Summary: Chloe's Left Smallville and moved to Metropolis. Lex has left the country and moved to Europe. 3 years later they meet once again, both scared of the same thing that caused them to run away. Will love triumph? Or are happy endings only found in Fairy tales? Chlex...Once Upon a Time.
A/N - This is my first fan fic, but I've read a ton so hopefully this is good. I LOVE Chlex, and unfortunately, I've read almost every chlex fan fic on so it's high time I write one. Please Review; add to your story alerts if I should continue this story. If people read it I'll keep writing. But its just an idea I thought up today :) Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville...because if I did, Chloe and Lex would have ended up together.
Chapter 1: Where is the Love?
Romance. It's dead. And people say that chivalry has been long gone. When is the last time making love meant having to be in love? Well it sure as heck didn't mean that now. Once upon a time I believed in true love, but then who was I kidding? This is the real world. And sometimes, the real world kinda sucks. All of this was running through my head as I sat at my desk at the Daily Planet, sipping my coffee, wondering where I went wrong with love. My first and latest "lover" Jimmy Olsen stood by the printers casually throwing timidly sweet, flirty smiles my way.
"Oh God…" I thought, "What did I do to deserve this." I swiveled my chair around and tried to focus on my latest work assignment, Luthor's return to Smallville. I had sent someone out to the LexCorp plants and the Luthor mansion earlier, trying to avoid the trip myself. I had finally gotten out of the small freaky town when I had turned 19, 3 years ago when I all but ran to metropolis, and I had no intention of returning to the weirdest place on earth anytime soon. Any trace of "home" I once had there had vanished anyway.
"I'll miss you…" he whispered callously. As if it wasn't hard enough to just leave. Now he was being sentimental.
"Well, if you try really hard, maybe you won't. You have a knack for not caring about things Lex, why change now." My voice dripped with sarcasm. I was mad. I wasn't going to let him keep me here anymore. I was starting to feel bad though. I could tell what I said hurt when I could see him visibly stiffen slightly at my retort.
"Chloe, if you want to leave I'm not holding you back. I would never hold you back in this hell hole." I looked up abruptly to say something but he continued, "In fact, you should leave! I've been telling you for years there is nothing left for you here! Not Clark! He has Lana! You're parents are dead! You're not in love, there is nothing tying you down!" his voice had escalated.
I just stood there a little shocked at his tirade. "FINE!" I yelled at him. "You're right. There is NOTHING here for me. Nothing at all." I turned quickly before he could see the tears that were threatening to fall. I had just reached the door when I froze. Afraid of what this all meant. If I walked out this door, that was it. No Lex to run back to…which meant…no more home to run back to.
"Goodbye Lex." I whispered without turning around. And I fled.
"Chloe?" I jumped a bit at Jimmy's voice so close. "Y-yes?" I asked pasting on a smile and grimacing on the inside.
"I was thinking, would you, I don't know maybe want to go out to dinner tonight? I got reservations for us at a restaurant downtown." He gushed out nervously. I barely refrained from rolling my eyes. Instead I went for a sweet smile as I grabbed his hand.
"Jimmy, hun, we are dating, you don't have act all nervous every time you ask me out." I crooned.
He looked down and blushed. "I know," he answered, "But I can't help it, you're just so beautiful. Makes me nervous."
This time I let the eye roll slip. Thank God he was still looking down.
"Haha," I let out a flirty giggle. "Jimmy I love you," LIES. "You make me so happy," MORE LIES, "and I would absolutely love to go out with you tonight." WHY CAN'T I STOP LYING! "…but, I uh have some things I have to go over with the reporter I sent to go check on the Luthor story." Okay, so kind of true.
He looked a little hurt but didn't miss a beat, "isn't your cousin Lois on that case?"
"Urmm, yeah, she was the only one I trusted enough to not try to bed Luthor while down there." I said jokingly. He didn't laugh.
"Is there a reason you didn't go yourself?" he asked curiously.
I shook my head slowly, trying to find a reasonable excuse for not going, preferably one close to the actual truth, "I have been really busy here, and I wanted to focus my energy on writing the story and I can write a majority of it from right here. Plus I knew if I went back to visit the 'ole home town, I would have a hard time staying focused…so I sent Lois because she was headed down there anyway to visit a friend." I explained slowly.
He seemed to accept it. It's not like it wasn't true. It was all true. But there might have been something I, intentionally left out.
"Okay well if you want anything-"
"-I'll call you, I know." I smiled up at him before going back to my computer typing away. He rolled his eyes and waved goodbye before heading to the elevator ready to go back to his lonely apartment without his loving girlfriend.
I can't help but feel guilty sometimes. Okay all the time. I never thought that Jimmy Olsen would be my first. And I never thought that 4 years after it happened, we would both have ended up working at the same paper. I called it Karma, he called it destiny, and according to destiny, this meant my first "love" was meant to be my eternal. I felt bad, so I went out with him. And yeah it felt good! I hadn't been out for months since I had moved to metropolis. I was lonely. He was an old…friend. But of course the boy had other ideas. He knew I wanted romance. So he gave me romance. He knew I wanted chivalry, so he gave me chivalry. Was it possible though, that he wasn't the one? I laughed at myself. How could I possibly believe true love existed. How could I, Chloe Anne Sullivan the cynic of cynics, the realist of realists, possibly believe that soul mates and happy endings could possibly happen to me? Oh that's right, because I wanted them….so badly.
I sighed. Staring down at my computer, there wasn't more I could write regarding the story without meeting with Lois first. At least it meant getting out of dinner with Jimmy. "Jimmy" I whispered with my eyes closed. "I'm so sorry." This couldn't go on. The lies were killing me. It was time to stop it before it went too far. I briefly proof read the introduction for the story.
Lex Luthor Returns to Smallville
LexCorp has announced its intention to return to the small city of Smallville, Kansas, home to the young billionaire Lex Luthor. After residing in Europe for the last 2 and a half years Mr. Luthor had decided that his business interests will be bringing him back to Kansas. The plants in smallville are scheduled to reopen sometime in the next month. Jobs will be offered first to veteran employs and secondly to any new workers seeking employment at LexCorp. While residing primarily in his Smallville Mansion, It has been confirmed that he will be returning to Metropolis to reopen his offices for business.
She sighed checking her watch. "Crap, I gotta meet Lois," she muttered as she hurriedly stood, gathered the things on her desk, grabbed her flash drive and quickly departed from the Daily Planet. She stopped when she got outside and it finally hit her so hard that she gasped for breath.
Lex was coming home.
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