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Title: Father's Day
Series: Legion of Superheroes (Animated Series)
Characters: Superman/Clark Kent, Martha Kent, Brainiac Five, Timber Wolf/Brin Londo (Saturn Girl) - no pairing

(NOTE - Written after noticing a certain individual's absence from the first episode of the series.)

Brainiac 5 had scoffed when Superman had requested the use of his time travel device. He had professed no interest in ending his activities with the Legion, and he would not give any other reason why he wanted to go back home. So he told Superman that it would be a waste of resources for him to make the return trip.

Then Saturn Girl had come to him. The girl was an empath by nature, and she had known that something was bothering Clark. This was an important day for him. He asked her just what, and she said that she couldn't say - she valued Clark's privacy.

Still, Brainy was not yet ready to make a decision. Superman was his friend, but he was not quite ready to commit to scheduling a temporal incursion. So, he did what he always did when faced with an unknown - he researched the problem. And since he was dealing with a certain "day", he looked into customs associated with that particular date on the Julian calendar.

... And when he found out what he needed to know, he agreed.

Due to the nature of time travel, it would not be that same day when Clark returned to the past. But it was that day for Clark, and his mother did not ask questions when he appeared alongside Brainy and Timberwolf, the latter of which had offered to come when he learned the nature of the event.

Brainiac 5 felt more alien than ever as he and Brin stood in that tiny Kansas cemetary, watching as Clark and his mother placed flowers before a tombstone. This was not their world, nor was it their time, but they understood the significance of this moment, this day. Father's dady. And as people who'd been betrayed or cut off from their so-called families, they could not help but feel pangs of regret and envy as they watched Clark honor his own father's memory.

Neither of them had known Jonathan Kent.

But both of them would remember him.

... nobody?

I guess it's ok. I mean, it was well written but not really the number-one-plot of the year. I mean, when did it ever say Clark's dad was dead? try to pick a better plot bunny next time.

Man, somehow I missed this one down here. Glad it got bumped... ^^;;

Raptorscribe, izzat you? D:

Personally, I like it. I'm not sure if Clark's father had already passed on or not in this continuity, but I think all the other continuities I'm familiar with have his dad dying before Clark reaches Metropolis to actually work there. (The very first movie and Smallville come to mind.) And I like that you included Timberwolf because if ANYONE is going to understand what Clark would be going through on Father's Day, it's TW.

The only catch is that the Legion plans to return Clark to the exact moment he left when he's done doing his superhero'ing in the future, so it's not like he's going to really miss ANY given Father's Day in the past. Might have been better to still have the cemetary exist somewhere outside New Metropolis in the future and have Clark go to the grave when Father's Day rolled around that year of the 31st century. The Legion's got transportation, so it would only take a short time to get to what was once Smallville. (And at this point, with no canon indications, it would be up to you if there's anything out there or not.)

(And, of course, now I'm thinking how screwed it would be to have Clark get out there only to find his mother's tombstone alongside that of his father's... Yeah. Okay, I'm REALLY thinking too hard about this, now! *rambles like an idiot*)

One other thing, though... Any plans to post this on ff.net? We could really use the help over there with good fic. ^_^;;

Heh, thanks for the concrit, Straya. ^^; And yes, it is me.

As for your suggestions... well, I do appreciate them, but I don't think they work. All of the reliable past info on Superman is long gone, which would probably include any monuments to his family or friends. And if it were a normal tombstone, well... eh, it's been 1000 years, hasn't it? Any that existed would have worn down to dust.

The way I figure it, it was still Father's Day to Clark, and Misses Kent, being a mom who admits green-skinned young men into her house admittedly, would be understanding enough to go along with it.

Hmmm... FF.net? Yeah, I should prolly put it up there. ^^ Thanks again.

Hi Razor. Glad you posted this. As someone who lost his own father during college, I can certainly understand the emotions you are portraying. Nice work and I hope you post lots more.

Looking at the situation again today, you're probably right. I think sometimes late at night I can't get my mind to quit running in circles (I'm one of those people who can't sleep half the time because I can't stop thinking about everything and anything), so I rather dug myself into a circular rut trying to figure out what worked and what didn't in terms of the time travel. But yours is probably the simplest and most logical explanation for it.

Admittedly, I'm hoping ff.net will eventually grant animated LoSH its own section, the way they separated the comic and animated Batman series. But yep...the more fics collected on ff.net, the better!

yes I'm awaiting that day ever so hopefully. they also have Teen Titans seperated as well. I didn't even KNOW Teen Titans was a comic until I went there looking for Legion of Superheros.