Fic: Waiting for My Real Life to Begin

[xparrot]

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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Comments

[ladydey.livejournal.com]

Lovely, see that's the thing Lex knows and the more that Clark tell him that there is nothing to know the angrier and more reckless Lex is going to get. I love the spot that you chose to let Clark be honest with Lex - Clark thinks that he has nothing to left to lose but Lex and is at a point where that actually matters more then Lana!drama.

Nice.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

The thing that gets me about Lex is not only that I'm almost positive he knows most of Clark's secrets by now - he pretty much has to, he's not an idiot. But for the first three years, Lex is almost scrupulously honest with Clark about what he does know. His first thought whenever he learns anything is always to go ask Clark - the big reveal at the end of 3rd season, with his shrine to Clark the room - despite Clark's royal hissy, Clark really should know about nearly everything in there already, if he'd just take a moment to think.

And yeah, there's a couple key points that Clark could've changed the course of everything by coming clean, and this is a good one...