Contingencies, 5/?

[xparrot]

I really ought to be in bed, but hey, I figure we'll need something to help us through tonight's new ep...of course I won't get to see that until tomorrow. Crossing my fingers hoping this story and our OMG brilliant!!1!! Lex-nalysis doesn't get screwed to hell by revelations in upcoming canon. Or else if the story does, that folks like it anyway. I should have it completed before the next ep, anyway...meanwhile the sis and I are getting back into full analysis mode. It's the only way for our tiny obsessive brains to manage!

There's an estimate here for Dark Thursday's casualties that gnine thought was too low, but I argue is conceivable in a world protected by superheroes. Maybe it's much lower; as far as I can tell the show never gives any actual numbers. So, a total guess, unless someone has supported figures.

Smallville: Contingencies, 5/? {6,412 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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[attaccabottoni.livejournal.com]

I was so proud in successfully immersing myself in Clark and Lex's exchange of pertinent Fine-Zod details (great work you did there) that I was able to hold back the urge to cry. Then you had to bring out the big guns, so I kept on reading through their emotional sharing by clenching my teeth so hard they hurt. Then Lex was saying "Do you believe a man can fly?" and I lost it. And I was that close making it to the end of the chapter without breaking down, but I'm not taking your excellent writing's affective wallop on me personally. :D It still amazes me how Lex and Clark's dialogue in the Pilot, which would have been cheesy in any other reality, would resonate so powerfully to me despite all the changes they have gone through in the canon passage of time. *sighs* I'm such a hopeless Clex romantic.

The Lex-nalysis has been immortalized in many fellow fans' hearts by now, so I while I wouldn't hope too much, I will still believe the spirit of it in spite of what retcon may happen in canon.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I'm such a hopeless Clex romantic. - you and me both! ^_^ And so glad the flying line worked for you - I had to use something from their very beginning, to bring it full circle, and that line, cheesy as it is, is so memorable, too...and their relationship is so based on beliefs anyway, on what's possible and impossible and humanly-but-not-alienly impossible...Lex was speaking Clark's truth for him that first time, though neither of them knew it; only fitting for Clark to return it with faith.

And hee, yeah, I'm gonna take any challenge to the Lex-nalysis as retcon, myself. It makes sense, that's the story, and I'm sticking to it!