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Paper Hearts by Simplytoopretty (NC-17)
Fandom: SMALLVILLE
Pairing: Chloe Sullivan/Kal El
Length: 15k
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simplytoopretty
Author Website: http://two-of-us.svtometropolis.com/viewuser.php?uid=76
Why this must be read: AUs can be tricky to do. Sometimes they get to the point where the characters are no longer recognizable except by name, butsimplytoopretty avoids this trap by bringing us a Kal El (Clark) who still has the same fears and insecurities and struggles with his alien nature, even if he wasn't raised by the Kents. In the same token, she brings a complex and intrepid Chloe and a Kara so beautiful and so wounded, you wished the show would have let us glimpse a soul like that.
There are a few rules he lives his life by. Just a few and they’ve worked for the roughly thirty human years he’s been alive for.
The first rule is one that Kara taught him when he was young. Rule one is simple: hide who you are. The humans can never know the power he and Kara wield.
As a child he didn’t understand this rule. As an adult he does. He’s seen the alien movies, has read so many non-fiction books on political science, and knows how mankind would react if the truth came out. And mankind would react badly, would be frighten by the strength Kryptonians had over them.
They could potentially convince the humans to accept them. Kara and him could potentially eek out a place for themselves not under lies. But mankind would never trust them, would never stop fearing that the Kryptonians were elephants living among mice, able to crush the mice whenever they chose to.
So Kal-El now understands and accepts the first rule.
The second rule is related to the first in reasoning. It’s never get close to a human. He understands less why Kara has always insisted on this rule but he sees the sense in it too. Possibly they could trust a human but that person would always have a residual fear of them. It’s impossible to escape that fear.
Rule three is also simple. It’s blend in and pretend. So he pretends to be human when he isn’t. He passes for human and years of practice have made this disguise, this hiding of his true nature, easy for him.
This is how things are.
Or more accurately how things were.
Paper Hearts
Pairing: Chloe Sullivan/Kal El
Length: 15k
Author on LJ:
simplytooprettyAuthor Website: http://two-of-us.svtometropolis.com/viewuser.php?uid=76
Why this must be read: AUs can be tricky to do. Sometimes they get to the point where the characters are no longer recognizable except by name, but
simplytoopretty avoids this trap by bringing us a Kal El (Clark) who still has the same fears and insecurities and struggles with his alien nature, even if he wasn't raised by the Kents. In the same token, she brings a complex and intrepid Chloe and a Kara so beautiful and so wounded, you wished the show would have let us glimpse a soul like that.There are a few rules he lives his life by. Just a few and they’ve worked for the roughly thirty human years he’s been alive for.
The first rule is one that Kara taught him when he was young. Rule one is simple: hide who you are. The humans can never know the power he and Kara wield.
As a child he didn’t understand this rule. As an adult he does. He’s seen the alien movies, has read so many non-fiction books on political science, and knows how mankind would react if the truth came out. And mankind would react badly, would be frighten by the strength Kryptonians had over them.
They could potentially convince the humans to accept them. Kara and him could potentially eek out a place for themselves not under lies. But mankind would never trust them, would never stop fearing that the Kryptonians were elephants living among mice, able to crush the mice whenever they chose to.
So Kal-El now understands and accepts the first rule.
The second rule is related to the first in reasoning. It’s never get close to a human. He understands less why Kara has always insisted on this rule but he sees the sense in it too. Possibly they could trust a human but that person would always have a residual fear of them. It’s impossible to escape that fear.
Rule three is also simple. It’s blend in and pretend. So he pretends to be human when he isn’t. He passes for human and years of practice have made this disguise, this hiding of his true nature, easy for him.
This is how things are.
Or more accurately how things were.
Paper Hearts