Smallville: Kingdom

Chapter 45

5/11/11 - 12:15PM - Metropolis General Hospital Morgue - Metropolis, KS

Oliver, Lois and Chloe were walking side by side as Jon clad in his costume of a dark gray suit and dark blue coat were continuing to walk down the place as Lois decided to speak up.

"Sam to his Frodo."

"What?" Chloe said as she wondered what Lois was talking about.

"She's like the Sam to his Frodo." Lois repeated. "What Cyborg referred to Lara's relationship with Clark. It really is appropriate. What with the name-calling, both of us fighting over a piece of jewelry with a great power. Being threatened and rejected over me but coming back to save him anyway. She, totally in love with him in a familial sort of way and of course Clark ending up living happily ever after on a far-away paradise."

"Lois." Chloe tried to reassure Lois. "You aren't Gollum. You are a woman who fell in love with a man and are dedicated to him like anyone."

Lois was still sad as she continued. "I never game him a family! I died apologizing for never giving him a family. All the times we were in bed I was always happy over the fact I was never going to get pregnant. We had our jobs and he had his mission.  But not you with and Oliver. You are going to become a mother, Chloe.  I won't. All these years, all I needed was some blue Kryptonite and that’s all that have taken to give him one child, but I didn't. I denied him a family! You didn't deny you husband... Diana didn't deny her husband."

Lois continued to feel sad as Chloe held her cousin by the hand. "But you will marry him, it'll be the happiest day of your life I know it cuz."

"Still. A lot of things in his life are going to be replaced. Diana... oh Diana. She's impossibly beautiful. She spent time doing her best not to look attractive and she failed miserably. I also remember when I had my dress done at Liz's. She looked at me for a second like... she knew. The only person Diana didn't mind-wipe and she knew I didn't belong with Clark."

"Then there is you Ollie." Lois turned for a second towards Oliver and then towards Chloe. "Tell me Chloe, are the stories true about that Bruce Wayne guy?  He is a flaming douche on the tabloids with a piece of tail every other night.  But is he really the good man those kids say he is? Especially towards Clark?"

Chloe looked at them both and slowly nodded her head. "Yes. He is actually a very good man who did what he does out of the death of his parents. He..." Chloe didn't want to say anymore in front of Oliver but she continued. "Many years ago when his parent's killer was paroled only to be murdered by some mob boss, he tried to kill him with a gun he smuggled in his jacket. Afterwards he told the truth to his oldest friend who condemned him as nothing more than a coward.  No better than the man who killed his parents."

Oliver looked terrible as he heard Chloe say this. "In the end he followed this one simple rule. ‘No killing.’ To bring law and order but to never become an executioner. Guy however is a bit untrusting as well as a bit of a stick in the mud.  He does have this really cool butler, who is pretty condescending for a servant. British thing I guess. The idea of Bruce and Clark hanging out as friends and being the godfather of his children. I didn't think that, until I saw Oliver try to beat information out of Clark so he could murder my killer."

Oliver continued to look terrible as Chloe continued. "I saw that look as he threw out that Kryptonite, he stood up for him, ready to save the life of a man who was like a brother. I've seen that before when I met him months ago when Flagg and I were in Gotham as he saved our lives.  And its awful to know my own husband will repay him years from now by telling him to go to hell." Chloe continued. "If he really did replace Oliver as a best friend then Oliver gave them the perfect name, ‘World's Finest.’ I guess Superfriends sounds tacky."