Chloe left the bathroom feeling like a million bucks. She was still confused about JJ but a shower always made her feel better. Her nose picked up the scent of food as she wandered down the hall and she followed the aromas to the kitchen. A table was set and she smiled at the thoughtfulness.

"Oh dear god, it is you." A voice spoke from behind her. She turned sharply at a familiar voice. Standing next to the fire was a blond man one that looked so familiar but not quite. Her eyes said what her mouth couldn't articulate. "Tower, its me,A.C" he spoke softly as he made his way toward her. She gasped. He was older, more mature, and so alien.

"Fish stick?" she spoke softly.

"I haven't been called that in a lifetime."

"What happened to you? You're… old,"

"Destinguished." He corrected. She rushed into his arms and he held her. The grief for the years lost consuming him.

"I don't understand what's happening," she sobbed. He just held her and comforted her until the rumble of her stomach broke the silence. "Come on sit,eat and I'll tell you my story and then we can figure out yours." She nodded. She sat and he joined her as they dug into their meals.

"The battle with the Kandorian's was brutal. Clark was nearly defeated by Zod. We were all pretty much out manned, but thanks to your Green K armory he was defeated. Oliver was never the same after that. Yeah he was still GA and fought the good fight, but the guilt of not stopping your kidnapping and disappearance haunted him. He found a good woman, married and moved on, but he was different. You'll meet his lineage soon enough." He smiled.

"And Clark, I mean JJ is like his…speaking of JJ where is he?"

"He had an emergency" A.C spoke tapping his ear.

"Ohhhhhhhhh, what about you?" Chloe looked over at him. A.C was always hot, but as an older man he was down right yummy looking.

"Well that gets a little more complicated for you." He smiled as he took a bite of his chili. "You all knew I was a meta but I never explained my origins." He shrugged. "I came from Atlantis. As a matter of fact my mother and father were royals."

"You were the Prince of the Sea and never said anything?" she smiled.

"Would it have mattered? I was still pretty lost trying to find my way in the world. Oliver gave that too me. He gave me direction. It was about 10 years later, my Uncle who was King got sick and I had to take over."

"Did you ever marry? Have kids?" Chloe asked. "Wait, how long have I been gone, what year is this?" A.C took a good long drink of his wine and sighed.

"January 22, 2110." He spoke soflty and Chloe's face paled.

"A hundred years, I've been gone a hundred years?" she started to hyperventilate. "Lois, Ollie," she stood and moved to the fire place. A.C followed slowly. "You have to send me back. Clark proposed, we were going to get married. Do you know how long I waited for that?" she turned to face him as tears streamed down her face.

"I do baby girl, I do. This isn't like you were flashed to another time or a different dimension. I'm not sure how this happened to you but time moved on past you while you slept or whatever." He spoke putting a hand on her face.

"But my family? Clark?" she whispered.

"First things first, ok. We need to get you to the tower and to Gerald Klein." His tone was soft.

"You aren't going to tell me what happened to Clark?"

"I can." JJ spoke entering the room in full Superman regalia. A.C turned and smiled as Chloe's face colored.

"You do that kid and I'll head to the Tower to get things ready. Bring her in the morning." He smiled at JJ. Chloe frowned and A.C turned to face her. "I'm probably your oldest friend," he smiled. "And I'll help you through this. I can't believe your alive side kick." He then kissed her forehead gently and turned and left the room.

The silence between JJ and Chloe was painful. "So you run around in your jammies often?" she asked staring back into the fire.

"If you disappeared during the battle, than you never got to meet Superman." He spoke.

Chloe chuffed "Superman, really?" she smiled.

"I didn't pick it out, it apparently came from Lois Lane."

Chloe gasped, "You aren't….i mean.."

"No, I am not a descendant of Lois and Clark." He smiled. Chloe seemed relieved.

"But Lois? My god what did she think? What did she do?"

"Look," he smiled slightly embarrassed at her staring at the emblem on his chest. "Let me slip into something not so flashy and I can tell you Clark's story ok?" he smiled. Chloe nodded and JJ left the room to go and change. Chloe shook her head. She had been away for a hundred years. Her last memory was of Clark and his proposal, now this guy who was nearly his twin and it broke her heart. She sat in front of the fire and the tears began to fall. Falling for the lost time, her lost love, her lost identity, her lost team, except for A.C and her lost life. She lost out on growing old and leaving this world. What would become of her now. The sobs snuck up on her and then she couldn't stop as her breath struggled to come for the tears. She had been engaged for all of 10 hours, it was like 2 days ago she was at her happiest two days turned into 100 years.

"Chloe?" the voice spoke entering the room. He was carrying a bottle of wine a glass and a box of tissues.

"Sorry," she sniffled trying to get control of her emotions.

"Why in Gods name are you apologizing to me. I'm really surprised that you lasted this long with out crying." He sat at the opposite end of the couch, handed her the box of tissues and then poured himself a glass of wine and set the bottle down. "Every child in the Kent clan knows this story." He paused. "Clark searched the world for you for at least a year. There was no trace, no clue, nothing. So on the anniversary of the battle, Your family, Lois, Clark and the JL had you declared dead. I'm sure A.C told you that Oliver Queen wasn't the same after that, neither was his relationship with Clark. Clark devoted himself to his training and came back to become Superman."

"Lois gave him that title?"

"Yeah," he smiled and took a drink. "Lois tried to stay in the reporting game, but the loss of you was too much for her to bear, so she left, married an officer in the Army and raised some kids. Lois lived to be nearly 80 when she succomed to old age." The tears were falling again. "Grandpa Clark well he tried the love thing with grandma, Lana." Chloe shook her head, that pain was too much. "It didn't last, they divorced right after my dad was born. Lana couldn't quite live up to your shadow, and she folded under the pressure. Plus with Grandpa's hero duties, it proved to be fatal to the relationship. He never remarried after that, he did the hero thing until he passed away in his sleep at the age of 100. We all speculated it was from a broken heart, he made sure that we all knew about Chloe, his great love." He smiled. Chloe was sniffling and wiping tears from her eyes. "My dad and mom live in New York, he's a litigation attorney, she's a cop."

"D..Doesn't he have powers?"

"Yeah, but the cape and stuff were never his thing. Grandpa understood that. My dad and mom had another child, would have been my older brother but he died very young. So they decided to take the adoption route, and I have 3 younger siblings, 2 brothers and a sister."

"Do they know about?" Chloe traced an S on her chest.

"Yeah, normal as normal can be, but so very supportive of me and my gig."

"I never got to see Bart grow up." She frowned.

"Bart did in fact grow up to become the Flash out of Edge City. He was great; he married a forensic scientist and had 3 kids. His grandkids are on the JL now too." It warmed Chloe's heart to know Bart did well for himself.

"Vic?"

"Never really recovered from your disappearance, he contracted a computer virus and well he died before he was 45."

"Oh god, I told him to be careful," Choe's heart broke for her tin man.

"Oliver had kids, did he and Dinah?..."

"Oh good grief no" JJ spoke smiling. "He found a match with an X-men. She was a telekinetic, and was as big a handful as he was. He tried to keep up the fight, but it was obvious that he missed you."

"Dinah?" Chloe asked even though the information was too much.

"She disappeared after the battle, and no one heard anything until her daughter showed up. She married, had a couple of kids, and was content to live her life in anonymity."

"This is horrible, and how is A.C still around. He's the freaking King of Atlantis, Really?"

"I'm surprised he didn't tell you that." He frowned.

"I was blasting questions at him faster than he could think," she blushed.

"I was told that about you," he smiled. "We all were."

"Jason right?" she asked. He nodded. "I like that better than JJ." That made him blush.

"I missed Clark learning to be the hero I knew he could be." She spoke wistfully.

"He never really gave up hope that you would be found."

"I was declared dead?" she whined.

"Because it helped them all to grieve." He replied. "It gave them an outlet to say good bye. There is however a time capsule buried in the back yard of the Tower. They stuffed it full of things and memories and letters for you. When we go over tomorrow, we could dig it up."

"I don't know if I'm ready for that," she whispered.

"Well its there if you want it." He spoke and she yawned.

"Thanks, Jason, for everything."

"Nothing to thank me for," he poured another glass of wine and drank it while she tried to absorb all she learned about the team.

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"Chloe," Clark's voice echoed in her ears. The tears filled her eyes and she wanted to die. They were standing in a field of wild flowers. She was dressed in her wedding gown he in jeans, blue shirt and red jacket. He reached out to her almost touching her but not quite.

"I'm alive, why did you give up on me?" she cried.

"I looked and looked for you baby." He spoke a frown on his face.

"Not hard enough, not long enough."

"I looked and looked for you baby." He repeated.

"But you didn't find me,."

"Chloe" he spoke, then it was like the sound was turned off`. His lips were moving and she couldn't hear a word he said.

"Clark?" she shouted. He reached toward her again but he was further away. "Why did you give up on me?" she yelled. The distance between them was greater. She tried to run toward him and got tangled up in her dress and fell. "Don't go, don't leave me…"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO," Chloe spoke sitting up dripping with sweat. Jason entered the room to see the frightened and wide eyed look on her face. He knelt by her bed side waiting for her to calm down.

"You okay?"

"How'd I get here?" she asked looking like a lost child.

"Here where? The bedroom or this house?" She chuckled at how her question must have sounded to him.

"The bedroom, last thing I remember I was sitting on the couch."

"Ahh, whew well you were you then got sleepy and laid down fell asleep almost as soon as your head hit the pillows." He paused, a blush reaching his cheeks. "I brought you here thinking the couch wouldn't be so comfortable."

"Ohhh," she frowned and then shivered.

"You wanna talk about your dream?"

"Not really,"

"Alright." He stood and stretched. He was going to leave when he cocked his head and shook it.

"You gotta go?"

"Yeah, I do."

"Go," she tried to smile which only made him frown. " I'll be fine."

"Really?"

"Yeah, promise."

"Alright, I won't be long, if you need anything…"

"If I get into trouble I promise that I will shout for help." She smiled.

"Ok," he spoke and left the room, a few seconds later a sonic boom could be heard over the cabin. Chloe just shook her head. Her heart was hurting for the loss of Clark, the dream was real, so very real and it felt like part of her soul had died.

She flopped backwards on the bed and pulled the blankets up to her chin, her entire world had just been upended, and she was totally and utterly lost. A.C was the only thing familiar to her and even he wasn't the same. She yawned, stretched, and turned on her side and fell into a very light sleep.

Chloe woke to the smell of heaven, the smell of coffee. She opened her eyes and it took a minute to figure out where she was, and her spirits fell. Day one in world without Clark and her boys. The tears threatened to fall, and she gasped at the pain. She sat up when nature called. On the chair in the corner she saw a bath towel with toiletries stacked on top and clothes draped over the back. She shook her head fighting a smile. She crawled out of bed, grabbed everything and made her way into the rooms' bathroom.

JJ was trying not to listen to her, but her heart beat was like a siren song. He had never felt like this for or about anyone. He wanted everything to be perfect for her but knew she had a long road from her past to the present. He continued making breakfast at normal speed to ease his nerves at seeing the one he knew as Watchtower again. He made himself a plate and then poured himself a cup of coffee and sat at the kitchen table. He pulled out a lap top and began to read the days news.

"Good morning," Chloe spoke as she entered the kitchen. JJ smiled and closed his lap top and stood to put his dishes into the sanitizer. Chloe made her way to the coffee pot and poured coffee into the cup waiting for her.

"There is bacon and eggs under the covered plate. When you're ready, we can head into the Tower to meet with Dr. Klein." He spoke softly. Chloe nodded, blushing at what the timbre of his voice was doing to her.

"Thank you," she spoke carrying her cup and the plate to the table. "I didn't hear you come back last night, how was your emergency?"

"Quick," he spoke returning to the table with another cup of coffee, "And I know how to be very quiet." He winked at her and smirked. Chloe just shook her head and dug into her breakfast. Chloe finished and JJ took her dishes and set them into the sanitizer. "You ready to go?" he spoke standing and putting his coffee cup away.

"As ready as I'll ever be," she stood and went to where he stood. "So how are we getting to the Tower?"

JJ smiled and spun into the red and blue clad superhero. "We fly of course," he scooped her up into his arms and stepped out of the open door and onto the back patio.

"You mean?"

"Yup, Grandpa Clark's legacy." He then leaped into the air and flying them toward Watchtower.

Chloe clung to JJ in wonder. They were passing the world by in a steady pace. The freedom that he must feel to do this, the joy of not being bound to any of the normal rules of man. It made her heart ache even more, she missed out on Clark learning to fly, to use his powers to their fullest.

"If you think any harder you're probably going to give yourself a brain cramp." JJ spoke looking down at his passenger.

"Sorry, this," she paused, "Is amazing; the freedom…"

"I never got what the big deal was until I developed my ability. My dad never flew much and Grandpa Clark well he took me up but not a lot." He shrugged.

"I never got to see Clark's first flight," she frowned.

"I can't even begin to know what you're going through." He paused trying to collect his thoughts. "I'll help you however I can."

Chloe saw the genuine smile on his face, and sadness in his eyes. He was a Kent, nearly a twin of Clark's. Her body betrayed her by responding to the strength of his arms and the grace of his mobility. She had just lost her fiancée, time had been stolen from her, her life had been stolen from her, how could she be wanting some one else already.

"Thank you," she whispered politely and lost herself in the world as they slid past it.