you do not have to be good

eternal yearning of the kryptonian mind — clois au, amnesia, romcom, tragic and angsty, grief, funny too, found family, ensemble cast, happy ending, eventually explicit, 70k, completed.

or: what could clark go through, for his line “i can’t live in a world where you don’t love me,” to deserve its weight? + all these scenes we were robbed of in canon: monster truck rallies, dancing in the rain, and stargazing.

here on ao3

happier that I’m forgetting, more functional this way, I have always been ruthless at surviving.

waking up in a panic because I’m forgetting, sometimes your face and voice are far from me.

you always told me the best skill is to delay a breakdown. I’m too young and at the peak of my career. I am doing this for you. you said as women we need to have a purpose beyond: wife, mother. we need to have something of our own, achieved with our own hands, that no one can take from us. no one can take my FANZCA from me.

I will have time for you to haunt me once I’m an attending, with a constant and generous income stream, in a big, hopefully not empty, house. I can delay it until then. I hope I will still have enough of you then.