The number of mourners was overwhelming for Clark. Standing ankle deep in the snow at the foot of her gravesite, he was supported on both sides by Lois and Chloe. His gaze drifted from side to side, taking in the people, all of the people who thought that they knew Lana. No one knew her, the real Lana, at least not the way that Clark did.

"Clark?" Lois whispered, touching his arm, "You know…"

Clark shook her off, moving closer to the grave. He stared down into the hole where Lana rested forever and he said, "I put you there."

Chloe stood fast beside him. "Clark?"

He shook his head. "I put her there."

"Clark, it was an accident, there was nothing you could have done, there,"

"I'm tired of that!" he snapped. "I'm tired of it!" Lowering his voice, he continued, "I took her to the fortress, and I asked her to marry me, and I told her my secret. It was all me, Chloe. This is all my fault. There was a life to be exchanged for her knowing my secret, and I knew that, and I did it anyway, and…I was gonna marry her, Chloe…"

Clark fell to his knees, his words dissolving as his tears scattered into the snow.

Chloe fell beside him, putting her arms come around him. "Clark, you couldn't have known. But you know…You know that had to tell her the truth. You know that you never would have gone any farther without the truth, and…At the very least, Clark, she was happy."

The words cut Chloe to the quick. Lana had been her best friend in the entire world, but she loved Clark with more passion than she had ever or would love another man.

"She was…happy?" Clark repeated.

"She was," Chloe confirmed, finally letting the tears she had been holding back streak down her cheeks. "She knew the truth, Clark, and that was all she ever wanted from you."

"Why?"

He put his head in his hands as Chloe rocked back and forth on her heels. "I don't know, Clark. I don't think anyone, not even Jor-El, has the real answers. But I still...I miss her so much...I can't face it...That she's not here."

"Chloe, I can't go on without Lana. I feel like…I have no one now…and…I don't know how to be without her."

"Clark, I…"

"Chloe…I just…Give me a minute, okay?"

Chloe pulled her arms away from Clark, and took several steps back. She was almost in the tree line when she whispered, "You have me, Clark. You will always have me, and I will always love you."