Fic: The Incorruptible
This is not a new fic, but I wanted to post it because...
1.) I needed to show off the awesome icon polytikal made for me
and
2.) I'm going to post the fic I wrote for the secret_chlark pollyanna, but it's sort of a sequel to this one and I think you'll understand it better if you read this first.
The Incorruptible
By: Firebunny
Pairing: Chlex, but not romantic Chlex and not friendship Chlex.
Rating: PG, because nothing actually happens.
Category: Angst maybe. I’m not sure. It’s not a comedy.
Spoilers: I don’t know, sometime after Fracture. Written before Arctic, so the events of that episode don’t apply.
Author’s Notes: This was originally part of a longer piece that I never finished because I didn’t like it, except for this chapter. I liked the Lex chapter, go figure.
Word Count: 484
If any proof is needed that Lex Luthor is deranged, it’s right in front of him. Grave robbing, you can’t get more depraved than that.
His eyes travel over the body on the table. How many hours has he spent staring at it?
This is death. No one would mistake it for sleep, the skin gray and cold to the touch. She is motionless, no rise and fall of her chest. And yet Lex is fascinated. He can’t look away.
If any proof is needed that Chloe Sullivan was a saint, it’s in front of him too. Dead three months and her body has yet to start decomposing.
The Catholic tradition tells of individuals so holy, decay can’t touch them. Incorruptibles, they’re called. Even in death they remain pure, unsullied.
That seems to describe Chloe well. She was incorruptible.
People tried to corrupt her. Lex’s father almost succeeded, but in the end he lost and it cost him his freedom.
Lex was never so foolish. He knows better than to waste his efforts on a fruitless cause. But she still held his interests.
He studied her, tracked her. She was the key to everything he wanted. She held the secret he needed to know.
Yet, even dead she refuses to give up that secret.
The cause of death is still a mystery. There are no wounds, no toxins in her system. She’s just not alive.
That could change.
She didn’t keep all her secrets. Lex knows enough. He knows she took his death upon herself. She died for him and then came back to life. It was a noble sacrifice for a sinner like him. He won’t forget it. He’ll keep her safe until she’s ready to return.
And she will return. He’s certain of that.
When she does she’ll try to stop him. She’ll fight against everything he’s worked for. He won’t let her succeed, but he won’t harm her either. He’ll protect her even as he struggles against her. She has earned his protection, unlike other people. Her life is precious to him.
Because it is in her life, her new life, that she will give up that secret.
Or rather, someone else will give it up. The person whose secret she holds, the one who can’t live without her, the one who disappeared shortly after her funereal. He’ll return too. He’ll come back to stop Lex and when he does…
He hasn’t earned Lex’s protection. He has lied to and stolen from and hurt Lex more than anyone else ever could. He deserves the punishment Lex will rain down on him. He will walk into it willingly, if only just to see her again.
Chloe is the key.
She is the secret weapon.
She will bring down Lex’s foe even as she tries to help him.
She may be incorruptible, but with her rebirth comes ruin.
Lex only has to wait.
The End
1.) I needed to show off the awesome icon polytikal made for me
and
2.) I'm going to post the fic I wrote for the secret_chlark pollyanna, but it's sort of a sequel to this one and I think you'll understand it better if you read this first.
The Incorruptible
By: Firebunny
Pairing: Chlex, but not romantic Chlex and not friendship Chlex.
Rating: PG, because nothing actually happens.
Category: Angst maybe. I’m not sure. It’s not a comedy.
Spoilers: I don’t know, sometime after Fracture. Written before Arctic, so the events of that episode don’t apply.
Author’s Notes: This was originally part of a longer piece that I never finished because I didn’t like it, except for this chapter. I liked the Lex chapter, go figure.
Word Count: 484
If any proof is needed that Lex Luthor is deranged, it’s right in front of him. Grave robbing, you can’t get more depraved than that.
His eyes travel over the body on the table. How many hours has he spent staring at it?
This is death. No one would mistake it for sleep, the skin gray and cold to the touch. She is motionless, no rise and fall of her chest. And yet Lex is fascinated. He can’t look away.
If any proof is needed that Chloe Sullivan was a saint, it’s in front of him too. Dead three months and her body has yet to start decomposing.
The Catholic tradition tells of individuals so holy, decay can’t touch them. Incorruptibles, they’re called. Even in death they remain pure, unsullied.
That seems to describe Chloe well. She was incorruptible.
People tried to corrupt her. Lex’s father almost succeeded, but in the end he lost and it cost him his freedom.
Lex was never so foolish. He knows better than to waste his efforts on a fruitless cause. But she still held his interests.
He studied her, tracked her. She was the key to everything he wanted. She held the secret he needed to know.
Yet, even dead she refuses to give up that secret.
The cause of death is still a mystery. There are no wounds, no toxins in her system. She’s just not alive.
That could change.
She didn’t keep all her secrets. Lex knows enough. He knows she took his death upon herself. She died for him and then came back to life. It was a noble sacrifice for a sinner like him. He won’t forget it. He’ll keep her safe until she’s ready to return.
And she will return. He’s certain of that.
When she does she’ll try to stop him. She’ll fight against everything he’s worked for. He won’t let her succeed, but he won’t harm her either. He’ll protect her even as he struggles against her. She has earned his protection, unlike other people. Her life is precious to him.
Because it is in her life, her new life, that she will give up that secret.
Or rather, someone else will give it up. The person whose secret she holds, the one who can’t live without her, the one who disappeared shortly after her funereal. He’ll return too. He’ll come back to stop Lex and when he does…
He hasn’t earned Lex’s protection. He has lied to and stolen from and hurt Lex more than anyone else ever could. He deserves the punishment Lex will rain down on him. He will walk into it willingly, if only just to see her again.
Chloe is the key.
She is the secret weapon.
She will bring down Lex’s foe even as she tries to help him.
She may be incorruptible, but with her rebirth comes ruin.
Lex only has to wait.
The End