shiny happy Lex ficlet

[buggery]

So Lex comes to me and says, Jack, Jack, Jack. What were you thinking, saying you couldn't write happyfic? I glared at him. Lex, I said, when have you ever come to me with a happy story to tell? You're Lex. You do angst like it's going out of style. And he just grinned and whispered in my ear.

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I love Superman. I'm not in love with him, that love is all for Clark, but I love what he gives us.

I love that Clark can avert disasters world-shaking or pedestrian without worrying that someone will see him, because I know how he loves doing it. I love that he's a hero, and I love letting him go be one. I love watching him do it, knowing he's enjoying himself, anticipating the special, private celebrations that always follow his return. Sometimes that entails a kiss, sometimes more involved intimacy, sometimes just watching his eyes dance with joy across the table after he's ducked out of a restaurant to catch a derailed train or plummeting plane between courses.

I love that Superman allows Clark to be Clark. When the suit is off, or covered up, he may be listening with one super-sensitive ear for signs of trouble, but he's learned to relax between emergencies. I love that he can just be himself, shrug off that burden that's been passed to Superman. He can go to work at the Planet like a mortal, if mild-mannered, man. He can laugh with his friends and walk in the rain and visit his mother often. He can love me without that love being crimped in the vises of his lies and mine.

I love that all the things that make Superman seem so mysterious to the public are private jokes only the two of us know all of. I love that Superman is Clark's and mine, and Clark is only mine, and I his.

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Sometimes Lex is just a big softie. Hey, he made me say it.

Edited to Add: I did actually expand this after all! It's now complete and called True Love and Falsehood.

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

God. Today I am sappy like a really sappy thing.

I enjoyed this very much.

Aww

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I suppose as I am your husband, I should put something up here. Very cute, and glad to see you do something less than angsty.

See, now you know I love you cause I never post on these things.

Re: Aww

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Squee! My naughty TWoP-husband venusboi! Now I'll have to corrupt him to the LiveJournal side...

Awww...

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, Jack, that was so sweet! And unusual- how often does Lex actually like Superman? Very nice stuff. You're working on another nice long fic soon to be posted, I hope? Please, please?

Joan

Re: Awww...

[buggery.livejournal.com]

I think that's just what Lex was getting at -- he doesn't like to be typecast as hating Supes, I guess.

I'm focusing on one serious piece and one bit of smut that I'll post first ("Close," unless a bunch of late votes come in for "Full Spectrum"), but I have a bunch of WIPs. Most of them are listed here.

grimacing with amusement... er, snickering

[buggery.livejournal.com]

I think we all needed to see a happy ending for them, after all the ouchy painful angst-filled star-crossed stories lately. (Not that I don't love those!) And, hrm, I didn't think this was going anywhere -- there's a reason stories end "and they lived happily ever after" instead of beginning that way -- but you tempt me with your inside-joke banter.

[valisme.livejournal.com]

Very nice, very sweet. And, echoing a comment above, unusual to see Lex liking Superman for any reason. Interesting reversal there.

He can laugh with his friends and walk in the rain and visit his mother often. He can love me without that love being crimped in the vises of his lies and mine.

I loved these lines.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

I'm finding myself rather enamoured of that last bit myself. It may well get worked into another story, since I don't really think this bit is going to go anywhere.

Bless! Bless! Bless!

[pandarus.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that's a refreshing change! It's also entirely plausible & I did love the inside-jokes thing, and the naughtiness of them both knowing that whilst Clark was "in the restroom" after the soup course, Superman was rescuing people from another disaster.

Adorable.

Re: Bless! Bless! Bless!

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Thanks hon!

*points*

[wileykit666.livejournal.com]

*And points some more*

*Jumps up and down on spot whilst pointing and shouts*

"You see? You SEE?!?!"

I *knew* Supes could be a good thing for Lex and Clark. It just took the right person to come along and get their Lex-whisperings down on...er...screen.

*mwah* Love you, babe.

Re: *points*

[buggery.livejournal.com]

And you were thinking what, before this? That there was something, anything, that Lex couldn't do? Shame on you. *grin*

feedback from jack's harem

[(Anonymous)]

i ended up liking it in spite of my initial reservations. while reading your introduction, i was all 'oh no. happy!lex. sappy!lex. this does not compute.' but you make a very good case for this kind of lex.

i really liked
watching his eyes dance with joy
and
He can love me without that love being crimped in the vises of his lies and mine.

/insert heaving-bosom sigh here/

hugs from the harem
mosself

Re: feedback from jack's harem

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Ooh, my TWoP loves are coming out in force... and bringing their bosoms! Thanks, mosself (hehe, that name's sticking).

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Oh yeah...

[andariell.livejournal.com]

This I like A LOT. This I can work with *nods*

Lovely, Jack. I haven't delved into your longer stuff yet (I am woefully behind in reading) but given this preview? Whoo-hoo! *g*

Lex whispers so nicely. He really should be encouraged to try it more often.

I love Superman. I'm not in love with him, that love is all for Clark, but I love what he gives us.

*happy sigh* Oh yes. Definitely yes. I can see this as a possibility and I love that.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it.

I haven't delved into your longer stuff yet

Heh. I haven't posted any longer stuff yet; both the stories I have up at SSA & Level Three are in the 10K range which, while more substantial than this little thing, isn't what I consider 'longer.' I've got several in the works that will be my more usual lengthy style, though.

Lex whispers so nicely. He really should be encouraged to try it more often.

Not to me he shouldn't. If he keeps whispering new story ideas in my ear, I'll never finish anything.