drabbling, superhero style
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xparrotJust a few Justice League Unlimited drabbles, because this series kicks much of the ass. (It's a bit embarrassing how much better it is than SV, being a cartoon and all.) These will probably be nonsensical if you haven't seen the show. (And, yes, maybe a bit Clex-y, because. Totally canon, yo. "None of that matters now, Lex!" Awws.)
Batman & Superman, probably around 2nd season:
Reaching Out
"Why should I?"
Batman's reply was uncharacteristically slow in coming. "Luthor's not a sociopath. Trust me, I know those."
"He's the enemy."
"He's a criminal. Not a Capulet; this isn't Shakespeare. This isn't an ecosystem; we don't have natural predators."
"He's evil."
"He could be more. He could be so much more and you know that better than anyone, Kent. This might be the last chance. Go to him. Not through the window for once. Knock at the door, without the cape. Just see what happens. You owe it to try."
"I owe it to him?"
"No." Quietly. "To yourself."
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OT3-ish, ep tag to "Divided We Fall" (4th season finale); sap:
Catch You
Flash rarely slept more than two hours at a time, and usually rolled off his bed at least once. Sometimes he remembered to put pillows on the floor.
After Brainiac, they took Wally home to his Central City apartment and put him to bed. He was slowing down, but his breathing was still a staccato stutter and his pulse a vibration, too fast to count individual beats.
They didn't put any pillows on the floor. Shayera sat on one side of the bed and John sat on the other, holding his hands as he slept, making sure he didn't fall.
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Superman & Lex, between 4th and 5th season; dark:
Convictions
Maybe he wasn't listening. Not to anyone really there in the cell. Superman kept talking anyway. "Lex, the fusion cannon. You had precise control. You knew exactly what you were doing, and no one died. No casualties. You could've destroyed us forever, but you didn't. That was you, Lex. Not Brainiac."
He clasped Luthor's hand. "You were yourself then; you are now. I know you're strong enough to get through this."
Dark dead eyes slewed up to the hero's, drifted away, uninterested. The single voice sounding when he spoke was almost no voice at all. "And they call me mad."
Batman & Superman, probably around 2nd season:
Reaching Out
"Why should I?"
Batman's reply was uncharacteristically slow in coming. "Luthor's not a sociopath. Trust me, I know those."
"He's the enemy."
"He's a criminal. Not a Capulet; this isn't Shakespeare. This isn't an ecosystem; we don't have natural predators."
"He's evil."
"He could be more. He could be so much more and you know that better than anyone, Kent. This might be the last chance. Go to him. Not through the window for once. Knock at the door, without the cape. Just see what happens. You owe it to try."
"I owe it to him?"
"No." Quietly. "To yourself."
.
OT3-ish, ep tag to "Divided We Fall" (4th season finale); sap:
Catch You
Flash rarely slept more than two hours at a time, and usually rolled off his bed at least once. Sometimes he remembered to put pillows on the floor.
After Brainiac, they took Wally home to his Central City apartment and put him to bed. He was slowing down, but his breathing was still a staccato stutter and his pulse a vibration, too fast to count individual beats.
They didn't put any pillows on the floor. Shayera sat on one side of the bed and John sat on the other, holding his hands as he slept, making sure he didn't fall.
.
Superman & Lex, between 4th and 5th season; dark:
Convictions
Maybe he wasn't listening. Not to anyone really there in the cell. Superman kept talking anyway. "Lex, the fusion cannon. You had precise control. You knew exactly what you were doing, and no one died. No casualties. You could've destroyed us forever, but you didn't. That was you, Lex. Not Brainiac."
He clasped Luthor's hand. "You were yourself then; you are now. I know you're strong enough to get through this."
Dark dead eyes slewed up to the hero's, drifted away, uninterested. The single voice sounding when he spoke was almost no voice at all. "And they call me mad."
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Date: 2007-02-26 01:45 pm (UTC)Currently in SV Lex is on track to become a supervillain; he's running LuthorCorp, secretly experimenting on meteor mutants, and marrying Lana Lang *gags quietly*. Why he went evil is kind of unclear. He mostly seems to have become embittered with no one trusting him and just gave up trying to be good. Very sad. (his dad drugging him, committing him, frying his brain with electroshock, and later poisoning him, probably didn't help the trust issues any...)
On the plus side, MR's eeeevil!Lex is the smex, so...there's always a silver lining!
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Date: 2007-02-26 02:40 pm (UTC)But he and Clark were supposed to get together and do stuff.MARRYING LANA? *gags with you* Holy crap, I did NOT see that one coming.
(Yes, in the few episodes of Smallville I've seen, Lex does seem to get tortured a lot)
And yes, he is so totally the smex. He was instantly my favourite character in Smallville.
Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me.
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Date: 2007-02-26 03:02 pm (UTC)Lex is one of my all-time favorite characters - the SV variant especially, but I adore JLU's Lex and most comic book Lexes, too. But MR's is the first one to really bring on the sexy, so...
and he and Clark are totally getting together anyway. JLU agrees! there must be love, for them to hate that much - and be that bitchy! love! ...yeah, I'm hopeless XD