Team MetaHumans // 4 Drabbles

[sue-dreams.livejournal.com]

I know I'm late, but since I had written these earlier, I wanted to throw them out, even though I'm past the deadline.

Team: Metahumans
Challenge: Rain
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Clex, Clark, Lex, Chloe, Lana
Author's Notes: Short, vaguely choppy feel to some of these. I'm on a deadline, though, and it feels good to be writing something, even if it's only pieces at the moment.

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Title: It's raining...
Characters/Pairings: Clex, Clark, Lex
Warnings: Nada.
Summary: There are worse ways for Lex to find out. Maybe.


Clark touches down to The Weather Girls blasting from a boombox. Lex's hips are already counting the beat. He holds out a hand to Clark in invitation.

Clark, horny and charmed, accepts the offer after a minute of watching Lex's hips swiggle, Lex swings him into motion. Superspeedy reflexes keep Clark from stomping all over Lex's feet, but it doesn't make him graceful, or their dance smooth.

Lex settles them into a slower tempo at odds with the beat. It's easier to follow, and they're in sync, moving together. "Hallelujah," Lex breaths into his ear. "It's raining men."

"About that..."


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Title: Movie Night
Characters/Pairings: Clark, Pete, Chloe, Lana, Lex
Warnings: Movie geekery. >D
Summary: This week's theme is Tom Cruise. They shouldn't let the girls pick.


"It's a good movie," Clark protested, backing up Pete's argument.

Given a choice between The Rain Man and another viewing of Legend or Interview With a Vampire, there was... well, no choice.

Except Chloe and Lana want their Cruise to be 'romantic', if insane and bloodthirsty.

Lestat gives Clark funny dreams and the girl in Legend doesn't so much remind him of Lana, except she does.

"There are more than five Cruise movies ever made," Lex points out dryly, late to the argument.

The girls protest, Pete sides with Lex for the first time in history, and Lex... the bastard. Holds up a copy of Far and Away.


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Title: Gray, Tones and Shades
Characters/Pairings: Clex, Clark, Lex
Warnings: None
Summary: Clark's secret has used up all nine of its lives. To abuse a metaphor.


Lex considered the man dripping on the solarium floor. "There's a colloquialism about drowned cats and the things they drag in."

"You're mixing metaphors." Clark's response was flat. His skin was as gray as the clouds outside. While wet was normally a good look for him, the rain had washed away his colors.

"Come warm up," he offered, extending a hand.

Clark took it, but only to pull Lex closer. His embrace was cold, his kiss water and winter chill, but his eyes after burned green.

"That's the cat out of the bag."

"Shut up, Lex."

"Satisfy my curiosity first."


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Title: Overcast
Characters/Pairings: Chloe, Lana
Warnings: Prefemslashy (in my head).
Summary: Sometimes you need a friend


"Rain, rain, go away," Chloe sang softly. She pushed her bangs out of her eyes, then blinked as she realized the rain had stopped falling on her. She lifted her head and looked over her shoulder, a smile pulling at her mouth. "Hey."

Lana grinned back at her, head tilted to the side. "You looked like you could use a bit of shelter."

The simple statement hit hard. Chloe let the smile slip away, eyes burning. "You have no idea."

"Come tell me about it," Lana invited. She indicated the Talon door with a tilt of her head. "Someplace dry."

Comments

[danceswithgary]

I liked the abused metaphors. :-D

[sue-dreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It was fun to write, even if it kind of managed to go all over the place in just 100 words. >D

[ctbn60.livejournal.com]

Nice very nice! I love the image of wet clark. I think the raining men one is my favorite though. Well done.

[sue-dreams.livejournal.com]

Wet Clark is such a fun image. I thought about staying away, after reading twinsarein's offerings earlier, but... well. There's never too much wet Clark and this was a bit different in tone. (says I)

Thank you! ^__^

[jlvsclrk.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you posted these. I especially liked the one about movie night. Somehow I think they should wind up watching Top Gun - enough action for Pete, enough romance for Lana and Chloe, and enough subtext for Clex.

[sue-dreams.livejournal.com]

I had fun writing them. And the sad thing is, they were all done on time. But I went to work out and then came back and played video games, and my window of opportunity to post was lost...

Oh well. >D I'll take this as a sign to get off my butt for the next challenge and post early.

You're right that Top Gun would have been a better choice for compromise, but... then Clark couldn't have complained about it. And with the boxing in Far and Away, I think there's still some good action. No subtext, sadly, but the Clex can sneak away while everyone else is busy and create their own anagrams.

[flareonfury.livejournal.com]

Your drabbles were done in time, lol, it says you posted at: "1st-May-2010 06:32 pm" which was within the "May 1 at 8PM" which I'm gonna take as you entered just fine.

[twinsarein.livejournal.com]

"It's Raining" was a fun one. I loved how you described Clark's awkwardness, and the thought of Lex guiding him into another rhythm is sexy as hell.

"Movie Night" *snerk* I loved their arguing over which movie, and I enjoyed Clark's thoughts on "Interview..." The last couple of lines were especially funny.

"Gray..." What can I say, the cat's got my tongue. *g* I'm impressed with the variety of cat saying you fit in there. I loved the line, the rain washed away his colors. That really grabbed me.

"Overcast" You make me really want to know what's wrong with poor Chloe. You painted a very sad picture of her in the rain.

These were wonderful additions to the prompt. I was going to say that I sympathize with you being late, since that happened to me last time (although I posted it days late, really and completely forgetting about it), but I see from a comment below that she accepted them. So, that is awesome. Sorry I didn't comment earlier.

[sue-dreams.livejournal.com]

You did get to them, so no worries about the delay in commenting. ^__^ I appreciate that you took the time.

They were quite fun to write and it is very cool that she's letting it count, since they weren't that late. I just fail at time sense sometimes.

I actually wrote them in reverse order of the way I posted them, meaning I started with poor Chloe. Given a few more words, I was thinking of taking it off to femslashy places, but... *shrug* I'm happy with the way it turned out.