Lois paced the floor late at night she swears if Clark doesn't call soon she's going to go nuts. She is figuring out a way to hunt him down like a dog as you read this. "How can it take this long to see if it works?"
Oliver looked at the TV. "Lois…"
Lois shook her head pacing. "No, all he has to do is flash a stupid light in Chloe's face; I mean how hard is that?"
"Lois…"
Lois just ignored and tuned him out. "Of course, it's Smallville, steeper difficulty…"
"Legs!" Oliver cut her off and just grabbed by the top of the head and moved it to the TV. "Look!"
Lois watched as a bloodied and battered Clark was loaded into a stretcher and an ambulance. The girl he likes, Gisele getting in the ambulance with him, tears running down her eyes and Chloe standing right outside of it crying in Brian's arms. "Oh my god!"
Lois just watched numb as the audience drove off. "Volume, VOLUME!"
They watched as the camera zoomed out and focused on a brunette reporter. "We slowly have information coming in and it's sketchy at best. We can confirm that some sort of bio weapon has spent tonight attacking the small town in Spain Santa Cabeza. It was only through the actions and the sacrifice of soldiers and several brave citizens that the losses weren't much more severe then the hundreds already lost including the brave young man whom gave his life to stop it."
Lois shook her head as they went back too the main news room. "No, no, no, I need more then that!" Lois pleaded with tears in her eyes.
Oliver quickly grabbed his secondary weapon of choice and pulled out his cell phone. "I need a plane heading for Spain, an hour ago Felicity." Oliver hung up and pulled Lois into his arms. "At least Chloe's safe."
Lois weakly nodded but not breaking free or moving. "Yeah, but I never thought when he said he would die to protect Chloe, I didn't think it would go this far!"
Oliver looked at her wishing he could do something to help. "I think we should go, we have a flight to catch."
Chloe waited nervously outside the room. Come on sunrise, where the hell are you?
Davis watched her pace the floor wishing he could do more but the truth is Clark is so different god knows what regular medicine would do especially in his weakened state. Davis watched the elevator door open and saw a statuesque woman come out followed by a group of orderlies. "Chloe?"
Brian walked into the room and saw Gisele in there with Clark. "When did the doctors give up?"
"Five minutes ago." Gisele answered.
Brian looked at her. "I'm sorry. I know he loved you. So how do we bury him?"
"We don't." Gisele answered. "He's still alive."
Brian took a quiet breath. He wanted to send Letty in but she refused to leave Dom's side after calling Rosa and having to be the one to tell her about Vince. "Gisele…"
"He grabbed my hand in the ambulance." Gisele replied.
He looked over at the blank line showing nothing.
Gisele looked at him knowing what he's thinking. "You don't understand you've never seen him like I did."
Brian thought about what to say. "Sometimes, it's just an in…"
Gisele turned to him and shouted in fury and frustration at recent events. "I will not leave him alone, not again, I gave up on him in Metropolis I'm not doing it again. I've seen him toss tanks like Tonka toys, he ran so fast to save me his hair lit on fire. Why would he die like a man would? I refuse to believe he can be cut down by an intergalactic soccer hooligan!"
The argument was cut off by Dom, Hobbs, Letty, Mia, Chloe, Davis, Roman, and Tej all breaking into the room.
Chloe looked to the girl and was the newest victim of her death glare. "I know you wanted to be alone but I think we have a problem here. Someone is coming and she just doesn't feel right."
The crew stood ready as the woman from earlier came in flanked by paramedics. "I'm sorry Ma'am but the doctors have done all they could for him. We're gonna have to take him to the morgue now."
Gisele looked at the woman getting a clear view on her real fast this is so not good. If they leave with him she wonders how long until someone says he's been 'accidentally cremated'. "He's not dead yet."
The woman looked at the grieving woman coldly. "The hospital won't waste money on a dead guy."
Gisele glared at her. "That's OK, we have over 13 million dollars there's money to burn." Gisele paid close attention to the orderlies and quickly pulled her guns on them as all three people aimed handguns at her.
Brian and Hobbs quickly joined her turning it into a Mexican stand off between six people.
The woman glared at the crew. "Are you all willing to throw your newly acquired freedom away for someone who's not even human?"
Dom got right in front of the woman and the orderlies. He's burying one friend if there's a chance he'll avoid an encore he'll take it. "He's one of us."
The woman glared at the group as the two sides stood firm ready to kill each other at any given word.
"Amanda, let's try the soft pitch first."
Amanda Waller turned to see a middle aged man in a suit and rolled her eyes in disgust. "What are you doing here Nobody?"
Chloe looked at the newcomer confused. "Nobody?"
The man put his hand out. "Mister Nobody"
Nobody turned to Amanda, same barbaric tactics as always. This what drove the society underground. What does she have on them that keeps her employed. "The one without a brain tore half of Spain apart. The government doesn't want you making an enemy of the one who can think."
Amanda glared at him damn soft liberal he has no idea what he's in for. "You don't know what people like him are capable of."
"Maybe" Nobody agreed. "But my orders came from high above me or you. And we both know there's only one way out for disobeying orders."
Amanda glared at the old man she knows he gave their superiors the idea of them working together voluntarily. Damn Bureaucrat. She lowered her weapon and her men followed her example. "You dig your own grave."
Nobody smiled watching the bitch in the buisness suit leave. He came here for the soft pitch and got to throw Waller out, this could be his best day ever. "I love you too."
Chloe glared at the man. Not that she's not happy with the save it's just she doesn't think he did that out the kindness of his heart. "So, what do you want?"
"Right now I don't want a thing." Nobody answered looking at the girl that caused a good deal of this mess according to Tess Mercer's questioning. "Horrible business what happened to you, losing two years of your life from Luthor's games."
Chloe leaned against the wall keeping both eyes on him. "Well 'who cares about the lives of others except for the way it affects me'. That's Luthor code."
Roman looked at her. "I thought Luthor code was the buck ends somewhere over there?"
Letty sat down next to Clark and saw his eye twitch but she knows it's an involuntary twitch. "They're all assholes so what are you doing here cop?"
Nobody looked at the complete group he has a feeling if Waller killed even just one of them the whole group would go to war with them. The whole world could be lucky he got here when he did. "As I said before it was a horrible thing that happened to you Ms. Sullivan." He took a small card out of his pocket and handed it to Chloe. "If you want to make sure something like that never happens again. Just give me a call day or night. Also I'm here for Uncle Sam's part of the deal."
Chloe went into her pockets and pulled out a flash drive containing the dark Thursday source code. She looked at Nobody uneasily but this will keep Clark and them out of trouble. "You do know how dangerous this code is right?"
Nobody nodded. "Yeah, we know. That's why extra measures have been taken. Hard to believe something this small is worth a small army of tanks."
Hobbs looked at the flash drive. "We've all seen it happen before. That flash drive is more deadly then any tank."
Nobody pocketed the flash drive. "Your records will be cleared and the man that died here tonight will be John Doe Spain... this way Mr. Kent can have his normal life back when he wakes up."
Hobbs looked at the crew knowing this was coming. "So what's your price Dom?"
Dom looked at the cop with a grin. "1327, and a couple acres of land in Kansas."
Later on in the day Gisele still sat vigilant by Clark's side. She watched the door open and saw Chloe, Brian, Letty, Davis, and Mia all come in bearing mirrors.
Gisele turned to the blond reporter. "What do you need so many mirrors for?"
Chloe set hers up next to Clark and everyone followed her example as sunlight hit the mirrors and bounced back on Clark. "More sun, better chance of pulling through… wonder what the nurses think of this though."
Letty smiled setting up hers. "Probably think he's the world's biggest narcissist. Hope he pulls through." Letty grabbed her cross and looked at it.
Gisele looked at her confused. "Are you praying?"
Letty shook her head. She hates this moment but how is she supposed to be given recent events. "No, just realizing how lucky I am."
Chloe looked at her confused. "Because you found god?"
Letty shook her head again. "No, just me and Dom made it through with hardly a scratch."
Gisele turned to her. "You know you two are so in love with each other. What aren't you married?"
Letty raised her eyes like it should have been obvious. "We are married."
Gisele's eyes rose. "Since when?"
"Before I even met Clark, I was just mad at Dom for leaving me behind so I didn't tell anyone." Letty told her.
Gisele looked at her fingers closely. "Aren't you missing something?"
Letty held up her wedding band the same cross she always wears. "It wasn't a traditional wedding. This means more to me then the most expensive ring out there."
Chloe looked at her best friend down trodden. She's going to kill Tess for this she's just not sure how to get to her yet. She looked at Gisele curious about her. "So, how do you three all know each other?"
Gisele looked at her. "That's a long complicated story."
"I have the time." Chloe pointed out.
The next night Lois walked into the hospital nervously going into the elevator getting the information from Felicity. What is Chloe going to be like she hasn't seen her for almost a year and a half now? Will she even remember who she is? Oliver looked at her it's like he's never seen her so shook up and this is a woman whom has been held hostage and roughed up by his rogue gallery at least once a month for the past year.
She comes out and saw a Latina woman sitting next to Brian so at least she can touch ground with him.
Lois watches with an almost serene smile as she sees Chloe coming out tears in her eyes but not from seeing her. Brian just pulled her into a hug and Lois ran right past her for the time being and into Clark's room and quickly looks away seeing him kissing a teary eyed Gisele. Why does she always get stuck seeing this.
Clark breaks the kiss to let Gisele breath and sees Lois just standing there. He awkwardly waves at her and Lois looked at him for a moment before doing the same thing and awkwardly wave at him.
Lois shook out of the shock and looked at him. "What's going on? Chloe was crying, Gisele was crying, what's going on? I expected a dead body."
Clark looked at her not sure how to respond to that. There's only one Lois Lane… something he was always grateful for.
Chloe walked up behind her and smiled. "He just woke up like a minute ago. He's been in a coma for the past twenty six hours. And if you knew you'd understand how rare that is."
Lois just shot up and snagged her cousin into a hug she doesn't care if she objected or not she needs this. "Chloe, you can't keep faking your death. It's only funny once."
Clark leaned back and waved seeing Dom and the others outside the hall. Letty taking a breath of relief seeing her friend survived.
Roman looked at everyone. "Should we introduce ourselves?"
Tej looked at him for a moment and considered smacking his friend. Dom shook his head seeing the four of them together as Clark hugged all three and replied. "Absolutely not."
"Why not?" Rome asked.
Letty rolled her eyes. "Because he just got reunited with his family man."
The crew watched the reunion briefly before heading back out.
Two weeks later
Letty, Chloe, Gisele, and Mia holding Jack stood behind a line of white in the back forty of the Kent farm. They watched as an all too familiar black Dodge Charger appeared followed closely by a white Skyline and finishing the group is a blue Dodge Challenger. The three cars turned racing down a straight line as the girls watched. The Skyline picked up speed and got to the finish line just edging out the Charger that barely beat the Challenger as Brian emerged from the Skyline with an ear to ear grin. Dom got out of the charger followed by Clark out of his new challenger.
Brain had an inner smile almost matching the one on his face. He finally beat them in the race to prove who actually was the best of the three. "OK guys pay up."
Clark and Dom rolled their eyes and went into their wallets pulling out a one dollar bill and pen each signing. "Brian O Conner beat me in a race." Before handing each over to Brian. When you have millions of dollars there really isn't much to bet on. Especially in Clark and Gisele's case when Lionel is helping it grow a bit. It does make farm repairs and rebuilding much easier as they just hire people to do it. Since Mia refused to let Brian drive the charger given its past they couldn't race for slips either. The only wager all three can make is pride.
Letty pulled out her phone and looked at the time. "Dom barbeque."
Dom simply nodded and turned to Clark whom just nodded grabbing Chloe first.
The three couples drove up to the Toretto house at 1327. Roman looked at them kind of curious as they got out of the car. "You know it's kind of rude to be late to your own celebration."
"We had something to settle once and for all in private." Clark replied and yes Brian is the best racer of the bunch. And if it's not him it's Mia but she drives far and few between.
Roman turned to Tej at the grill. "Don't burn it this time. Please."
"I never burn anything." Tej replied flipping some burgers.
Brian walked with Mia holding Jack in his arms walking towards a place they'll all be spending lots of time in. "Well, the air quality is lousy, the traffic is bad but uh, I think you'll like this place."
Mia looked at the empty garage. "You gonna build a car with Daddy."
"First car better be a charger Jack." Dom cut in.
Brian held his son. "You mean Skyline."
Dom just glared at his brother in law. "Like I said he's a Toretto."
Brian shook his head. "You're confusing the kid."
Dom turned to his sister and walked to her palnning to talk some sense into her. "Mia are you really going to let him get away with this?"
Clark unloaded a couple extra benches for today and watched as Oliver and Lois showed up with Victor, Bart, Andrea, and AC. The people Chloe knows likely here to see if she's OK as she sits next to Davis. Apparently they want to talk to him after the barbeque. "Guys we need food, a lot more food."
Andrea glared at him. She's doing good by Oliver she thinks. She got a very unique form of community service for plea bargaining out under mental duress from her meteor rock heart and the person she murdered killed her mother. "We don't eat that much."
Clark pointed at the shortest person here. "I just meant Bart."
Bart just hit him with his hand. "Very funny Stretch."
Clark took two coronas and handed one to Gisele and one for himself.
Roman looked as Hobbs came in with Elena. "Hey Mia better hide your baby oil… I'm just playing."
"You better hide that big ass forehead." Hobbs replied not even stopping. Clark, Bart, Gisele, AC, and Tej spit out their drinks while laughing. "It was a joke man, whatever."
Hobbs walked up to Dom papers in hand. "It's official, you're all free."
Clark let out a simple smile with Gisele whom motioned with her eyes and he got up and followed her away from the others. Roman and Tej fist bumped and everyone else just took a breath of relief.
Andrea raised her eyes and Clark left before she could ask. "Wait, what did Clark do?"
Chloe looked at her with a smile. She would have lost serious money if she had to bet on Clark's criminal record. "According the warrant theft, reckless endangerment, kidnapping, assaulting Hobbs and every form of fraud you can think of."
Hobbs looked at Toretto. "Wasn't half bad having you work for me."
Dom smiled and almost took a step back in disbelief. "Now, we all know you were working for me."
Brian looked at the two and offered a truce. "Agree to disagree."
Clark and Gisele walked away knowing Hobbs would keep his word straight down to pardons for even Chloe and Davis for helping stop Doomsday. It also helped that both were non compos mentis thanks to Mercer the Merciless.
Gisele looked at him. "So, how are you coping with Chloe being back and Lois?"
Clark gave an honest shrug uncertain for the first time where his life is headed now that he has choices again. "They're fine; Chloe's threatened us with a restraining order if we keep checking in on her."
Gisele smiled. "So, do you ever think about the future?"
Clark nodded. "Yeah, a lot more now that I can have one actually."
Gisele hit him on the arm even knowing it wouldn't do anything. "Well thanks a lot."
Clark just held her close. "You know what I mean. I wouldn't have made it through this... all of this without you. I love you, you know that."
"I know." Gisele assured him. "And I thought that would be enough, and then Doomsday came and then you almost died. I kind of want more now knowing the lives we lead. I don't know what I'm saying."
Clark smiled as he leaned back for a moment. "It's OK, I think I do." He goes into his pocket and pulls out a red box."
Gisele's eyes widened she thought she was just going to surprise him today. "Santa Madre de Dios, how long have you been planning this?"
"Honestly I just have this… it screamed you… and you liked it at the store in France." Clark opened the red box and Gisele looked at the ring before taking it out and inspecting it seeing the gold ring with a big diamond and the two little gun designs one on each side as she let out a laugh.
"Clark, I didn't want to pay the price for that ring from a jerk." Gisele pointed out. If she wanted it she'd have bought it she didn't. She could have sworn it was silver though. "I didn't want to give that merchant any money because of how smug he was."
"He didn't get a dime." Clark assured her. "This entire ring is custom."
"From what?" Gisele asked.
Clark pointed at the ring itself. "The gold I picked up the day we left Rio to have something to remember the place by. The person that made the gold into a ring was a jeweler I knew back when I was running rough shot over Smallville, you know when I met you. The diamond came from a piece of coal I stole from the fireplace of that beachside hotel room we were staying at after we exposed Lex. That was where I fell in love with you, just didn't realize it yet."
Gisele looked at him. "You've kept things like that for this long?"
"I have a hard time throwing away happy memories." Clark confessed. They were hard to come by in his life.
Gisele looked at the ring. "Did anyone else know you have this?"
Clark shook his head. "No, Roman was giving me crap and no one even knows this exists. I was going to ask Letty about it but she and Dom have been kind of closed off since Vince died."
Gisele smiled. "Yes"
Clark looked at her she could not have meant the question. "I didn't ask anything yet."
"I don't care. Yes!" Gisele countered.
Clark looked at her for a minute. "Well maybe I'm not going to ask it now."
Gisele shook her head. "You took out the ring you're gonna ask and I'm gonna say yes."
Clark glared at her for a moment. "Fine, then I can at least do this right."
Clark got down on one knee.
"Yes"
"Let me finish!" Clark ordered in disbelief.
"No, Yes!" Gisele replied.
Clark looked at her in utter disbelief. Not exactly how he planned that but that could be an accurate description of the past two years of his live. He stopped fighting and put the ring on her finger and kissed her deeply. He would have bet good money he'd never see her again much less something like this happening.
The two took hands as Gisele led him back to the others.
Chloe watched the two walk up taking her time today to formerly meet the crew. She never in a million years would have imagined Clark being friends with people like these but people change over two years. Chloe moved over to let her best friend and his girlfriend in. "You know I still can't believe this… you being a millionaire."
Clark let out a smile as Davis, Brian, and Mia took a seat next to her. "They kept me sane after you died but… yeah its one big confusing family now. Are you OK with this?"
"Of course." Chloe replied a closer relationship with her cousin and now second cousin and Clark happy. "Seeing you when I want and knowing Lex isn't hunting you. I couldn't be happier…" She looks at the ring on Gisele's finger. "Although I suspect this might be the rare occasion where you're happier then I am."
Bart looked at them and muttered something under breath about lucky.
Letty looked at the ring on Gisele's finger. "Looks like someone's family is growing." She hugged Clark and Gisele happy for both as everyone got up and congratulated the newly engaged couple.
They all sat down and Roman helped himself to a quick snack.
Brian immediately pointed out the sight. "He took first bite he's got grace. House rules."
Dom sat down and smiled when Letty sat on his lap seeing no seat. "OK Roman, Bless this table."
Roman smiled looking at everyone up for the challenge. Clark and Chloe's friends from Smallville and the crew that made it through this nightmare "Aright, Father thank you for the gathering of friends and family, Father we give thanks for all the choices we've made because that's what makes us who we are, let us forever cherish the loved ones we've lost along the way; thank you for the little angel, the newest addition to our family, thank you for bringing Chloe home, and most of all thank you for keeping that crazy ass red head in jail! Amen."
Tej looked at him and let out a smile. "You came this close man, then you had to add that last part."
Clark smiled looking around at family and friends he'll be rebuild the farm… but it really didn't matter to him. It will just be a nice place for him and Gisele to relax when they're both exhausted. But right here, right now, with family and friends nor more running… He's home.
Author Notes
Thanks for the patience
Thank you to everyone who reviewed followed and favorited.
I don't think there will be another story for these guys but there might be a one shot on the Creepy board one day and if not, this version of Clark will appear at least one more time.