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Lex Luthor hated Superman.
Like hate hate. Not a certain kind of dislike, not a desperate act to cater public attention; just pure hate.
And he thought that he had made this very clear to the public eye.
Then what the fuck was he looking at?
Oooh When you wake up next to him in the middle of the night…
The clips of Lex Luthor with various pretty women he dated once followed one another on the screen of his phone.
With your head in your hands, you’re nothing more than his wife.
A clip of him holding his head in disbelief in a particularly heated talk show...
And when you think about me-
And now a mesmerizing clip of Superman turning to the reporters' microphone after saving the day once again. Ocean blue eyes squinted as he was smiling -like he always does- his dimples, again, on sight. Oh how Lex hated his face, especially those stupid stupid dimples.
All of those years ago…
A few clips from Lex Luthor’s hateful speeches appear in chronological order…
You’re standing face to face with “I told you so”.
This part made him audibly groan. It was edited, obviously. Him and Superman, shot from profile, facing each other and that was the last straw for Lex. He quit the app with a rageful swipe.
*****
“EVE!”
As his assistant was expecting this mental breakdown it didn't take her long to rush into Lex’s office.
“Mr. Luthor?”
Oh he was red, the baldness made it more clear but again there was no doubt Lex Luthor was fuming with rage. Eve was thinking of ways to calm him down since the moment she watched the edit. To be honest it was a good edit, too good even. Good enough to turn Lex Luthor bright red.
“It’s not that bad.” she managed to say with a calming tone.
“Oh that is a relief!” he spoke mimicking the calm tone of Eve and then shouted.
“Are you fucking kidding me?! Who the hell made that video?!”
“Just some fangirl Mr. Luthor! You know Gen-Z! Everything is a joke for them...”
“It is not a joke for me! It is certainly not a fucking joke for me Eve! Did they do this to humiliate me? To-to make fun of me? Belittle me?”
Eve shook her head, she desperately needed to stop her boss from overthinking.
“I’m sure it’s not that serious Mr. Luthor. Teens… they like that kind of stuff, you know? Real life romance stories, enemies to lovers trop-”
“Enemies to what ?”
His voice was cold and low. Eve gulped.
“N-nothing. I’m just saying don’t worry too much about it. This will be forgotten in no time.”
Lex gripped the corners of his desk tightly and spoke through his gritted teeth.
“Have you seen the amount of views it got? Everyone is watching it!”
“Oh that is just not true!”
Suddenly the bridge of Good Luck Babe echoed from the corridor. Lex's eyes grew as he opened his mouth to say something. A "Sorry!" came from the corridor. And Lex managed to get out a sound that resembled a squeak.
"Okay, the thing is-" Eve started but was interrupted by her boss.
“Get out.”
“Mr. Luthor-”
“GET OUT!”
***
It will fade out in no time, Eve said.
Well… Eve was wrong.
Now it was 3 am, Lex Luthor was overcome with insomnia all because of his anger, and was scrolling through the ever-increasing comments under the video.
It was…sickening.
supermannoticeme : Omg I thought i was the only one shipping these two
br00wnie007 : Ikrrr they give divorced dads so bad😩
anabanana._ : I mean Lex Luthor’s obsession with superman can be read veryy homoeroticly 👀
No it can not! It was a perfectly good reasoned hate towards his arrogance, limitless authority and non surveillanced power. It was not at all homoerotic! These people had no idea what they were talking about!
moonyschocolate🌔 : Y’all I might actually write a fic for them
xx.arson.xx : please do!!!
What the hell was a fic? He did not give consent for such a thing to be written. What were they gonna write for him?! Was it a legal document? Should Lex be lawyering up?
lenoredovesgoose: What will be the ship name… SuperLex?
thisvexesme: Omgg superlex for the win!!!
He scoffed, that was a lame name.
reputationtv : are they lovers?
lola🧚✨ : worse.
What the hell was this supposed to mean?!
He locked his phone, closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He had to control this anger within or he was going to burst into flames that was for sure. He had to use his common sense and reassure himself that this was just a tiny video edit. One video in a sea of contents, that is probably gonna get forgotten in a few days.
That made him relax a little bit and finally sleep. Afterall it was just a stupid video that would have no impact on reality.
Boy, was he wrong...