Ashes...

[fajrdrako]

For svdodecals, the challenge to do a Smallville ficlet of 144 words. The current topic: Show us the short "missing scene" of your choice from "Exile," "Phoenix," or "Extinction".

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Ashes

Sometimes Kal took girls home with him, and usually regretted it. Eventually he stopped. When Lana turned up, he hoped things might be different - but no. Clark or Kal, Smallville or Metropolis, it was the same. How could anyone love him? He was freakish. And how could he love anyone while hating himself? Lex would understand, but Lex was gone.

The ring burned him: fiery core of his exploded homeland. The mark of Jor-El, who had given him life, then sent him away, and twisted him unmercifully. When he took off the ring, the burning stopped but the pain began. Guilt. Loneliness. Despair.

He dialed home, and hung up when he heard Martha's voice. She wasn't his mother. He cried over her anyway.

Lex had married, and left him, and died. Clark had nothing now but a ring that burned his heart to ashes.

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Comments

[jfc013.livejournal.com]

Awwww... (snif) So sad! Good job, though! Thanks for posting!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So sad!

Yes... And you know, when I wrote that yesterday, I thought I was in a good mood! (sniff)