Drabble: A Name for Roses (semi-dark)

[sue_dreams]

Title: A Name for Roses
Pairings: Clex
Warnings/Spoilers: A bit darker than normal. Assume season 3 ended... differently.
Author's Notes: I was working on apple drabbles. Sometimes I start from just a phrase. In this case, that phrase was the summary. What happened after is just... *shrug*
Summary: Clark knows better.

Comments

[seagull2eagle]

Gah, yes. That is such an easy future to see for them. It's the dark Lex that still loves Clark no matter what, and the Clark who still loves Lex because of that. But poor, poor Clark in this one... o.o

Beautifully written! :)

[sue_dreams]

You're quick! ^__^

Thank you. I tend to stay away from darker places, but this just wrote itself. I'm glad you liked it.

[seagull2eagle]

;D You posted right as I was checking my flist. I'm not always that quick!

Sometimes the darker pieces just have to be written. We *like* the light happy-ending ones, but there's so many ways that they could go wrong that the dark ones just come out. And they're beautiful too. ^^

[sue_dreams]

:D Good timing on my part, then.

There's just something about Clex that the right kind of dark stories just hurt so good. I've found few other fandoms that make me feel the same way.

[twinsarein]

Oh yeah, I can totally see that happening. Ouch. Nice job on the dark fic.

[sue_dreams]

Thank you!

[nonotthatone]

**sigh** so many places the boys can go; so many of them are so bleak.

I loved this:
The pieces of the collection grow and Clark watches in growing horror as more names appear, first in Lex's room and then in the obituary.

Apropos of nothing, here is some Robert Frost:

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But now the theory goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose
But were always a rose.

[sue_dreams]

I love Frost. And that is a very appropriate poem, me thinks. Because this was supposed to be one of the 'apple' prompts, and there's roses... yeah. I don't even care. It's Frost.

Thank you.

[nonotthatone]

I am starting to suspect that you might actually be me.

I blame you

[sue_dreams]

You have DID and didn't even know it

[enderwiggin24]

this kind of stalking is so much better than the twilight kind XD
clearly, the stalking is kinda mutual too :D

[sue_dreams]

Any kind of stalking is better than the twilight kind... though I'm sure, under the right circumstances, Lex could turn it up a notch. He'd hate to have Clark think he wasn't lurved.

And the mutuality... should make it less creepy, but then my brain goes back to Twilight, so maybe not. :D

[sue_dreams]

I'd rather be stalked by Lex Luthor, any way.