xparrot | fic: Contingencies 1/7

I need to start posting this now, before the final eps of the season blow it completely out of the water. Hopefully I'll finish it before they start airing...hope no one minds a bit of fic spamming in the next couple weeks.

This is about my favorite non-futurefic SV scenario, which I've been wanting to try my hand at, though this...got a bit out of hand. It's the classic 'Lex turns up at the Kent farmhouse in dire straits', given a 6th season twist. This is not quite the story I was intending to write. I have a feeling it needs a warning, but I'm not exactly sure for what. Let's see: it's dark, it's angsty, it's sappy, and it may go shamelessly over the top in any of these directions. I can promise a light at the end of the tunnel, but it's going to be a long tunnel.

Major spoilers for the entire series, especially "Solitude" and "Vessel"/"Zod," and all of 6th season aired thus far.

Smallville: Contingencies, 1/7 {5,957 words}
PG-13; Clark/Lex; 6th season; angst, drama, h/c
Lex, forced to his last resort, comes to the Kent home. And Clark must rise to the occasion, as he finds himself questioning his assumptions about his dying enemy.

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I agree about Superman. He is good, otherwise he'd be using his powers for his own gain. And clearly it's his rigid morality that keeps him from doing just that.

I don't intend to knock SV Clark. He's an adolescent, still. He hasn't figured everything out.

What annoys me no end, is that SV seems to be saying that there's one standard for Lex, and another for everyone else on the show. And no one on the show seems to question this.

If Clark makes a mistake, and someone gets hurt, well, he's young, he had good intentions, he shouldn't tear himself apart over it, he'll learn. Blah blah blah. If Lex makes a mistake, and someone gets hurt, that's a different kettle of fish. Clearly he's beyond saving. All because his father is Lionel Luthor.

Clark really isn't stupid. Why can't he see the inconsistency here? Why can't he realize how much he must have hurt Lex, his best friend, by lying to him? My own feelings are that it's because he was raised to think that way. That protecting his secret was the most important thing, and that anyone who attempted to find out the truth was evil. That seems to be what SV Martha and Jonathan taught him.

Yeah, Clark's biggest problem is that he seems to put his lies about himself and what he is in a complete separate category from other kinds of lies. He honestly doesn't seem to realize how much his secret-keeping can hurt people (sometimes literally - he gives Lex concussions to keep him from seeing his rescues! That is not good!) And Jonathan and Martha are a large part responsible for that - though Clark's own friends don't help. Those who do find the secret out (Pete, Chloe, now Lana) always are forgiving, always tell Clark they understand and willingly join in the conspiracy of silence. So it's understandable that Clark simply doesn't realize just how much it hurts people, when he lies to them and they know it.

fic: Contingencies 1/7

Re: Love the story so far....

Re: Love the story so far....