Smallville vignette: Circling

I wasn't ever planning on writing B/S. I simply sat down at my computer and told myself to get into current!Buffy's head. The result was the trio of drabbles that I posted.

I can plan in a general way, but there's no guarantee that it'll end up as it started. I didn't know that Buffy would come to the conclusion that this Spike sucks, though I certainly am a huge fan of Buffy feeling that way. But it just... happened.

With that in mind, I tried writing some Smallville fic. And it's not a drabble! Whoo!
( Vignette, spoilers for Fever, Lex pov, Helen/Lex, shades of Lex/Clark )

Shakespeare: Sonnet 5

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel:
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter and confounds him there;
Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:
Then, were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it nor no remembrance what it was:
But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.