fic: Contingencies, 4/?
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xparrotWill be continuing with "All the Difference" as soon as this is done. Which ought to be soon, there should be maybe 3 parts to go after this. So almost in time...is anyone else dreading the final SV eps, and what havoc they could potentially wreak on canon and chars, even as you look forward to them? What an odd fandom this is, for me, anyway...
Smallville: Contingencies, 4/? {4,405 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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Smallville: Contingencies, 4/? {4,405 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.
Read it on AO3
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Date: 2007-04-17 06:46 am (UTC)And, yes, I am very much afraid of the remaining SV episodes. My hopes do tend to rise a little at the thought of the CLex-in-a-cave one, but I try not to get too excited; knowing the SV writers, I'm fairly sure that what could have been a fantastic episode will be terrible instead. *deep sigh* This is not a fandom for the emotionally fragile.
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Date: 2007-04-18 01:16 am (UTC)I, too, am afraid of what Smallville has in store for the final S6 eps, and you're right: I'm not expecting too much from the Clex-in-a-cave episode. They'll find some way to screw it up!
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Date: 2007-04-17 07:10 am (UTC)I think this is the best Season 6 fic I've seen, and definitely one of the best post-rift ones overall.
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Date: 2007-04-18 03:31 am (UTC)There is far too little s6 fic that I've been able to find (it is a depressingly difficult season to write for...) so I'm happy this one satisfies!
No, I'm not dreading the final eps...
Date: 2007-04-17 07:36 am (UTC)Sorry, that anonymous person just above was me...
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Date: 2007-04-17 10:36 am (UTC)You almost had me crying. That very rarely happens. Also, I think I have an idea how this will end, and... heh. If the solution is going to be what I think it's going to be, that'd be... very cool.
He's still a guy we used to know. Thanks! I wish the show would play that angle more. I want them to be angry at Lex not only because of what he does, but because it's personal! Lex is not Lionel, not just some evil guy come from the big city, he's *someone they used to be friends with*.
For a long time now Clark had felt as if he were moving toward something--as if he were falling and getting closer to the ground, as if he were a bullet or a cannonball hurtling through the air and the target was approaching. His destiny, the truth about not what he was, but what he was going to be; for a long time it had terrified him, but when he touched the smooth blue-hued facets, when he looked at the crest shining in the sunlight and thought of everything it represented, the future felt possible, and not so terrible after all.
Great paragraph :) Oh show, if only you forgot about the stupid teen romance...
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Date: 2007-04-18 03:38 am (UTC)I wish the show would play that angle more.
It's one of the more interesting things about SV, and yeah, they don't do enough with it...if they're willing to believe such terrible things about Lex, then their anger should be more personal. Instead Clark is in denial that they were ever friends at all, and Chloe...I don't know what's up with Chloe...
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Date: 2007-04-17 11:15 am (UTC)Awww poor woobie Lex breaks my heart.
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Date: 2007-04-18 03:39 am (UTC)Poor Lex. Even when he's a supervillain he's still a woobie...
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Date: 2007-04-17 02:09 pm (UTC)Have I told you how glad I am you decided to write CLex again? If not, please consider this my heartfelt thanks that you're back. :-D
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Date: 2007-04-17 02:55 pm (UTC)I need to go lie down and comfort myself with the Subterfuge fics.
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Date: 2007-04-17 05:01 pm (UTC)You're pretty on with the miscommunication between her and Clark, though. Clark gets upset, it's all over him and he's unable to hide it, usually. Chloe does, and she jokes and says blunt callous things to make it not real so she can go on with her investigation without crying like a baby. I think she's got Lex's departmentalization thing going on, only not to the same degree for lack of soulcrushing trauma.
It's nice to see Martha being a compassionate person for them. It's so poignant when Lex mistakes her for his mother for a moment. Poor Lexie. Fighting evol all alone. Someone hug him! *looks at Clark* :(
I'm laying in the preparations to go into FULL DENIAL MODE on several fronts with the final eps of S6. I slide further and further into AU.
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Date: 2007-04-18 03:51 am (UTC)*joins you in s6 preparation - welcome to my bunker, located in Egypt along de lovely Nile!*
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Date: 2007-04-17 05:08 pm (UTC)I really don't know what else to say, because I could hardly hear myself think with all the wailing for Lex in my head. Well, other than I have been loving the exploration of Clark's feelings towards Lex so far (because that has always been a painful lack of that in SV canon except for a handful of episodes, and hardly any since S6 due to their antagonistic relationship), and your description of Clark's pain makes me forget my own for a while.
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Date: 2007-04-17 05:59 pm (UTC)Really loverly fic this, really loverly.
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Date: 2007-04-17 05:59 pm (UTC)Clark felt like he couldn't breathe, standing in the warm yellow kitchen with his arms around his mother, the air stuck in his lungs like glue so he had to fight to force it out. "I don't want to see him die." He was shuddering just from the effort of breathing, like he was in pain though nothing was hurting him. Nothing could hurt him; he was invulnerable. Even the Brainiac contamination probably wouldn't kill him, that was how strong his body was, but he wasn't strong enough to stop shuddering. "I don't want him to die. I don't want Lex to die, Mom."
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Date: 2007-04-18 04:06 am (UTC)And thanks - I have to admit, I was hoping that paragraph came across as pretty shattering...
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Date: 2007-04-17 09:46 pm (UTC)Love how sad and urgent this chapter is, with Clark, Martha and Chloe all re-examining their feelings about Lex.
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