Title: The Invariable Reality
Author: GEFM 420
Genre: General
Disclaimer: I own nothing. All Characters are property of Miles/Gough and all those good guys at DC comics.
It's short, ENJOY!
When I was growing up, I knew I was special. I knew I could do things most people couldn't dream of. But I also knew how people treated the different. I was terrified of what would happen to me if I was ever found out. That sort of fear…I didn't want my abilities because of it. So I became an outsider, a spectator of my own life and I occupied myself with a normal life I desperately wanted.
I dreamed up a life I thought people could be proud of. I dreamed of a beautiful raven haired girl to call my own. For years I stood watching from afar, satisfied with the dream and perpetually disappointed with my reality. That is of course until I met Chloe Sullivan. She gave me the push I needed to live my life, to take control of my own destiny. She alone successfully pushed me to talk to Lana. After forging a friendship with Lana it was still hard to take the next step. Soon I came to realize that my only obstacle between what I wanted and what I had was me. I could control what happened with Lana.
Lana and I had a couple of tries in the coming years but it never came together. All the while I fought with what my life was to become. Was it all planned out already or did I have a say? Would I always be alone? Chloe was again vital to me in this time of my life. She was still telling me what she'd said all those years ago. There were greater thing for me, things I could not see yet but were surely on their way. My actions counted for something, it saved lives. I saved lives. And even though things couldn't work themselves out with Lana that didn't mean they never would. I deserved someone to love, and regardless she would always be there for me, to protect me as I did her.
It was by our seventh year together that I truly understood what was in store for me. The destiny that had crippled me for so many years and had hung me with fear was not as daunting as I had imagined. I easily could have walked away from my training and lived the rest of my life in peace, in refusal of my possible greatness, in an imagined regularity. All I ever wanted was to be normal, to be recognized as one of the whole and not as an anomaly. But as I looked down into her soul piercing eyes I knew what I had to do all along, not out of necessity but out of want. I took the leap down the free fall of destiny and was happy to do it. I was doing something I was proud of and something she was proud of too.
My dream invariably fell short of my reality. The adventurous noise far outweighed the quite ordinary. When I went to sleep at night I closed my eyes to a life I dearly loved and in my wistful dreams I no longer lived my heart. I awoke every morning deeply satisfied to the woman who'd help me see all that.
I awoke to the woman I now call my reality, my Chloe.