Hi! This is my first fanfic ever, so if it sucks, sorry. Umm…This is a C/C
fic, but there's plenty of angst/drama before any romance. It's rated R
for later chapters, which'll probably include a bit o' smut. But for now,
it's really more PG-13. Reviews are always welcome, remember I'm new at
this! Creative criticism or whatever…
Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville or any of the characters in this story, except for Amy O'Connor. So please don't sue me, cause if you did, all you'd get is about 27 bucks, a tv, and a ferret named Lucy.
1 Prologue
Five years…Five years since she left this place left her friends and her loved ones behind her, all in a desperate attempt to escape. She wasn't even sure why she left really. Just an inexplicable need to get out, to run from something that was threatening to overpower her in its magnitude. After her father died her senior year of high school, she just couldn't stand to be here anymore. Not when they looked at her with a mixture of pity and disdain in their eyes. She tried to be strong, tried to hold her head up in spite of what they were saying. She knew the truth. No matter what they said about her, and about what happened, she knew the truth. And, at one time, she thought that someone else did too. That someone with his bright blue eyes and trusting smile. And then, when he began to doubt her as well…
But that was five years in the past. And now she was coming back, to fix things, to make things right as she should have done so many years before.
Chapter One
As she pulled off of the Interstate to exit 43, Chloe Sullivan looked over at the sign welcoming her home again and sighed. She hadn't been back to Smallville in the five years since her father had died, and a part of her wondered why she was even bothering to come back now, after all this time.
It's because I have to know the truth. Of what really happened the night that Dad died…And let's face it Sullivan, you want to see HIM again.
Aggravated with her self, Chloe let out a frustrated sigh and push her hand through her newly darkened hair. As much as she wanted to find the answers to the puzzle, she didn't want to clue anyone else into the fact that she had returned. So, a little makeover was in order. After dying her hair from its normal blond to a deep auburn, and changing her eye color from green to golden brown, she thought that no one would recognize her as the previous Chloe Sullivan, the over-caffeinated and pushy former editor of her high school newspaper.
"Ya know, if you keep that up Sully, you're gonna end up pulling your hair out. And no offense, but you'd look really shitty with a bald head."
Chloe removed her eyes from the road long enough to give her companion a baleful glare. Amy O'Connor was Chloe's roommate from New York University, and also her best friend. She was a New Yorker to the core, with a tough as nails attitude until you got to know her. She was with Chloe not only as moral support, but also as her partner in crime.
"You didn't have to come with me Ames. You could've taken the other assignment that Perry offered."
"I'm aware of that, but I figured that you needed me here. After all, who else are you gonna yell at when you get all frustrated? But besides that, I want to help. And Perry giving us this assignment on the Luthor Corp's Fraud scandal was the perfect cover to come back here and help you get the answers you need."
"We still have to write that article though. My troubles are only a side note." Chloe replied, glancing behind her to change lanes.
"If you say so Sully."
"And about that, you can't call me Sully while we're here. Someone will be bound to pick up on it sooner or later, and figure out who I really am, clever disguise and all. So you have to call me by my pen name."
"I know, I know. Where on earth did you come up with Lois Lane anyway?"
"Lane is my middle name, and Lois was my mother's first name. I figured they fit together nicely." Although Chloe wondered occasionally if her subconscious didn't play a part in her choice of a pen name.
**We can't all be raven haired with the initials L.L.**
"Right…Alright then, Lois Lane it is. Do I get to have an alias too?" Amy looked over at Chloe all wide eyed and excited, and Chloe couldn't help but give out a slight giggle.
"Why do you need one, no one knows you here!" Amy just pouted out her lower lip and Chloe sighed again. "Fine, you can have an alias if you really want one. God, you're making it seem like we're secret agents or something. I just want to find out the truth."
Amy looked at her friend who had gone quiet at the last part of her sentence. She leaned over and placed her hand on Chloe's arm, and said reassuringly, "We'll get the truth Chlo, I'm sure of it."
Chloe turned onto the main road leading into downtown Smallville and replied, "I hope you're right."
Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville or any of the characters in this story, except for Amy O'Connor. So please don't sue me, cause if you did, all you'd get is about 27 bucks, a tv, and a ferret named Lucy.
1 Prologue
Five years…Five years since she left this place left her friends and her loved ones behind her, all in a desperate attempt to escape. She wasn't even sure why she left really. Just an inexplicable need to get out, to run from something that was threatening to overpower her in its magnitude. After her father died her senior year of high school, she just couldn't stand to be here anymore. Not when they looked at her with a mixture of pity and disdain in their eyes. She tried to be strong, tried to hold her head up in spite of what they were saying. She knew the truth. No matter what they said about her, and about what happened, she knew the truth. And, at one time, she thought that someone else did too. That someone with his bright blue eyes and trusting smile. And then, when he began to doubt her as well…
But that was five years in the past. And now she was coming back, to fix things, to make things right as she should have done so many years before.
Chapter One
As she pulled off of the Interstate to exit 43, Chloe Sullivan looked over at the sign welcoming her home again and sighed. She hadn't been back to Smallville in the five years since her father had died, and a part of her wondered why she was even bothering to come back now, after all this time.
It's because I have to know the truth. Of what really happened the night that Dad died…And let's face it Sullivan, you want to see HIM again.
Aggravated with her self, Chloe let out a frustrated sigh and push her hand through her newly darkened hair. As much as she wanted to find the answers to the puzzle, she didn't want to clue anyone else into the fact that she had returned. So, a little makeover was in order. After dying her hair from its normal blond to a deep auburn, and changing her eye color from green to golden brown, she thought that no one would recognize her as the previous Chloe Sullivan, the over-caffeinated and pushy former editor of her high school newspaper.
"Ya know, if you keep that up Sully, you're gonna end up pulling your hair out. And no offense, but you'd look really shitty with a bald head."
Chloe removed her eyes from the road long enough to give her companion a baleful glare. Amy O'Connor was Chloe's roommate from New York University, and also her best friend. She was a New Yorker to the core, with a tough as nails attitude until you got to know her. She was with Chloe not only as moral support, but also as her partner in crime.
"You didn't have to come with me Ames. You could've taken the other assignment that Perry offered."
"I'm aware of that, but I figured that you needed me here. After all, who else are you gonna yell at when you get all frustrated? But besides that, I want to help. And Perry giving us this assignment on the Luthor Corp's Fraud scandal was the perfect cover to come back here and help you get the answers you need."
"We still have to write that article though. My troubles are only a side note." Chloe replied, glancing behind her to change lanes.
"If you say so Sully."
"And about that, you can't call me Sully while we're here. Someone will be bound to pick up on it sooner or later, and figure out who I really am, clever disguise and all. So you have to call me by my pen name."
"I know, I know. Where on earth did you come up with Lois Lane anyway?"
"Lane is my middle name, and Lois was my mother's first name. I figured they fit together nicely." Although Chloe wondered occasionally if her subconscious didn't play a part in her choice of a pen name.
**We can't all be raven haired with the initials L.L.**
"Right…Alright then, Lois Lane it is. Do I get to have an alias too?" Amy looked over at Chloe all wide eyed and excited, and Chloe couldn't help but give out a slight giggle.
"Why do you need one, no one knows you here!" Amy just pouted out her lower lip and Chloe sighed again. "Fine, you can have an alias if you really want one. God, you're making it seem like we're secret agents or something. I just want to find out the truth."
Amy looked at her friend who had gone quiet at the last part of her sentence. She leaned over and placed her hand on Chloe's arm, and said reassuringly, "We'll get the truth Chlo, I'm sure of it."
Chloe turned onto the main road leading into downtown Smallville and replied, "I hope you're right."