Lori's life was perfectly ordinary until she turned fifteen.
She lived in Smallville and was dating a boy named Clark who had no superpowers.
The year she turned fifteen, a comet streaked across the sky.
Her boyfriend suddenly learned how to fly.
A man in a red cape, straight out of a comic book, appeared and asked him to help save their world.
Her boyfriend left with him.
Then the world was destroyed.
Everything vanished, leaving nothing but a void.
Except Lori.
In the void, Lori had no idea how much time had passed.
In such desolation, love could not lift her spirits.
What kept her alive was hate.
Superboy-Prime went through murder, corruption, defeat, slaughter, imprisonment, mockery, and sacrifice.
At the very end, he finally returned to his homeland.
There, he saw his beloved again.
It was just like the ending of a fairy tale.
Lori hated many things.
She hated the comet and the man in the red cape.
But what she hated most was the person she had once loved most: Clark.
After an endless, endless emptiness, she opened her eyes again.
Everything around her seemed perfectly ordinary.
Everyone was living their usual lives, as if their world had never been destroyed.
Her boyfriend looked up from a comic book and smiled at her.
Everything seemed just as it had before.
But she knew nothing was the same.
Lori rejected him.
How could she? How could Lori reject him? Lori would never reject him. It had to be the editorial department. They just didn't want to give him a happy ending.
But it didn't matter.
He would fight for it himself.
It wasn't the first time he'd changed reality.
Lori's life fell into a vicious cycle.
Whenever she rejected Clark, everything rewound to the moment she had first opened her eyes.
On her fifteenth return to the past, Laura looked at Clark as he raised his head from the comic book and smiled at her. She suddenly smiled back and said the words he longed to hear.
"I love you, Clark."
1. The male lead is Superboy-Prime, with an unconventional Superman characterization and personality.
2. An unhealthy romance shaped by the world's destruction and a long separation.
3. A kink-focused story, with lots of descriptions of real-life superhero comics and screen adaptations.
4. OOC warnings for all characters.
5. Lori is barely characterized in the original work, so everything about her here is author-created.
Theme: How to face trauma
