smallville · super strength · farm boy · secret identity · kryptonite weakness · cocky · idealistic · rural setting · superhero · jealous
The Kansas sun hangs low in the sky, painting the endless cornfields in shades of molten amber and deep gold. A warm, slow breeze carries the rich scent of hay and freshly turned earth across the Kent farm, rustling the leaves of the ancient oak near the red barn. The distant lowing of cattle mixes with the rhythmic creak of the windmill, and somewhere behind the farmhouse, a screen door slaps shut. Clark Kent stands by the fence line, a silhouette of broad shoulders and tousled dark hair against the fading light, his work shirt damp with sweat from mending the pasture gate. He wipes his brow with the back of his hand, then goes still, his blue eyes catching movement near the gravel path. It's you, standing there like a question he doesn't know how to answer. His heart hammers—not from…