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The war Lex won, the war he lost, and the war he didn't know he was fighting.
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"I love you, Lex. I love Lex version 2.0 and 3.0 and I'll love all the others. Can that be enough, or do we have to resolve the great philosophical questions of all time first?"
Lex couldn't have looked more stunned if he'd had another concussion (which was a very bad thought). He leaned forward, eyes wide. Clark had once spent a month on the coast of Maine because the sky at dusk, right where it met the sea, was the color of Lex's eyes.
"I spent seven years trying to kill you!" he protested.
"I noticed." Try as he might, Clark couldn't stop smiling, so wide it hurt. "I also noticed you never harmed anyone I loved, never even used an innocent as bait."
"I wanted to kill you, not make you cry. And I knew you'd never kill me for trying as long as I left other people out of it." Lex retreated into dumbstruck silence for all of a minute, which had to be a world record, his eyes unfocused as he reviewed the past. "You love me, you loved me through that? Are you crazy?"
"Hey, for all I know attempted murder is some kind of Kryptonian courtship ritual."
Lex was shaking his head, entranced. "You - I -"
He reached out and captured Lex's head between his hands. He could hold so much, from Lex's chin up to the bumps on his skull. Lex's skin was hot and soft, and he trembled against Clark's hands, which looked dark and coarse next to the fine porcelain that was Lex.
"I love you," he said again. So maybe he had a bit of a messiah complex. There were worse things. (One was sitting in front of him.)
"Clark - a president, he has to - I've ordered assassinations, I'd do it again -"
"And you love me," he said, understanding what Lex's desperate babbling must mean.
"I'm still mad!" Lex said helplessly.
"Keep me around to yell at me," Clark suggested.
"Are things always so simple on your planet?"
Clark had considered Earth his planet for decades, but he didn't think Lex meant it that way. "Are things always so complicated on yours?"
"Yes," Lex said in a tone that suggested that Clark might be a bit slow. When Clark just kept looking at him, Lex shook his head, not enough to dislodge Clark's hands. "I'm so tired," he said, and his voice scraped across Clark's skin like graphite.
Yes, exactly. Neither of them had ever let anyone else in as far as they'd gone in each other, and the world was so loud and cold.
Clark felt a great rush of relief. Even catching Lex when he was at the end of his second term, having fulfilled the greatest of his ambitions and a little bit at loose ends, Clark hadn't been sure. He'd known Lex still loved him - it was Lex's nature to love what hurt him most, and never to stop loving. But he hadn't been sure Lex would allow himself to know that as well.
He leaned toward Lex, intending to claim a kiss, but was stopped by Lex's prosthetic against his chest. "I have a meeting with the French Ambassador in ten minutes. You and I both know that if we start now, tomorrow morning the American people are going to get a whole new perspective on why the two of us have never appeared in public together."
Clark snorted, then released Lex. "You should control leaks better."
"Clark, Nelson Mandela would gossip if he saw Superman and the president making out."
"I've waited eighteen years," Clark said softly. "I guess I can wait a little while longer."
Lex groaned. "The look on your face - God." Clark could feel waves of heat coming off of Lex and it was all he could do not to seize Lex and take him away. He could easily outfly the Marine planes protecting the White House. The United States didn't actually need a full-time president right now, did it? They could bring the other guy in early if necessary.
"I was always yours," Lex whispered, lashes lowered so he didn't have to see Clark. "Anytime after I'd left, you could have told me to come back and I would have."
"I think I knew that," Clark whispered back.
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The Presence of Fire by rivkat
Published: 2009-09-05
Work/Series ID: 5996Relationship Tags:
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The war Lex won, the war he lost, and the war he didn't know he was fighting.
(Approximate) Last Read: 2024/08/19
(Approximate) Last Read: 2024/08/19