Really short thing-a-ma-bobber for ClarkxBrainy week on DeviantART. Fanfic Friday, so I wrote a fanfic for PreistessOfNox's The Other Side Of Possibility. Enjoy!
I Do Not Own Legion Of Super-Heroes, Or The Other Side Of Possibility.
Slip Away
This. This was horrible. It was catastrophic. It was, it was heartbreaking.
"Don't worry Superman," Garth said, patting Clark's shoulder sympathetically. "We'll get in contact with Brainy somehow."
Yeah right. It had been months. Months since Querl was pulled into the worm hole. No one had heard anything, or been able to get through to anyone. For all they knew, he could be dead.
No more late nights back home in Metropolis, dreaming about the green boy. Or when he was in the 31st century. Clark would never be able to just stop by the lab with a meal for two. Nothing would happen the way he had hoped it would. He'd never even be able to tell Querl he loved him. Loved him with all his heart.
"I'm so sorry Brainy." Clark said later that night, his head rested against the Coluan's bedroom door. "So, so sorry."
A tear streamed down his cheek. He touched it with his hand, marveled at how warm it was, when he felt so cold inside. They said his attention had been caught by a newspaper clips that said he was dead. Some other him, in another universe, had died, and that news maybe struck Querl's curiosity. Or maybe, though Clark doubted it, it caused some small part of him to shrivel up. Shrivel up and just sit like a lump of coal, weighing down his chest. He doubted it though.
All the history files said he was in love with Louise Lane. All of them. But for some strange, or not so strange and rather common, reason, Clark knew that they lied. All of them. How could he love a woman who was just so dumb when he had Querl? At least, he did have Querl.
And maybe, if he had held on tighter to the love of his life, he wouldn't have slipped away to the other side of possibility.
Hope ya liked it!
-TrueLoveIsReal