I'll Be Your Vision - Clex, PG, 500 Words
Title: I'll Be Your Vision
Author: nevcolleil
Fandom, Pairing: Smallville, Clex
Rating: PG
Word Count: 500
Spoilers: 1x06 Hourglass
Summary: For the 'Will' challenge at slashthedrabble. Just some pre-slashy speculation on what would have happened if Lex and Clark had visited Cassandra together.
Lex had such a knack for showing up whenever Clark needed him that Clark had begun to believe he might be willing the man to his side. That maybe this was another one of those alien superpowers Clark had only discovered recently.
The thought almost always disturbed him. Clark was still uncomfortable with the truth about himself, and he wanted Lex to be his friend by choice. While the discovery of his other powers had left Clark exhilarated, the thought of their friendship being a lie Clark had forced upon Lex tied Clark’s stomach up in knots.
And today Clark’s stomach didn’t need the help. When he arrived at Cassandra’s door to find Lex standing there, Lex said he’d come to make sure Cassandra’s predictions didn’t scare Clark any further and Clark took the explanation at face value. Cassandra called them into her room and they sat on the edge of the bed across from her.
Cassandra smiled strangely, asking if Clark wouldn’t rather take his glimpse into the future privately.
Even Lex looked surprised when Clark insisted he could trust his friend to stay, Clark’s fear of the past - his secrets - for once eclipsed by his fear of what was coming. He reached out to Cassandra…
Nearly gasping, as Lex did, when both her thin hands moved, surprisingly fast. One grabbed Clark’s outstretched hand and the other grabbed Lex’s, arranging the both of them so that they were clasped together between her own.
Clark blushed. And opened up his mouth to protest when-
Cassandra disappeared. The nursing home and everything else Clark should have been seeing were gone and instead… Clark saw a different place - a place he’d only seen on television.
As if from a distance, Clark watched Lex rise from the desk in the center of the room; watched himself walk around and grab Lex by the wrist with a familiarity that would have made Clark blush again if he could.
Clark watched as he pulled Lex from the room, through a set of double doors that opened onto an endless field of sunny flowers. Clark ran. And ran. Until his feet were rising from the ground and Lex couldn’t keep up; broke free of Clark’s hold and began grasping wildly at nothing.
Every flower Lex touched as he stumbled in Clark’s wake withered. Beneath the crumbling stalks, the earth was scorched and littered with corpses and toppled headstones.
Clark read his parents’ names there, the names of his friends, mind buzzing in soundless horror. And as Clark fell to his knees before an equally fallen Lex, the skies opened up and rained blood - staining Lex’s white suit while Clark’s jeans and jacket remained clean. Lex smiled, though the droplets looked like bloody tears as they streaked his face.
Clark watched himself throw back his head and scream and felt the cry coming from his own throat.
He woke from the vision to the sound of Lex’s terrified voice and the soft thud of Cassandra’s lifeless hand.
[ end. ]
Author: nevcolleil
Fandom, Pairing: Smallville, Clex
Rating: PG
Word Count: 500
Spoilers: 1x06 Hourglass
Summary: For the 'Will' challenge at slashthedrabble. Just some pre-slashy speculation on what would have happened if Lex and Clark had visited Cassandra together.
Lex had such a knack for showing up whenever Clark needed him that Clark had begun to believe he might be willing the man to his side. That maybe this was another one of those alien superpowers Clark had only discovered recently.
The thought almost always disturbed him. Clark was still uncomfortable with the truth about himself, and he wanted Lex to be his friend by choice. While the discovery of his other powers had left Clark exhilarated, the thought of their friendship being a lie Clark had forced upon Lex tied Clark’s stomach up in knots.
And today Clark’s stomach didn’t need the help. When he arrived at Cassandra’s door to find Lex standing there, Lex said he’d come to make sure Cassandra’s predictions didn’t scare Clark any further and Clark took the explanation at face value. Cassandra called them into her room and they sat on the edge of the bed across from her.
Cassandra smiled strangely, asking if Clark wouldn’t rather take his glimpse into the future privately.
Even Lex looked surprised when Clark insisted he could trust his friend to stay, Clark’s fear of the past - his secrets - for once eclipsed by his fear of what was coming. He reached out to Cassandra…
Nearly gasping, as Lex did, when both her thin hands moved, surprisingly fast. One grabbed Clark’s outstretched hand and the other grabbed Lex’s, arranging the both of them so that they were clasped together between her own.
Clark blushed. And opened up his mouth to protest when-
Cassandra disappeared. The nursing home and everything else Clark should have been seeing were gone and instead… Clark saw a different place - a place he’d only seen on television.
As if from a distance, Clark watched Lex rise from the desk in the center of the room; watched himself walk around and grab Lex by the wrist with a familiarity that would have made Clark blush again if he could.
Clark watched as he pulled Lex from the room, through a set of double doors that opened onto an endless field of sunny flowers. Clark ran. And ran. Until his feet were rising from the ground and Lex couldn’t keep up; broke free of Clark’s hold and began grasping wildly at nothing.
Every flower Lex touched as he stumbled in Clark’s wake withered. Beneath the crumbling stalks, the earth was scorched and littered with corpses and toppled headstones.
Clark read his parents’ names there, the names of his friends, mind buzzing in soundless horror. And as Clark fell to his knees before an equally fallen Lex, the skies opened up and rained blood - staining Lex’s white suit while Clark’s jeans and jacket remained clean. Lex smiled, though the droplets looked like bloody tears as they streaked his face.
Clark watched himself throw back his head and scream and felt the cry coming from his own throat.
He woke from the vision to the sound of Lex’s terrified voice and the soft thud of Cassandra’s lifeless hand.
[ end. ]