FIC: Torchwood/Smallville (drabble) - "Last Son of Krypton"

[fajrdrako]

Title: Last Son of Krypton
Characters: Jack, Clark Kent
Challenge: Crossovers - Torchwood/Smallville
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC and Warner.
Notes: Cross-posted to my LJ and tw100.


Last Son of Krypton

Jack found him in a Kansas cornfield, groaning, his fingers green and contorted. Eyes bright with desperation, he whispered, "Take me away."

So Jack did.

He was young, beautiful, and not born in Kansas. "Meteor rocks," he explained, over coffee at a diner five miles away. "I'm allergic."

"I was studying them," said Jack. "Residue from a planet that blew up sixteen, seventeen years ago. Krypton, they called it. I visited there once."

"How?"

Jack grinned. "I've been around. I liked the place."

The farm boy smiled back. "I'm Clark Kent. But... if you like... you can call me Kal-El."

Comments

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Squee. :-)




psst - meteor rocks

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Eee, thanks for catching the typo. (How'd that o get away from me?)

Glad you enjoyed.

[medelle.livejournal.com]

Oooh!

Do more with this, please??! More! More! More!!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I just might.

Thanks for commenting!

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

Whoo! I could get behind this!

I love that Jack has BEEN there!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love that Jack has BEEN there!

Well, yes - people've done the "Jack Harkness meets Clark Kent" thing before in numerous ways, sometimes quite nicely playing on Jack's faint resemblance to Batman. It makes a lot of sense because Jack's role is to look for aliens and alien technology on earth. But Jack is both a time traveller and a space-wanderer ("intergalactic con man" is the phrase) and there's no reason he couldn't have been to Krypton. He might even have known Clark's family, why not? I thought that angle was enough for him to win Clark's trust. In a drabble.

I'm tempted to make a real story of it. Maybe.

Glad you enjoyed it!

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

If only you would! I've had it happen before that I've been ushered into alternate fandoms this way. It sounds like a terrific setup, too.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's certainly worth thinking about! I'm not sure how to make it Clex, though. I'll continue to ponder. I'm not sure why, but I think Jack and Lex wouldn't get along. Maybe I think there'd be jealousy over Clark?

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd definitely be on board for that! But you wouldn't have to make it Clex unless you wanted to. Although it's a wonderful notion!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You know that I always like to make it Clex. Now, if I can find a way to make it click in my head, I would be happy to have Jack having sex with Clark, and I'm sure that would make Jack happy too. It just needs more thought. I am so in the mindset of pairing Clark with Lex that I have to work at any other potential scenario. It's not that I mind pairing either of them with other people - you've seen me do it! - it's more a matter of thinking it through.

Jack is easy. According to the producers of the show, Jack will go after 'anyone with a phone number' or 'anyone who's breathing'. I've heard John Barrowman (who plays Jack) put it more crudely than that on late-night interview shows. He's the most outspoken actor I've ever come across, and I love him for it.

Anyway, he'd love a gorgeous alien like Clark. He's a very loving man.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a lot of pretty in one place. I'm surprised the diner didn't spontaneously combust.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

There must have been some manifestation of Kryptonian superpowers holding it together. Or perhaps the Vortex Manipulator played its part?

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Oops, I accidentally posted anonymously when LJ spontaneously logged me out.

I said:
That's a lot of pretty in one place. I'm surprised the diner didn't spontaneously combust!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ah-hah - you were the phantom poster!

You know, if anyone in all of fiction could have used his high-tech psychobabble-drives to make sure his environment can handle a maximum amount of masculine beauty at any one time without causing a cosmic disturbance, that person would be Jack.

[raissad.livejournal.com]

I don't watch Smallville, but this was fun. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it! I considered changing a line to say or imply that Jack liked Krypton because the people there were gorgeous (as Clark is), but perhaps it isn't necessary.