Title: walk backward toward you
Author: just_katarin
Pairings: Bruce/Oliver (mentions of Bruce/Chloe, Oliver/f and Oliver/m)
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 10,376
Summary: Late night, accidental frottage at the end of fifth year left matters between Bruce and Oliver awkward. Unresolved tension, emotional strain, breaks in the routine they have come to count on make for a miserable week until a fight brings the situation to its perhaps inevitable head.
Chronology: Sixth year
Notes: Art | Oh, perilous place - Bruce's story
Thanks: Much, mucho thanks go to way2busymom and technosage for beta duties.

( He should have known Clark would throw some kind of hissy-fit and the last thing he needs is to get reamed by a Prefect in front of all the new kids. )

Title: by any other name
Author: technosage
Pairing: Bruce/Oliver
Rating/Warning: R, genderswap
Word Count: 7440
Summary: When he transforms into a woman (for great justice!), Bruce learns that Bruce by any other name and in any other form is not the same.
Chronology: Post-Hogwarts

( What do I even call you? )

Title: all kinds of deeper wonderment
Created by: slodwick
Created for: all kinds of deeper wonderment by technosage and just_katarin
Notes: So many thanks to slodwick for embracing the challenge of this project as part of her Sweet Charity offering. We couldn't be more pleased with the results.

Title: accidentally in love
Author: just_katarin
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 406
Summary: Oliver's not in love with Bruce, except for how he is.


( Maybe that's it )

Title: Love in beats per minute
Author: technosage
Pairing: Bruce/Oliver
Rating: R
Word Count: 1235
Summary: Bruce might've maybe missed being able to have Oliver the way he likes him best.
Chronology: Seventh year.

( his own heart fifteen beats per minute too fast )

Title: Oh, perilous place
Author: technosage
Pairings: Bruce/Chloe; Bruce/Oliver
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 11,129
Summary: Late night, accidental frottage at the end of fifth year left matters between Bruce and Oliver awkward. Unresolved tension, emotional strain, breaks in the routine they have come to count on make for a miserable week until a fight brings the situation to its perhaps inevitable head.
Chronology: Sixth year

Part 1 | Part 2 | Art | Notes | walk backward toward you - Oliver's story

Title: Oh, perilous place
Author: technosage
Pairings: Bruce/Chloe; Bruce/Oliver
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 11,129
Summary: Late night, accidental frottage at the end of fifth year left matters between Bruce and Oliver awkward. Unresolved tension, emotional strain, breaks in the routine they have come to count on make for a miserable week until a fight brings the situation to its perhaps inevitable head.
Chronology: Sixth year

Notes: Mille mille grazie to way2busymom for the awesome beta, and Katarin, because there'd be no Oliver without her.

A long time ago now, Katarin and I got to talk about the fact that if Smallville's Oliver Queen and Lex Luthor went to Excelsior, it was almost certainly true that Bruce Wayne did. Of course that led to slashy speculation about Batman and the Green Arrow, and what if Bruce had met someone determined to be his friend and later partner while he was still in school. What if that someone had been a true peer and equal? And what if they fell in love?

Because we're crackwhores, when I suggested they might go to Hogwarts and not Excelsior, Katarin not only took me up on it, but started creating entire House schemata. Next thing I knew we had an all DCU/Smallville/Batman Begins/Supernatural Hogwarts class and Bruce and Oliver had fallen firmly and finally in love.

This isn't the beginning of their story. That happened in first year when Bruce shunned Oliver and Oliver decided he would be Bruce's best friend. Or it might've happened before that, when Bruce's mother still lived and she and her best friend Moira Queen had tea and cookies and let their young sons play together. Or it might've started in second year, when Oliver succeeded in getting inside the Bruce Wayne walls, or in fifth when late night studying became accidental frottage.

So this isn't the beginning, but it is abeginning, from Bruce's point of view. Oliver's point of view can be found in walk backward toward you by Katarin.

Title: oh, perilous place, walk backward toward you
Created by: just_katarin
Created for: oh, perilous place by technosage & walk backward toward you by just_katarin

Title: Oh, perilous place
Author: technosage
Pairings: Bruce/Chloe; Bruce/Oliver
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 11,129
Summary: Late night, accidental frottage at the end of fifth year left matters between Bruce and Oliver awkward. Unresolved tension, emotional strain, breaks in the routine they have come to count on make for a miserable week until a fight brings the situation to its perhaps inevitable head.
Chronology: Sixth year

( Which wasn't to say spending time with Chloe didn't have its pluses, but the simple – and emotional, so therefore even more unpleasant – truth was that he missed Oliver. )

Notes | Art

Title: Oh, perilous place
Author: technosage
Pairings: Bruce/Chloe; Bruce/Oliver
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 11,129
Summary: Late night, accidental frottage at the end of fifth year left matters between Bruce and Oliver awkward. Unresolved tension, emotional strain, breaks in the routine they have come to count on make for a miserable week until a fight brings the situation to its perhaps inevitable head.
Chronology: Sixth year

( Corded muscle caught and held Bruce's attention. His best friend had filled out over the summer, gained a few inches in height and at least twenty pounds of muscle, and it looked good on him. )

Part 2

Title: Of smiles and other contrivances
Author: technosage
Pairing: Bruce/Oliver
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 1109
Summary: Bruce no longer remembers how to accept affection or give it, and perhaps never knew how to speak it. Yet, he feels he must, somehow, make certain that Oliver knows how he feels.
Chronology: Sixth and seventh year.

( Oliver loves him. Bruce knows this. )

Title: ever since I've known you you've walked that walk
Author: technosage
Characters: Bruce/Oliver, Lex
Rating/Warnings PG13, angst, schmoop
Word Count: 1288
Summary: Lex almost kills Oliver in a duel. Bruce ensues.
Chronology: Seventh year at Hogwarts.

( For once, Bruce did exactly as he'd been told. )

Title: of dreams and dragon's eggs
Author: technosage
Characters: Bruce/Oliver pre-ship, mentions of Clark, Chloe, Lex
Rating/Warnings G
Word Count: 1327
Summary: On the Hogwarts Express, Oliver falls asleep and Bruce contemplates why Oliver is different than his other friends. Schmoop ensues.
Chronology: Second year; after Christmas holidays

( Oliver, Bruce decides as he returns his attention to his textbook, is different because he is Oliver. )

Title: of certainties and coziness
Author: technosage
Characters: Bruce/Oliver pre-ship, Chloe, Clark, Lex, Diana,
Rating/Warnings G
Word Count: 947
Summary: Bruce has guests for the Christmas holidays and learns from Oliver what "cozy" means.
Chronology: Third year; Christmas holidays.

( Sometimes he thinks he likes the near-certainty of it more than he likes Oliver. )

Title: his elf army
Author: technosage
Characters: Bruce/Oliver
Rating/Warnings R for language
Word Count: 781
Summary: Chloe and Lex call him "Ollie", but to Bruce he is always "Oliver."
Chronology: Seventh Year

( Bruce has no need of a nickname to mark their relationship to each other. They are Bruce and Oliver, and it requires no explication, inside or out. )

Title: the patterns of his grief
Author: technosage
Characters: Bruce/Oliver
Ratings/Warning: NC-17, rough sex.
Word Count: 3427
Spoilers: I suppose, technically, this story spoils everything that comes before it. If you want to be surprised by the course of Bruce and Oliver's relationship and the events of their lives, then don't read this.
Summary: It's the night before the ninth anniversary of Oliver's parents' murder, and he finds rough comfort in sex with Bruce.

( An Oliver this subdued went against everything good and right in either of their lives, and Bruce wouldn't have it. Oliver knew that, and counted on Bruce to make it right again. For both of them. )