Title: SINFUL & FORBIDDEN
Short summary: "Oliver died during the Apocalypse leaving Chloe with millions... now she is a multi-mulionnaire, but she isn't happy. Her cousin, Lois is engaged to her best friend, Clark, what makes Chloe feeling uncomfortable beacuse she has no clue what to do with her life... Then, she encountes Lex Luthor who suprisingly doesn't remember her or anything else for that matter. That is a good news... when Clark told her that Lex was alive... she was scared... she was scared that her long hidden secret would finally be revealed... a secret involving Lex himself.
Now, she can help Lex and Clark doesn't have to know... and what is most important - NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW THEIR SECRET."
So, here I'm starting a new story. I didn't think I would write the first chapter so quickly but I was bored and then got inspired and... that how it started
OPENING CREDITS
If you liked my story (Don't)-Follow-Your-Heart about Chlex you will definitely like that one too!
CHAPTER 1 LIFE & DEATH
PROLOG:
"That was the day the boy turned into Superman…" I finish reading to my son.
"Wow…" he gasps in excitement.
I smile, close the comic book and kiss him in the head.
"Read again, please!" he asks me with his sweet childish voice.
I smile again and get up.
"There will always be more adventures for another day," I say to him and brush his cheek.
He falls asleep almost immediately and I walk out of the room turning the lights off… last glance at my son… last glace at the room… I see a bunch of arrows in the corner what makes me think about him… how long is it already? How long since he died?
I shake my head. I don't want to think about this now, not when I'm finally happy, I have a family…
I close the door and go to my bedroom.
"So… where were we…?" I ask and smile again…
*** *** ***
The door opened and somebody walked inside.
I knew exactly who that was. I didn't need to see her face, I was sure… Who else could be looking for me here and, especially, now?
"Something told me that I'd find you here," I heard her voice and my lips twitched, I almost laughed.
"I combed the lab and I saw what happened."
"Long time, sis," I finally spoke turning my chair around to face her.
I got up and got closer to her…
Then… after another couple of minutes of talking and 'reconciling' I stabbed her.
I had to.
"You know I'm actually saving you," I told her when I caught her when she was collapsing.
"From what?" she asked me still couldn't understand.
"From turning into me," I simply answered.
"It's too late… Clark already did that," she said putting her hand to my cheek.
Wait… what was it? Something cold… slippery… some…
I touched my cheek and there it was… on my hand… some gunge.
I looked at my dying sister, puzzled.
"It's the neurotoxin that you started at Sommerholt… it penetrates…" she started explaining but then I remembered.
"…dermal issue," I finished after her and felt dreadful fear running through me.
"Paralyzing all cognitive reception," Tess added.
"How long?" I asked her.
"30 seconds."
"What will I remember?"
"Nothing."
It dropped on me like a brick, like a death sentence.
I would remember nothing? Nothing at all? No… wait…
Too late…
***
Where were they? Where the hell were they?
I felt like I was going mad…
"Chloe… don't worry. He will save us," Emil was trying to calm me down.
"Something's wrong…" I said getting to my computer in the WatchTower to check the range to the fire planet one more time. "Something's really wrong… he should've done it by now… and Oliver still haven't checked in…"
"I'm sure they…"
"STOP!" I suddenly burst surprising even myself. I turned back to look at him. "Just… stop…" I repeated quietly this time. "You're not helping when you just keep trying to make me feel better… it's a waste of time… you better get to the other computer and check if Oliver…"
My phone rang.
"Oh! Thank God!" I answered it right away. "Clark?"
"Chloe… I have… there are… complications…" he sighed heavily.
"What do you mean there are complications? That planet is still heading toward the Earth and you're the only one who can stop it!" I was yelling again.
"Chloe… calm down… I just want to say… I met… well… Lex."
"LEX?" That was surprising. "But he… you mean you met another clone?" I corrected him.
"No… I mean I met the real Lex. His father sold his own soul to bring him back… I just defeated him but… I still have to make this planet go away…"
"Ok… Ok…" I needed to adjust myself to that news. "Ok… so… what are you waiting for? Go and save us, Clark!"
"I'm on my way… I just wanted to… have you heard from Tess yet? Or Oliver?"
"No… and that worries me…"
"I'll look for them when I'm done… I guess… see you…"
"Clark…?"
"Yes?"
"Be careful."
"I will."
I hang up.
Fuck! It wasn't enough that Tess and Oliver didn't check in like they were supposed to or that Clark had to deal with Lex's clones, his father who'd come back from another dimension… or with the bad Luthor version of himself… no… it wasn't enough… something even worse just happened.
Lex was back.
Was it real? Maybe it was some really good copy?
But when Clark says he's real, he is, I thought and sighed.
Some memory just passed before my eyes. I really wanted to forget it but I couldn't. I just couldn't… all the effort I'd made... it was all for nothing…
I could still remember the first lie considering THIS…
I'd been talking to Lana. She'd been afraid of going to bed with her new boyfriend and it had been her very first time…
And I'd said that I'd done it already before I'd even managed to bit my tongue.
Then I'd lied and told her it'd been Jimmy…
I'd met Jimmy that summer but we'd never had sex then. I'd been just one of those girl who'd been so ashamed that they'd still been a virgin… I know… stupid but… when you were a teenager it seemed like a very important thing and a good reason to be ashamed of.
I had to wait a whole another year to finally do this and…
Shit! I couldn't think about that! What had I been thinking anyway? Stupid! Stupid teenager girl who'd needed comfort because she'd been all alone then… or… I was just justifying it by telling it'd been simply seeking for comfort. I knew it hadn't.
The whole time after telling Lana that lie and even after THAT night I'd done everything to keep it a secret and succeeded.
Now, it could all go to waste.
"Look!" Emil pointed the screen interrupting my thoughts and thank him for that!
I came back to my computer and smiled.
"He did it, Emil, he did it!" I yelled happily.
The fire planet was retreating fast…
"Look…" I said pointing at some dot on the screen. "We have to make it bigger… Oh my God! It's Clark! He's flying! He's wearing his cape!" I was so proud of him in that moment.
He finally did it. He finally became… Superman.
A moment of pure happiness and then a moment of despair once again…
Where were Oliver and Tess?
"Chloe!" Clark suddenly burst through the door. "Chloe…"
I turned round from the computer to face him – I was still looking for those two missing – and…
The look on his face.
He didn't look like he'd just saved the world. He should be happy, maybe even ecstatic about this, but no…
"Clark… what happened?" I asked carefully, not knowing if I wanted to find out.
"Chloe… there's something… I… I need to tell you something…" he started and stopped.
"Oh no…" I knew. I already knew. He didn't have to say anything else. "No… tell me that is… no!"
"Chloe…" He got closer. "I'm so sorry… I found him… it was too late… I…"
"NO!" I screamed and when he finally was there to hug me I moved back. "NO!" I turned round to look at the stained-glass window… it reminded me of Jimmy… Jimmy who'd died before we'd even started our lives together and now… all the same… all over again...
"Chloe… I'm so sorry…" Clark sped to me and I had no place to run from him anymore.
He put his arms around me.
"I'm so sorry… If I could…"
"No…" I shivered so he put me even closer to his chest brushing my head with his hand. "There was nothing you could've done… you're not a…" Suddenly, I stopped. I stopped because he was. He was a superman but even…
"…even supermen can't be in two places at once… maybe even three… Tess?" I sobbed.
"I'm sorry… I found her body in LuthorCorp…"
"Where exactly?"
"Lex's office…" Clark sighed deeply.
I wanted it to stop. I wished Clark hadn't saved us. I knew it was a dreadful thing to ask for but… I wished that.
I wanted to be dead. I had no one to live for anymore. Clark had Lois, he didn't need me anymore… I'd had Oliver but he…
I cried…
***
I'm putting flowers on his coffin...
I did it once already… Why do I have to go through with this again? WHY?
I hear his will…
His attorney reads it…
I've got it all because I was his wife… I'm a multi-millionaire now… I even own LuthorCorp because Oliver had bought it once…
But I don't care. I don't want it. I don't want any of this.
All I want is to just come back to Smallville, cower in bed in my old room in the Talon's attic.
I want to stay there forever. I want to come back to those happy days in Smallville when my only concern was the Torch and Clark who hadn't been noticing me the way I would like him to.
I want to come back to the times before we'd even heard about the meteor freaks or Lex Luthor.
It was perfect.
Innocent.
We were kids… or young teenagers and we were so happy…
Pete was there… Clark was always so clumsy when Lana was around and I… I was just… me…
I liked that girl more.
That girl would've never done such thing like I'd done…
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