crack_van | The Very Cliche Motel Clex Fic by NortylaK (R)

Last rec of the month, and we're heading out on a happpy note. Thanks for riding along. *hands the keys over to the next driver*

Fandom: SMALLVILLE
Pairing: Clark/Lex
Author on LJ:

muse_attack
Author Website: my little wade through the fan fiction pond
Why this must be read: There are a lot of cliches in fan fiction, but it takes a clever writer to embrace that idea and run with it. From the opening line - "Explain to me just why you're going to spend the night in a motel alone with Lex Luthor?" - you know you want to see how this turns out. Add in a Lifetime movie of the week about a highschool student being seduced, Clark's very real desire to let Lex into his life (and other things *cough*), and his canonical inability to tell a decent lie, you've got the potential for serious laughs. Smallville's not all angst and lies and head trauma - sometimes it's just friendship and first love and awkward moments that make you laugh. Don't forget that. The author certainly hasn't.

Or rather, on the very far side of the motel. Clark stared hungrily at every rusting vending machine they passed and felt about in his dress pants pockets for spare change. Lex eventually took pity on him and handed him a dollar, which he immediately dispensed on a bag of Doritos. Lex let him keep the forty cents in change and muttered something about too many preservatives. Clark was too busy happily munching away to care. He brushed neon-orange crumbs from his mouth and said, "Want some?"

"Those things are so bright, they're probably radioactive."

"They still taste good," he retorted over the next mouthful, though it was suspiciously pout-like.

Lex said something that might've been "yes, dear," although Clark couldn't figure out why Lex would say something like that. He also couldn't think of anything that sounded similar, either, so he decided just not to think on it at all.

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