Old Friends

Pairing: Chloe/Dean???
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Supernatural: Season 1 Smallville: Season 5, Thirst
Short summary: Two years ago, Chloe met Dean Winchester. Two years later while Chloe and Lois are investigating, she bumps into him again.
Note: This chapter is the beginning of Season 5 for Smallville, since that's the beginning of Season 1 of Supernatural. This is just a flash back kind of chapter, the next chapter gets to better stuff. AND NO. Anthropophaginian is NOT a made up word. I read it in one of my books and had to look it up

2005
Chloe Sullivan sat at her seat with her pen in her mouth, looking through her school work. It was her second day of college and already she was piled with school work. She had been obsessing over making a good impression with Pauline Kahn that she forgot about the work that was due tomorrow. Still, she had to find that hit story that would get her the internship at the Daily Planet because Ms. Kahn was a tight ass, but if she even wanted the job, she had to be in college.

Chloe sighed and bit on the pen boredly. Her head wasn't on straight, considering she'd just learned Clark's secret fully just a few weeks ago and it still was overwhelming her. Of course, she wasn't going to tell Clark that. This was not the time to send Clark on a guilt trip because Chloe stumbled into the bright light and got herself nearly killed.

Finally, Chloe dropped the pen and decided to re-evaluate what was going on. She took a good look around at her surroundings. Typical day in the Talon. She was sitting in a lonesome booth while everyone around her was chatting happily and care free and...and...damn them. The man that walked up to her caught her attention, though.

"Hey." He started, sitting down across from her. "Look like you got something on your mind?"

"Just started college." Chloe smiled politely as she crossed her arms over her books. "Second day and I'm loaded with work."

"Ah." He nodded, looking over at her work. "So. Is...drawing pictures your assignment or something?" He smirked, looking back up at her.

"Haha, funny." Chloe rolled her eyes, but still smiled.

"I'm Dean." Dean smiled back, holding out a hand. Chloe took the offered hand and thought about whether she should tell him here name. Well, why not?

"Chloe." Chloe took back her hand and took a good look at him. She couldn't tell who he was. Usually, if you lived in a small town like Smallville for a number of years, you could identify who was who. "Did you-uh-just move here or something? I lived here for a while and I don't recognize you."

"Nah." Dean shook his head. "I'm passing through town, someone told me this...happy pink place was good for coffee." He raised his eyebrows, looking around the coffee shop. He had a good point, but Lana did decorate the place when she was going through her 'happy' phase. "I'm on my way to Stanford to pick up my brother Sammy."

"Stanford? The college? Why would you want to..pick up your brother in the beginning of school? And all the way in California?" Chloe asked, her investigative curiosity getting the best of her. It was obvious Dean didn't have an excuse for this.

"Well...family problems, it's complicated." Dean shrugged, trying not to say too much.

"Say no more." Chloe nodded. "I know what you mean."

"You do, huh?" Dean leaned back in his booth as he watched Chloe glanced down at her work. Chloe looked back up and smiled again. This time, he focused on her smile. It was bright and big and it almost made him want to smile as well. Almost. She closed her books and pushed them aside, picking up her coffee.

Just then, a voice Chloe recognized, yelled out for the coffee Dean ordered. Chloe just about cracked up at Dean's expression to the high-pitched yell. Once Dean was back with a coffee in hand, he asked, "Do you know her, or something? Her voice is kind of...well, it's annoying."

"Kind of." Chloe grinned. "She's my cousin, Lois."

"Ah-oh." Dean quieted down immediately. Chloe rolled her eyes playfully. "How're you related? You seem so sweet and calm, she's...ah, I dunno, I don't wanna make you mad." He grinned mischievously as he sipped at his coffee. "You're both pretty hot, but.."

"Word of advice." Chloe cut him off. "Women don't like to be called hot, pretty boy." She winked, putting down her coffee. Dean smirked at her and nodded, putting down his as well. "But don't worry. Lois is the butt of jokes almost all the time, it's kind of a regular thing." Chloe nodded as she reopened her her book and looked back up at him. "Any idea what..anthropophaginian means..?"

"Sounds like a dutch thing or something." Dean shrugged, leaning over to look at her book. All of it confused the hell out of him. "Now that's just torture. I'd never be able to put up with college."

"I barely can." Chloe giggled, re-closing the book and deciding to leave it. She had no idea how she got into this kind of conversation with a drifter, but it was nice. "I'm constantly helping my friend with just..really weird things."

"Sounds like we have more in common than we thought." Dean noticed, immediately. Weird things? It probably wasn't what he was thinking of, but why not go with the flow. "But it depends on what you define weird things on."

"You don't wanna know." Chloe smiled and shook her head. People usually called her crazy when she shared her meteor rock theory, that in fact had been proven true countless times, why share it now?

"I do." Dean responded. Though Chloe sensed no interest in his voice, she noticed he wasn't exactly the deep type and probably had a hard way of expressing enthusiasm. "Unless your talking about weird as in spiders and worms, I'd like to hear."

Chloe giggled and rolled her eyes, then nodded. "Okay, but don't call me crazy." Dean nodded instantly and Chloe continued. She explained the theory of meteor rocks effecting people and giving them abilities based on what they were doing at the time of the meteor shower. Relief washed over her when she realized Dean wasn't look at her funny.

"And it's been proved?" Dean asked, tilting his head curiously at Chloe. Chloe nodded quickly, almost proudly, as she pulled out her very first high school byline and handed it to him. "Superboy, huh?"

"Yeah, I know, a little cheesy, but I was anxious to write it." Chloe grinned and took the newspaper back and stuffed it back in her bag. It was something she carried in her binder all the time.

"So you were a reporter for your high school?" Dean looked at her with a glint of interest in his eye. This only made Chloe smile wider.

"Were? I'm applying for an internship at the Daily Planet. I just have to find that story that will get me there." Chloe responded, trying to hide the excitement in her voice. "Yeah, but anyway. I'm curious why you're so interested in it? Don't tell me you have the same theory?"

"Oh, no." Dean shook his head. "Lets just say I know a thing or two about the paranormal." He explained, plain and simple. Just because this girl was sharing her information didn't mean he needed to too. Chloe tilted her head and nodded in understanding.

"First rule to being a good journalist: never give out the information you know before publishing. Guess you already got that one down, huh?" Chloe smiled, crossing her arms. "I haven't even scratched the surface of what I know with you, so don't think you can run off with one of my stories."

"Don't worry there short cake.." Dean laughed, leaning in to get a good look at her. "I'm not planning on stealing anything from you to give to a newspaper."

"First, my name is Chloe, not short cake, got that pretty boy?" Chloe snapped, although playfulness tinted her voice. "Second, you're not planning on stealing anything from me to give to anyone, got that?"

"Well." Dean shifted in his seat as if about to give a long speech. "I don't know about negotiating on the nickname, considering you're calling me pretty boy. Though I have to say I am pretty."

"Ha." Chloe rolled her eyes.

"And...we'll see about your second point as long as I can get your number." Dean gave her a charming smile and Chloe let out a giggle-snort kind of laugh. "I can see you're quite the lady."

"Quite." Chloe smiled, holding out her hand for his cellphone. Dean passed it on to her and she worked her phone number into his contacts list, then jotted down her name as Chloe S. She tossed it back to him and he looked at it in curiosity.

"Chloe S. Any chance I can get your last name, Chloe S?" Dean smirked, putting his cellphone into his jacket pocket.

"Start calling me Chloe S and no." Chloe smirked back at him. Dean laughed and nodded. "Sullivan."

"Winchester." Dean replied and then tugged up his jacket sleeve to look at his watch. He looked back up at Chloe. "I gotta go. I'll call you and visit when I roll back in town, short cake." He knew truthfully he probably wouldn't do either, but he winked and stood. Chloe rolled her eyes again.

"Chloe." Chloe rolled her eyes.

"Chloe." Dean repeated with a smirk and waved lightly at Chloe, walking out of the Talon the same time. Chloe looked back down at her work and got a giddy feeling at the bottom of her stomach. When he went away, she shook her head and opened back up her books.