I like this story and I like the latest chapter, but one thing I have issues with. The bit about the Wall of Weird. There was a fair bit of over reaction from Plata, which I guess is fair since Clark did the same in the original. But, this brings up the question I wanna know before I read any further. Are you gonna take things with Clark and Plata's friendship with Chloe the same way as the series? As in the Kent's are always right and Chloe should always be the one to apologize for not knowing their rules or having their morals. The Kent's hypocrisy always killed me in the show to where I barely tolerated them to outright disliking them. As you mentioned so much could have been avoided if they just acknowledged that there was a secret rather denying any such thing and making others feel terrible for getting close to it even when it was unintentional.
The kicker is that they usually bought suspicion on themselves. Like with their reactions to the Wall. They weren't up there but they acted like they were. Clark felt the need to condemn Chloe for not telling her secret sooner but never once considered telling her his. Yet, looking back that scene really set the tone for their relationship. Clark, and now perhaps Klara, never really trusted her as a friend. And until S2/S3, she had never given them a reason to doubt her. After all, the Wall was sequestered away in a pert of the Torch when it could have easily been on display or printed in the paper. Her actions, or lack thereof, never spoke enough to Clark. She could have just as easily secretly investigated them like Lex did but she didn't. Ultimately his secret was revealed to Chloe by someone else when clearly she could have figured it out sooner like she most everything else.
Sorry about the rant but its just something that bugs me. It felt like Klara was being supremely unfair in her judgment of Chloe, especially not allowing her to defend herself and only seeing any such thing as excuses. A trait shared by the other Kents. Of course, it could be the unhealthy and unhelpful amount of fear Jonathan and Martha instilled in their children talking but its still not right. Either way I like to read fics that do something to correct what feels largely like a one sided friendship in the series, though not just between Clark and Chloe, where their issues are never really resolved and if they are its not solely through their combined efforts to be better friends to each other, and be willing to talk about what bothers them, and set clear boundaries that each knows. Not ones that only their aware of. I mean of you don't trust the person you say your friends with enough to talk about personal issues, then your not really friends are you?
Well, it's a double edged sword. On the one hand, the Wall of Weird IS NOT OK. It's like Klara said, no one would appreciate being put on that wall. And if I knew anyone who had the circumstances to belong on it, I wouldn't appreciate seeing them there. Klara isn't just thinking of herself and Clark in that moment, she's thinking of all the people like them who live in fear of being considered like this. I'm hoping to steer Chloe out of that AND make a big deal of the Kents handling her better. There's a better explanation for telling her not to go digging into Clark's past: they're not ready. I'm also adopted and even without the legal iffyness not being involved in my situation, I'd be INCREDI LY upset if someone tried to force their way to information that I have expressly said I didn't want coming to light yet. I think both Chloe and the Kent family tend to be in the wrong on the subject of boundaries. The Kent's don't really know that you have to tell people where the bout dries are, or they'll be stepped on, but Chloe DOES have a habit of not respecting personal boundaries, and, while that's a fine trait as a journalist, it does make being a friend pretty hard. I'm hoping that I can FORCE them all to balance it out. And I don't think it's that they didn't trust her as a friend. Clark tells ONE person about his powers as opposed to letting them find out via EVERYTHING ELSE POSSIBLE, and Lana ended up dead that day, only to be replaced by a dead Johnathan. They're just overly paranoid and, when you're raised like that, you're not going to be completely ok in the head or emotionally. They didn't even tell Martha's DVD what was going on. They stopped being trusting people when Clark came into their lives.
And I personally think we have Lionel Luther to thank for that. They suddenly take in this huge responsibility of a super powered child, and Lionel Luther comes along, pretending to be a saving grace, and turns out to be Satan incarnate. I'd have problems trusting people with my DOG after something like that happens, let alone the safety of my kids.
You are right, Klara doesn't listen to Chloe, but then again, who listens to their friends when they're angry with them? My boyfriend could do basic math in front of me, but if I'm pissed enough I'll pull out that mathematics degree I almost got a prove that 1 = 2 just to be a bitch because I'm pissed. That's what anger does to a lot of people.
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