Claire Martha Kent Part I

By Arica, Princess of Rivendell

Summary: AU. What if Clark had never been born? What if the Els had given birth to a daughter instead? This is the life and times of Kaila El or Claire Martha Kent. NOT SLASH! NEVER INTENDED TO BE TAKEN AS SLASH!

Disclaimer: I own NEITHER "Smallville," NOR "Lois and Clark the New Adventures of Superman." I do NOT own any of the D.C. Comic Books or their characters. All of the characters mentioned belong to each of their own creators.

Warnings: Later on, there will be some torture, domestic abuse, some child abuse, and infidelity.

A/N: Thank you Serena85 for being the first one to review since my return to ff . net. Thank you AnmialsRainbows and ShapeofRainbows for coming back to read this after all these years. I also thank Guest #1, Guest #2, and Belluda57 for their kind reviews. Thank you Angelvan105 for taking the time to PM your review and to ask questions. Thank you .Winchester.17 for letting me know how much you like the story and are interested in it. Thank you also to all those who've added this story to either your Favorites List, or your Following List.

To the Guest whom asked about Male!Lois and Fem!Clark, I have to say that won't be in this story as Claire isn't a female version of Clark; but instead, Clark's twin sister; and Lois is definitely female.

To anyone wondering if this is going to be slash or femslash, no it will not have either of those pairings.

For those wondering how often I update, I generally update once a week. If something comes up and I'm aware of an issue ahead of time, I try to update the day before my next update is expected. If something unexpected comes up, I try to update no later than two days late; however, life does sometimes get in the way of this; and it ends up being three or more days late. In which case there will be two updates that week instead of just one.

I want to let everyone know that my cited works are listed on my Author's Page. The corresponding numbers should all line up; if someone at some point notices something is missing, or doesn't quite align, please let me know.

Also if anyone likes the "Hunger Games," there's a one-shot of Peeta's point of view from a small scene that took place in "The Mocking Jay" I posted a while back; and if anyone's interested in "Sherlock," I'm going to have a small one-shot from Mycroft's point of view up tonight as well.

Thank you all again for your patience and support.

Pairings:

Hints/mentions of past Claire/Lex

Will at some point have Claire/Oliver

Will have Kara/Jimmy

Will have Bruce/Chloe

Will have Dinah Lance/AC

Will have Victor Stone/Diana Prince

Bart Allen/Linda Park (Thank you, Kairan1979.)

Also Lana/Lex will be present at different intervals

After many years of working on this story, this will most likely not have Lex/Lois (but my characters may yet pull a rabbit out of their hats).

Casting:

Claire Kent—Michelle Trachtenberg

Oliver Queen—Justin Hartley

Lex Luthor— Michael Rosenbaum

Lana Lang—Kristin Kreuk

Chloe Sullivan—Alison Mack

Bruce Wayne—Christian Bale

Kara Kent—Laura Vandervoot

Jimmy Olson—Aaron Ashmore

Dinah Lance—Alaina Kalanj

Arthur Curry—Alan Ritchson

Victor Stone—Lee Thompson Young

Diana Prince—Tia Mowry

Lois Lane—Erica Durance (But a mixture of Smallville Lois and the Lois from L&C: NAS personalities).

Bart Allen—Kyle Gallner

Linda Park—Linda Park (was in Jurassic Park III)

Cat Grant—Tracy Scoggins

Perry White—Lane Smith

Chapter Eleven

Reporters

Later that night at the party, Bruce Wayne and Chloe Sullivan were dancing the night away. And because Oliver had read the paper earlier that morning, he was refusing to leave Claire's side for even a millisecond; he refused to allow Luthor a chance of getting Claire on her own again. Kara was there as a guest to her surrogate uncle, J'onn Jones who was there as one of the cops on duty in case the party got out of hand. And there were reporters from the Daily Planet there as well; two of which were named, Jimmy Olson and Lois Lane.

Chloe Sullivan was shocked when Lois Lane approached her but quickly got over it by giving the older woman a hug; "Lois, hi, what are you doing here?"

Lois replied, "Oh you know this and that. What are you doing here, Chlo?"

"I'm here with my boyfriend, Bruce."

"Bruce? As in Bruce Wayne, head of Wayne Industries?"

"That'd be the one."

Lois was shocked and was about to ask more when suddenly Chloe's eyes landed on something happening on the other side of the room; "Look, Lois, I would really like to stay and catch up but there's something that I have to deal with. Excuse me." Chloe quickly made her escape and immediately disappeared into the crowd.

Lois was confused at Chloe's abrupt manner when suddenly Bruce Wayne appeared, "How do you know Chloe?"

"Shouldn't I be asking you that, Mr. Wayne?"

Bruce raised an eyebrow and then said, "I believe Chloe said I was her boyfriend."

"Yes she did; but that doesn't explain how you know my cousin."

Bruce asked, "Do you normally ask your family members about their boyfriends, like that?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Wayne; but, I don't think I quite understand you."

"Oh I think you do, Miss Lane. You were looking into a story. You weren't just asking about your cousin's life."

"You're smarter than most people give you credit for, Mr. Wayne."

"So, I've been told."

Bruce then turned his attention to where Chloe had disappeared to only moments before. He too could see what was brewing and it was not good. Oliver and Luthor were in another standoff; and this time Claire was directly between them. It was obvious that neither man wanted to back down; and, it looked like they were going to come to blows.

Bruce shook his head; Lois turned to see what Mr. Wayne was looking at and found the scene. Lex Luthor was gripping a brunette woman's arm so hard that Lois was surprised the woman wasn't flinching. Lana Lang was standing behind Lex trying to get him to let go of the woman. Chloe was trying to soothe everything over and the woman was talking directly to Oliver Queen.

Lois started to move closer to try to get a better look and in hearing distance; but Bruce stopped her by saying, "How about an interview, Miss Lane?"

Lois turned in surprise, "Sure, Mr. Wayne; just call my boss and set something up."

"Actually I was thinking along the lines of right now, Miss Lane."

Lois was surprised, "Right now?"

"We can even hold it right here if you would like?"

Lois was surprised and annoyed. Her boss would kill her if she didn't get the interview with Bruce Wayne; because he was one of the hardest billionaires to get a hold of and here he was offering himself on a silver platter; but, her boss would also kill her if she didn't cover the fight between Oliver and Lex. That is when she saw one of her fellow Daily Planet reporters standing closer to the action and taking notes.

Lois turned back towards Bruce and said, "Sure, let's do an interview."

Bruce smiled the smile he saved for reporters and then he moved them to a table with chairs that was still in range of seeing the action. Bruce said, "I wish Oliver wouldn't let Lex Luthor goad him so."

"Excuse me?"

Bruce said, "For the record Miss Lane, Mr. Luthor likes baiting my business partner. Those two are always at each other's throats; but lately Lex has gotten worse at trying to get at Mr. Queen."

"Why?"

"Do you see the woman Lex has such a hard grip on?"

"Yes."

"That's Miss Kent."

"Wait. Is that, Senator Kent's daughter?"

"Right in one, Miss Lane," Bruce said, "That woman is Claire Kent and Lex Luthor's ex-girlfriend."

Lois's eyes widened in shock, "And what is her relationship with Mr. Queen?"

Bruce smirked and said, "I would like to go off the record for that one."

Lois's eyes widened and turned off the tape recorder as well as put her pencil and notebook down and looked expectantly at Bruce Wayne.

The man said, "Off the record, those two would make a cute couple. There's a pool in her home town that has placed odds on how soon those two are going to start dating, if and after that there's another pool waiting to be set up that will speculate how soon there will be an engagement ring on her finger, and should that happen when the wedding will be."

"You're kidding!"

"I rarely 'kid,' especially not right now."

Her eyes widened and she groaned and then he continued, "For the record," and then he paused so that she could get ready to take notes and as soon as the tape recorder was back on he said, "For the record, Oliver Queen and Miss Kent are just friends."

There was something that was bugging Lois however as she saw the way Lex was looking at "Miss Kent' it didn't look like the guy was over her; "Who broke it off?"

Bruce turned towards her and said, "Luthor broke it off with Miss Kent; she loved him too much to break it off completely, no matter how unfair the situation was towards herself."

"What do you mean?"

"Claire, that's her name, Claire. She," Bruce paused and took a breath, "You have to understand, Miss Lane that this is a difficult topic for me. That girl is like a little sister to me, and you can quote me on that. When I first met Claire Kent, it wasn't at her house; and she didn't look nearly as healthy as she does now. When I first met her, it was only a few months after the break-up and she was barely eating. She was not anorexic, and she was not depressed; she had a broken heart. I found out about the break-up through Chloe and then one day when I was finally allowed at the house, I decided to go for a walk outside and I ended up in the barn."

Bruce Wayne walked into the barn and he noticed stairs that led up to another level; he took those stairs and he found Miss Kent standing in front of a huge window looking up at the sky.

"You look like you could use a friend."

"Mr. Wayne, forgive me I didn't hear you come in."

"It's quite understandable you were deep in thought."

"What are you doing here," Claire asked.

"I went for a walk, I saw the barn and I wanted to get a closer look. I'm sorry for intruding I just wanted to see what was up here."

"You're not intruding. I just, it's been a while since anyone decided to see me up here."

"Oh?"

"You don't want to hear about it; besides it's a long story."

"I have time and like I said, you look like you could use a friend."

"Look, Mr. Wayne—"

"I understand that you don't want to talk about it; but sometimes it helps when you do."

Claire hesitated for a second and said, "You just sounded like my dad," she shook her head and said, "I was going to tell you that I didn't want to be rude; but, I came up here for solitude."

"I can go if you like."

"No that's okay," said Claire, "You can stay."

Bruce sat down on the couch and was silent; Claire stood in front of the window still looking at the sky finally she spoke, "I'm sorry about earlier and I'm sorry that I've been so rude. I haven't been myself lately."

"Miss Sullivan said that you had just broken up with your boyfriend."

"Yeah, for good this time," Claire let out a bitter laugh, "Everyone used to joke and call us Romeo and Juliet. We practically were; our parents hated each other, but they still let us date. I miss him."

"So, why'd you break-up?"

"For the record he broke up with me."

"Why?"

"I didn't give into his ultimatum," She became angry, "It was so STUPID! I should have seen it coming," she snorted and then said, "He didn't trust me. He was looking into me; and he told me that he stopped when I found out about it and broke it off for the first time. We got back together and things got better or I thought they did."

"But?"

"But, a few weeks later, he was married to someone else while he was intoxicated and away on business, three weeks after that his marriage to her was over because she tried to kill him and he was asking me for forgiveness. I granted it and we were back together. One month later, another accidental marriage and I was fed up. Another wife tried to kill him; this time he killed her in self-defense and he and I were back together. You have to understand that there were some financial problems in my family time that I was dating Lex and we didn't want him to know. He already tried to buy me a car. So I was keeping that from him."

Claire knew that part to be true and then she continued, "One year later, I turned eighteen and was waiting for Lex to propose to me the way he promised to on my seventeenth birthday when he gave me a promise ring with a note that had the promise written on it. That night he gave me an ultimatum; tell him my family's secret or sleep with him. If I didn't do at least one of those things, he would dump me. I had yet to get permission from my parents to tell him our secret, I had told him I was saving myself for marriage and I wouldn't compromise myself; and I reminded him of all that. He said he'd been investigating me again and he was getting tired of not being trusted. He threw me out that night and we broke up. He then he asked one of my friends out, my friend stopped being my friend, and she said she'd go out with Lex. And that's the end of the story."

Lois couldn't believe what she heard, "So if Lex Luthor threw Claire out of his life, then why does he want her back so badly?"

"That's the mystery of it."

"You have a suspicion."

"I do."

"Off the record?" Lois asked.

"Off the record."

Lois once more turned her tape recorder off, set her notebook and pencil down, and looked expectantly at Mr. Wayne, "According to Claire's dad, Jonathon Kent, "Lex Luthor is nothing more than a little boy pretending to be a man," I would have to agree. Because when little boys become bored with their toys, they tend to throw them to the side until another little boy picks it up and claims it as a treasure. That is what happened with Claire, Mr. Luthor wanted see how far he could push her by toying with her emotions; before either of them knew it, she found herself in love, and he found himself bored. He tossed her to the side and then Oliver Queen showed up and saw what Lex Luthor hadn't; now Mr. Luthor wants her back." Bruce Wayne shrugged at the last word.

Lois then noticed something and then asked, "What is it about Miss Kent that drew three billionaires to her?"

"I don't think I get your drift," Bruce replied.

"Lex Luthor dated her and then dumped her; but still wants her back. Oliver Queen finds a good friend in her, and you see her as family. Why is that?"

"Well I explained why Lex Luthor wants her back; but as for why I think people of our status are so drawn to her, because she has a refreshing attitude. She met Lex Luthor by saving his life. He was driving and talking on his cell phone, Claire was standing on the bridge that overlooks the river, Lex's car almost hit her she got him out of the car, performed CPR, and saved his life. In order to thank her, he bought her a BMW, she returned it, said it was too much. Whenever Oliver offers to buy her, her favorite drink at a coffee shop, Claire fights him on it. Won't let him pay, they have an arrangement now that if he pays for something she gets to buy the next time around. I was visiting for her nineteenth birthday, and I ended up buying her something I thought was inexpensive, it was a locket with some diamonds and to me it was pocket change of about one hundred dollars; she said it was too much. I couldn't understand it, most women I've met expect me to buy them expensive jewelry, and she takes it as an insult."

Lois's eyes widened at that and couldn't believe it. A girl got a diamond locket and a billionaire, make that three billionaires trying to spoil her and she refused their gifts because it was too much and an insult to spend that much on her, she'd have been glad for that, the girl seemed to be too true to be real; "I don't understand that. She MUST have wanted something more expensive."

"Actually, she said she would have been happy with a ten dollar necklace from Kohl's."

Lois's eyes nearly popped out of her head, and she asked, "What?"

"That's what I thought too at the time. She was refusing a gift because in her eyes it was TOO expensive. I found out from Chloe Sullivan that after a disaster where one of Claire's best friends spent at least thirty dollars on Claire for Christmas, Claire put a twenty dollar limit on all of her friends' spending after they were able to convince there that they wouldn't have been able to get her anything nice for under nineteen dollars. She wanted them to spend only five and this was when Claire and her friends were fifteen."

Lois asked, "Let me get this straight, even her friends have a spending limit?"

"Yeah they do, and unfortunately, Oliver and I have been told by Claire that we too, have to follow the twenty dollar limit."

Lois couldn't believe it and started to laugh, and said, "You—wheeze—have—wheeze—got—wheeze—to—wheeze—be—wheeze—kidding—me—wheeze!"

"I told you, I rarely 'kid,' and I have not been 'kidding' nor will I be 'kidding' around tonight."

Lois couldn't believe it billionaires being forced to spend at most twenty dollars on a farm girl; man, she really had to meet this girl now. She shook her head and noticed that the action had just become a fistfight with Lex Luthor being the first one to throw a punch. Oliver caught it and quickly forced Lex into an arm-lock-hold and then let him go and walked away with Claire Kent on his arm.

Lois couldn't believe it and then she said, "I guess we're done here."

Bruce Wayne replied, "I guess so, goodnight, Miss Lane." With that, Bruce Wayne got and went to escort Chloe for a dance. Lois Lane couldn't believe what she had just found out. Jimmy Olson and Cat Grant came up to Lois and Cat Grant was smirking as she said, "I just got a huge scoop for my gossip column."

"Yeah well I did too."

Jimmy Olson said, "I got the punch that Mr. Luthor tried to land on Mr. Queen on camera. The chief's going to be pleased about this."

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