Five Ways Clark Surprised Lex
Sep. 6th, 2006 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scribblinlenoreFor ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
entrenous88
Five Ways Clark Surprised Lex
1. On Lex's first birthday in Smallville, Clark shows up at the mansion with a clumsily wrapped package and an eager smile. "You didn't have to," Lex says. And what he means is: I wasn't expecting anything. His father believes in rewards, not gifts, and Lex hasn't had an honest-to-God birthday present since his mother died.
"I wanted to," Clark insists. "Well? Aren't you going to open it?"
Clark's pleased blush, his bright-eyed anticipation are really all Lex could ever ask for, but he makes a big production out of the gift, carefully undoing the homemade gift paper, taking it apart at the Scotch taped seams to keep from ripping it.
When he finally has it open, all he can do is stare.
"It's just something I made," Clark says in a rush, misinterpreting Lex's silence. "You're into abstract art and stuff. I thought you might, you know, think it was interesting." He trails off feebly, his happy light dimming.
"Interesting" does not begin to cover it. Lex turns the object over in his hands. There's steel and strands of copper wire, bits of brightly colored glass, pebbles from the river, all twisted and fused together. In places, there are marks, in the shape of fingers, not tools, the handiwork of a pair of impossible hands, and Clark has to know that Lex will see it, that he'll know.
He looks up, suspiciously bright-eyed now himself, he suspects, and the worry goes out of Clark, his smiles returns, only softer now.
"I wanted to give you something you didn't have."
Lex nods, and the tightness in his throat makes his thank you come out raspy, "It's the nicest thing anybody will ever do for me."
2. The day after Lex kisses Clark for the first time, he debates all morning whether he should pick Clark up at school or actually have some dignity, yes, no, yes, no, a daisy chain of indecision among the conference calls and spreadsheets. It's only when he's in the car, doing 110 on the way to Smallville High, that he finally admits he might be a little too invested in this whole thing.
He parks and gets out, lounges against the silver hood while he waits, but when Clark comes streaming out at the final bell, he only pauses, doesn't stop. "I'm catching a ride with Pete." It's not wholly unexpected--the kiss had been followed by a stammered excuse and violent blushes--but the fact that Clark doesn't look back, not even once, that's painfully eye-opening.
3. Front page story in the Daily Planet, "Superman Bids Earth Goodbye"
4. The first time Clark hits him. Oh, sure. Lex was pushing his buttons, hard and with finesse, slipping in a little innuendo about Lana, things he might or might not have done to her. It wasn't wholly unjustified, he freely admits. Still. Call him a romantic, but he's always liked to think that heroes were just a little bit better than that.
5. Every time Clark saves him from himself. He keeps expecting him to just give up one day. He keeps being surprised when Clark never does..
entrenous88Five Ways Clark Surprised Lex
1. On Lex's first birthday in Smallville, Clark shows up at the mansion with a clumsily wrapped package and an eager smile. "You didn't have to," Lex says. And what he means is: I wasn't expecting anything. His father believes in rewards, not gifts, and Lex hasn't had an honest-to-God birthday present since his mother died.
"I wanted to," Clark insists. "Well? Aren't you going to open it?"
Clark's pleased blush, his bright-eyed anticipation are really all Lex could ever ask for, but he makes a big production out of the gift, carefully undoing the homemade gift paper, taking it apart at the Scotch taped seams to keep from ripping it.
When he finally has it open, all he can do is stare.
"It's just something I made," Clark says in a rush, misinterpreting Lex's silence. "You're into abstract art and stuff. I thought you might, you know, think it was interesting." He trails off feebly, his happy light dimming.
"Interesting" does not begin to cover it. Lex turns the object over in his hands. There's steel and strands of copper wire, bits of brightly colored glass, pebbles from the river, all twisted and fused together. In places, there are marks, in the shape of fingers, not tools, the handiwork of a pair of impossible hands, and Clark has to know that Lex will see it, that he'll know.
He looks up, suspiciously bright-eyed now himself, he suspects, and the worry goes out of Clark, his smiles returns, only softer now.
"I wanted to give you something you didn't have."
Lex nods, and the tightness in his throat makes his thank you come out raspy, "It's the nicest thing anybody will ever do for me."
2. The day after Lex kisses Clark for the first time, he debates all morning whether he should pick Clark up at school or actually have some dignity, yes, no, yes, no, a daisy chain of indecision among the conference calls and spreadsheets. It's only when he's in the car, doing 110 on the way to Smallville High, that he finally admits he might be a little too invested in this whole thing.
He parks and gets out, lounges against the silver hood while he waits, but when Clark comes streaming out at the final bell, he only pauses, doesn't stop. "I'm catching a ride with Pete." It's not wholly unexpected--the kiss had been followed by a stammered excuse and violent blushes--but the fact that Clark doesn't look back, not even once, that's painfully eye-opening.
3. Front page story in the Daily Planet, "Superman Bids Earth Goodbye"
4. The first time Clark hits him. Oh, sure. Lex was pushing his buttons, hard and with finesse, slipping in a little innuendo about Lana, things he might or might not have done to her. It wasn't wholly unjustified, he freely admits. Still. Call him a romantic, but he's always liked to think that heroes were just a little bit better than that.
5. Every time Clark saves him from himself. He keeps expecting him to just give up one day. He keeps being surprised when Clark never does..
