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tamingthemuseTitle: The Silence of This Moment
Author: Chosenfire
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN. All recognizable characters and situations belong to their respective owners and I make no profit off of them.
Fandom: Smallville
Prompt: #134 - Delectable
Characters/Pairings: Clark/Lex, Chloe, others (mentions of Clark/Lois, Clark/Lana, and Chloe/Oliver)
Warnings: Slash (male/male pairing), character death (not the guys)
Spoilers: All current episodes, future fic AU
Summary: When the news of Lois Lane’s death reaches Lex he knows where he was to be. Where he is needed most.
Author’s Notes: So this was only suppose to be a short piece for ttm and it keeps growing and growing. I am still writing it so expect more parts.
"So long now, you've filled my life. Like a great noise that I hear everywhere in my heart. I want to be free of you, of wanting you, of being afraid..." Cleopatra - 1963
He found out about the death of Lois Lane-Kent from Mercy. It had been sitting with his morning reports that she had delivered him along with his coffee. There are had been two separate sources. The largest had been the front page of the Daily Planet. According to the article the women had been found dead in her apartment when her ex-husband had come by to drop off their 1 year old son for the weekend. After the divorce Lois had turned fully to her career and Clark had pulled back to be a full time father to Connor. From what Lex knew Lois, who greatly loved her son, had him most weekends.
There hadn’t been a mark on her and the cause of death had been given as heart failure. At not even 30 years old Lois had died of heart failure. Lex knew it wasn’t a coincidence the night before a chemical weapon had been unleashed on down town metropolis. One that Superman and his gang of do-gooders had contained in a matter of minutes.
But where else would Lois Lane-Kent be than at the scene of the story? Where else would she be but pulling her ex-husband out of a Kryptonite laced building while Batman and the Green Arrow stopped bitching at each other and took down the not quite sane doctor that had once worked for Lex?
But that was only a theory.
Lex’s theories tended to be very accurate.
His first instinct was to throw the papers away. While him and Clark weren’t actively trying to kill each other anymore they weren’t the best of friends. An understanding at been reached, they had gone from weekly murder attempts to weekly or bi-weekly phone calls. Lex had pulled out of his most illegal projects and Clark had stopped smashing apart his billion dollar labs and sticking his alien nose in Lex’s business.
Lately he had even trusted him, to an extent.
So really Lex shouldn’t have wasted anytime thinking about her death. He knew this. It didn’t stop his gut from clenching and his hand from reaching for the phone. He had been there when Clark and Lois had gotten divorce. It was when they had first started to reconcile and over a rare coffee get together Clark had told him that it was just time. Connor had been 3 weeks old; the custody agreement had been reached before the papers had even been signed.
Lex knew Clark had loved Lois; he had loved her enough to forget about Lana, he had loved her enough to even forget about Lex. Clark had loved Lois Lane enough to marry her and have a child despite the danger to them because he was Superman.
He just hadn’t loved her enough, not enough to fight and she had let him go.
Lex knew Clark rarely dated after the divorce.
He knew Clark took Connor to the park every Sunday and pushed him in the swings and he knew he took him to the farm every couple of weeks to talk to the cows and to eat the delectable apple pie left by Martha.
Lex knew Clark took on mostly freelance work and a small human interest column to pay the bills. He even knew of the large manuscript collecting dust in Clark’s desk.
He knew this because while he was no longer involved in Clark’s life didn’t mean he wasn’t a part of it. Some people said you never truly got over your first love and Lex knew that to be a fact. He had never truly loved anyone till Clark and he had never been able to love anyone else as much since.
Clark was his greatest obsession and he would never give that up.
Author: Chosenfire
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN. All recognizable characters and situations belong to their respective owners and I make no profit off of them.
Fandom: Smallville
Prompt: #134 - Delectable
Characters/Pairings: Clark/Lex, Chloe, others (mentions of Clark/Lois, Clark/Lana, and Chloe/Oliver)
Warnings: Slash (male/male pairing), character death (not the guys)
Spoilers: All current episodes, future fic AU
Summary: When the news of Lois Lane’s death reaches Lex he knows where he was to be. Where he is needed most.
Author’s Notes: So this was only suppose to be a short piece for ttm and it keeps growing and growing. I am still writing it so expect more parts.
He found out about the death of Lois Lane-Kent from Mercy. It had been sitting with his morning reports that she had delivered him along with his coffee. There are had been two separate sources. The largest had been the front page of the Daily Planet. According to the article the women had been found dead in her apartment when her ex-husband had come by to drop off their 1 year old son for the weekend. After the divorce Lois had turned fully to her career and Clark had pulled back to be a full time father to Connor. From what Lex knew Lois, who greatly loved her son, had him most weekends.
There hadn’t been a mark on her and the cause of death had been given as heart failure. At not even 30 years old Lois had died of heart failure. Lex knew it wasn’t a coincidence the night before a chemical weapon had been unleashed on down town metropolis. One that Superman and his gang of do-gooders had contained in a matter of minutes.
But where else would Lois Lane-Kent be than at the scene of the story? Where else would she be but pulling her ex-husband out of a Kryptonite laced building while Batman and the Green Arrow stopped bitching at each other and took down the not quite sane doctor that had once worked for Lex?
But that was only a theory.
Lex’s theories tended to be very accurate.
His first instinct was to throw the papers away. While him and Clark weren’t actively trying to kill each other anymore they weren’t the best of friends. An understanding at been reached, they had gone from weekly murder attempts to weekly or bi-weekly phone calls. Lex had pulled out of his most illegal projects and Clark had stopped smashing apart his billion dollar labs and sticking his alien nose in Lex’s business.
Lately he had even trusted him, to an extent.
So really Lex shouldn’t have wasted anytime thinking about her death. He knew this. It didn’t stop his gut from clenching and his hand from reaching for the phone. He had been there when Clark and Lois had gotten divorce. It was when they had first started to reconcile and over a rare coffee get together Clark had told him that it was just time. Connor had been 3 weeks old; the custody agreement had been reached before the papers had even been signed.
Lex knew Clark had loved Lois; he had loved her enough to forget about Lana, he had loved her enough to even forget about Lex. Clark had loved Lois Lane enough to marry her and have a child despite the danger to them because he was Superman.
He just hadn’t loved her enough, not enough to fight and she had let him go.
Lex knew Clark rarely dated after the divorce.
He knew Clark took Connor to the park every Sunday and pushed him in the swings and he knew he took him to the farm every couple of weeks to talk to the cows and to eat the delectable apple pie left by Martha.
Lex knew Clark took on mostly freelance work and a small human interest column to pay the bills. He even knew of the large manuscript collecting dust in Clark’s desk.
He knew this because while he was no longer involved in Clark’s life didn’t mean he wasn’t a part of it. Some people said you never truly got over your first love and Lex knew that to be a fact. He had never truly loved anyone till Clark and he had never been able to love anyone else as much since.
Clark was his greatest obsession and he would never give that up.
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Date: 2009-02-15 10:25 am (UTC)Looking forward to more of this - I enjoyed the start.