The room was crowded with friends from years gone by, yet it seemed like they were the only ones on the dance floor. She had loved him from the very first day she saw him, but she knew he could never be hers deep down inside. A tear slowly ran down her cheek as their bodies swayed in sync with one another. His words cut her like a knife but yet she couldn't just walk away from him. It was as if a magnet force was pulling her to him.

He held onto her tightly, her head against his chest, his shirt wet by her tears. He had fallen in love with her and yet he knew that he had to let her go. He couldn't risk her ever getting hurt again because of who he really was. He knew that he needed to let her go and just walk away but he couldn't get his arms to move.

"I always seem to let you down, don't I!" He whispered softly into her ear.

She licked the salted tear that made it's way onto her lip as she pulled back and looked into his eyes. "You've never let me down."

"You'll never know how much I want this, how much I want to be with you." He looked into her eyes, all glistening from the tears.

Her voice cracked. "Then why can't we be?" She asked confused to why it was so hard for the two of them to love each other the way they both knew they wanted too.

His masculine hand traced her cheek gently. "Because danger always follows me and I can't risk that."

"So you'll let me go. You'll pretend that what we feel never existed."

"I'll do anything to make sure that your safe." He said softly.

She stepped back from him, but space between them. "That's not your choice, Clark." She said angrily. "I can't keep sitting in the corner watching you walk by and pretend that it doesn't destroy me knowing I can't be with you. Everything I have ever done was for you."

"And everyone I have ever loved was hurt, or taken from me and I want risk that with you." He reached out taking her hand and pulling her close to him again. "You mean more to me than anyone ever has and I want lose you because of that."

"I need you, Clark. I don't need you as my friend, I have plenty of those. I need you as my lover, as my soul mate."

Clark wrapped her tiny frame with his big strong arms. His heart sinking with every word she said. "I can't keep hurting you anymore, Chloe."

She closed her eyes down tight trying to fight back her tears. Her heart knowing what he was about to say.

"If being here with you is killing you, then I want stay."

She let out a moan as she felt her knees grow week. If it wasn't for him standing there as her prop she knew that she would hit the floor.

"Clark, it's time." Oliver said as he made his way through the crowd to Clark and Chloe.

Clark pulled back to look into her eyes. He lifted her chin and leaned down to kiss her softly. Their mouths opening and closing with one another. His love for her would never die. But her life was not something he would risk for happiness. "I love you Chloe Anne Sullivan, always." He turned and hurried out the door before his legs wouldn't take him away.

"Take care of him." Chloe said softly through her tears to Oliver.

He nodded and followed after Clark, leaving Chloe standing in the middle of the dance floor. It was their high school reunion and yet there she stood in that same gymnasium in a beautiful pink dress, and no one on her arm. She tried to run after him but she knew it was no use. She knew she would never catch up to him. That she'd spend her life pining for the one who got away. Apart of her hated Oliver and the Justice League for giving him an escape route. But the other half knew that her heart was a small sacrifice for the people of the world.