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

[lukita.livejournal.com]

Cute~ Woo Clark's POV. ♥

Dood, Clark should totally go find out if Lex even have a bedroom at all, since 'Promise' kinda showed him sleeping in Lana's room with a t-shirt on, damnit of all places.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Glad Clark's POV worked! writing on a long one all from him now, so I'm getting a bit more comfortable with it...though I worry I make him too squishy. I like him better when he's being all noble & heroic, rather than mopey asshat :P

I know! damn that t-shirt! My Lex sleeps in the nude :P