Fanfic: “Locked Room Mystery” by rivkat . [Smallville: Clark/President!Lex] . [N7,5]
“Locked Room Mystery” by rivkat . [Smallville: Clark/President!Lex] . [N7,5]
13.04.2012 (chapter 1)
19.12.2012
This one is a product of Rivkat hanukkah fannish celebration where she posts drabbles based on her reader’s prompts for 8 days. It’s also a WIP, to which she just added a second part, but I’m certain you can go enjoy the rest of her extensive oeuvre after this one ends in the best cliffhanger ever. It’s a brilliant exploration of amnesiac!Lex (which is canon somehow?) which normally freaks me out but this Lex might not remember his youth but he has managed to land himself as president and is doing very well for himself,
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*spoilers* with an 11-year-old daughter (Lena, is this canon too?) when he ends up in a bunker with Clark Kent, who is terrified of clueing him in but can’t help showing off a little and impressing Lex into inviting him over for dinner. Their dinner dates go on, with Clark as fascinated as he used to be back in Smallville and progressively guiltier about not revealing the connection. Lex is willing to play the game, though, till Clark lets it slip that he knows why Lena has accelerated healing.
Dying for more!
Quotes:
Lex had even once said that the laws of physics were breakable; human behavior, though, always came through.