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

[theclexfactor.livejournal.com]

This was wonderful. Not "purple" at all :P.

No seriously, I was completely surprised that Clark finally told Lex the full truth even if it's not "true" anymore. It makes me hope that you write a continuation for what happens during "Hidden".

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

my current h/c extravaganza may be a little lavender, but I hoped this one wasn't! XD

I'm planning on doing a short follow-up story for "Hidden" and several other eps, that'll be when things start arcing off into AU territory, and not just because the pre-slash will get more slashy... ^^

[theclexfactor.livejournal.com]

Wee!!! Yay!!!