100 Ways to Chlark
Chapter II – Second Half
Authors Note: Here are the last 50 themes, everyone! I hope you're happy! YES! It shall no longer haunt me! I don't usually have to think this hard. It's bad for my health. I'm sorry for the delay, though. My computer was being moved, and overall it's just been a busy few weeks for me.
Warning: Outright Chlarkness.
Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville. If I did, I'd probably ruin it anyway.
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#51 – Sport
Clark
was not treated kindly by his peers once on the field, and by the end
of the day it was quite clear that the entire team was out to get
him. But every time he glanced at the benches, Chloe was always there
whooping in the sidelines, looking absolutely adorable as a Crow's
cheerleader. Somehow it encouraged him not think so negatively. It
made the sport all the more bearable, at the very least.
#52 - Deep in Thought
Chloe's
fingertips brushed over the smooth fleshy stem of a lone yellow
daisy, and snapped it out of its roots. Her expression tender and
sincere, she began to gingerly pluck its thin bright petals,
muttering, "He loves me," –
pluck –
"…he loves me not," –
pluck, pluck, pluck –
"…He loves
me."
#53 - Keeping a Secret
"Nobody knows it – not even you – but you've got a secret smile, and you use it only for me."
#54 – Tower
They codenamed her Watchtower, because that was what Chloe was. She cared for him more than any friend he'd ever known, would unquestionably risk her life for him at a moments notice. She was his watchtower; she was his pillar of hope and love and comfort, and Clark wouldn't have it any other way.
#55 – Waiting
Along the way there were times when all hope seemed lost, and the waiting seemed pointless, painful, blatantly disregarded. Tender moments were stolen, and what should've been love remained excruciatingly platonic. Many times, Chloe considered conceding into believing that loving Clark Kent would forever be unrequited. They were gone quicker than when they first appeared.
#56 - Danger Ahead
Dangerous. Clark had never imagined Chloe in the same category, in fact the very thought would have never occurred to him. The idea seemed utterly ridiculous. But one day he noticed the sumptuous plump of her lips, and how shapely her legs appeared under her professional dress skirt, and the urge to touch her was close to unbearable. Suddenly, Chloe was the most dangerous woman in the world.
#57 – Sacrifice
Although Chloe would want nothing more than to put herself on the line of Clark's undivided affection, fate would simply not have it, not quite yet, and therefore she was rendered to masquerade as his very best friend for the time being. Oh, the thing's she did for love…
#58 - Kick in the Head
Realizing that he was in love with her was like a good kick in the head, and it might have bloody well been so for all the years she'd been waiting for him to admit it. Chloe instead settled with smacking him upside the head with her wrist, regardless of the potential bruise it may leave. "It's about time."
#59 - No Way Out
There was no easier way to fall out of love with Clark Kent – it took a few life-risking situations, a few broken hearts, a few heartbreaking farewells tossed around, and even a life. But, in the end, even that didn't seem to make her love him any less.
#60 – Rejection
"Don't
worry, Clark, it was the end of the world. It's not like I'm
expecting us to hook up."
#61 - Fairy Tale
I thought you were my fairy tale, a dream when I'm not sleeping – a wish upon a star that's coming true. But everybody else could tell that I confused my feelings with the truth when there was me and you. Now I know you're not my fairy tale, and dreams were made for sleeping, and wishes on a star just don't come true. 'Cause now even I can tell that I confused my feelings with the truth, because I liked the view, when there was me and you…
#62 – Magic
Chloe
was never one to believe in magic, in spite of the many strange
occurrences that overwhelm Smallville. However, upon being rendered
possessed on her eighteenth birthday by an overzealous witch, there
really was no choice but to believe. And in the end, when Clark
slinked over to her desk and whispered directly into her ear,
mentioning how he rather liked the heart-shaped birthmark along her
waistline, she decided that she hated magic very much.
#63 – Do Not Disturb
When
Lois had decided to visit her dear cousin, she had remembered seeing
that very same Do
Not Disturb
sign on Clark's bedroom door, but it completely baffled her at how
it ended up dangling over the doorknob of Chloe's apartment.
#64
– Multitasking
When Clark trusted her in sharing his secret, that he was an estranged intergalactic traveler from a planet long since destroyed, Chloe actually contemplated how she'd juggle the job of an intrepid sidekick and an honest friend at the same time. Oh boy.
#65
– Horror
Clark loved horror movies solely for the fact that it left him excuses to let Chloe cling to him very tightly, hugging herself to him so that he would feel every sumptuous curve of her body against his, snuggled close under the cramp blanket and staring wide-eyed into the living room TV. And yet, somehow he was getting the feeling that he didn't really understand the whole point of Best Friend's Movie Night.
#66 – Traps
Chloe stared at Clark, knowing at that very instant, as she found herself haplessly riveted with his dimpled grin, that the Kansas farmboy held a piece of her tucked away with no escape. And he was not going to return her heart until she learned to share.
#67 – Playing the Melody
I thought I knew the melody that I heard you singing. And when you smiled, you made me feel like I could sing along. But then you went and changed the words. Now my heart is empty. I'm only left with use-to-be's, and once upon a song.
#68 – Hero
When Chloe realizes that Clark Kent is a young man destined for greatness—more so a young man destined for tragedy—and although she is aware of how uncertain it is to where she will fit in as a part of his inevitable fate, whatever lay ahead Chloe was going to be there to save him.
#69 – Annoyance
Clark
never liked sci-fi movies - they were too ridiculous and cheap, and
Clark resented the fact that they were often biased on the theories
of alien existence. But they were Chloe's favorite, oddly enough
because she claimed they reminded her of him. It annoyed Clark to no
end when Chloe would gush over how ET was as adorably sweet and
compassionate as her Kryptonian boyfriend.
#70 – Priceless
Dress: $149.99 – Rented tux: $75.00 – Twelve dozen rose bouquets: $300.99 – Wedding planner: $19.75 per hour. Finally kissing her after the decidedly long walk up the red-carpeted aisle? Priceless.
#71 – Obsession
Chloe
remembered the day she had centered her Wall of Weird on the cryptic
farm boy, Clark Kent. But even to this day she still wasn't quite
sure if it was her love of investigative reporting that had caused
her to devote more time to the Wall, or simply the charming Kent boy
alone.
#72 – Moody
Chloe had contrived some sort of a plan that would finally help her protect herself from the notorious Kent Charm. She would get Clark to wear a mood ring, so she would be forewarned of whatever ridiculous intentions he'd have with her. Green meant he was insanely troubled, red: madly in love, and when it was clear it simply meant he was perfectly emotionless – which was okay, she guessed.
#73 – I Can't
"Chloe,
I could never outgrow you. Other than vertically."
#74
– Are You Challenging Me?
When Clark bitingly challenged Chloe Sullivan into a snarky argument, he deeply regretted it, and ended up returning home with a severely bruised ego and the image of her triumphant grin lingering wistfully inside his head.
#75 – Mirror
Clark doesn't realize how similar he and Chloe are with their inability to be loved. He had developed a desperate, unrequited love for an untouchable girl in high school. She had developed an unfathomable, unrequited love for a small-town super boy. They were both similar in a sense that they were both tragically jaded.
#76 – Broken Pieces
He
had thought that it wouldn't be too difficult, that helping Chloe
cope with the fact that unrequited love interest in him would be the
right thing to do as a best friend. But Clark had to realize that,
however indestructible he really was, there was just no way of
picking up the broken pieces alone.
#77 – Test
Chloe's
love for Clark could only go so far, and the farmboy being an
oblivious dork to her advances was no help at all. Oftentimes, her
devotion to him was devastatingly tested. But Chloe didn't mind,
really. It only proved that her love was still there.
#78 – Drink
Clark
grimaced into his cup of searing pitch-black coffee; its taste was so
tart it was almost painful, and he found himself pondering whatever
could have started the unhealthy caffeine addiction. Adjusting his
thickly-rimmed glasses, his eyes were fleeting as they shot across
the room, secretively observing the lovely blonde reporter that had
already finished her second cup of Folgers and was reeling towards
her third, typing away upon her laptop with caffeinated vigor. Oh,
that's why…
Clark finished his drink with a smile.
#79 – Starvation
It
was a hunger unlike any other, a need that unsettled the pit of his
abdomen and induced a wave of apprehension to dangle over his heart,
but Clark was determined to fight those urges—those fitful nights
where he would feel the craving overwhelm him. If anything, he would
starve, as long as it meant that he wouldn't hurt her. But the
hunger was deep-set, and his fingers ached for the satisfaction of
feeling her bare skin beneath his fingertips. Hormones for a
Kryptonian where often catastrophic if taken lightly.
#80 – Words
"I Love you."
81. Pen and Paper
"Superman?"
Clark ran his fingertips over the nape of his neck, eyes riveted on
the front-page headline of the Daily
Planet
and its article. "The pet name was Lois's idea. I think it's
catchy," Chloe defended happily. "Chloe, do you know how
ridiculous that sounds?" Clark grimaced, readjusting his thick
glasses. Chloe huffed, "I'm not the one wearing my underwear on
the outside. How about I write about that?"
#82 - Can You Hear Me?
Three little words. Three little words, and the Man of Steel was struck dumb and absolutely speechless. On top of that, he had spilt a perfectly good cup of coffee. Chloe bristled irritably. "Did you hear me? I said I love you, you big lug!"
#83 – Heal
The only way Chloe Sullivan was willing to heal her broken heart was with Clark Kent returning her feelings, and no sentiment of "moving on" and "let's just be friends" would convince her otherwise – whether she liked it or not. She was just hopelessly in love with the brute, and there was no other way to handle it.
#84 - Out Cold
Clark
had always thought that he was born indestructible, so naturally it
came as a surprise to him when it took all the strength he had to get
down on one knee in front of the girl of his dreams, and say,
"C-Chloe Sullivan, w-will you… marry…
me?" He shut his eyes tightly, awaiting inevitable rejection, but
when he heard a silvery laugh and Chloe replying, "It took you long
enough! Of course I'll marry you!" like he had just asked the
simplest question in the world, Clark Kent was out cold in a second.
#85 – Freefall
Chloe feels her hair madly whipping around her face, blonde strays flaunting against the breeze like an aura as she's spiraling down, closer and closer towards Metropolis concrete. The ground comes rushing up to meet her, but before she hits the floor in what she imagines will be a gory heap, she finds herself in the brawny arms of a super man. "Don't worry, I've got you," he assures. Chloe looks at him incredulously. "You've got me? Who's got you?"
#86 - Seeing Red
Chloe
pretended she did not notice the bright scarlet hue that radiated out
of Clark's eyes as he forcibly kissed her, compelled through his
sensual hunger, and she'd certainly never admit that she absolutely
loved a reckless, sexy Clark Kent under red kryptonite.
#87 – Food
If Chloe Sullivan was ever to consider herself the steady love interest of Clark Kent, she was going to have to learn how to cook, and cook a lot, because the young man had a growing appetite.
#88
- Pain
When
her heart breaks, sadness is an understatement. It was outright pain,
– a palpable, tangible, writhing
age-oldpain.
When her heart breaks, it is all the pain that came out of loving him
indisputably, the pain from having to wait for something that was
determined early on as unrequited. She was sitting over a load of
prickling tension like an anxious mother hen. It was the pain that
made her cry, not the grief.
#89 - Through the Fire
"Over the years that I've had to put up with you, I've been placed into many situations in which I could have – would have - should have died. You tell me, Clark, whatever possessed me not to hightail it outta this dangerous lifestyle from the start?" Chloe's eyes bore into him, and there was no way of avoiding the fathomless look in her eyes. He was as helpless as he was indestructible under her imposing gaze. "It's called love," Clark murmured.
#90 – Triangle
Chloe
Sullivan loved Clark Kent. Clark Kent loved Lana Lang. Lana Lang
Loved Lex Luthor. In the end, it was just another bizarre storybook
romance.
#91 - Drowning
Was it possible to drown amidst sensual feeling, to be so overwhelmed with sensation it made her suffocate? It was emotion, taking her deeper into the soothingly cool abyss. But, Chloe didn't mind. She supposed that was the experience of falling in love – one devastating rollercoaster ride. And she was willing to go through such turmoil for the love of her life.
#92 – All That I Have
He
hurts her with every loving glance that is not sent her way, every
inclination that reminds her that she is his very best friend and
nothing more. These days, her love for him is all that she has so
that he remains in her heart.
#93 – Give Up
He
carries the fate of the world over his shoulders as the Man of Steel,
a symbol, and it is not exactly slung over his back like a rucksack.
During the worst of days, he would feel the temptation of his
preeminence among mortals and the ominous destiny that his biological
father feeds him. And in those worst of days, he's happy that he
can turn to her as a condolence if the idea of giving up ever crosses
his mind.
#94 - Last Hope
"We
didn't ask for a world that needs heroes, but the truth is we do.
Now more then ever, Clark."
#95 – Advertisement
Chloe
couldn't help but feel completely flustered as a wave of propaganda
hit her at the sight of the Daily
Planet's
front-page headlines: A
Super Love Interest.
The fresh colored print of herself in Superman's embrace was
settled smack-dab in the center of the article, him seen carrying her
like a bride on her wedding night with his teeth gleaming against his
lips in a truly satisfied grin. "Showoff, why oh why
did you have to smile at me like that?"
#96 - In the Storm
Chloe
stared at the sky. It boomed and crackled against an unrelenting gray
blind of clouds and curtain of rainfall. "Are you sure you don't
want to blow it away?" Chloe questioned him, concerned, "don't
you have chores?" The storm was heavy, and it had cornered them
into Clark's private loft. They had been huddled close together on
the sofa, Chloe admittedly fearing thunderstorms—but only a little!
Mildly surprised, Clark stared down at her as she comfortably clung
to his arm and said, "Why would I wanna do that?"
#97 - Safety First
Chloe
eyed Clark's attire worriedly. The clingy blue bodysuit and fitted
red trunks left little to the imagination, and the velvety red cape
looked capable of catching fire or rendered wedged into the engines
of a jet airplane. In spite of it all, Clark tried to convince her
that her worries were all for naught. He was indestructible, after
all, but the conviction did not put her at ease. "Could you at
least wear
a mask?"
#98 – Puzzle
Throughout the years of knowing Clark, Chloe was always fascinated with the fact that he was such a cryptic youth, and could not fathom the calamitous labyrinth that was his destiny. But what had always mystified Chloe most were his indecisive feelings towards her, and she could only hope that he would piece together the puzzle in time and figure out what she really meant to him before it was too late.
#99 - Solitude
Although it had not been entirely cold within the protective confines of Clark's crystalloid haven, they had used the North Pole as an excuse to huddle beneath his voluminous cape and do "activities" that encouraged the act of sharing body warmth. Chloe slumbered upon a silken bed settled within the crystalloid palace, rapturous and bundled up in the warm velvet cape, taking generous whiffs of the warm crisp scent of his skin that still lingered within the fabric. He had been right to call it their Fortress of Solitude.
#100 - Relaxation
When Clark Kent comes home and explains to his wife what sidetracked him from dinner yet again (a robotic war machine that had kryptonite implanted in its core, courtesy of Luthor Industries), Mrs. Sullivan-Kent had always found a few ways to help the Man of Steel relax. And tonight, Clark Kent was going to develop an entirely new appreciation for whipped cream once Chloe was done with him.
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Author's Note: The final half of this project is finish! Whew! Theme #70 (Priceless) was so sappy. A Master Card remake! Lol. But it was the first thing that came to mind, and to be honest I really can't be held accountable for whatever my mind does. I would also like to remind you all that I did not pick these themes myself, they were already picked out for me and I was given the task of writing a Chlark drabble (nothing more than a paragraph) about it out of my head. It's actually quite challenging. So don't blame me if they seem a bit out of it!
Theme #53 (Keeping a Secret)is just an anonymous quote, and not an actual one from the series.
Themes #61 (Fairy Tale) and #67 (Playing the Melody) are extracts from a song called When There Was Me and You, a part of Disney's original movie High School Musical. You KNOW I'm getting desperate when I add Disney musicals.
Theme #72 (Moody) was inspired by a song. Mood Rings by Relient K, which is one of my most favorite bands!
Theme #73 (I Can't) is a direct quote from Clark Kent.
Theme #94 (Last Hope) is another quote from Chloe Sullivan.
Tootles,
—Rayz