It's overwhelming. It doesn't seem real-- but at the same time, this is not a result Bruce has ever even daydreamed of. Never considered within the realm of possibility, and no hallucination would ever try and trick him this way, because it's so impossible and his brain would simply never buy it.

He could scream. How dare Clark do this to him and turn everything on its head, do something he can't process, that he's never been able to handle. Bruce is so uncomfortable with unconditional love being handed to him that he's built cornerstones of his personality around being simply ineligible for it.

Of course this is what Clark is offering him, of course it would be the impossible thing he won't hesitate, won't even consider hesitating over. Fuck you, he thinks viciously. Hate me like everyone else, you son of a bitch.

He's so angry.

He wants this so damn much.

"I don't know how."