Alternate Universe
Pairing: Clex
Genre: Angst (maybe gen/ slash-implied)
Rating: G
Word Count: 200
Spoilers: Set in Exile
Summary: If you could choose between two worlds, which would you pick?
A/N: written for sv100 prompt: past prompts/ alternate universe.
An editorial aside:
This is probably cheating. I don't know. I had a hard time getting my head around the rules of this prompt. It said you could use an existing AU, but not create your own. It said you could use any of the other Superman incarnations - or any of the AU episodes from previous seasons.
I realize I may be breaking the definition of AU here with the episode I've chosen. However, here is my logic: an altered state of conciousness can create an alternate universe. If Noir counts, I think I'm within the letter of the law here, if perhaps not the spirit.
I am definitely also cheating against a personal conviction here. Generally, I see it as kind of an end-run around the rules to write multiple 100-word sections and link them together. Therefore I realize it makes me a hypocrite to turn around and write a fic that does that. So I accept that criticism up-front.
My only excuse is, I see this as two sides of the same story. They both use the same prompt; and I think they could stand alone.
I find it funny that I've managed to write an A/N which is longer than the fic itself. Enough; onward.
*
Clark hangs up the phone, finding it strange that he can lift anything but can’t hold back tears.
Everyone - every last person he loves - he’s failed them. His mother’s loss, Chloe’s heartbreak: it’s all his fault. Even Lana doesn’t - shouldn’t - trust him.
And Lex is …
He’d had a bad feeling about Helen from the start; he should have told Lex.
He should have told Lex a lot of things.
If he stays on Red K, Jor-El will keep hurting him; but Kal doesn’t care about Clark’s pain.
So Clark slips the ring on, and shifts back into his alternate universe.
*
At night, Lex lies awake listening to Louis muttering in his sleep and wonders if he is mad.
They say a mad person would never acknowledge it; so perhaps hope remains.
Sometimes, especially when the sun is hottest overhead, Lex finds it hard to remember. He dimly recalls other priorities: money, power, truth. Her name: Helen ...
All he wants now is water, and Clark.
Louis claims he is a friend; in this alternate universe, he is all Lex has. But Lex still doesn’t trust him.
He never, he realizes, really trusted Clark either.
Maybe he’s better off here after all.
Genre: Angst (maybe gen/ slash-implied)
Rating: G
Word Count: 200
Spoilers: Set in Exile
Summary: If you could choose between two worlds, which would you pick?
A/N: written for sv100 prompt: past prompts/ alternate universe.
An editorial aside:
This is probably cheating. I don't know. I had a hard time getting my head around the rules of this prompt. It said you could use an existing AU, but not create your own. It said you could use any of the other Superman incarnations - or any of the AU episodes from previous seasons.
I realize I may be breaking the definition of AU here with the episode I've chosen. However, here is my logic: an altered state of conciousness can create an alternate universe. If Noir counts, I think I'm within the letter of the law here, if perhaps not the spirit.
I am definitely also cheating against a personal conviction here. Generally, I see it as kind of an end-run around the rules to write multiple 100-word sections and link them together. Therefore I realize it makes me a hypocrite to turn around and write a fic that does that. So I accept that criticism up-front.
My only excuse is, I see this as two sides of the same story. They both use the same prompt; and I think they could stand alone.
I find it funny that I've managed to write an A/N which is longer than the fic itself. Enough; onward.
*
Clark hangs up the phone, finding it strange that he can lift anything but can’t hold back tears.
Everyone - every last person he loves - he’s failed them. His mother’s loss, Chloe’s heartbreak: it’s all his fault. Even Lana doesn’t - shouldn’t - trust him.
And Lex is …
He’d had a bad feeling about Helen from the start; he should have told Lex.
He should have told Lex a lot of things.
If he stays on Red K, Jor-El will keep hurting him; but Kal doesn’t care about Clark’s pain.
So Clark slips the ring on, and shifts back into his alternate universe.
*
At night, Lex lies awake listening to Louis muttering in his sleep and wonders if he is mad.
They say a mad person would never acknowledge it; so perhaps hope remains.
Sometimes, especially when the sun is hottest overhead, Lex finds it hard to remember. He dimly recalls other priorities: money, power, truth. Her name: Helen ...
All he wants now is water, and Clark.
Louis claims he is a friend; in this alternate universe, he is all Lex has. But Lex still doesn’t trust him.
He never, he realizes, really trusted Clark either.
Maybe he’s better off here after all.