fic: Contingencies, 3/?

[xparrot]

Thanks to whoever gave my the virtual lj gift, what a sweet gesture, and I hope my fics continue to entertain! At present I especially hope this fic entertains, as it continues...

Smallville: Contingencies, 3/? {3,775 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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Comments

[ladydey.livejournal.com]

I love that Clark still doesn't get it - that for all his talk of being an adult and above youthful idealism, Lex is still the ultimate realist. Lex knows there's a threat, knows that these super-powered aliens can come again to Earth, if they've come once, and knows there is no guarantee that "Clark" will either be there to save everyone, able to save everyone, or want to save everyone. Heck using his own experiences - Clark seems fickle and operating under a morality that no one could live up to, coupled with how Clark seemed to drop Lex as his best friend for being naturally curious about a major life event (hey why would alien invaders want a populous they are going to enslave to think and be curious, that is certainly not in an invading armadas best interest) - I bet that Lex has zero actual faith in Clark except as it pertains to people that Clark currently values.


I really wonder if Clark and Lex could ever find their way back to each other - Clark will never see himself as a threat (he has good intentions after all and still hasn't seen enough of the world and been out of Smallville enough to temper his world view) and Lex may never see Clark as anything else (Lex has been so compromised by Krypton and Kryptonians - they had a part in taking more of Lex's memory, which he totally hates.)



I am really enjoying this story - such that even if Clark and Lex can't get together, I really am just hoping that Lex survives, because, at least your Lex, really cares about protecting humanity - since Clark isn't quite there yet.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously in SV itself Clark and Lex are never going to find their way back together...comicbook destiny is quite, quite against them (of course there's nothing stopping them, in twenty years, or fifty, from figuring it out...!) But yeah...right now Clark is kind of scarily small-minded, for a proto-Superman. He's very good about helping virtual strangers, and trying to fix problems he might've caused (e.g. the Zoners, Dark Thursday) but he doesn't seem to spare much thought to situations he's not pulled into somehow. Meanwhile Lex is just as scarily focused on the big picture...

The trouble is that Lex is operating with insufficient information, information which Clark has. Though at this point I don't know if he'd trust Clark, even if Clark told him that Krypton is gone and there isn't actually an invasion en route to Earth. But Lex is taking somewhat more drastic measures than he needs to...if he only knew the exact nature of the threat, and also knew he could count on super-powered help...

And glad you're enjoying the story!