Thoughts about Chimmy: A Healing Love

I decided to start this blog because I wanted a sort of sanctuary where I could talk about Chloe and Jimmy's relationship on Smallville to my hearts content. On a few of the Smallville websites I frequent, I'm one of a very few number of Chloe/Jimmy fans and sometimes I would get the sense that I was talking to myself. So I thought a blog would be ideal.

I thought and thought about what to call it but I finally settled on the title of "Healing Love."

One reason is obviously the magical Chimmy scene from "Gemini." Chloe and Jimmy broke up near the beginning of Season 7 because Chloe couldn't open up to Jimmy about her meteor powers. In "Gemini" on pain of death, Chloe tells Jimmy the truth. He not only accepts her, he kisses her!

Near the end of the episode Chloe tries to downplay the kiss. Jimmy won't let her. They have a conversation about Chloe's secret after which Jimmy says he hopes that she can accept herself. Chloe shows him her meteor power by healing his hand. That moment grabs my heart so tight. It's such a lovely moment of Chloe exposing herself to Jimmy. She gives him this tentative look as she's healing him. Will he run away? What will he do? Jimmy hugs her. He doesn't let on that he's a little shaken by it all. Wonderful. So that's the first reason.

Secondly, I've thought of Chloe's time with Jimmy as a healing time for her. When Chloe and Jimmy first started dating again in "Wither" and the cluster of episodes after that, I thought it would just be a time for Chloe to have fun and go on dates with a guy who adores her. I thought that after a bit of time passed Chloe would outgrow Jimmy and let him down easy.

As time went on it became clear that Jimmy was deeply in love with Chloe. He was so thoughtful and romantic. He was very sensitive to her feelings and desires. By the time I decided to start a blog, Jimmy had proposed to Chloe! What a surprise. Even as I was starting "A Healing Love," I didn't know if Chimmy would last but I thought that Jimmy Olsen was healing her heart.

For so many years Chloe has loved Clark. She's loved him romantically. She's had a school girl crush on him. She's believed in him and had faith in him as a superhero. As his sidekick and brother in arms she's loved him and fought with him against various foes. She's poured so much of herself into Clark Kent. I don't believe that this kind of selflessness ever comes back void. But she never reaped the rewards that she wished for: Clark's romantic love. I think this created a wound of rejection in Chloe's heart.

As much as Clark cares for Chloe, (Post Season 2's "Heat") he never crossed the line of friendship and entered into romantic territory with her. Most of the time he dated Lana Lang. Clark had no doubt that he was in love with Lana, that she was the one, that there relationship was meant to be. Again, wounding Chloe's heart - unintentionally if not completely unawares.

Then comes Jimmy pouring love and attention into Chloe's life. Jimmy shows such care and thoughtfulness toward Chloe; he's always doing special things for her. It seemed to me that Jimmy loved Chloe as much as Clark loved Lana. She was his number one choice. I felt deep down that soaking up Jimmy's TLC, Chloe was healing from all the rejection she felt from Clark over the years. Jimmy's love for Chloe and Chloe's growing love in return has been part of a crucial emotional healing process for Chloe. Maybe it's even been a time of sexual healing for her, who knows? If she's been feeling at all loved as a woman, at all sexy in the past couple of years, it's because of Jimmy Olsen. That's huge.

I'm a long time Chloe Sullivan fan. Once upon a time, for a short time I was a Chlarker. Even after I stopped shipping Clark and Chloe I still held on to hope for Chloe's sake. Chloe has that effect on some fans (myself included). You just want all her dreams to come true. But as time went on I felt that Chloe was giving too much without anything coming back into her life to feed and nurture her. I think that Jimmy Olsen has done that for Chloe in Seasons 6 and 7 and now 8.

Chloe and Jimmy's relationship is most certainly a healing love.

:D