twinsarein's Easter Basket

[babydracky]

Username: twinsarein

Favorite Female Characters: Chloe, Alicia
Favorite Male Characters: Clark, Lex, Jason
Favorite Pairings: Clex, Clason, Clollie, Clitney
Other: Don't enjoy infidelity in fics, Lionel (unless he's used for dramatic effect and evil), Lana. Do like slash, first times, happy endings, fluff, angst

What is your favorite part of Easter?: Dying

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[josephina_x]

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"These wires aren't long enough," Lex complained, giving the so-called 'egg holder' a critical look, slowly twirling it in his fingers.

"They're fine, Lex--"

"I'm going to get dye all over my hands."

"No, you won't, and you can just wash--"

"Or my clothes. There's no splash guard," he continued, looking over at the assortment of teacups filled with boiling water, vinegar, and various combinations and amounts of food dye.

"Lex, it'll be fine as long as you're careful and don't accidentally drop them in--"

"And these cups are too small for the eggs. They won't be completely covered," he pointed out. "The eggs won't be evenly dyed."

"You're supposed to use the wire holder to turn them over. With less water in the cups, you can do half-colors this way."

"Half-colors?"

"You put one end in one color, and the other end in another color."

"...At the same time?" Lex said dubiously, trying to imagine that and failing miserably.

"No, Lex, you--" Clark shook his head in exasperation, then demonstrated by carefully placing a boiled egg in the loop end, lowering it into the liquid, and hooking the grasping end over the lip of the cup. "You finish dyeing one color completely, then do the other."

Lex frowned down at the egg. "Aren't you going to end up with a white line ringing the egg where it's sitting against the wire?"

"It's not that big a deal," Clark scoffed.

Lex frowned at his young friend.

"It's fine!"

Lex continued to frown at him.

Clark sighed. "Ok, look, you can rotate it a little if you want, and get all the edges, if it's really that big a deal," Clark said, holding the wire still with one hand and rotating the egg with a finger against the bare top that was exposed out of the dye-water.

"But the coloring won't be even," Lex pointed out. "And--"

"Lex!"

Lex stopped, but it took some effort.

"Lex, we're dyeing the eggs, not painting them like... like Faberge eggs or something? It doesn't have to be perfect."

Lex frowned at him and pointed out, "Fabrege eggs aren't painted, they're made of jewels and precious metals and--" that was really beside the point, anyway. If it was worth doing, it was worth doing right.

"This is how people dye eggs. Ok? And it looks better if you don't dye them evenly."

Lex doubted that very much. People who couldn't do something right usually made excuses like that. He'd never thought Clark was one of those people, though.

"It does, Lex. It looks better. More interesting."

Oh. 'More interesting,' huh?

Lex wavered.

"Just try it out first, ok?"

Lex gave up at Clark's puppy-dog eyes. "Fine, fine," he said. "Just... explain why you think that cup will make the eggs come out pink and that one will make them red just because that one has marginally more dye in it than the other?"

Clark groaned.

[twinsarein]

Still dying. I can picture that conversation between Lex and Clark so vividly. I love stories that introduce Lex to things most American children have the joys of doing - and this is one of the best kinds of those stories that I've read.

[josephina_x]

^_^ Very glad that you can visualize it easily :)

Oh --thank you! *blushes* I'm really glad that you're enjoying it!