Repression's a word. It's not a bad one, but at the same time, it doesn't cover everything. After all, they've gone through more than your average boatload of crap over the years, huge world-changing fights where one or the other swore they were done except that they can't ever be done with each other, are too deeply tied into each other to ever really be done. And here, with what they've both been through, that's still true. But here, it's also true that they've been through so much individually that an extended fight-

Well, it wouldn't be good for either of them.

That's why Clark leans into those fingers like a flower to the sun and tips his head back to press a kiss to Bruce's arm in warm delight.