Title: Penance (or Injustice: Redo!) 1/?
Author: Smileeface
Fandom: Smallville AU
Pairings: Chloe/Oliver,
Rating: PG(for now)
Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville/DC or the characters. I am just playing with them.
Summary: Penance: an act of self-abasement, mortification, or devotion performed to show sorrow or repentance for sin. I am really not like Chloe's story arc so I've decided to change it a little to suit my own needs. That's what fan fiction is right? LOL
A/N:
Chloe comes back after the whole running away with Davis. There is only one person who refuses to forgive her for her decision to leave with Davis. This is slightly AU. I know in the episode Injustice it was actually Tess's assistant who morphed into Chloe, but for this story we are going to pretend that it was the real Chloe. Also, Tess never gets her grubby hands on Clark's Phantom Crystal!(Grrr...to the writers for writing that in) So with the Black Kryptonite that Oliver steals from Tess, Clark managed to separate Davis from Doomsday and sends Doomsday into the Phantom Zone. This fic is Chloe's consequence for choosing to hide Davis and then runaway with him instead of going to Clark or Oliver and the team for help.
The dialog of the opening scene of this fic is a translation of the beginning of the Injustice episode. The story itself will begin to go AU once Chloe is rescued but you will see pieces of the episode weaved within the story…hopefully weaved well within the fic. :)
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Clark was waiting for Tess in her office at the Daily Planet to confront her about putting Davis's picture on the front page of the Daily Planet. He wanted to know how she could possibly live with herself when she was knowingly endangering innocent people all to sell newspapers. He just couldn't believe how irresponsible she was being. When Tess arrived back to her office she was on her cell phone, and from what Clark observed she was getting a bit angry with whoever it was on the phone. He chose to wait until the phone conversation was concluded before making his presence known.
Unbeknownst to Clark because he chose not to eavesdrop on her conversation, Tess was on the phone with a member of the meteor infected team that she had assembled. The team had found Chloe and Davis hiding out in a hole in the wall motel just on the outskirts of the Kansas state line. The young inexperienced team thinking that they were invincible wanted to charge like the Calvary into the motel and capture Chloe and Davis. They just didn't understand what Davis was capable of and most of all she wanted him alive. He would make an amazing asset to the team providing that he could gain control over the beast, however if she couldn't convince him to join her little band of mutants then she would have him destroyed. But these children just wouldn't take orders. She told them to find Davis and Chloe, report back on their whereabouts and then wait for orders. They were never to take their eyes off of the pair.
Now, she gets a phone call and Live Wire has the nerve to start arguing with her about her orders. Will they never learn? "I said NO. We can't risk the casualties. You need to wait for the rest of the team before you move in." She said sternly as she slammed her cell onto her desk she heard movement from the other side of the room. Realizing that she was not alone she turned quickly to see Clark standing behind her.
"Well, you seem to be taking my open door policy a bit liberally these days, don't you?" She quipped at Clark.
Clark smirked. "I guess when you ambushed me in my barn the other day and accused me of being an alien Jesus we had dropped any formalities." He volleyed sarcasm back at her.
Tess smiled and chuckled to herself. She hadn't expected the quick wit that Clark had possessed and though he knew that she knew his secret he stood before trying to convince her that she was letting her imagination run wild. He stood before her trying to convince her that he was just an ordinary man. "I can't say that the sarcasm adds to your coy charm, but please come in." She said as she turned around to look at something on her desk. Clark walked cautiously into the lion's den, warily eying the lioness before him.
"Chinese Kung pow for one?" She asked waving her hand at what appeared to be her dinner in a brown paper bag on her desk as she watched Clark stride across the floor with purpose.
"Thanks but no thanks; I don't have much of an appetite."
"Ok then, tell me, what's on your mind then, Clark?"
Handing her a copy of the Daily Planet Clark asks Tess, "Do you really thing that spreading panic is responsible journalism? Making Davis Bloom front page news every day is reckless."
"Reckless? Hmm, I think reckless is not doing everything in 'your' power to stop him." She looked him straight in the eyes. If he were going to lie to her again about his origins then he was going to have to look her in the eyes and do it.
Clark avoided the subject of his origins by bringing the conversation back to Davis. "Starting a massive man hunt isn't helping anyone." He stated defiantly.
"Clark," Tess began as she moved closer into his personal space, "If you don't want to admit your true identity, that's fine. But we both know that Davis Bloome isn't a man; he's a beast."
Clark took a deep breath as he realized that Tess knew a lot more than he thought she did in regards to Davis. He had to figure out exactly what she did know.
"If Davis is this beast, then encouraging the police to go after him is dangerous. People will die!"
"And when that happens, you'll know where to find him." She said it so simply as she walked closer to him, "so that you can slay the proverbial dragon." Like silk moving over skin she walked gracefully over to the window, purposely keeping her back to him so that he couldn't see the sadistic smile that crept onto her face. Clark was stunned. He couldn't believe that she was willing to use innocent people as bait for this beast just so that Clark could find him and destroy him. Clark turned abruptly and followed her over to the window.
"This is not some fairy tale. Obviously there is some dark part of you that needs to be saved but I am NOT your white knight. You're risking innocent lives including Chloe's."
She turned from the window, throwing the paper that she held in her hand onto the desk, "Ahhh…right, the accomplice of the serial killer." She accused.
"She's his hostage and she's in the most danger." Clark defended Chloe.
"If you're so worried about her getting hurt why are you fighting my help?" Tess countered. She smiled knowingly, "Maybe it's because you are afraid to fight him. Because the pure and virtuous Clark Kent can't face what he'll have to do. What you are destined to do when that moment comes." She stared at him intently trying to gage his reaction to her statement before turning once again to the window that looked out over the city. Metropolis at night from the ground was a scary place to be, but from above it was actually beautiful. "Clark," she said without turning to look at him knowing that he still stood rooted to the spot he was just standing in, "I'm just making sure that you embrace the inevitable."
At that exact moment his super hearing kicked in. He could hear Chloe. She was screaming for him.
"CLARK! PLEASE! HELP ME!!! CLARK!!! PLEASE GOD!!! CLLLAAARRRKKKK!!!" Her voice raised an octave with each time she screamed his name…panic seized his chest.
"Chloe." He whispered and then super speeded out of Tess's office to find Chloe. Tess caught his departure in the reflection of the window. One second he was there, the next he was gone. Her evil manipulative smile reemerged; she wasn't Lex's protégée for nothing. She knew how to manipulate people. Especially the self righteous ones.
TBC...
A/N: Constructive feedback is always appreciated! Thanks for reading! :)