+ Reply to Thread
Page 1 of 4 123 ... LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 35

Thread: From Afar (PG-13/15)

  1. #1
    Happy-ending addict Senior Member lexie's Avatar
    Join Date
    26 Jan 2007
    Location
    In RL:Argentina. In my dreams: Lexland
    Age
    53
    Posts
    3,356

    From Afar (PG-13/15)

    A/N: I have never felt really comfortable writing one-shots, maybe because of my verbose nature when it comes to writing. However, an ideaŽs been bugging me since last week and I just felt the urge to put pen to paper.

    To my regular readers, I promise thereŽll be more multi-chapter stories from me in due time- IŽve got three in the works but my muse has been really stressed out lately.

    This short fic is a post-Arctic piece and it touches briefly on a couple of major events from the current season of Smallville seen from LexŽs point of view.

    SUMMARY: Sometimes distance can make you feel things closer

    SPOILERS: Bride and Stiletto

    AUTHOR
    : Lexie

    “FROM AFAR”


    From afar things were so much clearer and, at the same time, so much closer. HeŽd always found that keeping his distance was the best way to shelter himself from pain, heartache and disillusionment. Masks and armours had helped him survive the death and abandonment of those closest and dearest to him. Masks and armours had made him appear strong, resilient and untouchable in a hostile world which had never shown any mercy to LionelŽs first-born. However, that safety net was of no use now for this distance was unlike any heŽd known in his twenty-eight years. There was no comfort, no refuge, to be found in being far- not when being far meant having everything so near, when reality could be magnified just by pushing a button.

    Months had gone by since that alien ice fortress in the Arctic became his tomb in the eyes of the world. Long painful weeks during which his immune system fought to bring him back to consciousness, excruciating days of physiotherapy and avant-garde surgery to help him walk again. Hundreds of hours he had spent in that hideous orthopaedic bed watching through the artificial eye of a camera as the life that should have been his kept passing by. And the heart which had always found strength in distance broke into a million pieces when witnessing from afar the smile that had once been his addressed to a green boy who would never love her the way he did- without bounds, without bottom, without end, beyond hatred, beyond resentment, beyond pain, beyond the self-imposed distance theyŽd silently agreed to put between them four years ago... a lifetime ago. There was no balm in distance when he saw the mouth of another graze the lips he craved to taste again, lips that had said the words he had never been able to articulate, words he had yearn to hear addressed to him all of his life.

    The boy had come to him and had served his purpose to misdirect the obnoxious cousin. In his juvenile naïveté the kid had believed his impassioned plea had helped save her, when in reality sheŽd always been safe. HeŽd for ever keep her safe. The world always expected the worst from Lex - even the petite blonde; and he couldnŽt blame her, considering the way heŽd treated her the last few years. Where there once was love and trust, heŽd planted hate and suspicion. ItŽd been the hardest decision heŽd had to make and it was now making his heart bleed from afar. HeŽd saved her and, yet, sometimes he hated himself for it, for having brought about such a change in her. HeŽd seen the glint in her beautiful emerald eyes grow dimmer, the brightness of her luminous smile get cynical and the warmth of her sociable being turn colder. Distance had shaped both him and her; it had turned what used to be common ground into a chasm that he was now experiencing as an abyss from afar.

    He saw her get married while immobile in his bed- incapable of barging into that barn he used to frequent in the days of old, when he and Clark were still friends, when all the lies and the misunderstandings didnŽt stand in their way. HeŽd have climbed up those wooden stairs, which heŽd sworn never to step on again, just to save her again and to save his soul in the process because he knew the boy would never make her happy just as he was convinced she was the only one who could help him keep little Alexander alive. HeŽd have opened up to her, stripped his soul bare and put his heart on the line one more time. HeŽd have told her heŽd never stopped loving her. HeŽd have told her he loved her using the words heŽd never been able to utter since the day Lillian passed away. All this he would have done if he werenŽt who he was, and if keeping his distance werenŽt the only way to keep alive whatever innocence in her the Luthors hadnŽt managed to tarnish. There was safety in distance, it was what had kept her alive. And, still, there was no comfort for him in looking from afar.

    This morning he walked without the aid of crutches for the first time in months. This morning he watched her once again at a distance and felt guilty at the brief jolt of happiness he experienced when he zoomed in the video taken in the back alley behind The Talon and saw her look at her hands. Crimson tainted the long-fingered hands his body remembered so well, blood that he knew she could have never drawn herself; and he saw her tears and the despair painted on her face as it dawned on her sheŽd crossed a line sheŽd never thought herself capable of crossing. And he saw his old self in her at that moment and realised distance was no longer an option. HeŽd let the hero defeat the Beast while LexŽd be there for her because he understood- he was the only one that could- and he knew that she knew she needed him for neither the farm boy nor the photographer could look at darkness in the eye and accept it the way he did. He was all and everything she had left. And maybe, maybe if God was merciful with him, despite the blood that runs through his veins, she would learn to trust him again.

    THE END

    Read the sequels: "Mirror" (One-Shot) and "Lean on Me" (One-shot)

    Find a downloadable PDF version on my master list.
    Last edited by lexie; 27th February 2011 at 22:06. Reason: link
    Thxs to beeej for the avi

    A MASTER LIST OF ALL MY COMPLETED WORKS & WIPs w/PDFs

    "PERMANENT" WIPs (UNLESS MY CHLEX MUSE AWAKENS AGAIN AND I GET A LONG-NEEDED CLONE OF MYSELF)

    "Choices"May 30 '11

    "At Second Sight" August 21 '11

    PODFIC REQUESTS

    INTERVIEW

    VIDEOS

  2. #2
    NS Member chlexgirl24's Avatar
    Join Date
    19 Apr 2008
    Location
    T-Ville
    Posts
    26

    Re: "From Afar" (PG-13/15) April 30th, 2009

    That was great lexie!!!
    I loved it!!

  3. #3
    No charge for awesomeness
    Join Date
    19 Mar 2008
    Location
    Hiding in Michael's closet
    Posts
    883

    Re: "From Afar" (PG-13/15) April 30th, 2009

    This was good Lexie. I totally know what you mean when you say you just gotta get something out.

    Maybe you will revist this and turn it into more chapters, but as a stand alone it is still quite nice.

    Thanks for sharing

  4. #4
    NS Full Member Fouzia's Avatar
    Join Date
    11 Jan 2009
    Location
    France
    Age
    34
    Posts
    315

    Re: "From Afar" (PG-13/15) April 30th, 2009

    Hi!!!! I really love this story and I hope a update!!!!

  5. #5
    NS Gold Member Linda's Avatar
    Join Date
    16 Mar 2007
    Location
    Scotland
    Age
    52
    Posts
    170

    Re: "From Afar" (PG-13/15) April 30th, 2009

    That was good!
    Thanks for posting )

  6. #6
    Dealing w/ a Ship Change Senior Member
    Join Date
    25 Apr 2007
    Location
    Texas
    Age
    50
    Posts
    1,130

    Re: From Afar (PG-13/15) April 30th, 2009

    Really good explanation of how and why Lex was watching Chloe marry that other person. Enjoyed the descriptions. Hope that all the longer stories will find their muse soon.

  7. #7
    Members
    Join Date
    29 Apr 2009
    Posts
    2

    Re: From Afar (PG-13/15) April 30th, 2009

    I am new to this forum glad I fuond you guys.
    think am going to enjoy it here. The story from LexŽs point of view
    is really enjoyable. Not a writer myself but perhaps I will start
    To put some ideas on paper may just maybe I cold produce something
    Half as good as lexie thanks again lexie

  8. #8
    NS Full Member daria_103's Avatar
    Join Date
    19 Nov 2007
    Location
    Dublin
    Posts
    242

    Re: From Afar (PG-13/15) April 30th, 2009

    Very well written, a better take on Smallville's horrible way of keeping and MR-less Lex in the show!

  9. #9
    Happy-ending addict Senior Member lexie's Avatar
    Join Date
    26 Jan 2007
    Location
    In RL:Argentina. In my dreams: Lexland
    Age
    53
    Posts
    3,356

    Re: From Afar (PG-13/15) April 30th, 2009

    I was missing having a new fic up.Thank you all for your lovely feedback, girls. IŽm pleased youŽve enjoyed it, despite its not being the kind of stuff I usually write.

    As regards what you said, Adele, about the potential of this one as a starting point for a multi-chapter story- I agree. One of the fics IŽve been working on is a post-Arctic piece but with a different spin, and it has Lex present in Season 8. WeŽll have to wait and see what my muse comes up with.
    Thxs to beeej for the avi

    A MASTER LIST OF ALL MY COMPLETED WORKS & WIPs w/PDFs

    "PERMANENT" WIPs (UNLESS MY CHLEX MUSE AWAKENS AGAIN AND I GET A LONG-NEEDED CLONE OF MYSELF)

    "Choices"May 30 '11

    "At Second Sight" August 21 '11

    PODFIC REQUESTS

    INTERVIEW

    VIDEOS

  10. #10
    NS Senior Member Senior Member autumngold's Avatar
    Join Date
    06 Oct 2003
    Posts
    3,174

    Exclamation Re: From Afar (PG-13/15) April 30th, 2009

    Thank you for writing another Chlex story!! I love the way you were able to give those episodes of Smallville a small Chlex twist!! Great story!! I can't wait to read more of your fabulous work!! Hint, hint!!

+ Reply to Thread

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Tags for this Thread

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts