the secret line we've been denied
Title: The Secret Line We've Been Denied
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Pandora / Toxic
Fandom: Smallville
Author's Notes: I'm not sure where this one came from, but once I started writing, I couldn't stop. I took a little of their background and did my own thing with it. Just a few brief glimpses into their lives. Inspired by Pandora, though that's only a small part of it. Title from Rise by The Frames. For the dark!ship prompt meme: you just burn
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He doesn't know what a true weakness is until he meets her.
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It's simple.
They're going to set the world on fire; blaze their way across oceans and countries. The orphan and the surviver on a mission to save the earth. To protect humanity.
They make their plans beneath silk sheets, bodies still thrumming as they come down from their highs. His hand brushes red tangles from her face, his fingers lingering against her cheek in a slow caress. Her hand slides up and down his thigh and then slides between his legs, making him jump because he's still sensitive. Tess laughs, a beautiful sound that'll echo long after this night is over. Her eyes dance as she removes her hand to shimmy it up and squeeze his bicep.
He falls in love with the way she moves, with the strength hugging her curves, and the way she smiles as if he's the one saving her.
The words never leave his lips.
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They never do get around to saving the world together.
Oliver cheats and they fall apart. There's shouting and cursing. Angry tears spilling down her cheeks when he asks her to forgive him; when he whispers brokenly that he loves her. That if she'll just give him another chance he can-
The slamming door replaces the echo of her laughter.
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It's unexpected. Right and wrong. The way they met again. On opposites sides now, but still trying to save the world in their own ways. The old Tess is gone. Then again, he isn't the same anymore either.
But her beauty still eats away at his soul as surely as the poison in his veins eats away at his life.
She saves him, then knocks him back down with the news about his parents.
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They come back together, once. Curses turning into moans as skin slides against skin and hands clasp tightly, their bodies pushing and pulling against each other on a living room floor. There are bruises forming on her hips and nail scratches on his back; broken furniture and shattered glass around them as they fight the other for dominance - as they pretend they were never in love.
Tess is the better actor.
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The world descends into madness and the sky turns into a bloody red.
It's hell on earth.
He's part of the resistance. She's part of the problem, attaching herself to the other side like she belongs there. Oliver knows she truly believes that Zod and his minions will be the saviors in a new world, and wonders when she became so naive.
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He hardens himself against her because he has to in order to survive. (A weakness from the moment they met.) Because he fears she has the ability to pull him into the cesspool of evil she's swimming laps in.
But that doesn't mean he stops trying to save her.
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In the end, he holds her as she dies. Her heart stops beneath his fingertips and his tears land on her face. He whispers words of comfort that she can no longer hear.
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Pandora / Toxic
Fandom: Smallville
Author's Notes: I'm not sure where this one came from, but once I started writing, I couldn't stop. I took a little of their background and did my own thing with it. Just a few brief glimpses into their lives. Inspired by Pandora, though that's only a small part of it. Title from Rise by The Frames. For the dark!ship prompt meme: you just burn
- - -
He doesn't know what a true weakness is until he meets her.
- - -
It's simple.
They're going to set the world on fire; blaze their way across oceans and countries. The orphan and the surviver on a mission to save the earth. To protect humanity.
They make their plans beneath silk sheets, bodies still thrumming as they come down from their highs. His hand brushes red tangles from her face, his fingers lingering against her cheek in a slow caress. Her hand slides up and down his thigh and then slides between his legs, making him jump because he's still sensitive. Tess laughs, a beautiful sound that'll echo long after this night is over. Her eyes dance as she removes her hand to shimmy it up and squeeze his bicep.
He falls in love with the way she moves, with the strength hugging her curves, and the way she smiles as if he's the one saving her.
The words never leave his lips.
- - -
They never do get around to saving the world together.
Oliver cheats and they fall apart. There's shouting and cursing. Angry tears spilling down her cheeks when he asks her to forgive him; when he whispers brokenly that he loves her. That if she'll just give him another chance he can-
The slamming door replaces the echo of her laughter.
- - -
It's unexpected. Right and wrong. The way they met again. On opposites sides now, but still trying to save the world in their own ways. The old Tess is gone. Then again, he isn't the same anymore either.
But her beauty still eats away at his soul as surely as the poison in his veins eats away at his life.
She saves him, then knocks him back down with the news about his parents.
- - -
They come back together, once. Curses turning into moans as skin slides against skin and hands clasp tightly, their bodies pushing and pulling against each other on a living room floor. There are bruises forming on her hips and nail scratches on his back; broken furniture and shattered glass around them as they fight the other for dominance - as they pretend they were never in love.
Tess is the better actor.
- - -
The world descends into madness and the sky turns into a bloody red.
It's hell on earth.
He's part of the resistance. She's part of the problem, attaching herself to the other side like she belongs there. Oliver knows she truly believes that Zod and his minions will be the saviors in a new world, and wonders when she became so naive.
- - -
He hardens himself against her because he has to in order to survive. (A weakness from the moment they met.) Because he fears she has the ability to pull him into the cesspool of evil she's swimming laps in.
But that doesn't mean he stops trying to save her.
- - -
In the end, he holds her as she dies. Her heart stops beneath his fingertips and his tears land on her face. He whispers words of comfort that she can no longer hear.