Chloe Sullivan sat on a bale of hay inside the Kent farm stables and looked at Clark Kent after he uttered the words she knew would change their lives forever. She'd been in love with him for ages and thought she knew everything about him. Clark Kent was a tall, good-looking, black-haired and blue-eyed Caucasian male in his early twenties who was actually the only survivor of the planet Krypton, a world of intelligent and technologically advanced humanoids who perished ages ago.
He grew up on Earth, raised by Kansas farmers Martha and Jonathan Kent who found his crashed spaceship in a cornfield near their hometown of Smallville. He once thought he was normal. But he soon discovered he wasn't. Clark Kent had god-like powers. Invulnerability. Super strength. Super speed. X-Ray vision. Heat vision. And flight, when he felt like it. For years, he thought of his abilities as a burden. He desperately wanted to be normal. He felt like a freak. His parents told him there was nothing wrong with being special. Clark continued to see himself as cursed.
Then he began using those awesome powers of his to help people, constantly saving them from dangers. He had saved the world countless times and personally rescued Chloe from certain peril many times. He fought the menace of the super-powered alien warrior known as General Zod. He also took out the Disciples of Zod, tall, black-skinned warrior Na-Mek and his lover, the tall and slender, dark-haired lethal beauty known as Aethyr. He also rescued Smallville during the second meteor shower. And he took on the psycho guy or psycho girl of the week all the damn time. All the while worrying that his friends and townspeople would reject him if they found out he was an alien. When she found out he was more than human, Chloe kept Clark's secret and protected him, without letting him know. She loved him that much.
Never mind that this perfect guy could never see that high-maintenance Lana Lang or slap-happy Lois Lane were definitely the wrong women for him. Chloe came to Clark's rescue countless times. Back when she was an ordinary mortal, she risked life and limb for him. Time after time, he never questioned her loyalty, or the reason behind it. Chloe Sullivan loved Clark Kent. She loved him the way fish love water, the way a wolf loves meat and the way human beings love breathing.
Yet she never said, though she threw enough hints his way to create an encyclopedia. Clark Kent was a hero. He would give his life any day to save the men and women of the world he had come to love. But he wasn't mister sharp when it came to women. No one really is all that sharp when it comes to the opposite sex. That's why female advice columnists had lousy romantic lives due to their inability to spot jerks and good-looking and otherwise keen-minded studs frequently dated psycho women. At the end of the day, no one was perfect. Male or female, no one had the answers.
For a time, though, Chloe Sullivan thought she had them. It all began when Lex Luthor got his hands on a piece of alien technology which would allow him to control Clark Kent, the most powerful living being on the planet. Lex tracked Clark down to the Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic. And there, he tried putting an end to Clark. Helpless, Clark could do nothing to save himself.
Fortunately, Chloe Sullivan came to his rescue. She snuck up behind Lex Luthor, and tackled him. She managed to trap him inside a cryogenic chamber inside the Fortress and freed Clark Kent. She brought him back to the Kent farm. And there, miraculously, her healing abilities allowed her to revive him.
Since then, she and Clark had been on the verge of...something. She hoped they would finally begin to love one another. As more than friends. Lana Lang severed all links with Clark. She broke his heart for the final time by breaking up with him through a video. Lois Lane was gone, to live with her father, the General.
Chloe thought she would finally have Clark Kent to herself. Then he dropped a bomb on her. She couldn't believe her ears when he told her yet another one of his secrets. Clark Kent was bisexual. As in attracted to both women and men. He swung both ways. Wow. Chloe prided herself on being a sharp woman. But she didn't see that one coming.
Clark was always torn between women. High-maintenance power-hungry bitch Lana Lang. verbally and physically abusive whore Lois Lane. Attention-craving Alicia Baker. Possibly incestuously inclined cousin Kara Zor-El, who was gone who knew where. Yeah, Clark had a lot of women in his life. It just never occurred to her that he liked men too. He told her that he'd always known he was bisexual. In fact, he and Pete were boyfriends for years. Clark also had a fling with Lex Luthor, before Lex broke it off because he was afraid of a sex scandal. Oh, and he hooked up with gay-bashing dead jock Whitney, Lana's ex boyfriend. Yeah, Clark Kent did get around. Wow.
Clark smiled when she blinked as he listed his male and female conquests. He'd apparently hooked up with several members of the superhero team known as the Justice League. He slept with Bart Allen, the crimson-clad speedster. He also hooked up with Victor Stone, the African-American bionic stud. Oh, and he had a dalliance with Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow, at the same time that Oliver was dating Lois Lane. Yeah, apparently, male bisexuality was very common in Smallville. Chloe Sullivan just never noticed it. Clark gently touched her shoulder, and asked her if she needed some time to digest it. She said nothing. Clark bit his lips. He gave her a sad look, then said that if she didn't want anything more to do with him, he would understand. With that, he turned away.
Chloe stood up, and grabbed Clark's arm before he could move away. Clark stared at her. For a moment, Chloe looked quite angry. Then she smiled and whispered something into Clark Kent's ear. Clark's eyes widened when he heard what she said. Chloe stared into his unbelieving eyes and nodded. Yes, Clark, she said. I am bisexual too. It was Clark's turn to ask twenty questions. Chloe grinned, and spilled the beans. Yes, she had always known she was bisexual. She had a few dalliances with some girls here and there, particularly Nell, the hot older woman who raised Lana Lang after her parents died. Oh, and she also slept with Alicia Baker, who was bicurious. Wow. Clark stared at Chloe. He had no idea. She leaned against him and kissed him. Yeah, they were two of a kind.