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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Underage
  Category:
      M/M
  Fandom:
      Smallville
  Relationship:
      Clark_Kent/Lex_Luthor
  Additional Tags:
      Porn, Prostitution, Crossdressing, Underage_Sex, Age_Difference, Future
      Fic, Alternate_Universe
  Series:
      Part 2 of Questions_and_Answers
  Stats:
      Published: 2011-06-03 Words: 4157
****** Questions and Answers, Part Two ******
by Lenore
Summary
     AU with Crossdressing Teen Whore Lex and Morally Challenged Clark.
Back in journalism school, one of Clark's professors, a squat little man with a
wandering eye, liked to lecture them about focus. "If you're going to be any
good in this business," he would say, "you need to have one thing on your mind
and one thing only."
Clark goes through his day like a well-oiled news machine. He drinks the usual
too-many cups of coffee and answers his phone with the same brisk "Clark Kent"
and pounds away at the keyboard with the clumsy determination of someone who
never took typing in high school. In the empty chinks of time, the split second
before the coffee hits the mug, that lost moment before the other person's
voice pulses over the line, in the space between letters and words and
sentences, he has one thunderous, overriding thought. Club Zero. Not exactly
what his professor meant when he preached the value of single-mindedness.
In the background, there's a monotonous droning, remarkably like the teacher's
voice on the Charlie Brown specials he used to watch as a kid. He does his best
to block it out, head down, concentrating on his two-fingered typing. When the
noise abruptly stops, he looks up, startled by the silence.
Lois is frowning at him. "You haven't heard a word I've said, have you?"
He blinks. "What?"
Her eyes narrow, and he expects to dodge a few bullets of sarcasm, but she
leans in, looking interested, and that's much, much worse for him. "So who is
it?" she asks.
"What who?" he asks in confusion.
She rolls her eyes. "Whoever is making you act like even more of a space cadet
than usual."
The question and the way she's looking at him make him feel as if layers of his
skin have been peeled back, his unsightly insides put on display, and he snaps,
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
She shakes her head sadly. "You never do, Smallville. You never do."
===============================================================================
The week goes by in daisy petal fashion. Yes, he will. No, he won't. Until
Saturday rolls around, and he finally just does. He waits in line outside Club
Zero for a good hour, quarantined on the loser side of the velvet rope with a
few dozen other people whose coolness is also in question. At last he makes it
up to the bouncer. The guy rakes his gaze mercilessly over his jeans and black
v-neck sweater, the hippest outfit he could find in his closet. For some
reason, he's allowed inside anyway.
He pushes through the heavy double doors and understands at once why he's never
heard of the place before. It's not exactly his corner of the world. Everything
is eye-piercingly modern, all hard surfaces, glass and tile and polished
chrome. The bass line of the music throbs along the floor as if there's an
impending earthquake. Strobe lights pulse in synchronized attack. Girls and
boys float past him, shiny with glitter and sequins and more money than he can
even begin to calculate.
He tries to find an out-of-the-way spot to wait for Lex, but enthusiastic
couples on their way to the dance floor keep knocking into him anyway. He
desperately casts around, trying to catch a glimpse of a bare head, the
familiar sinuous body, but there is just the chaos of strangers. He's turning
to go when he's waylaid by a blonde in the shortest, pinkest skirt he's ever
seen.
"Hey, darlin', where do you think you're sneakin' off to?" she asks in a drawl
so phony that if she's from Texas he's from the Klingon home world.
He gestures vaguely in the direction of the door. "I was just—"
She grabs his hand, not waiting for an answer, and whirls him out onto the
floor.
"I don't really dance," he tries to shout above the music, but she's holding
the hair off the back of her neck, swaying her hips, not listening at all.
Clark shuffles his feet and glances longingly at the exit sign. His mother has
always been vehement on the subject of abandoning a partner on the dance floor,
recounting the sad story of her own junior prom and what a big jerk Billy
Taylor was, declaring that no son of hers is ever going to treat a girl like
that. Clark hopes to make his excuses as soon as the song is over.
Unfortunately, it doesn't actually end, just segues into the next long dance
track, not even enough of a pause to babble a hurried, "gotta go." The blonde
loses interest in him eventually, but he's immediately commandeered by a girl
with an aqua mohawk and pierced everything. He gets passed along from one set
of grabby hands to the next. By the time he finally manages to escape, the
sweat is running down his back, and if he didn't have impervious skin, there
would be finger marks all over his ass.
He retreats to a safe corner, searching for a path to the door. As he's looking
around, he catches sight of Lex, and that knocks the wind right out of him. Lex
is sitting at the bar, balanced gracefully on a stool, wearing a midnight blue
halter dress, made of fabric so light and filmy it moves like a cloud around
him. It's cut low everywhere, showing off his shoulders and the bare, beautiful
curve of his back, giving him an unexpected air of vulnerability that makes
Clark's throat clench.
It takes a moment to realize that the guy sitting next to him is not just some
random lucky bastard, but an actual date, or possibly a trick, a hair-gelled
impediment standing between Clark and what he's been dreaming about all week.
The man leans close, whispering in Lex's ear, something that makes his lips
twist into a smile, but when the man tries to kiss him, he turns his head,
offering his neck instead. This gives Clark a spark of hope until he sees the
boy's head fall back, his eyes close, fingers curl into the folds of the man's
jacket.
He should just leave then, but some masochistic impulse sticks him to the spot,
and he watches as the man's hand settles on Lex's knee, pushes up the hem of
his dress, exposing blue silk stocking and creamy skin. The man strokes along
the garter and watches the boy's face. What he sees must look like permission,
because his hand disappears under the skirt. Lex's eyes fly open and his mouth
goes soft and round, and then he closes his eyes again, hard, as the man's hand
goes to work beneath his dress.
A sharp, hot prick behind Clark's eyes, and it scares the hell out of him. He
hasn't had problems controlling his heat vision in years, and it was always
lust, never jealousy, that set it off. A broken phrase of cartoon dialogues
floats through his head, "Puny Earthling!" He's thought about human fragility
before, often in fact, but never like this, never with arrogance, profoundly
aware of how easy it would be to just take what he wants and trample anyone who
tries to get in his way.
There is a seed inside him of the thing Jor-El wanted him to be, and even
though he's fought it at every turn, never allowed it to take root, the
potential is still there and always will be. It's the part of him that wakes
him up in the middle of the night, heart pounding, imagining worst-case what-
ifs. The part of him that still puts a hint of fear in his father's eyes even
after all these years.
It has always been Clark's saving grace that he's never wanted anything badly
enough to give in to his worst nature, but he feels his inner overlord rattling
at its cage now, strong with the desire to bend Lex over the bar, throw his
filmy skirt up over his head, and fuck him and fuck him until everyone in the
place gets the message. His. All his.
The sweat goes cold on the back of his neck, and he turns abruptly, pushes his
way through the crowd, desperate to get the hell out of there. Outside, fresh
air hits him in the face like an open hand, and he runs all the way home, not
like a super-powered alien who could just take whatever he wants, but one heavy
footfall after the other, like an ordinary man, as if that is some kind of
reassurance.
===============================================================================
For a week straight, Clark sets his VCR to tape Oprah and Dr. Phil and watches
when he gets home in the evening, eating cold pizza on the couch, listening to
weepy confessions of porn addiction and the nightmare of being a shopaholic.
He's sure other viewers must feel sorry for these poor, obsessed basket cases,
but he can't help envying how confined their destructiveness is. The retired
tractor salesman from Duluth can get off on wearing red satin mules all he
wants, and the world isn't going to be in any mortal danger.
His mood grows steadily darker with each passing day. By Friday he's yelling at
telemarketers who happen to call his cell phone and cursing every time he
spills his coffee. His rampaging prompts Lois to glance up from her notes and
say with a grin, "It's nice to see you acting human for a change, Smallville."
At night, everything is worse. The desire for Lex doesn't go away just because
he wishes it would. He jerks off viciously, heels digging into the bed, making
holes in the mattress, the friction of his sex-blurred body leaving scorch
marks on the sheets. He shoves into his clenched fist and imagines it's the
boy. He tells himself this isn't cheating. That it's the equivalent of
methadone if he were a different kind of addict. He tries to hold onto the
image of a soft, pink mouth, pale, spread thighs, but no matter how hard he
concentrates, something always intrudes, the guy from the bar, some faceless
john, laying claim to what ought to be his. When he comes, he has the boy's
taste in his mouth and a sick, cold feeling in the pit of his stomach.
After five days of miserable longing, he finally gives in and goes back to
Suicide Slums, wondering if this is what people mean when they talk about the
slippery slope.
The first night Lex isn't there it feels almost like a reprieve. But the pull
is too strong to be denied for long, and he goes back again, once, then twice,
then more and more, and still there is no Lex. When he finally runs into
Glenda, he's nearly as relieved as if he'd found the boy himself.
He asks if she's seen him, but she only shrugs. "He stopped coming around."
"Did—something happen to him?" His hands clench with worry.
She notices and pats him on the arm. "I'm sure he's fine, sugar. He wasn't out
here for the money, Lord knows. I expect the thrill just wore off."
He knows she's probably right. Teenagers do get bored, and if something had
happened, he would have heard about it by now, the whole world would have. This
was Lionel Luthor's son they were talking about, after all.
He finds comfort in this for about a day, but then niggling worry gets the
better of him. He goes over everything he knows about Lionel Luthor, how averse
he is to bad publicity, the iron-fisted control he exerts over the entire city.
The truth is that Lex could turn up dead in some alley somewhere, and no one
would ever know about it, not if Lionel Luthor didn't want them to. He could
say that Lex had been sent off to boarding school in Europe, and later news
would come of a tragic skiing accident or highway pileup. There would be
footage of a dangerous-looking snow bank, smoking wreckage of a mangled sports
car, interviews with so-called witnesses and weeping "classmates," the cover-up
so perfectly engineered that no one would be the wiser. No one would ever know
what really happened to Lex.
It spurs Clark on to make further inquiries. Even if Lex has grown bored with
walking the streets, he is too young to have sworn off nightlife altogether.
Clark makes the rounds of trendy clubs and discos and in-places to eat. He asks
waitresses and bartenders and other club-goers. No one has seen Lex, and they
all seem puzzled by his mysterious disappearance from the social scene.
At work, Clark scours the Internet, searching for clues about Lex's life. Of
course, everyone knows where he lives. The family estate is a sprawling mansion
in the heart of the city, a landmark building snapped up by the Luthors during
the real estate downturn of the 90s, but the house is too much of a fortress to
even think about going to look for Lex there. The more Clark searches, the more
obvious it becomes how much Lionel Luthor must spend to keep details of his
son's life out of the public record. Clark does find a blurb about a LuthorCorp
donation to a local private school buried on the back page of the Metropolis
Philanthropic Society Newsletter, and the hair prickles on the back of his
neck. Gotcha, he thinks.
Still, it's just a hunch, and he needs some way to confirm that this is where
Lex goes to school. He listens to Lois make up ridiculous stories at least five
times a day, but lying has never come naturally to him. He makes notes to
remind himself what to say and tries to channel his partner's shamelessness as
he dials the prep school's number.
A woman answers, and Clark clears his throat. "Yes, hello, I'm calling on
behalf of the Metropolis Secondary Education Association. I'd like to speak
with one of your students, Alexander Luthor, in regards to a recent essay
competition we sponsored."
The woman is clearly unimpressed. "I'm sorry. That's not possible."
"If we could just verify the student's enrollment—"
"I'm not at liberty to release any information," she says in a rehearsed
monotone, as if she's repeated this same line a million times before.
"The student's entry form wasn't filled out properly. We'd hate to have to
disqualify him just because—"
"I can't help you," she says with a note of finality. "Try sending a letter."
The line goes dead in his ear. Clark sighs heavily.
A few years ago Lois got into some rather serious legal trouble passing herself
off as a guidance counselor at a Catholic girls school, trying to confirm
rumors of a U.S. Senator's affair with a staff member by pumping his teenaged
daughter for the details. Perry has made it clear ever since that schools and
kids are strictly off limits. Clark lets this hold him back for about twenty
minutes before giving in to his desperation and heading over to the Boyer
Academy.
As a tribute to caution, he parks his car a few blocks away. He glances around
to make sure no one is watching, uses his strength to bend the iron bars
fencing off the school and slips onto the grounds. He lurks around the campus,
hiding behind trees and among bushes, waiting and watching. For the better part
of an hour, nothing happens.
Finally, a bell rings, and kids start to stream outside, groups gathering on
the front lawn to chat, lolling casually on the grass. Clark looks and looks
for Lex and is almost ready to give up when he comes strolling out at last, a
girl with long dark hair close at his side. Clark's heart lurches when he spots
him—alive and well—and he should just go, now that he's seen him, now that he
knows. But his knees lock, as if something inside him is just too stubborn to
reason with, and he stands there watching as Lex and the girl drift away from
the other students, coming closer and closer to where he's hiding.
Clark has never seen Lex in anything but feminine clothes, and he stares at the
gray flannels and navy blazer of the school uniform. Lex looks so different in
it, so painfully young. Clark frowns when he notices a purplish smudge on his
cheek. He squints and can picture the full-fledged bruise it must have been
only a few days ago. He pushes his way through the shrubbery without stopping
to consider strategy or even the consequences.
Lex looks startled at first, and then his expression freezes. "What do you
want?"
The girl gives Clark a brazen look of appraisal, lingering so long on his
crotch that it makes him blush. "Who's your friend?" she asks Lex.
Lex presses his mouth into a thin line. "No one, Victoria." He glares at Clark.
"If you're looking for money, my father has people who handle that kind of
thing. Embarrass me at school, and you won't get a dime."
This makes no sense to Clark—hasn't the cash always flowed the other way?—and
he can't stop staring at the faded bruise. "Are you okay?" He lifts his fingers
to Lex's face, but the boy flinches, so he drops his hand. "Who did that?"
Lex's eyes meet his, boring into him.
The girl, Victoria, leans in close. "No one, huh?"
"Don't you have a history exam to study for?" Lex asks in an expressionless
voice. "Or has Sir Harry suddenly made peace with having a B-student for a
daughter?"
Victoria throws him a dirty look. "Fine. I'll go. But if the two of you ever
decide to branch out, you know where to find me." She winks at Clark and takes
off across the grass.
Clark shuffles his feet. It's sad that high school girls can still make him
feel so totally out of his depth. "She, uh, seems—" He grapples for a word.
"Nice?"
"She's not," Lex says distractedly, all his attention focused on Clark. "What
are you doing here?"
Clark feels rather stupid as he says, "I went to the usual corner. A couple of
times." More like twenty, but he doesn't have to admit every pathetic fact.
"And you were never there. No one had seen you. I thought—maybe something had
happened to you."
Lex narrows his eyes, a shrewd light shining in them, and then he seems to
relax. "I'm afraid I've been out of circulation lately. One of my father's
business associates got his hands on some rather—colorful pictures of me. Used
them as leverage to renegotiate a deal. Needless to say, my father wasn't
pleased."
Clark lightly brushes his fingers along Lex's cheek, and this time Lex doesn't
pull away. "Is that how you got this?"
"Business always comes first in my family," Lex tells him bleakly. "When I saw
you here today, I thought—" He shakes his head. "Never mind. It doesn't
matter." He tugs at Clark's sleeve. "Come on."
He follows Lex down a path, around a bend, and they come to a little building
tucked away amidst the trees. "What's this?" he asks.
"Gardener's shed." Lex unlocks the door with what looks like a skeleton key.
When Clark doesn't go right in, he says impatiently, "Or would you rather
explain to the Head Master what you're doing lurking around in the lilac
bushes?"
It's low-ceilinged and cramped inside, and Clark concentrates on navigating the
exposed beams while Lex scoots a heavy sack of fertilizer in front of the door.
"What are you—"
Lex is on him in an instant, looping his arms around his neck, kissing his
questions away. The unexpectedness of it knocks Clark off balance, and only his
super-charged reflexes keep them from tumbling into a nearby bin of grass seed.
It has been so long, and Clark's focus is perfectly singled-minded now that
he's stringing kisses along Lex's jaw, grappling with his jacket, trying to get
his hands underneath it, trying to get closer to skin.
"I can't get caught in here again," Lex tells him between kisses. "So let's not
waste any time."
The notion of someone finding them should send a cold shock through Clark,
should give him visions of mugshots and lawsuits and the look of where-did-I-
go-wrong on his father's face when his son the superhero is accused of child
molestation. None of that keeps him from pushing the boy back against a wooden
pillar and pulling his starched white shirt from his waistband.
Lex smiles, eyes simmering, as if to say, "Anything you want."
Clark sinks to his knees and opens Lex's pants with shaking hands. The boy is
wearing simple cotton briefs, which comes as something of a surprise.
"Disappointed?" Lex asks with a smirk.
Clark presses his face against his underwear and breathes him in. Lex makes a
strangled little noise, and Clark can feel his erection stir against his cheek.
He wants very badly to make this good, and he's not sure who he's trying to
measure up against, Lex himself with his nimble-tongued skill or everyone who's
gotten here before him and had their mouths on the boy's big, beautiful cock.
He starts off slowly, breathing across the head, nibbling along the shaft. Lex
sinks his fingers into his hair and urges him on, not gently. He tastes of heat
and salt, like everything Clark has ever wanted, and that doesn't make him any
paragon of patience, either. He opens his mouth wider and closes eager lips
around straining cock, the vein pulsing hotly against his tongue, and Lex cries
out, "Fuck, yes! Suck me!"
Clark has lines in the sand carefully drawn all over his life—secret identities
don't come without an advanced degree in compartmentalization—and he's always
been scrupulous about not using his powers during sex. All that sensible
caution goes right out the window here, and he opens up the way no human with a
gag reflex ever could, and hears Lex moan as his cock slides into the greedy
grip of Clark's throat.
Lex has always been so cool, so in control, and Clark gets a dark satisfaction
out of seeing him lose it now, hands locked in a death grip on Clark's
shoulders, body flailing as he wildly fucks Clark's mouth. When he comes, he
bites his lip hard enough to draw blood, just to keep from shouting.
Clark rests his head on Lex's belly when it's over. The muscles jerk beneath
his cheek, and he can feel the skittery rasp of his labored breathing.
Lex strokes his hair, all the rough urgency gone now, his touch light, almost
affectionate. "You're pretty good at that," he says dryly.
Clark smiles up at him, gets to his feet and helps Lex straighten his clothes,
just to have a reason to keep his hands on him.
Lex pulls him close and kisses him, his hand snaking between their bodies,
cupping Clark's cock through his pants. "Now, what can I do for you?"
A rustling noise outside interrupts the answer, and they dart to the door.
Through a chink in the rough wooden planks, Clark can see a man in a weathered
John Deere cap headed straight toward them.
"Shit! It's Mr. Worley. The gardener. I'm not exactly his favorite person
around here."
Clark can easily imagine the things Lex has done to get on the man's bad side,
all the inventive ways he's debauched the gardening shed, but he tries not to
dwell on it. Blind, stabbing jealousy isn't exactly conducive to clear
thinking, and he really needs to get them out of this mess.
Happily, dumb luck takes care of that. Mr. Worley appears to have forgotten
something, turns on his heel and heads back the same way he came.
Lex gives Clark a hasty kiss. "I'm sorry about this." His fingers glide along
the front of Clark's pants, tracing his still-hard cock. "I'll make it up to
you tonight. Your place. You can fuck me if you want."
There is an instant parade of pictures in Clark's head, and the mental drooling
makes him a little slow to ask, "Um—don't you need the address?'
Lex is already out the door. He flashes an amused grin over his shoulder as he
runs back toward the school.
It should be unsettling, knowing he's been investigated, something he can
hardly afford with all his secrets, but that's the thing about Lex. He has a
knack for making the most unlikely things seem unbearably hot. Clark blurs past
Mr. Worley on his way out, slips through the hole in the fence and straightens
the bars behind him. He gets in his car and heads back to the office. It's
going to be a long day of tide-me-over trips to the bathroom, he can tell, but
at least at the end of it, there will be something to look forward to. There
will be Lex.
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