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A/N: Hey, all so writing this has been very interesting. So anyway, I really do love Chlo-Lo and hope to write more of that. I just found out that there was a deleted scene from Hex and that she gave Chloe an application to the DP. The reviewer said there would be a lot of people that wouldn't like that. But I love it. It shows that Lois isn't being completely selfish and she does want Chloe by her side. We never saw Lois encourage Chloe after she lost her job; all she was focused on was with her own career and Clark's career. I think that would have been a great moment. Anyway sorry for that long rant. I really do love Chlo-Lo and I miss them. So I hope you guys like the rest of my fic.
Lois paced her vacant room folding her arms and tapping her finger on her arms, not knowing what to do. Her cousin was trying to take over her life. What was she supposed to do with that? She couldn't just fly up there and talk her out of it Chloe would make sure she couldn't get a flight out. Lois supposed she could just rent a car but Chloe could stop her from doing that if she really wanted to. She always knew that people better be careful not to mess with her cuz she would be a formidable enemy to have. She couldn't believe that her cousin was seeing her as the enemy now. What had she done? So she changed careers and followed the journalism bug. But Chloe had always suggested that she do it. And it wasn't like she stole her job from her she got in the Daily Planet. It wasn't her fault Chloe got fired. She remembered defending her to Grant and she remembered him telling her that she lost her spark. She assumed that she did and after she got fired Chloe never really mentioned it again.
Lois should have known her cousin better then that. She was there when they were kids and Chloe would be always chasing after stories and ranting how she would be at the top floor of the Daily Planet some day. She should have known that there had to be a very good reason that she didn't fight for it or even go to a different news paper. Lois knew now what the reason was. Or at least she knew more reasons why exposing the truth would get more difficult for her. Especially when she had so many secrets that she hid now. Lois had fought for her cousin searching for her and had found the 33.1 facility. And she had the flash drive of all of the files of all of the meteor infected who were captured there, including Chloe. Lois was shocked when she first saw this. This answered so many questions. This was why she seemed to dismiss the weird and strange stories as just a coincidence and just brushed them off. This was why it seemed like she lost her spark. How could she expose other meteor infected and strange things when she had secrets of her own? Lois knew it must have been so hard to carry that secret.
Lois wished her cousin told her. She tried to be supportive but it was difficult with Chloe so closed off these days and putting on happy face and fake smile saying that everything was fine. Lois understood her sudden career change from exposing the meteor infected to helping them. She was now one of them if anyone could understand them it was Chloe. Lois should have known that isn't what she really wanted and if she got a chance to be normal and just live her dream of working at the Daily Planet Chloe would take it. Lois knew this just wasn't about the Daily Planet it was about Clark. Chloe never really got over him. Lois had an aching suspicion this were true. But of course Chloe would never own up to it. She would hold it in. She remembered those days when she didn't. She remembered when Chloe would just cry on her shoulder wishing she some how was what Clark wanted. But what she admired about Chloe is that she would never change for him or try to be someone she wasn't. As she thought about it she wondered if that was exactly what she was doing.
Lois was there through all of Chloe's struggles to get her dreams she was there for all her heart ache accepting that some dreams just wouldn't come true. But some where a long the way she forgot her cousin as she was more concerned about her career and about getting the next story. She let herself believe Chloe's denial of moving on from Clark and loving Jimmy. Since she was falling for Clark herself. It was easier that way. But Chloe was her baby cousin and she loved her. And if this is what her dreams still were then she would let Chloe take it. She has been through so much heart ache she understood her cousin just cracked. But if she wanted her life she would let her take it. Her cousin deserved it.
Chloe tried chasing a story and forget about Lois and forget that Clark was suspicious. Clark would probably take this away from her. She just wanted to feel that a live feeling she did when ever chasing after a juicy story but it felt empty. She couldn't help but hear her cousin's heart broken voice. She had hurt her insurmountably. There was no way to measure just how deeply she hurt her cousin. She knew she shouldn't take out her disappointments in life on her cousin. It wasn't Lois fault her life didn't turn out like she wanted. And as she though about it her cousin was there for her. She might not be perfectly there for her but who is? The only one who was always there for her and who she could talk to and forget about the world with was Davis. But that was besides the point. Lois didn't deserve this. This whole day was shrouded in disappointment. What ever made her think that pretending to be Lois would make things better. It only made it worse. She had a horrible weak moment and she let her cousin get hurt. She just couldn't do this. So Chloe had to track Zantana down and reverse this and give her cousin her life back she didn't deserve this.
Davis felt a bit strange watching this strange enchantress woman eying him up and down and then she licked her lips and then asked, "So you want me to grant your wish? What makes you think I can?"
"Well, you're the Great Zantana Sorceress? Aren't you?"
"I perform magic tricks at parties." She said with a smirking smile and sparkle of curiosity in her eye.
"Cut the crap Zantana. I know what you can do. You're more then cheap parlor tricks. You granted my friend's wish last night. "
"Of course, well your welcome. I thought she just needed a little push to give in to what it is so blatantly obvious what she wanted."
"Her wish had nothing to do with me."
"Oh, could have fooled me. So what was her wish?"
Davis shook his head; he didn't want to think about the thought that Zantan was so wrong Chloe didn't want him. The life she wanted was Lois' life with Clark. He didn't want to think about it.
"It doesn't matter. What matters is I know what you can do. And I want you to grant my wish now."
"What will you do for me?" Zantana sauntered seductively towards him. He noticed the way she walked towards him having "I want you" written all over her. Davis really wasn't interested in playing games with this woman and went straight to the point.
"You didn't ask anything from Chloe?"
"I felt bad for her. She looked like she could use a wish granted and a bit of a push to let go."
"So you just were doing her a favor."
"Well, I was getting paid so…"
"Oh, right, Oliver. So what do you want from me?" Davis asked.
She looked him up and down and licked her lips and then she said, "I want…
Obviously you believe in magic, so I would like for you to help me perform a particular spell."
"What do you need me for? I don't know anything about magic."
She moved closer to him and closed her eyes and then she touched his arms and said, "I feel it inside you. There is something dark inside of you. You want it out."
"Yeah."
"Well, I can do that."
"What do I have to do?"
Zantana walked away looking up around the small magic shop she was in and she turned to him, "I lost someone. My father. I just want him back. I can't do this with out him. I'm lost, confused. I can't handle this power with out him."
Davis pierced his lips and gave Zantana sympathetic look. He has seen a lot of death in his life. He had seen a lot of tragedy. He never was close enough to lose someone though he only could imagine what pain she went through. He tried not to think about the grief of others the grief that he had caused not by choice. He needed to get rid of this so he would never cause another person to lose their loved one again.
"I'm sorry." Was all he could manage to say.
"No need, for there is a way to bring him back."
"You can bring back the dead?" Davis asked unbelieving with a bit of hope engraved in his voice. If he had the chance to bring back all of those who he killed while he was blacked out he would. He would even bring back those criminals if he could and be certain that this Beast wouldn't kill countless of innocents.
"There is a way. I just need a sacrifice." She said looking at him with pleading eyes.
"A sacrifice? What kind of sacrifice?" Davis asked wearily he didn't like the sound of this.
"A human sacrifice. Blood for blood. A life for a life. I have a feeling you know a little about that." Zantana said looking deeply with in his eyes. It made him shudder. He knew she saw the darkness she saw what he did. How did she know?
"I don't know what you're talking about." Davis said. He should have known better then to hope. His life had always been miserable every time there was a chance for hope he was disappointed he should have know this would be no different.
She went in front of him and said, "Davis I know your different. My magics can sense it in you. I know you don't want this. You want it out. You've made sacrifices to tame it. I'm just asking for one more sacrifice to make sure it never exists again. What's one more sacrifice?"
He looked at her. Was she wrong? What was she doing that was so different from what he was doing? He had sacrificed one criminal person to save the many countless innocents. What harm would be one more? Then it would be gone forever and no one else would have to suffer ever again. And he would finally be free.
"What exactly do you want me to do?" Davis asked searchingly.
"Bring me a sacrifice. And meet me tonight right after sun down on the roof of the Daily Planet."
"I'll see you there."
"Davis the human sacrifice has to be innocent." Zantana said.
"What?" Davis asked.
"Davis, don't get weak on me now. What's one life?"
"Weak? I'm weak? You're willing to kill an innocent because your too weak to face life without your daddy."
"No. Davis this isn't just about me. My father has strong magics. There are dark forces out there that my father is the only one who can stop. He's the only one that can really save you. Your right I am weak. But this isn't just about me. He is the only whose magic is strong enough to save you."
Davis stared at her darkly and asked, "How do you know so much?"
"I told you I can sense it." Zantana defend herself sheepishly he could hear the fear in her voice.
"BS. You know I can sense things too like BS and you are full of it. How do you know so much about me?"
"My people they saw you coming."
"Your people?"
"The Kawatche people. There are some of us who are blessed with magics. We've had it for a long time even before the first men fell from the sky. They had the gift of sight they saw you and your great enemy coming."
Davis did not want to hear things like prophecy and aliens coming from the sky. He knew why he was sent here. He was sent here to kill the other Kryptonian. He tried so hard to fight against what ever his evil psychotic parents had planned for him.
"You know what I've had enough of fairy tales."
"There are still oracles among us who saw you coming more recently. Who had more then obscured visions of a monster and the hero fighting. They saw you the man. They were surprised it was you. They saw a scared boy who turned into the monster when he was scared from being abandoned and left for dead. They saw a boy cry to God helping him finding someone to love him. They saw the paramedic help people even though no one would help him. They couldn't sit by and let this happen. So they sent my father to find a way to stop it through magic. My father said that he was given magic for a reason. It was to help people and to save the world. This was his chance to do it. He searched deep and far for the stones that would give him power. When he had almost found them he was brutally killed."
"Are you telling me your father died because of me?"
"It won't matter when you help me bring him back. We both need him Davis. We have to this for the good of man kind. My people saw what that thing will do if it's not stopped. The world could be destroyed."