i've decided to learn to be impulsive. [from lana... heh :3]
lana lang has been written in myth for as long as she can remember. back in high school, she'd heard bits and pieces from clark about the girl who was his almost before he was ripped away from smallville and dropped into her own small pond instead. he never dwelled on it much, but brooke saw the look in his eyes when he spoke her name, like she had hung the moon in the sky herself — heard that wistful sigh of his, as if he was imagining a life that could have been.
but that was a long time ago. they've all lived several lives since then. only, for brooke, lana still lived on as some fairytale. they had never met. she had never become something real.
and now, all of a sudden, she sits across from her at the kitchen table in the apartment she and clark moved into only weeks ago, fiction come to life.
" is that what you're doing here? " brooke asks, a bundle of nervous energy. god, she wishes she had something to do with her hands. " because we weren't exactly expecting you. "
and how could she have been? it feels as if lana's dropped in from another point in reality, simply ripping through their timeline and dropping down right on their doorstep.
" but i'm sure you weren't expecting me either, right? " she softens with that, hazel eyes filled with understanding.
" i don't think clark's going to be home anytime soon. you're more than welcome to wait. is your number the same? i'm guessing not. " unlikely, since it appears she's only just touched down stateside after years away.