I apologize for not finishing this story or offering some sort of explanation sooner. Smallville has disappointed me completely and I cannot bring myself to continue with this. For those of you who supported me and reviewed I thank you. I post this so that you will at least have some understanding of what I meant to create. This is the story, summarized.

Enjoy!

Story Summary- She is 2101

(1) Pete has a dream that Chloe's powers drive her insane and kill her, causing him to return to Smallville. (2) Pete meets up with Chloe at the Planet and decides to spend the day with her. (3) While on a trip to the local park, the two of them discuss her relationship with Clark and how her newfound abilities have affected it. (4) Pete goes to see Clark at his barn to talk about why he has been avoiding Chloe and to convince him to go see her. (5) On their way to the Planet, Pete formulates a plan to use Clark's experience to train Chloe and they tell her about it. (6) After Pete convinces her to come back to the Kent's, he wakes up late at night and finds Clark and Chloe kissing downstairs. (7) This event causes all of them to act awkward, making the first day of training ridiculous and reveals how much the latter two like one another. (8) Later they try to figure out how to trigger Chloe's powers by throwing objects at her, but it only works when Pete is the one in danger of being hit. (9) Seeing her powers work scares Chloe, making her doubtful of the training and whether it would accelerate her amorality; Pete however, reassures her by showing her that her integrity is her number one asset. (10) The next day, Pete and Clark fight over the origins of Chloe's powers; In order to shut them up, she uses and learns how to utilize her mind control with ease; All three of them sit in the Talon to discuss the next step and, after a humiliating run in with the ever brazen Lois, have to regroup at the house.

(11) That same night, Pete is unable to sleep and we learn that he hasn't been for a while, staying up to think about Chloe's impending death and her inability to beat her disease. (12) After going out on a junk food run several days later, Clark and Pete return to the house to find Chloe unconscious, willing all the objects in the room to float; Clark approaches her, finding that a invisible shield is protecting her body, and rashly punches through it in an effort to save her, which causes a huge shock wave to be unleashed; Pete loses consciousness and awakes to learn that Chloe has locked herself upstairs in Clark's room; Pete finds out that Chloe had gotten upset after seeing an email from her mother that said that Chloe's mind power controlled her second power and that also bid her goodbye just before her death; Re-reading this makes Chloe upset and she leaves the house for a few hours to blow off some steam. (13) Excited that Chloe can now control her abilities with all this new information, the three of them resume training four days later, but when Chloe doesn't perform as well as a fearful Pete expects, he yells at her and decides to go home before everything gets worse. (14) Finding himself in a haggard bar downtown, Pete realizes that this is not the place for him, instead walking towards his high school to review memories. (15) Pete returns to the Kent farm, now resolved to defeat destiny along with Mrs. Kent who after seeing Chloe's talents volunteers to aide in the effort.

(16) Mrs. Kent's teachings help Chloe a great deal and give her a moral compass to guide her; [Description of note passing key. (17) Weeks after vigorous routines, Chloe is now able to maintain, conceal, and handle her powers to all extents. (18) Mrs. Kent gets invited to a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and takes the kids with her. (19) Now that they are finally together and everything is at peace, Clark must complete his year long training at the Fortress of Solitude; Meanwhile, an article Chloe writes for the DP sends Lex Luthor underground and in turn forces Chloe herself to go into hiding after she receives numerous threats from below; Lois Lane is kidnapped, which is widely televised, and is tortured until she tells her captors where her cousin is and Chloe is then subsequently taken. (20) Clark comes back from training to find that Chloe has been missing for two months and no one has any idea where she is; He tracks down Pete who has been working diligently on his own trying to locate her, but he has gotten nothing; Exasperated, Clark goes back to his loft to think and there he uncovers a note that reads, "Welcome to the war, Clark. I hope we didn't keep you waiting too long."; Clark takes the address attached and follows it to an old car junk yard just outside Metropolis; Chloe is waiting for him there along with Lex who has apparently been drugging her for sometime to keep her lucid but under his control; However, we learn that Chloe is not being manipulated anymore (she has gotten stronger an inverse side affect to the drugs), she was just with Lex to draw Clark to her; "I honestly can't understand why the others have gone after weak, harmless humans. What's the point of attacking them? Where's the challenge?" "And you see a challenge here?" "Of course! I'm here to measure my skill, my cap on my potential. Haven't you ever been the slightest bit curious, Clark[She begins to rise in the air In a battle against the strongest physical force and the most powerful mental being, who wins?"; Clark tries to punch through her force field again but her energy stops his hand and throws him backwards; Clark gets his ass kicked until he uses his heat vision as a last resort, which sufficiently stops her but also puts her into a coma.

(21) Clark and Pete go to visit Chloe in the hospital where she is dying slowly; Pete feels terrible because in the dream they had more time and he feels guilty about accelerating the process; Clark also is pressured with guilt for using his heat vision but Pete tells him it was the drugs Lex had her on for so long that rotted her body so quickly. (22) Pete confesses to Clark his real reason for returning to Smallville (his dream) and he tells Clark that when they had both come together like this less than an hour later Chloe went into cardiac arrest and died; Afraid of losing his chance, Clark leaves, making the decision to go see his biological father, Jor-el, for an answer; Jor-el tells Clark not to trifle with human lives, because many would be lost during his life time as they had always been and doing so was a dangerous endeavor; Clark retorts that he helped this same human being before, which leads Jor-el to reveal that Chloe was in fact "chosen" to be connected to Clark, to be a guide on his journey and it was why he had allowed the interference earlier; Clark argues that she still holds this importance and that if she died he would not be able to continue on his destiny; Though Jor-el is still skeptical, he acknowledges that there is one way to save her if she means to Kal-el what he claims she does. "However, this object is not here." "Then where is it?" "Many millennia ago, when our people first traveled to this Planet, several artifacts of great significance were left behind for human use." "I know Kryptonian alloy doesn't weather with time but given how long it's been it could be anywhere by now." "I'm sorry my son, but there is nothing else I can do. If it is written for her to perish than that is what will be."; Refusing to believe that, Clark takes this, what he believes is his last chance, "Alright then, describe it to me."; A smile plasters on his face when he realizes that the search won't be that difficult after all, because not only has he seen it before he has had it all along. (23) If Clark uses the Kawatchee tribe bracelet on Chloe—based on Jor-el's descriptions— it will erase all of her memory because as it turns out this is the only way to rid her mind of the corruption the mutations have caused; After Clark says his good-byes and slips a small paper in her hand, Chloe begs him never to tell anyone because it will compromise her integrity and seriousness as a journalist if anyone knew. (24) After Clark promises and saves Chloe he flies her down to Metropolis General and ensures that she get inside for care; When Chloe is taken in, one of the interns pulls the piece of paper out of her hand and she reacts by shouting and groping at it incoherently; Seeing this, one of the nurses confiscates the sheet and notices that it is some sort of code because the majority of the letters are normal but jumbled in with several backwards symbols, "2101?"; Though she is determined to figure it out she realizes that it must have been written for the unknown girl's use only; Another fellow nurse comes into the room and peaks over the former nurse's shoulder; "What're you doing, Elaine?" "What?" "You're reading that backwards." She grabs the paper from her nonchalantly and flips it over. "See?" She hands it back to Elaine who is awestruck by the words; "Helen, Oh my God. Do you see this?" Helen reads the words for the first time. "I guess she's no Jane Doe after all." Elaine stands up in a hurry, ripping the paper to shreds and tossing it away in the bin, "No, not at all. Not at all." The first thing she resolves to do is freshen up, its time to call the newspapers.

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(25) Many years in the future, Pete holds a press conference announcing himself the Vice President on Candidate Luthor's ticket; He sees a blonde haired girl that reminds him of Chloe and though her name isn't recognizable he listens to her question intently; He calls the conference to an end when a different reporter calls out to him; Her voice catches his attention and though his manager says that the session is over he is compelled to listen; She announces herself as "Lois Lane of the Daily Planet" and Pete tells us what happened to the real Lois who was beaten and tortured to death by his running mate; An awfully tall man stands next to her, wearing heavy black glasses; Pete smiles to himself, noticing the similar recognition and contempt on the man's face.

"It was destiny that I'd come back that day and destiny that she was standing here of all places today.

And seeing where destiny took all three of us: the hero, the reporter, and the politician…

I'm not so scared of it anymore."

FINIS