slayers_desire | things to do with child-Clark

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things to do with child-Clark

For April, it was weird to see Clark deaged to seven because of an LOL. But in all things considered, she rationalized it occured at a good time. Her own recent question in the Nexus would have tipped of the normal-aged Clark after all.

With the promises of burger and fries, April takes seven-year-old Clark to her house. She immediately fixes him up with a milkshake and a couple of books. Then starts preparing things in the kitchen to cook.

"What kind of burgers do you like?"

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"Is that how you got lost?" April figures something else happened, but better for the story for the seven-year-old mind.

"What else can you do?"

Clark thinks very hard about that. "Maybe?" It makes a sort of sense. It's happened before, finding himself somewhere strange without his parents around. It doesn't explain why he was wearing big clothes or how he managed to superspeed-run in them, but the logic of that doesn't bother him.

"Dunno." He shrugs. "Mom says I don't get hot or cold and when I don't wear a jacket when it's all snowy out it makes her cold." He sounds very skeptical about how that works.

"I think you have a lot of special abilities, because you are a very special person." It is so much easier saying these things to young-Clark. April wonders if he will remember this when he returns to his normal age. Or if it would be a memory.

In later years, the word "special" comes to mean "different" or "freakish" to Clark, but he's still young enough now that it's a good thing to be called that. "You're a special person too," he points out, grinning. "You can do magic."

"Magic is easy to do, if you believe in it." April finishes her plate, then cleans the table. "So besides going for a run, anything else you would like to do?"

Clark has to think about that. Most days he's left to entertain himself alone, although sometimes he goes over to Pete's and plays with him. And none of his usual toys or places are here. "I dunno. What do you do for fun?"

"I read. A lot. But I also find new places that I haven't been before. Gone skydiving. Rock climbing. Swimming in the ocean."

"Made interesting friends along the way. Who give me advice when I need it."

Clark's eyes are wide in amazement. She's been everywhere and done everything, in his view. "Can we go someplace like that?"

"If you want." April will have to stay to a Nexus-related place. "What would be your grandest request?"

"I've never been to the ocean." He's always had a hard time believing there can be that much water all in one place. In Smallville there are ponds and there's Crater Lake, but they're small compared to what he's heard of the ocean.

Pulling out her PINpoint, April taps a few keys. "Okay then. Lets go to the ocean."

An ocean visit would have been nice to do with Clark at normal age. But April will take this day with his LOL'd self.

If she asks at some point once he's back to normal, he'll probably be up for a revisit. Even as a teenager he doesn't get much time off to just relax and go someplace nice with a friend.

As it is, he's eager to see her use more magic. If her magic phone can make clothes appear, can it make them disappear and reappear at the ocean? He wants a magic phone, if it can do all this.

The magic phone can take Clark and April to the ocean. And soon, he will feel the ocean wind in his hair. And the whole expanse of water ahead of them.

"This is the Pacific ocean." April notes.

Clark flings his arms out as if trying to grab the whole horizon. "It's so big! That's all water?" He takes a deep sniff. "It even smells like salt!" He'd known the ocean was salt water, of course, but he expected it to smell like normal water.

"It seems calm enough that we can go swimming."

Clark pauses and looks thoughtful. "What if there are sharks?" He saw it in a movie once, over at Pete's house.

"Sharks won't come to close to the shore. And we won't go out too far."

"Besides, I will handle any shark that gets too close."

If his magical friend says so, that's how it is. Period. He'd trust her with his life a thousand times over and never think to doubt her.

He turns his face upwards, towards the sun, feeling the familiar gentle energy recharge that he currently thinks of as fizziness. "The light feels good."

"It is a good bright day." April acknowledges. Despite her vampiric heritage, she can be out in the sun. Though has some difficulties in bright afternoons. And thus, puts on sunglasses.

Pulling up her legs, she offers her hand to Clark. "Lets wade in the ocean, and see all the creatures that might be there."

Clark grabs her hand immediately, eager to go walk in the vast expanse of the ocean. He's seen fish before, but only small ones. Not much call for sharks and whales in Kansas either, nor the tinier critters like crabs and clams.

He watches the sea birds flying overhead, and feels the familiar tug that makes him want to go up there and join them. He knows it's silly, little boys can't fly, but sometimes he feels like he could just let go of the world and fly with the birds.

April watches him enjoy the new life around him, and almost senses his wish to fly. She looks up, "I bet that some day, if you want it enough, you could fly too Clark."

Clark looks at her uncertainly. Unlike other children, he's never been told that he can be whatever he wants to be when he grows up. It's always been "be careful, be normal, hide who you are, you can't play with the other kids because there could be an accident."

"People can't fly. Not 'cept in a plane."

"Is that so?" April smiles. She gestures with some magic that she had learned, and lifted off the ground five feet.

Clark gasps and stares up at her. Magic is so cool.

Just to make sure, he waves his arm underneath her. Nothing but air. "Teach me! I wanna know how!"

"I will do what I can." April said. Never know, by teaching young Clark, older Clark might remember. She returns to the ground, and takes his hand.

"When you are with me Clark, you can be free to do anything. I know it is hard keeping your powers a secret at home. But that is what fairy godmothers are good for."

Using the same levitation spell, she will lift both of them slightly into the air. "What do you feel when you are in the air?"

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