Epilogue

Alex and Barbara Mack drove away from Smallville and towards California to visit Annie at school for her birthday. It was a surprise, but somehow, Alex knew that Annie knew all about it.

The town behind them was left in shambles, and somehow, Alex suspected that although it wasn't all entirely her fault, she still had an unknowing hand in it.

Clark had promised to e-mail her everyday. Her and Clark were pretty serious, but her parents still thought that they were more serious than they were. 'Parents these days' she thought with a smirk, as she changed the song on her MP3 player. Song lyrics filtered through her mind, bringing her into a different state than she was in when she came to the hardly humble hamlet of Smallville.

Before she met Clark Kent and his twisted little universe known as reality. Before she became an alien-farmboy's girlfriend. Before she had met Lex Luthor's girlfriend. Before she had realized that she wasn't alone. That she wasn't the only person in the world with superpowers. She could use them not selfishly now, that was too immature of her, she could use them to protect people, like Clark does every day of his life.

As much as she hated to admit it, she wanted to go back to Smallville soon, there was so much good that she could do there. So much bad that she could help fix, that didn't involve Paradise Valley Chemical Plant. So much good that she could do for Clark to make him see that his gifts weren't all that bad, that he could still have a blast with his gifts, even if he didn't tell anybody else about them. He had her now. That's all that mattered.

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He had her now. That's all that mattered. Lex held Chloe in his arms and inhaled the scent of her hair. She was beautiful. She was his. He had her all to himself now.

Upon Chloe's wishes he had quit testing GC 161 on the meteor rocks. She said something about not wanting her boyfriend to turn into a pile of goo. He didn't quite understand the analogy but that was fine, because she was sharp and witty and if she knew some sort of anything relevant to the project, which she didn't, she would tell him. Wouldn't she?

They were watching the premiere of some movie, he didn't care what movie, just that they could go together. Not in separate vehicles. Not having to wait for it to come out in video next year. Not having to worry about touching each other for too long. He could hold her forever, and nobody would give a damn.

Life was good.

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Clark walked into the expensive Metropolis office building. It took him a while to talk himself into this, but it was something that he had to do, something that he had to do for him and Alex. Something he had to do for himself.

He marched right up to the bastard in all of his magnificent glory and leaned against his desk.

"The next time you decide to go looking into my life, you had better hope that you have an excellent PR team. Because I will make your intrest in a Kansas farm-boy very, very public." Lionel Luthor turned his chair around and looked fearlessly into the eyes of the Kent.

"That sounds vaguely like a threat Mr. Kent."

"Really? I don't make threats, Mr. Luthor, I'm merely a Kansas farm-boy." Clark said walking out of the lions den.

"I'm sure that Miss Mack's friend Lars Fredericton would love to know where the person who ended his career."

"Is that a threat?"

"I don't make threats." He smirked at the lad. "Just merely a warning." Lionel turned his chair back towards the window. "Good day Clark."

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Ms. Chloe M. Sullivan

Box 158 Pleasant Meadows

Smallville, Kansas

U. S. A.

Ms. Sullivan,

We would like to inform you that you have been accepted into our Journalism Department for the summer semester. You will be contacted upon scheduling etc. before the next month.

Chloe looked at the letter in front of her. She had just came back from Lex's. The letter was waiting for her on the table, unopened. Waiting for her. It was from the Met. U. admissions offices. She hadn't told anybody that she had applied, except for Lex, with whom she would be staying with. It was Lex who had persuaded her to applying to the University. It was Lex who was her touchstone through it all. It was Lex who was her love, the man with whom she was willing to spend the rest of her life with, and probably would.

She smiled as she placed the letter on the kitchen table for her father to read, and headed out the door. She had to tell Lex about her letter. Lex would be proud.

It was the end of an Era. The end of many secrets. The end of what ever was going on in her life, and Lex's of course. But, she guessed, it was also the end of the fairy princess's reign. Finally, Lana Lang was dethroned. And Chloe Sullivan never felt better.

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Lionel Luthor was relaxing in his office chair when George Mack entered his office.

"Yes Mr. Mack?"

"What is this?"

"I'm more than certain that you know exactly what that is."

"I don't take bribes Mr. Luthor." George Mack was holding his ground, Lionel was impressed. No wonder his son had taken a shining to him. That and his work for one of Lionel's past conquests, Danielle.

"I know, it was merely a thank you to you and your family. And an offer, George, can I call you George?" Mr. Mack nodded. "Well George, you see, I am the reason you became working for my son to begin with. And since Danielle has no more need for you after the failed results of GC-161 in Paradise Valley, if you turn down my offer, George, I'm afraid that your family will be in desperate need of employment if you would like to send your youngest daughter off to University in the fall."

"Mr. Luthor I can't just -"

"Ah but you see George, you can. And you will." Lionel circled his prey, going in for the kill. "And you will like what you do. Or I'm afraid that neither of your gifted daughters will go to university, college or ever do anything other than flip burgers for minimum wage for the rest of their lives."

"I'll work for you Mr. Luthor, under one condition."

"You are under no position to be making conditions George."

"A request then?"

"Alright."

"You leave my girls out of this. They shouldn't have to pay for my sins."

"It's a deal, you start Wednesday." Lionel offered his hand out the door for George. Before he was out the door, Lionel stopped him palm to shoulder. "Oh, by the way George, if word gets out about anything that goes on at LuthorCorp, your request will be disregarded, and your services will be terminated."

"Alright Mr. Luthor, have a good day."

"Oh, you have no idea George."

When George Mack left the large LuthorCorp office, Lionel Luthor returned to his desk, opened up his previous file, and continued to read.

"You have a very gifted daughter George, whether you are aware of it or not."

Alex Mack's smiling school picture grinned at him from his screen.

END

A/N: MUAHAHAHAHAHA........

an UBER THANK YOU to ash, hope, and autumngold for reviewing damn near every chapter that was posted .... and to SciFiGirl1 to whom this wonderfully fun fic's credit goes to, because it was all her idea, she was the brains of this operation, I just gave it some life.... And a MONDO HUGE thank you to everybody else who R&R-ed, without any of you guys, this would have been another one of my under 10 chap stories...

FIC REQUIREMENTS:

1) Alex's family thinks she took the antidote and no longer has her powers, they are very wrong.

2) Lex has finally given up dating homicidal woman and is secretly dating Chloe.

3) Alex is in the same grade as Clark.

4) Alex's powers have a negative effect on Lana, it cause Clark to no longer worship the ground Lana walks on. Lana's powers over Clark are no more, he finally sees her for what she is.

5) Chloe enlisting Lex's help in playing matchmaker for Clark & Alex.

6) Chloe and Alex becoming best friends.

7) Lana making snide remarks about the clothes Alex wears.

8) Clark & Alex finding out about each other's powers at the same time.

9) Chloe never got involved with Lionel to find out Clark's secrets, instead Lana is the one who makes a deal with the devil, aka Lionel, after Clark dumps her for Alex.

10) Lex & Chloe doing a little snooping to try and find out what his father is up to and put a stop to it.

11) Lex asking Chloe and Clark asking Alex to be their dates for the school dance. Lex is letting it out into the open that he is dating Chloe.

12) Chloe & Alex going shopping in Metropolis to find the perfect dress for the dance.

13) any rating

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Quotes from the show(s)

Enrique

The Partial return of Ray Alvarado

Alex and Ray were an item