She was a general’s daughter.

She was supposed to believe in absolutes.  What you could see.  What you could feel.  And, as her father would say, what you could blow up.

There would be no room for heroes who burned their emblems onto a building.  Or could save her from an oncoming car with the feather light touch of his hands moving her quickly out ( Read more... )

Letting go wasn’t something Clark Kent often allowed himself.

See, it was a luxury he couldn’t afford.  The superpowers and all.  He had to constantly be vigilant.  No grip to hard, no touch too insistent.

He’d grown up like that.  And he understood why his parents had been so protective.  It was something he carried with him, always.

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A closed storage room door.  The only light entering from the frosted glass window that covered half of it.

The only sounds around them are their fevered breathing, mixed with a sigh and a pant for good measure.  For a major Metropolitan newspaper, the Daily Planet building was still.  Quiet.  The most passionate and ardent of reporters had ( Read more... )

Title: Watching the Horizon
Author: emerald_night
Claim: Smallville - Lois and Clark
Table: Buffet #1
Rating: PG
Prompt: #298/ Watching the horizon
Word Count: 480
Summary: Clark receives a message from an old friend.  Spoilers for 10x21 and 10x22.
A/N: Written for the fc_smorgasbord challenge.

( It was a small envelope... )

It had been such a whirlwind couple of days, Clark didn’t realize what his fiancée had around her neck until the minute she had trouble undoing the clasp and taking it off.

He couldn’t be blamed, really.  His mother returning, speaking out for heroes and getting shot in the process by a young clone of Lex Luthor, the VRA vote, not to mention ( Read more... )

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( Smallville as a trashy Dynasty type soap opera )

I was thinking about this today ( Read more... )

So, watching Clark wake up.  He opens his eyes, sees the "S" on the ceiling made by his heat vision, and smiles.

Not at all surprised.

Which would lead one to wonder, if Clark's heat vision scorching the ceiling of Lois and Clark's bedroom is not an unusual occurrence?

I need this to be fic'd y'all.

Title: Future of the Past
Author: emerald_night
Claim: Smallville - Lois and Clark
Table: Buffet #1
Rating: PG
Prompt: #291 / Future of the past.
Word Count: 1,453
Summary: A conversation between 2017 Clark and Lois following the events of earlier in the day when 2010 Clark wound up in his own future. (Homecoming).
A/N: Written for the fc_smorgasbord  ( Read more... )