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House Arrest (R) by Marikology
Fandom: SMALLVILLE
Pairing: Chloe Sullivan/Clark Kent, Lois Lane/Oliver Queen
Length: 48,000 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marikology
Author Website: http://two-of-us.svtometropolis.com/viewuser.php?uid=23
Why this must be read:
The episode "Arctic" left so many threads hanging for viewers over the summer and Marikology managed to answer them honestly, respectfully, and by giving attention to all characters, including Kara, which is something the show seems to have forgotten about almost entirely. It's the sweet, realistically built romance between two old friends who become something more that is the heart of this fic and make it a worthwhile read.
In the first two weeks of living together, Chloe and Clark learned more mundane quirks about the other than either of them could have predicted. Chloe learned that Clark took interminably long showers, at least two a day, which would explain why he was always late. He also ate a lot of sugar. He had a candy stash in the pantry that looked like he'd just done about six hours of trick-or-treating. Every morning she watched him put spoonful after spoonful in his cereal, no matter the flavor, and in his coffee. When he was done, he'd eat whatever hadn't dissolved with a spoon. She idly wondered if intergalactic travelers got tooth decay, but never worked up the nerve to ask him. He was also a voracious reader. He made two weekly trips to the library, bringing half-a-dozen titles home each time, on a variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. Chloe was the type of person who couldn't decide what she wanted unless the choices were right in front of her. Even though he offered to check books out for her, she could never think of anything to request, so she simply read whatever he was done with. He was also a very good cook, Chloe was impressed to learn, and ate a lot of his own produce.
Clark learned that Chloe had an insatiable appetite for crossword puzzles, no matter what the subject. She did the celebrity ones in magazines, the easy ones on cereal boxes, and the impossible ones in the newspaper. She loved cheesy pop music by girl groups of dubious talent; she had all of Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls albums, and the musical “RENT”, which Clark thought was the strangest, most obnoxious thing he’d ever heard. She hated wearing shoes unless absolutely necessary, and since her outside mobility was limited, she almost never had them on, causing Clark to realize just how short she was. She also had a strange oral fixation and chewed on anything plastic she happened to be holding: the remote control, pens, straws, bottle caps. Clark mused that she could give Shelby a run for his money, and suggested she try chewing through her ankle bracelet, a comment which earned him the remote hurled at his head.
But even though they were learning a lot of new things about the other, they also realized that some personality quirks simply never change. Chloe was still uncannily excellent at every card game Clark knew, and Clark still spent hours in his loft, thinking or brooding or whatever he did in there. Sometimes he longed for Chloe's company in the loft, and he completely didn't mind her in the house, but usually Clark was content to be alone, the reason it had been christened the "Fortress of Solitude" in the first place. Clark thought it was ironic that presently, it really was his only Fortress now.
House Arrest
Pairing: Chloe Sullivan/Clark Kent, Lois Lane/Oliver Queen
Length: 48,000 words
Author on LJ:
marikologyAuthor Website: http://two-of-us.svtometropolis.com/viewuser.php?uid=23
Why this must be read:
The episode "Arctic" left so many threads hanging for viewers over the summer and Marikology managed to answer them honestly, respectfully, and by giving attention to all characters, including Kara, which is something the show seems to have forgotten about almost entirely. It's the sweet, realistically built romance between two old friends who become something more that is the heart of this fic and make it a worthwhile read.
In the first two weeks of living together, Chloe and Clark learned more mundane quirks about the other than either of them could have predicted. Chloe learned that Clark took interminably long showers, at least two a day, which would explain why he was always late. He also ate a lot of sugar. He had a candy stash in the pantry that looked like he'd just done about six hours of trick-or-treating. Every morning she watched him put spoonful after spoonful in his cereal, no matter the flavor, and in his coffee. When he was done, he'd eat whatever hadn't dissolved with a spoon. She idly wondered if intergalactic travelers got tooth decay, but never worked up the nerve to ask him. He was also a voracious reader. He made two weekly trips to the library, bringing half-a-dozen titles home each time, on a variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. Chloe was the type of person who couldn't decide what she wanted unless the choices were right in front of her. Even though he offered to check books out for her, she could never think of anything to request, so she simply read whatever he was done with. He was also a very good cook, Chloe was impressed to learn, and ate a lot of his own produce.
Clark learned that Chloe had an insatiable appetite for crossword puzzles, no matter what the subject. She did the celebrity ones in magazines, the easy ones on cereal boxes, and the impossible ones in the newspaper. She loved cheesy pop music by girl groups of dubious talent; she had all of Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls albums, and the musical “RENT”, which Clark thought was the strangest, most obnoxious thing he’d ever heard. She hated wearing shoes unless absolutely necessary, and since her outside mobility was limited, she almost never had them on, causing Clark to realize just how short she was. She also had a strange oral fixation and chewed on anything plastic she happened to be holding: the remote control, pens, straws, bottle caps. Clark mused that she could give Shelby a run for his money, and suggested she try chewing through her ankle bracelet, a comment which earned him the remote hurled at his head.
But even though they were learning a lot of new things about the other, they also realized that some personality quirks simply never change. Chloe was still uncannily excellent at every card game Clark knew, and Clark still spent hours in his loft, thinking or brooding or whatever he did in there. Sometimes he longed for Chloe's company in the loft, and he completely didn't mind her in the house, but usually Clark was content to be alone, the reason it had been christened the "Fortress of Solitude" in the first place. Clark thought it was ironic that presently, it really was his only Fortress now.
House Arrest