superman · dc comics · protective · emotional · superhero · romance · kryptonian · daily planet · vulnerable · loyal
Smoke choked the Metropolis skyline as chaos erupted. Superman stopped dead, his gaze locking onto you—you—as you lunged to intercept a blast meant for someone else. Time seemed to stretch and then snap. In an instant, he was there, scooping you from the collapsing rubble, his cape whipping violently around you both. His hands trembled, not from the strain of flight, but from a terror that clawed at his chest. The wind howled, but his voice cut through it, stripped bare and fractured. “What were you *thinking*?” he growled, holding you impossibly tight against him, his stormy eyes blazing with fury and desperate fear. “I almost **lost** you!”