WIP amnesty: Fealty

Title: Fealty
Author: Rivka T
Fandom: Smallville
Rating: PG
Summary: Nemo fuit repente turpissimus. Or, "I will never become my father. I would never sacrifice you or anybody I cared about to bring him down."
Spoilers through Crisis.
Notes: This was started midway through S3. It was supposed to be about Lex's relationships with women, mostly nonsexual, and indirectly about his relationships with Clark and Lionel, the only men in his life who've made an impression. I wish I'd managed to finish it over the summer, but events have moved on so that I'd have to reconceive a lot of the planned plot, and I just don't have the energy.


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Nemo fuit repente turpissimus: no man becomes a villain all at once

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Last amnesty story

Title: Scarred Clark
Author: Rivka T
Fandom: Smallville
Rating: R
Notes: Once upon a time, cjandre posted a drabble about Clark rescuing Lex from the accident, and Lex coming back to consciousness to see a boy with a hideous green scar across half his face. I was entranced by the idea.

CJ planned to and ultimately began to expand on the idea with a full story involving Clark, who had both physical scars and some brain damage affecting his motor control from a meteor rock hit to the face, and Lex coming to SV much later than he did in canon. Her story is neat and plotty and intriguing and generally yummy.

What sparked in my mind was something a lot less ... complicated. I imagined the meeting happening in the same time as it did in canon, and Clark being only physically scarred and not otherwise disabled, so he went to high school and people had a lot better excuse to look at him funny than they did in canon. Anyway, I imagined Clark & Lex becoming even closer friends because of Clark's extra isolation, and Lex finding out a lot more about Clark, whose different reaction to meteor rocks was after all on his face. There were adventures and Lex being superprotective of Clark. Also I think at some point they had some secret code for if Lex was in trouble and couldn't overtly say he needed help; he'd call Clark "Kent" if the trouble was such that Clark needed to intervene right then and "CK" if it would be better for Clark to hang back, but Lex always said "CK" and they had a big fight about it until Lex agreed that he'd only say "CK" if Kryptonite were present. So, the summer before Clark's senior year, Lex helped Clark figure out the spaceship, and ultimately Lex discovered that the caves and the ship could produce a machine that would fix Clark's face (if assisted by Kryptonite, which was necessary to make Clark's skin vulnerable enough to change). They did the surgery, which was successful, and took off for a month or so for Clark to travel, get used to his new face, and "heal" away from SV's concerned citizenry.

All of that was so that I could write what follows. Pure fanservice, or self-fanservice really.


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