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Later that night, Chloe nervously waited for Bruce. She found herself inspecting her handy work in a mirror. She was aiming for sexy, but not too sexy and she didn't want to look like she had tried very hard. Being beautiful was actually a lot of work. Most women didn't roll out of bed looking sexy. She sighed and ran her hand down her skirt to smooth out the wrinkles.

"Chloe, you look beautiful." Bruce complimented her as he entered the room. That was a good thing, but surprised her.

"Thanks. You do too, as always." Chloe smiled at him and walked over to stand closer to him.

"Have any more luck with your book?" Bruce inquired.

Chloe nodded enthusiastically. "I did. I enjoy writing a lot. It's freeing. In fiction, anything is possible. That's an amazing feeling."

Bruce looked at her seriously for a moment. "That's true. Things that are normally impossible happen in stories. Things like Batman."

Chloe cocked her head at an angle and looked at him. "Except that he's real." Chloe corrected.

"And happy endings." Bruce said as if he hadn't heard her.

"Those are real too." Chloe corrected him. "What people forget, is that they aren't easy. Happy endings and fairy tales are not the same thing. Just because something is hard work doesn't mean it isn't worth it or that it doesn't exist."

Bruce looked at her then. He studied her deeply. Chloe found herself wanting to look away from the intensity in his eyes, but she couldn't. "And trust, Chloe. Relationships are built on trust."

"I know and agree with you on that. I don't think you can ever truly love someone that you don't also trust or that didn't trust me. How would you ever really know someone when there wasn't mutual trust?" Chloe asked. They stared at each other in silence for a moment. Bruce finally broke it, when he spoke.

"Do you trust me, Chloe?"

She licked her lips before answering, "Of course. I trust you completely." She was scared to move for fear that their conversation would cease; it felt like any movement would break the moment and Bruce would close himself off again.

"I love you." He told her then looked at as if he was weighing his words carefully. "I love you absolutely, that means that I should trust you too." Again, there was a pause and Chloe held her breath tensely. "Chloe…I'm Batman." Bruce looked so serious, so morose, but Chloe couldn't stop the small smile that crept over her face. Bruce misinterpreted her grin and asserted, "I'm not kidding. I'm Batman."

Chloe practically flew over to him. Closing the small space between them, she hugged him to her tightly. Then she laughed, it was a sound of pure joy. Bruce returned her embrace, but pulled away slightly after a moment and gave her an odd expression.

"I know. I've known for a little while, I just needed you to tell me. I needed you to trust me." Her words caused her to smile again broadly and she found herself on the verge of tears, her joy was so great. "And now you have."

He shook his head, he still looked confused. "You know?"

"Mmmhmm…" she answered then leaned up to place a small kiss on his lips. "I figured it out right after you dumped me. I was in an ice cream/beer induced stupor and suddenly it all hit me." She rubbed her hand through his hair, messing the simple style. "And it all made sense. Every weird thing you'd ever done and all your cryptic comments. I was pretty sure that you loved me, so I just needed to make you see that you could trust me."

He pulled her hands away from him and shoved her away gently. His voice was upset, "You did all this for me - all the changes in your life?"

Chloe pulled a face that conveyed her disbelief. "Hardly. I made those changes for me. I've kept other huge secrets when I was a reporter. It wouldn't have been too difficult to have kept yours. I told you that writing fiction makes me happy."

He reached out and pulled her over to the couch with him. "These other secrets…what are they?"

Chloe moved to straddle his lap and cocked her head to the side. "I can't tell!!" She told him with mock outrage.

"Like Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow?" Bruce had said it just to see her reaction and he was not disappointed. A tiny noise escaped her mouth and it opened and closed a few times before she managed to speak.

"How did you know that?" Chloe was stunned.

"He told me. That explains a lot about your past. He's why you came to Gotham though, so I should thank him." Bruce rested his hands on her thighs softly.

"You should." Chloe agreed and leaned down to kiss him. "I wasn't kidding before when I said that I believe in happily every after, Bruce."

He grinned, "Good, because I don't plan on letting you get away from me again. I think it's pretty obvious that I'm not afraid of putting in the effort to make it all work."

"Thank God! I really do love you." Chloe told him again and flashed him a brilliant smile.

THE END

And just to rant a bit again about Smallville…really, Chloe was in it for at most 5 minutes. Very lame and I just don't get it. I hope that you're right, Rachet, about them having Chloe help Oliver because that would be interesting. Otherwise the show pretty much sucks at the moment. That's too harsh I know, but it's just not the same. If they kick Chloe off, it will just be weird! No Lex or Chloe?? (BTW, they could've been another interesting couple.) Notice I didn't mention Lana…thank God she's gone!! J