Title: Three Questions
Category: Not fic
Rating: R/NSFW
Word Count: 648
Spoilers: For most of the series, in particular Season 10, though everything is Clex-tinged
Warnings:
Notes: Written for my little
February Fic Fest thing. For Salli at AO3, who left a nice comment and a couple questions in one of her comments at the end of chapter 2.
Summary: Some questions answered from this universe:
Subscribing to Courage and
Endorsing Honesty 1) Are Lex and Clark married or at least living together at the end?
They have to file state taxes separately, but Clark and Lex are married in at least a portion of the United States and domestic partners in select counties in the state of Kansas. Lex funnels a portion of his money each year into the appropriate campaigns, but does not take more active participation in the making of policies after an incident that might have involved Lex, a few select politicians and members of the judicial system, and claims of blackmail and intimidation. That was all speculation and slander, as far as anyone could prove.
But they have shared an address for half the years they've known each other and they shared their spaces even before then.
2) Where is Martha?
Clark doesn't seem to know what to do with his mother being so far away. After going into politics in the wake of Jonathon's death, Lex had figured it was only a matter of time, but Clark wasn't one for long-term planning and he couldn't see the result of the inevitable tide of time in the say way as Lex.
The selling of the farm seemed to take Clark by surprise and Lex simply made sure he was as present as possible, for whenever Clark was finally able to express the sense of loss he so obviously felt. It was a final tie to his real father and the heritage that man had left for him. Regardless of his origin beyond the stores, the Kent farm would always be his first home.
One of her most personal fights is for same-sex marriage, in Kansas and the rest of the United States.
3) When having anal sex, who tops?
Lex has the control and Clark has the strength, but there's no tried and true answer to this.
Sometimes they argue and Clark will fall into the Superman stance and Lex's anger will push him past any ability to reason. That typically leads them into angry, forceful sex. But Lex being out of control means that Clark, that Superman, has to take it from him. Control cannot be taken forcibly from Lex, through a show of force or strong commands. Lex grew up fighting for reign of his own life. No, it takes a different kind of strength, the kind that comes from surrender. Clark takes control by asking for it.
Clark's hands are gentle and he asks, "Let me, let me" a dozen times before Lex relents and softens the press of his lips, before Lex unfurls his fingers from their tight clench in Clark's dark hair. Clark will take him apart from there and wreck him until Lex has forgotten what control was, until he can't think of anything but the press and pull of Clark inside his body.
There are times, though, when Clark's physical strength is no match for all the things that can go wrong in the world, when his speed is not enough, when there's a weight his arms cannot lift, a life he can't save. Those are the days when Clark wishes there were some way to go back against the clock, but some things are impossible even from him.
Those are the days that Lex kneads muscle beneath his fingers and pushes his own muscles. Clark likes gentleness, but it takes work to make his body feel enough to overcome the storm in his mind. Lex isn't rough by most standard, but he's aware that the way he pushes Clark's body would be hard on a human.
And sometimes the word 'top' is out of place, because Clark's pressed Lex's hand against the wall and made him brace himself there and he's pushed Lex down on a bed and straddled him and... well, Clark might spend a fair amount of time manhandling Lex where he wants him.
Read at the AO3:
Three Questions @ AO3 (chapter 3 of Subscribing to Courage)