Title: The Change
Author: peepsRfun2eat
Summary: After Chloe landing in the hospital again with concussion # 1,000 Gabe decides to move. The drawback, it is senior year and it is to a place where it will be more normal. Where no freak of the week is trying to eat her, but it always seems to start out normal. AU a lot of Smallville happened Season 1 and 2 and some of season 3. But no Helen and Chloe managed to take down Lionel. Ok got it? NO? Well umm...just go with the flow? Please?
Author note: Occasionally the viewpoint changes, so if you get confused sorry. Wrote it and edited it and hope you read it and please review it.
Chapter 1: Are we there yet?
The 'You are now leaving Ohio' sign signaled the half way point of this semi-cross country move that the Sullivan family was on.
"Don't even think about it Chloe," said Gabe Sullivan.
"Now what is that?" Chloe asked.
"What you have asked me for the past two days, every few minutes."
"Now what question would that be?
"Are we there yet?" mimicked Gabe in his best Chloe imitation.
"I don't sound like that, besides the question is, why after years of living in Smallville, you suddenly decide to pack up and leave?"
"Chloe, you were getting hurt it seemed every week."
She merely shot him a look that said 'cut the crap and give me the truth'.
"Plus I didn't think our insurance carrier could take it anymore," Gabe tried to joke.
With a sigh Chloe looked out the window, this last year she was only in the hospital once and it was because appendicitis which is hardly her fault. If anything they should have moved her sophomore year. Whatever the real reason; her father was not talking. She had already tried the whole 'Daddy I'm still your little angel' look and she even added the deer in head lights look Clark made into an art form and the quivering lip that Lana used.
Still to her frustration her father was holding out on her. Even after two days of this cross country trip hell. It was driving her nuts. She should have worn him down by now. After all she was, Chloe Sullivan, the girl who unraveled what Clark Kent was, winner of best newspaper and editor in Kansas, brought down Lionel Luthor and somehow managed to finally get Clark and Lana the words most overdramatic couple together. Her father though was better than she thought at keeping something secret, oh well, there were still two more hours until a new house, new place, and she the new girl her senior year.
She sighed again and looked out the window; the Appalachian Mountains were fast approaching, beautiful but not comforting. Chloe couldn't believe that she actually missed the flat planes of Kansas. She always thought of herself as a city girl being raised in Metropolis, but maybe like a fungus, Smallville had grown on her.
"Wait what about Lana? She was more likely to have the medical stay than I was."
"Lana although I do worry about her, is not my daughter. Besides the Kent family seemed to love the idea of her staying with them."
"I'm sure."
'Clark vouched for Lana, the Kent 'rents don't even know they are going out. Wonder how the Kent's would feel knowing that they will be spending an inordinate amount of time in the barn playing stable hand and rich equestrian girl or something. Sounds like a bad porno, the catchphrase would be, 'She just doesn't like riding her horses'. Oh dear god did I just think that? Ewwww...I really need to get out of this car,' thought Chloe.
Chloe's face scrunched up in obvious pain. Gabe looked over to see his daughter looking obviously pained by something.
"Are you feeling fine?"
Still reeling from a mental image that would traumatize the Kent's cows, Chloe barely realized that her father had just asked her a question.
"Ye...no it's just that's it's my senior year and now we have to move? I mean come on dad."
"Sweetie I just don't know what else to say."
Chloe sighed for what seemed to be the fifty millionths time today and looked out the window getting a look on her face that worried him. Gabe shoulders slumped in defeat. Don't feel guilty, don't feel guilty, don't feel guilty was the mantra he tried to stick to but the look on his daughter's face made him break the silence.
"Alright fine anything else? We do have two hours, question, complaint, or how I worry too much about your well being."
"Question."
"And?"
"Are we there yet daddy?"
Gabe merely groaned, stupid guilt trips. She was not going to let the last two hours of this trip be easy for him. He was never doing a 20 hour car trip ever again.
End note: Hopefully you liked it, would appreciate reviews, critiques, flames or non-sequiturs are all welcomed. You could just put down "Read", "Continue", "Thumbs up" or "Thumbs Down" for a review and I would love to know that someone is actually looking at it. Also don't worry there is a story here. I swear it will reveal itself to you. Thanks!
- peepsRfun2eat