A.N: This is it. The end. LOL. I want to say thank you to everyone that has read this and enjoyed it. I had fun writing it. I hope you had a blast reading it. I'm posting this up days early because school starts tomorrow and I'm not taking easy classes like I'd anticipated so who knows when I would have been able to update. I hope you enjoy this chapter. I loved writing this one specifically because I tried to tie in everything together. Well, enjoy read and review. :-)

Chapter 16

She shook from the cold and coughed roughly. She knew she was suffering from hypothermia. She had lost track of time and knew it had been almost a week since John had come around. She closed her eyes and shook again, lowering herself to the cold, damp ground.

She suddenly felt a pair of warm arms circle her waist and lift her up. She heard the cuffs being crushed, and then dropped to the ground. She felt a sudden harsh wind, and felt nauseas.

All she would remember later was seeing the black and white tile of Smallville Medical Center before deep sleep over took her.

~*~

He sat in an uncomfortable chair by her bedside with his hands folded in front of him. He wouldn't take his eyes off her. He hadn't left the room since she was admitted. He watched her quietly.

He almost didn't make it.

One more hour.

That's all the doctor told him.

One more hour that she was down there and she might not have survived, and he would have lost her for real this time.

But Lois Lane was a fighter and she wasn't going anywhere. Not on his watch. He sighed sadly and looked up when he heard the room's door opening quietly.

"Hey…"

"Hey Chloe", he said sitting back in the chair looking back at Lois sleeping form.

"How's she doing", Chloe asked.

He took a deep breath and proceeded to tell her what the doctor had told him earlier.

"She has a severe case of hypothermia", he started, "Her body temperature dropped one and a half degrees in the last week that she was gone. He says she wouldn't have been able to survive much longer, and that I found her just in time."

"Does he know when she'll wake up?"

"If she wakes up", he says, "It could be today, tomorrow or never… Right now it's up to her he says…"

"Clark", Chloe said sadly, "Lois is waking up. She's got too much to lose…"

He nodded.

"I know", he said.

"Is there anything I can do", she asked.

"Actually", he said, "Mom wants to be here… but I didn't want to leave her alone… can you stay with her so I can run and get my mom…"

"Sure", she nodded.

He nodded standing up, walking toward the door. He turned back around, "Call me if anything changes…"

"I will", she nodded.

Clark nodded and walked back toward Lois. He leaned over her body and placed a chaste kiss on her forehead.

"Come back to me", he whispered, then turned and super sped away.

~*~

Chloe was laying her head next to Lois on her bedside, sleeping when a soft noise awoke her. Thinking it was Clark she rubbed her eyes not turning around, "Hey, that was fast…"

"Chloe Sullivan."

She turned around at the unfamiliar voice.

"Who are you?"

The young blond woman walked toward her and smiled.

"You may not remember me", she said, "But we met some time ago… I'm Imra. And I am from the 31st Century."

Chloe leaned her head to the side in confusion.

"The future", she asked and suddenly images rushed back at her of two young men and this woman helping her, "You're… you're the Legion…"

Imra nodded softly.

"I am one part of the Legion", she said, "I came alone."

"Why are you here?"

"Our future is changed", she said softly, "Lois Lane's destiny was changed by unfortunate circumstances… I'm here to help her."

"Help her how", Chloe asked.

"I'm going to bring her back", Imra said slowly attempting to walk toward the hospital bed.

Chloe sidestepped her quickly.

"Maybe we should wait for Clark…"

"Kal-El can never know I was here", she said.

"Why", Chloe asked.

"He understands how time is very fragile, and he'd only feel guilt and fear of what is to come if he learns that I am here."

"Who sent you?"

"You did."

"I don't understand."

"In the future", Imra said slowly, "The future that is now, not the one I come from; you leave a manuscript for me. You beg me to come on this date, at this specific time to save Lois Lane. I am here because you sent me."

"Why would you listen to me", Chloe asked.

Imra smiled.

"Chloe, your destiny is far greater than you can imagine", she smiled, "We all listen to what you say…"

"I'm alive in the 31st Century?"

Imra lowered her gaze to the ground.

"Sadly, no", Imra said softly, "But your memory lives on… in our history books, in your manuscripts, in your decendants…"

Chloe smiled softly. She turned to her cousin lying still on the bed and looked at the steady, but faint monitor attached to her. She turned back to Imra.

"You really can help her", she asked.

"You know I can", Imra said softly.

Chloe nodded and stepped aside.

"You must trust me, Chloe", Imra said.

"I do", she nodded stepping back.

Imra bent over and hovered two fingers above Lois forehead. She closed her eyes focusing on the mind of Lois Lane.

"Lois", she said softly, "Lois…. If you can hear me… follow my voice…."

Chloe watched from the other side of the room with her arms folded in front of her.

"Lois, my name is Imra… I am a friend of yours and of Kal-El… I need you to follow my voice… You must return Lois… Kal-El needs you…"

Chloe bit the inside of her cheek.

"Lois", Imra tried again, "If you can hear me, I need you to follow-"

Lois' eyes snapped open. The monitor picked up her heartbeat a little stronger. Her blood pressure started to rise to that of a normal stature. She looked around and saw a woman she didn't recognize and then her cousin. She reached out her hand slowly and Chloe took it.

"Lois", Chloe sobbed smiling hugging her cousin tightly.

Imra stood back and watched the two women's reunion. She turned to leave when Chloe called out to her.

"Imra", Chloe said walking over to her, "Thank you."

She pulled the alien in for a tight hug and Imra wrapped her arms around her in return. She smiled when she realized that here she was with her world's two most important women. One would be the wife of the world's greatest hero and the other a hero's Watchtower.

~*~

Clark walked quickly down the halls of the Smallville Medical Center. He'd received a call from Chloe moments ago, that Lois was finally awake. He didn't care how it happened. All he wanted was to see her and hold her. He bounded straight through the door and stopped in his tracks when he saw her sitting on the bed with her cousin. She was smiling and talking, and didn't look like anything had been wrong with her only hours ago.

Both women looked up at him and Lois smiled brightly. Chloe looked from her cousin to her best friend and smiled standing up from the bed.

"I'll go keep Martha company", she said walking toward the door, "And give you guys some privacy."

She closed the door softly behind her. Clark slowly walked toward Lois and the bed and pulled her in for a tight hug.

"Clark", she said struggling to breathe, "Can't… breathe… too… tight…"

"Sorry", he whispered letting go and running his hand through her hair and down her cheek, "I thought I'd lost you…"

She touched her forehead to his.

"You'll never lose me, Smallville."

He smiled and cupped her face in his hands pulling her in for a deep, passionate kiss. Their lips met in a sigh and both smiled into it. Lois wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him closer, making him sit on the bed facing her.

They pulled away.

"Does this mean", she asked.

Clark smiled.

"Lois Lane", he smirked shaking his head, "Will you be my girlfriend?"

She made a pensive face.

"I have to think about it", she whispered.

He leaned into her.

"Oh really?"

She shrugged, "I've thought about it… c'mere…"

She pulled him in for deeper kiss holding his face in her hands and occasionally playing with the little hairs at the nape of his neck.

"I love you", he breathed into the kiss.

"I love you too, Smallville…"

~*~

February 8, 3012

Imra smiled at her familiar surroundings.

"How'd it go?"

She jumped and turned to find Garth leaning against a post smirking at her. She shook her head and walked up to him wrapping her arms around his neck.

"Lois Lane is safe", she smiled, "All's right with the world…"

He smiled wrapping his arms around her waist.

"Good thing you're back", he said, "Graym and Garridan missed you… I think they somehow know when you time jump…"

"I'm their mom, of course they know", she smiled.

"Yeah, well, I think it's the telepathy thing… and the fact that they're twins doesn't make it easier, sweetheart", Garth smirked, "Maybe they just pick up on how much I miss you…"

"I missed you too Garth", she smiled leaning in to kiss him sweetly, "Now, where are my sons… It's feeding time…"

Garth smiled letting her lead him toward the twin's bedroom.

THE END.