Title: Heartbeats
Fandom: Smallville/DCU - Characters: Conner, Clark/Lex, Hope, Mercy, Cassie, others
Rating: NC-17 for violence - Words: 17,180
Type: drama, adventure, angst
Warnings: CHARACTER DEATHS! See hidden notes for more details if you need them.
Spoilers: General first few seasons.
Summary: Time is creeping by with no action from Lionel, and Clark and company continue on from where they were, but uneasily. There is family and friend bonding over normal things, and the Clex gets closer. Then, all their fears come true as Lionel finally takes his revenge. "Your father took away my pawn. So... I'll take the knight, rook, bishop, and even his queen. It's a fair price to pay, for my pawn."

Notes:
Next in the Not A Villain series after Changes Unfathomed. 11th in the series (12th if you count the prelude). This isn't the end – there's about three more left. (See the Master Post for links and summaries to all stories.) Betas by Sue Dreams and Tainry. Cross-posted to Archive of our Own.

Hidden Warning Notes: (roll mouse over space below to reveal the hidden warning)

Two-thirds of the story is regular things, with family and friend bonding and normal, everyday for them things. The climax doesn't come until late in the story. I tried not to be too extreme on it, but there are a lot of incidental deaths as bombs go off. Of the characters we know and love... Justice dies, but it's quick. Mercy is wounded. Hope is unknown. And Lex... Well, Lex dies. But we all remember what Lex's meteor power is, right? There is angst, as Kon goes through his own wounding while realizing about the others, but then things get better and the story ends on a hopeful note.

( Heartbeats )

Okay, the Clexmas reveal has gone up so I can post the links to the stories now. :)

For Clexmas I did two stocking stuffers, and one long fic.

The first stocking stuffer goes along with ctbn60's card manips, so you probably want to go look at those first and then see what the boys did after. :)
A Christmas Card for Lex
Clark's Gifts, continued
Lex Strikes Back
Clark's the Best
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R Ficlet 405 words: Card Effects

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The other stuffer is kidfic - Clex with Conner.

G Ficlet 775 words: The Pirates and the Sea Dragon

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The long fic was written for tasabian and it ended up... long. ;D

Title: Snow Trials
Type: Fic, ~13,000 total
Rating: PG
Warnings: The story has some angst at the beginning and off-screen deaths (nobody we know). (FYI, No matter what Clark thinks at the beginning, this is NOT a major character death fic.)
Summary: After chasing off aliens from an attack on Earth, Clark heads back to the planet to deal with the fall-out. When he goes to find Lex, Clark gets trapped and then they must work together to find a way out.
Request: Clark and Lex forced to work together.
Notes: AU off end season 3, many years later. It, ah, went a bit astray from the prompt, though it kept to the main idea. Mostly. ^^;; Hope you enjoy! (Much beta love to sue_dreams for the ultra-last-minute work!)

: : Snow Trials

The rest of the Clexmas gifts can be found at:
http://clexmas.livejournal.com/73413.html

Title: Another Way to Fly
Fandom: Smallville - Characters, Pairing: Clex
Rating: PG - Words: 1,715
Type: drama, adventure, romance
Warnings: none
Spoilers: none
Summary: Clark is hauling Lex back to Metropolis after another misadventure when they are hit mid-flight with a kryptonite ray. Lex's doing? Or not? What happens next, neither could expect.

( Another Way to Fly )

Title: Caught
Fandom: Smallville - Pairing: Clex, with Lois
Rating: NC-17 - Words: 1,748
Type: pwp
Warnings: voyeurism (sortof)
Spoilers: none
Summary: When Lex checks his trap, he finds he has caught Clark Kent as well as Lois Lane in it. He takes advantage of the situation.

( Caught )

Title: Clumsy is, as...
Fandom: Smallville - Pairing: Clex
Rating: G - Size: 1,187
Type: fluff, h/c
Warnings: none
Spoilers: none
Summary: Reporters Lois and Cat have figured out why Clark's clumsiness seems to come and go; ... or at least they think they have.

( Clumsy is, as... )

Title: A Complicated Life
Fandom: Smallville - Pairing: pre-Clex, w/Conner
Rating: PG - Size: 4,514
Type: drama
Warnings: none
Spoilers: DCU Conner back-story.
Summary: When Clark makes a discovery about Conner, honor forces him to tell Lex. Lex comes by to see for himself.

( A Complicated Life )