fajrdrako | Smallville dodecal: Rescue

This is in answer to Smallville Dodecal Challenge #24: In 144 words, "Rewrite a scene from Season Three so far. The rewrite can be major or minor: just make the scene unfold more to your satisfaction than it may have done on the program! " which can be found here. My dodecal is based on a scene at the end of "Exile".

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Rescue

The surf pounded like the blood in Lex's ears. He had killed his enemy, his only companion on the island. For the second time in his life, he had killed, this time in anger. This time for himself, not for Clark.

There was someone watching. Shit. This meant escape and freedom, but what then? A life sentence for murder?

He found himself babbling, as confused as the stranger looked. He hadn't meant to kill, it was an accident, self-defense....

Reality shifted. There was no corpse on the empty beach. There was no stranger. Clark was standing there, staring at Lex in puzzlement. He took off his dark glasses. Light glinted on the red stone of his school ring. "Lex? What are you talking about?"

"Clark? Are you a hallucination?"

"No. I'm here." Clark grinned. "I've come to save you."

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