Chlark - Reunion - Version II

Chloe sighed from where she stood in a circle of bright, happy people, chatting and laughing enthusiastically. She had a while ago stopped trying to keep up in the conversation of these people so unlike her, people who had grown up, like Bruce Wayne, the host of the particular charity dinner she was attending, surrounded by money and blessed with exceptional beauty. She, quite to the contrary, was, in her opinion, of average prettiness and had been born in a big city, Metropolis, only to move away and grow up instead in a small hick town in Kansas, quite aptly named ‘Smallville’.

But how she had got from insignificant yet ambitious little girl, to a successful, high ranking, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter was an interesting, and rather strange tale by all standards. On her very first day at Smallville Junior High, she had met the three people that would change her life forever. Lana Lang, Pete Ross…and Clark Kent. They had not immediately seen she was new, and hadn’t been born among them, and dismissed her as the prissy girl not to talk to. They had put up with her slightly pompous attitude, seeing the bright, enthusiastic, good person she was beneath.

As the time past, through all the secrets and lies, the romance and jealousy, the three of them remained close. That was until Pete and his mother left for Wichita, later she found out, after crumbling under the weight of Clark’s mighty secret, and being kidnapped and an FBI agent trying to beat the information out of him. Luckily, even after Clark told her that he was an al- intergalactic traveler, she never found herself in a situation anything like that.

Later on, by the time she was well used to Clark being so different and able to do so many otherwise impossible and fantastic things, there was still Clark’s deep set, depressingly devoted feelings for Lana Lang to help him through, who at one time he had dated, and then, seemingly half way between being scared of smashing her to bits and unsure if he really just loved the idea of her more than loved the girl herself. Then ironically, Lana moved straight on to Lex Luthor, Clark’s ex best friend, and now mortal enemy, later marrying him, becoming pregnant with his baby, then losing it.

But now, 5 years on, she was working at the Gotham Gazette, having escaped Smallville, shortly after the death of Lana, who had miscarried she and Lex’s second attempt at a family, and died of fever on Christmas eve, an unfortunate time for her fate to be sealed. Her announcement that she was leaving had caused an uproar in her hometown, especially since her discovery that she had meteor freak genes, and that her unknown power might someday manifest, making her go insane.

Contact with Clark and Lois had been minimal. Sure, they’d sent birthday cards, had telephone calls, email and IM chats, but it was safe to say that Chloe Sullivan hadn’t seen her two remaining best friends for the best of half a decade. She knew that the pair of them, along with Jimmy, now both worked at the Daily Planet, where she had once worked, but with the leave of Oliver Queen, The Green Arrow, there had been nothing more interesting to write than obituaries, what she had first been famous for in her early days of working at the Planet.