Smallville: Chloe Sullivan. #24- Family
Title: Incredible
Fandom: Smallville: Chloe Sullivan
Characters: Chloe Sullivan, Clark Kent, Lara Kent (OC)
Prompt: #24- Family
Word Count: 829
Rating: PG
Summary: Chloe's the only one in the Kent family without super powers.
Author's Notes: Future Fic.
Sometimes, Chloe imagines what it feels like.
After many years of practice, she’s gotten used to the routine. Her mind is a Rolodex of bad, somewhat lame spur of the moment excuses. It takes talent to remember what reason she gave to Perry last week when Clark missed the staff meeting, and the excuse she gave Metropolis Prep High School for Lara’s absence last week when Dr. Light was running wild in San Francisco. It’s not easy, remembering which excuse you gave to whom; but Chloe’s skill sure does come in handy in potentially awkward situations, like running into Lara’s English teacher at the grocery store.
Chloe’s grandmother tried to teach her how to sew when she was twelve years old, but Evelyn Lane’s antique sewing machine had made Chloe rebel against the lessons completely. She didn’t learn to sew completely until after she married Clark, after several hours of one on one instruction from Martha. Her skills had grown over the years, and now Chloe was adept at repairing the slippery fabric. She had even tried her hand at making a uniform a couple of months ago, when Martha was suffering from the flu and her daughter’s normal Supergirl outfit was destroyed as the Titans helped save victims of the earthquake in India last month.
Chloe is always waiting; usually on edge. Both her husband and her teenage daughter are in a highly dangerous line of work. Heroes go off to fight evil and serve good, but they don’t always come back. Chloe knows this first hand. She’s seen Clark die twice- once in Smallville, as a wacko threatened to destroy the entire town; and once in the streets of Metropolis. It’s easy to be a bit paranoid; and so when her family is off fighting the good fight, Chloe buries her head in work to get by.
Their reunions are sweet; and they all crash on the couch in their pajamas, to eat pancakes and watch delightfully cheesy television until they fall asleep and doze for hours on end.
Articles on Superman and Supergirl make Chloe’s heart swell. She can’t help but being proud. Chloe has a Rubbermaid bin full of articles on Clark, one day she plans on making a scrapbook of all his exploits. Clippings of Lara only take up two shoe boxes at the moment, but there’s a larger box in the linen closet waiting to be filled one day. Many of the articles on Clark and Lara bear Chloe’s by-line. They are always a team- her family IS the news, and Chloe reports it. (And okay, sometimes she blurs the lines a little bit and ends up being a major part of the story herself. She’s a reporter. That’s what she’s supposed to do.)
When she’s stuck in the back of a cab in Metropolis rush hour traffic, Chloe likes to smirk at the bumper stickers. “So what” she thinks “If your child is an honor student- mine saved the world last Thursday.”
Chloe is there when they return home triumphant- when a rescue mission goes well; when the JLA or the Titans manage to catch the bad guy and turn him over to the authorities in no time flat. She’s also there when things don’t go so well. She holds her husband when he cries over the lives that he couldn’t save, and gives Clark space when things threaten to overwhelm him. Chloe struggles to explain the ways of the world to her daughter; there are some things that a sixteen year old girl should not have to see or deal with.
Chloe doesn’t have strength that can bend steel, but she will stand strong for her family.
Clark is teaching Lara how to master the super spin- Lara’s getting better but even her best attempts would be considered a horrible wardrobe malfunction by the general public. Chloe watches them in wonder, as they change into their superhero personalities. She’s seen it probably a million or more times, but it still seems magical each time that they leap into the sky, with their capes flapping behind them.
The fact that they wear capes worries Chloe a little. Edna Mode would definitely not approve. Chloe simply prays that they won’t fly too close to a jet engine (Clark is adamant that the cape is the piece de resistance of his costume, and simply refuses to go without it. Lara is similarly stubborn.)
Sometimes, after her family has taken to the sky, Chloe wonders what it would be like to fly with them; not in Clark’s arms, but under her own power. She wonders what it would be like to soar.
Chloe watches the hue of their red, yellow, and blue uniforms fade into little black dots far off in the sky as Clark and Lara fly away. She watches them until they disappear from sight.
She may not be a hero, but Chloe Sullivan Kent is pretty damn incredible in her own right.
Fandom: Smallville: Chloe Sullivan
Characters: Chloe Sullivan, Clark Kent, Lara Kent (OC)
Prompt: #24- Family
Word Count: 829
Rating: PG
Summary: Chloe's the only one in the Kent family without super powers.
Author's Notes: Future Fic.
Sometimes, Chloe imagines what it feels like.
After many years of practice, she’s gotten used to the routine. Her mind is a Rolodex of bad, somewhat lame spur of the moment excuses. It takes talent to remember what reason she gave to Perry last week when Clark missed the staff meeting, and the excuse she gave Metropolis Prep High School for Lara’s absence last week when Dr. Light was running wild in San Francisco. It’s not easy, remembering which excuse you gave to whom; but Chloe’s skill sure does come in handy in potentially awkward situations, like running into Lara’s English teacher at the grocery store.
Chloe’s grandmother tried to teach her how to sew when she was twelve years old, but Evelyn Lane’s antique sewing machine had made Chloe rebel against the lessons completely. She didn’t learn to sew completely until after she married Clark, after several hours of one on one instruction from Martha. Her skills had grown over the years, and now Chloe was adept at repairing the slippery fabric. She had even tried her hand at making a uniform a couple of months ago, when Martha was suffering from the flu and her daughter’s normal Supergirl outfit was destroyed as the Titans helped save victims of the earthquake in India last month.
Chloe is always waiting; usually on edge. Both her husband and her teenage daughter are in a highly dangerous line of work. Heroes go off to fight evil and serve good, but they don’t always come back. Chloe knows this first hand. She’s seen Clark die twice- once in Smallville, as a wacko threatened to destroy the entire town; and once in the streets of Metropolis. It’s easy to be a bit paranoid; and so when her family is off fighting the good fight, Chloe buries her head in work to get by.
Their reunions are sweet; and they all crash on the couch in their pajamas, to eat pancakes and watch delightfully cheesy television until they fall asleep and doze for hours on end.
Articles on Superman and Supergirl make Chloe’s heart swell. She can’t help but being proud. Chloe has a Rubbermaid bin full of articles on Clark, one day she plans on making a scrapbook of all his exploits. Clippings of Lara only take up two shoe boxes at the moment, but there’s a larger box in the linen closet waiting to be filled one day. Many of the articles on Clark and Lara bear Chloe’s by-line. They are always a team- her family IS the news, and Chloe reports it. (And okay, sometimes she blurs the lines a little bit and ends up being a major part of the story herself. She’s a reporter. That’s what she’s supposed to do.)
When she’s stuck in the back of a cab in Metropolis rush hour traffic, Chloe likes to smirk at the bumper stickers. “So what” she thinks “If your child is an honor student- mine saved the world last Thursday.”
Chloe is there when they return home triumphant- when a rescue mission goes well; when the JLA or the Titans manage to catch the bad guy and turn him over to the authorities in no time flat. She’s also there when things don’t go so well. She holds her husband when he cries over the lives that he couldn’t save, and gives Clark space when things threaten to overwhelm him. Chloe struggles to explain the ways of the world to her daughter; there are some things that a sixteen year old girl should not have to see or deal with.
Chloe doesn’t have strength that can bend steel, but she will stand strong for her family.
Clark is teaching Lara how to master the super spin- Lara’s getting better but even her best attempts would be considered a horrible wardrobe malfunction by the general public. Chloe watches them in wonder, as they change into their superhero personalities. She’s seen it probably a million or more times, but it still seems magical each time that they leap into the sky, with their capes flapping behind them.
The fact that they wear capes worries Chloe a little. Edna Mode would definitely not approve. Chloe simply prays that they won’t fly too close to a jet engine (Clark is adamant that the cape is the piece de resistance of his costume, and simply refuses to go without it. Lara is similarly stubborn.)
Sometimes, after her family has taken to the sky, Chloe wonders what it would be like to fly with them; not in Clark’s arms, but under her own power. She wonders what it would be like to soar.
Chloe watches the hue of their red, yellow, and blue uniforms fade into little black dots far off in the sky as Clark and Lara fly away. She watches them until they disappear from sight.
She may not be a hero, but Chloe Sullivan Kent is pretty damn incredible in her own right.