A Trip Down Memory LANE

Chloe Lane.
Chloe Lane Black Horton Jonas.

The ending to classic couple names such as "Phloe" "Broe" "Danloe"
and the beginning of "Chlucas"

The lovely, opera singing Nadia Bjorlin is reported to return to the Days family sometime in January.
After a short break, where she starred in the film, "the Divorce Invitation," Bjorlin will cure us all of our Chloe withdrawals. (accept maybe Victor)

Although she was only gone for a year and a half, in the soap world it seems like we haven't seen the former opera star and former prostitute in forever. In tribute to Chloe's impending return, let us travel back in time to discuss her history...and we might be able to predict some future storylines!

2000. Yes, that was twelve years ago!
Chloe comes to Salem claiming to be the daughter of Nancy Wesley's deceased friend. Little does anyone know, that Nancy is actually Chloe's mother! Wasn't a pretty sight when Craig found out...

Chloe, a victim of foster care detachment, cruelty, and lonliness had lost all faith in trust and relationships....and people.  "All I had was my dark clothes, my glasses, my singing...and my anger. They were my defenses against everything, especially the anger. It was like a drug." (Chloe, June 2001)

She was the girl who thought she was better than everybody else and so she hid behind her glasses. Until one bold rich kid took off her glasses and called her out on it. That was Philip, her high school boyfriend and first love. He got her to come out of her shell and tried to help her trust people.

And it worked. Chloe had a few friends, Shawn Brady and Belle Black. And over time she would develop a better relationship with her mother.

Once shy Chloe was gone and independent Chloe took her place, the dynamics of her relationship with Philip began to change. Combine that with impulsive, confused teenagers and an interloping nephew and you have a classic "make-up, break-up" relationship until 2002.

When Chloe develops leukemia, Philip and Brady(interloping nephew) fight over her care. Since Brady seems like the more practical and responsible person, Chloe ends in with her first love.

Later, Chloe discovers that her mother's rapist is not her father, but that her step-dad, Dr. Craig Wesley is her real father. When her little sister, Joy is born, Chloe is able to get a bone marrow transplant.

She and Brady grow closer, emotionally and physically! She, however, leaves to pursue an opera-singing career in Europe.

After a horrible accident in which her face received much damage she pretended to be dead so as not to face Brady. Nicole schemed to give her a flesh-eating bacteria in order to steal her beau, but it did not work because she revealed herself and married Brady in 2005.

When she returns in 2007, she is alone, being tracked down by Austrian authorities, and seeks aid in her old boyfriend, Phil. ( when I say seeks aid I mean seduces ).

Turns out Brady got addicted to drugs and so he divorces her from rehab. Not good for her ego. That very night, she begins her "friends with benefits" thing with Philip. As we all know, that never ends well. One usually develops actual feelings.

This time it's both. Chloe first: she gets jealous seeing him with a girl he's manipulating for work, so she sleeps with his brother in an elevator. Good payback, girl.
When she's engaged to Lucas, Phil realizes how he feels but it's too late.

Because Lucas was a rebound, Chloe never truly could commit to Lucas 100%. Then, she meets Daniel. A hot, sexy, sensitive, doctor. Did I mention sexy? Guess what comes next.

A jealous and protective mother-in-law, Kate, devises a cooking show with Chloe as the host. After poisoned eggs and apples, she finally bites a poisoned brownie. Her relationship with Daniel is revealed and she falls into a coma.

When she wakes, Lucas has divorced her, and she's engaged to Dr. Sex addict. All seems well until Chloe grows suspicious of his baby-mama. Thanks to some manipulation, curtsy of Vivian, and a bottle of red wine, she ends up crying on the shoulder of Philip.

Funny how it always circles back to Philip...hhhmmmm.

In a depressed, hopeless, drunken state, she reverts to a comfortable and familiar setting. Sex with this man.

Even though, she had  a hysterical pregnancy and was told that she couldn't conceive, Chloe ends up wondering who the father of her unborn child is. And ten years ago, she had strayed away from all personal interactions!

"Ghoul Girl" has grown up!

Not wanting to hurt Daniel or Melanie (his daughter and Phil's wife),  she decides to come clean if it's not Daniel's and keep quiet if it is. However, Caroline switched the test, so her son, Parker Kiriakis was born with the name Jonas.

Once the truth was revealed and her life destroyed, Chloe did everything she could to "return to normal" and "forget the truth." She attempted this by seducing Daniel, keeping Philip at a distance, and eventually resenting her own son.

In an increased depressed state, she attempted suicide only to be saved on the brink of death by Philip. Man, this guy shows up a lot in her life! Curious....

Because of this incident, she lost custody of Parker. When, she put herself before her baby and drunk fought Melanie and Kate, she lost the respect and support of Philip. Her last and oldest ally was slipping away, and she found herself alone, ill, and regretting not appreciating the friend she had.

In an attempt to earn money to satisfy Social Services, she became a prostitute. My oh my, how things have changed since high school!

After being beaten and comatose in a hospital, her friends (Brady and Nicole) help her get back on her feet and move to Chicago where she will work as a singer to get custody of her son back.


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Now, she is returning!!!
I really don't see how she is going to come back with the baby without Jay (Philip). It was difficult and unbelievable to fit him in without his dad who has full custody.

Chloe shall have to return without her son, at least for the most part. What buissiness would she have in Salem??? So far as I can see, she has nothing here.

 Unless she's back to claim a man! Which one of her exes shall it be? Lucas. Brady. Daniel. What about Philip and Parker in Chicago? Where is her life going and why in the world is it taking her back to Salem? I guess that's for the writers to come up with.

We'll just have to wait and see where the road (or the Lane) takes us!