Dead Replacement

Show: Smallville
'Ship: Chlark
Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville. This is purely fanmade.

Chloe was dead and he is never going to go back. He doesn’t know what Jor-El thinks about it, and honestly he didn’t care. He should be dead. Superman paid his debt to the world for killing those people in the meteor shower. He has saved enough people in penance for all those people that were affected by his arrival. He could have been ok with continuing his work. He would be ok with being alive again. It didn’t really matter to him. What mattered was that she had to lose everything to give him that.

He isn’t going back. The ice castle will never come alive again. He doesn’t care that it’s his father. It’s just a memory, a robot that sounds like him. It isn’t him and it never will be. But because of a memory, Chloe is gone forever.

She went to Jor-El. She asked him to take her life to bring back Superman. Jor-El didn’t refuse, he probably didn’t even protest. Anything to have his son fulfill his “destiny”. Screw destiny, screw the world and screw everyone in it. She shouldn’t have had to make that decision.

She had had a destiny. She had had one that would have been far greater that his. He saved lives of people that were crazy enough to endanger them, but she had saved more. Her work, however insignificant to the world was far more important. She discovered crimes before they were committed. She saved lives before they needed saving. Superman just came in the nick of time; she on the other hand was always there. Days, weeks, sometimes even months before Superman even need to swoop in.

The JLU hadn’t really tried hard to stop her. They didn’t think she would have been able to save Superman. They didn’t think Superman had many weaknesses. How would they have known that Superman, no matter how inhuman he was, could still feel human.

Chloe was dead. Superman wasn’t. Chloe was dead. Clark Kent was reporting on it. She had a small corner on page thirteen. If it was up to him she would have been on page one, and taken up the entire paper. He could fill a book with how special she was. But it was still a fact.

Chloe was dead, and this time she wasn’t coming back.

The End.