Love and Heroes

Love and Heroes


Chloe pulled up outside the barn of the Kent farm. She had driven from Metropolis with Alfred and Lucia, to visit Martha. She knew the elder woman was extremely lonely ever since Clark had left in search of any remains of his home planet.

It was late and the twins were sleeping. Chloe pulled up, noticing there was a light on in the Kent house hold, that was strange, seeing as Martha usually retired earlier due to her advanced years. Chloe when she came to visit Martha would usually just let herself in with the spare key she had been given by Martha.

She turned off the engine and pulled the keys from the ignition and then removed her seatbelt before turning to face her son and daughter. She called out softly “Alfred, Lucia wakeup you two, we’re here, we’ve arrived at Grandma Martha’s.”

The two little children, who were light sleepers, just like their mother was, slowly began to wake before stretching and rubbing their eyes groggily. Chloe eyed her children in amusement.

Chloe opened her door and got out of the car and closed the door before making her way to the back of the car. She opened the door on her son’s side of the car and proceeded to help both her son and daughter to remove their seatbelts.

She looked up when she heard the door to the Kent’s house open and saw the porch light suddenly flare to life out of the corner of her eye. She looked up to see a weary looking Martha Kent. The elder woman looked tiered and more then a little shaken to say the least.

Chloe raised and eye brow and asked “Martha what on Earth are you doing up so late, this is not like you at all?” Chloe paused when she saw the elder woman was clearly shaking. She carefully helped the twins to step out of the car. She then locked all of the doors and set the security alarm with a quick press of a small and simple button on her car key ring.

Chloe took her son and daughter by the hand and led them across the yard towards the elder woman who was standing on the porch, using the casing of the door to remain up right.

Chloe quickly got the children inside and sat them at the kitchen table before moving back over to Martha and also leading her over to the kitchen table and helping her to lower herself into one of the four chairs around the rectangular table.

Chloe asked concerned “Martha, are you alright you look terribly shaken, did something happen Martha?” Martha looked up at the younger woman with wide tear filled eyes. She replied with a slight hitch to her voice “Go up stairs Chloe, there is something you should see, or should I say someone you should see. Go to Clark’s room.”

Chloe felt her eyes widen as she choked out “What are you saying Martha, you can’t be saying what I think you are?” Martha replied “Just go, you have to see it for yourself to truly believe it.”

Chloe looked almost terrified, as she ordered the twins to stay put and keep grandma Martha Company. She then slowly and quietly made her way up the staircase. She turned left at the top of the stairs and took a familiar root she had taken many times as a teenager when she and Clark had dated for the last year of high school and the first of journalism school.

She took a deep breath as she stopped in front of the very familiar door, a door that in the past had never been as daunting as it was right then. She let out a sigh, before turning the door knob with a shaking hand, pushing forwards and opening the door.

What lay beyond the door almost took her breath away completely. She now understood why the elder woman had looked deeply shaken when Chloe had seen her. She understood why the elder woman’s eyes had been brimming with tears.

Chloe felt tears come into her eyes as she took in the sight of her best friend and once her lover, Clark Kent, as he lay on his childhood bed looking deathly pale and so unbelievably vulnerable. It was hard to believe that the man currently lying in the bed right before her was the strongest man in the universe, that he was known as the world’s saviour, Superman.

Chloe slowly walked towards the bed before lowering herself onto it and lying down beside the prone figure. She carefully cuddled to him so as not to wake him up. She breathed in his scent and felt a single tear flow down her cheek. Oh how she had missed her dear and loyal friend dearly.

Soon without meaning to, she fallen a sleep clutching Clark to her as if her life depended upon it. There was only two men in the world who could truly comfort and calm Chloe Sullivan, and they were Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne, both for entirely different reasons.

This was how Martha found them the next morning. Chloe was still clutching Clark to her. Martha smiled slightly at the sight both made. They looked beautiful together, dark and light together, Chloe being light due to her blond hair and Clark dark due to his own dark hair.

She once upon a time would have loved to have had Chloe as a daughter in-law. But Martha knew her son and the young woman she saw as a daughter, were never meant to be more then the best of friends. This was proven when their attempt at a relationship with the other lasted only two years instead of what she and Jonathan had had.

When Martha had first met Alfred and Lucia, she had secretly thought they may have been Clark’s. That notion was soon discarded when she took one look at Alfred and the deep and dark beautiful brown eyes of Lucia. Chloe had told Martha everything, including how she felt about her children’s father.

Martha sighed and turned to leave. She would allow them to sleep and would occupy the twins until their mother woke.