Potential in Smallville
Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon, while Smallville belongs to Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and whoever I forgot to mention. I do not own these characters.
Timeline: Post "Chosen" but takes place during the end of Chloe's junior year. The season finale did not happen, although Pete did leave. No one will be brought back from the dead.
Full Summary: BtVS/Smallville crossover. When Willow activated the potentials around the world, Chloe Sullivan started to experience certain changes within her. "Why do these dreams seem so real?" "How was I able to heal myself so quickly?" "Where did all this strength come from?" She keeps her new changes to herself, until the Scoobies come to town offering her guidance. She is taken to the new and improved Watcher's Council where she trains for the entire summer. When she finally goes back to Smallville for the start of her senior year, she will see that a lot of things have happened that will need to go on her, now deserted, "Wall of Weird."
Pairings: There will be no pairings in this story, only mentions of past couples. (Ex: Angel/Buffy or Buffy/Spike or something along those lines)
This fic is based off the challenged proposed from by JadeHunter.
Notes: The story will be ending soon, but fear not! The sequel will be posted shortly after. I just have to get some of my other stories caught up to speed. I kind of got mixed up with this chapter, because I meant to have other things happening in the last one, but they appear in this one. I made notes, but then disregarded them and so now; I have to post them in this chapter!
Notes 2: I received some ideas for what powers the vampires have. I'm definitely going with some of them able to walk freely, but I'm thinking about the whole vampire thrall thing that Dracula and the Master had. How about a vampire, though he fears fire, can control it? Didn't think so, but I'll be looking to the past Smallville characters for inspiration!
Notes 3: I have so many of these don't I? Anyway, I thought I should say the chapters will be progressing time faster since Chloe needs to go back to Smallville in time for the sequel. By the next chapter, we should be in the month of September, which I'm having her go back. So expect, maybe, two more chapters of Potential in Smallville!
"Blah" means speech
'Halb' means thoughts
Chapter Nine: Communication
Watcher's Council- Chloe's Room (August 16, 2004)
'So serene,' Chloe thought to herself.
Her roommates were gone from the room and Chloe didn't care where they had gone. Don't get her wrong, she had grown to love all three of them, but she still needed her privacy. She only had a few moments of meditation and she took the opportunity whenever it arose.
She was deep in thought, in tune with the nature around her, when she sensed it. Something strong, a little too strong, had stepped inside the Council. It felt familiar, but she wasn't sure. As soon as she felt the powerful energy, she felt three powerful beings coming her way. These she recognized as her sister slayers.
Chloe opened her eyes and gave a long sigh. Her peace and quiet was over and it would take a long time before it ever came back.
The door burst open and there stood three slayers with huge smiles on their faces.
"Did I miss a funny joke?" Chloe asked.
The girls could only shake their heads no. In unison, they pointed out of the room.
"Is there someone downstairs?"
Their heads shook vigorously yes. They kept indicating with their hands to go downstairs.
"Is Willow back?"
They nodded again, but their smiles faltered a little. Chloe noticed this and figured that it wasn't the correct guess they were looking for.
"Someone arrived with her?"
Their smiles brightened again.
"It's for me, isn't it?"
The girls closed in around Chloe and carried her from her bed. They dropped her on the outside of their room and shoved her in the direction of the elevator.
As Chloe went down the elevator, she pondered who the mystery person could be.
'Maybe a celebrity who wants to meet me? Nah. Did Lana come and visit? Then why would my friends be that excited to see her?'
The door opened and Chloe stepped out. Across the room stood Willow, but she was standing with two other people. A man and a woman were staring directly at Chloe, whose mouth had hit the floor.
"Clark, Lois?"
Lois screamed and ran toward her cousin. She engulfed her in a hug, which Chloe returned, though she was a little shocked at their appearance in England.
"What are you guys doing here?" Chloe asked.
"Lex managed to fly us over on one his jets," Clark interjected. Chloe turned to face him and he quickly hugged her. "So, how are you doing?"
"Great, things are great! Wait, how did you guys get here?"
"Well, I was getting an escort back to the Council from the airport, when Clark and Lois saw the sign that had my name on it and found me," Willow spoke from behind Clark and Lois. "You should have told us you had friends coming, Chloe."
Chloe could sense the tone that Willow was using. Anyone that visited the Council to see a friend would need clearance. Either the friend knew what the Council really was or everyone pretended that the Council was a normal school. Clark and Lois arriving unexpectedly was not something that should have happened.
"I know. I didn't know they were coming, but I hope it's alright?"
"Of course, I'll just have to talk to Buffy about this and I'm sure we can figure this all out," Willow said before leaving for the Planning room, where the rest of the Scoobies were bound to be.
"Are you gonna give us the tour, or do we have to look ourselves?" Lois asked.
"Just pick a direction, and I will try my best," Chloe said nervously. She was hoping that Lois would pick to ride the elevator to her room.
"How about that room?" Lois asked pointing to the room off to the right.
Chloe inwardly groaned as Lois had just picked the Planning room, where everyone was meeting. "Sure."
Chloe walked, a little slow, to the Planning room where all the Scoobies were talking. All conversation had stopped as the trio had walked into the room.
"So, who's this, Chloe, in the Council; here, now, without clearance, standing in front of me?" Buffy asked looking at Clark and Lois.
"Well, this is my best friend Clark and my cousin Lois. Lex Luthor, a friend of ours, flew them over to visit me."
"Nice to meet you," Clark spoke for Lois and himself.
The Scoobies greeted Clark and Lois in their own fashion, but silence overtook the room quickly.
"These are basically the people who run this school," Chloe started. "We have Buffy Summers, Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, Rupert Giles, Dawn Summers, Spike, and Andrew."
"Andrew runs nothing here!" Buffy yelled.
"Hey! I record everything that goes on and that is just as important as your job," Andrew stood defiant.
"There's also Faith, but she's not here at the moment," Chloe continued, acting as if nothing happened. "And if you follow me, we'll go to my room and hopefully, we'll never have to leave."
The three left the room, leaving the Scoobies to wonder how this all went wrong.
"We're gonna have to murder that Luthor," Buffy said. "We can't have him sending people over here to visit their friends when they don't know their secret."
"We can't just murder someone Buffy," Xander said. "At least let them know it's us first and then do the job."
"We're not approaching this right," Willow said. "Think of the resources we could have if we made nice with Lex."
"That would help our connections with certain people," Giles interjected.
"We'll mull it over," Dawn said.
Chloe's Room
"Nice friends you got there," Lois said sarcastically.
"They normally aren't like that. It's just, we need to clear it with them that we're having people visit and you guys sorta broke that rule."
"Tell them to get over it," Lois said.
The trio stopped at Chloe's door and she prayed that her roommates had left, but she felt their presence and she knew they felt hers. She opened the door and their stood her roommates, the smiles still on their faces.
"These are my roommates: Alicia, Bianca, and Dana."
"Guys, this is Clark and my cousin Lois."
"We're happy to finally meet you," Alicia spoke for the three.
"Likewise," Lois responded.
The six friends stood, not knowing what to do next.
"I suppose you two will want to catch up, so we'll show Lois around," Dana said talking about Clark and Chloe.
"How about a tour of London?" Clark asked excitedly.
"I can take you as far as the corner, because I really don't know my way around," Chloe suggested.
The six left the room, Lois continuing her tour of the Council with Alicia, Bianca, and Dana, while Clark followed Chloe out of the Council to talk.
"How's Smallville?" Chloe asked once they exited the gates of the Council. She wasn't really sure how to break the ice and went for the first thought that popped in her head.
"Besides the disappearances, it's been usually calm. Whatever's been happening, it's been keeping the meteor activity low," Clark answered.
"I can't say that's good, but at least no one is being infected anymore."
Silence reigned between the two as they kept their slow pace down the street.
"Your friends our nice," Clark spoke.
"Thank. They really helped me adjust when I came here. If they weren't here when I came, I don't know where I'd be."
"Probably investigating the lives of the people here," Clark laughed.
Chloe agreed and laughed as well, the tension between them lessoning.
"It's really great here; I'm surprised you didn't visit sooner."
"I was trying, but you went to Lana first and I had to handle Lois coming to live in my house," Clark added a bit frustrated.
"You seemed lonely, so I knew Lois would be happy to cheer you up!"
"Speaking of Lois, what do you think she's doing right now?"
"Wow, you're concerned about her well being? You do care about her after all," Chloe said walking back to the Council.
She turned her back just in time to miss Clark turning a dark shade of red.
"I just don't want her getting into any trouble!" Clark yelled catching up with Chloe.
Training Room
"Is that all you got?" Lois asked the girl on the floor.
The girl rose from her feet and had an angry look on her face. She was about to show Lois what she really had but was stopped by Dana clearing her throat.
"You win," the girl hissed and stomped out of the room.
"I didn't know she'd be that upset about losing," Lois shrugged.
"What's going on here?" Chloe asked as Clark and herself stepped into the room. "I leave for all of 10 minutes only to come back and see my cousin fighting against people. I hardly think of that as fair!"
"Don't worry, cuz, I didn't beat them that badly," Lois said a little cocky.
"Wait, you beat them?" Chloe asked confused.
"Don't seem so shocked, the General did make sure I knew how to defend myself."
Chloe walked toward her fellow slayers and spoke in a low tone, unaware that one of her two visitors could hear her.
"What's going on?" Chloe asked quietly.
"We showed her the training room, but we weren't alone," Alicia said.
"Some slayers were practicing and Lois said how she wanted to go against some of them," Bianca took over.
"We told the girls to hold back," Dana finished. "And by the way, some of the girls believe that Lois could be a potential that got passed up by Willow's spell. Even when they were holding back, Lois was pretty skilled."
"But that's not possible right?" Chloe asked frightened.
"Of course, no potential could escape what Willow did," Bianca said.
"Good, this place wouldn't survive with Lois here."
"She's worse than you?" Dana asked.
"Ha, ha," Chloe laughed sarcastically.
Chloe's Room (August 19, 2004)
The door to Chloe's room opened to admit Lois. The four roommates were all in their classes and Lois decided to take it upon herself to snoop. Everyone in the building was very secretive about everything.
Even Chloe, Lois's own cousin, wouldn't tell her. The only information Lois knew was what Chloe told her.
"They are supplying me with the training that I will keep with me for the rest of my life."
Lois didn't know what Chloe was talking about, but accepted her answer, but only for that moment. She decided to find out for herself.
After sneaking out of Faith's room, which she shared with Clark since Faith was gone; she went one floor up and made her way into Chloe's room.
Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but something was wrong. The room was too clean and knowing how Chloe liked her space in the Torch, this was eerie. They were hiding something; something Lois was going to find.
"Now, if I were something suspicious, where would I be?" Lois spoke of aloud.
Lois did a complete 360 degree turn in the room and her eyes settled on the closet.
'Of course!'
She made her way to the plain looking closet door and pulled the handle. For a closet, it was kind of huge. Since they had to accommodate for four people, it seemed normal. Lois started pushing the large amounts of clothes out of the way until she reached the back of the closet.
She found a trunk, locked up tight.
'If they think that I have morals, then Chloe doesn't know me at all,' Lois thought as she began to pick the lock.
The lock opened and Lois let it fall to the floor. She opened the trunk and was greeted by a blindly shiny broadsword. Lois grabbed the sword by its handle and pulled it from the trunk. She turned the sword around in her hand and shrugged.
'Some people like to collect stamps, they like to collect swords. It's probably Dana's; she looks shifty.'
Lois set the sword down on the floor of the closet and went back to looking through the trunk. She was finding more and more weapons, but she stopped when she reached a set of books. She pulled one out and looked at the cover.
'Why are they looking into witchcraft?'
She opened the book, only to find Chloe's name written inside. Lois closed the book and stared at it for a moment. She turned her head to look at the sword and turned back to the book. She did this several times, the gears grinding in her mind. She finally figured it out when she look at the book and threw it to the ground with a look of disgust.
'This school is a cover up for a cult!'
Lois raised herself from the floor and walked out of the closet and slammed the door.
'Either that or this is some dominatrix school!'
Lois didn't have time to calm herself down as the door opened. Chloe and her three friends walked in laughing.
"Oh hey, Lois!" Chloe said still laughing.
"I'm sure whatever you're laughing about can wait! So, can someone please tell me why there are weapons in that closet and books about witchcraft?"
The laughing died down and the four slayers all turned to one another.
"Don't start with the silence now! I want some answers," Lois demanded.
The four friends continued to look at one another. They were communicating with their expressions, and Chloe seemed to be losing whatever silent argument they were having.
The spat was over when Dana pushed Chloe forward and Bianca, Alicia, and herself bolted from the room.
"Great friends I have, huh?" Chloe asked avoiding the discussion that she knew was about to happen.
"Spill."
"You might want to sit down for this," Chloe said nervously.
Lois stood, defiant. "I'm sure I can take whatever you can throw at me. Just tell me that this place isn't a cult?"
"It's not, but after what I tell you, you'll wish this place was."
Airport (August 20, 2004)
"I'm gonna miss you so much," Lois told Chloe as she gave her a big bear hug.
"I'll be home soon, don't worry."
"After what you told me, how can I not?" Lois asked.
When Chloe told her about her destiny, Lois freaked, naturally. Instead of trying to understand, she fled the room and confronted, of all people, Buffy. Buffy wasn't ready for the verbal assault that Lois had thrown at her, but she was able to calm her down when she finished yelling.
She helped her to understand that this was something that Chloe could not change and that the Council was making it so that Chloe could live a safer life. Lois accepted it, but still wasn't completely comfortable with it.
Lois walked away from Chloe, leaving Clark to say goodbye in privacy.
"You sure you can't convince them to let you go?" he asked.
"I'm sure, but don't worry, within a month or so, I'll be back," Chloe laughed.
"Try to get back faster, the semester starts on Monday."
"I'll try," Chloe said hugging Clark. She could feel something strong coming from him, but she ignored it due to the kiss that Clark planted on her cheek.
"Let's go Superman," Lois called Clark by his new nickname.
He tried to help one of the slayers at the Council, but wound up screwing things up pretty badly. The slayer wasn't happy about his interference, but Chloe was able to calm her down. Lois gave him the other name and had planned on riding it out for a very long time.
Chloe walked away from the airport, completely in bliss about the kiss that Clark gave her. It may have been on the cheek, but it still did the trick. She settled in the car, where Willow was waiting and they made their way back to the Council.
"Someone looks happy," Willow smirked.
"I know," Chloe replied. "Nothing can ruin this moment."
Smallville
"What's wrong with them?" Luc asked a minion of his.
"Some of the newly risen vampires have been, uh, showing signs of advanced powers," he answered nervously.
"Like what?" Luc asked intrigued.
"Well, we had a problem with one of them and we were going to let him die in the sun, but when we threw him out, he didn't burn."
"But the Gem of Amara is gone!" Luc said angrily.
"We know, but that wasn't it. We don't know what the cause is, but some of the others have been showing other powers as well."
"Go and fetch them and I'll see what we can do with them," Luc waved his hand at the vampire in a dismissive way.
The vampire ran, leaving Luc to think about these new developments.
'Fledglings with better powers than their superiors? We're gonna need a way to keep them in their place. But having them on our side is a good thing. Adrienne will definitely be happy with this.'
The minion came back into the room, but with a handful of vampires, all them newly risen. Some looked like a normal vampire, but others had a different look. One of them was even flying.
'This is going to be a massacre,' Luc thought to himself, before he started his speech to the vampires.
End Communication
Alright, I finished chapter nine! It took me a while because I had major writer's block and an incident where I left my story binder in school, under a desk. Let's just say, I made a Janitor open the door to the class to get it because I was that determined.
You probably noticed Lois calling Clark superman. Yea, well, the show drops bad hints at what Clark becomes, so I decided to do the same!
Chloe's time is almost up, expect, maybe, one of two more chapters, because we're skipping right to September and basically, Chloe's graduation; slayer style, of course!
I think the ships for this story will be Clark/Lois, where Chloe finds them and badness ensues. Chloe will probably get someone who is an OC. Just don't know how he'll fit into the story.
And by the way, I don't like the name of this chapter, but I couldn't think of anything. When I post the sequel, I'll stop doing the one word chapter titles.
Next Chapter
-Ah screw it, I've made up my mind, the story ends next chapter, but on a happy note!
-Chloe's roommates throw a party
-Chloe patrols alone, a gift from Buffy
-Major Wiccan action for Chloe and Willow
Since the next chapter is the last, it will probably be short, but filled with Chloe and Willow goodness, since Willow is supposed to have a kind of major part in this story. You'll definitely see more of her in the sequel, which I need help thinking of a title for it! Something along the lines of Clark and Chloe fighting together to fulfill their own destinies or something like that? I dunno, but expect the sequel to be up, well, whenever I post it.
I give cookies to those who help me, and to people who review!