Space Rock
Chapter 2
The flight toward the fortress had been too brief at Chloe's taste. But to see the magnificent fortress was breath taking.
"It's so wonderful." Chloe said.
"It's my new fortress of solitude." Clark told her. "Come I have to show you something, I found it some time ago."
Clark seems excited to have someone with him in the fortress. He led Chloe trough it, helping her jumped where she wouldn't have been able to go.
"It's bigger than I remembered." Chloe said.
"Well last time you were kind of cold… And I didn't take you to do the grand tour." Clark said to her.
"Almost forgot that."
"Here we are. Chloe, I want to introduce you to my biological parents."
"They're here?" Chloe said really surprised.
"Not physically but I found them in the computer."
Clark took a crystal from one tube and placed it in another tube quite naturally, for Chloe all the crystal and all of the tube look exactly the same.
"How do you know the difference between them?"
"There's writing on them you can't see and I got the knowledge from the computer."
Two persons appeared in front of Clark and Chloe.
"Kal-El, why have you brought a human here?" The man said.
"This is Chloe Sullivan, I would trust her with my life, and she knows everything of me."
"Glad to meet one of my son friends." The woman said with a sweet smile.
"Chloe, Jor-El and Sara. My biological father and mother."
"Humm… Glad to meet you, I guess." Chloe said looking at Clark. "Weren't you supposed to be against him?" She whisper to him.
"It was all a misunderstanding. Everything is fine now. He can't control me anymore, so he had to accept the fact that I will never be a true Kryptonian. You see the crest on his uniform?"
"The big S"
"Yeah! That's our family crest."
"Wow, you actually have a family crest."
"Every noble family has his crest. I think human do the same with their nobility." Jor-El said.
"Yes."
"I have to show you something else." Clark said.
He pulled the crystal out and both holograms disappeared. Clark took Chloe's hand and brought her to another part of the fortress.
"Have you heard about Metropolis new vigilante?" Clark asked.
"It's you isn't it?"
"Yes, and I was thinking about making it more official."
"How do you intent to do that, by revealing that Clark Kent is an alien to the whole world?"
"That would solve my problem. Every one would know exactly what I am."
"Bad idea Clark, I hope your mother didn't agree with that."
"No, that's when I thought about this." Clark said opening a box slowly.
"What is that?" Chloe said starting to laugh at the costume that lay in the box.
"Chloe! It took me almost a year to make it."
"But why yellow Clark? You would look like a clown in that."
Clark closed the box rapidly, he seemed angry that Chloe laugh about is costume.
"I'm sorry Clark, but that color doesn't fit you. But I think it's a great idea, to have a costume, you should have another personality too. Let me think about it for a while…"
Clark looked at Chloe with a big smile.
"You do think it's a good idea?" Clark asked
"Yes Clark. Criminality increased by a good five percent per years in Metropolis. Having someone like you above our head would make us, at least would make me, feel a lot safer."
"And about the costume?"
"This costume is crazy looking. I always tought you look good in blue and red."
"It makes me look like a big American flag…"
"That's it…"
"What?"
"If someone asks you what you fight for you could answer for freedom, justice and the American way."
"Chloe! Please be serious."
"I am Clark. People would be proud of you, an American hero. Someone they can relate to."
"Ok but what about the costume?"
"It most look as little like Clark Kent as possible. What about something really tights?" Chloe asked smiling at the picture she had in her mind."
"I would need a cape to cover myself." Clark said sarcastically.
"A cape… That's a good idea." Chloe said still grinning.
"Chloe, it was a joke…" Clark said afraid that Chloe could take this cape's story a little too seriously.
"Let me think about it for a few days would you?"
"I'm not sure about that…"
"You just said to you parent that you would trust me with your life."
"You have a point. But no cape, and please no white star…"
"Great, meet me at this place Saturday night." Chloe said giving Clark a paper with an address on it.
"What is this place?"
"My house Clark, don't worry, it's not a trap."
"You're keeping your address write down on a paper?"
"It was for you Clark, I was thinking about giving it to you so we could stay in touch."
Clark smiled at Chloe and they bothat began to catch up on the last ten years of their life.
"So it was you all around the world?"
"Yep, in Africa some tribe even called me the white god… I didn't stay there long, believe me, they were all ready to give me their daughter to marry."
"Glad to see you're still modest and don't want to be recognized." Chloe said truthfully.
"I'm born with those power, it's not like I pay for them or anything. So I guess I'm just glad to help people around who are not as lucky as me."
A little after, Clark took Chloe back home.
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Lois was home alone, not that she mind being alone. But tonight was a special night. It was the anniversary, the tenth since the last time she spoke with Chloe. Every year on that night she felt alone. Habitually, she always manages to have something to do on that night but today she haven't been able to find anyone. Even Clark told her that he had something planned. Clark. How she missed her Clark Kent. All the bickering she had with him.
"I've lose him for Lana Lang, then I lost him over Chloe. And the final affront, she sent him away. She broke his heart so badly that he wasn't even able to be near is old town."
Taking another sip of red wine, then she went back to her computer. Over the last years she had tried to find Clark but to no use.
"I might as well be dead. And no one will ever know."
When the new boy arrived at the planet, she had thought that it would be him. She had heard his name. But when she saw him, all hope of ever seeing her Clark Kent again had left. She was acerb with him. She was trying to break him. His mild manner and his way of always knowing every thing was annoying her. Jimmy at the Planet always called him CK, so when she was thinking about her new partner she called him by CK, his complete name was reserve for her Clark Kent.
"CK, what are you doing tonight? How can a guy so shy and so geeky been able to find a girl and have a date in less than two weeks?" she thought walking by a mirror. "I'm not that bad, why didn't you ask me?" She then realized what she was thinking about and quickly finishes her glass of wine.
In her room she found her souvenir's box. Opening it she saw the first photo on a pile it was group picture taken eleven years ago. When everyone was still together, Clark was there holding Lana's hand. She had an arm around Clark's waist and the other around Chloe's.
"Wonder what you're doing cuz? I sure miss our little conversation. Why did you have to do this? I mean, he was the perfect man. All this for what Chloe? You gain nothing by doing that, you have no one in your life, no friends. Not a single thing. Maybe if you would have stayed at the Planet we would have come close again… God I hate what you did…" Lois said to the pictures.
She closed the box and pt it back at his place. Keeping the pictures with her, she walked back to the leaving room. Soon she was asleep. Thinking about what happened ten years ago.