Thanks for reading and liking it! Even with the twist... um, maybe I should stick a warning up there? Have to confess, I did it partly as revenge for all the archive stories I was reading where Clark leaves Lex for Lois. For some reason I was coming across a bunch of them one after the other in my random searches and it was making me annoyed enough to start avoiding 'angst' tags altogether. Clark needed to realize it really was *Lex* he loved. ^^;