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Impress
14th July 2003, 19:40
Title: My Best Friend

Author: Imp

Rating: PG

Category: Friendship

Spoilers: Anything through season two is fair game.

Summary: Chloe's best friend

Disclaimer: Don't own smallville or any of the characters. If I
did, well let's just say Fi, Kris, Sabby, and Blue would be giving
there smut muses quite a work out.

Archive: BT2, anyone else please ask.

Feedback: If you feel like putting fingers to keyboard.

A/N: This is a challenge from the list mom at BT2.

Dedication: For Peggy, thanks for the challenge, for Kris because
she complained I never write anything, and for Fi, well just because.


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Chloe Sullivan sat at her desk looking but not seeing, the newspaper spread out before her. It was the summer before her last year in college and Chloe had chosen to take a paid summer internship at Smallville’s only newspaper, The Ledger. Many people, her cousin
Lois and Perry White especially, had been surprised when she had turned down the internship at the Daily Planet. But when she had explained to Mr. White that she felt it would aid her journalistic skills if she were familiar with the inner workings of both a large
and small newspaper, he had seemed to understand. She couldn’t be certain, and one rarely could with someone like Perry White, but she thought that maybe he had been a bit impressed with her answer.

Chloe focused once again on the front-page article and a smile spread across her face.

LexCorp’s Expansions Revitalize Smallville, by Chloe Sullivan.

She slowly traced her fingers over the ‘by Chloe Sullivan’ unable to stop the warmth that flowed through her. The fact that millions wouldn’t be reading her article in no way hampered Chloe’s sense of
pride and accomplishment at having her first real front page story. She in no way felt guilty at having used her relationship with her father and her friendship with Lex, to gather information that the other reporters at the Ledger hadn’t been able to get. Any reporter worth their salt knows you use whatever connections and skills you have to get a story.

The only thing that could mar the moment, if she allowed it, was the fact that she didn’t have Clark, Pete, or even Lana to share her joy with. Her relationship, friendship or otherwise, with the farm boy
had never gotten back on track after their falling out. She remembered how pissed she had been at the way he had been treating her and that once again he had chosen Lana over her. She could also remember crying herself to sleep that night, but waking up the next
morning feeling freer than she had in a long time.

Thoughts of Clark naturally led her to thinking about Lana, the town princess. The one everyone seemed to think was all sweetness and innocence had betrayed her. Or at least that’s how Chloe had seen it. They had made a pact to not let Clark interfere with their
friendship. Chloe had always thought that meant they would at least discuss getting into a relationship with Clark before it actually happened. Instead Lana had gone to Clark on his birthday and kissed him. Chloe had to discover them in Clarks Fortress of Solitude kissing. And even after she had confronted Clark, Lana never once said she was sorry for not telling her. Chloe had never been able to bring herself to be close to Lana again.

But of the three, the loss of Pete’s friendship hurt the
worst. She had been relieved when she realized that Pete wasn’t going to choose Clark over her. Nor was he going to choose her over Clark. And Chloe was fine with that. She had needed Pete to help her get through the teenage soap opera their lives seemed to have become. And he did. Though they didn’t hang out as much, since Pete had to divide his time between her, Clark, and Lana, Pete was still her best friend. Still, she wasn’t able to stop the slightly hurt feeling when she saw Clark, Pete, and Lana hanging out much like her,
Pete, and Clark did. Nor was she able to stop a sense of abandonment when the three of them would go see a movie she wanted to see or would have movie nights at one of their houses. But something good did come
out of the time Pete spent with Clark and Lana. Her relationship with Lex Luthor changed.

It started out slowly. They seemed to run into each other more often. At first it was just verbal judo. Not that she minded. She always enjoyed those rare moments when they would match wits. Then they
started meeting for coffee. Eventually, they started hanging out, watching movies, playing games, (she still finds it funny that until she came along, Lex never played go fish). Soon they were opening up to each other. They talked about everything and about nothing. It wasn’t uncommon for one of them to call the other late at night to discuss a particularly bad day.

Through out it all she still had Pete. Or rather she thought she did. But Pete had an inherent distrust of all things Luthor. It wasn’t long before Pete began making comments about her relationship with Lex. He made no effort to hide the fact he didn’t like that she was friends with a Luthor and seemed to go out of his way to point
out every wrong ever done by anyone with the last name Luthor. Chloe had asked him to leave Lex out of their friendship. She pointed out that her relationship with Lex shouldn’t affect them just like his relationship with Clark didn’t affect them. For a while it seemed to
work though Chloe could tell he still didn’t like it. Everything came to a head one day when Pete demanded Chloe chose between him and Lex. To this day Chloe still can’t figure out what set Pete off. At
the time Chloe had been too shocked and then angry to do anything but leave the Talon where they had been talking. Her first thought had been to talk to her best friends. She immediately headed to Lex.

She had been fortunate enough to find Lex working from home that day. He patiently sat and listened to her. When she was done she just looked at him. What he said surprised her.

“If ending our friendship is the only way to save your friendship with Mr. Ross then consider our friendship at an end.”

Chloe could only stare at him open-mouthed. Finally she managed to sputter out a rather confused “What?”

“Chloe, I know how much Mr. Ross means to you and how important it is to you not to lose your best friend.”

That was a moment of revelation for the future reporter. She had never once asked Pete to choose between her and Clark but Pete had demanded she choose between him and Lex. And here Lex was ready to give up their friendship so she could be happy. In that moment she made a choice.

“You’re right Lex,” she remembered saying, “I can’t lose my best friend. I can’t lose you.”

It had been one of the few times shock had registered on a Luthor’s face.
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“Are you Chloe Sullivan?”

The deep voice of the man standing beside her desk snapped Chloe out of her memories.

“Yes, I’m Chloe Sullivan.”

“Please sign here.”

It was only then that Chloe realized the man was carrying a package. She took it from him and didn’t bother to see if he had left before she opened it. When she saw the contents, tears came to her eyes. Within the tissue was a matted and framed copy of her article. She noticed the note attached and wiping any tears before they could fall, opened it.

By Chloe Sullivan. Has a nice ring to it. I know you got the first issue right off the presses but I wanted you to have one that wouldn’t yellow with time. Hope you like it.

Lex

PS Meet me at the mansion for dinner so we can celebrate.

Chloe’s heart warmed with love. Yes she may have lost Clark, Pete, and Lana, but Lex was worth more than the three of them combined. Chloe quickly gathered her stuff, including the framed and unframed copies of her article, and headed out to celebrate with her best
friend.

The End.
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kidkarmina
14th July 2003, 20:39
Aaawww! That was very well done :biggrin: ! It was sad and happy at the same time. I really enjoyed reading this (and it was sweet to know that I'm the first one to post a response) :blinkkiss: !

:chlexsign1: all the way, at least for me. However, it is really too bad she had to lose everyone else in order to have a friendship with him. Oh well....she's better off, I think :wub: !!

drina
15th July 2003, 06:43
This is so good...a bit sad and heartwarming at the same time.

Tandy
18th July 2003, 05:41
Oh, so bittersweet! But Chloe is right Lex is worth a hell of a lot more than Lana,Pete, Clark combined!

Tandy

Gemini
21st July 2003, 06:37
:biggrin: I liked this a lot! It's one of those things that you could actually imagine happening.

lunaluthor
21st July 2003, 21:43
lovely sweet story I like the mixture of joy and sadness which lies underneath

great :biggrin:

SinnerSaint
8th November 2003, 11:36
:wub: Beyond sweet and I love it. Stories like this one make you remember times when there was that one person you could always count on .

WolviesLover
9th November 2003, 04:18
Stupid Pete. Asking her to choose between two friends just isn't cool. *kicks him* I love the Chlex friendship. He's so thoughtful. More soon, I hope! :chlexsign4:

happy bunny
9th November 2003, 07:19
I really love this. It's something I could completely see actually happen. And you gotta love Lex, he's such a sweetie. Wonderful fic.

Val
9th November 2003, 18:41
That was really cute! Lex is worth more then anyone in Smallville! hehehe

Robyn
9th November 2003, 20:18
“You’re right Lex,” she remembered saying, “I can’t lose my best friend. I can’t lose you.”

AWWWWW! This story rocked. Chloe and Lex as best friends is just so awesome. :chlexsign1:

autumngold
10th November 2003, 07:03
This is such a great story! I love how you showed Lex and Chloe's friendship! Is it wrong for me to ask for a sequel? I'd really love for you to write about their friendship developing into something more!! :biggrin: :chlexsign4:

starmoon
29th April 2005, 19:43
i like lex and chloe being best friends and them being together forever.

~*~Tasha~*~
24th June 2006, 20:10
This was an awesome fic. It is sad that it came to a matter of choice between Pete and Lex ... but any friend that tells you that you have to choose one friend or another isn't really a true friend to you. Especially since Pete wanted to still have the friendship with Clark even though Clark wasn't friends with Chloe anymore. How hypocritical of Pete. Excellent story.

ggdoll18
25th June 2006, 07:42
so sweet! very cute

Alizaleven
26th June 2006, 07:44
Oh wow!! I think my favorite part was when Lex would have sacrificed his friendship with Chloe. It showed how much he cared for her to be happy, and if it meant that she'd be away from him but happy he'd risk it. Gosh.. such a great story. I loved it :D

kimmie
28th June 2006, 17:56
That was such a nice story. i love that Lex framed the article for her! Very nice!

-K-

Nonhalema
17th June 2007, 11:26
Grat work...liked the part where Lex said Mr. Ross...showed that he dislikes Pete as much as Pete dislikes him (my opinion anyway)

Ami Rose
14th February 2013, 10:39
Very cute

hfce
14th February 2013, 17:30
That was so sweet! How did miss this fic. It is over ten years old. LOL! Thanks for bumping this. :)