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The Butterfly Effect (Smallville story)
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Butterfly Effect |
| Author(s): | The Spike |
| Date(s): | 21 December 2001 |
| Length: | 64 K |
| Genre(s): | slash fanfiction |
| Fandom(s): | Smallville |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | The Butterfly Effect (Smallville Slash Archive) The Butterfly Effect (The Spike's Slash Page) The Butterfly Effect (AO3) |
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The Butterfly Effect is a Clark/Lex story by The Spike. There are two fanfic covers for the story, one by Sheila and one by Livia.
Summary: Lex can't let the Cassandra thing go.
Recs and Reviews
Beautiful, powerful story that made me cry. It's about destiny, which sounds pretentious, but so isn't in Spike's hands. That girl can write, with lovely, lyrical prose, but doesn't forget the emotion underneath, as she tells from several viewpoints what happens when Lex tries to see into his own future. [1]
The Butterfly Effect by The Spike - At the end of this story, I blew out a breath, and the word 'wow' was lost in that admiring sigh. I had been holding my breath for the last few paragraphs, and when I was done with the story, I was in tears. Hadn't even noticed. Incredible story with an inventive and clever premise, and the prose, god, the prose...beautiful. This is the story that you must read in this fandom. Without fail.[2]
Driven by his curiosity, Lex experiments on himself trying to replicate Cassandra's ability to see into the future. The Kents find him later, out of his mind and raving, and take him back to the farm and debate how to help him.Lex's stream-of-consciousness sections are intense and bizarre and drag you right along with him as he experiences multiple possible futures inter-spliced with the present; and just like with Cassandra, when they touch Clark can see what he sees, too. All they can see are terrible futures, and both are freaked out, while Martha and Jonathan try to help. Surrounded by possible horrors, with only terrible options as solutions, Clark finally figures out a way, the only way, for everything to be okay.
Intense and trippy and twisty, this fic is a wild ride, and one I come back to again and again. Mind the warnings, but know that there is a happy resolution and the ride is totally worth it.[3]
This is what the fandom is all about: finding a way out of the oncoming catastrophe for the characters we love.[4]
remember that old prophecy lady from s1? well, what if lex injected himself with something that gave himself the power to see the future too, and was horrified and traumatised by what he saw? feat. clark taking care of him and papa kent playing the role of the homophobic dog[5]
Cover
References
- ^ by Thamiris at Recs (2001)
- ^ Destina Fortunato. Worlds Without Boundaries: Slash Story Recommendations - Smallville and Lord of the Rings. (Accessed 30 March 2021)
- ^ "Rec by jenna_marianne on epic_recs". Archived from the original on 2023-03-22.
- ^ "July 25, 2015 Tumblr post". Archived from the original on 2023-03-22.
- ^ "Hello Bat!! I love love love reading your thoughts on things, from motogp to terrible 2000s tv shows, July 20, 2024 Tumblr post by batsplat". Archived from the original on 2024-11-14.