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Blah Blah Blah, I dont own Smallville although I do wish that Michael Rosenbaum was mine *drool* okay, I love feedback, good and bad so let me know what you think. If I get 2 reveiws I'll upload the next 3 chapters.
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"There has been a delay on flight QLF146 New York to Metropolis, due to mechanical difficulties…"
Chloe groaned, and stopped listening; this was the 4th delay in the last 5 hours. At this rate she would never make it to Pete and Lana's wedding. She picked up her backpack and burrowed through the junk, trying to find her cell phone, at least she could let them know she would be late. *Typical* she thought angrily to herself, Lana Lang asks you to be her maid of honour and you plan the hens night and the big huge before wedding party and you don't even get to attend all the festivities.
"Gotcha" Chloe whispered to herself as she found the small hot pink cell phone, it was a present from her boyfriend Bruce. He was forever spoiling her with little gifts and things…probably making up for the lack of time they got together. Bruce Wayne wasn't exactly your low profile character. These days if he wasn't off saving the people, he was working or attending charity events. That's where Chloe came in, the trophy girlfriend. People always said how *Cute* they looked or how well they *suited* each other. They didn't even live in the same state…she had thought about ending it with Bruce a zillion or more times but the truth was she *liked* the fact that it was long distance. Eerily enough it gave her time to do her work and nobody to tell her who or who not to spend her time with
She let her fingers move along the number pad quickly dialling Lana's cell phone, she needed to hear the voice of the eternal optimist right now. She and Lana had been close ever since their sophomore year at Smallville High when Lana moved in with Chloe and her father. They had even been roommates in college! Once they had gotten the whole Clark love triangle out of the way the girls had realised how much they had in common...they had enjoyed solving mysteries together and Lana had definitely become part of the "Scooby Gang" Of course Lana and Clark got together, the perfect high school sweethearts that had overcome the angst and finally gotten their act together. Amazingly enough it lasted a year, before Clark's secrets drove them apart. Then again Lana was very tolerant…it was one of the things Chloe loved about her. Clark had kind of retreated, became more spacey, he spent a lot of time with Pete and Lex…and her. Chloe knew she had been the typical Ducky…the one that sits around and listens and offers the shoulder when in reality she had wanted him to be hers but he was her best friend…there was no other way it could play out.
They graduated, went their separate ways, Lana, Chloe and Clark heading to Metropolis and Pete going to LA As for Lex well he was gallivanting around the country for his presidential campaign…probably trying to forget all about Smallville and Clark Kent. Chloe had asked Clark once what had happened but he'd told her to mind her own business. It was a fair call…she just couldn't understand how best friends could somehow just…not be best friends anymore. Pete was fairly ecstatic about it, a year into College, him and Lana had taken their friendship to the next level much to the surprise of Chloe and Clark. Apparently their emails had been getting rather…ahem…heated and so Lana was gone. She transferred that fall and studied teaching while sharing an off campus apartment with Pete... they were sweet and he treated her like a princess. Must to Chloe's joy Pete finally had someone that loved him for who he was. She had moved off campus that year as well and into an apartment with her cousin Lois. Chloe and Clark seemed to see each other less and less over the years…and at the end of the journalism degree he got the job she wanted at the Planet. She couldn't help resenting him but after moving to New York she had quickly gotten over it. Even so, she hadn't seen Clark in years.
"Hey Lana" Chloe said into her phone as her best friend picked up "Oh I know…..you wont believe what's happened"
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She was chatting animatedly on her cell phone – pink – it suited her vibrant personality. He still couldn't believe he hadn't recognised her right away, but there she was Chloe Sullivan, torch reporter extraordinaire wearing a low cut red top and black knee length leather skirt and laughing to whoever was on the phone. Probably Bruce, he noted. Chloe and Bruce were a high profile couple, their pictures constantly splashed on the covers of the magazines. They'd been together nearly 2 years and he wondered if Bruce would ever ask her to marry him. For that matter he wondered if Chloe would want to marry Bruce.
He watched as she hung up the phone with a click. She was trying to get her coat into a comfy square shaped pillow by the looks of it. Considering it was leather he didn't like her chances. No matter where he was, he always took the time to read Chloe's column in the Times, it was one of the more popular ones he'd noticed. Her snark and sarcasm had certainly won her the hearts of avid New Yorkers…he was surprised that her face wasn't plastered on the side of a bus headed down 5th avenue.
How long…he hadn't seen Chloe in years, the last time he'd seen her she was sipping coffee in a suburban café in Manhattan 2 years ago. They had made polite conversation and she had asked how his campaign was going. He had asked about Lana and Pete being careful to leave Clark from the conversation. He'd asked about her dream to work at the Planet and she had reluctantly told him that Clark had gotten the position and not her. He'd simply nodded the cool façade on his face but inside raging. The Planet was what Chloe had wanted her entire life and Clark knew it and took it anyway.
He took a deep breath. Life hadn't been easy since he left Smallville, he had worked his ass off to get to the top and now that he was he didn't really have anything to show for it. President of the United States… Impressive by any standards, Lex Luthor had achieved his goal. He didn't have anyone he could call a real "friend" and he certainly didn't have anyone he could love.
Yet here he was, standing in a crowded airport waiting for a flight that would probably never come to a place he definitely never wanted to return to, watching a beautiful woman who he had once thought of as a girl. Clark must have been blind to be able to ignore her beauty…
He watched as she looked up, and spotted him. Her eyes widened for a second, and she raised her hand in a half wave, a smile spreading across her crimson lips.
He turned away from the coffee counter after asking for two tall vanilla lattés and headed to where she was sitting. They were both stuck here waiting; at least they could use each other for company.
Blah Blah Blah, I dont own Smallville although I do wish that Michael Rosenbaum was mine *drool* okay, I love feedback, good and bad so let me know what you think. If I get 2 reveiws I'll upload the next 3 chapters.
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"There has been a delay on flight QLF146 New York to Metropolis, due to mechanical difficulties…"
Chloe groaned, and stopped listening; this was the 4th delay in the last 5 hours. At this rate she would never make it to Pete and Lana's wedding. She picked up her backpack and burrowed through the junk, trying to find her cell phone, at least she could let them know she would be late. *Typical* she thought angrily to herself, Lana Lang asks you to be her maid of honour and you plan the hens night and the big huge before wedding party and you don't even get to attend all the festivities.
"Gotcha" Chloe whispered to herself as she found the small hot pink cell phone, it was a present from her boyfriend Bruce. He was forever spoiling her with little gifts and things…probably making up for the lack of time they got together. Bruce Wayne wasn't exactly your low profile character. These days if he wasn't off saving the people, he was working or attending charity events. That's where Chloe came in, the trophy girlfriend. People always said how *Cute* they looked or how well they *suited* each other. They didn't even live in the same state…she had thought about ending it with Bruce a zillion or more times but the truth was she *liked* the fact that it was long distance. Eerily enough it gave her time to do her work and nobody to tell her who or who not to spend her time with
She let her fingers move along the number pad quickly dialling Lana's cell phone, she needed to hear the voice of the eternal optimist right now. She and Lana had been close ever since their sophomore year at Smallville High when Lana moved in with Chloe and her father. They had even been roommates in college! Once they had gotten the whole Clark love triangle out of the way the girls had realised how much they had in common...they had enjoyed solving mysteries together and Lana had definitely become part of the "Scooby Gang" Of course Lana and Clark got together, the perfect high school sweethearts that had overcome the angst and finally gotten their act together. Amazingly enough it lasted a year, before Clark's secrets drove them apart. Then again Lana was very tolerant…it was one of the things Chloe loved about her. Clark had kind of retreated, became more spacey, he spent a lot of time with Pete and Lex…and her. Chloe knew she had been the typical Ducky…the one that sits around and listens and offers the shoulder when in reality she had wanted him to be hers but he was her best friend…there was no other way it could play out.
They graduated, went their separate ways, Lana, Chloe and Clark heading to Metropolis and Pete going to LA As for Lex well he was gallivanting around the country for his presidential campaign…probably trying to forget all about Smallville and Clark Kent. Chloe had asked Clark once what had happened but he'd told her to mind her own business. It was a fair call…she just couldn't understand how best friends could somehow just…not be best friends anymore. Pete was fairly ecstatic about it, a year into College, him and Lana had taken their friendship to the next level much to the surprise of Chloe and Clark. Apparently their emails had been getting rather…ahem…heated and so Lana was gone. She transferred that fall and studied teaching while sharing an off campus apartment with Pete... they were sweet and he treated her like a princess. Must to Chloe's joy Pete finally had someone that loved him for who he was. She had moved off campus that year as well and into an apartment with her cousin Lois. Chloe and Clark seemed to see each other less and less over the years…and at the end of the journalism degree he got the job she wanted at the Planet. She couldn't help resenting him but after moving to New York she had quickly gotten over it. Even so, she hadn't seen Clark in years.
"Hey Lana" Chloe said into her phone as her best friend picked up "Oh I know…..you wont believe what's happened"
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She was chatting animatedly on her cell phone – pink – it suited her vibrant personality. He still couldn't believe he hadn't recognised her right away, but there she was Chloe Sullivan, torch reporter extraordinaire wearing a low cut red top and black knee length leather skirt and laughing to whoever was on the phone. Probably Bruce, he noted. Chloe and Bruce were a high profile couple, their pictures constantly splashed on the covers of the magazines. They'd been together nearly 2 years and he wondered if Bruce would ever ask her to marry him. For that matter he wondered if Chloe would want to marry Bruce.
He watched as she hung up the phone with a click. She was trying to get her coat into a comfy square shaped pillow by the looks of it. Considering it was leather he didn't like her chances. No matter where he was, he always took the time to read Chloe's column in the Times, it was one of the more popular ones he'd noticed. Her snark and sarcasm had certainly won her the hearts of avid New Yorkers…he was surprised that her face wasn't plastered on the side of a bus headed down 5th avenue.
How long…he hadn't seen Chloe in years, the last time he'd seen her she was sipping coffee in a suburban café in Manhattan 2 years ago. They had made polite conversation and she had asked how his campaign was going. He had asked about Lana and Pete being careful to leave Clark from the conversation. He'd asked about her dream to work at the Planet and she had reluctantly told him that Clark had gotten the position and not her. He'd simply nodded the cool façade on his face but inside raging. The Planet was what Chloe had wanted her entire life and Clark knew it and took it anyway.
He took a deep breath. Life hadn't been easy since he left Smallville, he had worked his ass off to get to the top and now that he was he didn't really have anything to show for it. President of the United States… Impressive by any standards, Lex Luthor had achieved his goal. He didn't have anyone he could call a real "friend" and he certainly didn't have anyone he could love.
Yet here he was, standing in a crowded airport waiting for a flight that would probably never come to a place he definitely never wanted to return to, watching a beautiful woman who he had once thought of as a girl. Clark must have been blind to be able to ignore her beauty…
He watched as she looked up, and spotted him. Her eyes widened for a second, and she raised her hand in a half wave, a smile spreading across her crimson lips.
He turned away from the coffee counter after asking for two tall vanilla lattés and headed to where she was sitting. They were both stuck here waiting; at least they could use each other for company.
