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Entry tags:
Smallville/DC Comics, NC17
Crossover Day, yay!
Title: The Comfort of Adversity by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kantayra
Pairing: Clark/Lex
Author on LJ:kantayra
Author Website: Kantayra's Fic on LJ
Why this must be read: I swore for years there was no chemistry between Lex and Clark on Smallville and then Kantayra sucked me in, the evil bitca! Her fics are hilarious! You will laugh yourself silly. Most of her stories are more Smallville than DC but her Mercy is NOT Tess Mercer, but the Mercy Graves from the comics, and she's priceless. Best character depiction ever of her! In this fic, Kon-El exists and it's kind of a smush between Smallville and DC Comics. There's a death in the family and Clark freaks and runs away, and Connor moves in with Lex, and then Clark returns all lonely and slightly angsty and slightly horny. It's mostly a Clark/Lex fic but it's one I could see as easily in DC Comics as in Smallville, and Kon is just wonderful.
“And then I’ll have to make arrangements for Conner…” Clark thought about that for a moment. “Hey, do you think the Rosses would—?”
“No!” Conner exclaimed in horror.
“Absolutely not,” Lex snapped at the same time.
Clark blinked at them in disbelief. “Really?” He sounded surprised. “Because I always got the impression that they’d be really helpful with—”
“The objection is not that the Rosses might refuse,” Lex enlightened Clark, “but rather that our son stringently opposes that course of action.”
“What’s wrong with the Rosses?” Clark looked at Conner.
Conner glared at Clark.
Clark looked at Lex.
Lex glared at Clark, too.
Clark looked unnerved; he probably wasn’t used to dealing with Lex in stereo. “Okay, I get the message. No staying with the Rosses.” A thoughtful pause. “I suppose I could stay down at the farm and fly in to work…”
“Might I suggest,” Lex began carefully, setting his coffee mug down neatly on the napkin in front of him, “that Conner really need not stay in Smallville.”
“I could live in Metropolis,” Conner chimed in hopefully. “It’d be more convenient for everybody, and they wouldn’t make me go apple-picking and cow-milking in biology class.”
Lex all but choked at that.
Sensing a weak point for parent manipulation, Conner quickly added in, “And I don’t think our teacher believes in evolution, either.”
“Conner!” Clark glared at him. “You know that’s not true.”
“And our health teacher said that Satan invented birth-control!” Conner added helpfully.
“Clark…” Lex began dangerously.
“He’s making it up, Lex. Jeez.” Clark rolled his eyes at him.
“In any case, inventive lying is a sign of academic dissatisfaction,” Lex concluded.
“And you would know,” Clark grumbled.
The Comfort of Adversity
Title: The Comfort of Adversity by
kantayraPairing: Clark/Lex
Author on LJ:
kantayraAuthor Website: Kantayra's Fic on LJ
Why this must be read: I swore for years there was no chemistry between Lex and Clark on Smallville and then Kantayra sucked me in, the evil bitca! Her fics are hilarious! You will laugh yourself silly. Most of her stories are more Smallville than DC but her Mercy is NOT Tess Mercer, but the Mercy Graves from the comics, and she's priceless. Best character depiction ever of her! In this fic, Kon-El exists and it's kind of a smush between Smallville and DC Comics. There's a death in the family and Clark freaks and runs away, and Connor moves in with Lex, and then Clark returns all lonely and slightly angsty and slightly horny. It's mostly a Clark/Lex fic but it's one I could see as easily in DC Comics as in Smallville, and Kon is just wonderful.
“And then I’ll have to make arrangements for Conner…” Clark thought about that for a moment. “Hey, do you think the Rosses would—?”
“No!” Conner exclaimed in horror.
“Absolutely not,” Lex snapped at the same time.
Clark blinked at them in disbelief. “Really?” He sounded surprised. “Because I always got the impression that they’d be really helpful with—”
“The objection is not that the Rosses might refuse,” Lex enlightened Clark, “but rather that our son stringently opposes that course of action.”
“What’s wrong with the Rosses?” Clark looked at Conner.
Conner glared at Clark.
Clark looked at Lex.
Lex glared at Clark, too.
Clark looked unnerved; he probably wasn’t used to dealing with Lex in stereo. “Okay, I get the message. No staying with the Rosses.” A thoughtful pause. “I suppose I could stay down at the farm and fly in to work…”
“Might I suggest,” Lex began carefully, setting his coffee mug down neatly on the napkin in front of him, “that Conner really need not stay in Smallville.”
“I could live in Metropolis,” Conner chimed in hopefully. “It’d be more convenient for everybody, and they wouldn’t make me go apple-picking and cow-milking in biology class.”
Lex all but choked at that.
Sensing a weak point for parent manipulation, Conner quickly added in, “And I don’t think our teacher believes in evolution, either.”
“Conner!” Clark glared at him. “You know that’s not true.”
“And our health teacher said that Satan invented birth-control!” Conner added helpfully.
“Clark…” Lex began dangerously.
“He’s making it up, Lex. Jeez.” Clark rolled his eyes at him.
“In any case, inventive lying is a sign of academic dissatisfaction,” Lex concluded.
“And you would know,” Clark grumbled.
The Comfort of Adversity