BespokeOfEl
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The public execution of Clark and Lex's bond, under oath. Lex asks Clark to testify against Lionel. Clark immediately says yes. Lionel pushing Clark toward Lex's secret room housing his investigations may have ended their friendship, but Clark testifies anyway.
At Lionel Luthor’s federal detention hearing, Clark takes the stand -- and Lionel’s elite defense team turns his entire history with Lex into evidence against him. Against Lex. Against *them*.
The rescues, the loyalty, the defiance, the broken bodies and trail of damage left in the wake of Clark's devotion to Lex. In a Federal courthouse, it's twisted against them in the harsh florescent light of day.
From the outside, it’s obsession, grooming; farm boy deluded and ruined by a billionaire executive.
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Clex Missing Scene within Covenant: Post Shattered/Asylum. -
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It has been 354 days since Jonathan Kent died.
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Lex tipped Clark's head further back and took a good look at him. It's clear this wasn't cooperation, just physical pliability without presence. Clark's eyes were vacant.Lex had watched this very thing happen once already. He was not going to watch it happen again. The dread of watching someone go too willingly toward the thing that takes people. Clark has not once in the whole of the evening made any motion toward the living side of the equation.
Lex needed that dirt gone.
And then Lillian came anyway.Through the motion of his own hands, through this tending that his hands had apparently stored in themselves without telling him. Pamela's hands in his mother's fragile hair. He drove it back. He drove it back hard. Clark and Lillian could not occupy the same space in his mind, they were not the same, Clark was not Lillian, Clark was in this tub because of a February night and a cotton shirt and a grief that had no floor to it. They were not the same. The dirt was going down the drain and Lillian was going with it and neither of them was going to be on Clark when he got out of this bath.
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A Rare Card by BespokeOfEl for MathHeretic (ClarkNewton)
Fandoms: Smallville, Superman - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
10 Apr 2026
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How the latest youth craze over Japanese pocket monsters helped Lex collect evidence on Clark.
What Clark really means to him, that is.
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(A small pre-quel fic related to "What the Ledger Missed" https://archiveofourown.org/works/81228541?view_full_work=true
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Clark goes missing on a Thursday, shirking school, volunteer work, and chores. Clark Kent does not do this.
The Kents' first call is Lex Luthor, exiled Metropolis playboy, who introduced himself to Clark by hitting him with a Porsche. Jonathan Kent has spent the better part of a year praying his son would stop spending time with Lex; he's no Smallvillian's first choice for responsible adult, including his own.
And yet he's exactly who Clark needed.What he finds is not the Clark he knows. And the ledger he keeps on Clark Kent will never quite balance after this.
A Clex character study dressed as a comedy. Or possibly the reverse.
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My first love letter of sorts to Smallville's baby-Clex years, especially Season 1. I was going to put this in the Clex Call Log series but it fits better on its own. -
Clex Call Log | Spring 2008 -- 04:47 AM by BespokeOfEl
Fandoms: Smallville, Superman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025)
25 Sep 2025
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We all know that phonecalls like this between Clark and Lex were a statistical certainty in Smallville -- rift or no rift.
Somehow between fate and the fallout, there's occasionally a surreal, late-night liminal space where vulnerability between the estranged men becomes briefly permissible -- and both of them are terrified of it.
Call 1.
They’re not what they were, but something ineffable lives in the static between them. Part grief, part chaotic Smallville absurdity, and part something else. Something that looks suspiciously like love -- not that either of them would verbally broach that third rail.
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The day Clark figures out Lex and Lana have started dating happens to be the day there's a mysterious new guy in town. Shaken by what he's witnessed, Clark takes a leap.
Four years ago, Lana, Clark, and Lex explore the nature of art.
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Most of them are Clex
Bookmarked by BespokeOfEl
02 May 2026
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LOVE this especially the broken crayons drawing.
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The winter months don't really affect Clark the same way as they do other people. But as a being powered by the sun, the first day of spring does make him feel... different. Hopeful.
And he tries to give Lex a taste of that too.
Bookmarked by BespokeOfEl
15 Apr 2026
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How To Save A Romance, The Kidnapped Edition by YassHomo
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types
04 Mar 2019
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"One, he's too gay to be my boyfriend." Lois began. If her hands weren't tied down, she would have counted the responses with her fingers to indicate them being read off an imaginary list. "Two, I told you why he's going to be late. Three - did you just kidnap me out of jealousy?"
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high schooler clark tries to show his feelings for sexy early 20s lex. lex rejects him (barely) like the mature adult he is. clark takes red kryptonite and lets chaos reign so lex can do something about it (him).
Bookmarked by BespokeOfEl
16 Mar 2026
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How am I just seeing this! This was recommended by a friend and it's such a fun read. Clark is totally a needy bottom and probably a pillow princess; instant subscribe.