TLDF Day Four: Be Mine

[clexmasmystery]

Day One has rules and stuff. ^^

Day One: Chocolate
Day Two: Watercolors
Day Three: Kiss

Today's prompt is:
Be Mine

Comments

Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[josephina_x]

"Sugar hearts?" Lex asked, leaning over his son's head as he sat at the kitchen table, and tilted his head at Conner's humongous candy haul. Apparently the schoolgirls adored him.

Lex would have puffed his chest out and said they had good taste, if there wasn't a decade-plus difference in life experience involved. Instead, he had the uneasy feeling that comes with wondering if some strange older woman (or twelve) was exhibiting indecent sexual interest in his three-year-old son and possibly considering performing some sort of deviant behavior on said son, and confront the distinct possibility of having to plan what necessary measures he might have to take in preemptive retaliation against said woman (or women) at this disturbing revelation.

Lex wondered again, and not for the first time, whether Conner might be better served being placed to work in a daycare with infants, toddlers, and pre-kindergarten children. After all, he'd learn responsibility -- he was perfectly capable of taking care of others smaller than himself -- and would be learning to socialize with children closer to his own actual age... while being otherwise bored out of his mind. This as opposed to attending highschool, where he was having to navigate the teenage social structure (or what horrific tangled mess ever existed as such), deal with bullies and sycophants trying to respectively besmirch or capitalize on the Luthor-Kent name, among other atrocities... while being otherwise bored out of his mind. Yes. Maybe Lex should dis-enroll him tomorrow. He could. After all, Lex really wasn't seeing the upside here.

...Except for Conner somehow having mysteriously gained lots of sugary snacks from said large group of secret- and not-so-secret admirers. Clearly his son must have gotten that bit from Clark, no matter how much Clark claimed to have been patently not a social butterfly throughout any of his school years -- Lex knew Conner didn't get it from him. No girl in her right mind had ever given him the time of day when he'd been going to Excelsior, and it wasn't because it was a boy's boarding house and there had been a significant lack of female presence on the school grounds.

"Daaaad," said heartbreaker complained. "They're candy hearts, and they taste great!"

"Taste like what? It's pure sugar!" Lex protested, trying to swipe them off of the table and away from his son. "They have no redeeming nutritional value whatsoever. Even chocolate has milk in it, at least, to offset the cocoa and sugar a bit."

Conner pouted outright, clutching the small box of processed and no doubt artificially-colored sugar in his hand, and soon after it degenerated into a case of keep away, with Conner trying to hold it out at arms-length while Lex tried to grab it away from him.

When Clark arrived home from work, he soon put a stop to that.

"Lex, Conner can keep any candy that isn't poisoned or otherwise inedible --and sugar is edible," he quickly added as Lex was about to protest. "Conner, don't tease your dad because you've got something he doesn't have." And with that, Clark slapped the offending candy box into Lex's hand, turned on his heel, and marched out towards the bedroom, loosening his tie and grumbling under his breath.

Lex blinked down at the box of sugar hearts, and glanced over at Conner, only to realize that it wasn't the box of candy hearts, it was a box of candy hearts, with its own set of funny sayings. Conner still had his.Hmmmm, Lex thought. And then Lex thought some more.

Lex grinned.

Conner eyed Lex's slightly larger box of candy hearts. "Wanna trade?"

To which the sometimes-villainous genius articulated well-in-kind, and with great aplomb:

"No!"

Re: Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[fine_i_give_in]

I love the mixture of worried!parent!Lex and childish!Lex. The last bit made me giggle.

Re: Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[josephina_x]

*g* Whoever said Lex can't be a kid once in awhile? ;)

*lol* Yeah, I had fun trying to get just the right endnote / response there :) Glad you liked it!

Re: Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[bradygirl_12]

Love the ending! :)

Re: Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[josephina_x]

Thank you! (I wasn't so sure about it at first ^_^ )

Re: Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[twilighthdfan]

LOL. Loved this whole fic, but that last little exchange in particular was awesome. Ooh, and Lex planning on how he'd take care of women who would try to take advantage of Connor was great :D. Fantastic fic.

Re: Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[josephina_x]

*g* Yay, the ending came out ok! \o/

*snickers* Yeah, Lex is still learning the ways of the Responsible Parent. It's a work-in-progress ;)

Thank you -- I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Re: Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[ctbn60]

OH MY GOD!! I adored the way Lex's mind ran away with him! I'm sitting here snickering! and leave it to superman...I mean clark to save the day and get Lex his own box! *grin* Nice one!

Re: Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[josephina_x]

*g* Yup, it does do that sometimes -- perils of an analytical mind, dont'cha know ;)

Superhearing does have its advantages sometimes! :)

Re: Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[jlvsclrk]

Still giggling as I type this - great stuff!

Re: Ficlet: The Valentine's Day Wars, Take 4: Be Mine (XMas 2011 continued!) (1/1)

[josephina_x]

*g* Thank you! I'm glad you liked it :)