Jo knows this one from experience. She watched it with her parents, the way her mother sighed a little heavier when her father was gone, and the way she lit up like a Christmas tree when he returned. She remembers once, when she was little, she asked him how she would know when she met the one, and he said, in his backwards, old fashioned kind of way:
“You’ll know when you love him enough that nothing else really matters. That you’d throw away your whole life just so you can stand by his side, and he loves you enough to say that you don’t have to.”
(Some days, she wishes Ellen had insisted a little harder that Bill stay home. But in a lot of ways, she knows she’s just like him, and that’s why Ellen couldn’t get her to stay.)
There’s one thing her dad got wrong about that statement, however – Jo’s end-all and be-all, her white whale, her one to throw it all away for isn’t a man. It’s a woman. In fact, it’s a blond woman that she meets behind the counter of a small town coffee shop.
“Hi,” she says softly, eyes meeting the moment they meet. “I’m Chloe.”
And just like that, Jo is head over heels.
This isn’t to say that things are easy. Chloe is involved in some complicated things in Smallville that Jo doesn’t fully understand, and Jo still needs to hunt, feels the road call to her in a way that so few things can, but they manage, one way or another. The world is always going to be a complicated place, and if they threw in the towel just because things were weird, then they wouldn’t be the one for each other. But at the end of the day, Jo knows that if Chloe asked her to stay in Smallville, she would.
There’s one day, however, when Jo gets a message from Chloe to meet her somewhere off the grid. She doesn’t know what it’s about, but she goes, on edge for more reasons than she count, mostly starting with wondering why Chloe didn’t just call, and when she finally lays eyes on her, she knows that something is wrong. Chloe doesn’t give her much time to dwell on it, however. She just moves in, pushes her against the car, and kisses her deeply almost as though she just wants to sink into something familiar.
“Take me away from here.”
From anyone else she would think it was corny. From Chloe, she knows that something is up.
“Is everything okay?”
“I’ll explain when we get there. Can we just go anywhere but here?”
“Yeah,” Jo says with a nod, before putting Chloe in the car and beginning to drive in the direction of her mother’s bar. “We can go anywhere you want.”
She doesn’t know what the next chapter of this story is going to hold, but she knows that as long as Chloe is by her side, she can make it through anything.
i see myself reflected in your eyes ~ smallville/supernatural ~ 514 words
Jo knows this one from experience. She watched it with her parents, the way her mother sighed a little heavier when her father was gone, and the way she lit up like a Christmas tree when he returned. She remembers once, when she was little, she asked him how she would know when she met the one, and he said, in his backwards, old fashioned kind of way:
“You’ll know when you love him enough that nothing else really matters. That you’d throw away your whole life just so you can stand by his side, and he loves you enough to say that you don’t have to.”
(Some days, she wishes Ellen had insisted a little harder that Bill stay home. But in a lot of ways, she knows she’s just like him, and that’s why Ellen couldn’t get her to stay.)
There’s one thing her dad got wrong about that statement, however – Jo’s end-all and be-all, her white whale, her one to throw it all away for isn’t a man. It’s a woman. In fact, it’s a blond woman that she meets behind the counter of a small town coffee shop.
“Hi,” she says softly, eyes meeting the moment they meet. “I’m Chloe.”
And just like that, Jo is head over heels.
This isn’t to say that things are easy. Chloe is involved in some complicated things in Smallville that Jo doesn’t fully understand, and Jo still needs to hunt, feels the road call to her in a way that so few things can, but they manage, one way or another. The world is always going to be a complicated place, and if they threw in the towel just because things were weird, then they wouldn’t be the one for each other. But at the end of the day, Jo knows that if Chloe asked her to stay in Smallville, she would.
There’s one day, however, when Jo gets a message from Chloe to meet her somewhere off the grid. She doesn’t know what it’s about, but she goes, on edge for more reasons than she count, mostly starting with wondering why Chloe didn’t just call, and when she finally lays eyes on her, she knows that something is wrong. Chloe doesn’t give her much time to dwell on it, however. She just moves in, pushes her against the car, and kisses her deeply almost as though she just wants to sink into something familiar.
“Take me away from here.”
From anyone else she would think it was corny. From Chloe, she knows that something is up.
“Is everything okay?”
“I’ll explain when we get there. Can we just go anywhere but here?”
“Yeah,” Jo says with a nod, before putting Chloe in the car and beginning to drive in the direction of her mother’s bar. “We can go anywhere you want.”
She doesn’t know what the next chapter of this story is going to hold, but she knows that as long as Chloe is by her side, she can make it through anything.