A/N: You know, I thought about this final chapter a lot. Should I do an epilogue? What would it contain? Would it be too much? But I thought that I'd really like to get some sort ofrealistic closure on the story. After all, all that actually happening in real life (even TV life) is pretty small…
Epilogue
Clark jerked awake rather abruptly. There he was reclined on the sofa with Chloe snuggled up next to him and Pete sleeping in the recliner. The TV just showed a blue screen which meant their movie had been over for quite awhile. That was the last time he let Chloe talk him into an all night "Rocky Horror" marathon. He looked around. The house looked normal… He looked down to make sure he wasn't still dreaming. And thank heavens he wasn't in those awful clothes anymore! A soft moan sounded and he glanced back at Chloe who seemed to be in pain and struggling with something. A single tear coursed down her cheek and his heart broke to see it. She must be having a really bad dream.
"Chloe…" he said softly, shaking her gently. "Chloe, wake up!"
Pete grunted beside them and his eyes opened. "Wow! What a crazy dream!" he muttered sleepily.
Chloe's eyes fluttered open. When she saw Clark looking at her with such concern on his face, her heart almost broke. But then she realized that she'd just been woken up and horrified hands went to feel her hair. She was sure she had crazy bedhead! As she brushed her face, trying to scrub away left over mascara, she noticed the tears. Oh, dear! she thought. He's going to give me the third degree. But to her surprise, he just gave her a big hug and looked over at Pete.
"What kinda' dream?" he asked, possibly trying to shift attention from his non-normal touchy feeley-ness toward Chloe. But he felt no inclination to let her leave his embrace any time soon.
Pete scrubbed at his eyes. "It was insane! Chloe and I were Brad and Janet…"
Chloe's eyes widened. "And Lionel was Frank, Lex was Riff Raff, Lois was Magenta…"
"…And Lana was Columbia. Not to mention my dad was Dr. Scott," finished Clark
They all stared at each other for a long minute. But the silence was broken when Chloe burst into amused laughter. "And you were Rocky! Oh, my gosh! Those red briefs!"
Clark blushed hotly while the other two laughed. But then he looked at Chloe with teasing vengeance evident in his eyes. "Well, you were wearing rather nice matching underwear yourself, Miss Sullivan." He couldn't believe he felt this comfortable with his arm around Chloe.
This time Chloe got to blush while the boys started laughing hysterically. When she managed to get herself under control, a couple of thoughts came to her mind. But she only chose to share one and looked at them seriously. "So if we all shared a dream, did the others?" The boys just looked at her in consternation. I wonder if Clark remembers being together and the things we said? she thought morosely.
Pete looked at her, hope filling him. He had really felt like he was starting to fall for Lana. Maybe she'll remember and dump that chump Jason…
And then Clark had his own stray thought. How much does Chloe remember? And does she now realize that it wasn't all make-believe?
The End
A/N: So that's the end. I liked the thought of someone waking up but then the idea of them all sharing the same dream was just too good to pass up… But you notice I didn't explain how they all had the same dream… -muhahahaha!-
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank especially MarkMark261 & SnowBunny3 who have tirelessly reviewed nearly each and every chapter. Even if it was to say that you just liked it or to point out a grammatical error, I really appreciate both of you. You really kept me going!