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Chapter 4: Time After Time (Chloe).
Funerals are ten a penny in Smallville, but this one's different, no detached view of death here. You can't wipe it off as random and unique, this was natural causes. The coroner was probably glad of one that didn't involve spontaneous combustion, heat sucking, or some other bizarre occurrence. I don't know what to do or say in this situation, maybe there isn't anything I can do. Whitney's a good person; he doesn't deserve the things that have been happening to him recently. He certainly doesn't deserve Clark and Lana's 'Romeo and Juliet' impersonation; you'd think they'd knock it off here.
I think we should take time out and evaluate our lives, not all the time, but at times like these. For some reason this has really hit home now. If Clark is prepared to flirt over a grave at her, I really don't stand a chance do I? In fact, I've probably got a better chance with Lex, Whitney, or Ben Afflek. This is it I officially quit chasing Clark, he knows I'm here if he wants me, he can come and get me.
The rain comes down and I feel like I'm in the last act of some movie where every one has missed their chance and is stuck in the land of 'what might have been', well screw that. I'll make the best of whatever I'm given, even though something tells me it won't be Clark.
In the grand scheme of things all you have to do is find your place, once you know where you come, you can work on accepting it. Well, if life were 'Buffy: The Vampire Slayer' I'd be Xander. Working on the theory that Clark's the hero (Buffy) and Lana's the unattainable love interest (Angel), then I'm the wise cracking best friend always ready to help out, and desperate to be noticed. But I can live with that, I mean I get the best lines and eventually I bond with someone who actually wants me, while the hero has a string of relationships that never measure up to that first one.
Funerals, so my Dad tells me, are a time for reflection, symbolic of burying the past. They aren't about the person being buried; they're about the people doing the burying. They offer closure, and when you start with closure, you do a lot of it. I just wish I knew what Clark was hoping to close; the chapter of his life where he chases Lana or the chapter where she runs.