ring he carried a little while and then gave to Bilbo. Together with a group of companions composed of the different Free Peoples of Middle Earth, they must attempt to destroy the artifact before its Dark Lord can re-capture it.

( The desert gave way so gradually to plains--the dunes flattening out, the grasses going from coarse and scrubby to thicker and lusher--that Bilbo hardly noticed it until the morning that he realized that they were in a sea of waving grass, starred with white flowers. )