Fic: Just A Matter Of Time (CLFF21 Entry - Gold Prize)

[danceswithgary]

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Title: Just A Matter Of Time
Author: danceswithgary (danceswithgary@yahoo.com)
Pairing: Clark/Lex
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None
Spoilers: None
Word Count: 6409
Archive: Fine, just let me know
Summary: Lex wasn't sure what had happened the night before, but he suspected that the last bottle of vodka hadn't been such a good idea after all.

On AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22142

Comments

[touchstoneaf.livejournal.com]

>>no one had seen Lex since he'd set out earlier that day to check one of the remote monitoring installations>>

you know, the first time around, and despite your 'it's always happily ever after with me' vow, you REALLY scared me there thinking it would be a 'we admit we love each other and then Lex dies in Clark's arms', romeo and juliet kind of ending. but at the same time i was SOOO happy when i realized the times had finally coincided and Lex had only gone out that same day, i actually whooped out loud with hope.

you do make me emote.

>>He was losing the man he loved because he'd been too late>>

took one of them nearly dying for Clark to admit that? Lex admitted it to himself YEARS ago, kiddo! bout time you caught up! (granted he's had other things on his mind, a lot to juggle, but STILL. if they were spending all this time together for three years...C'MON!)

>>and Clark was thinking of ways to join him when the end finally came. Clark knew that if nothing else, there was always the kryptonite Jor-El kept for training>>

seriously started worrying again here. and yet how SWOONY!!!

>>Clark ducked his head, cheeks blazing red. "Sex. They have to have sex and share...you know. God, this is impossible.">>

i love how realistic you madet his very awkward scene...because how to EXPLAIN something like this to someone you aren't even sure includes you in his sexuality, much less wants to live with you, loves you that way (not even getting into the fact that it's just a damn weird thing to have to explain in the first place when you've only just gotten the alien part out on the air!).

>>"Clark, you're acting like a blushing virgin."
..."Well, yeah, not a big surprise there."
..."Wait, you've never? Not even with Lana...or Chloe?">>

you know, this entire exchage was just so adorable i nearly cooed. (is that even a word that can be conjugated thus?)

>>"No! I mean, after I found out I could bond someone to me just by...well, the urge to indulge in casual sex kind of went away, Lex.">>

i can SO hear him say those words!!!

>>I know I'm not the one you planned to spend the rest of your life with, but I love you, Lex. Please don't leave me>>

okay, SNIFFLE at his tortured words! Lex, will you kiss him please?! (why does Lex have to pick this moment to be too weak to drag Clark's fool head down and shut him up in the most mutually satisfactory way?)

>>"Clark, I've loved you for years>>

well, that works too. in the absence of the strength to kiss him out of his penance, we'll take him shocking him out of it. hehe, grateful relief is fun too.

>>In spite of everything that's happened, I'll never regret taking the chance to be with you for as long as I can...all my life, if possible. Yes, Clark. My answer is yes>>

okay, that's a WEDDING there! talk about SWOONING!
now on to the wedding night. i've heard it can put new life into a person, but this is the first time i've seen that happen literally. *grinning like a pure shipper idiot*

>>Pulling back a little, Lex smiled. "So...how do we do this?">>

*snort*
well, i guess he could be thinking they need some kind of alien ritual or specific act to satisfy the necessary or something. we'll let it pass.

>>"You're the one with experience, Lex. I was kind of hoping you could tell me.">>

what he said.
you know this is all just too damned cute, don't you?

>>"You can have anything you want, Lex>>

ooh, watch how you'll have to twist his arm with THAT one! LOL, with a statement like that from Clark's lips, you could get Lex up if he were three days dead!

[danceswithgary]

Blushing virgin wishes to meet cynical man about town, object: matrimony under laws of Krypton, if not the local government.

I loved putting together this dialogue, glad it amused you!