Review Comments:
Jas-El - Unless we get some more votes, I think it will be the League. I have a little funny one for the League, so it should be fun. Either way, the League will be very soon, so look out for it.
katlynne - I wrote a 'Martha' chapter that featured some Jonathan just for you. We'll see if someone tips the vote.
TaraLittle - Thanks, I love me some good ole the Kent fun. haha.
LoisNClark4Ever - Haha, I hadn't thought about it like that, I guess I'll enjoy the wet Lois? haha. Shelby definitely becomes 'their' dog, she just isn't willing to admit it yet. A recurring theme with Lois. I hadn't thought about the General and Lucy, that could be a lot of fun. Let me see what I can come up with.
Hot-chocolate329 - You are reviewing now, that's what counts! haha.
jade2nightwing - Like Clark, I think Jonathan will always find a way to get out of it, haha.
Meg - As much as I agree that it's very Lois, Clark can have his moments too, haha, keep reading to see! haha.
sunset - A story is only as good as it's audience, so of course I love to respond! haha, you took the time to comment, I should take the time to give you a response, even if it's just a few sentences. Writing is certainly helping me cope with the break as well, I feel like something is missing in my week now. I love the looks as well, especially when it comes to Clois, they aren't the best talkers, so they usually say it all with their looks and actions.
It is fun, isn't it? I love the original stories and the original scenes, but there is something special about looking back knowing what we know now. All the looks, all the teases, all the little things seem to mean so much more now. Of course, part of that is us wanting to see it, but what's wrong with that? haha. I know how being busy goes, luckily I have this lull in my spare-time lately with Christmas Break and all, so I'm bulking up on chapters in the ole Document Manager so that I don't get behind, if anything, I'm struggling with not posting quicker! haha.
Author: CaptainTightPants12
Rating: K
Pairing: Clois, shades of Chlark, shades of Chimmy, shades of Chlollie, shades of Chloe/Bruce
Disclaimer: If I owned Smallville or it's characters, I'd be saving this for the spring and you would be watching it on TV.
Summary: A series of 'Kill me or Kiss Me?' moments.
Chapter: #4, Chloe Sullivan
Author's Note: I never know what to expect long-term for Chloe. Obviously, she's currently (kinda) with Oliver on the show, but he's with Dinah Lance (aka Black Canary) in the comics. She was with Jimmy, and is with Jimmy in the recent comic books. I've read a lot of Chloe in Gotham with Bruce Wayne fics, which is a very interesting idea I admit. But then you have to think about Bruce, whom is with like everybody (playa).
So in order to beef up this chapter, I added some Chloe future background stuff. And in the end, I'm hoping that you can believe she's with either Oliver or Bruce depending on what you want you personally prefer. Me? I personally like Bruce ending up with Diana Prince (aka Wonder Woman), which I kind of have in one of my other future chapters, so I think I would put Chloe with Oliver. Not a big Black Canary fan, but that's just me.
I'm featuring a look-back into Season 4's 'Façade', with the rest of the story taking place sometime in the future, probably after Season 10.
Gotham.
It wasn't a pretty city. Chloe recalled how Clark hated visiting Bruce here, he hates Gotham. 'A nightmare made out of metal and stone' as he had once described it. It didn't have the upbeat attitude that Metropolis had. I guess that's why Bruce had to do things the way he did them, then again, he also had to be that way because he couldn't just walk up an alley like Clark could. Even with kevlar you'd be pushing your luck.
But it was home. For now. The journalist itch came back, and when the Gotham Gazette called, she left Metropolis. Tess offered her a position at the Daily Planet and both Bruce and Ollie offered to pull strings anywhere she wanted, but the Gazette called her because they wanted her. She choose Gotham because they wanted her based on her writing merits and nothing else. That meant something to her. Oliver had helped her with the apartment.
He had told her, "I dont want you to end up in a bad part of town." She was fairly certain Bruce had helped him pick it.
She missed her family and friends. Little Jimmy, as she liked to call him, just started his 'real job' at the Daily Planet. He had been an intern for so long it seemed, and now he was a full-fledged photographer. He usually worked with Clark and Lois, she knew that they liked to hoard him because he reminded them of her late husband. That life seemed like such a long time ago. She missed them the most, they were her real family after all.
"It'll just be for a while, I have to find myself. I'm not Watchtower anymore, I have to figure out who Chloe Sullivan is again," she told Lois.
That was the other reason she couldn't go back to the Daily Planet. She loved her cousin more than anything, but she couldn't be in her shadow. Lois wasn't just the top reporter at the Daily Planet, she was one of the top reporters in the world. At the Planet, she'd always be Lois Lane's baby cousin.
She'd only admitted it to Oliver once, but she still held a bit of jealously over the way Lois' life turned out. She was the star reporter for the newspaper that Chloe went to bed at night dreaming about when she was in High School. She was here, she was there, she was Lois Lane. Everyone knew who she was and everyone loved her. Meanwhile Chloe went missing for months after Oliver was taken by Flagg, and it seemed like no one had even noticed.
And then there was Clark.
Under Lois' wing, he had gone from handsome farm boy to mild-mannered reporter. His name wasn't as well known, but he liked it that way. When he wasn't getting the story with Lois, he was her story as Superman. As much as she had put her feelings for Clark behind her and moved on, we never entirely move on and there was no doubt if anything, that was where Chloe had felt the most jealously towards her cousin.
Clark opened up to Lois completely. He gave her all his quotes, all his headlines. She named him for pete's sake. Lois replaced her as Clark's best friend and as the person he trusted most. He wasn't the same Clark anymore, not that it was a bad thing. He just wasn't her Clark anymore. He had grown up, matured, he was Superman now. He was Lois' Clark. Somehow, Chloe had known all along that it was going to end up this way.
It seemed like yesterday that she saw 'the Lois and Clark Sparkaplooza Fireworks Show' for the first time.
Clark, the rookie quarterback, was sitting over the dunk tank with a smirk on his face. Chloe had only seen him so confident and bold once before, and that was when he was on Red-K. Lois seemed to bring that side out of him, they were taunting each other back and forth as Lois tried to dunk him.
"Come on Lois, didn't those guys on the base teach you anything?" he asked.
Chloe looked to Lois with a frown. She couldn't believe that Clark would be so bold, but to her surprise, Lois just smirked back.
"Wouldn't you like to know?"
Eyebrows hidden in her bangs, Chloe watched on in surprise. Clark gestured to the target confidently.
"Doesn't matter, because you are going down" she quipped.
"That'll be the day," he teased.
The crowd chanted behind them as Lois reached back for another shot. To Clark's surprise, Lois wasn't bluffing. She nailed the target to send him into the tank, causing the crowd to erupt behind them. Lois threw her arms into the air, cheering and bowing before running over to Clark. As Lois shook his hair, Chloe couldn't help but take in the look on Clark's face. Either he was going to jump out of the tank and strangle her, or he might kiss her senseless.
Before he could react, Lois was running back and Clark was trying his best to splash her. Chloe looked on to see them catch each other's eyes, and for a quick moment, it seemed like the two were oblivious to everyone and everything surrounding them. In that moment, it was just them.
Looking between them and sensing the electricity these two shared, Chloe couldn't help but let her face fall. Chloe knew that Clark was over her. She believed that deep down, he was in love with Lana Lang. But those feelings don't just disappear. And in that moment, Chloe felt her heart break. She had thought for so long that Clark could only have eyes for Lana, but in that moment, his whole world appeared to be Lois Lane.
When the moment ended, Chloe put on her best brave face. She refused to be that girl.
It took years for all those looks, all that banter, all those feelings to turn into something real. Something Chloe had always wanted with Clark, something she had found in varying degrees with Oliver, Jimmy, and Bruce. They were all the loves of her life. A part of her knew she'd always think of Clark that way, but right now they were friends, and she was honestly ok with that. He was still her best friend, even if she wasn't his.
In some ways, she was happy about the way things turned out. If the Lana vs. Lois thing proved anything, it was that if you tried to push Clark, you seemed to find yourself on the express train out of his life. Especially once Lois came along. Even after they sorted things out, Lana and Clark rarely spoke. And after watching Clark try for years to fly, you had to believe him when he said Lois was the inspiration that gave him the ability to defy gravity and finally become Superman, the world's greatest hero.
The world needed Superman. And Chloe needed Superman, even if he wasn't her Superman.
Author's Note: Looks like Lois isn't the only one that might kiss or strange someone, maybe even both.
Soooooo, that was pretty angsty, huh? I prefer more of a happy vibe and most of the chapters will have that, but I don't know, I think Chloe has been pretty angsty for the most part these last few seasons. Maybe it's just me, but lately it seems like there is a part of her that really is jealous of the life that Lois and Clark have ended up with. Her few upswings have been becoming Watchtower and the time she's spent with Oliver I think.
I put the 'Oliver set me up here' line to counter-act the 'living in Gotham' part, hopefully that'll be enough to let you pick her partner. I also put the 'loves of her life' out of chronological order to avoid a 'you put Bruce last, so i figured Bruce was the present one'. I dunno, you decide.
I haven't decided who is next, we have one vote for 'the League', one vote for 'something including Jonathan Kent', and a vote for 'the General and Lucy'. How about I let you guys continue to vote? You can do that via review! Have fun!