Other Pairings: None
Genre: angst, romance
Incarnation: Chloe/Clark
Timeline: season 4
Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 2498; Read Count: 3613; Completed: Yes
An alternate universe story.
What if Clark Kent wasn't raised by the Kents? The whloe world is turn upside down, a completely different world.
Clark fears outliving everyone he loves.
Summary:
When Clark rescues a traumatised Chloe as she flees from Davis, they share a passionate and emotional encounter which reveals the depth of their feelings for each other. But their reunion is short-lived as an abandoned and obsessed Doomsday goes on the rampage, causing death to several including Jimmy. Wracked with guilt, Clark departs for his training in the Arctic with Jor-El, turning his back on the woman he loves. But he left behind a whole lot more than he could have ever dreamed possible…
"So when you come back, maybe it would be a good idea for you and I to take a little step back. To try to get along without relying on each other so much." Chloe thinks about the "Vessel" kiss.
Clark is dead, and Chloe tells their child about him.
Chloe makes the ultimate sacrifice for Clark. Clark makes the ultimate sacrifice for the world.
Chloe isn't this world's Lois Lane.
Based on the Crusade Verse which can be found in its entirety here:
http://chloefanfiction.com/viewseries.php?seriesid=5
Zod's lieutenants arrive in the black ship, threatening everything Kal-El and Clark hold dear and forcing Clark to make an impossible choice.
Clark falls for Chloe, but she's not completely over Jimmy.
This is the most burdensome gift of the yellow sun. It gives him the means, and therefore the responsibility, to choose.
His behavior is strange, and yet Chloe Sullivan feels like she's been missing this man all her life. But he's just a beautiful stranger...