mithen

Title: An Innocent Cicisbeo (1/4)
Characters: Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne
Fandom: DC Comics
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: R eventually, PG this chapter
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Clark Kent fled a loveless marriage and remade himself into Kal Starr, male escort and gem of the beau monde. Now his latest client is infamous fop and pink of the ton, Bruce Wayne, Earl of Gotham--and his estranged husband! When Bruce fails to recognize him, Kal struggles to keep from becoming entangled once more with the man who spurned his affection, both to protect his secret double life as a crime-fighter on the foggy streets of London--and his heart.
Notes: Written for the Unconventional Courtship challenge, and based on the summary for the Harlequin romance An Innocent Courtesan. "Cicisbeo" was an actual term of the time for a male "gallant and lover" of a married woman...I have manufactured a cheerfully pansexual Regency for the purposes of this story.

( Across the way, Steve Lombard was dancing with Oliver Queen and Lady Dinah Lance in turns, and it was anyone's bet which of the two--or both together--would be accompanying him upstairs later. Catherine Grant was sitting on a loveseat with a politician's head in her lap, listening raptly to his discussion of the hardships of his work as he twined a lock of her golden hair around his finger. Lois Lane was everywhere at once--pouring drinks, playing the pianoforte, getting into spirited arguments about women's rights with delighted pinks of the <i>ton.</i> )