Fallen Angel by baskey

[teot]

Title: Fallen Angel
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 7,840 words.
Cover: #2

Summary: Sometimes you are honoured with the finding of a long time lost treasure in the most unexpected time and place.

Notes: My most profuse and heartfelt thanks to ladydey for agreeing to do such hurried beta duty for this story, and to teot for roping her in to do so. Ladies, you are

Comments

Thank you so much!

[anonymous]

Hi, I am truly excited at seeing you commenting here! And your praise is most welcome. When I was writing that scene with Lex noticing the ring in Clark´s middle finger I was really more focused on get the feelings rising from their reunion right than in show the ring´s presence and its consequences in a subtle way. That part wrote itself, really. But I am glad you liked! In my mind, Lex really didn´t know about the Red!K and it changing Clark´s personality. He knew about the meteorites changing some people back in Smallville but that was the Green!K. Red!K was a unknown factor for him so far. Kal knew, of course, because he is not stupid. He felt Red!K´s effects on himself and still recalled have been Clark, the farm boy. He knows things changed when he donned the ring. There was one thing I wanted to reflect here, even if most subtly, and that was the matter of how the difference in ages was of fair importance to the gaining of knowledge about the meteorites and its properties. I mean, they are in 18th century, right? The great age of piracy. Despite of it being the Age of Enlightenment, meteorites falling from the above still would be seen as somewhat a portent of the heavens by most people, right? They would be either a sign of great things to come or a great curse to befall on people´s heads as punishment by their sins. Or so I thought it in regards to my plot to this story, anyhow. There were no Lionel and a bunch of assorted scientists wanting to get the upper hand on those meteorites so they can gain profit from its applications to military field. No knowledge about the DNA sequence, either, in that period. Zero gains, therefore, from the applications showed in fics and in the show itself on that particular front. The only reason to someone was researching the meteorites and its effects on the population would be pure knowledge gaining and the resolve of an most intriguing scientific puzzle. And, as I said, Red!K was the great unknow here! Oh, the post-pirate attack scene was another that wrote itself, too. I just had it in my mind´s eye. With such startling clarity, even. It must have been all those romance novels I read in my teens! I remember one by Shirlee Busbee that was about pirates and in it the author went in great detail about the pillaging and the effects of it on the victims of the attacks. I remember her recount of those events touching me deeply, and I think those passages did stay with me all this time and were my source to write that scene, in an subconscious way. I wanted to write something as realistic sounding as that, and I was worried about my own performance on that front. I am glad it turned out well at the end. Thanks a lot for comment about it!