Fic rec: Smallville
Jun. 17th, 2010 12:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikat"Useful Arts" by Rivka T. Clark/Lex. Clark's Kryptonian heritage, like Lex, is rich and powerful. And, like Lex, not entirely predictable. 38.000 words.
I loved the fic. Not just Clark and Lex, but also Supergirl and Wonder Woman and the whole setting. I loved that Lex knew Clark would never forgive him for what he was about to do, but he did it anyway because he thought it to be right. And for the next ten years they both paid for it with loneliness and misery - and it could have been avoided with a little trust, like most of the bad things in SV.
Lex had long held the hypothesis, tested rigorously and never disconfirmed, that proximity to Smallville was inversely correlated with the chance of success of any given venture of his. Even meteor rock—"Kryptonite"—behaved better the further it was removed from that town, that cancer in the shape of a Norman Rockwell vision.
I loved the fic. Not just Clark and Lex, but also Supergirl and Wonder Woman and the whole setting. I loved that Lex knew Clark would never forgive him for what he was about to do, but he did it anyway because he thought it to be right. And for the next ten years they both paid for it with loneliness and misery - and it could have been avoided with a little trust, like most of the bad things in SV.
