Author: Teriah Luz

Rating: G – general

Title: Road Trip (Tentative Title)

Series: Smallville

Crossover: Pre-Batman Bruce Wayne, Pre-Green Arrow Oliver Queen

Couples: Clark/Lois, Clark/Lana, Chloe/Clark, Bruce/Lana, Ollie/Lois, Lex/Lana (Somehow this will all work out XD)

Summary: Two years since Season four, Chloe plans a reunion among the Smallville trio and Lois to ultimately plan a Road Trip back to New York. Along the way, the come across Gotham City and Gotham's most eligible and rich bachelor. When will Clark embrace his destiny? Why is he seeing Lois and Lana differently? And who the hell is Oliver Queen? It's a massive case of who'll end up with whom so grab a life jacket and dive right in.

Genre: General/Romance

Note: Just so it's understood, first bit is the ending to the flashback in last chapter, the rest of the fic continues from the end of this chapter XD.

Chapter 2:

Clark hung on every word Lana said. Clark was enraptured and entranced by her lips, the twinkling of her eyes. He smirked as she laughed, reminiscing of some foolish memory between the two.

Chloe and Lois chatted a bit to. But Chloe's eyes kept returning to Clark and screaming hurt puppy. And Lois kept on getting frustrated.

After all, why the hell was she even here? She hardly knew the Smallville crew. She was city girl, an up and moving rootless leaf to the wind. Chloe was family and the closest thing to a sister (Lucy more of a daughter type thing) she had in her life.

And why in heaven's name would she want to spend even more time around Clark then she had to. Lord knew surviving his day to day inability to do something without knocking over a major pile of important paperwork or somehow breaking the damn copy machine was hard enough. Oh, and that time he crashed her computer after her she had just finished finalizing her exclusive on the three top industries in the country being headed by the youngest minds… Ugh, this was torture.

And then Chloe finally popped her proposal. "We never had a real… This is it, the start of our life big … thing. Look at us, in two years we're each… off in our own lives, doing our own thing. Well, before high school can long be forgotten… I say we have a road trip, the four of us, to New York. There are a million places we can stop by, there's Star City, Gotham… It could be fun! I can show you guys where I live and everything!"

Silence. Lana bit her lip. "Well… I mean, it sounds like a good idea." She murmurs without much enthusiasm.

Lois shook her head. "Yeah, for you three… Why the hell would I go?" she states curtly, tossing the loose strands draping her face with a toss of her head.

"I don't know, Chloe, there's a ton of deadlines to meet at work and I'm drowning in papers…" Clark muttered.

Chloe scoffed, obviously hurt. "I can't believe this, you won't even try! Look, Clark, just ask Perry for a leave of absence after you finish up the latest bit of work. You're a speedy reader." She gives him a firm look. He flushes and looks away.

She turns to Lois next. "Lo, you're my cousin! You're like, my next best friend next to Lana, you're family to me and to Clark-"

"I wouldn't say that…" Clark murmured. Lois rolled her eyes, the incomplete sentence doing enough damage.

"Oh jump of a bridge." Lois snaps at Clark and turns to Chloe. "Look, I can't, ok? I have an interview set up with the Bruce Wayne next Wednesday to follow up on my latest article on the triple hitter industries. I can't." Lois turns away.

Lana sighs. "I had plans but..." She smiles. "If you two are going, I wouldn't want you to be alone, so…"

Chloe smiles appreciatively at Lana. Clark sighs. "Chlo… I can get everything out of the way by this Thursday." He smiles, that farm boy smile of his.

Lois rolls her eyes. "Hope you three have fun then." She takes out her purse and snaps it open.

"Lois… please, for me?" Chloe tries. She couldn't survive it without Lois. She touches her hand. "We'll be driving through Gotham. If we leave this Friday, we can get there by Saturday."

Lois sighed and stared, thinking long and hard on it. Well…

Lois sulked at the wheel. She had grown lethargic in the back seat and demanded a pit stop 30 miles back. Clark thought she had become quite moody here but who was he to judge. Lois was always moody as far he was concern.

He sat now in the passenger seat. Chloe was curled up with Lana in the back, sound asleep, finally. Lana is humming aimlessly as she sways between consciousness.

Clark smiles to himself. Just knowing she was behind him... it made his stomach knot in anxiety. To be so close to… an angel, it felt like. He glanced at the side view mirror and could see her profile. Her thin lips in a dreamy smile as she strokes her best friend's hair.

Clark jerked a bit as Lois braked a bit jerkily. It wasn't enough to wake Chloe but it did catch Lana's attention. Lois lifted her chin. "Thought I saw something."

"Lois, stop being you and let me drive. I told you I'm fine. I can see way better then you in the dark." Clark quipped as he faced her. He could se the lines on her brow as they furrowed determinedly, as if she would face a bull of great evil just to be right.

Lana sighed and shifted her voice soft and melodic, like a sweet lark. "Lois, come on it's dark and very late… Aren't you tired?" she offers maternally. Clark is awed by her gentle actions.

But for every frail and lovely Lana, there's a Lois in this world. Lois exhaled a burst of air that exploded from her lips. "Look, I'm fine, I want to drive, so sit back, Princess, and let me drive my way. And you want Mr. Four eyes here to drive over me? Now that's a smart idea if ever I heard one."

Clark shook his head. Lana, seemingly stung by the comments, sat back submissively. She sighed and gazed out the window. Somehow the fun of this was all gone.

Clark, almost as stubborn as Lois, sighs and turns back to her. "Look, Lois…" He trails off as she shoots him… one of the sharpest glares she has thrown his way yet.

"Sleep." She scowls and turns back to the road.

"'cuase the way you drive is perfect for-"

"Oh would you shut up, I'm only human!" she snaps.

This now stung Clark, because he knew he wasn't.

Way to go Lois. You can always find a way to just stab that dagger.

Well Clark, unlike Lana, I don't stab then twist by playing hard to get…

Second chapter! Woohoo! Lets hear it for summer and too much time on your hands XD. Review more, it keeps me going