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Disclaimer: If I owned Smallville, would I be writing Chlark fanfics? Of course it's not mine.

Chapter 2

After they had made all of the arrangements for Chloe sleeping over, they both sat down on his bed. "Tell me Clark, why were you acting so strange when I first got here, and every other time I've seen you in the past three months? You never cleared that up." Chloe said. Clark sighed, thinking that Chloe was sure to leave him after she found out why he wore the kryptonite in the first place.

"You know that I told you green meteor rocks, or kryptonite as they are called in Krypton, is the only thing that can harm my skin?" she nodded as he continued. "Well first off, if I were to have green kryptonite within a few feet of me, I would be weakened severely. If even the tiniest rock was next to me for a few hours, I would die."

Chloe had tears in her eyes as she saw the mental image of Clark lying down in the middle of the floor, near death. "I will never let that happen to you, Clark" she whispered as she embraced him. "I know baby, I know." He muttered back to her.

They broke apart, as they knew Clark needed to continue, but at that point, Chloe's stomach rumbled. Clark looked at his watch and saw that it was nearly seven. "Wait here for a few minutes." he told Chloe. He gave her a quick kiss on the lips, and then sped off.

Within a minute of Clark leaving, Chloe decided to explore his apartment. There wasn't much. Sure, it was fancy, and had nice items in it, but the only room was the room she was in, apart from the bathroom. It was perfect, she realized for someone who was never home.

As she was going to sit back down, a business card caught her eye. It was for a Morgan Edge. As a reporter, and a girl who had lived in Metropolis for the first few years of her life, Chloe recognized the name as the biggest crime boss in Metropolis. After the way Clark had been acting earlier, was it a possibility that he was working for Mr. Edge?

She sat down, thinking of the possibilities, when Clark sped back into the room, startling Chloe out of her thoughts. "What the hell Clark! Just scare me to death why don't you? Ohh, is that pizza?"

Clark smiled at her. "Yea, we're both hungry, so why not?" They both dug into the pizza until Clark broke the silence. "Well, you wanted to know why I was different earlier." She nodded. Chloe had forgotten about the conversation with the Morgan Edge thing. "Well, as you know, the green kryptonite hurts me physically. Well the red does the opposite. It lowers my inhibitions. I start to not care about anything but myself, and the consequences, other people's feelings or opinions, nothing, seems to matter to me.

"You asked me earlier how I got all of this" he said gesturing around the room with regret. "Well I became obsessed with money, and the thrill… well you can put two and two together.

It took Chloe a second to register everything. Then it clicked "You mean you stole the money! That's horrible! What could be so bad you would force that upon yourself?"

"Well, for starters, I met my biological father, Jor-El" Chloe would have been mad at Clark for not telling her, but she was taken aback by the hatred in his voice.

"Wow, you're not real fond of him are you?" then something Clark said earlier clicked in her mind. "Wait, I thought you said you were the last survivor. How would you be able to meet him?

Clark sighed. "Well, I could talk to his memory if I put the octagonal disk into the spaceship. We just found the disk, so a few months ago was the first time I talked to him. But that's not the point… You know that symbol that was on my chest? He did that to me because, uh, I refused to take over the planet.

"Lionel Luthor made a key that looked exactly like the key for the ship, except it was made out of Kryptonite. I got that key and put it in the ship to destroy it, so Jor-El couldn't confront me about. I missed Lex's wedding to do that, and my parents came home to see where I was.

At the time, my mom was pregnant, the meteor rocks enabled that to happen, but when I destroyed the ship, they were caught in the middle of the blast. She lost the baby, and it was my fault." Clark was hardly whispering now

"My dad was so disappointed at the hospital, I couldn't stand it. I wanted to be anything but myself, so I went to your office and found your class ring. That's when I ran away." Chloe pulled Clark into her arms. "Its okay baby, you should know that they probably never blamed you. It wasn't your fault you had a… overbearing father. They need you Clark. Everyone was so sad when you left."

He kissed her forehead. "I know, but it was still my fault. I'm going to talk to my parents. You can come too, but I need to sort everything." Chloe hugged him tighter at this, but said "I am glad you want me to come, but I can't, this is your family problem, I don't want to interfere."

He kissed her again, this time on the lips. It was short and sweet, but within the first few minutes, it grew more and more passionate. Their tongues eventually were allowed entrance into the other mouths. Chloe made a small noise from the back of her mouth, which only made Clark kiss her harder. As their tongues fought, they were both ended up moaning.

They soon pulled apart to catch their breaths. "I love you Chloe" She grinned at hearing the words she had been longing to hear for so long. "I love you to Clark." Chloe took a minute to look around the room. "Well superman, I don't see any fires. Was that so hard?" "Well, I didn't concentrate on it or anything. I guess it just… wait, what did you just call me?" Chloe laughed "Superman, you can be my own personal superhero. The name fits."

Grinning, Clark leaned forward and started tickling her. She was laughing, and screaming, but he continued. "Superman, huh Chlo? That the best you've got?" He laughed as she continued screaming for him to stop. After a few minutes, he finally listened to her. It took her a very long time to catch her breath.

She yawned. "Superman, it's a little late. I would love to hear more of your fascinating story tomorrow, but I think I'm ready for sleep." Clark agreed, and in a few minutes, they were debating on where Chloe should sleep. "Just use the bed. It's a big bed, and its not like we're…you know." Clark argued. Eventually she decided to listen to him, as the floor was very uncomfortable, and she was cold.

As they were both lying in Clarks bed, Clark said "Thank you Chlo, I've missed all this laughing and joking around. I'm glad you came, and saw what you saw this morning. I love you."

"I love you too Clark, and even though it was a bit scary seeing you like that, I'm glad I did." She rolled closer to him, and he put his arm around her. That's how they fell asleep, and they both had the most peaceful sleep they had in a three months.