Fic: Waiting for My Real Life to Begin

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My first non-darkfic dip into Smallville canon proper rather than futurefic, and my second time with Clark's POV. This is actually a distant prequel to the Subterfuge universe, but stands on its own without any obvious relation in plot or tone to those later fic. It's a 5th season episode tag, taking place an hour or two after the final scene of "Mortal," and might be the first of a sequence of AU ep tags. I quite enjoyed 5th season overall, but in a "what it could have been" way more than a "this is the way it was" way, and AUing it amuses me.

Title from the Scrubs soundtrack, a musical number far too lovely for a silly comedy, which is just one more reason why Scrubs rocks so hard; when I was deciding what to call this story, my playlist shuffled to this song, and I'm not one to look a gift title in the mouth.

Smallville: Waiting for My Real Life to Begin {5,136 words}
PG; pre-slash (hints of Clark/Lex; references to canonical Clark/Lana), ep tag to 5x02, "Mortal"
Clark runs home from the Talon; Lex is waiting for him.

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I rather like human!Clark, too, he's sweet and so happy, when his burdens have been lifted. And while some superheroes I get cranky with when they angst about their powers (one reason I love Static Shock is 'cause Virgil has zero angst about being a super-powered freak, he's all, "electric powers, oh yeah BABY!") Clark has been through quite the wringer because of his gifts, I can't blame him for wanting to just be normal. On the other hand, it's gotta be a difficult adjustment, to have to take such effort when the simplest actions used to come so easily before...

Heh, in many fandoms I am primarily a gen fan - SV and the Clex-obsession is more the exception than the rule (I can take pre-slash with them, but not total gen, I have this OTP quirk that I only want to see them happily with each other, in the end!) But unless I make a deliberate effort to get the sex in there, I tend to, uh, forget about it entirely ^^;