Title: Every Story Needs a Villian
Author: Femvamp
Spoilers: 8-9 Abyss
Pairing: Chloe/Davis kinda.
Disclaimer: Show not mine.
Note: Well I have officially lost my CHLARK decoder ring.
Every story needs a villain, at least the best ones do. There's a hero in shining armor, and a damsel in distress, and a villain. Yes, here and there a player changes, maybe the damsel isn't a dame or the hero in shining armor isn't so shining, or heroic, but the villain is always there.
Always.
We all though Lex Luthor was the villain of the story. He made a right and proper villain. He even had a good and tragic back-story. A man who never had love. A man who wanted power. Power and love, and a need for something he could never define. Yes, he made a right and proper villain.
The problem is he was never the real villain of the story. We should have known that. He was too easy a villain. To villainess to be the villain. Anyone who has ever read a comic book should know that the real villain of the story is the hero's best friend and Lex Luthor was never really that close to Clark Kent.
Clark Kent, the hero of the story.
We all thought it was Lex. We all needed it to be Lex and when Lex disappeared we all breathed a sigh of relief. The villain of the story was gone. That should have been our first clue.
The villain of the story is never really gone.
And Clark and Lex were never really that close. Clark never really trusted Lex all that much. He might have wanted to, but he never did. Something told him not to trust Lex Luthor.
Not like me. He trusts me with everything. His secret. His life. His destiny.
He trusted me with it all.
And I betrayed him.
I chose someone else over him. Clark was not perfect. He may not have been human but he made human mistakes. He suffered from human emotions. Human emotions like fear.
He wanted to protect me so he took my memories of him and his secret. The thing that tied me to him. He hoped I would have a normal life, but in trying to give me that he took away my reason to resist the darkness that was growing inside of me.
A darkness that I no longer understood. A darkness fueled by another alien. An alien named Brainac. It left me open to a darkness named Doomsday.
And yet Doomsday isn't the villain of the story. He is the weapon of destruction. He is the bullet in the gun but someone needs to pull the trigger.
That someone is me and I am almost ready.
It is almost time for me to fulfill my destiny as the one to destroy Clark Kent. I was once his protector, it is only fitting that I be the one to destroy him.
After all these years, I finally know who I am.
I am Chloe Sullivan, the villain of the story.
Because every story needs a villain.