Fic: Five time Clark realizes what he lost by letting Lex go (PG, 1980 words)

[bagheera_san]

ladydey gave me the prompt: "5 Times Clark Realizes what he lost by letting Lex go - and One time he actually did something about it." It turned out mostly futurefic and has my usual mix of 'verses. The pieces are mostly in chronological order, although as you'll notice #2 and #3 extend over a long time.

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[bagheera_san]

I truly believe that a lot of Clark's and Lex's problems stem from the fact that they are both so young

Yeah. Lex may be older, but he's just as inexperienced when it comes to friendship. And Clark has only ever been friends with fairly normal people. And then they completely fixated on each other. It's no wonder they made so many mistakes.

Also Lex and Clark were really really invested in their relationship and cared for each other in a deeper way, then I think that Clark cares for Ollie - every slight is/was deeper
Clark doesn't care about Ollie as much as he cared about Lex, definitely not. But Ollie cares a lot about Clark, I think, he respects and admires him, even while he envies him, we saw that in "Rage". I think that Ollie sees something that Lex never really fully accepted, though, namely that Clark is young and still fumbling around, looking for his way. Ollie doesn't look at Clark for moral guidance.

I love how even though Lex was poking at Clark for coming back from the dead stupider, he was still trying to protect him.
Hee. Yeah. That's Lex, never entirely trusting himself with too much power.

In the aftermath of #5, they might end up in bed, although Clark hopefully has learned enough to handle it well and take his time. Lex hasn't really had much opportunity to get better at this friendship thing, so Clark bears all the responsibility now.

[ladydey]

In the aftermath of #5, they might end up in bed, although Clark hopefully has learned enough to handle it well and take his time. Lex hasn't really had much opportunity to get better at this friendship thing, so Clark bears all the responsibility now.

Yeah, it's sad that they were both socially stunted for so long. I have hope that if Clark can bend enough to offer the bottle of wine, that he an Lex can get to a place where they are really there for each other as friends, who might become more later.