#and then checkered shirt guy is. hm. jason's responsibility for a bit

[vinelark]

Just finished BBTS and loved it!! I feel like chapter 5 from Clark’s POV must be so fun 🤩 because from Kon’s view it’s already terrible and awful and the reader gets to be privy to the interior pain. But from the outside he must look positively horrific, especially to another Kryptonian who can see much more precisely how Kon is fairly literally coming apart at the seams 👍 I love Kon whump.

i'm so glad! and oof, yeah, chapter 5 from clark's pov is excruciating--kon goes missing, tim is also missing, they're connected somehow but clark can't locate either of them no matter how hard he tries. all they have to go on is what jason witnessed, and jason didn't even know 100% of what was happening there. they do find the farm in short order because checkered shirt guy triggered the self-destruct (so no one could trace them to the second location), but that only gives them more answers + a confirmation that something seriously bad is going on. clark feels so helpless, and he's trying not to spiral into it, because he needs to be at his best to find kon, to find tim, to help bruce find them both, because bruce is also doing everything he can but analyzing any clues left in the wreckage of the farm is going to take time and what are all clark's abilities for if something happens to kon during that time? what's the point? what is he supposed to do?

and then. and then! kon's voice, calling for him, pleading for him, and clark is there in an instant--RIP to half of the WE labs' security measures that got caught between clark and the r&d level--and he doesn't even notice the kryptonite at first. his body notices, he feels it immediately, but it takes a second to register because he's busy getting to. kon, who is 1) alive, and 2) on the ground with a? giant floodlight? and 3) really, really hurt. and that's about when the kryptonite hits. and that's not even the worst part, because then clark has to leave. he has to leave kon like that, hurt and bleeding and unraveling from the kryptonite, so clark can rescue tim and make sure tim is safe and that this other unconscious man at the scene--who must be the one who did this--is secured and he has to trust someone else to do that. clark can only do what he can to get back to kon, and honestly at that point, what's a little kryptonite poisoning compared to the terror of the rest of the evening? he can endure it, because kon has to endure it.