This is short, but if I had to choose between updating daily and longer chapters I'd choose updating daily.

Sorry to bdpotato if they think that this is too much Chloe/Bruce centered, I wanted to finish their meeting.

Kevin Stark, the editor-in-chief of the Gotham Gazette, was handing out assignments during the morning meeting. Chloe had taken her usual back seat, slipping in hoping that her tardiness was unnoticed. Her hopes were dashed however when Kevin looked straight at her.

"Miss Sullivan, glad you could join us." He slid a folder across the table to her. "You get the prime assignment Chloe. An interview of Mr. Bruce Wayne." The staff winced in unison as the billionaire came up as a subject. Everyone had avoided doing that interview since he had arrived back in Gotham three months before. "Dismissed." He told the group of reporters around the table.

"Sir!" Chloe cried, trying to appeal to his compassionate side, as soon as the other staff had left the room. "Surely another reporter could take this assignment."

He shook his head and cut off her protests with a cutting motion of his hand. "Chloe, why would I give this upper-crust assignment to anyone but my best reporter? Enough Miss Sullivan, you are to interview Mr. Wayne, and that's final."

Chloe smoothed her black skirt nervously, as she stepped out of her sleek silver car. She walked up to the huge newly rebuilt Wayne mansion and pressed the doorbell. The door opened almost immediately by an elderly gentleman in a formal suit. Of course Bruce Wayne would have a butler, she didn't know why she'd expected anything less.

"Hello Miss Sullivan." He said with a polite nod. "Master Wayne is waiting for you in his study, if you'll just follow me."

She nodded and silently followed, feeling very out of place when she saw the opulence of the entranceway. Every single painting on the walls looked like it was an original, there were several huge Persian carpets and even a marble sculpture of a woman and a man in an eternal embrace.

They reached a heavy wooden door, which the butler opened but did not go through. When she looked at him, curious, he tipped his head towards the room. She nodded and went in.

A man stood looking out a large window, the bright light streaming through it making a silhouette of him. When her high-heels hit the polished wooden floor just inside the doorway, he turned around. And the heavy wooden door closed behind her.

"You!" She cried, unable to help herself. "You're the man I bumped into yesterday!"

He nodded. "I wanted to see you again, and when the Gazette begged me again for an interview, it seemed like the perfect solution."

"You set this up on purpose?" She attempted to keep her jaw from dropping as she tried to figure out why exactly Bruce Wayne the clumsy playboy billionaire would go to all those lengths just for her. "Why?"

He smiled slowly. "Would you have dinner with me Chloe Sullivan?" He smiled wider when she nodded.

flashback ends

"That was the first time any woman had turned down dating me because I had too much money." Bruce told his fiancée as he pulled her against him.

She laughed. "Well, you were showing off how much money you had. It wasn't very attractive."

Bruce looked down at the tiny blonde he was so in love with. "And then you compared me to Lex Luthor."

She winced as she remembered that argument she'd used to push him away. "I'm so sorry about that. I should have known that you were his polar opposite." She kissed him. "To be fair though, when I asked you if were trying to seduce me with your money, you told me that it had worked before."

It was Bruce's turn to wince then. "Okay, so I was about as smooth as Clark Kent that night, luckily I got a second chance."

Flashback

Charlie opened the door, a brilliant smile graced her face when she saw who had been waiting behind it.

"Bruce!" She exclaimed, moving forward to hug him happily. "I'm glad you could make it. I was afraid that you were going to be busy with business and wouldn't be able to make it."

He smiled as she stepped back, and he walked into the apartment. "I wouldn't miss this for the world."

She smiled. "Make yourself at home, the other guests should be arriving shortly."

Bruce sat on the couch with Martha Kent, entertaining her with stories from some of his travels. Clark had arrived ten minutes after himself and had been greeted at the door by Charlie and had shared a kiss with her that earned them some whistles from his guests. They'd broken apart blushing like teenagers, a habit that earned them a few laughs.

It was Clark's 30th birthday, and the guest list was varied. Besides Bruce and Martha Kent, there was Ben Hubbard, Martha's new husband. Also included was Arthur Curry, Wally West, Lana and Pete Ross, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White,Victor Stoneand his wife, Richard White, Lois Lane and Clark's son Jason. They were all scattered around the room, talking, laughing, eating and drinking.

When Martha went off to grab some food with Ben, Bruce watched all the guests. He envied Clark this group of friends and family, he himself only had Clark, Charlie and of course Alfred that he could count as his true friends. He also envied Clark the unconditional love of a woman like Charlie, but he didn't envy him spitefully, Clark more than deserved what he had.

Someone knocked at the door. Clark pulled himself away from his conversation to go answer it. The identity of the diminutive figure standing behind the door made Bruce freeze in shock.

"Happy birthday Clark!" Chloe cried as she threw herself into Clark's arms for a fierce embrace. When he set her back on the ground, she kissed him on the cheek. "You're now officially over the hill!"

Clark laughed. "Remember Chlo, you're only three months younger than me. Soon it'll be your head on the chopping block."

She grimaced. "Don't remind me." She looked past Clark for a second and caught sight of Bruce. "Bruce Wayne? What is he doing here?"

Clark smiled as he closed the door. "Oh right, you two haven't met yet. He's one of my best friends, the best in fact besides you of course."

Arthur Curry: Aquaman

Wally West: Current Comic Book incarnation of the Flash, in Smallville he was'Bart Allen'

Victor Stone: robotically enhanced character in Smallville's 'Cyborg'

I wanted to add in some movie characters, but nobody is really Clark's friend besides Jimmy, so I had to borrow some from Smallville.

Please review as always, I need inspiration for the next chapter if I'm gonna have it up tomorrow/later today (it's 4 AM)