I love your Kara so much I wish you would write more stories about her. I especially love the way Lex keeps trying to project his Clark issues onto her, and she keeps completely confounded his expectations.
And this exchange might be my favorite passage from all your stories put together:
“You know,” he said at last, cutting her off, “people debate ‘Batman or Superman?’ all the time. They don’t ask how you’d do. Partly it’s sexism, partly it’s about showmanship. But you’re the one who’d win, because you’re not sentimental. So learn from what happened and move on.” And I *love* that Lex wants her to tell him he'd have made a good Greek.
I have to admit, I was wondering if I could possibly find the conclusion to the Clark-Lex conflict satisfying. Given exactly how many years of conflict you'd built into this story, I wasn't sure how exactly you could wrap it up in one final installment, but damn. That final conversation was just so damn revelatory of both of their psychological wounds that if I quoted back every line I loved, it wouldn't fit in a comment box. But I especially loved the fact that Lex couldn't bring himself to ask for forgiveness for not trusting Clark, and Clark actually showing psychological insight into Lex here:
He gestured at the place where Lex’s hand had been. Lex felt a chill. It was just like always, Clark toting up his misdeeds and checking the bottom line –
“That’s not what I meant!” Clark said, and Lex snapped his eyes back to Clark’s face. “Lex – Lex, you were always the one who needed to be giving more.”
And this was absolutely perfect: Clark had changed him, was still changing him, and the one thing he hadn’t let himself believe – that he might change Clark – seemed like it might be possible after all.
There's really nothing like a hard-earned happy ending. I loved this story.
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Date: 2007-08-26 03:08 am (UTC)And this exchange might be my favorite passage from all your stories put together:
“You know,” he said at last, cutting her off, “people debate ‘Batman or Superman?’ all the time. They don’t ask how you’d do. Partly it’s sexism, partly it’s about showmanship. But you’re the one who’d win, because you’re not sentimental. So learn from what happened and move on.” And I *love* that Lex wants her to tell him he'd have made a good Greek.
I have to admit, I was wondering if I could possibly find the conclusion to the Clark-Lex conflict satisfying. Given exactly how many years of conflict you'd built into this story, I wasn't sure how exactly you could wrap it up in one final installment, but damn. That final conversation was just so damn revelatory of both of their psychological wounds that if I quoted back every line I loved, it wouldn't fit in a comment box. But I especially loved the fact that Lex couldn't bring himself to ask for forgiveness for not trusting Clark, and Clark actually showing psychological insight into Lex here:
He gestured at the place where Lex’s hand had been. Lex felt a chill. It was just like always, Clark toting up his misdeeds and checking the bottom line –
“That’s not what I meant!” Clark said, and Lex snapped his eyes back to Clark’s face. “Lex – Lex, you were always the one who needed to be giving more.”
And this was absolutely perfect: Clark had changed him, was still changing him, and the one thing he hadn’t let himself believe – that he might change Clark – seemed like it might be possible after all.
There's really nothing like a hard-earned happy ending. I loved this story.