LINKDING

<blockquote>Smallville futurefic where President Luthor, due to threat of natural disaster, is stuck for hours with that annoyingly ethical reporter Clark Kent. Since Lex is smart and Clark is a crap liar, once they're alone in a room together, Lex figures out that Clark must know something about him pre-memory-loss.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Wait, Wonder Woman thought—apparently the entire governing cadre of the Justice League thought--that Lex had been carrying on some sort of clandestine affair with Superman? That his carefully conceived (though admittedly often poorly executed) plans were the equivalent of the schoolboy pulling the pigtails of his prepubescent crush? Lex didn’t know whether to laugh or scream.</blockquote>

<blockquote>End of Season 2: Clark has identity crises and Lex keeps losing his fiance.</blockquote> ➤ In which there's a lot of truth being thrown about, and it's not very comfortable.

<blockquote>Stray pets and stray Luthors are both up for adoption.</blockquote> ➤ In which Lex's mother was around for long enough to make a difference in Lex's life

<blockquote>Try to hurt Lex, and he’d raze you to the ground; offer Lex even the smallest bit of affection, and he was yours forever. Clark had known that once. But somewhere over the years he’d forgotten it. Until last Friday.</blockquote> ➤ In which Clark comes up with a flawless plan to stop Lex: he surrenders to him.

➤ In which Lois doesn't know what to buy Clark for his birthday, and Lex helps. ➤ Lois-Clark friendship and Lois-Lex friendship, futurefic

➤ In which Lex is president and some hostile Kryptonians come and take Clark, and Lex shoots the Kryptonian ship with Kryptonite.

➤ In which Lex ends up becoming a sort of a superhero as well

➤ In which Superman and Lex develop a friendship, hanging out on Luthorcorp's roof in the night.

➤ In which Clark has bonded to Lex, so he comes back to him for sex purposes, but despite loving him cannot let himself be in a relationship with him, because he knows he can't deal with Lex's amorality

<blockquote>Being knocked up by Lex Luthor is *awesome*.</blockquote> ➤ And hilarious!

➤ In which, several years on, drunk!Lex sends an email to Clark that actually contains the honest truth.

➤ Lex helping tutor Clark in French.