Clark and Chloe stood looking at each other. He was dressed in all black, the symbol of the House of El on his shirt. There was nothing that suggested that these two were best of friends, who would go to hell and back to save each other.

And Chloe was crying.

"Please Clark, do this for me." she sobbed. "Take the ring; go back in time and save him. Please save Jimmy."

"I can't Chloe. Not this time." Clark said.

Chloe looked at him. All Clark did was run from his destiny, defying anyone - especially Jor-El's definition of the man he was to become. He felt himself responsible for Jimmy's death which sent him down a spiral of emotional detachment.

Clark thought he was rising above all. Little did he know he was sinking in quicksand.

"Well it's good that you're embracing your Kryptonian side." Chloe wiped her eyes. "Because the Clark Kent I knew doesn't exist anymore."

And Chloe may not be there to pull him out.

Chloe sat on the floor, looking outside the window of the apartment Jimmy had bought for them. The sun was setting in magnificent shades of peach and pink. She could imagine Jimmy next to her, a red cloth on the floor, dinner, candlelight, rose petals.

She closed her eyes and in her daydream with the romance set before her she looked up.

Davis sat there, smiling gently.

She opened her eyes.

Rose petals reminded her of Davis. But even that was a dream.

She didn't blame Davis for Jimmy's death at all. She knew she was using him. Gosh, she hated how that sounded. She wanted to save him, to give him a chance and she knew that he felt that she was falling in love with him.

But why go through all that trouble?

With Clark it was best buds forever. With Jimmy she thought she had found the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. It was simple.

Simple.

And that was the problem. When things had gotten complicated between them - one of the bolted for the door.

She picked up the Legion ring lying next to her and put it on.

Did she want simple?

She closed her eyes and saw in her daydream two men standing before her.

One who would promise to make life simple if she had no 'love' attachments to anyone else. In his hand she saw the love letter for Clark.

The other she saw that when she couldn't keep it all in, his arms would be open to hold her close.

She closed her eyes and heard him say "Without you, the man that I want to be doesn't exist."

A light from the ring glowed and Chloe disappeared in a flash of white.