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I Shatter by slinkling [NC-17]
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fiercynn, and I'll be driving the Smallville van for May. I've only been in the fandom since last summer, but I fell hard and I'm excited to share some of the amazing fic I've read since then. Though I'm definitely a Clark/Lex fan, I will be including some great non-slash stuff, but today I'll be starting with a fic that I think should be classic in terms of love stories between Clark and Lex.
Fandom: SMALLVILLE
Pairing: Clark/Lex
Author on LJ:slinkling
Author Website slinkling’s LJ
Why this must be read:
Like perhaps many other Smallville fans, the Season 3 episode “Shattered” and its partner “Asylum” are among my absolute favorite episodes of the show. “Shattered” was the first episode of any serial drama show that made me cry, and I have vivid memories of how I literally wailed and shrieked the whole way through, especially at Lex. As an impartial (yeah, right!) viewer, I marveled the way the episodes were done; as a Smallville fan and a Clark/Lex fan, my heart ached for the boys and their troubles, especially when the problems of “Shattered” couldn’t be solved in “Asylum”.
“I Shatter” is part ofslinkling’s 69 Love Songs project, which are a series of Clark/Lex fics based on songs by the Magnetic Fields, and most of the stories stand alone. The fic is an AU that takes off where “Shattered” finishes with a slight twist on the ending, one that many fen would have preferred – instead of Clark running away when Lex sees him stop the car, Clark rescues Lex and takes him away. What follows is a heartbreakingly sweet story about Clark caring for Lex that has all the emotion and longing of a hurt-comfort fic, along with the drama and tension of any interaction between Clark and Lex, and finally with humor and lightness to make you fall into it and love it. I’m also awed by the way slinkling shows Lex’s perspective during his bouts of insanity, exposing his vulnerability and his fears.
But the best part is that not only does this fic involve comfort and caring between the characters, but it provides comfort for me when I feel too emotionally upset about what happens in Smallville. It’s the perfect story to come back to again and again, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels so.
“Lex, I swear to you, I would never let anyone hurt you.” Clark took a step closer to Lex, but Lex backed away.
“Hurt me by, oh, say, shooting me with tranquillizers? Or holding me hostage? Or, I don’t know, playing gaslight with my mind until I don’t know what’s real anymore?”
“Lex—”
“Or surely you’d never let anyone hurt me by lying to me again and again, and keeping me from ever seeing the truth. Because of course you know how that would hurt me. Right?”
“You need to calm down—”
“You calm down, Clark! I don’t exactly feel like being calm right now!” Lex began rifling through kitchen drawers, muttering under his breath.
“What are you doing?”
“I just need to find something.” He went for the knife drawer but Clark stopped him, so instead he smashed his glass against Clark’s face.
I Shatter
fiercynn, and I'll be driving the Smallville van for May. I've only been in the fandom since last summer, but I fell hard and I'm excited to share some of the amazing fic I've read since then. Though I'm definitely a Clark/Lex fan, I will be including some great non-slash stuff, but today I'll be starting with a fic that I think should be classic in terms of love stories between Clark and Lex.Fandom: SMALLVILLE
Pairing: Clark/Lex
Author on LJ:
slinklingAuthor Website slinkling’s LJ
Why this must be read:
Like perhaps many other Smallville fans, the Season 3 episode “Shattered” and its partner “Asylum” are among my absolute favorite episodes of the show. “Shattered” was the first episode of any serial drama show that made me cry, and I have vivid memories of how I literally wailed and shrieked the whole way through, especially at Lex. As an impartial (yeah, right!) viewer, I marveled the way the episodes were done; as a Smallville fan and a Clark/Lex fan, my heart ached for the boys and their troubles, especially when the problems of “Shattered” couldn’t be solved in “Asylum”.
“I Shatter” is part of
slinkling’s 69 Love Songs project, which are a series of Clark/Lex fics based on songs by the Magnetic Fields, and most of the stories stand alone. The fic is an AU that takes off where “Shattered” finishes with a slight twist on the ending, one that many fen would have preferred – instead of Clark running away when Lex sees him stop the car, Clark rescues Lex and takes him away. What follows is a heartbreakingly sweet story about Clark caring for Lex that has all the emotion and longing of a hurt-comfort fic, along with the drama and tension of any interaction between Clark and Lex, and finally with humor and lightness to make you fall into it and love it. I’m also awed by the way slinkling shows Lex’s perspective during his bouts of insanity, exposing his vulnerability and his fears. But the best part is that not only does this fic involve comfort and caring between the characters, but it provides comfort for me when I feel too emotionally upset about what happens in Smallville. It’s the perfect story to come back to again and again, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels so.
“Lex, I swear to you, I would never let anyone hurt you.” Clark took a step closer to Lex, but Lex backed away.
“Hurt me by, oh, say, shooting me with tranquillizers? Or holding me hostage? Or, I don’t know, playing gaslight with my mind until I don’t know what’s real anymore?”
“Lex—”
“Or surely you’d never let anyone hurt me by lying to me again and again, and keeping me from ever seeing the truth. Because of course you know how that would hurt me. Right?”
“You need to calm down—”
“You calm down, Clark! I don’t exactly feel like being calm right now!” Lex began rifling through kitchen drawers, muttering under his breath.
“What are you doing?”
“I just need to find something.” He went for the knife drawer but Clark stopped him, so instead he smashed his glass against Clark’s face.
I Shatter
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