Thanks for your patience. This is my hopeful timeline:
Subtraction Time 13 (last update 10/1/14) by or before 7/13/15 (with any Reaction Time and starting on Action Time 1-5 missed replies)
Out of the Depths 4 (last update 12/16/14) by 7/20/15 (with missed replies on Deep/Depths)
Restless Nights (last update 12/16/14) COMPLETED before 7/31/15 (missed replies on HWGH 6-10)
A Day Late 6 before 8/6/15 (missed replies on HWGH 10-15)
Out of the Depths 5 (missed replies on HWGH complete)
Subtraction Time Complete by or before 8/31/15
Out of the Depths 6
A Day Late Complete by or before 9/30/15
Out of the Depths 7-10
Start smutlet for Kitmerlot
Out of the Depths complete before 10/31/15
NANOWRIMO!!!!!! - where I start putting away fic in favor of writing something of my very own
Now for some random missed replies...
On The Almost Series completion post...
myr_heille said...
Oh boy, I've been reading 800,000 words in less than a week? Good lord. This was truly awesome. I think Almost Clark will remain my favorite of the bunch - because I found this fic while searching for this exact scenario, basically, Kal and Chloe doing it between S2 and 3, and this fic gave it to me and so much more, too. I'm impressed by all the plots you've been mastering, and the scenes with the two of them were always perfect. That last chapter! Their last scene, Clark trying to prove he's not uptight! I loved it so much. Thanks for writing it!
Thanks so much! Almost Clark was my first fic and I wrote it for about the same reason you were looking for a fic like it. :) That series will always be my most precious baby, even if it is waaaaay too long.
I kind of learned to write with that fic and I sometimes cringe at the early stuff, but it's all part of growing, I guess.
I'm so glad it left you satisfied. I definitely always wanted to bring it home in that last scene in the very place where things were almost right for them in the first fic.
On Almost Clark Chapter Eight:
On Reaction Time Part One:
I last left off catching up on really old fic replies I'd somehow missed on my completed fics with 1-900-Chloe.
That being done, here's some on How We Got Here. Replies under a cut for spoilers...
On Chapter One...
This is really intriguing. I'm loving the leaps across the timeline, and the venom between Chlark is palpable and completely understandable, given all that's happened this season. But what on earth does Chloe mean by 'You ruined my life?' Guess we'll find out...
Excellent start, April!
*spews tea all over keyboard* She's Clark's what?!? When did they --? How did they--?!
Reading swiftly on!!!
On Chapter Two...
And OMG, Clark's jealously of Davis is palpable. He totally lost his shit when she chose Davis, not realising that she was choosing to save Clark even if it meant sacrificing herself. How could he not see that? *sniff*
This is painful to read, but I know you're going somewhere with this. Plus, Chlark = Married, so... ;-)
Awesome work with this, April. :-)
It definitely takes Clark a good while to figure out they're better off together than apart, especially with how terribly things went that year. It was not easy to write, but angst is always hardest. :(
On Chapter Three...
But my God, he is just so... lost without her, and she without him. They're empty shells trying to fill the void with anything but each other, and that aching need just won't go away in either of them.
"I love your son!"
That gets me every time. Every. Freaking. TIME. This was in Season 7, Season FreakingSeven, and you don't write something as poignant and powerful as that unless there's an intention to follow through. Cowardly bastards. *seethes*
But enough of the pansy showrunners. This is my canon now. :-P
~...please tell me there's a happy ending...please? ~
Tell me about it with the "I love your son." Why would they write that and give us nothing about it after? It begged for something --- resolution, exploration, just something. Then again, after seeing what they did to the Fever letter...
I'm kind of okay with them never revisiting this, given that.
On Chapter Four...
"Again," he said, swallowing hard.
"I love your son!"
Her voice seemed to linger, even when it was gone. But still...
"Again," he said, softer now.
"I love your son!"
What I wouldn't have given to have actually SEEN Clark react to that vital piece of knowledge. Gawd, that show promised so much, and delivered so little...
*breathes deeply*
He's totally lost his humanity without her. This almost has me in tears right now. :-(
Powerful stuff, April.
Thanks so much, Dee! I got a little misty writing that scene, with all the opportunities missed and the possibilities squandered.
On Chapter Five...
Thank. ZOD. Your spinning of the show is a work of art, April, but there was only so much more canon show!pain I could take. :-)
Canon compliance may be my go-to fic thing, but that doesn't mean it's easy.
"She carries the weight of you as well. I sense it in her, in you."
...And who would have ever thought that Jor-El would be the voice of reason? He's done some growing up, has our AI! See, THIS is where the show should have been going, not down the stupid, boring, Nois route! *growls*
It so easily could have been Chlark! The best part would have been the way it took the show full-circle.
And Clark accidentally killed someone whilst saving Chloe from getting gutted like a fish. It was only a matter of time, realistically speaking. I hate the way the show sanitised Clark and everything he did, only to throw the others under the bus for cleaning up his mistakes over and over again.
He really did get a free pass on way too much. Is it any wonder I feel compelled to write canon fics? It's hard to be on board with a hero who doesn't pay for his mistakes.
Oh, and nice parallel to the time when she went through almost the exact same thing with Davis when Bruno Mannheim's thug was slitting her throat.
"You say nothing and you'll get implicated with me. They can make you testify..."
"Not if..." Chloe grew silent. Clark could see her wheels turning and his eyes narrowed.
"If you're thinking up a lie, just stop it now."
It's not a lie she's thinking up, mate. I know where this is going... *holds breath in anticipation* :-*
Another brilliant chapter, my lovely!
He so does!!!! Brando and TW both have the same wide cheekbones and full lips. I wish they'd cast his father in season 9 with them looking alike in mind.
