Title: Mirror Imperfect - Part 4: Home Again.

Author: Sgccyberwolf

Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville or Star Trek. Star Trek is owned Paramount Pictures and Smallville is owned by Warner Brothers.

Part 3

Torch's Office.

"Ow," Clark springs up holding his right side. He finds that instead of lying on the pavement at the rear of the Luthorcorp dying he is lying on the couch of the Torch's office in what appears to be his dimension.

Seeing that Clark has finally awake Chloe ran over to the couch to see if she could help him. "Clark, your awake."

Chloe puts her gentle hand on his shoulder and ushers him to lay back down. "What am I doing here… I was dying just a moment ago at the Luthorcorp plant in Metropolis."

"The Luthorcorp plant," she said with some puzzlement, "you don't remember this morning do you.

Clark nodded in the negative about knowing what she was talking about. Chloe pulled up a chair by the couch. "Before we got to school this morning the night crew waxed the floors… one of our neanderthal jocks thought it would be funny to remove the signs… you slipped and hit your head."

Clark tried to get up again and successfully sat up. "But why was I brought here." "The school nurse was out sick today and this was the only other place with a couch besides the Teacher's Lounge… I figured you didn't want to be in there," she told him.

Clark got up off the couch and tried to walk around a little. Chloe came right to his side in case he lost his balance. Clark turned to face Chloe. "How long was I out?" She looked up in his eyes. The Kent charm was already functioning at 100%. "You missed the entire school day, and I stayed with you… principals orders," she said acting like a giddy schoolgirl. This happened anytime that he turned on the Kent charm.

Chloe brought her chair a little closer to the couch, so that she could hold one of Clark's hands in both of hers. "So what do you think happened to you," she asked?

Clark laid the whole story out for her. Meeting the alternate Chloe. The fact that her doppelganger stunned her and took him to an alternate dimension where he met an evil Lana Lang who had unbelievable powers. Clark carefully left out the part about his abilities. He ended his tale with the fact that her double killed Lana and him with some kind of laser weapon.

"Until you told me about Lana Lang her superhuman abilities, you almost had me convinced farmboy," she told him. Chloe got up from the chair and head back for her desk to shut off her computer and get her messenger bag. "I think it time to go if we to get you home before dark"

Clark followed Chloe out of the office. Since it was already after school hours the buses had already made their runs and they would have to walk home which neither of them minded. After they were a few blocks from school Clark put his hand on her shoulder to stop her for a second. "There is one more part of the story that I did not tell you." "What is it," she asked?

Clark took a second to compose his thoughts to make sure this came out right. The first thing he mentioned was Lana's name. Chloe immediately rolled her eyes expecting that she would be brushed off again. She could only be his friend; nothing more, nothing less.

Clark asked her to be patient as this was hard for him. This time he got his thoughts across. He told Chloe how Lana was an illusion. Something that he thought he needed to be happy. He told her that when he had his dream about the other dimension and the fact that that Chloe and Clark were together before her Clark died. She asked him what that had to do with us. Clark paused for a second, then he said that he wanted to give us a chance.

Chloe was shocked. Did he just say what she thought? That he wanted her over Lana. "Did you say what I thought you just said," she asked him. Clark got closer to her and cupped his big hands in hers. "I can't promise you that it will last forever, but I want to give us a chance," he said back. With that he leaned down and she reached up and the lips met for a brief kiss. As soon as Chloe recovered, they started back down the path to Chloe's house hand in hand.

Within a few minutes, they were walking up the steps to her house. They shared another brief kiss before parting company. Chloe immediately ran inside to tell her father that Clark and her were now together. As soon as he was far enough from her house he put on the super speed and arrived at his farm a few minutes later.

As soon as he was through the front door he told his parents the whole story about hitting his head and dreaming of the alternate dimension where his mother was leader of the resistance movement. The only part that they took particular interest was when he told them that Chloe was now his girlfriend.

They were pleased that he and Chloe would be together because they liked her. They also reminded him that it was a school night and he should get to bed. With that Clark went up stairs to his room.

Clark went to his room to change out of his school clothes because he wanted to take a shower before bed. When he reached in his pocket to put his wallet away there was something else in his pocket. Clark pulled it out and it only took him a moment to realize what it was… It was the Identa-card from the alternate universe.

Clark put the card on the table and looked out his bedroom window. He started to think about the alternate Chloe and the events that he remembered from the other dimension. As quickly as he had the thoughts he dismissed them. He picked the card up in his and broke it in half between his fingers. A small electrical charge went off when the card was destroyed. He then threw it away.

All that mattered now was that he and Chloe were together. As soon as he was ready, he headed for the shower. Tomorrow was going to the first day of the rest of his life with Chloe.

The End.