Accidents Happen (NC-17)

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Title: Accidents Happen
Author: scifichick774
Rating: NC-17
Category: Humor/Romance/Supernatural
Spoilers: No specific eppies that I can think of, but up to Rosetta in the second season to be safe.
Summary: Chloe and Lex are exposed to a chemical spill near kryptonite and develop the ability to hear each other’s thoughts and see some images inside each other’s heads.
Disclaimer: Not mine, no infringement intended, please don’t sue.
Feedback: YES!! REVIEW!! Geez, that sounded incredibly needy.
Archival: Sure – just let me know where.
Author’s Note: Oh man. You guys are going to kill me, but I needed to write a fluff fic. I’m sorry. I love writing my drama, romance, and angst stories, but I needed something that was just for fun. It’s not going to be a long story (probably only a few chapters) and it’s just for me, but if you guys like it too, then all the better. BTW, I don’t know Gabe’s secretary’s name or if he even has one, so just pretend that I know what I’m talking about. In case you’re not familiar with my writing – “represent spoken words” and ‘represent thoughts’.

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Chloe walked into her father’s office and gave the secretary one of her beaming smiles. The older woman smiled back at her.

“Hi Kathy,” Chloe greeted cheerfully as she swung her key ring around on her finger. “Is he ready yet?” Kathy shook her head.

“Sorry sweetie, he’s not here,” she answered. Chloe’s smile fell.

“His car is in the shop and I was supposed to pick him up. He could have at least called me and let me know that I didn’t need to drive all the way out here,” Chloe rambled. Kathy chuckled.

“I meant he’s not in his office,” she clarified. Chloe smiled.

“I knew that,” she said.

“He was called down to lab seven, something about one of the vats leaking,” Kathy said. “But you’re welcome to wait here if you want.” Chloe seemed to think about it and then shook her head.

“No thanks. I’m a little hungry. Can you tell me where the vending machines are?” She asked. Kathy went back to her typing.

“Down the hall and take a left,” she said without raising her head from the computer screen. Chloe turned around to head out the door and paused when Kathy spoke again. “Chloe?”

“Yeah?”

“Don’t let your father catch you snooping around down there,” Kathy said, knowing full well that Chloe couldn’t pass up the urge to find out about the vat leak. Chloe bit her lip as she smiled.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she replied in a faux innocent voice. Kathy grinned and kept typing as Chloe walked away. ‘Hmm, maybe I should have gotten directions,’ Chloe mused as she tried to make her way through the labyrinth of hallways. She smiled when she saw a sign next to a door indicating that it was the entrance to lab seven, but the smile quickly fell when she saw that it had a keycard and pad entry lock. “Damn,” she mumbled. As if by divine intervention, at least in Chloe’s mind, the door opened and one of the employees came walking through. She stuck out her hand to keep the door from closing. The older man smiled at her briefly and she smiled back.

He turned and walked down the hallway, paying her virtually no regard. Chloe tried to keep herself from laughing. Security controls were a good thing if the employees actually enforced them and an even better thing for her when they didn’t. She stepped into the lab and took a quick look around. She guessed that the small group of people huddled around a vat was probably where the spill was, especially since she could see Gabe and Lex standing with them. Lex looked out of place wearing his expensive suit and no lab jacket, but she figured that he rarely spent time in that section of the plant. She began to walk over there, disregarding the warning signs that said safety gloves and hats must be worn at all times in that area. Gabe spotted her and gave her a small wave.

“Hey sweetheart,” he said as she walked up to him. Chloe smiled.

“Hi Dad,” she replied. “Mr. Luthor,” she said with a nod of her head.

“Miss Sullivan,” Lex greeted. “What brings you to lab seven?” He didn’t look pleased that she was there. The last thing he needed was for her to do an article on the vat leak and end up having the EPA shut them down for a while. She shrugged as if it was no big deal.

“Kathy said that Dad was down here, and I’m picking him up from work today,” Chloe answered. Lex looked at her with suspicion, but accepted the excuse. Chloe turned to Gabe. “So are you ready yet?” Her dad frowned and looked at the floor, where a new puddle of the liquid from the vat was starting to form.

“I’m afraid not,” he said with a shake of his head. “Go ahead and go home. I’ll just catch a ride with someone from the plant.” Chloe crossed her arms.

“And you couldn’t have told me this *before* I drove all the way out here?” She asked with mock anger. Gabe grinned.

“Sorry sweetheart,” he said. Chloe shrugged.

“No problem,” she said. “See you when you get home.” Chloe hadn’t noticed that the puddle extended to where she was and when she turned to walk away, she slipped and fell. “Yuck!” The liquid was filmy and now covering her posterior and her hands. “What is this stuff?”

“I’d tell you, but I’m pretty sure you don’t want to know,” Gabe answered. Chloe made a disgusted face. She noticed that a couple of the small meteor rocks she had in her bag had fallen out and were now covered in film as well.

“As long as it comes off,” she said. On instinct, Lex reached out his hand to help her up, not paying attention to the fact that neither one of them was wearing gloves. Chloe picked up the rocks and then took Lex’s hand with her free hand. They yanked their hands away from each other after she was standing. “It’s burning!” Lex frowned at his now goop covered hand.

“You’re right,” he said with displeasure. “We’d better get to clean up.” Chloe nodded in agreement and dropped the rocks back into her bag. Gabe gave them a sympathetic grin.

“At least we know that it’s not toxic,” he called at them as they were walking toward the clean up area. “You should be fine.” Chloe rolled her eyes.

“That’s really comforting,” she said sarcastically. Lex chuckled and then noticed that she was looking down at her hands.

“Still hurts?” He asked. Chloe frowned.

“A little, but it seems to be going away,” she said. “You?”

“The same,” Lex said. He got a small smirk on his face as they finally reached the sinks. “So your Dad calls you sweetheart?” He teased. She shot him a glare out of the corner of her eye as they both pumped some liquid sanitizer onto her hands and ran them under the water.

“Your Dad doesn’t call you sweetheart?” She bit back. Lex laughed loudly.

“No,” he answered. “But my Mom used to call me ‘dumpling’.” Chloe laughed and smiled at him.

“I’ll have to remember that,” she said.

“Please don’t,” Lex said seriously. Chloe looked at her hands after drying them off. They were a little red, as if the top layer of skin had been burned off. She frowned and held them up for Lex to see.

“Is your hand red?” She asked. He looked down at his own hand.

“A little, but I’m sure it’ll be fine. At least it’s only one of my hands,” he said with a small smirk. Chloe gave him a forced grin and turned to leave.

“Whatever you say *dumpling*,” she threw over her shoulder. Lex cringed. He knew he shouldn’t have told her that.

Chloe waved goodbye to her dad and left to go home. The drive home was long and boring as usual, and Chloe started to daydream as she drove down the back roads. She told herself a million times that she was over Clark and that she had to stop thinking of him like that, but a few little fantasies weren’t going to hurt anyone, right? An image flitted through her mind of she and Clark making love and she smiled to herself as she pulled up in her driveway. Lex Luthor had a very different reaction. He was talking to Gabe and suddenly Chloe’s daydream appeared in his mind. He smiled inwardly at the image of Chloe being naked, but then saw Clark and he shook his head to try and clear the picture from his mind.

‘What the hell was that?!’ He thought to himself. Chloe furrowed her brow and looked around the room. She could have sworn she heard a man’s voice.

‘What the hell was what?’ She thought to herself as she kept looking for the man who she knew had to be there. Lex paled when he recognized Chloe’s voice in his head.

‘Chloe?’ He thought.

“Yeah, I’m right here,” Chloe said aloud. “Where are you? And more importantly, *who* are you, and what are you doing in my house?” Lex cringed, but did his best to compose himself.

“Gabe, I’m not feeling too well,” he said. “I’m going home. Can you handle this?” Gabe grinned and nodded.

“No problem.”

‘Gabe?’ Chloe thought. “My Dad’s at work,” she said to the air, hoping that the man would come out of hiding.

‘I’m at work too Chloe,’ Lex thought. ‘I think something happened to us.’ Chloe’s eyes grew wide when she finally recognized Lex’s voice, and realized that it was coming from within her own head.

‘Well fix it!’ She mentally yelled.

‘I’m on my way home now,’ Lex said. ‘I have the files on the chemical back at the house.’

‘Speed! I can’t have your voice inside my head Lex!’ She said. Lex pursed his lips, knowing that he would regret his next sentence.

‘It’s not just our voices,’ Lex thought.

‘What do you mean?’ Chloe made her way to the refrigerator and took out a small container of hot fudge topping. Her mind drifted to less than chaste thoughts of what she could be doing with Clark and the chocolate and Lex yelled at her.

“Stop it!” He practically screamed. Chloe furrowed her brow.

‘Stop what? I was just fixing myself some ice cream,’ she thought.

‘Stop fantasizing about you and Clark!’ Lex ordered. ‘Don’t get me wrong, the images of you are terrific, but I have no desire to see you having sex with another man.’ Chloe choked on the ice cream she just tried to swallow. A furious blush rose to her cheeks.

‘You – you ---’

‘Saw it. Yes. I told you, it’s not just our voices,’ Lex thought.

“Oh God,” Chloe groaned in embarrassment.

‘Just try and control yourself, don’t let it happen again,’ Lex told her. Chloe’s mouth opened a little. How dare he tell her what to think or not to think?

‘What’s the matter?’ She asked. ‘Jealous that it wasn’t you?’ Lex squared his jaw.

‘Don’t be ridiculous, I ---’ Lex’s thoughts drifted to a vivid image of he and Chloe making love on his bed. They were sweaty and writhing against each other with full passion. Chloe screamed her release and Lex tried to clear his thoughts.

“What the hell was that?!” Chloe yelled. Lex ran his hand around the back of his neck.

“Don’t get mad at me, you’re the one who suggested it,” Lex said. He frowned when he realized that he was arguing with her aloud even though she wasn’t there.

‘I – argh! Just find a way to fix it! And no more thinking about – you know – for either of us. Deal?’

‘Deal,’ Lex thought. He immediately regretted thinking it. He was certain now that he had an imprint of the two of them in that position in his mind that he would want to think about it frequently. He imagined himself kissing her passionately, their tongues maneuvering against each other in an erotic dance; him moving his hands under her shirt and ---

“Knock it off!” Chloe yelled. Lex snapped out of his thoughts.

‘Sorry,’ he thought. A small smirk crossed his lips.

“Knock what off?” Lana asked in confusion as she walked into the house. Chloe turned around to face her and offered her a nervous smile.

“Nothing, nothing’s wrong,” Chloe lied.

‘Who are you talking to?’ Lex asked.

‘Lana just got home,’ Chloe explained. She thought she heard Lex snicker and shook her head. “How was work?”

“Fine,” Lana said. “Kind of busy. But you’ll never guess what happened!” Lana seemed excited and Chloe sat down next to her.

“What happened?” Chloe asked.

‘What happened?’ Lex asked.

‘Shut up,’ Chloe thought. ‘I’m talking to Lana.’

“Okay, you know Damian Thomas?” Lana asked excitedly. Chloe nodded. “I think he likes you. He was asking all these questions about you, like if you were seeing anybody and stuff.”

“Really?” Chloe asked. Lana nodded happily.

“So what do you think? You want me to try and hook you two up?” She asked.

‘Would you please tell me what’s going on?’ Lex asked. ‘And who the guy is?’ Chloe ignored him.

“I – uh – maybe,” Chloe said. Lana rolled her eyes.

“Okay, well think about it and let me know,” she said. Chloe nodded and buried her head in her hands after Lana left the room.

‘Thinking about it is the last thing I should do,’ Chloe thought to herself.

‘Thinking about what?’ Lex asked.

‘God! You’re nosier than I am,’ she thought. Lex grinned.

‘It’s a little hard not to be when we share each other’s thoughts,’ he replied.

‘I guess that’s a valid point,’ Chloe conceded.

‘So are you going to tell me what’s going on?’ He asked.

‘Lana thinks some guy – the guy in the mental picture – likes me and wants to try and set us up on a date,’ Chloe said. Lex was silent for a minute and Chloe got her hopes up that maybe their connection had worn off.

‘I don’t think it would be a good idea for either of us to date until we have this sorted out,’ Lex said. Chloe frowned.

‘I’m not going to give up the little social life I have just so you won’t feel uncomfortable,’ Chloe thought. Lex pictured them making love again. The image was strong and Chloe could feel herself becoming aroused at the very thought of it. ‘Okay, stop it! You made your point.’

‘Thank you.’

‘Whatever,’ Chloe thought shortly. ‘Just look over your files and see if there’s anything we can do to reverse this.’

‘Of course *sweetheart*,’ Lex replied.

‘Bastard.’

‘You can call me anything you’d like, as long as it keeps images of you with teenage boys out of my head,’ Lex quipped.

‘Fine. *Dumpling*.’

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Ch. 2
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It had been a trying evening. Chloe’s patience was wearing thin and Lex’s was now non-existent. Chloe finished up her harried meal with her dad and Lana and pushed herself away from the table.

“I’m going to get an early start on my homework,” Chloe said. Gabe arched an eyebrow at her.

“On a Friday night?” He asked with surprise. Chloe managed to fake a smile.

“Well, if I get it done now then I have the rest of the weekend free,” she explained.

“Ah,” Gabe said with a smile. Lana smiled at her also.

“So does that mean you’ve come to a decision about D-” she glanced at Gabe and then back at Chloe, “you know?” Chloe opened her mouth to speak, but closed it before saying anything. She smiled at Lana.

“I’ll have to get back to you on that,” Chloe said.

‘No,’ Lex reminded her. ‘I just got a mental image of that guy again, so I can infer that you were talking about going out with him, and the answer is no.’

‘You’re not my social director Lex,’ she thought as she made her way up the stairs.

‘As long as our minds are connected I am,’ he countered.

‘I was thinking ---’

‘No you weren’t, I would have heard you. Remember?’ Lex thought.

‘Would you shut up for just a second? God you’re annoying!’ Chloe was ready to drive over to his house and strangle him.

‘It’s the truth,’ he said.

‘I know it’s the truth that you’re annoying,’ she said with a smile. ‘I’m surprised to hear you admit it.’

‘Not that,’ Lex thought with aggravation. ‘The part about me hearing you.’

‘Maybe you don’t hear all my thoughts,’ Chloe mused.

‘If that’s the case, I’d be forever grateful if you’d filter out those ghastly images of you and Clark together,’ Lex said.

‘Ghastly? There’s nothing ghastly about ---’

‘Please,’ he said sarcastically. ‘Even in your fantasies you don’t look right for each other.’

‘Hey!’

‘I’m just pointing out the obvious,’ he thought.

‘Ugh! Ignoring you now,’ she thought. Lex scoffed.

‘Best of luck with that,’ he said.

‘I need some music to calm me,’ Chloe thought. ‘Maybe I can drown you out.’ Lex chuckled aloud and it came through his thoughts as well. Chloe glanced through her cds and picked one. She placed it in her cd player and selected the track she wanted. ‘Prepare to be drowned out,’ she thought. The music started playing and because Chloe was thinking about it, it came through loud and clear in Lex’s head.


You belong to my heart
Now and forever
Though our love had it's start
Not long ago

Well we were gathering stars
And a million guitars
Played our love song

When I said I love you
Every beat of my heart
Said it too

Was a moment like this
When I first found you
And your eyes threw a kiss
When they met mine

Now we own all the stars
And a million guitars
Are still playing

Now you are a song
And you'll always belong
To my heart

Now you are a song
And you'll always belong
To my heart


‘Chloe?’ Lex thought. Chloe lay down on her bed, closed her eyes, and groaned softly.

‘I hope you’re happy. I was almost able to convince myself that you weren’t inside my head,’ she said.

‘Sorry to disappoint you,’ Lex thought with a grin.

‘Whatever. Did you want something?’ Chloe thought.

‘We should at least *try* to be civil toward each other.’

‘That would kind of negate my homicide defense,’ Chloe thought. Lex smiled broadly.

‘The voices in your head made you do it?’

‘Well, it’s just the one if you want to be specific your honor,’ she thought. Lex chuckled.

‘So what were you thinking earlier?’ He asked.

‘You know what I was thinking earlier, you were sort of there,’ she said.

‘No, I mean the part you said that ---’

‘Oh,’ Chloe thought. ‘I was wondering if proximity might have anything to do with it.’

‘You think it might get better if we were further away from each other?’ He asked.

‘It’s worth a shot,’ she said. ‘Tomorrow’s Saturday. Maybe you could have a date with one of your model slash bimbos in Metropolis or something.’

‘Nice to know you think so highly of my taste in women,’ Lex said sarcastically.

‘Have you seen the women you go out with?’ She countered.

‘You just want me to go to Metropolis so you can go out with that guy that Lana wants to set you up with,’ Lex thought.

‘Damian,’ Chloe filled in for him. Lex rolled his eyes.

‘Damian,’ he repeated. ‘As in *The Omen*? I should think that would be a major hint that you shouldn’t go out with him right there.’ Chloe laughed.

‘I’ll mention it to him,’ she thought.

‘Before or after he tries to make you his demon bride?’ Lex quipped.

‘Funny,’ she said sarcastically. ‘So do you want to try the proximity idea or not?’

‘Can’t hurt,’ Lex thought.

‘Great! Now get out of my head so I can do my homework.’

‘Chloe, if I could get out of your head at will then I would have by now.’

‘You want to help me then?’ She asked.

‘Depends.’

‘On?’

‘What class are you doing homework for first?’ He asked.

‘Why does it matter? You’re going to be there through all of them,’ she retorted.

‘Not necessarily true,’ he said. He held up a glass of scotch in front of him and grinned. ‘I’m working on my second glass of scotch as we speak, so I could very well pass out and not think anything.’

‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ Chloe thought.

‘Because you’re underage? Or perhaps because your father and Lana are home and they wouldn’t look favorably upon you getting sloshed and passing out?’

‘The latter,’ Chloe said. ‘Of course if it works for you tonight, I may have to reconsider how much I value my image in the eyes of my dad.’ Lex laughed.

‘So which class is first?’

‘I’m not sure I want you to help me if you’re already well on your way to getting drunk,’ she answered.

‘I’m only on my second glass Chloe.’

‘Right. I forgot that you probably have a liver the size of Texas by now,’ she said with a smile.

‘What happened to being civil toward each other?’ Lex asked.

‘I never agreed to it,’ she responded.

‘Oh.’

‘Right. So – how are you at Health?’

‘What subject in Health?’ Lex asked in a suggestive voice. Chloe could practically see the smirk on his face.

‘We’re already passed human sexuality Lex,’ she said.

‘Damn. That was always my best subject,’ he replied.

‘Certainly the only one you probably paid attention to,’ Chloe thought. Lex pursed his lips and then took a drink of his alcohol.

‘Touché.’

‘We’re working on our CPR section now,’ Chloe said. Lex grinned. ‘And don’t even bother with the mouth to mouth remarks because I had to hear them all this morning from Pete and Clark.’

‘I’m sure you didn’t mind the latter,’ he thought.

‘Actually I did,’ she admitted. ‘He’s gorgeous, but sometimes he can be so ---’

‘Immature?’

‘So?’

‘What makes you think this Damian kid, or any teenage boy will be any better?’ Lex asked. He took another drink from his glass. He was almost done and would be ready to start on his third soon.

‘Well technically Damian has an edge, seeing as how the demon inside of him has probably lived for centuries,’ Chloe joked. Lex choked on some of his scotch as he started laughing. His laughing subsided and he headed toward the decanter set to pour himself a third scotch.

‘Chloe, may I ask you a question?’

‘Like I have a choice?’ She responded. ‘Speaking of which, I guess I could get all the information I need for any sort of inside article on you or your company now huh?’ Lex groaned.

‘I guess I’ll be calling in sick for a while,’ he said. Chloe laughed.

‘You do realize I was just joking right?’ She asked. Lex arched an eyebrow and sat down with his drink.

‘You were?’

‘Of course,’ she said. ‘How would I ever explain how I got my information?’ Lex looked thoughtful.

‘Good point.’

‘You had a question?’ She asked. She started to fill out the answers on her homework, which proved to be incredibly easy.

‘Do you even like Damian? Or are you just using him as a substitute for Clark?’ Lex asked. Chloe frowned.

‘Clark is my friend. I’ve accepted that ---’

‘Ah yes, I can tell that from the numerous pornographic images that I’ve had played in my head,’ Lex said sarcastically. Chloe smiled.

‘Well, look on the bright side. If I end up liking Damian, then I could fantasize about him instead.’

‘How is that a bright side exactly?’ He asked and then took a rather large drink from his glass. He was finally starting to feel the effects of the alcohol and his mind drifted to an image of him cupping Chloe’s face with his hands and kissing her. They slid their tongues against each other and only finally parted when they needed air. Chloe tried mentally screaming at him, but the images didn’t stop. Lex closed his eyes and thought about undressing her and slowly leaning her back against his bed. About them running their hands over each other and him taking one of her nipples into his mouth. Chloe’s skin felt heated. The imagery Lex was projecting was erotic and she couldn’t get him to stop it.

‘Lex!’ She tried again. Lex corresponded her yell to his fantasy. Her screaming his name as he entered her and began to thrust. Her wrapping her legs around him for better contact. Their breathing becoming shorter and faster as he pumped into her. Chloe felt the arousal spread through her body. She was so close to climax and they hadn’t really done anything. ‘This can’t be good,’ she thought. Lex didn’t hear her, or chose not to. Chloe’s real breathing became closer to that of the image as she seemed to feel everything that was going on. ‘Oh God!’ She felt her orgasm sweep over her and clung to the comforter on her bed. Lex had a similar reaction. He ran a hand over his face when he looked at the liquid and broken glass on the floor and the wetness in his slacks.

“Damn,” he muttered under his breath. Chloe’s eyes opened.

‘Okay, explain that, and explain it now,’ she thought. Lex’s eyebrows rose.

‘Did you ---?’ He asked, trailing off at the end of the question. Chloe blushed. She couldn’t lie to him because he would know.

‘Yeah,’ she thought. ‘You?’

‘Yeah.’ There was a small pause while they both absorbed the surrealism of the situation.

‘So this proximity thing isn’t such a bad idea right?’ Chloe asked.

‘I – sure. We can try it,’ Lex thought.

‘Okay,’ Chloe agreed. ‘But Lex?’

‘Yeah?’

‘Just don’t do that – you know – during my date okay?’ Chloe asked. Lex smirked.

‘I’ll do my best.’



TBC
*The song is You Belong to My Heart by Lara Agustin – I don’t own any of the rights to it either.

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Ch. 3
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A/N: Okay, skipping ahead time wise a little here to the night of the date. I know some of you were hoping for a nice dream sequence, but I know for a fact that I would go passed the strong R rating if I did that. *wink* I still think you’ll enjoy this chapter. Lots of banter, lots of Chlexy goodness.

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“I’m so glad that you decided to go out with Damian after all,” Lana chirped as she poured a refill for a customer’s coffee. Chloe resisted rolling her eyes.

“Yeah, and meeting at The Talon – how original,” she said sarcastically. Lana giggled.

‘I can’t believe you’re meeting him somewhere at all. Shouldn’t he have picked you up at your house?’ Lex thought.

‘You do realize that you sound like my Dad,’ Chloe retorted.

‘Gabe’s a smart man,’ Lex countered.

“You’ll go somewhere else afterward. He probably just wants a comfortable place to start out at,” Lana said. Chloe shrugged.

“I guess,” Chloe said.

‘You guess what?’ Lex asked.

‘Nothing,’ Chloe lied. ‘Aren’t you supposed to be on your way to Metropolis?’

‘I am,’ Lex said. ‘I should be there in another hour and a half.’

‘Damn,’ Chloe thought. ‘Are you sure?’

‘I’ve made this drive several times,’ Lex thought. ‘Yes, I’m sure.’

‘Really, really sure?’ Chloe asked. Lex sighed.

‘Well, I could span it out to another two and a quarter hours if you’re desperately concerned about my safety at driving this speed,’ he teased. ‘But your proximity theory was obviously flawed,’ Lex thought. Chloe frowned.

‘Maybe you’re just not far enough away,’ she thought hopefully. ‘You could go to Europe or something right?’ Lex chuckled.

‘So you can have a social life with *Damian*? I think not.’

‘Spoilsport,’ Chloe thought.

‘Well look at it this way Chloe; if your date turns out to be as brain dead as most of the Smallville community, then at least you’ll have good company in your head.’

‘I’m not sure I’d consider you good company,’ Chloe thought. She smiled at Lana when she came back from her waitressing rounds. Lex smirked.

‘Even after last night?’ he asked with a sultry undertone.

‘Especially after last night. You’re going to corrupt me, Luthor,’ she thought. Lex smiled broadly and then started laughing.

‘If that’s the way you feel about it, then maybe I should just swing the car around and ---’

‘Don’t you dare!’ Chloe thought. Luckily her own yelling at him drowned out the fact that he had done just that and was already on his way back to Smallville.

‘Come on Chloe. You don’t even like this guy,’ Lex said.

‘I don’t even know him. I just know *of* him. He could be nice. You don’t know,’ Chloe argued.

‘Yeah, but can he make you scream?’ Lex asked. Chloe buried her head in her hands to hide the color that was rising to her cheeks.

‘That was mortifying,’ Chloe thought. Lex furrowed his brow.

‘No it wasn’t,’ he thought. ‘It was fantastic.’ Chloe sighed.

‘Not that,’ she thought. ‘The after part where I actually screamed and my Dad and Lana both came rushing to my room because they thought I was being attacked or something.’ Lex started laughing again. ‘It’s not funny! I had to tell them that I had a nightmare and I don’t even think they believed me.’

‘Of course they didn’t – it wasn’t that kind of a scream,’ Lex said luridly. Damian walked in and tapped Chloe on the shoulder. She turned around and smiled at him. ‘Ugh,’ Lex thought with disgust. ‘Why do I have a picture of that damn kid in my head again, Chloe?’

‘Because he just showed up,’ Chloe thought. “Hey,” she greeted.

“Hey,” Damian said. He motioned toward the tables with his head. “You wanna get a seat?”

“Sure.”

‘Hey and sure,’ Lex thought. ‘He’s obviously a master of conversation to get such vivid responses from you.’

‘Will you shut up and let me enjoy my date?!’

‘Be nice or I’ll start fantasizing about you again,’ Lex thought. Chloe groaned and Damian shot her a concerned look.

“Is something wrong?” Damian asked.

“No, sorry. I just remembered that I forgot to do something I was supposed to do today,” Chloe lied. Damian smiled and nodded. ‘Ugh. He’s giving me the Clark look.’

‘Clark look?’ Lex asked.

‘You know? *I don’t know what you’re talking about, so I’m just going to nod and smile a goofy looking smile at you*?’ Chloe answered. Lex smiled.

‘Ahh, that look,’ Lex said. ‘So I gather that brain surgeon is not on young Damian’s list of career options?’

‘Not unless the demon inside him is calling the shots career wise,’ Chloe quipped. Lex smiled again, but it quickly fell.

‘I can’t hear anything you’re saying to him.’

‘Because I’m not saying anything,’ Chloe thought. Lex chuckled at her irritated tone. ‘Shut up. I have to put up with your side of the conversation with whatever gold digger you decided to take out tonight.’

‘Actually you don’t,’ Lex thought.

‘Why? Have you figured out a way to block your thoughts from me? And if so, could you do it now?’

‘Funny,’ Lex responded sarcastically. ‘Actually, I didn’t have a date for tonight. I only agreed to go to Metropolis because it seemed like you really wanted me to.’

‘Oh. Well, thanks then I guess.’

‘Anything for you *sweetheart*,’ Lex thought. Chloe started laughing and Damian looked at her like she had grown a third eye.

“I’m sorry, I was just thinking how awkward this is,” she lied. Damian took a breath and then released.

“Totally,” he agreed. “I was going to ask you out on my own, you know, after I found out a little more about you to see if we had anything in common. And then Lana totally jumps on the idea after I asked her two questions.” Chloe chuckled.

“She gets carried away sometimes,” Chloe said.

“So do you wanna see a movie or something?” He asked.

‘Do I wanna see a movie or something?’ Chloe thought to herself, mimicking Damian’s tone. Lex rolled his eyes.

‘I told you not to go out with him,’ he thought.

‘Maybe I should go see a movie,’ Chloe thought, ignoring Lex’s comment. ‘It might help muffle the sound of your voice in my head.’

‘What did I tell you about being nice?’ He warned in a half joking manner. Chloe scoffed.

‘Please,’ she said sarcastically. ‘If I have sex with you in my brain then it’s the only action I’m getting tonight.’ One corner of Lex’s mouth curled upward.

‘So poor Damian doesn’t have a chance?’ He asked a little too hopefully. Chloe faked a smile at Damian.

“A movie sounds good. What did you have in mind?” She asked.

“They have a new war movie out,” Damian said with a little too much enthusiasm. Chloe frowned and Damian furrowed his brow. “You don’t like war movies?”

‘Who the hell likes war movies?’ she thought. Lex shook his head. Damian really didn’t have a chance with Chloe, even if Lex wasn’t sharing thoughts with her. “I’m sorry, it’s just with Whitney and ---”

‘Good cover,’ Lex thought.

‘Thanks. It’s the truth.’

“Oh yeah, I forgot that you were friends with him, huh?” Damian asked.

“Not really,” Chloe said honestly. “More like friends of friends.” Damian nodded. ‘Kind of like you and me, huh Lex?’

‘I give you an orgasm so powerful that your dad and Lana rushed in the room to see if you were alright when you screamed and you don’t consider me a friend on my own merits? I think I’m hurt, Chloe.’

‘Not to mention the fact that we’re in each other’s heads,’ Chloe thought. ‘That’s what you were going to say next right?’

‘You make it sound like it’s a bad thing,’ Lex said.

“Okay, well how about Army of Doom?” Damian asked. “It’s supposed to have some great special effects.”

‘Army of Doom,’ Chloe thought. ‘I guess that’s technically not a war movie.’

‘Nor a movie that any male with a brain cell would take a first date to,’ Lex thought. ‘Is he on drugs? Check his pupils.’ Chloe coughed to cover her laughter.

‘It might not be that bad,’ Chloe thought. ‘It just seems kind of weird that he would suggest a war movie and then a horror movie. I wonder if he has some sort of death wish or something.’

‘I could accommodate it,’ Lex said. Chloe smiled.

‘And how would you do that?’ she asked. Lex pictured Damian getting shot and the blood spraying over the wall behind him. ‘Charming.’ Her sarcasm was heavy.

‘You asked,’ Lex argued.

‘And how would you get away with this obviously well thought out plan of yours?’ Chloe asked.

‘I had no choice, your honor; the voice in my head made me do it,’ Lex said with a bright smile. Chloe inwardly laughed and Lex continued. ‘What exactly did the voice tell you to do son? Oh, she said that she was having a very bad date and I needed to get rid of him before I could take her back to my house and ravage her.’

Chloe snorted. ‘You wish.’

‘Several times,’ Lex replied with a smirk. Chloe reached across the table and placed her hand on top of Damian’s, oblivious to the fact that Lex sped even faster to get home and had just pulled up outside the building.

“I’m sorry Damian, I just don’t think this is going to work,” she said.

“How do you know? We could have *something* in common,” Damian pointed out. Lex walked into The Talon and spotted the table Chloe and Damian were sitting at. “We haven’t even really gotten to know each other yet.” Lex arrived at the table and grinned at Chloe.

“And you never will,” Lex responded to Damian. The boy looked at him in confusion.

“Who are you?” Damian asked. Lex briefly let his eyes glance at him.

“Jealous boyfriend,” Lex said dryly. “Take a hike.” Chloe arched an eyebrow and Lex grinned at her. ‘Play along,’ he thought. “Did you think I wouldn’t find out about him?” Lex asked. “Lana should have known better than to try and push you away from me.” His tone was menacing and Chloe was surprised that he was able to pull it off. He held out his hand to help her out of her chair. ‘You want out of this date from hell or not?’ Lex thought. “No one takes you away from me. You’re mine.”

Chloe took his hand and stood up. She gave Damian a somewhat forced apologetic look.

“Sorry Damian, but he has violent tendencies.” Her mind replayed Lex’s image of shooting Damian. “And I wouldn’t want you to get hurt.” Damian frowned. Lana never mentioned that Chloe had a boyfriend, let alone one who looked like he was ready to kill him just for sitting with her.

Someone caught the corner of Chloe’s eye and she smiled. “But hey! I know Stacey really likes war movies, and she’s getting off shift in a little bit. Maybe this will all work out for the best.” Damian looked over at Stacey and smiled.

“Maybe,” he agreed. “I guess you just never know how fate’s going to work out, huh?” He gave her another Clark look and Lex grinned tightly. Lex wrapped his arm around Chloe’s back possessively.

“You just never know,” Chloe said through a clearly faked smile. She looked up at Lex. “Come on *dumpling*, we should get out of here before you start trying to kill people.”

Lex smirked at her and then ushered them to the front doors. He held the door open for her and placed his hand on the small of her back as she was walking through.

Chloe sighed when they reached his car. “You do realize that I’m never going to get a date again don’t you?”

Lex arched an eyebrow and motioned to The Talon with his head.

“And that’s a bad thing?” he asked. Chloe rolled her eyes.

‘Of course not. It’s not like I have any need for any sort of social life or anything,’ she thought sarcastically. Lex stepped closer to her and began to lean down.

‘You just never know how fate’s going to work out,’ he thought. She creased her brow ever so slightly and Lex brushed his lips against hers. Chloe’s eyes widened.

‘Lex!’

‘Problem?’ He asked and continued to be persistent with the kiss. His tongue wove its way into her mouth and Chloe let out a small moan. His hands rested on her hips and Chloe ran her hands up his chest. Their tongues slid against each other.

‘You know we can’t do this,’ she thought.

‘Why?’ he asked.

‘Because sex in our heads is one thing,’ she thought. ‘Sex in reality is something else entirely.’

‘I agree,’ he thought as they kissed. He slid one hand up the back of her shirt and Chloe gasped. ‘Sex in reality can only be better.’

~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 4
~*~*~*~*~

Damian walked out of the coffee shop and saw the two kissing. He shook his head and walked away. How could Lana *not* know that Chloe had a boyfriend?

Chloe pulled away from Lex and Lex furrowed his brow.

“We can’t do this,” she repeated aloud. Her breathing was heavy and Lex smirked, taking a step closer to her to fill in the gap she left when she ended their kiss.

‘Chloe,’ he thought. Lex watched as she looked behind him and her eyes grew wide. He turned around. ‘Damn. Perfect timing as always Clark,’ he thought sarcastically. Chloe smiled and inwardly laughed. Lex smiled at her.

“Hey guys,” Clark greeted. He observed how close his friends were standing to each other and narrowed his eyes at them suspiciously. “What’s going on?”

“Nothing,” Chloe said with a forced smile. Clark frowned and stepped a little closer to Chloe.

“Are you okay Chloe? You looked kind of flushed,” Clark said. Chloe tried desperately to keep the blush from rising to her cheeks and Lex grinned evilly.

“You do,” Lex agreed. “Maybe I should take you home.”

‘My dad’s at home moron,’ Chloe thought.

‘I didn’t say *your* home,’ Lex countered. Clark watched as Chloe and Lex eyed each other. It was like they were having their own conversation without words, and Clark couldn’t say why, but it set him on edge for some reason.

“Oh, that’s okay Lex, I can take her home,” Clark offered. Lex glared at him and Clark raised his eyebrows in surprise. Lex quickly changed his expression.

“Don’t you need to meet Lana?” Lex asked.

‘Way to change the subject,’ Chloe thought.

‘The sooner we get rid of him, the sooner we can ---’

‘Shut up.’

‘Why?’

‘I already told you we can’t, that’s why,’ Chloe thought.

‘But you never gave me a reason why we can’t,’ Lex countered.

“Guys? Guys!” Clark waved his hand in front of them to try and get their attention again. They were staring at each other and Clark’s discomfort with the situation was growing. Something was definitely going on. Chloe looked over at him.

‘What?’ She thought. Lex chuckled.

‘He can’t hear you *sweetheart*. You have to use your voice,’ Lex thought. Chloe looked at Lex again.

‘You want a reason we can’t? Because we hate each other. Is that enough of a reason for you?’ She asked.

“I don’t hate you,” Lex said to her. Clark furrowed his brow.

“What?” Clark asked. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. “Something is going on with you two and you’re going to tell me right now.” His voice was authoritative and Chloe bit her lip to keep from laughing. She was laughing on the inside though and Lex smiled.

‘Clark Kent – drill sergeant,’ Chloe thought.

‘He’s been spending too much time with his dad,’ Lex thought.

‘He did sound remarkably like him,’ Chloe agreed. Clark cleared his throat and they both looked over at him again.

“Sorry Clark,” Chloe said. “You see, there was an accident and ---”

“And I’m sure that Clark doesn’t want to be bothered with all of the details,” Lex interrupted, shooting a warning look at Chloe.

‘He has a right to know Lex,’ she thought.

‘Does he have a right to know what you’ve been *thinking* about him as well?’ Lex thought. Chloe blushed and immediately her mind flitted to an image of her and Clark undressing each other. Lex shook his head to try and clear the picture. “Stop it!” He yelled.

“You brought it up!” Chloe retorted. Clark opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out.

“Stop what?” Clark asked in confusion. He looked back and forth between his friends who were now glaring at each other. “You guys ---”

“This doesn’t involve you Clark,” Lex said without looking at him. ‘Well, it sort of does,’ he thought. Chloe sighed.

‘It doesn’t,’ she argued. ‘It’s not my fault that you brought up the whole fantasizing about him thing. You should be more careful when you tease me.’ Lex grinned when she said ‘fantasized’ and pictured himself and Chloe together again. Chloe’s eyes grew wide.

“No, no, no!” She shouted. “You are not doing this here!” Lex’s image was persistent and grew more and more vivid. Chloe could feel a warm tingle of arousal start to spread through her body.

“Chloe?” Clark asked with concern. Chloe pushed the image away and glared at Lex, who in return frowned at her.

“Just for that, I’m telling him,” Chloe said.

“Telling me what?!” Clark asked in frustration. Lex sighed and looked at him.

“Chemical spill,” Lex started.

“We can hear each other’s thoughts,” Chloe continued.

“And see some images inside each other’s heads,” Lex added.

“And, um,” Chloe paused and looked unsurely at Lex. He tilted his head at her.

“I don’t think he needs to know that much Chloe,” Lex said.

“You’re right,” she agreed.

“You admitted that I’m right?” Lex asked in astonishment.

“What are you doing?” Clark asked as he watched Lex look up in the sky.

“Looking for the four horsemen of the apocalypse,” Lex answered tongue in cheek. Chloe hit his arm playfully.

“Jackass,” she said with a smile. Lex smiled back at her. Clark looked at the two wide eyed.

“So you can read each other’s minds?” Clark asked in disbelief. He wasn’t sure whether to believe it or not, but it would certainly explain how they were acting – well, except for the kind of flirty undertones they were taking on, but Clark surmised that part could just be in his head. Chloe smiled at Clark.

“You sound like you don’t believe us,” she observed. Clark opened his mouth to speak, but Lex interrupted.

“If it helps, I could tell you what Chloe’s really been thinking about you,” Lex said with a teasing glance at Chloe. Chloe reached up and clamped her palm over Lex’s mouth.

“Don’t even think it,” she warned him. Lex’s eyes gleamed with pure mischief and Chloe couldn’t help but smile. Clark watched the entire scene with some amusement, until his earlier trepidation about them flirting kicked in.

“Um, guys, I might be totally off here, but ---” he started. Chloe jerked her hand away from Lex’s mouth and stared at it.

“You licked me!” She exclaimed in surprise.

‘I could be doing a lot more than that,’ Lex thought suggestively. Chloe laughed and Clark arched an eyebrow at her.

“You guys are doing it again, aren’t you?” Clark asked. Both Lex and Chloe whipped their heads around to look at him and Clark noticed Chloe blushing. He looked at her suspiciously before turning his attention to Lex. “Could you just not do that whole ‘mind reading’ thing when you’re around me? It’s kind of creepy.” Lex smiled but Chloe rolled her eyes.

“If we could turn it off, don’t you think we would have by now?” She asked. Clark gave her an apologetic smile.

“You’re right,” Clark said. “I guess I wasn’t thinking.”

‘Understatement of the decade,’ Chloe thought. Lex coughed to hide his laughter.

‘Be nice,’ Lex thought. ‘This *is* the boy you’ve been dreaming about.’

‘Shut up,’ Chloe thought.

‘Of course, you haven’t done that for a whole ten minutes now,’ Lex teased. Chloe blushed and Clark looked back and forth between his friends again. Lex noticed him out of the corner of his eye and smirked at Chloe. ‘Are you sure you don’t want him to know? I think it would be really enlightening for him.’ Chloe narrowed her eyes at him.

“Okay, you asked for it,” she said aloud. She pictured herself grabbing Clark’s face with her hands and kissing him senseless. Lex frowned.

“That’s enough,” Lex said. Chloe continued her forced fantasy. She began to unbutton Clark’s shirt and lightly kiss his chest. Lex squared his jaw. “That’s enough Chloe,” he repeated. Clark furrowed his brow at them. Obviously Chloe was thinking something that Lex didn’t want to see or hear, but what could it be? Chloe unknowingly took a few steps toward Clark and Lex got an evil smirk on his face. He could play just as dirty as she could. Lex altered the image in her mind so when she looked up to kiss Clark it was him instead. Chloe glared at him, but Lex shrugged it off and let the picture continue.

“Lex! No!” Chloe yelled. Her mind flitted to the image he was projecting and she couldn’t push it out of her head. He was nibbling at her neck as he slowly backed her onto his bed. Chloe clenched her hands into fists, trying not to give in, but she felt the familiar warmth begin between her legs and groaned.

“Chloe?” Clark asked. “Are you okay?” He closed the small distance between them and wrapped his arm around her for support. Chloe closed her eyes as she leaned her head against his chest. Clark looked up to glare at Lex, but Lex’s eyes were closed. Clark creased his brow in confusion again.

“Oh God,” Chloe murmured in pleasure. Clark’s eyes grew wide at the sound. He glanced down to find Chloe breathing harder against his chest and starting to rub herself against him. Clark blushed and quickly looked around to see if anybody else was witnessing it, but thankfully the streets seemed to be bare. Chloe whimpered as her body and mind started to give into the image that Lex was projecting. Lex pictured her moving on top of him, her face contorted in ecstasy. Lex and Chloe’s breathing both became ragged and Chloe found herself gripping onto Clark’s arms for support. Clark wrapped both his arms around her and felt her body start to shake. Chloe felt her orgasm rolling through her body and let out a deep moan of delight. She clung onto Clark’s arms and crashed against him just as Lex moaned out his own release. Clark tightened his arms around Chloe. He was completely aroused by her rubbing herself against him as she moaned.

Chloe allowed Clark to lift her chin with his hand, but her eyes were still closed and she was still picturing herself in the daydream. Clark started to lean down to kiss her when Lex cleared his throat loudly. Chloe opened her eyes and they grew large with the realization that she was in Clark’s arms. She jumped away from him.

“Oh Clark, I’m so sorry,” she said while shaking her head and holding her hands out in front of her. Clark tried to step closer to her, but she kept backing away.

“Chloe ---”

“I don’t suppose we could just forget the fact that I just mortifyingly embarrassed myself in front of you?” Chloe asked hopefully. Clark looked surprised.

“You didn’t – I mean,” Clark stammered. Lex observed the two interact and an unsettling feeling came to rest in his gut. He recognized it, although he hadn’t felt it very many times in his life – at least not in this capacity. Jealousy. Lex frowned.

‘Why would I be jealous of Clark?’ He thought. Chloe turned to look at him.

‘You’re jealous of Clark?’ She thought.

‘I – no,’ Lex lied. ‘Time to change the subject.’

‘I can hear you,’ Chloe reminded him. Lex walked over to them.

“I think Chloe and I should get going now,” Lex told Clark. Clark looked at Chloe.

“But ---”

“We need to meet with the people at my lab to see if they can find an antidote,” Lex said smoothly.

“Oh, that makes sense,” Clark said in a disappointed voice.

‘No it doesn’t,’ Chloe thought. ‘Since when do your scientists work on Saturday nights?’

‘Since I pay them very well to do so,’ Lex thought. Chloe let out a small sigh and looked at Clark.

“So we’re going to forget this whole thing ever happened, right?” Chloe asked Clark hopefully. Clark shoved his hands in his pockets and looked up from the ground with puppy dog eyes.

‘Oh great,’ Lex thought sarcastically.

“I ---”

“Of course he’ll forget about it Chloe,” Lex interrupted. “He’s your friend. Right Clark?” He gave Clark a pointed look and Clark smiled and nodded.

“Yeah, no problem,” Clark said. Chloe smiled in relief and stepped closer to him. She gave him a friendly hug, causing Clark to grin and Lex to frown. She pulled back and walked over to Lex.

“I’ll call you later, okay Clark?” She asked. He nodded.

“Yeah, tell me how you like being a guinea pig,” he joked. Chloe rolled her eyes and Lex opened his car door for her. Clark watched them drive away with a smile on his face. His brief experience with Chloe had been enlightening.

[dsapiro]

Thank you for posting this here, I love this story! :chlexsign3:

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Ch. 5
~*~*~*~*~

“I can’t believe that just happened,” Chloe mumbled.

“What?” Lex asked. A small smirk played at the corners of his mouth. “You climaxing against Clark because of our fantasy or jumping away from him when he tried to kiss you?”

“Both,” Chloe replied. “And what’s this ‘our’ business? I wasn’t thinking about that.”

‘You started it.’

“With an image of me and Clark,” Chloe countered.

“Which, I might point out, did absolutely nothing for you,” Lex said. Chloe narrowed her eyes at him.

“Well maybe it would have if you hadn’t interrupted.”

‘Doubtful,’ Lex thought.

“Why?” Chloe asked. “Do you have any idea how long I’ve liked him? And you don’t think I could have ---?”

“No.”

‘Okay, I can’t wait to hear the reasoning behind this,’ Chloe thought. Lex looked at her through the corner of his eye with a grin and then turned his attention back to the road.

“How many times have you fantasized about Clark since our – accident?” Lex asked. Chloe furrowed her brow in thought.

“Hmm…” she said. ‘Three or four?’ She guessed. Lex turned his head to shoot a look of disbelief at her.

“At least seven,” he growled through gritted teeth.

“No way,” she argued.

“Would you like me to list them for you?” Lex asked. Chloe felt the color rising to her cheeks and looked away from him.

“No – I’ll take your word for it,” she replied. Lex nodded once.

“And how many times did you ---?”

“God. I can’t believe we’re even having this conversation,” Chloe interrupted. She didn’t see Lex’s mouth curl into a smug and satisfied smile.

“So, zero then?” He asked. Chloe sighed and looked at him.

“Fine. I get it,” she said. “We obviously have some sort of enhanced chemistry between us because of what happened, but that doesn’t mean that we should act on it. In fact, we should probably avoid it at all costs.”

‘Or we could take advantage of it,’ Lex mused.

‘Not funny,’ she thought.

‘It wasn’t supposed to be.’

“Lex,” Chloe said and tilted her head at him. She stopped talking as she looked down at her feet and her eyes widened in panic. ‘Oh crap,’ she thought.

“What?” Lex asked.

“I think I left my bag back at The Talon,” she said. “We have to go back.”

“Why?”

“Because I’m hungry,” Chloe said with exasperation. “Money buys food, and my money is in my bag. Could you stop arguing with me about this and just turn the car around?” Lex kept driving straight ahead and glanced over at her so she could see his smirk.

“I’m fairly certain I have enough money to buy you dinner Chloe,” he said. “And I thought I saw you with your bag after we left?” Chloe motioned to the area by her feet.

“Well, you obviously didn’t,” she pointed out. “And I don’t want you to buy me dinner.”

“You said you were hungry,” he observed.

“Well, yeah, but ---”

“So I’ll buy you dinner. We can have something delivered to the house after we get our blood drawn at the lab.”

“You’re missing the point,” Chloe said.

“The point being?”

“The point being that you need to turn the car around so we can go back and get my bag.”

“We’re almost to the lab,” Lex observed. Chloe furrowed her brow. ‘And the only reason you want to go back there is to try and prove me wrong about the whole Clark situation,’ he thought.

‘True,’ Chloe thought. Lex turned and arched an eyebrow at her. Chloe smiled and crossed her arms. “Well, that and the fact that my cell phone is also in my bag and I’d rather not try to explain to my dad why I didn’t answer it.”

“What makes you think that Gabe will even try to call?” Lex asked. Chloe bit her lip and a small blush rose to her cheeks.

“I sort of told him to,” Chloe admitted. Lex looked at her questioningly.

“I didn’t hear you say anything,” he said.

“I wrote it on a note for him,” she said with a shrug.

“Why?” He asked.

“He had to go into the plant to check on some stuff today, so he wasn’t home when I left and ---”

“Why did you ask him to call you?” Lex interrupted. Chloe let out a tiny, almost inaudible sigh and stared out her window again.

‘Why do you think?’ She thought.

‘I have no idea,’ he responded. Chloe’s eyebrows rose in surprise and she looked over at him.

“Really?” Chloe asked. “You’ve never had a woman get a phone call in the middle of a date and then say that something urgent came up?”

“I don’t see how the two relate to ---,” Lex trailed off and pulled the car over to the side of the road. “Why did you ask your dad to call you?” Chloe grinned nervously and started wringing her hands together.

“Well, you know, in case the date was going badly or something, so I would have an ‘out’ so to speak,” Chloe stammered. Lex stared at her in disbelief.

“Is this a common practice?”

“Pretty much,” she answered. Lex seemed thoughtful.

“What time is he supposed to call you?” He asked. Chloe glanced at her watch and frowned.

“In about a half hour,” she said. Lex pulled into the road again and did a u-turn to head back toward town.

“You could have mentioned this before,” he grumbled.

“You could have turned the car around when I first told you to,” she said pointedly.

‘And now I have to see you fawning all over Kent again,’ Lex thought.

‘Avert your eyes,’ Chloe said with a teasing smile.

‘I can look at something else, but I’ll still get the image of you two in my head,’ he thought acidly. Chloe creased her brow as she regarded him. His posture had stiffened and his knuckles were turning white from gripping the steering wheel a little too tight.

“Lex?”

“What?” His tone was harsh, but instead of being intimidated, Chloe tilted her head at him.

“What did you mean when you made the ‘jealous of Clark’ comment?” Chloe asked. Lex squared his jaw.

“Nothing,” he lied.

“Lex ---”

“Nothing,” he repeated a little more insistently. Chloe decided to drop it and leaned back in her seat, allowing her eyes to close as she did so. She didn’t know why the image that floated into her head did so, especially since Lex wasn’t the one to put it there, but she pictured herself kissing Lex in the room that he had imagined before. Lex was startled and turned to face her, but her eyes were still closed and she didn’t notice him. “Chloe?” He questioned. Chloe corresponded his voice to the fantasy that started playing in her head. He murmured her name against the crook of her neck and then took the soft skin and gently ran his teeth across it. Chloe shivered in anticipation and Lex felt himself becoming aroused. “Chloe, we shouldn’t do this while I’m driving,” he told her and then shifted uncomfortably in his seat. His mind flitted to Chloe’s daydream, where she had toppled on the floor, and she was kissing his now shirtless chest. “Chloe – aaah,” he moaned as the image had her running her tongue in circles around his nipple. Lex barely heard the sound of another car honking in time to pull back into their lane. He shook his head. “Chloe! Stop! We can’t do this while I’m driving!”

‘So stop driving,’ Chloe thought as she was too involved in her fantasy to let it stop now. She allowed her dream-self to start kissing down his chest to his stomach. Lex’s eyes grew wide and pulled the car off onto a side road only used for farming access. The tall stalks of produce would shield the car nicely from any onlookers from the main road. He drove down it far enough until he couldn’t stand the ache in his groin anymore. Lex stopped the car and quickly unfastened his safety belt.

“Chloe?” He noticed that her eyes were still closed and he could still picture everything they were doing in her head. He unbuckled her safety belt as well and touched her thigh with his hand. Chloe’s eyes fluttered open and she stared at Lex with a mixture of lust and partial confusion. ‘God, you’re going to kill me for this,’ he thought. He quickly captured her mouth with his own and ran his tongue inside it. Chloe tongue dueled with his own and she started unbuttoning his shirt. She let out a small moan and Lex pulled her closer. He frowned. His car had many fine features, but enough room to do what he wanted wasn’t one of them. Lex pulled away from her, leaving Chloe staring at him in a half-stunned state. “Hold that thought,” he said. He got out of the car and circled around to her side, where he promptly pulled her out of the vehicle. He pressed her up against it, trapping her with his hands on either side of her, and then leaned down to kiss her. He moved his lips to her neck and copied what she had imagined him doing earlier, pushing his knee between her legs to alleviate some of her discomfort. Chloe absently started to rub herself against him and Lex opened his mouth to hers again. Chloe’s breathing went ragged and she whimpered with delight and Lex snaked one of his hands up under her shirt and started to tease a nipple. Lex stopped and slid into the passenger side of the car, pulling her on top of him. Chloe nodded and moved her mouth to his ear.

‘We really shouldn’t be doing this,’ she thought.

‘Yes we should,’ he argued. She moved to straddle him and Lex reached around her to the glove compartment. She furrowed her brow in confusion until he held up a wrapped condom between his fingers. They kissed again and Lex started to unzip his slacks. He freed himself and ripped the condom wrapper open. Chloe lifted her hips and started to take off her panties as she moved her lips from his mouth to his bare skull. Lex moaned and helped her moved them off of her legs. He threw them into the small area behind the seats and then rolled the condom onto his waiting and throbbing cock. He placed his hands on her hips and guided her until he could feel the warmth radiating from her entrance. He looked her in the eye before making another move, desperately fighting with his urge to just take her, he wanted to make sure it was what she wanted. She nodded in a silent understanding and he thrust himself into her. Chloe gasped and clung to his shoulders. She began to move on top of him, developing a slow and steady rhythm while Lex kept his hands firmly placed on her hips to urge her to continue. She stopped, as if frozen in place, when a phone started ringing from the area behind the seats. She and Lex exchanged a look and Chloe hesitantly looked over his shoulder and saw her bag slumped behind the passenger side seat.

‘Oh, God,’ she thought. Lex nipped at her collarbone.

“He’ll call back,” he said.

‘What if he’s already talked to Lana?’ Chloe thought. ‘He’ll know that I skipped out on my date with Damian.’ Lex pulled her down again and Chloe closed her eyes at the sensation.

“He’ll call back.”


~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 6
~*~*~*~*~

Chloe collapsed against Lex and panted near the side of his head as she tried to catch her breath. The experience had been so painful and so pleasurable that she felt like she was going to feel the ache between her legs for weeks. She felt a hand reach into her hair and try to bring her head down and to the side.

‘Lex ---’ she thought.

“Chloe,” he murmured before capturing her mouth once again. Their tongues darted out and met each other with a furious passion.

‘God, I hope I’m not bleeding,’ Chloe thought. Lex furrowed his brow as they kissed.

‘Why would you be bleeding?’ He asked.

‘Doesn’t matter,’ she thought. The phone in her bag started ringing again and she pulled away from him. Lex inwardly groaned.

‘Your father has the worst timing,’ he thought. Chloe smiled as she leaned over him to retrieve her phone.

“Just for that, I should make you answer it,” she teased. Lex smirked and snatched the phone away from her. Chloe’s eyes grew wide and she tried to get the phone away from him. “Lex! I was just joking! Give me my phone back!”

‘No,’ he thought as the smirk grew larger on his lips. He punched the button to answer the phone and held it up to his ear. “Hello?” he greeted. Gabe furrowed his brow.

“Lex?” He asked.

“Gabe?”

“I – uh – I’m sorry Lex. I was trying to reach Chloe. I obviously dialed the wrong number,” Gabe stammered. Lex looked at Chloe with another smirk and she narrowed her eyes at him.

“You didn’t,” Lex said. “She’s right here. Hold on.” He brought the phone away from his ear and held it out for Chloe, who quickly tore it away from his hand.

‘Asshole,’ she thought. Lex bit back a laugh by faking a cough and Chloe held the phone up to her ear. “Hi Daddy.”

“Don’t *daddy* me Chloe,” Gabe said. “You have some explaining to do.”

“Such as?” Chloe asked in the best innocent voice she could fake.

“You were supposed to be out on a date with some kid from your school, but when you didn’t answer your phone the first time, I called Lana and she said you ditched him at the Talon, and --- why didn’t you answer your phone the first time? And why did Lex answer it this time?” Gabe rambled.

“You know, I’m not really sure you’d believe me if I told you,” Chloe said.

‘You’re going to tell him about us?’ Lex thought in surprise.

‘There is no *us*,’ Chloe thought. She glared at him and tried to squirm off his lap, but he held her hips down tightly with his hands.

‘I meant the psychic connection,’ Lex thought with a small smirk.

‘Oh. Well ---,’

“Chloe?” Gabe’s voice came through the receiver. “Are you still there?”

“Yeah, sorry about that,” Chloe apologized.

“So are you going to tell me?” Gabe asked.

“I ---”

“Hold on a second honey, I have another call coming in.”

“Okay.” Chloe heard the phone click over to the other line and then she shook her head at Lex. “I can’t believe you did that,” she said. “I’m going to be in so much trouble.”

“Chloe?”

“Dad!” She said a little too loudly. She hadn’t heard the phone click back over and she wondered how much of her previous statement to Lex he had heard.

‘How much did he hear?’ Lex thought,

‘Looks like I’m about to find out.’

“Why would you be in trouble?” Gabe asked.

‘Shit,’ Chloe thought. Lex looked at her questioningly, but she chose not to elaborate. “No reason,” Chloe lied. “So who was on the other line?”

‘Nice change in topic,’ Lex complimented.

‘Thanks. Hopefully it will work.’

“Clark,” Gabe said. “He wanted to know if you and Lex were back from the lab yet.” He paused and Chloe grimaced.

‘Clark was on the other line,’ she thought. ‘What if he told my dad about ---?’

‘I’m sure he didn’t,’ Lex said.

‘How can you be sure?’

‘Clark doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would be comfortable telling a girl’s father that she climaxed against him,’ Lex thought snidely. Chloe’s face flushed in embarrassment and she ran a hand over it.

“Chloe?” Her dad asked again.

“Sorry, I’ve just been zoning today,” she said.

“Uh-huh,” Gabe said as if he didn’t believe her. “*Now* would you like to explain what’s going on?” Chloe let out a defeated sigh.

“We actually never got the tests done,” she admitted.

“What tests?” Gabe asked.

“Like I said, it’s a long story Dad.”

“Then I guess you’d better get started,” he said dryly.

“I’m on my way home now; we’ll talk when I get there. Okay?” She asked. Gabe rubbed his temple with his free hand.

‘You are?’ Lex asked. She looked at him expectantly and he frowned. ‘Couldn’t you just tell him that we’re waiting for a doctor to come in and it could be a while?’

‘No,’ Chloe thought. ‘He’s already suspicious because of Clark calling.’

‘I’m going to have to have a talk with Clark about keeping secrets,’ Lex thought. Chloe scoffed.

‘Clark Kent has the market cornered on keeping secrets,’ she retorted.

‘I meant other people’s secrets,’ Lex clarified.

“Fine,” Gabe agreed.

“What?” Chloe asked.

“I said *fine*,” Gabe said. “How long until you get here?” Chloe looked at Lex.

“I’m not sure,” Chloe said hesitantly. ‘How long until we get home?’

‘Who’s home?’ He asked with a small smirk. Chloe tilted her head at him and looked at him with pure exasperation. Lex shrugged. ‘I have no idea,’ he thought as he looked around at the field surrounding them.

‘Great,’ Chloe thought sarcastically. ‘Are we lost?’ Lex sloughed off the comment and took the phone from her.

“Gabe?”

“Yes?”

“We didn’t make it to the lab because I was having some car trouble. It seems to be okay now though, so we’re on our way,” Lex smoothly lied. ‘That should do it,’ he thought.

“Why was my daughter in your car in the first place?” Gabe asked.

“We’ll be there shortly,” Lex said, sloughing off Gabe’s question. Gabe listened to the dial tone come on and he frowned in confusion.

“*We*?”

~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 7
~*~*~*~*~

‘Hurry!’ Chloe mentally yelled. They were on her street now and she could feel the blood leaking from her. She only hoped that they got home in time before it stained her skirt.

“Calm down,” Lex said. “Why are you in such a rush to get home anyway?”

“I need to change,” she mumbled. Lex glanced over at her.

“Why?”

“I just do, okay?”

“Chloe, I sincerely doubt the outfit you’re wearing will make much of a difference when we tell your dad,” Lex said.

‘It will if he sees the back of it,’ she thought.

“I don’t see why that would ---?” Lex trailed off as he pulled into the Sullivans’ driveway. He tilted his head at her as the thought struck him. “Something you’re not telling me?”

“Let’s just get this over with,” she said and reached for her door handle. Lex caught her arm before she could open the door.

“Chloe, you weren’t – I mean, you weren’t a ---?”

“Yes,” Chloe said through gritted teeth. Lex leaned his head back against his seat and closed his eyes.

‘God, I’m an ass,’ he thought.

“No argument here,” Chloe said. “Now can we hurry up and get inside so I can change before my dad sees my skirt? Which you’re replacing by the way.” She opened the door and Lex saw the back of her skirt as she started to climb out of the car. His eyes grew wide and he quickly yanked her back inside the vehicle.

“We can’t go in there,” he said.

“That bad?” She asked as she made a worried face. He nodded. Chloe sighed and stared at her house. “We have to do this. Maybe you could walk behind me or something.”

“All the way to your room? I think that might look a little suspicious.”

“Well, we don’t have a lot of options do we?” She asked in a slightly aggravated voice. Lex took a deep breath.

“You’re sure you want to do this?” Lex asked. “I could always call him again and say we got stranded again.” Chloe spotted someone peeking out the blinds and shook her head.

“It’s too late now, he’s seen us,” she said. Lex followed her gaze to the blinds.

“How can you be sure it was him?”

‘I guess I can’t,’ Chloe admitted. ‘I suppose it could be Lana.’

“Great,” Lex mumbled sarcastically.

“You don’t like Lana?”

“Think about it Chloe. Where Lana is, Clark inevitably follows,” Lex explained. Chloe gave him a blank look and he squared his jaw. ‘I really don’t feel like explaining why we didn’t go to the lab to him, do you?’ Chloe paled and shook her head. “Good. So, we’re leaving then?” Chloe stopped his hand before he turned the keys.

“We can’t leave.”

“Chloe ---”

“Fine! I’ll stay and you can leave,” she said. ‘Just like always,’ she thought. Lex turned to face her.

“I beg your pardon? When have I ever left you?”

“I wasn’t talking about you in particular,” she said and opened the car door again, managing to get out before Lex could stop her.

‘Damn it.’

‘Just leave,’ she thought as she started walking up to her front door. Lex swiftly jumped out of his car and draped his overcoat on Chloe’s shoulders. She looked at him quizzically.

“It’s longer than yours,” he explained. They walked up to the door and Chloe opened it hesitantly. Lana came in from the living room and smiled at Chloe.

“It took you long enough, you were out in the car for-,” she trailed off when she saw that Lex had followed Chloe into the house, and that Chloe was wearing Lex’s overcoat over her own jacket. Her eyes darted questioningly at Chloe who shot her a nervous smile and grabbed her arm.

“Think you can keep my dad distracted long enough for me to change?” Chloe asked hopefully. Lana furrowed her brow in confusion. “I *started* early and Lex was kind enough to lend me his jacket to cover up,” Chloe lied. Lana’s eyes grew wide and her mouth dropped open a little.

“Oh! Oh, of course,” Lana said, practically pushing Chloe toward the stairs. Chloe ran up the stairs and Lana turned around to face Lex with an uncomfortable look on her face. Lana’s tension eased when she saw that Lex wasn’t even paying attention to her, but only following Chloe with his eyes. “I’m sure she’ll pay for dry cleaning.” Lex turned his head to look at her and shot her a confused expression. “Your coat, you know, if blood gets on it,” she explained while wringing her hands. Lex gave her a curt nod.

“I’m not worried about the coat Lana,” he said with a small grin. “Where is Gabe?”

“On the phone with Clark,” Lana said with a partial eye roll. Lex arched an eyebrow, but Lana didn’t elaborate. Her face had marred into a distinct look of agitation and Lex tilted his head at her.

“You seem upset,” he observed.

“It’s nothing,” she lied.

‘Lana’s upset?’ Chloe thought.

‘Apparently.’

‘Why?’

‘I’m trying to find out. She mentioned Clark being on the phone with your dad and then her mood changed.’

‘Huh. I thought they were getting better at the whole *let’s just be friends* thing.’

‘I’m sure the fact that you ---’

‘Don’t even think it Luthor. I have nothing to do with their ongoing soap opera problems.’

‘Of course not *sweetheart*,’ Lex thought sarcastically. “Lana, this wouldn’t have anything to do with Clark would it?” Lana looked down at the floor and then back up to him.

“I,” she started, but then paused as if she couldn’t find the right words to say. “Do you think Clark still likes Chloe?” Lex pumped his hands into fists and then released them.

‘She just asked me if I thought if Clark still liked you,’ Lex thought.

‘So tell her the truth. Clark never liked me,’ Chloe thought bitterly.

‘That’s not the truth.’

‘Yes it is.’

‘No it’s not.’

“Lex?” Lana asked, snapping him out of his mental argument with Chloe.

“I think you and I might be in the same situation,” he responded without apologizing for spacing out. Lana crinkled her brow.

“What do you mean?”

‘Yes, what *do* you mean Lex?’ Chloe thought.

“You like Clark,” Lex said.

“He’s my friend.”

“But you like him more than a friend,” Lex said. Lana blushed and ducked her head. “It’s okay.”

“It’s not okay,” Lana argued. “We decided to just be friends so no one’s feelings would get hurt, and now ---,”

“Your feelings are getting hurt because you like him but you think he likes Chloe,” Lex filled in for her. Lana nodded.

‘What a load of bu-”

“What makes you think he likes Chloe?” Lex asked.

‘Good question,’ Chloe thought.

‘Are you going to let me get through this conversation or not?’

‘Not. I’m almost done.’

‘What’s been taking so long?’

‘I had to clean the blood off me, not that it’s any of your business.’

‘Oh.’

“Tonight at the Talon, he was – I don’t know – zoning,” Lana said and motioned wildly with her arms. “And he called Gabe to find out if Chloe was back yet, and he’s called several times since I got home, and ---”

“Okay,” Lex interrupted. “I think I’ve got the picture.” Lana narrowed her eyes at him slightly as a thought occurred to her.

“What did you mean when you said we’re in the same situation?” She asked. Lex opened his mouth to speak, but Chloe came down the stairs and smiled at him. She held out the overcoat that was now draped over her arm.

“Thanks again,” she chirped. Lex smirked at her and she instantly deciphered the double meaning behind what she had said.

“Anytime,” he replied. Gabe cleared his throat and all three of them turned their heads to look at him. He rubbed his temples and sighed, and then gave Chloe a small smile.

“I think Clark must have been in an accident,” he said. Chloe and Lana’s eyes both widened.

“What? When did this happen?” Lana asked.

“Is he okay?” Chloe asked.

“No, no. I just meant ---” Gabe trailed off and sighed again. “The reason he gave for you two to need to go to the lab was a little out there.” Lana looked at Chloe.

“You had to go to a lab? Why?” She asked, suddenly feeling guilty that she had automatically jumped to the conclusion that Clark was interested in her friend.

“We didn’t even make it there,” Chloe said.

“Car trouble,” Lex said. Gabe arched an eyebrow.

“Uh-huh,” he said. “So, why don’t you tell me why you were really going there?” He asked Lex. “Did Chloe con you into getting information for a story or something?” Chloe fought hard to keep the color from rising to her cheeks.

‘Or something,’ Lex thought suggestively.

‘Don’t start,’ Chloe warned. Gabe saw the way Chloe and Lex were looking at each other but not speaking and he frowned.

“Something I should know?” He asked. Chloe turned to him.

“What did Clark tell you?” She asked hesitantly. Gabe let out a light chuckle. ‘That’s a good sign. He probably didn’t tell my dad about what happened.’

‘Agreed,’ Lex thought.

“He said that because of the chemical spill at the plant that you two can read each other’s minds now,” Gabe said, still chuckling, as if the very idea was completely absurd. Lana smiled brightly.

“That’s ridiculous,” she said. “Why would Clark say something like that?” Chloe and Lex looked at each other again and then back to Gabe. Gabe’s face dropped the second they looked back at him.

“Oh, no,” he said under his breath.

“You’re kidding?” Lana asked in astonishment. Chloe and Lex both shook their heads. Gabe looked up from the floor at them and shook his head at Lex.

“God, I’m so sorry, Lex.”

‘Why do I have a feeling that he wouldn’t be apologizing to you if he knew the whole story?’ Chloe thought. Lex inwardly laughed.

‘Not only can we read each other’s minds, but I also took advantage of the fact to take your daughter’s virginity,’ he thought dryly. ‘Yeah, I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t go over very well.’ Chloe giggled and Gabe and Lana gave her a strange look.

“Sorry,” she mumbled.

“So how do we fix it?” Gabe asked. Lex was still looking at Chloe when he answered Gabe’s question.

“Fix what?” He asked absently. Lex felt Gabe’s eyes boring a hole into the side of his head and he turned around. “Oh, the situation,” he said. “I have no idea. Like I said, we never made it to the lab.”

“But you can go there tomorrow, right?” Gabe asked.

“The lab is closed on Sundays, but Chloe and I can go first thing Monday morning,” Lex answered. Gabe’s eyebrows rose in surprise.

“You think you can handle it that long?”

“Dad!”

“Sorry honey,” Gabe said. “But Lex is a young man, and I’m sure he doesn’t want to have a teenage girl’s thoughts in his head for longer than he has to.” Chloe folded her arms across her chest.

“And what about me?” She asked somewhat angrily. “Did you ever think that I might not want to have *his* thoughts inside *my* head?” Gabe frowned as he appeared pensive.

“You’re right, I’m sorry,” he apologized.

‘You don’t want my thoughts inside your head?’ Lex asked.

‘No. In fact, I’m going to look for my dad’s scotch as soon as you leave.’

‘I feel the need to point out that getting drunk didn’t actually help the situation,’ Lex thought. ‘Of course, we did end up ---,’

‘Shut up,’ Chloe thought.

‘Chloe.’

‘No,’ she thought. ‘I’ll stand my ground so I don’t embarrass myself in front of my dad and Lana.’ Unfortunately, her body had other ideas. An image flitted into her mind of when they were in the car together and her mind started to expand on the memory. Lex’s eyes grew wide as he felt the arousal start to warm his body. Chloe was able to snap out of it just long enough to fake a smile at Gabe and Lana. “I’m not feeling too good, so I’m going to go upstairs and lie down. Bye Lex.” She practically ran up the stairs and Gabe furrowed his brow at his daughter’s retreating form. Lana grimaced and leaned toward Gabe.

“She, um, started her time of the month early,” she whispered. Gabe’s mouth dropped open and he nodded in understanding.

“Right,” he said and turned to Lex, who now looked flushed as well. He frowned. “You’re not looking well either Lex.”

“I should go,” Lex said. “I’ll talk to you later.” He hurried out the door and Lana turned to Gabe.

“Maybe it’s another side effect of the chemical spill,” she suggested.

“Great,” Gabe said sarcastically. “So not only can my daughter and my boss read each other’s minds, but they’re both sick too.”


~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 8
~*~*~*~*~

“Honey?” Gabe asked as he lightly rapped on Chloe’s slightly open bedroom door. Chloe looked up at him from her bed. She was just sitting there, her back against the headboard and the music playing at a normal level. “I thought you were going to bed,” he said with a small smirk. Chloe frowned.

“I couldn’t sleep,” she lied. He shot her a sympathetic look and held up the cordless phone in his hand.

‘There’s a reason for that,’ Lex thought smugly.

‘Shut up,’ Chloe thought.

“Clark’s on the phone. You must have had your phone off,” Gabe said. “Do you feel up to talking to him?” Chloe groaned and rubbed her eyes with her hand.

‘What’s wrong?’

‘Clark’s on the phone,’ Chloe explained. ‘How am I supposed to explain this to him?’

‘You’re not.’

“Uh – sure,” Chloe agreed after a slight pause. She picked up the phone in her room and her dad clicked off the one in his hand. “Thanks Dad.” He nodded and then shut the bedroom door behind him as he exited the room. “Hey Clark,” she said weakly.

“Hey Chlo,” he said. “You don’t sound too good.”

‘Clark Kent, master of the obvious,’ she thought. Lex snickered and Chloe shook her head.

“Your dad said that you never made it to the lab,” Clark continued. “Something about *car trouble*.” He said the last part in a tone that indicated that he knew it was just a cover story.

“Well,” Chloe started. ‘Shit. He knows.’

‘He knows what?’

‘He knows that you didn’t have car trouble,’ Chloe thought.

‘No offense, but I was a little surprised that your dad and Lana bought the excuse so easily,’ Lex thought.

‘Me too. Why is that?’

‘People believe what they want to believe. It makes them feel safe.’

‘I guess.’

“Chloe? Are you still there?” Clark asked. Even thought Clark couldn’t see her, Chloe smiled.

“Yeah, sorry,” she said.

“Talking to Lex?”

“I’m not sure you can call it *talking* exactly.”

“Uh, yeah,” Clark started, “about that ---”

“No, no! That’s not what I meant,” Chloe quickly protested. “I just meant, it’s more thinking than talking.”

“Oh,” Clark said. “But still, I wanted to talk to you about ---”

“I thought we were going to forget all about that. Remember?”

“Chloe, you,” Clark stopped and hesitated before continuing. He took a deep breath and glanced around to make sure his parents weren’t anywhere within earshot. “You and Lex, *you know*.”

‘He’s upset because of what happened earlier,’ Chloe filled in for Lex.

‘I’m in shock,’ Lex thought sarcastically.

“Clark ---”

“Chloe, he’s my friend; but the more I think about it, the more I think he’s taking advantage of the situation,” Clark interrupted. Chloe’s eyes grew wide, stunned by the fact that Clark would say something like that to her.

“How do you think he’s taking advantage exactly?” Chloe asked and then bit her hip as she waited for an answer.

“Come on Chloe,” Clark said. “You would never do something like that, even if it *was* just in your mind.” Chloe gritted her teeth as she suddenly felt completely affronted.

“You *do* realize that I’m a woman, don’t you Clark?” She asked angrily, trying to keep her voice down so her dad and Lana wouldn’t hear her.

‘Uh-oh,’ Lex thought. ‘What did he say?’

‘Stay out of this,’ Chloe thought.

“Chloe, that’s not what I meant,” Clark said. “I just meant, you know ---”

“No, I don’t know Clark. Why don’t you tell me?” She asked. Clark ran his hand over the back of his neck.

“Don’t get mad,” he said. “I just ---”

“You just don’t see me as a female of the species,” Chloe interrupted. “Well, just because *you* don’t, doesn’t mean that ---”

‘Remind him that he tried to kiss you,’ Lex thought helpfully. He frowned and furrowed his brow immediately after offering the advice. ‘Why did I do that?’

“Lex said to remind you that you tried to kiss me,” Chloe said, ignoring Lex’s thought about his motivations for saying it. Clark sighed.

“If you’d let me finish a sentence, then I could finish telling you what I called to say,” Clark said. This time Chloe sighed. She ran a hand through her hair and then closed her eyes.

“I’m sorry Clark; it’s just been a really rough couple of days.”

“I understand,” Clark said sympathetically. “Having someone else’s thoughts in your head can’t be very easy to deal with.”

“You have no idea,” Chloe said. ‘You’re quiet,’ she thought to Lex. Lex took a sip of the alcohol he had just poured for himself.

‘I would rather not have images of you and Clark together in my head tonight, so I’m doing my best not to think anything that might make you angry,’ Lex admitted.

‘That’s considerate of you,’ Chloe thought. ‘Wait. So you would be thinking something that might make me angry?’

“So, I was wondering if you might want to get together to study for history tomorrow? You know, since it’s Sunday and Mr. Charles usually throws pop quizzes on Mondays?” Clark asked.

‘Damn! I completely forgot about that,’ Chloe thought.

‘About what?’ Lex thought.

‘Clark wants to get together and study for history tomorrow.’

‘I thought you finished your homework last night?’

‘I did, but our teacher has a habit of throwing pop quizzes on Mondays,’ Chloe replied.

‘I’m not sure it’s such a good idea for you to be alone with him,’ Lex thought.

‘With Mr. Charles? I agree, he’s a pig,’ Chloe thought with a small smirk.

‘With Clark,’ Lex clarified.

‘You’re joking, right? Clark is the safest person in the world to be with.’

‘He might try something,’ Lex protested.

‘Define *something*,’ Chloe thought. ‘Because, you and I did a lot more than just *something* less than two hours ago.’

‘I’m aware of that.’

‘And Clark would never try anything – at least not with me.’

‘He tried to kiss you,’ Lex reminded her.

‘I’m not having this conversation with you again.’

‘Yes you are.’

‘No, I’m *not*.’

“Chloe? So what do you think?” Clark asked.

‘What do I think? I think I need to get your best friend’s voice out of my head before I go crazy,’ she thought.

‘Tell him that you won’t be alone with him,’ Lex suggested.

‘I *want* to be alone with him.’

‘Chloe, please. For my own sanity,’ Lex pleaded. Chloe rolled her eyes. ‘I saw that.’

‘You saw what?’

‘You rolled your eyes.’

‘How did you know *that*?’

‘You pictured yourself doing it,’ Lex thought. Chloe laughed.

‘Did I really? Oops,’ she thought.

“Chloe?” Clark asked.

“Oh, yeah, sorry Clark.”

“Lex is keeping you pretty busy, huh?” He asked. Chloe felt her skin color and was thankful that Clark and Lex couldn’t see her.

“You could definitely say that,” Chloe said. “So, needless to say, I’m not sure how much use I would be in a study session.” Clark chuckled.

“Actually, Lex is pretty good at all that world history stuff. He could probably help,” he said.

“Okay, but we should invite Lana and Pete,” Chloe said. Clark’s smile fell.

“Why?”

“Because they have the same class we do?” Chloe answered, as if it were the simplest thing in the world to understand. Lex coughed on some of his drink when he heard her tone.

‘That’s no way to speak to the man you love Chloe,’ he teased.

‘When did I say I loved him?’ Chloe thought.

‘You don’t?’ Lex asked in surprise.

‘As a friend,’ she thought. ‘But if I loved him more than that, then I wouldn’t have ---’

‘Slept with me,’ Lex filled in.

‘I’m not sure it could be considered *sleep*,’ she thought.

‘So, tell him,’ Lex thought in frustration. It had only been an hour since he had last seen her, and he was already on his third drink in a desperate attempt to forget about how much he enjoyed the taste of her. Unfortunately, it was working in the opposite way. Every sip he took only seemed to accentuate how much he missed being inside of her and hearing her scream his name.

‘Tell him what?’ Chloe thought. Lex closed his eyes and let his mind wander to an image of the two of them together. Chloe’s eyes grew wide. ‘You can’t be serious!’ In his daydream, Lex pictured himself nipping at her collarbone and running his hands under her shirt to cup her breasts. ‘Lex!’

‘Tell him that you only love him as a friend,’ Lex thought. In the image, he was murmuring the words into her ear and Chloe could feel herself starting to become aroused again. She would need to end her conversation with Clark quickly.

“Clark?”

“Yeah?”

“What time?”

~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 9
~*~*~*~*~

A/N: This part takes place the following day in the early afternoon. And there’s a weird kind of scene switching that happens about half way through, because my muse insisted on adding a little bit of a plot to this story. Thanks for all the reviews – it’s so great to know that people are still reading this, despite the breaks between updates.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Chloe walked up to the Kents’ front door and hesitated before ringing the bell.

‘Ugh,’ she thought.

‘What’s wrong?’

‘I just got to Clark’s house,’ she explained. ‘And I should be happy, but instead I’m kind of nervous.’ Chloe turned to look at her car.

‘Feeling the overwhelming urge to run away?’ Lex asked.

“No!” Chloe yelled aloud. She sighed when she realized what she had done. ‘Okay, sort of. How did you know that? Are you feeling my emotions now too? Because that would be really bad.’ She thought the last part for herself, but of course Lex heard it.

‘No, thank God,’ he answered. ‘It’s hard enough for me to handle you thinking about Clark without feeling the emotions behind it.’

Chloe laughed loudly, and because she was still staring longingly at her car, she didn’t notice that Clark had opened the door and was leaning against the door frame with a lopsided boyish grin on his face.

“Should I ask?” Clark asked in amusement. Chloe’s head whipped around and her face colored quickly. She smiled with embarrassment at him.

“It’s nothing,” she lied and shook her head. She glanced back at the driveway area. “Lana and Pete aren’t here yet?”

‘Oh, great,’ Lex thought sarcastically.

‘I’m sure they’re just late.’

‘I’m sure they’re not coming,’ Lex countered. ‘Why would he give up spending time alone with you when he doesn’t have to?’

‘For the millionth time, Clark Kent doesn’t see me like that. Will you just stop it? Geez! If I didn’t know it was because you found my daydreams disturbing, then I’d say you sound like a jealous boyfriend,’ Chloe thought. Clark cleared his throat and crossed his arms, but kept the grin on his face.

“Trying to talk him into helping us study for history?” Clark asked.

“Something like that,” Chloe said. Clark’s grin turned into a smile that almost made her melt. He stood to the side of the door and motioned for her to come inside.

“Lana called. One of her waitresses called in sick, so she had to go into work after all,” Clark said.

“I thought they were closed on Sundays?”

“They have been, but profits haven’t been as good as Lana was hoping for the last couple of months, so she’s trying out being open for shorter hours on Sundays.”

“Oh,” Chloe said. ‘Why didn’t you tell me that?’

‘Why didn’t I tell you *what*?’

‘Lana’s trying out having the Talon open for limited hours on Sundays,’ Chloe thought.

‘I don’t know anything about it,’ Lex admitted. ‘But, that’s good. Even with the different things she’s been trying, nothing beats an after-church crowd.’ Chloe didn’t know what to think. She understood his reasoning since he owned half of the Talon, but she was a little surprised that he didn’t mind Lana not being at Clark’s to keep an eye on them. ‘Is Pete still coming?’ And there it was. Lex thought Pete wouldn’t let anything happen between her and Clark.

“When is Pete supposed to get here?” Chloe asked, walking passed Clark into the living room. She placed her books on the coffee table and sat down on the couch. Clark stood over her and shoved his hands in his pockets nervously. He looked up from the floor with puppy dog eyes that made Lex inwardly groan when Chloe flashed him the mental picture.

“He’s not,” he said.

“Why?”

“I – um,” Clark started. He shuffled a foot back and forth on the floor and Chloe looked at him questioningly. “I didn’t actually invite him.” Chloe’s mouth dropped open and shut before she could respond.

‘He didn’t invite him? How could he not invite him?’ She thought.

‘Do you need me to come over?’

‘Why? To protect me from Clark?’ Chloe scoffed at the thought.

‘No, to help you study for history,’ Lex thought sarcastically. Chloe held back on rolling her eyes and looked at Clark somewhat suspiciously.

“Do you mind if I ask why?” She asked. Clark took a few steps and then sat down next to her on the couch. It was a little closer than he normally sat, but Chloe didn’t think anything about it.

“I wanted to have some time alone with you,” Clark admitted. Chloe’s eyes grew wide.

“W-what?”

“To talk about what’s going on,” Clark said. “And I haven’t told Pete, because ---” Chloe let go of the breath that she didn’t even realize she had been holding in.

“Yeah, he would pretty much freak out,” she agreed. Clark nodded.

“So, how are you feeling?”

“I’m fine Clark.”

“No, I mean, are there any other side effects?”

‘Damn you Lex. You got all my hopes up that Clark *might* actually like me and all he wanted to do was ask me more about the effects of the stupid chemical spill.’

‘Really?’ Lex was surprised. When Clark had tried to kiss Chloe, it didn’t look like a ‘just friends’ thing to him.

‘Yes,’ Chloe answered, somewhat bitterly.

‘Poor baby,’ Lex teased, and then his tone became more suggestive. ‘Do you want me to make it up to you?’

‘Don’t you dare,’ she warned him. Chloe could hear his chuckle echoing through her mind and she shook her head to try and clear it.

“Sorry, I had to ask,” Clark said, misinterpreting her gesture. “With what happened ---” Clark trailed off as a blush spread across his cheeks. He ducked his face and waited for it to clear.

“Clark, it’s not like that,” she said.

‘It’s not like what?’

‘He’s talking about what happened in front of the Talon yesterday.’

‘And, it’s not like *what*?’ Lex repeated. Chloe chose to ignore him as Clark began to speak again.

“I guess. I just don’t want to see you get hurt,” he said. Chloe smiled and nodded.

“It’s okay. It must be kind of strange to see one of your friends turn into ‘wall of weird’ material, huh?” She asked. Clark gave her a strange look and then coughed into his hand.

“Yeah. So, where do you want to start?” He motioned to the history books in front of him and Chloe groaned.

“I don’t know. I ---” she stopped talking when she heard Lex’s voice inside her head, but he wasn’t talking to her.

Lex watched his father walk into his office, but he didn’t rise to greet him.

“Dad,” he acknowledged.

‘Your dad is there?!’

‘Unfortunately.’

“Lex,” Lionel said with a sneer and strolled over toward the desk.

“What brings you to Smallville?”

‘Good question,’ Chloe thought. ‘Can you ask him one for me?’ A smile lifted her lips and her eyes gleamed with the possibility of interrogating – er, interviewing Lionel Luthor without him knowing about it. Clark tilted his head questioningly at her, but she motioned for him not to talk as she grabbed her pen and notebook.

‘No,’ Lex answered.

‘Come on! It’ll be fun.’

‘For you.’

‘Exactly.’

“I heard there was a small incident at the plant,” Lionel started. “Something about a vat leak.” Lex narrowed his eyes a little.

“I won’t bother asking how you heard about that, but rest assured, it’s been taken care of,” he said as calmly as possible. One corner of Lionel’s mouth curled upward.

“Of course it has. I wasn’t doubting your competence, *son*,” Lionel responded.

‘Yeah, right,’ Lex thought and then pursed his lips. “Then the question still remains to be answered.” ‘You might get your chance to ask that question of yours if he keeps stalling like this.’

‘Really?’

‘Sure. Why not? It’s not like I can make him dislike me anymore than he already does,’ Lex thought.

‘I’m sorry,’ she thought sympathetically.

‘Don’t worry about it.’ Lex stared straight at his father, his eye contact never wavering as he spoke to Chloe inside his head. “It’s not like you to be at a loss for words, Dad.”

“Just paying a friendly visit to see my son, Lex. Isn’t that allowed?” Lionel said with a smirk. Lex pursed his lips. His patience with Lionel and his cryptic lies had completely run out. It was time to do something about it.

‘What’s your question Chloe?’ Lex thought.

“Woo-hoo!” She yelled, earning her a puzzled expression from Clark. She smiled at him, but concentrated on Lex. ‘Ask him if his visit to Smallville has anything to do with Ted Dobson and Axis Chemicals.’ Lex arched an eyebrow and leaned back in his chair with confidence.

“It might be if I thought for a minute that you were actually here to see me, but I have a feeling it has more to do with Axis Chemicals and Ted Dobson,” Lex said.

‘That wasn’t a question,’ Chloe protested.

‘He wouldn’t have answered a question straight out Chloe.’

‘Whatever. So what’d he say?’

‘He’s seems too surprised to answer the question,’ Lex thought in a pleased tone. A tiny smirk crawled across his mouth. “I’ll take your stunned silence as an affirmative answer.” Lionel squared his jaw and glared at his son.

“You’re treading on dangerous ground Lex,” he said in what almost sounded like a growl. “Watch your step.” He turned on his heel and left the room, leaving Lex with a broad smile on his face.

‘I owe you for that one Chloe.’

‘Why? What happened?’

‘He threatened me and then hurried out of the room,’ Lex thought with a chuckle. Chloe furrowed her brow.

‘How is that a good thing?’

‘You don’t know my father. Trust me. Having the upper hand is always good,’ Lex thought. ‘So, why don’t we meet and you can tell me everything you know about Dobson and Axis Chemicals?’

“Because I’m with Clark,” Chloe answered aloud. Clark seemed surprised to hear her break her silence, but he was pleased with what she had said. “We’re studying, remember?” That part made Clark look away for a minute. He knew she would figure out the real reason he asked her over if she saw the guilt in his eyes.

‘Right. The history test.’

‘Quiz,’ Chloe corrected.

‘When is this quiz supposed to take place?’ Lex asked.

‘Tomorrow.’

‘Ah. And therein lies the reason that you’re studying today.’

‘Very clever,’ she thought teasingly.

‘You do realize that you’re not even going to be at school tomorrow, don’t you?’

‘What?’

‘Or have you forgotten about our appointment at the lab first thing in the morning?’ Lex thought. Chloe’s eyes widened.

“I can’t believe I forgot about that!”

“Forgot about what?” Clark asked. Chloe stood up, gathering her books as she did so. She shot Clark an apologetic smile.

“Sorry Clark, but I completely forgot that I’m going to be at the lab tomorrow; for – you know,” she sort of explained. Clark’s eyebrows rose.

“Oh.” He stood up as well. “So, I guess that means you don’t really need to study, huh?”

“Nope,” she said cheerfully. Clark walked with her toward the door.

“You could still stay,” he said hopefully. Chloe laughed.

“No offense, but as fun as studying for history *isn’t*, I think I’ll – mmph.” Clark quickly pressed his mouth against hers, taking her completely by surprise.

‘Mmph?’ Lex asked.

‘He’s kissing me. He’s actually kissing me.’

“What?!”


~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 10
~*~*~*~*~

Chloe pushed herself away from Clark. The kiss had been very different than she had imagined it would be. There was no spark, just flesh against flesh.

‘But judging from the goofy looking grin on Clark’s face, he doesn’t feel the same way,’ she thought. Lex stopped dead in his tracks. He had been on the way to his car when Chloe’s voice came into his head.

‘What does that mean?’ He asked. Chloe inwardly sighed.

‘He – um – didn’t exactly live up to my fantasy version of him,’ she admitted. A grin curled at the corners of Lex’s mouth.

‘And here I was on my way to ---’

‘To *what*?’ Chloe asked suspiciously.

‘Nothing.’

‘Liar.’

‘So, what are you going to tell him?’

‘I don’t know. You think I should try again?’ She asked.

‘No.’

Chloe fidgeted with her hands while she looked up at Clark.

“You’re quiet,” he observed. “You didn’t like it?”

“I was just taken by surprise,” she said. “Maybe if we ---”

‘No,’ Lex repeated as he was pulling out of his driveway.

‘Shut up Lex. Clark is the guy that I’ve been in love with for the last – well, forever. Don’t you think that deserves another shot?’

‘Chloe ---’

“Okay, now you really *are* sounding like a jealous boyfriend. What gives?” Chloe saw the surprised expression on Clark’s face and realized that she had said it aloud. She slapped her hand over her mouth. ‘Crap.’

‘You’re right. I’m sorry,’ Lex told her, but he kept driving his course toward the Kent farm. ‘Go ahead and try again,’ he thought, trying to hide the bitterness and jealousy from his statement.

‘Yeah, well, I’m thinking he’s not going to want to do that now,’ she thought.

‘Why?’

‘Because I accidentally said the part about you sounding like a jealous boyfriend out loud,’ she thought. Lex smiled and then started to chuckle.

‘Whoops.’

‘Shut up Luthor.’ Chloe took a deep breath and looked straight into Clark’s eyes. To his credit, he seemed more confused than upset. “Clark, I’m sorry. Ever since the accident -” she paused and looked down as she shook her head. “Ever since the accident, things have been happening. Things that we don’t seem to have a lot of control over.”

‘You’re telling him?’ Lex asked with surprise.

“Like what?” Clark asked suspiciously. Chloe cringed.

“Like what happened in front of the Talon the other day,” she said slowly. Clark’s eyebrows rose and Chloe got a horrible feeling in the pit of her stomach.

“You – you’ve done that more than once?”

“Sort of,” she said quietly.

‘Sort of what?’

‘He asked if we had done the mind-sex thing more than once,’ Chloe explained.

‘We could demonstrate it again for him right now if you’d like.’

‘Ha ha,’ Chloe thought dryly. ‘But considering the way you reacted the last time I fell into Clark’s arms, I’m thinking that wouldn’t be a good idea.’

‘Good point,’ Lex agreed.

Clark’s mouth dropped open at Chloe’s statement and he found it difficult to form coherent words.

“I ---” he shook his head. He looked at the ground and then looked up at Chloe with a completely different expression on his face. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. “I’m so sorry Chloe.” Chloe furrowed her brow. “I should have called your cell phone and warned you earlier. I didn’t know that he would take it so far. I suspected, but ---” he shook his head again. “I just didn’t want to believe it, you know?” He reached out and touched her arm. “I’m so sorry.”

‘Oh my God, he thinks it’s his fault.’

‘Just tell him that chemistry can’t be controlled and it’s not his fault that you and he don’t have it,’ Lex thought.

‘No,’ Chloe thought as her tears started to well up with tears from the strong emotions tearing at her. ‘He thinks it’s his fault that you and I have been ---’

‘Oh,’ Lex thought, and then, after a couple of silent seconds, ‘why?’

‘He thinks you’re taking advantage of me or something,’ Chloe started to let a few tears run down from her eyes and Clark swept his thumb across her cheek to wipe them off. He pulled her into his arms and took in a deep breath.

“I’m sorry Chloe,” he repeated. “Please forgive me.” Chloe began to pull away, but Clark kept her in his embrace. She looked up at him and shook her head.

“Clark, it’s not your fault. None of this is your fault,” she said.

“Chloe, you would never have done ---” he shifted around uncomfortably, “you know – if ---”

“Clark,” Chloe took a deep breath and then continued. “We sort of already did the night before. You didn’t have anything to do with it. Dreams can’t be controlled.”

‘Liar,’ Lex teased.

‘What do you want me to tell him? That we’ve turned into a couple of mind-sex nymphos? Although I guess the ‘turned into’ part doesn’t really apply to you, does it?’ Chloe thought.

‘Ouch. And I should point out that you’re the one who was daydreaming about things you could do with naked Clark,’ he thought.

‘You’re right. I should take the opportunity while it’s presenting itself,’ she retorted. Lex’s hands gripped the steering wheel tighter.

“Those were just dreams though, they weren’t real,” Clark said.

“They *felt* real,” Chloe said. Clark lightly stroked her hair with his hand and Chloe closed her eyes, sinking into the comforting sensation.

‘Are you saying that the opportunity is presenting itself? I thought you said that he wasn’t interested anymore?’ Lex asked.

‘Well, he’s stroking my hair and not letting me out of his arms, so I’m going to take that as a good sign,’ she answered.

‘I’ll kill him.’

‘You will not. He’s your best friend.’

‘Chloe --- God! I can’t believe he accused *me* of taking advantage of the situation. Hypocrite. Just don’t do anything with him, okay?’ Lex pulled up in the Kents’ driveway and made his way to the front door.

‘It’s not like you can stop me,’ she argued. The doorbell rang, jolting Clark and Chloe away from their embrace by the door. Clark shot Chloe an apologetic look before answering.

“Lex,” he said in surprise. Lex opened the screen door and walked passed them into the house. He turned around to face Chloe.

“You and I need to have a talk.”

“I agree,” she said. She bent down to pick up her books that dropped long ago and placed them on an end table by the door. Clark looked back and forth between them with a confused expression.

“I thought that’s what you were doing the whole time you were so quiet?” Clark said to Chloe. Both Lex and Chloe ignored him, their intense gazes focused only on each other. Unknowingly, they started stepping closer toward each other.

“I can put up with a lot of things, but having my girlfriend contemplate cheating on me isn’t one of them,” Lex said angrily.

“News flash! Not your girlfriend!” Chloe spat. Lex quickly closed the gap between them and slammed his lips almost punishingly against hers. One of his hands wove into her hair and circled around to the back of her head to keep her from ending the contact, and the other hand rested on her arm. Chloe’s eyes closed and the kiss softened as she began to reciprocate. ‘Mmm. Oh, God – yes,’ Chloe thought as their tongues started to explore each other’s mouths.

Clark watched on with wide eyes as they seemed to devour each other. Maybe he had just caught Chloe by surprise, but Lex caught her by surprise too, and she was kissing him passionately.

‘Maybe it’s another side effect of the chemical they were exposed to,’ he thought. Clark shook his head. ‘At least they’re getting everything fixed tomorrow.’

‘Mmm.’ Lex moved the hand on her back to the hem of her shirt and their lips pulled away for a split second so Lex could talk. “Mine.”

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~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 11
~*~*~*~*~

‘God, I’m a horrible person,’ Chloe thought.

‘I wish you’d stop saying that.’

‘I’m not saying it, I’m thinking it,’ Chloe corrected.

‘Either way, it’s not true,’ Lex thought as he glanced in his rearview mirror to make sure she was still following him in her car.

‘Lex, I just *left* him there. He’s never going to forgive me,’ she thought ruefully.

‘He left you at the dance and you forgave him,’ Lex reminded her.

‘That was different,’ Chloe argued.

‘How do you figure?’

‘Clark left me at the dance because he thought Lana’s life was in danger --- not that there was anything he could have done about it, but that’s not the point.’

‘What *is* the point?’

‘The point is that he left because he was trying to be heroic or something, and I left because I apparently have no control over my hormones since our little accident at the plant.’

‘I wish I could say I’m sorry for your moral dilemma, but ---’

‘You’re not,’ Chloe finished understandingly. ‘But I think that’s only because we were both affected by the chemical. I mean, can you honestly say that you would have stormed over to Clark’s house, kissed me, and said *mine* if you hadn’t lost some control over your own hormones?’

‘It’s entirely possible,’ Lex murmured inside his head, temporarily forgetting that Chloe could hear everything he thought.

‘No, it’s not. You’re just being stubborn.’

“*I’m* being stubborn?” Lex asked aloud. He pulled his car into the long circular driveway in front of the manor and Chloe pulled up in back of him just a minute later. Lex got out of his car and stared at her in disbelief. “I’m not the one who’s still fawning over Clark after a lousy kiss.”

‘I should certainly hope not,’ she thought snarkily with a quirky smile. Lex felt the corners of his own lips start to curl upward. Chloe glanced at the manor to the side of her and inwardly groaned. ‘What the hell was I thinking? I shouldn’t be here.’ Lex came up behind her and placed his hands on her hips as he moved his mouth to the crook of her neck.

‘Yes you should.’ He kissed her neck softly before darting out his tongue and moistening the soft skin beneath his lips. Without realizing that she did it, Chloe tilted her head to the side to allow him better access. Lex tightened his grip on her hips and drug his teeth along the moistened skin. Chloe closed her eyes and let out a small moan.

“Lex,” she half-whispered.

“Mmm?”

Chloe’s eyes widened when she saw a figure watching them from one of the upstairs windows. She jerked herself away from him and Lex shot her a confused look.

“Don’t tell me you didn’t like that, because ---”

“Someone’s watching us,” she interrupted, motioning to the window with her head. Lex’s gaze moved to the window, but nobody was there by the time he looked. He squared his jaw, knowing only too well who it was.

‘Dad must be staying here while he’s in town,’ he thought. Chloe turned around to face him and looked for her car key on her key ring. Lex frowned. “What are you doing?”

“Leaving,” she said bluntly. “If I had any questions about whether to be here or not, they were just answered.” Lex caught her arm as she took a step forward.

“I’ll get rid of him,” he offered. Chloe smiled.

“As much as I ---” she shook her head. “The only way you’d be able to get rid of him now is to kill him, and as attractive as that option might sound, it’s hardly conducive to setting a romantic mood.” Lex smirked.

“You’re probably right, but allow me to make a rebuttal before you go rushing off?” He asked. Chloe nodded once and Lex’s mind drifted to an image of the two of them together - naked and wrapped around each other as Lex was thrusting forcefully into her. Chloe closed her eyes as the warmth of her arousal tingled through her body.

“Lex, don’t do this here,” she whimpered. Lex took her in his arms and started to kiss her passionately as he let his image of them continue. Chloe hands rested on his chest as they kissed and she could feel his length pressed up hard against her.

‘Tell me you don’t want me,’ he thought. ‘Tell me and I’ll let you leave.’ In their shared daydream, he could see she was almost at the point of release. Chloe’s arms wove around his neck.

‘Fine. I don’t wa- aaah,’ her thought turned into a small scream as her orgasm rolled over her. Lex reached his own climax soon after and they rested their bodies against each other for support.

‘That wasn’t terribly convincing,’ he finally teased. Chloe smiled, but it fell as she looked up at him.

‘I can’t stay.’

‘I’ll get rid of him,’ Lex thought again.

‘Lex ---’

‘Hear me out.’

‘The last time I did that, we ---’

‘I’ll talk to him when you’re in the other room. You can give me just enough information about the situation with Axis Chemicals to make him wonder where the leak in his organization is, and he’ll leave us alone to pursue it.’

“Actually, that’s not a bad idea,” Chloe mused aloud.

“Thank God,” Lex said under his breath. “I thought I was going to have to carry you in there for a minute.” Chloe laughed.

“You wouldn’t have,” she said. Lex smirked at her and Chloe’s eyes narrowed as she thought of something. ‘Just like he wouldn’t have driven over to Clark’s and claimed you in front of him,’ she thought. Lex arched an eyebrow and Chloe took a step back from him. “Lex, I think you’re being affected by the chemical more than I am; or at least in a different way.” Lex took a step toward her and viewed her thoughtfully.

“You seem to be pretty affected,” he said suggestively. Chloe tilted her head and sidestepped him as he kept coming toward her.

“That’s not what I meant,” she said. “In all the time I’ve known you, which admittedly hasn’t been long; you’ve always kept your emotions in check – no matter what else is going on around you.”

“And now?” Lex asked as he caught hold of her. He nibbled on her earlobe and Chloe had to force herself not to give into the sensations that emerged.

“And now, it’s like you’re primal instinct guy,” she said. Lex ran his tongue along the shell of her ear and Chloe tried to push him away.

“And that’s a bad thing?” He asked huskily into her ear, causing goosebumps to cover her body.

“It’s not bad ---” she paused when she felt his mouth on her neck again and his hand creeping up under her shirt. “It’s just not you.” ‘And I don’t want you to be pissed at me for taking advantage of you when this whole thing is taken care of and we’re back to normal,’ she thought.

‘I don’t mind you taking advantage of me,’ Lex thought. ‘I’m used to it; and it’s kind of a nice change that it’s not for my money this time.’ Chloe sighed in frustration and Lex pulled away, keeping his grip on her upper arms. He looked at her seriously and Chloe closed her eyes as he spoke. “If you really think that’s what’s going on, then I won’t push you into anything. Alright?” Chloe nodded. “I *would* like your help with my dad though. And seeing as how you’re the one with the information ---” Chloe smiled.

“No problem. I can do that,” she said. Lex grinned at her and they started walking toward the front door of the castle. He held the door open for her and bit her lip. How was she going to bring the topic up gracefully? At least she didn’t have to say it aloud. ‘Oh, and Lex?’

‘Yes?’ He asked giving her a strange look.

‘You might want to change your pants before you meet with him,’ she thought. Lex briefly glanced down at the slacks he was wearing and then he pursed his lips.

‘You’re a terrible influence; you realize that, don’t you?’ He joked. Chloe smiled and started laughing.

‘If I am, then it’s only because I’ve been hanging around with you in my head for the last few days,’ she thought. He smiled at her, but the smile quickly disappeared when he heard a familiar voice.

“Son, aren’t you going to introduce me to your friend?”


~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 12
~*~*~*~*~

‘Oh – it’s the devil,’ Chloe thought. She gritted her teeth and placed a wide fake smile on her face as she stepped in front of Lex.

‘Thanks.’

‘I didn’t mean it that way,’ she thought.

‘Neither did I,’ Lex thought. ‘I meant thanks for standing in front of me and blocking his view of my slacks.’

‘Oh,’ Chloe thought in surprise. ‘Yeah, sure. No problem. So, you weren’t offended by the devil comment?’

‘Why would I be?’

‘I ---’

“Interesting,” Lionel said. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you speechless before, Lex,” Lionel said.

“Not speechless Dad, just ignoring you.” Lex gave him a small smirk and Lionel rested his tongue in the pocket of his mouth.

“I certainly hope my son’s poor manners don’t rub off on you, young lady.”

‘Too late,’ Lex thought.

‘Shut up.’ Another fake smile lit up Chloe’s face and she stuck out her hand. “Sorry ---”

‘Don’t apologize to him.’

“Chloe Sullivan,” she greeted, ignoring Lex’s thoughts.

“Lionel Luthor,” Lionel said, reaching out his hand to shake Chloe’s.

‘Eww. Don’t touch him,’ Lex thought.

‘*Eww*? I didn’t think I’d ever hear that coming out of your mouth.’

‘Technically you didn’t.’

“Sullivan you said? Are you related to the local plant manager by chance?” Lionel asked, interrupting Chloe and Lex’s internal dialogue.

“Her dad ---”

“And the reason I’m here,” Chloe interrupted. Lionel arched an inquisitive eyebrow at her.

‘Plan?’

‘I don’t know; papers or something,’ Chloe thought hurriedly.

“Right. Do you think you could wait a few minutes for those papers, Chloe?” Lex asked as he placed a hand on her shoulder. “I’d like to have a few words with my father first.”

“Sure. Knock yourself out,” Chloe said nonchalantly. Lionel grinned almost leeringly at her sense of bravado and Chloe had to suppress a shudder from taking over her body. ‘Or him. Either way.’ Lex snickered and coughed into his hand to keep from laughing.

“I’ll be back shortly,” Lex said and walked past her and his dad quickly so he wouldn’t have to explain the damp area on his slacks. Lionel followed behind him as they walked down one of the long hallways.

“I don’t believe for a minute that she’s here because of some paperwork,” Lionel started.

“No one’s asking you to,” Lex countered.

“She’s quite attractive, and although Gabe Sullivan is usually a docile man, I can see him killing you if he were to find out that you were dating his daughter,” Lionel sneered, firm in the belief that he had the upper hand.

“I’ll keep that in mind,” Lex said dryly. “But, I think we both know what you really want to talk to me about, so why don’t you just get it over with while I get the paperwork that Chloe needs from my office?”

‘Whoops,’ Chloe thought.

‘Whoops?’

‘You’re the one who said you wanted to have a few words with him, not the other way around. He’s sure to catch the slip,’ Chloe thought.

‘You’d think so, wouldn’t you?’

“Yes,” Lionel said. “And I’ve been meaning to ask you: how *did* you find out about Axis Chemicals anyway?”

“You don’t really believe that I’d give up a source, do you?”

‘Hey! That’s my line!’ Chloe argued.

‘Sorry, *sweetheart*.’

‘Yeah, okay,’ Chloe thought in aggravation. ‘I’m leaving now.’

‘You promised to help,’ Lex reminded her.

‘I can help you without physically being here.’

‘Chloe,’ Lex half-whined.

‘Lex,’ Chloe thought, mimicking his tone.

‘I can keep you here by force if I need to,’ Lex told her. Chloe scoffed and started to walk toward the front door.

‘What are you going to do? Have your security guards wrestle me to the ground?’

‘No. I’d prefer to do that myself.’

“What are you smirking at?” Lionel asked. “Certainly you don’t think you’ve gotten a step up on me just because you have a few tidbits of information about my private business dealings?” He tsked and Lex squared his jaw.

‘Okay Chloe. Whatever you have on my dad – spill it.’

‘Whatever I have on your dad, or whatever I have on his dealings with Dobson and Axis Chemicals? Because they’re completely separate issues and ---’

‘Chloe,’ Lex thought in a warning tone.

‘Fine,’ Chloe thought almost poutingly. ‘Ted Dobson works for the EPA. Axis Chemicals is a subsidiary of LuthorCorp, although it’s under about a zillion different shadow companies --- your dad’s good. I had a hard time tracking down who was actually in charge and ---’

‘Chloe?’

‘Oh, right. Turns out that Dobson is on your dad’s payroll too, although that shouldn’t come as a big surprise; and he’s been signing off on forged reports saying that the stuff they’re producing there has no toxic value whatsoever, when in reality, they’re basically poisoning the entire community.’

‘How does that tie in with him coming to Smallville?’ Lex asked. He and Lionel reached his office and Lex started digging around in his desk for something he could pass off as important papers.

‘Ah, the best part,’ Chloe mused. ‘You know how into meteor rocks I am?’

‘Ye-ah,’ Lex thought hesitantly.

‘Some of the chemicals they’re experimenting with come from ground up meteor rocks. In fact, since they started the project, which by the way they totally need to change the name of, many of the workers have mysteriously mutated or died. Kind of cool, huh?’

‘You think death is cool?’

‘No! No, I mean, the validation for my theory is cool,’ she thought. Lex grinned at Chloe’s excited ramblings.

‘What’s the name of the project?’

‘*Excelsior*,’ Chloe thought and then rolled her eyes. ‘Please. They started pushing it when one of the workers developed some higher intellectual abilities when on a day trip to Smallville to visit family, but they obviously didn’t realize that not everyone reacts the same way.’ Lex stopped walking and gave his dad a measured glare.

“Tell me about ‘project excelsior’ Dad,” Lex said coolly. Lionel paled ever so slightly and he once again looked surprised that his son was able to come up with that much information. “I’d love to hear your side of it before I turn you and Ted Dobson into the higher ups at the EPA.” Lionel pursed his lips and Lex let a small smirk grace his lips. ‘Don’t mess with the bull ---’

‘You’ll get the horns,’ Chloe finished. ‘That was my favorite line in The Breakfast Club. Although, in this case, he would be messing with the cow since I’m female – and I would really prefer not to be referred to as a large, fat animal if you don’t mind.’ Lex’s smirk turned into a full smile as he felt the laughter begin to shake his body. He forced it down and grabbed some blank paper. He shoved it into an empty folder and smirked at his father once again.

“I have to say, I expected better of you, Dad.”

‘No you didn’t,’ Chloe thought. Lex grinned and started to walk toward the door.

“Oh, no wait. That’s right. I didn’t.” He tilted his head at his father and Lionel stormed out of the room. ‘Chloe?’

‘Still here,’ she thought.

‘Do you know how to get to my bedroom?’

‘Number one, how would I know that? Number two, that’s kind of presumptuous of you to think that ---’

‘My father just left the office and it looks like he’s on the warpath. He’ll be ready to strike out against me any way he can, and that involves ---’

‘Oh,’ Chloe thought in understanding. ‘Well, can’t I just duck into a closet or something?’

‘Are you trying to kill my ego?’

‘Depends. Is it working?’ She quipped. A wry grin quirked at Lex’s mouth as he knew just the way to keep her there.

‘Do you remember that comment you made about ‘wrestling to the ground’?’ He asked. Chloe’s eyes widened.

‘Lex, don’t,’ she thought. ‘At least wait for me to get out of the living room.’ Chloe blushed and she ran a hand over her face. ‘Crap. Please tell me you didn’t hear that.’ Lex chuckled and started on his way down the hall. Chloe crashed into him and they fell to the ground with her on top.

“I thought you were in the living room,” he said.

“I was bored,” she tried to explain.

“So, you thought you’d take the opportunity to explore?”

“Something like that,” she said. Chloe blushed again when she realized that she was still lying on top of him and his hands were securing her there by grabbing at her hips. “I should get up.” She tried to push herself off of him, but Lex pulled her back down and rolled them over so that he was on top of her.

‘Or not.’


~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 13
~*~*~*~*~

Chloe let out a small laugh.

‘Yeah, right,’ she thought sarcastically. ‘Right here in the hallway.’ Lex smirked as he hovered over her and Chloe’s eyes grew wide. “No.” Lex lowered his mouth to hers and began to kiss her. ‘Lex, I mean it,’ she thought as she tried to push him off of her.

‘Uh-huh,’ he thought in an unconvinced tone. His tongue maneuvered its way into her mouth and Chloe felt her resolve melting away as the kiss deepened. Her arms wound up around his back and he inadvertently started to grind against her through their clothing. Chloe let out a small moan as Lex released her from the kiss and his mouth moved to her neck. Her bare legs wrapped around his waist, hiking her skirt up her thighs, and Lex gently dug his teeth into the soft skin of her neck. Chloe’s moaning deepened as Lex kept rocking himself against her.

“We – aaah – can’t do this here,” she managed to get out. Her nails scratched at his back over his shirt and Lex smirked before kissing his way down to her collarbone.

‘Why?’

‘Because we’re in the middle of a hallway?’ She thought as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

‘And?’ He moved one hand to push up her shirt and Chloe took in a swift gasp of air when she felt his tongue on her nipple.

“Lex.” His name on her lips came out breathy and not at all how she intended. ‘Argh! It had to come out sounding like that.’

‘How was it supposed to sound?’ Lex started to suckle her and roll her other nipple between his fingers. Chloe started rubbing against him in an effort to seek release. ‘That’s what I thought.’ Chloe whimpered and then tried to push him away again. “Don’t tell me you don’t want this,” he murmured.

‘I didn’t say that. I just said that I don’t want it *here*,’ she thought. Lex didn’t stop his attentions to her body and Chloe bit down on her lip before speaking aloud. “We really have to stop.”

‘No, we don’t.’

“Yes, we do,” she said firmly and finally succeeded in pushing him off of her and rolling out from underneath him. She sat up and fixed her bra, and then pulled her shirt down. ‘Did it ever occur to you that we don’t have protection?’

‘Well ---’

‘No. Of course not,’ she interrupted.

“Chloe,” he said and ran his fingers up her leg. Chloe closed her eyes and tried to will his husky tone out of his head. Lex grinned at her stubborn determination. “Fine.” He stood up and Chloe was startled that he had agreed to not having sex with her so easily.

“Really?” She asked as she pushed herself up to a standing position. ‘I can’t believe he doesn’t want to have sex with me,’ she thought in an almost relieved inner voice, temporarily forgetting that he could hear her. The smirk on his face quickly reminded her. “Shit.” Lex took a few steps toward her, closing the small space between them.

‘When did I think that?’ He taunted her.

‘Lex ---’

Lex’s hands wove into her hair as he slammed his mouth against hers. When he pulled away to breathe, he took in Chloe’s appearance almost lovingly. Her heavy breathing, her swollen lips, her half-closed eyes, her frumpled clothing from the time they spent on the floor.

‘Oh, God. I’m falling for her,’ he thought. Chloe’s eyes shot open.

“What?!”

“Nothing,” Lex said. Chloe eyed him warily.

“What’s going on with you? First you call me your girlfriend in front of Clark, and then you think ---”

“You are,” Lex interrupted.

“What?”

“My girlfriend,” he answered. ‘Unless you make it a habit to sleep with men you’re not in a relationship with.’

‘You *know* I don’t,’ she thought, referring to the fact that he had just taken her virginity the other day. She sighed and ran a hand through her hair when she saw the apologetic look on his face. “Maybe I should go home. The chemical is obviously affecting you more than me and ---” Lex backed her against a wall and kissed her, effectively cutting off what she was saying. She returned his kiss, but didn’t expect what was coming next.

Lex grabbed her ass and pulled her body upward as her back rested against the wall. Chloe wrapped her legs around him and the material of her loose skirt fell back against her body. Lex reached down with one hand, effectively unzipping his slacks and freeing himself, and then pushing Chloe’s underwear to the side before plunging himself into her. It had all happened so quickly that Chloe didn’t have time to think about it until she felt him between her legs.

She was still sore from the previous day and she winced at the pain mixed with pleasure that his thrusting was causing. The wall was digging into her back and she had no doubt that there would be a lovely set of bruises all over it by the end of the day. Lex slowed and allowed Chloe to take over the rhythm. She slowly rose and fell onto him, but the desire building between them was too great to keep the slower pace.

“Lex,” she gasped out as her pulled her away from the wall and manipulated their fall to the floor so that she was astride him and he was still inside her. She started riding him, her face contorting in pleasure as he filled her. Lex felt her inner walls clamp around him and as Chloe’s body started to shake with her orgasm, he found his own release. Chloe closed her eyes and leaned down so she was lying on top of him.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Clark paced back and forth in his ‘fortress of solitude’ until he finally came to a decision. It had been a good four hours since Chloe had left and by now she would be home with her dad and Lana probably having dinner. He would be sure to reach her if he called over there – or so he thought. He rushed over to the house and quickly dialed Chloe’s number. He listened to it ring three times, impatiently thinking that if he used his super speed he could have been over at her house by then.

“Hello?” Lana answered.

“Hey Lana, it’s Clark. Is Chloe there?”

“No. I thought she was studying over at your house today?”

“Yeah, but she and Lex left a long time ago,” Clark said, worriedly running a hand around the back of his neck.

“What was Lex doing there?”

“I don’t know,” Clark said hesitantly. “I think that chemical spill is affecting them.”

“I know! They can read each other’s minds. Isn’t that weird?” Lana gushed, happy to finally have someone to talk to about it.

“Yeah, it’s more than that though,” Clark said.

“What do you mean?” Lana asked innocently.

“He, um – he came over and was kind of angry.”

“Really? They seemed to be getting along yesterday.”

“They started fighting and he called her his girlfriend.” Clark rushed the words out so quickly that Lana needed time to process what he said.

“What?” She asked with surprise.

“I know! And then he, uh – then he kissed her.”

“Oh, my God,” Lana said. “So, you think ---”

“I don’t know,” Clark said. “Maybe their hormones are being affected or something. But you should have seen it, it was ---”

“Clark, no offense, but I really don’t need that mental image right now,” Lana said. ‘Or ever,’ she thought. Clark blushed.

“Yeah, sorry.”

“So, she’s not there and she’s not home yet – do you think she’s with Lex?” Lana asked in a now hushed voice. Clark furrowed his brow until he realized that Chloe’s dad must be nearby.

“Maybe. You think I should call over there?”

“Do you think you could borrow the truck to drive over there?” Lana asked. “If they’re as affected as you say they are, you might need to – break them apart or something, you know, before they do anything they might regret.” Clark paled as Lana whispered the last part into the phone.

“Yeah,” was all he could get out.

“Okay, I’ll see you soon,” she chirped, faking a smile for Gabe as he passed by her. She hung up the phone and Clark felt his stomach sink.

He wanted to just run over there, but then there would be the inevitable questions about how he got there. He took a deep breath and grabbed the truck keys off the key rack. Heading toward the truck, he only hoped Lana was wrong.


~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 14
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Lex gets a bit OOC in this one, just because of the affects the chemical is having on him. Still, I hope you enjoy this part.

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Lex grinned to himself as Chloe rested her head on his chest. They had made their way to his bedroom a few hours ago and had pretty much spent the time exhausting themselves with their lovemaking.

“Don’t let me fall asleep,” she mumbled before closing her eyes.

“Okay,” he lied and lightly stroked his fingers over her hair. He just started to nod off himself when there was a rather abrupt knock at the door. ‘If that’s my dad, I’m killing him.’ Chloe nodded slightly and rolled over on the bed, snuggling her head up to the pillow instead of Lex. Lex crawled out of bed and hastily threw a pair of slacks on before going to answer the door. He opened the door and frowned at his butler. “What?” He half-way snapped at the man.

“Clark Kent is here to see ---” He trailed off and cleared his throat as he motioned into the bedroom. Lex squared his jaw.

“No,” he said and started to close the door.

“He was quite insistent, sir. I doubt he’ll simply go away without an explanation.”

Lex inwardly groaned and Chloe sleepily started to get out of bed, wrapping one of the sheets around herself for cover.

‘Don’t,’ Lex thought, hearing her motions behind him.

‘It’s okay Lex. It’s almost dinner time. I should be getting home anyway.’

‘We have food here,’ Lex argued. Chloe rolled her eyes and reached down to grab her scattered clothes off the floor. She flashed a blushing smile to the butler, who seemed to be trying hard not to look at her.

“Tell him I’ll be down in a little bit,” she said. The butler nodded and hurried away from the door as if his life depended on it. Lex closed the door and frowned at her as she slipped into her clothing.

“I wish you hadn’t done that,” he said.

“Lex ---”

“He’s going to want you to leave with him.”

“I brought my own car, remember?”

“I know, but he’s still going to want you to leave.”

“And I *should* be leaving,” Chloe said. “So, it’s not a big deal. We’ll see each other at the lab tomorrow morning anyway.” She smiled at him and then gave him a kiss on the cheek as she reached over to open the door. Lex caught her wrist and stared almost menacingly at her. She furrowed her brow.

‘Mine,’ he thought. Chloe couldn’t resist rolling her eyes.

“No,” she stated. “Remember? We agreed that we’re just being affected by the chemical and ---” Lex moved his hand into her hair and Chloe’s eyes drifted shut. “Lex ---” In one swift movement, his mouth was on hers, his lips coaxing and persuading hers to open for him. “Mmm.” Their tongues wove together and her hands went up to his shoulders. Lex had just started backing her toward the bed when there was another loud knock on the door. She pulled away from him and he cursed under his breath as he went to open the door again.

“What?!” He yelled in aggravation before seeing who was on the other side of the door. Chloe’s eyes grew wide and her cheeks started to color when she saw who it was.

“Clark,” she greeted with an uneasy and forced smile. “I was just on my way down.”

Clark desperately wanted to say ‘no you weren’t’, but then he would have to admit to being able to see through doors. Instead, he settled for scowling at Lex and speaking curly to Chloe.

“It’s time to go. Lana and your dad are worried that you’re not home for dinner yet,” he said, extending his hand for her to take it. She looked at Lex.

‘Uh-oh. He’s pissed.’

‘So?’

‘How did he get up here so quickly? The butler just left.’

‘Adrenaline works wonders on him,’ Lex thought, tongue-in-cheek.

“Okay, I brought my car,” Chloe said to Clark. “So, I’ll ---” She trailed off as she followed Clark’s intent stare at the messed up bed, and then she winced. ‘Shit.’ Clark looked back and forth between Chloe and Lex and his face drained of any color that had been left in it. Lex tried to ignore his reaction.

“No,” Lex said, bringing Clark’s attention back to him. “She’s not leaving.” ‘Ever.’

‘Don’t start,’ Chloe warned him. She gave a small sigh and then smiled nervously at Clark. “Lex is being affected --- differently by the chemical and ---” Clark growled, effectively cutting off whatever else Chloe was going to say. He stared angrily at Lex and took a threatening step toward him.

“You took advantage of her,” he said. His volume was low, but the underlying threat was received loud and clear.

“No, I ---”

“No, he didn’t Clark,” Chloe interrupted, placing her hand on his arm in an effort to stop him from getting closer to Lex. Lex saw her hand on Clark’s arm and snapped.

“Stop touching him!” He yelled at Chloe.

Clark was startled by Lex’s outburst and looked at his friend with concern.

‘Lex, now *really* isn’t the time to start wigging out,’ she thought. ‘If he thinks you took advantage of me, he’ll kill you.’ She turned her attention to Clark again, but made sure she had removed her hand from his arm. “Like I said, he’s being affected by the chemical. It seems to have made him more --- primal.” Clark looked at the bed and then at her.

“Did he – did you ---?”

“He didn’t rape me, Clark. He wouldn’t do that.”

“But you said the chemical – and why else would you – you know?” Clark stammered. Chloe closed her eyes for a second.

“We’re both being affected. You already knew that,” she explained.

“Yeah, but I didn’t know you were sleeping with him because of it,” Clark argued. He frowned at his own inability to let the situation go. It wasn’t Chloe and Lex’s fault that they were being influenced by some chemical, but he had a feeling they would both blame him for not breaking things up earlier once they were cured. “Come home. You guys are getting it fixed in the morning, and staying here might not be the best idea given the circumstances.”

His head whipped around when he heard a feral growl come from Lex’s throat. He knew that Lex couldn’t hurt him, but that didn’t make him any less intimidating.

“Lex, think about it,” Clark said. “You have to let her go home, have some dinner, and get some sleep. You guys are going to the lab early tomorrow and ---”

“You think I don’t know what you’re doing, Clark?” Lex asked. “You tried to take her away from me. You’re still trying to take her away from me.”

‘And here we go again,’ Chloe thought.

‘Chloe ---”

“I’m not *yours* Lex.”

“Yes, you are.”

“No, I’m not.”

Clark frowned as he listened to them argue. Chloe sounded tired and worn down, like they had the same argument several times before – which, Clark realized, they probably had if Lex was being as affected by the chemical as it looked like he was.

“Guys ---”

“Shut up Clark,” they both said at once. Clark’s eyebrows rose in surprise at their tone and the fact that they had said the same thing at the same time. It was more than a little disconcerting.

“It’s time to go,” he told Chloe again.

‘Don’t you see what he’s doing, Chloe? I swear I’ll kill him if he ---’

‘If I stay, you have to promise not to hurt him,’ Chloe interrupted. Lex’s rage boiled up inside of him. Even though she would be staying, she was essentially choosing Clark over him because she would only be staying to keep Clark out of harm’s reach.

“I’m not promising anything,” he said sternly.

“Lex,” she started to protest, but was suddenly overcome with a wave of dizziness that almost knocked her to the ground.

“Chloe?” Lex asked in concern. He had heard her thoughts trail off, and it worried him. The concern grew when she seemed to lose her balance and began to fall to the floor. Clark was closer and he caught her, but when he tried to stand her back up, they both realized that Chloe’s eyes were shut and she was unconscious. “Chloe?” Lex repeated with a little more urgency in his voice. ‘Talk to me.’

No words came from her mouth and no thoughts came from her mind. Lex shot Clark a panicked expression.

“I can’t hear her,” he said almost fearfully. Clark frowned and carried her to the bed. He lay her down upon it and then looked at Lex.

“Maybe it’s just wearing off,” Clark suggested.

“She wouldn’t have passed out if it was just wearing off,” Lex said.

“You don’t know that,” Clark pointed out.

“If that’s the case, then why didn’t *I* pass out?” Lex countered. Clark frowned. He didn’t have an explanation for that. Clark noticed it first. As he watched Chloe’s chest rise and fall, her breathing became progressively slower and shallower. And then it stopped altogether.

“She’s stopped breathing,” Clark said in a fearful voice. Lex called for an ambulance immediately and Clark tried to do mouth to mouth resuscitation on her. Lex managed to bite back whatever jealousy he was feeling over Clark’s lips touching Chloe’s, reminding himself that he was only trying to save Chloe’s life. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to be working

Lex ran a hand over the back of his neck as he watched on. It scared him to see her lying there, not moving, not breathing, not thinking. For the first time since the accident had first occurred, he would have given anything to hear her voice in his head.


~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 15
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Lana picked at the food in front of her and Gabe gave her a small grin.

“The purpose of dinner is to actually *eat* the food in front of you,” he teased.

“Sorry. My mind is somewhere else tonight,” she said.

“You’re worried about Chloe,” he observed. Lana paled, wondering how much Chloe’s dad actually knew about what was going on.

“I ---”

“Lana, if there’s one thing I know about my daughter, it’s that she’s a big girl. And in most cases she can take care of herself. I’m sure she’s just trying to brainstorm a way to write about what’s happened to her --- and driving Lex completely out of his mind.” He said the last part with a smile and Lana forced a grin onto her lips.

‘Either that or they’re --- it’s a good thing Mr. Sullivan can’t read my mind,’ Lana thought.

The phone rang, snapping Lana out of her thoughts, and she practically jumped out of her chair to get it. Gabe shook his head lightly in amusement.

‘Teenagers,’ he thought.

“Hello? Sullivan residence,” Lana answered.

“Lana – it’s Clark,” Clark said hurriedly. Lana’s face fell and she turned away so Gabe couldn’t see the worried expression that she was sure now commanded her facial features.

“What happened?” She asked in a quieter voice. “Did you get there in time?” Lana cast a weary glance in Gabe’s direction, but he was thankfully concentrating on the food in front of him.

“Chloe – she stopped breathing. Mouth to mouth didn’t work. The paramedics were able to get her heart beating again, but ---”

“What?!” Lana asked in panic. Gabe’s head turned quickly in Lana’s direction and he looked at her questioningly.

“She’s at the hospital now, but she hasn’t woken up.” Clark paused and Lana could practically see the apprehensive look on his face. “Lex says he can’t hear her,” Clark said somberly. Lana suddenly felt ill and the phone dropped from her hand. Gabe got up from his chair and put a steadying arm around her back as she tried to sink down to the floor herself. He moved her to the chair and she sat down. “Lana? Are you still there?” Gabe picked up the phone.

“Hello?”

Clark cringed when he heard Gabe’s voice come through the receiver.

“Hey – hi – it’s Clark,” the young man stammered. He took a deep breath and then released the words he needed to say in a rushed blur. “Chloe’s in the hospital.”

“What? How did this happen?”

“I don’t know. We were talking and she just --- collapsed. Then she stopped breathing. They had to use those electric paddle things to get her heart started again, and ---” Clark rambled emotionally and Gabe now knew the reason Lana had almost fainted.

“Clark?” Gabe asked, cutting the boy off. “Where is she now?”

“The hospital. They’re running tests. Lex thinks it might have something to do with that chemical that they were exposed to.”

“Okay,” Gabe said with a calm he didn’t possess. “We’re leaving now. We’ll meet you there.” He hung up the phone without saying goodbye and then grabbed his keys off the key holder. Lana stood up and followed him out to the car in a complete daze.

She couldn’t believe this was happening. She mentally berated herself for being so concerned about what Chloe and Lex might have been doing when it seemed so trivial now. From what Clark had said; Chloe had technically died. When a person stops breathing and their heart stops beating – that’s death. Lana wrapped her arms around herself for the duration of the ride to the hospital. Not only had Chloe died and been revived, but now she wasn’t waking up, and Lex couldn’t hear her in his head. She wasn’t sure why that last part bothered her so much, but it did. Because it meant that although Chloe’s body was still there, that Chloe might not be.

Clark watched them come in through the emergency entrance and he walked over to them. He and Lana hugged, but it was obvious it was just for mutual comfort.

“Any news?” Gabe asked. Clark shoved his hands in his pockets and shook his head.

“They need to get your permission to send some of Chloe’s blood out for additional testing in Metropolis, but she hasn’t woken up yet,” Clark said. His eyes briefly lit up. “Oh! But she’s breathing on her own now, so the doctors are optimistic.” Gabe paled. He didn’t realize there had been a point where his daughter hadn’t been breathing on her own past the initial moment of collapsing.

“Can we see her?” Lana asked. Clark looked uneasy and Lana looked at him questioningly.

“They wouldn’t let me or Lex in to see her,” he said and then looked at Gabe, “but you’re family, so they might let you in.” Gabe nodded once and then left Clark and Lana alone while he went to talk to someone behind the admissions desk.

“It’s bad, isn’t it?” Lana asked quietly.

“Yeah.”

“Do you really think it has something to do with the chemical they were exposed to?”

“I don’t know,” Clark said. “Maybe. But it seems like if that was the case, then Lex would be sick too.”

Lana looked at the floor and fidgeted with her hands.

“Did you – I mean, did they ---?” She trailed off and looked imploringly at Clark, hoping he would know what she was talking about. She felt bad for even bringing it up, but if they had then there was a chance that it might have something to do with why Chloe was sick. ‘Okay, that’s reaching,’ she thought. But stranger things had certainly happened in Smallville. Clark blushed and ducked his head.

“I – um – don’t know for sure,” he said. “When I got there, they were kissing and ---” Clark paused while he ran his hand around the back of his neck.

“And?”

“And Lex didn’t have a shirt on,” he said in a hushed voice.

“Oh.” Lana crinkled up her nose and caught Clark’s eyes with her own. “Well, that doesn’t mean anything. Maybe you got there just in time.” Her tone was entirely too hopeful and Clark couldn’t bear to tell her that the heavy musky smell that had been in Lex’s bedroom would suggest otherwise.

“Maybe,” he said, forcing a fake half-smile onto his lips.

Gabe came back over to them and motioned to the hallway that led to the elevators.

“They’ll let us in now, but only for a little while,” he said. Lana looked relieved and Clark looked worried.

“What about Lex?” He asked. Gabe glanced around the ER’s waiting area.

“Where is he?”

“He went to get coffee,” Clark said and then smiled when Lex came back through the doors he had seen him leave through. Lex walked over to them with a cup-holder holding four coffees. Gabe arched an eyebrow and Lex curled up one corner of his mouth in a sad grin.

“I figured you and Lana would get here while it was still hot,” Lex explained. Gabe grinned gratefully at him.

“They’re going to let us in to see her,” Clark said, interrupting the silence that settled upon the group as each person took a coffee from the holder. Lex gave him a somewhat blank stare in disbelief.

Why hadn’t Clark just told him that the second he came over? Lex turned on his heel and started walking toward the elevators without waiting for the rest of them. Clark turned to Gabe, who seemed surprised by Lex’s actions.

“He’s been --- worried,” Clark explained. ‘Obsessive, angry, crazy,’ he immediately added inwardly. Gabe nodded and the three of them set off for the elevators as well.

They reached Chloe’s room and Lex winced when he saw her hooked up to the machines. He still couldn’t hear her voice in his head, and tried to make himself believe that there was a possibility that Clark was right about the chemical reaction wearing off, but it didn’t work. Gabe started talking to her, convinced by the doctors that Chloe could somehow hear him in her comatose state. Clark went next and uttered a string of apologies that Lex just wanted to kill him for. And then it was Lana’s turn. The poor girl actually had tears in her eyes as she sat down in the chair next to Chloe’s bed.

“You can’t leave, Chloe,” she said with overwrought emotion. “Everyone always leaves me. My parents, Whitney --- I can’t lose you too. Please wake up.” Gabe and Clark seemed sympathetic to Lana’s speech, but Lex suddenly heard a familiar voice in his head.

‘Oh, God. Shut up, shut up, shut up!’ Chloe thought. ‘They didn’t *leave* you! They died! There’s a difference!’

Lex couldn’t help himself. A broad smile spread across his lips and he started laughing loudly – partially because of what Chloe had thought and partially out of relief that he could hear her again. Lana, Clark, and Gabe all gave him strange and almost horrified looks. He managed to pull himself together enough to talk to her.

‘God! Don’t ever do that to me again, Chloe,’ he thought warningly.

‘Why? You have a nice laugh,’ she thought.

‘That’s not what I meant and you know it.’

‘Prove it,’ she thought teasingly. He chuckled again and Clark, Lana, and Gabe continued to stare at him.

‘You’re getting me in trouble, Sullivan.’

‘It’s not my fault you have a good sense of humor,’ she countered. Lex grinned.

‘You’re only saying that because it’s the same as yours.’

‘Yep.’

‘But I meant what I said,’ he thought.

‘Lex ---’

‘I was scared,’ he admitted. ‘And Luthors don’t get scared.’

‘I’m not sure what to say.’

‘You don’t have to say anything,’ he thought. ‘Chloe, there’s something you should know. I think I lo---’

Lex was so engaged in his inner conversation with Chloe that it took him a minute before he realized that Clark had been trying to get his attention.

“You can hear her again, can’t you?” Clark asked hopefully, cutting off Lex’s thoughts. Lex nodded and Clark gave him a lopsided grin. “I don’t suppose you could tell her to wake up?”

‘I don’t suppose you could tell him to go away so I can take a nap in peace?’

‘Tell him yourself.’

‘Spoilsport.’ Chloe’s eyes started to flutter open and Lana gave her a smothering hug. ‘Air – need – air.’ Lex chuckled and watched as Gabe and Clark gave her hugs as well, only barely restraining the growl he felt from coming out when Clark hugged her. Chloe smiled weakly at them. “Hey,” she said in a raspy and whispered voice.

One of the doctors chose that precise moment to walk into the room, surprised by the amount of people surrounding the patient, and even more surprised that Chloe was now awake.

“How are you feeling?” He finally managed to ask.

“Okay.”

‘Really?’ Lex asked.

‘No, but I’m not telling him that. He’ll want to keep me here longer.’

‘He’ll want to do that anyway.’

The doctor glanced at the paperwork on the clipboard in front of him and a small, concerned frown graced his lips. He looked at her visitors.

“I need to talk to Chloe alone, so if you all ---”

‘The hell you do,’ Lex thought, shooting daggers at the man with his eyes.

‘Calm down. He’s just the doctor.’

‘But ---’

Chloe smiled warmly at him and Lex’s resolve melted away. He nodded once.

“We’ll be in the hall,” he said.

“There’s a waiting area just a few doors down,” the doctor said. “I’m sure it will be more comfortable.” Lex squared his jaw.

‘Tell me again why I shouldn’t kill him?’

The doctor, oblivious to Chloe and Lex’s inner conversations, grinned at her visitors. Clark tugged on Lex’s arm to get him to leave the room and the doctor could have sworn he heard an animalistic growl come reverberate from Lex’s throat. After they left, the doctor shut the door and took a breath before making eye contact with Chloe.

“Something came up on your blood work with the tests we ran here, but I suspect you already knew that,” he said. Chloe barely nodded.

‘Great. The stupid chemical is in my blood and they’re going to ship me off to a government facility to determine if I’m an alien,’ she thought.

‘What?’

‘Not really. At least I hope not.’ Chloe forced herself to concentrate on the doctor as he continued to speak.

“Chloe, I know that it must have been hard to accept the results, but I hope you know that no matter what else is going on, there are options.”

‘What the hell is he talking about?’ She thought.

“There’s always adoption, or even abortion if ---”

“What?!”

The doctor gave her a strange look and Chloe shook her head.

“I think you guys mixed up my results with someone else’s,” she said. The doctor looked through the paperwork again and then shook his head.

“Chloe Sullivan,” he read. “High HCG levels accompanied by an unknown substance presumed to be a toxin.” Chloe’s eyes widened.

“But ---”

“Listen, your near experience with death may have been enough to make you reevaluate things, but I’m not willing to take chances on your life or your baby’s, so I’m putting you on suicide watch for the next forty-eight hours.”

Chloe’s mouth dropped open and the doctor turned around to leave the room.

“This isn’t happening, this isn’t happening,” she repeated to herself in a mantra-like form.

‘What isn’t happening?’

‘They’re putting me on suicide watch,’ she thought, carefully bypassing the rest of the news.

‘Why?’

‘Apparently they think I tried to kill myself because that stupid chemical leeched into my blood.’

‘I’ll talk to them,’ Lex offered.

“No!”


~*~*~*~*~
Ch. 16
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‘No?’ Lex asked. Chloe sighed and ran a hand through her hair, quickly regretting it when her IV cord got stuck between the bed and its railing. It yanked at her hand and she gritted her teeth in pain as she fixed it.

‘Ugh! Stupid IV,’ she thought.

‘Chloe ---’

“They messed up my results with someone else’s, alright?” She snapped at him aloud.

‘All the more reason to talk to them about it,’ he thought. Chloe snickered and she could practically see the questioning look on Lex’s face.

‘Sorry, you sounded like the big bad wolf from ‘Little Red Riding Hood’,’ she explained. Lex grinned.

‘Interesting. I’ve been referred to as the spawn of the devil, but never as the big bad wolf.’

‘I didn’t call you the big bad wolf; I just said you sounded like him.’

‘What did the test results say?’ He asked, steering the topic back to the original conversation.

‘They think I’m pregnant and that I tried to kill myself using some kind of poison because of it,’ she said dryly. ‘Do you ever wish the people in this town weren’t such fucking morons?’

‘Constantly,’ he thought. ‘And you can’t be pregnant.’

‘No shit Sherlock. What tipped you off? The fact that we only had protected sex or that we only started having it yesterday?’

‘Hmm, better not mention that,’ Lex thought.

‘Mention what?’

‘Nothing,’ he lied. ‘Why don’t you let me talk to them? I think they’ll actually let *me* get a word in edge-wise.’

‘Okay.’

‘You’re agreeing with me?’ Lex asked with surprise.

‘Well, yeah. I want to go home,’ she pointed out. Lex chuckled.

‘I should have known you’d have some form of ulterior motive for sicking me on them,’ he quipped. There was a moment of silence and Lex grinned. ‘What? No witty retort?’ More silence followed and Lex started to worry. ‘Chloe?’

A siren sound could be heard down the hallway and Lex looked around the corner of the waiting room to see what the commotion was. Members of the hospital staff were running into Chloe’s room and Lex felt his heart sink.

The doctor was able to bring her heartbeat back, but he had a feeling that his patient was going to die during her stay there.

Lex cornered him the minute he got out of Chloe’s room and the doctor was taken aback by the furious look on the younger man’s features.

“This is *your* fault,” Lex said through clenched teeth, trying desperately not to let his fists do the talking for him.

“Sir ---”

“Instead of running all of the tests that you *should have* been running, you assumed by looking at one blood test that she was pregnant and suicidal – of which, she is neither.”

“B-but --- how did you know that?”

“There was a chemical spill at the plant. Chloe and I were both exposed to it and now have a temporary telepathic bond, and no, I’m not making this up so don’t bother calling your resident psychiatrist,” Lex said coolly. His patience had just run out. “My specialists will be taking over from here on in. Expect a phone call from your hospital’s administrator.” Lex turned on his heel and left the man standing there with his mouth gaping open in shock from the bizarre verbal assault.

It didn’t take long before Lex’s specialists got there. They did a series of tests on both Chloe and Lex and came up with results that startled the original doctor on the case. He apologized to Lex and to Gabe for jumping to the wrong conclusions, but Lex disregarded him and went to talk with the doctors he had hired.

Lex rubbed his temples with his fingers to try and ease some of the pain that his head was feeling. He had been listening to his so-called experts explain things for the last half-hour and he still only grasped a small part of what they were saying. He never had liked doctors.

“Can you fix it or not?!” He snapped. The doctors looked apprehensively at each other.

“Well, it could be difficult. As we were saying, the chemical seems to have taken root in your bodies differently. In your body, it has heightened your testosterone levels to --- well, it’s a good thing you don’t have any hair because it would be gone with the levels being this high,” one of the men said. Lex glared at him and another doctor continued.

“And, in Miss Sullivan’s body, it has not only heightened her estrogen levels, but actually transformed them into an entirely new compound that we’ve never seen before. It closely mimics HCG on the mechanized blood tests, but when seen under a microscope, well --- it’s really quite fascinating.”

“Unfortunately,” the third specialist said, “this new compound seems to be attacking the part of her brain that’s responsible for unprovoked neurological responses, such as telling the heart to beat or the lungs to breathe.”

“Can you fix it?” Lex repeated, barely keeping his anger in check. The doctors looked at each other and then shook their heads.

“In time, I’m sure we’ll be able to come up with something.”

“How much time?” Lex asked.

“Too much for your friend to live,” one of the doctors finally admitted.

“But there’s always a possibility that the compound may change, may stop attacking her,” another man said. “We don’t know anything about it, so we can’t say for sure.”

Lex stood up and pumped his hands in and out of fists. He scowled dangerously at them and released a feral growl that made each of the three men take a step back.

“Just fix it,” he said in a threatening voice. “Because if Chloe dies, so do you.”


TBC...

[dsapiro]

Yay, ok, I've read all that, now add something new! :chlexsign1: :chlexsign2: :chlexsign3:

[scifichick774]

LOL!! So impatient. Just posting it here to the point where it's updated everywhere else. Ch. 17 should be up on Monday (or tomorrow if I get writing time). :biggrin:

[dsapiro]

Yup, I'm quite impatiant. Thank you for getting it up soon though.

[sabby]

hui chappy 7 up by monday or even tomorrow? Yippey *doesthesnoopydance* you are great! can't wait to find out what happens next!


thank god she is not preggers, that would have been majorly weird *g* cause how could mental porcreating work and how could you ever prevent it? (concentrate real hard on a condom perhaps? *bg*)

anyway, still love the story and want MOOORE!

[Queen Of Tact]

U already know that I love this story, but I thought I would tell u again great job... Please please post more soon....

CC

[§åß®îNå]

yay! another excellent chapter :chlexsign3:

[scifichick774]

Ch. 17

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A/N: This part takes place a couple of days later.

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A consoling grin curled up one corner of Gabe’s mouth when he saw that Lex was still in the chair next to Chloe’s hospital bed. The young man hadn’t left the hospital since Chloe had been rushed there – instead, he had some clothes and personal affects brought over and was basically living in Chloe’s upgraded room. Lex didn’t seem to notice Gabe in the doorway and Gabe cleared his throat.

“You know, I’m not sure I approve of you and my daughter living together at her age,” Gabe said in a teasing voice. Lex’s head snapped around in his direction and he couldn’t hide the look of surprise that graced his face. What Gabe didn’t know was that the surprise was more because of his comment than his presence there at all. Lex quickly recovered and forced a fake grin to shoot back at the man.

“I’d like your approval, but I don’t need it. Sixteen is the legal age of consent in Kansas,” Lex quipped, mimicking Gabe’s previous tone. Much to Lex’s relief, Gabe chuckled and walked into the room. He stood on the other side of the bed and looked down at his daughter, his face falling into a stoic expression; but Lex knew from his own experience that it was only a defense mechanism Gabe was using to keep from completely breaking down.

‘You’d better not be talking to him about what it sounds like you’re talking about,’ Chloe thought, only catching the very last part of what her dad said and then what Lex responded with as she woke up. Lex let out a breath of relief and grabbed her hand.

‘It would be really great if you’d stop dying on me,’ he thought.

‘Yeah, cuz’ it’s my fault and everything,’ she replied sarcastically. Lex smiled.

“Have the doctors ---?” Gabe trailed off when his eyes drifted up from his daughter and caught Lex holding her hand and staring at her. An uncomfortable feeling crawled across Gabe’s skin and settled in his gut. He knew the look on Lex’s face only too well. He cleared his throat, but Lex didn’t look up at him.

‘Have the doctors --- *what*?’ Chloe asked suspiciously.

“I’ll tell you if you open your eyes,” Lex said. Gabe blinked a couple of times in surprise. Maybe he had misread Lex’s previous expression; maybe Lex was just pleased because he could obviously hear Chloe’s thoughts again.

‘Although, I’m not sure why he would be so happy about that,’ he thought to himself.

“Spoilsport,” Chloe mumbled in a groggy voice as she started to open her eyes. She squinted them and held up her hand to block the harsh light that lit the room. Without saying a word, Gabe quickly walked over and shut off the lights – only allowing the light from the hallway to temper the darkness of her hospital room. “Thanks, Dad.” She turned her head to the side and looked at Lex. “So, the doctors ---?” Lex and Gabe shared a reluctant glance at each other and Chloe narrowed her eyes. “What?” She asked suspiciously.

“Um, the thing is sweetheart,” Gabe started, running a hand around the back of his neck nervously.

‘*Sweetheart*,’ Lex thought, trying to lighten Chloe’s mood before the news was dropped on her.

‘*Dumpling*,’ she retorted and then looked at her dad expectantly. “The thing is ---?”

“Um --- Lex?”

‘Coward,’ Lex thought.

‘I dare you to say that to his face.’

‘I think I’ll pass on that one. I have a feeling that he would kick me out of your room.’

‘Probably,’ Chloe agreed. Lex looked her in the eye and she almost cringed at the seriousness that was etched on his face. She sighed. “Just tell me.”

“The chemical we were exposed to – you were right,” Lex said. Chloe arched an eyebrow, urging him to continue. “It’s affected both of us.” Chloe nodded once.

“More than the telepathy thing. Yeah, I had a feeling,” she said as she tried to push herself up to a sitting position. Lex grinned and pushed the button on the bed railing that would raise the upper portion of the bed. “Thanks. So, what gives?” Lex and Gabe shared another look and Chloe sank back against the bed. “Why do I have a bad feeling about this?” Gabe sighed and moved to sit down on the edge of her bed.

“We don’t know how, but somehow the chemical has tapped into the glands that produce your hormones,” he said. A glint of a smile played at Chloe’s lips.

“So, what? I’m just going to be all PMS-y all the time?” She joked.

“Uh, not exactly,” Gabe said. “You see, in Lex, it increased his levels of testosterone ---” Chloe cut her dad off with an amused snicker and Lex grinned at her.

‘Why does that not surprise me?” She thought.

‘I can’t imagine,’ Lex replied sarcastically.

“In you, however,” Gabe started speaking again. “Instead of just raising one of the hormones that your body naturally produces, it has managed to change the hormone altogether. It combined with the estrogen in your body to make a new compound, and ---” Gabe turned his face away, not wanting to let Chloe see the tears forming in his eyes.

“It’s killing you,” Lex finished for him. Gabe closed his eyes for a second and Chloe saw a single tear roll down his face.

“O-kay,” she strung out. “That’s bad.”

“It is,” Lex agreed. “And despite my threats, so far the doctors haven’t been able to come up with a way to help you.”

‘Your threats, huh?’ Chloe inwardly chuckled. ‘What did you tell them? Or do I even want to know?’

‘The usual,’ Lex thought in a light-hearted tone, ‘I’m the son of the devil, he’ll come after your souls - that sort of thing.’

‘Using your dad as a threat --- interesting. *And* well played I might add.’

‘Thank you, thank you.’

“Sweetheart, I’m so sorry,” Gabe said in a choked voice, bringing Chloe’s attention back to him.

‘He’s not going to start actively crying, is he?’ Chloe asked.

‘It looks like it.’

‘Well, can you just lie to him and tell him the doctors will fix it or something?’

‘I doubt he’d believe me,’ Lex thought.

‘I don’t know --- you can be pretty convincing when you want to be.’

Her sudden sexual undertones didn’t escape Lex’s attention and he smirked at her.

‘You too,’ he thought, copying her tone while rubbing the pad of his thumb in circles on the top of her hand. God, he had missed this. The last few days had been torture, but now – now, Chloe was alright if only for a moment and back into their sexual innuendo-laden banter. It was all Lex could do not to shove Gabe out the door and tell him to come back in an hour. Chloe saw the gleam in his eye and she chuckled aloud before turning her attention back to Gabe.

“I’m sure I’ll be fine Dad,” she said reassuringly.

“Chloe ---”

“Dad, you of all people should know that meteor freaks don’t die in Smallville – well, not unless someone kills them – so what makes you think that ---”

“You’re not a ‘meteor freak’,” Gabe interrupted. Chloe raised her eyebrows and smiled at him.

“Uh-huh,” she said, unconvinced. “What would *you* call it then?”

“You were affected by a chemical at the plant,” Gabe started and watched Chloe’s head nod agreeably with him.

“A chemical that the meteor rocks in my bag fell into,” she reminded him. Lex and Gabe both looked temporarily taken aback by what she had said.

“What?” Lex asked. “Why didn’t you tell me that before?” Chloe shrugged.

“Sorry, I thought you knew. You were there, you saw me pick them up and put them back in my bag.”

“I ---” Lex trailed off, shaking his head absently as he contemplated what Chloe was saying to him. ‘That might be the reason the doctors haven’t been able to come up with anything,’ he thought to himself. Gabe was apparently thinking the same thing.

“They should know,” he said. Lex nodded in agreement and Gabe turned to face Chloe again. “Where are they?”

“They?”

“The meteor rocks,” he clarified.

“In my brown bag at home as far as I know,” she answered.

“Okay. I’ll – um – I’ll be back in a little while, okay sweetie?” Gabe leaned over and kissed her forehead before getting up to leave.

“Okay,” she said and gave him a small wave as he left the room. Lex got up and closed the door, but didn’t turn the lights back on.

“Can I call you *sweetie* now?” He teased.

“Not unless I can call you *dump*, which doesn’t sound nearly as endearing,” she said. Lex snickered and made his way through the dark room to her bedside again. She felt his weight settle down on the side of the bed and she sighed. “So, I’m dying, huh?”

“The doctors don’t know about the meteor rocks yet,” Lex said. “Maybe they can do something.”

“Maybe – if they don’t completely laugh my dad out of the room.”

“They won’t,” Lex assured her. “They’re grasping at straws as it is. They won’t turn down a new theory.”

“You’d be surprised how stubborn people can be about my meteor rock theory though.”

“Poor baby,” he teased. “Feeling neglected, are we?” He could barely make out the line of her smile in the room that was now only lit by the machines that were hooked up to her.

“I don’t know,” she said, her voice taking on a teasing seductiveness. “Are *we*?”

“Mmm,” he agreed as he leaned down to kiss her.

His lips missed their aim, kissing the side of her mouth first, and she smiled. Chloe wound her arms around his neck and they started kissing, their tongues sweeping into each other’s mouths almost ferociously after their period apart.

‘I love you.’



TBC…

[hfce]

Oh my thtat was so good. I wonder who said I love You Lex or Chloe? Hmmm I can't wait
to read it.


Hope :chlexsign2:

[Queen Of Tact]

Yeah Yeah Yeah!!! Another great ch, and an I love you!!!! Kris you know I luv ya girl, but u better post more and soon...

CC

[sabby]

Exellent as always Kris,

can't wait to find out who let the "I love you" slip and how the other will react :biggrin:

Could get interesting when Gabe finds out the truth behind Lex's concern

Please update ASAP

hugs,

Sabby

[bluemoongirl23]

Great as usual. I love the dialogue between them, as usaul, you've nailed them. But, a bit scary cause I posted a fic and when reading yours noticed we had one of the same phrases. You can't hear MY thoughts, can you?

Blue, scared

[dsapiro]

That was a great chapter, can't wait to find out who said it. Post more soon!

[Julie]

MAN! I've finally read through it all, and WOWIE :D Now, update so us fans can know who said 'I lobe you' .... NOW!!!

[scifichick774]

A/N: First of all, thank you so much for all of the great reviews - you know how much I love them. Second, this chapter is a little hard to follow at first. Just warning you ahead of time.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Caught up in the moment, Chloe murmured breathlessly against his lips.

“I love you too.”

Her words were enough to make Lex lose whatever little self control he had left. He moved his mouth against hers again and an image floated into his mind of the two of them together in his bedroom at home. Her hands were running up his shirtless chest and --- Chloe inwardly chuckled and it transferred to her dream self.

‘Something funny?’

‘You picture this room a lot,’ she thought. ‘Why not someplace…different?’ Her mind changed the image to her smaller bedroom at her house and Lex arched an eyebrow.

‘Because it’s unrealistic,’ he thought as he moved his mouth along her jaw until he reached her neck.

‘How is it unrealistic?’

‘Because we won’t be living there,’ Lex thought to himself, temporarily forgetting that Chloe could hear everything he thought and not just what he chose for her to hear.

“What?” Chloe asked as she tried to pull away from him, but Lex kept a firm grip on her hip and back and she let her body sink back into his attentions.

His tongue darted out onto her neck and swirled around in a circular motion before his teeth grazed the spot lightly. He fixed his lips around the area and started suckling at the smooth skin. With each burst of pressure, Chloe felt the waves of pleasure lap at her body. She let out a whimpered moan and Lex changed the image in their minds back to the bedroom in his house, where he started backing her toward the bed.

Chloe didn’t care anymore. The sensations coursing through her body were taking over and she began to arch her body toward him. Her fantasy skipped ahead to him pumping himself into her and both of them nearing climax.

Lex moaned as the strong arousal overcame his body and he unconsciously started rocking his lower body up against her in time with the thrusts in their shared image.

“Chloe,” he panted against her neck. Chloe’s nails dug into his shoulders and back as her orgasm rolled through her.

“Lex!”

Her scream prompted a physical response in Lex and he felt an imaginary tightening around his cock. He let out loud satisfied groan of her name as his body shuddered with release and his head dropped beside hers.

The nurse assigned to Chloe’s room heard Chloe’s scream from the other end of the hallway and started running to the room at a fevered pace. She couldn’t make out what Chloe had said, but she recognized the manner with which it was screamed. She slowed her pace and shook her head. Surely that couldn’t be right. The girl had just technically died, and even if she hadn’t, her boyfriend wouldn’t be foolish enough to initiate intimacy while she was in the hospital. The nurse opened the door quickly and her mouth dropped open and closed a couple of times.

“What do you think you’re doing?” She asked sternly.

Chloe’s eyes were closed and Lex nuzzled his face into the crook of Chloe’s neck.

‘Whoops,’ Chloe thought. ‘Guess I was too loud.’

‘Never,’ Lex replied. ‘Just ignore her.’

‘Contrary to what my dad tried to tell me when I was younger, I’ve found that ignoring people doesn’t always make them go away.’

‘You’re talking about me, aren’t you?’

Chloe smiled when she felt Lex’s smirk against her skin and the nurse cleared her throat loudly. Lex sighed and turned his head as he sat up straight on the bed and then stood up.

“Was there something you needed?” He asked casually. Chloe snickered.

‘I’m amazed by your ability to do that.’

‘Do *what*?’ Lex teased suggestively.

‘Don’t start.’

‘Are you sure?’

‘The nurse is standing right there, Lex.’

‘So? It’s not like we haven’t done it in front of people before.’

‘Clark doesn’t count.’

‘He’s not a person?’

‘The jury’s still out on that,’ Chloe joked with a smile. Lex started laughing and the older woman by the door looked at him as if he had lost his mind.

The nurse pursed her lips and crossed her arms, realizing that she had a bit of a predicament on her hands. She didn’t want to lose her job for being rude to Lex Luthor, but visiting hours were over, he was obviously a little mentally unstable, and he *had* just been physically accosting her patient.

‘Not that she seemed to mind,’ the nurse thought. She inwardly sighed and then forced a tight grin onto her lips. “I’m sorry, Mr. Luthor; but visiting hours are over.”

‘She’s kicking you out *dumpling*,’ Chloe thought as she tried to restrain her laughter from bubbling out.

‘She’ll cave.’

‘You think so?’

‘She’ll lose her job if she doesn’t,’ Lex thought.

Gabe appeared in the doorway and lightly rapped on the door to get their attention. He flashed Chloe an almost beaming smile and she smiled back at him.

“Good news?” She asked. Her dad nodded and then looked at Lex.

“They seem really encouraged by this latest information and they got started on it the second I told them about it,” Gabe said. His smile fell to a confused grin in a second flat. “But they said they already had meteor rock samples at the lab when I said I could bring some in. I didn’t know you were doing testing on those?”

Lex could almost feel Chloe’s inquisitive look bearing a hole into his back and he barely contained his wince.

‘You’re testing meteor rocks? And you didn’t tell me?’

‘I would have gotten around to it.’

‘No you wouldn’t.’

‘Crap,’ Lex thought. ‘One minute I’m having a nice moment with her and the next ---’

‘I can hear you,’ Chloe thought in a sing-song voice. Lex turned his head to face her and he gave her a half-smirk.

“I’m sorry, *sweetheart*. Please forgive me?”

Chloe burst out in laughter at his mock-serious tone and Gabe and the nurse exchanged confused expressions.

“I – um ---” the nurse stammered and turned to Gabe. “I was just telling Mr. Luthor that visiting hours are over.” Gabe gave her a slow nod of his head and looked back at Lex.

“We should be going then,” he said to Lex. Gabe grinned at Chloe. “I forgot to ask how you’re feeling. You look better.”

Chloe tried to push down the blush she felt rising to her cheeks and Lex smirked at her.

‘Maybe I should stay,’ Lex thought. ‘Apparently it’s good for your health.’

‘Oh, shut up.’




TBC…

[dsapiro]

Heehee, that was a great chapter. I love it, can't wait for more. :chlexsign2:

[Sway]

that poor nurse. *shakes head*

i can't wait for the next update *hint hint* ;)

[bluemoongirl23]

Man, how cute are the two of them together? Great job. Yeah, and if Lex loving cures you of sickness, I'll willingly go to the hospital.

Blue

[scifichick774]

A/N: Glad you guys are enjoying this one still. Let me know when you start to get sick of it and I’ll wind it down.

Ch. 19
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Lex sat down on his bed at home. He was still a little in shock that they had actually kicked him out.

‘You’re not still sulking are you?’ Chloe’s voice came through in his head.

‘No. What gave you that idea?’

Chloe pictured him sitting on his bed, with an expression much like the one he was wearing. Lex furrowed his brow.

‘That’s weird,’ he thought.

‘What?’

‘It’s almost identical to what I’m actually doing.’

‘Really? I was just kidding,’ Chloe thought.

‘Great,’ Lex thought sarcastically.

Chloe bit the inside of her lip. She felt bad that they sent Lex home just because they said she needed rest.

‘I’ll have to do something to make it up to him,’ she thought. Lex arched an eyebrow and flopped his back against the bed.

‘Thinking to yourself again. Never a good sign, Sullivan,’ he teased. Chloe smiled and shook her head lightly. ‘So, how are you going to make it up to me?’

Chloe pictured him sitting on the bed again.

‘I’m lying down now,’ he corrected and altered the image to fit his position in reality. Chloe was going to roll her eyes, but she decided to just go with it. She pictured herself coming into the room and walking over to him. Lex smirked and changed her outfit to the hospital gown he had seen her in just an hour before. Chloe started laughing when she saw the gown.

‘You’re joking, right? I hate to break it to you, but hospital gowns aren’t exactly a big turn-on, Lex.’

‘It worked earlier,’ he thought smugly. Chloe blushed and Lex somehow sensed it. ‘Wow! I got a blush out of you,’ he thought in a proud voice. Chloe sighed.

‘Okay, that’s it. I don’t know why I felt the need to console you anyway.’

A pleased grin crawled across Lex’s mouth.

‘Because you love me,’ he thought.

‘What?’ Chloe asked in confusion, completely forgetting her slip in the moment of passion earlier.

‘Because you *love* me,’ he thought again.

‘Lex,’ Chloe thought hesitantly. Lex’s eyes drifted closed and he pictured the two of them together in his room. He saw Chloe walking over to him and climbing on the bed to straddle his waist. The warm tingle of arousal spread through Chloe’s body and she let out a moan when her image slowly slid down Lex’s cock. ‘Oh, God.’

Lex watched his fantasy play out, with an image of Chloe starting to bob up and down on top of him. He was only vaguely aware that the strangled groans were actually coming from his throat and not just from his imagination, but at this point he didn’t care. In the dream, he could feel Chloe’s inner walls squeezing tight around him and he let go inside her. His breathing slowly returned to normal as the image faded away.

‘That was ---’ he trailed off and shook his head lightly. ‘I don’t know if I’ll be able to live without being able to do that with you once they find a way to cure us.’

‘I’m sure you’ll survive.’

‘Well, I’ll still have the real thing,’ he thought smugly.

‘Ye-ah, about that ---’ Chloe was pulled out of her thoughts by a knock on the door. “Come in.”

‘What?’

‘One of your ‘specialists’ is here,’ Chloe thought. The man greeted her with an uneasy smile and she noticed the folder in his hands.

‘Which one?’

‘How should I know?’

“Well, I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you,” the doctor said. Chloe placed a fake smile on her lips, but inwardly prepared herself for the worst.

‘Okay, I’m dying. No big deal. I can leave the Torch in Clark and Lana’s hands and ---’

“What?!” Lex yelled, cutting off her inner ramblings.

“How about I give you the good news first?” The doctor asked, forcing Chloe to temporarily abandon what she was sure was going to be a very angry Lex. Chloe nodded.

“I could use some good news,” she mumbled.

“Well,” the man started with the uneasy smile again, only proving that there was indeed bad news on the horizon, “We think we’ve come up with something to help you.” Chloe’s eyes widened with the doctor’s words.

“You can fix us?” She asked excitedly.

‘They can fix us?’

“Not exactly,” the doctor said. “The only thing we’ve been able to come up with will be able to counteract one of the chemical’s effects in your body, allowing your estrogen glands to return to normal.” Chloe creased her brow and tilted her head.

“That’s good – right?”

“You won’t be in imminent danger of dying anytime soon, so yes, it’s good news,” he said. Chloe smiled and felt a sudden urge to hug the older man.

‘I’m not dying! Well, I am, but I won’t be,’ she clarified.

‘Go over that again,’ Lex thought.

‘Hold on. He’s just about to tell me the bad news.’

The doctor placed the folder in his left hand and ran his right hand around his neck nervously.

“The bad news is that even with the new information about the meteor rocks; we can’t seem to find anyway to get rid of the chemical altogether. We’re still researching of course, but it could take years to find a way to neutralize or dispose of it, and in the meantime ---”

“Lex and I are stuck together,” Chloe finished for him. The specialist nodded and gave her an apologetic look.

“I’m sorry. I wish I had better news for you,” he said.

“It’s okay,” she responded. He gave her a nod and then started to turn away, but stopped and swung his head back around.

“Oh! They’ll be bringing up your first dose of SMRC-24 in a few minutes,” he said. Chloe frowned.

“So, am I going to have to take this cure, or whatever it is, for the rest of my life?” She asked. The man shook his head.

“We’ve calculated that with your body size, it should take five days with a dose every hour to get your system back to normal – or as back to normal as we can make it,” he answered. “And if our testing proves accurate, then your glands will build up sort of a barrier, so they won’t allow the chemical back inside.” Chloe faked a grin and nodded absently.

“Thanks.”

“Any other questions?” He asked.

“You haven’t come up with anything for Lex at all?”

‘You’re concerned about me?’ Lex asked, feeling a little tug of emotion at his heart that she would care enough to ask. He knew she said she loved him, but he knew enough from her demeanor afterward that she had probably said it in the heat of passion.

‘So?’

“I’m afraid not,” the doctor said and shook his head. “But we’re still trying.” Chloe nodded and watched the man leave the room, and then she let out a sigh.

‘I suppose you’d like to be filled in,’ she thought.

‘That would be nice.’

‘To sum it up: they’ve come up with something that’s supposedly going to keep me from dying, but they haven’t found a way to completely get rid of the chemical in our systems or its other effects on our bodies.’

‘But you won’t be dying anymore?’

‘No, but I have to stay here for five days – which, really, is *almost* like death,’ she joked. Lex grinned and shook his head. How Chloe was able to still keep a light-hearted attitude about the situation was beyond him.

‘I’ll visit you every day if that will help.’

‘You don’t need to,’ she thought. ‘After all, it looks like you’re going to be stuck with me for a long time.’




TBC…

[sabby]

Getting tired of this story? Never! En contraire cherie, I want more, and I want it now!

hugs,
Sabby

[hfce]

Aw they are stuck together for life. One good thing they can't lie to eachother.
:lol: More please.... :biggrin:


Hope :chlexsign1:

[Gemini]

YAY!!! I love this fic so much- has to be one of the greatest chlexies ever ;) I love how you're writing Lex.

[dsapiro]

Umm, yeah, we wont get tired of it, certianly not before you do, so keep those chapters coming.

[AlwaysPretending]

I can't believe that I didn't know about this fic! I love it so far - I can't believe how much I've enjoyed reading this (lucky me got 19 parts in a row!).

But now I need more. Like, now. Now!

Kerry

[Sway]

ooooooooh an update. i must have done something right!! :biggrin: i'm *very* happy you aren't killing Chloe. even happier that they haven't found a cure.

keep updating...

:blinkkiss: Sway

[scifichick774]

Chapter 20 - this part takes place a few days later

~*~*~*~*~*~

“Le-x,” Lionel strung out his son’s name in a sneer as he walked into his office at the plant. “Would you care to explain this to me?”

Lex glanced up from his computer monitor to see his father holding out some sort of file; which, as if on cue, he threw on Lex’s desk. Lex didn’t even get a chance to look at the documents that lie within before Lionel started his semi-rant.

“It wasn’t enough that you had the nerve to berate *me* for doing experimental testing, but then you do some of your own?” Lionel asked accusingly. “And I suppose you thought that I wouldn’t find out?” He pursed his lips and tilted his head to the side, a sure sign that he was about to change tactics. Lex inwardly scoffed.

‘Great,’ he thought sarcastically, ‘now I get to listen to another long-winded speech on why I should partner up with him.’

‘Your dad?’ Chloe guessed.

‘Who else?’

‘Are you giving him that dry stare you do?’ Chloe teased.

‘Dry stare?’

‘I’m not sure I can describe it much better than that, hon.’ Chloe’s eyes widened and then she cringed when she realized she had thought ‘hon’ on the end of her sentence. ‘Oh my God, I didn’t just say that.’ Lex coughed into his hand, but was inwardly laughing at her reaction to her own statement. ‘Shut up. Go deal with your dad or something.’

‘Whatever you say sweetheart,’ he thought. Chloe noticed that he didn’t emphasize the term of endearment, and she seemed a bit flustered that it didn’t bother her. Lex turned off his computer and pushed his chair away from his desk. “To my knowledge, you don’t hold any sort of patent on the meteor rocks,” he told his father.

“You stole one of my best researchers, Lex.”

“Yes, I did,” Lex admitted with a nod of his head. He gave his father a small smirk and folded his arms across his chest. “You should be more careful about renewing people’s contracts if you want to keep them working for you.”

“Le-x,” Lionel strung out again in tone that Lex thought made him sound like a whiney three year old. “You’re missing the big picture. I don’t care about some random scientist.” He took a few steps closer to his son.

‘And here it comes,’ Lex thought.

“But to have you back in the fold ---” Lionel paused and Lex had to force himself not to roll his eyes at what was supposed to be a convincing look on his father’s face. “It’s your destiny, Lex.”

“Ah. Well, there’s the thing about destiny, Dad,” Lex said, taking a step closer to him, “I like to make my own.” With that, Lex turned on his heel and walked back to the position behind his desk. He started to pull the chair up without looking at Lionel. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a lot of work to do today.” Lionel narrowed his eyes for a second and pursed his lips, but he finally gave Lex a curt nod that Lex wasn’t looking up to see. Lionel made it all the way to the door before stopping and turning his head halfway around.

“Speaking of work, what *did* you need my cellular chemist for?”

“That’s confidential,” Lex said with a small smirk curling the corners of his lips upward. ‘And I wouldn’t tell you anyway.’

Chloe snickered.

‘It’s so nice that you and your dad have such a loving relationship,’ she said sarcastically. Lex rubbed his eyes after his dad left the room.

‘I don’t suppose you have anything else on him?’

‘Why?’ Chloe asked. Lex blinked in surprise.

‘Is that a ‘yes’? How could you keep something like that from me --- with our voices in each other’s heads and everything?’ He asked, hoping he didn’t come off sounding too affronted by the information.

‘I’m amazing,’ she responded in a mock-serious tone. Lex let out a sigh of relief and Chloe arched an eyebrow. ‘What?’

‘Nothing,’ he lied. ‘So, you were going to tell me what else you have on my father?’

‘I was? I don’t remember agreeing to that,’ she thought as a teasing smile lit up her face.

‘You’re hilarious Sullivan,’ he thought dryly.

‘I try.’ She groaned when the nurse came in to give her the hourly injection of SMRC-24.

‘What’s wrong?’

‘They’re going to put more of that green goop into me,’ she complained.

‘Hmm. Well, I would tell them not to, but it’s saving your life, so I’m not particularly inclined to do that,’ he thought. Chloe scoffed.

‘That and they can’t hear you,’ she thought.

‘That too,’ he agreed with a grin.

“Ugh,” she grimaced as the green liquid made its way down her IV cord.

‘Does it hurt?’

‘No, I’m groaning about it because it’s so much fun,’ she quipped.

‘I could take your mind off it,’ Lex thought suggestively. Chloe’s eyes widened and the nurse gave her a strange look.

“Is it worse than normal?” The older woman asked.

Lex pictured them kissing, their hands running over each other’s naked bodies and Chloe felt her heart start to pound against her chest.

‘Lex, don’t do this,’ she thought, letting her eyes flutter closed.

‘Don’t do what?’ He thought with a smirk. He sat back in his chair and closed his eyes as well.

Then he did something that Chloe wasn’t expecting. He changed the image of them together to her back being leaned down against his desk and him kissing his way down her body. Chloe’s breathing grew ragged as she felt her body flush with anticipation. She let out a whimper and the nurse frowned. She held up the back of her hand to Chloe’s forehead and let out a ‘tsk’ before leaving the room to retrieve a thermometer. Lex daydreamed about kissing her inner thigh and Chloe could practically feel his smooth head underneath her fingertips.

“Lex,” she moaned in a hushed voice.

“Mmm --- Chloe,” he said, his volume just as low as hers. He pictured himself darting his tongue out to lick her slit from top to bottom.

Chloe started writhing in her bed and when the nurse came in again, the concerned frown appeared to be a permanent fixture on her face. Her patient had been on the mend one minute, and then after she received her injection she was warm, sweaty, and squirming around in her bed with her eyes closed. The nurse didn’t take it as a good sign and made a mental note to let the doctors know as soon as possible.

Chloe and Lex let the shared image play out in their minds. Lex was thrusting three fingers in and out of her while circling her clit with his tongue and Chloe had her hands clenched until her knuckles were white at the sides of the desk.

‘Lex, oooh, right there,’ she thought, her words coming through in the daydream. Her body started to shake as her orgasm rolled through her and the nurse shook her head. There hadn’t been anything in the girl’s paperwork to suggest seizure activity, so it must be a side-effect of the experimental drug. She quickly left the room and closed the door behind her. As if he sensed that the woman left, Lex pictured himself positioning himself at her entrance and then plunging his cock into her depths in one swift movement. “Lex!”

Her inner walls clamped around him as he brought her to climax a second time with his entrance. He groaned her name and started a steady rhythm of pumping in and out of her. Chloe squeezed her inner muscles and Lex let out a strangled cry of her name as the thrusting came faster and faster.

The nurse slowly opened the door and pointed to Chloe as the doctor stepped in behind her.

“See?” She asked in a whispered voice. Chloe’s body was flailing about as her third and final orgasm took hold of her body. She let out a series of struggled moans as she let the pleasure encompass her. The doctor frowned and nodded, walking toward the bed to examine his patient. Chloe’s breathing was labored, but her body started to come to a still in exhaustion. Her eyes slowly opened and she squinted as they focused on what was going on in the ‘real world’.

‘Oh, crap,’ she thought. ‘How long have *they* been here?’

‘Who?’

‘The nurse and a doctor,’ she explained.

“Chloe?” The doctor asked. Chloe turned her head to look at him. “It looks like you’re back with us now, but you gave us quite a scare there.” Chloe gave him what she hoped would pass as a questioning look. “It seems that the drug has brought on some seizure activity, so we’re going to do a few tests. Alright?” He didn’t wait for her to give him an answer before he turned and left the room. The nurse gave her a compassionate smile and followed the doctor out the door.

“I can’t believe this is happening,” Chloe said under her breath.

‘What?’

‘They saw me,’ she thought.

‘So?’

‘No, Lex. They *saw* me.’

‘Oh.’

‘They think the drug is bringing on seizure activity now,’ she thought. Lex smiled broadly and started laughing out loud. ‘That’s not funny.’ His laughing only got harder. “Argh! You are *so* going to pay for this, Luthor!”




TBC…

[sabby]

"No, Lex. They *saw* me" ROTFLMAO

Soo good, I think I will never get tired of this story! Oh and more dirt about Lionel? Dish it, I wanna see the devil burn *g*

Hope to find the next part soon. And get Chloe out of the hospital, give them a chance to really do it!

hugs,
Sabby

[hfce]

:lol: Wow that was HOT!!!!!!! :drool: :drool: :drool:
I can't believe she had an orgasim right in front of the nurse and doctor. :lol: to funny. More please... :blinkkiss:


Hope ;)

[Gemini]

That;s hilarious!! Seizure, hahaha... if they only knew :blush:

[dsapiro]

Heeheehee. Loved this chapter!

[AlwaysPretending]

:lol: Oops, well, at least it was fun while it lasted ;)

I can't get enough of this fic, so please more!

Kerry

[Sway]

Happiness is good Chlex. :biggrin: that was a great chapter!!

:blinkkiss: Sway

[bluemoongirl23]

*snort* That's too funny. Poor Chloe, she gets all of the humiliation. I can't wait for her to take it all out on Lex.


Blue

[scifichick774]

A/N: I don’t own the rights to “The Snorks” theme song – and yes, I put that disclaimer there for a reason. This part gets really, really confusing, so I apologize ahead of time.

Chapter 21
~*~*~*~*~*~

“I can’t believe you’re back at school after *dying*!”

“It was only for like a minute, Pete,” Chloe said with a bemused smile as she turned the computer in the Torch office on.

‘What was?’

‘My brush with death,’ Chloe thought in a light-hearted tone.

‘Mmm. How are you feeling?’ Lex thought. He casually glanced through the file that was sitting atop his desk. He had a lot of work to get caught up on, but his concern for Chloe took priority in his mind. An evil grin crept across Chloe’s lips and she looked down so Pete couldn’t see it.

‘Vengeful.’

Lex’s eyebrows shot up in surprise.

“What?” he asked aloud.

Chloe’s attention snapped to Pete when she realized that he was still talking.

“Still, you could have milked it for way more than just a week off,” Pete said. Chloe chuckled and Pete smiled at her. “So, are you going to do a big article on your near-death experience?”

“I don’t think so,” Chloe answered, her mood suddenly shifting into something a little more sullen.

“Why not? I thought that would be front page material.”

Chloe tucked some hair behind her ear and forced a small grin onto her lips.

“Maybe after I’ve gotten used to it a little more,” she said. Pete nodded in understanding. Reporting on others misfortunes was much different than detailing your own.

“I better get to practice before coach reams me,” he said, flashing her another smile before heading toward the door. “It’s good to have you back, Chlo.”

“Thanks, Pete.”

‘Is he gone?’

‘Yeah.’

‘What did you mean by vengeful?’

‘What do you think I meant? You subjected me to a whole new series of tests because that nurse and doctor saw me – and I *told* you I would get you back for it. Did you not believe me?’

‘I was hoping you had changed your mind,’ Lex admitted.

‘And what happened to give you *that* false hope?’

‘Would you like me to remind you?’ Lex asked suggestively. Chloe pursed her lips. She was at school, and basically anyone could come walking into the Torch office…

“No,” she said, focusing her attention on the screen in front of her.

‘No?’

“No,” she repeated. She heard Lex inwardly groan and arched an eyebrow. ‘What’s going on?’

‘I have a meeting with my dad this afternoon,’ he thought. ‘It was scheduled weeks ago and I completely forgot about it.’

‘Sure you did,’ she thought sarcastically. ‘You never forget anything. I’d say it was more wishful thinking than anything.’

‘So?’ Lex quipped. ‘Fuck. The bastard’s here now.’

‘Well, don’t mind me – not that it’s not the perfect time to enact my revenge or anything,’ she thought.

‘Chl-oe,’ he strung out her name as a warning in his head. ‘Don’t.’

“Lex,” Lionel sneered cheerfully as he walked into his son’s office. “How are you today?” Lex didn’t bother to rise from his chair, only briefly glancing up at his father before turning his attention back to his computer monitor.

‘I don’t suppose you could save the whole ‘getting even’ thing for another time and just give me more information on my dad?’

‘What do I look like – your own personal detective? Get the information yourself.’

Lex’s mind flitted to an image of her wearing nothing but a long trench coat and a fedora.

‘Mind out of the gutter, Luthor.’

‘Isn’t that what you had in mind for retribution?’

“Have you heard a word I’ve said?” Lionel asked.

“To be honest, my mind is on other things besides this pointless meeting.”

“I would hardly call combining our forces ‘pointless’, Lex.”

‘God, not this again. First he can’t wait to get rid of me and then when he realizes that I actually know what I’m doing, he can’t wait to get me under his thumb again,’ Lex thought.

‘Would you like me to cheer you up?’ Chloe asked. A small grin curled up the corners of Lex’s mouth.

‘Please,’ he thought suggestively. The evil smile returned to Chloe’s lips as she came across the site she had been looking for. With a few quick clicks, she reached the page she was looking for and a bubbly, cartoon-sounding song started to fill the Torch office as well as her head. Lex creased his brow as Chloe started to sing along with the music that was now drowning out every other sound in the room.

Come along with the snorks
Swim along with the snorks
So much to see
Waiting for you and me
Have some fun with the snorks

Play along with the snorks
Sing along with the snorks
Happy we’ll be
Living under the sea
Come along with the snorks

If you could breathe underwater
Where would you go?
If you had friends underwater
Who would you know?

Come along, sing along, swim along too – yeah!

Come along with the snorks
Swim along with the snorks
So much to see
Waiting for you and me

Swim along with the, have some fun with the, come along with the snorks

Lex blinked a couple of times as he tried to regain his bearings. Lionel was staring at him with what looked like concern. He knew his son didn’t particularly care for their little talks, but he had never been so obvious as to blatantly ignore him before.

‘Chloe?’

Chloe started laughing wildly, clutching her gut as her body shook with amusement.

“Yes?” she asked aloud through her laughing.

“What the hell was that?” Lex asked. Chloe laughed again and when Clark came into the office, the song started to replay.

‘*That* was retribution,’ she thought. ‘I can only imagine the look on your dad’s face when he saw that you weren’t paying attention to anything he said.’

‘When you said you were going to get even, I thought – well, you know.’

‘I’m aware of what you thought,’ she responded.

“Chloe?” Clark asked. At the sound of Clark’s voice, Chloe turned in her chair to face him. She gave him a wide smile.

“Hey, Clark.”

“Why are you listening to the theme song to The Snorks?”

“You don’t like The Snorks?”

“Well – I – I don’t know. I mean, I haven’t watched cartoons for a long time,” Clark said. Chloe rolled her eyes.

“And yet you recognized the theme song,” she pointed out. Clark opened his mouth to speak, but quickly closed it when he realized he had no rebuttal. Chloe turned her chair back around to look at the computer. “And for your information, I used to have a crush on Junior.”

‘I beg your pardon?’

“You had a crush on a cartoon character?”

“You make that sound like it’s a bad thing,” she said. Clark stared at her in disbelief, not sure of what else to say.

‘It is a bad thing. Who is Junior?’

‘None of your business,’ Chloe thought. ‘And speaking of business, is your dad still in the room?’

Lex looked over and saw his dad still just staring at him with a worried look on his face.

‘Crap.’

Chloe started laughing again and Lex squared his jaw.

‘Okay, Sullivan. You wanna play? We’ll play.’




TBC…

[Queen Of Tact]

Ok Kris you better get back here and post another ch!!! I want to see what Lex does.... Please please please!!

CC

by the way i loved the Snorks.....

[hfce]

Oh Kris :lol: that was :lol: was a riot. I loved how she got him back. High five Chloe you go girl.
:lol: More please :biggrin:


Hope :cool:

[sabby]

ROTFLMAO!!! Great! I can imagine Lionel staring at his son in confusion while Lex is totally somwhere else, listening to the snork song. Btw which of the snorks was junior? I can't remember him right now, Wasn#t that the orange one?

anyway, post more soon, pretty please! I love this story more with every chappy!

[Gemini]

YAAAAY! You updated- it's seriously sad how many times I've check for updates on this fic :blush: Great new chapter- poor Lionel doesn't know what's wrong with his son. :lol:

[AlwaysPretending]

:lol: That was definitely a retribution that I didn't expect - The Snorks LMAO

Lionel is probably wondering what the hell is happening to his son!

Another great part, as usual - well done!

Kerry

[dsapiro]

:lol: Great ch. Post more soon!

[ladymichelle]

That was absolutely wonderful!

[bluemoongirl23]

Poor Lex, he has to deal with his father and Chloe won't even have mind sex with him. I mean, that would make dealing with his father so much better. Plus, the way Lionel works, if he thinks Lex is loosing it, he'll have him committed.

Blue

[lauren]

I loved the chapter where the doctors thought she had a seizure. Can't wait to see how they play!

[scifichick774]

A/N: I can’t believe I was talked into doing another chapter of this so soon. Thanks for all the feedback! I’m glad you’re all still enjoying this. *smile*

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

‘Uh-oh. I don’t like the sound of that,’ Chloe thought to herself. Lex smirked and pressed his fingertips together.

‘Nor should you,’ he thought with a tiny smirk. He looked Lionel square in the eyes and rose from his chair. He wanted to be with Chloe and he wasn’t about to let some inane meeting with his father get in the way. “Out!” Lex growled, pointing at the door. Lionel’s eyebrows shot up in surprise.

“I beg your pardon?”

“Get. Out,” he repeated, annunciating both words in a menacing snarl through gritted teeth.

“Lex? Are you feeling ill? Perhaps we should get you to see a doctor,” Lionel said.

Lex’s higher levels of testosterone took over control of this body and he quickly covered the small space between them. He grabbed his father by the throat with one hand and gently applied pressure to get his point across. Lionel glanced down at what he could see of Lex’s arm and then back up to his son.

“Lex ---”

Lex squeezed Lionel’s neck tighter and tighter until Lionel started coughing for air and his face started changing colors. Lex raised his arm, jerking Lionel out of his seat; and then with inhuman strength, threw him toward the door. Lionel landed on the floor right outside the doorway and looked up at his son with shock and even a little bit of fear lining his features. He opened his mouth to speak, to ask what was going on and how that was possible, but closed it quickly when he saw the dangerous fire burning in Lex’s eyes. Lionel pushed himself up to a standing position and then nodded once at Lex as a gesture of goodbye for the time being.

Lex, breathing heavily from the adrenalin rush, closed the door and leaned his back against it. He allowed his eyes to close and his mind flitted to an image of him pressing Chloe up against one of the filing cabinets at the Torch office. He slamming his mouth down against hers and roughly started to unbutton the blouse he pictured her wearing. Chloe’s eyes widened.

“Oh, no!” she said aloud, earning her a strange look from Clark. She pushed the image of them out of her head and got a stubborn expression on her face. ‘If you want me here, you come and get me. No more of this mind sex stuff – especially not in front of Clark,’ she added to herself.

‘Kick him out. I’ll be there in ten minutes,’ he said gruffly. Chloe frowned at his tone. She could tell from his side of the conversation that he had just gotten into an argument with his dad, but it must have been a big one for him to be so angry. Not to mention the fact that it sounded like he was actually going to come over to the school and meet her in the Torch office to ravage her. A shiver of delight swept through her body at the thought, but it wasn’t exactly practical with Clark and any other student or teacher being able to stop by.

Lex let out a feral growl and slammed the door on his way out of the office. He turned around and locked it, giving his secretary a warning look to not say anything about his mood as he left.

‘Lex?’

‘What?!’ he snapped.

‘Ouch. Okay, never mind. I was going to ask you what’s wrong, but obviously you don’t want to talk about it – or think about it – whatever,’ Chloe thought.

‘Are you still at the Torch office?’

‘Yeah, but not for long. I guess Clark is here to take me home.’

‘What?!’ he thought angrily. Chloe ignored his tone and continued.

‘My dad doesn’t feel *comfortable* with me driving so soon after being in the hospital with ‘seizure activity’,’ she thought snidely, reminded Lex that it was his fault that she had been held for the extra testing.

‘Get rid of him, I’ll take you home,’ Lex thought as he slipped behind the wheel of his car. Chloe took it for what it was; it wasn’t a suggestion, it was an order – damned if she was going to give into it though.

Clark watched the emotions play on Chloe’s face and he furrowed his brow with concern.

“Is everything okay, Chloe?”

“No,” she said to Clark and then shook her head lightly. “Give me a second, will you?” He nodded and she continued her inner conversation with Lex. ‘Who the hell do you think you are, trying to boss me around like that?’

‘Jealous boyfriend?’ Lex offered dryly.

“Lex ---” she trailed off when she realized she had same his name aloud.

‘Get rid of him, Chloe,’ Lex said in a warning voice. ‘I’m not in control right now and I won’t be held liable for my actions,’ he thought as calmly as possible, but it still came out sounding like a threat.

‘Lex ---’

‘If he’s there, I’ll kill him,’ Lex thought simply. His voice inside her head had taken on an almost tranquil tone that sounded incredibly creepy. She knew then that he meant what he said. He would literally kill his best friend if he caught him in the same room as her. Chloe paled and looked over at Clark.

“C-Clark,” she stammered, trying to find the footing for her words, “I think you should go.”

“I can’t. I promised your dad that I would take you home,” he said as he shoved his hands into his pockets. “Sorry.”

‘He doesn’t sound sorry,’ Chloe thought.

‘About?’

‘He said he’s not leaving because he *promised* my dad that he would take me home. He has to pick *now* to be chivalrous toward me? Clark has got to have the worst timing ever,’ she rambled.

‘His funeral,’ Lex thought and sped up his car.

‘Lex, calm down. I’ll – I’ll think of something. Just calm down,’ she thought. Chloe cringed when she heard a familiar song snake into her mind.

Come on baby…Don’t fear the reaper…

“Nice,” Chloe said sarcastically. ‘You just *happened* to have that song in your cd player?’

‘It’s on the radio actually. Maybe it’s a sign.’

Chloe shook her head lightly and looked up at Clark again.

“You really, *really* need to leave now,” she said.

“But ---”

“Did the doctors tell you anything about how it was affecting him?”

“A little, but ---”

“He’ll kill you if you’re here when he gets here, Clark,” Chloe told him with pleading eyes. Clark looked almost bemused and tilted his head to the side as he smiled.

“Not possible,” he answered.

“Clark, you don’t under--- Lex,” Chloe said, rising from her chair when she saw Lex appear in the doorway. He had his eyes fixed on her in what could only be considered a lustful stare. For some reason, that relieved Chloe a little bit. As long as he was concentrated on her, he wouldn’t hurt Clark. “What happened to the whole ‘ten minutes’ thing?”

“I sped,” Lex answered and took a few steps toward her. Clark stopped him by holding out his arm.

“I have to take her home now, Lex. I’m sure her dad will let you talk to her later,” Clark said in a reasonable, yet unsure tone. He had never seen his friend this focused before and even though he knew that Lex wouldn’t be able to physically hurt him, he still felt apprehensive about the situation; because Lex could definitely hurt Chloe.

Clark never expected what happened next. Lex snapped his head around at him and growled like a wild animal. Clark’s eyes grew large and he held up his hands.

“Lex, just ---”

In one swift movement, Lex picked his friend up by the shirt and threw him out into the hallway. Chloe screamed and Clark looked up at him with a stunned expression on his face before Lex shut the door to the Torch office and locked it. Lex centered his gaze on Chloe again, who was now frightened because she couldn’t hear anything that was going on in his mind for the last couple of minutes while everything happened.

“Lex?” she asked in a nervous, hushed voice.

He closed the space between them and mimicked what he had originally pictured them doing. He took her lips in a brutal kiss and Chloe barely had time to respond before his deft fingers were unbuttoning her blouse. She pulled her mouth away from his and stared at him with confusion.

“Wha--- mmph.”

Lex kissed her again and pressed his body up hard against hers as he backed her toward the file cabinet.

‘Lex?’

‘You wanted to play,’ he reminded her in a taunting tone.

‘But ---’ Chloe’s thoughts tapered off as he became more and more persistent with his affections. She allowed her eyes to close and started to push his jacket off his shoulders.

Neither of them saw Clark tear the door off of its hinges. He walked over to the couple and with one good, but not full strength blow to the back of the head; he managed to knock Lex out cold.




TBC…

[petriebird18]

He WHAT?!?!?! BAD CLARK, BAD! (but Bad Lex i really like ;) ) I'm sooooo glad you were talked into doing another chapter this soon, and maybe we all can talk you into doing another chapter soon again ;) :biggrin:
~Deidre~
:chlexsign3:

[sabby]

Oh I'm gonna kill Clark *growls* If Lex didn't, I sure as hell will! That soab has not only the worst timing but nooo common sense at all *slips into game face* I'm gonna rip his throat out and drink from his brain stem.

More, now! Or I will not be liable for my actions!!!!

*shifts back* *breathes*

Sorry, err more please, soon

hugs,
Sabby

[Queen Of Tact]

you are evil evil evil!!!!!!
I can't believe you did that, wait a sec yes i can...
I should make you watch hrs and hrs of KK till you post another ch

CC

by the way it was a great ch

[Gemini]

Ahhhhhhh!!!!

Update! Now! I can't wait a second longer! Wow! I really want to know what happens next! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

[arianaisis]

Okay, what is clarks problem??? They was about to get it on, and now, my baby is knocked out cold. We need clark to go find his farytale princess and leave our favorito verbal judo masters to do their own little judo dance.

[bluemoongirl23]

Not fair! You...you....and Clark...and they we're gonna....Seriously, I know that Lex was all out of control, but if I were Clark, I'd be worried about Chloe kicking his ass. Man, that was so not fair. I hate you. Not really. :blinkkiss:

Just, please, give us another chapter soon.

Blue

[ladymichelle]

<Growls> Clark really needs to be hurt-- badly-- and often-- and told not to stick his nose in other&#39;s people&#39;s hot sex-- I mean business&#33;
Great chapter hope that you update soon&#33;

[sydsvaughn]

Bad Clark&#33; Need more Bad Lex.. I like him&#33; And you know, I think I really need to drag out my Blue Oyster Cult CD and play it on the way to work. Oh the images you&#39;ve just given me.. imagine that&#33; :) :)

Sara

[Sway]

how about nooooooooooooooo scott. (sorry, its the fave saying at the moment) Clark can&#39;t do that... thats not nice. Bad Lex was finally coming back and what does Clark do??? yeah, not happy Jan. i don&#39;t suppose you have a secret way to kill Clark anywhere up your sleave??

:blinkkiss: Sway

[drina]

oh man, i just have shivers down my spine thinking of primal lex... :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

wat won&#39;t i give for a man to treat me that way too, heehee. i wanna b in chloe&#39;s shoes, even if i could die at any moment, it&#39;s worth it

[scifichick774]

A/N: Wow&#33; So many mixed reactions on bad Lex. To be honest, I thought you’d be more upset that I stopped him than anything else. Hee hee.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“Lex&#33;” Chloe screamed out and dropped to the floor to see if he was okay. Clark frowned.

‘She’s obviously in shock or something,’ he thought. He quickly called 911 and explained the situation with the best lie he could come up with, but he was surprised to see Chloe still kneeling by Lex when he ended the phone call. “Chloe?” She didn’t look up at him. “Chloe,” he said a little more insistently and covered the small space between them to help her rise to her feet.

Clark’s eyes took in her appearance as she now stood before him. Her lips were plump and red from being kissed and her blouse had the first couple of buttons undone and the rest torn off as it hung open exposing her bra. Clark averted his gaze from that area of her body and tilted her head upward so he could look into her eyes instead.

“Are you okay?” he asked. He took a step back when he saw Chloe’s expression turn from pain to anger. She pounded her fists onto his chest furiously.

“How could you do this to him?&#33; He’s your best friend&#33;” She kept yelling and hitting him until he grabbed her wrists and caught her eyes with his once again.

“Chloe,” he started, “he *threw* me in the hall. He attacked you.” Clark’s voice became quiet and choked up with his next words. “He would have raped you if I hadn’t stopped him.”

Chloe shook her head and sniffled as the tears started to well up in her eyes.

“It wasn’t him. It wasn’t his fault,” she insisted. “Can’t you see? It was the chemical ---”

Clark placed his hands on her shoulders and stared into her wet eyes.

“But it still would have happened,” he explained. “And the fact that he wasn’t in control of himself was all the more reason to stop him.” Clark noticed that the words didn’t seem to be getting through to her and he let out a sigh. “What would have happened if I had just let him ---” he paused and turned his head to the side so he wouldn’t have to look at her, wouldn’t have to think about what almost occurred. When he finally faced her again, he had a somber expression on his face. “He would have raped you Chloe. And even if you didn’t end up blaming him for that; can you tell me, in his mindset, that he would have used protection? Did you even stop to think about that?”

Clark’s speech started to sink in and Chloe paled. Her knees felt weak and Clark caught her as she started to fall. He helped her over to a chair, where she sat starting at Lex’s unconscious body.

“I can’t hear him,” she said quietly. Clark nodded.

“He couldn’t hear you either when – you know,” he said. Chloe sniffled again and bit her lip.

“I don’t like it,” she said in almost a whisper.

“I’m sure nobody would like having someone else’s thoughts inside their head,” Clark said in a placating tone. Chloe barely shook her head.

“No. I mean ---” she looked up at Clark as a couple of the tears started to roll down her cheeks, “I don’t like *not* being able to hear him.” Clark furrowed his brow.

“That doesn’t make sense,” he said.

“I know.”

The paramedics arrived and Chloe stood off to the side as they examined Lex. She started crying again, drowning out every sound in the room around her except her own thoughts.

‘Please don’t die, please don’t die,’ she repeated as a mantra in her head. ‘God, I love you. Please don’t die.’ She started hearing a ringing noise in her head, but Lex’s voice came through soon with it.

‘What happened?’

“Oh – Lex&#33; You’re okay&#33;” she cried happily and got down on the floor beside him. The paramedics looked at Chloe questioningly since Lex hadn’t woken up yet, but she ignored them. She gave Lex a big unreciprocated hug and then started peppering his face with kisses.

“Miss, you should really ---” the man trailed off as Clark shook his head at him.

Lex’s eyes fluttered open with the sensation of Chloe’s lips against his skin and she smiled in relief at him before kissing him lightly all over his face again. The corners of his mouth lifted in a small, amused smile.

“What happened?” he repeated, this time out loud.

“I was so worried about you,” Chloe said between the soft kisses, ignoring his question. Lex reached up and palmed the back of her head, forcing her to look at him. The second he took in how she looked, his memories about what happened came rushing back to him.

“God, Chloe - are you alright?” He had no longer been in control of himself and his hormones had been ruling his body. He felt ill when he thought about what might have happened if he hadn’t stopped. He creased his brow. ‘I didn’t stop.’

‘Clark stopped you,’ Chloe filled in for him. Lex looked over at Clark and an understanding look was exchanged between the two men.

“Thanks,” Lex said quietly. Clark nodded and Lex turned to look at Chloe. “I’m so sorry. I ---”

“I know. It wasn’t you,” Chloe interrupted.

One of the paramedics cleared his throat as it looked like Chloe and Lex were about to kiss.

“We really need to check him out, Miss. We may need to take him to the hospital,” he explained. Chloe nodded and kissed Lex’s forehead quickly before rising to her feet. She stood next to Clark as she stared down at Lex. Clark leaned over toward her.

“Forgive me?”

“Yeah,” she said with a small nod of her head, “you were right.”

“Wow. I didn’t think I’d ever live to hear you say that,” Clark teased. Chloe rolled her eyes.

‘Jackass. Next time I’m just going to let him kill you,’ Chloe thought. Lex started laughing and the paramedics gave him a strange look. Lex looked over to catch Chloe’s eyes, but noticed her open shirt instead. His amusement with her previous comment quickly turned into a prominent scowl at the fact that she was basically exposing herself to the four men in the room.

‘Chloe?’ he thought as calmly as he could.

‘Yeah?’

‘Make Clark lend you his flannel shirt,’ Lex thought. Chloe raised a questioning eyebrow, but then looked down and her eyes grew wide. She quickly folded her arms across her chest and her face blushed with embarrassment.

“Clark?” she peeped out. Clark looked at her and took in her demeanor. His mouth dropped open and formed a perfect ‘o’ shape before he shrugged off the flannel shirt he was wearing on top of his t-shirt. Chloe grabbed it and rushed out of the room.

‘Where are you going?’

‘To change,’ Chloe thought. ‘Unless you want me to give Clark and the two ambulance guys a free show.’

‘You could have just put it on over your blouse.’

‘My blouse is ripped; it would have made it look bad.’

‘Sounds like living with Lana is rubbing off on you,’ Lex teased.

‘Shut up.’

Chloe made it to the girl’s restroom down the hall, thankfully without anyone seeing her, and started to change into Clark’s flannel shirt. It was entirely too large for her and she let out a little sigh.

‘What?’ Lex asked.

‘This thing is way too big,’ she thought. ‘You couldn’t have suggested that I get his t-shirt, could you?’

‘Illogical. His flannel shirt was on top.’

‘Well, thank you Mr. Spock,’ she quipped. ‘At least I wouldn’t be swimming in his t-shirt. Plus – he would have had to take it off – and he has great abs,’ she thought with a smile.

‘You’re hilarious, Sullivan,’ Lex thought dryly.

‘You assume I’m joking. I could go into a Clark fantasy right now,’ she teased.

‘But you won’t.’

‘Why? Because you almost died?’

‘No,’ Lex thought, a smirk playing at his mouth, ‘because you love me.’ Chloe winced.

‘You – uh – you heard that, huh?’

‘Mmm,’ he affirmed. ‘I love you too.’

Chloe felt a smile tug at her lips, but her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open in a gasp when Lex pictured something that she wasn’t expecting.




TBC…

[hfce]

Oh wow that was so intense. I gues I can forgive clark a little bit but still hate
that he interuppted a smut scene. GRRRRR&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; But I am glad they admitted they
love eachother. ;) :chlexsign2: More please.. I want to know what got chloe to be surprised


:biggrin: Hope

[sabby]

Oh that was sweet&#33; They finally admitted their feelings, uff that done, don&#39;t keep Lex in the hospital for too long and let them indulge in the good stuff. Oh
and is the image he is projecting what I think it is? Dam dam dadam *humms under breath* *g*

Please post more soon, can&#39;t wait&#33;

hugs,
Sabby

[petriebird18]

Hmm, now what did he picture, perhaps them married with kids? :biggrin: i hope that&#39;s it&#33; And i Really hope you won&#39;t make us wait to long for the next part. :biggrin:
~Deidre~
:chlexsign3:

[Queen Of Tact]

Ok, I love you again(lol) But I wasn&#39;t kidding when I told you I wanted some more hot chlexy goodness... please post more soon......

CC

[bluemoongirl23]

Hey&#33; You can&#39;t just stop there&#33; That just ain&#39;t right, man. I love that even though he&#39;s been clocked by Clark, Lex still is still possessive about who gets to see what of Chloe. Next chapter please.

Blue

[AlwaysPretending]

I&#39;m so relieved that I got sidetracked and missed two parts - because then I wouldn&#39;t have been stuck with such a cliffhanger&#33;

Yes&#33; They have confessed their love for each other - its all so great&#33; I&#39;m really loving this fic :)

Kerry

This must be the 10th time I&#39;ve edited out sigs for ya Kerry....

[Gemini]

You seriously have no idea how attached I am to this fic&#33; I love the direction it&#39;s going. I need to read more soon, okay?? :biggrin:

[dsapiro]

More NOW&#33;&#33;&#33; They said that they love each other&#33; :biggrin: :chlexsign2:

[Gemini]

Your turn&#33; Update&#33; Pleeeeeaaaassee?? For the love of our chlex sanity ;)

[scifichick774]

A/N: My blackmail worked&#33; Yay&#33; Okay, here’s my fulfillment of the bargain….

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Chloe gawked open-mouthed at the image that Lex was projecting. He was wearing a tuxedo, she was in a flowing white gown, and they were kissing in front of all of their friends and family – or almost all anyway.

‘You’re not inviting your dad to the wedding?’ she quipped, trying to lighten her uneasiness with the situation.

‘You want me too?’ he asked with surprise.

‘Not especially. I just thought it was interesting.’

‘You’re not upset about the wedding itself?’

‘No,’ she lied. ‘Just because you think about something, it doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.’

Lex smirked and the paramedics gave him a strange look.

‘This will,’ he thought.

“You sound awfully sure of yourself,” Chloe said as she appeared in the doorway. Clark’s mouth hung open a little while he took in the sight of her wearing his shirt. “Don’t start,” she warned him. Seeing Chloe in his large flannel shirt brought out a strange mix of lust and possessiveness in him and he shoved his hands in his pockets as his eyes drifted over her body. “Clark?” ‘Why is he looking at me like that?’

Lex growled and every head in the room whipped around to look at him. One of the paramedics cleared his throat at the young man’s angry look and both of the paramedics stood up. Lex quickly copied their example and pushed himself up to a standing position, keeping his warning glare fixed on Clark, even as one of the men started to speak.

“Mr. Luthor, you’re extremely fortunate given what happened,” he said.

‘What did Clark tell them?’

‘I have no idea,’ Chloe admitted. ‘I was too busy freaking out because I thought you might die.’ Lex grinned at her and she rolled her eyes.

“You have a mild concussion and you might have some swelling at the site for a few days,” the paramedic continued, “but other than that, you should be fine. Don’t hesitate to come into the hospital if it gets worse though.”

“You’re not taking him to the hospital now?” Clark asked. The man shook his head.

“No reason,” he answered.

“But ---”

“Just make sure he gets plenty of rest,” the paramedic interrupted with a grin. “Don’t worry. Everything will be fine.”

“Thanks,” Lex said. The two men nodded at him and started to leave when one of them finally noticed that the door to the room had been torn off its hinges and was resting on the floor in the hallway.

“What happened to the door?”

Chloe and Lex peered into the hallway and then looked questioningly at Clark.

“Uh – well – I had to stop him and – adrenaline?” he offered. The paramedics shrugged it off and left, but Chloe and Lex had heard the excuse too many times to believe it.

“Hey Lex, you ever get the feeling that he’s *lying* to us?”

“Interesting that you should mention that because ---”

“Guys, I think there are more important things to talk about right now,” Clark said, cutting off what Lex was about to say. “Like you really *should* go to the hospital, Lex.”

“The paramedics didn’t think it was necessary.”

“The paramedics didn’t know that you went all ‘caveman’ and tried to rape Chloe,” Clark countered.

‘Ooh – caveman,’ sprung into Chloe’s mind. Lex felt his body start to heat with the suggestive tone behind her thoughts.

‘Think I have enough ‘adrenaline’ left to kick him out of here?’

‘Even if you did – there’s no door, remember?’

“I can give you a ride to the hospital and just take Chloe home from there,” Clark said, interrupting their inner dialogue. Chloe grumbled.

‘He’s just determined not to let this happen, isn’t he?’ she asked. Lex arched an eyebrow at her.

‘You want ---’

‘Well, ye-ah,’ she thought a little uncomfortably while fidgeting with her hands. ‘Get a girl all worked up and then Clark barges in and knocks you out.’

Lex was surprised to hear Chloe’s thoughts, but he wasn’t about to argue with her. He still wanted her just as much as he had, and he would have already given into the impulse repeatedly if Clark hadn’t interrupted them. The blow to his head somehow pushed the hormones out of the area of his brain that they had concentrated in, but it didn’t get rid of the feelings.

“I feel fine, Clark. Nothing that a couple of Advil won’t take care of,” Lex said. ‘Not to mention an entire night with Chloe.’

Chloe inwardly scoffed at Lex’s thoughts.

‘There’s no way my dad will let me stay the night with you,’ she thought.

‘Maybe not yet, but once I explain that my intentions are honorable ---’

‘Your intentions *aren’t* honorable,’ she reminded him. Lex pictured the two of them getting married again and Chloe’s eyes grew wide.

“But ---” Clark trailed off from the argument he was about to launch when he saw Chloe and Lex staring intently at each other. ‘They’re doing the mind-reading thing again,’ he thought.

“You wouldn’t,” she said to Lex, although it came out as more of a question.

“Depends,” he said.

“On?” Chloe asked and then paused for a second while Lex smirked leeringly at her. “Lex, you can’t tell my dad that we’re getting married.”

Clark’s eyes threatened to bulge out of his head.

“What?” he yelled. Chloe and Lex both ignored him as if he were no longer in the room.

“Why not?” Lex asked.

“First of all – he’ll flip out. And second – because it’s not true,” she said. Clark let out a breath of relief when he heard her say that.

‘Yet,’ Lex thought.

“I mean it&#33;” Chloe yelled.

“So do I,” Lex responded calmly with a touch of smugness. Chloe pursed her lips and folded her arms across her chest.

“Fine.”

“Fine?”

‘Fine – I’ll go home with you and come up with some excuse for my dad; not fine – I’ll marry you,’ she thought.

‘You could just say yes to both. It would make my life a lot easier.’

‘And I live to make your life easier,’ she said sarcastically. Lex grinned at her. ‘Besides, I’m not getting married for a few years yet – and when I do, it’s not going to be to someone who keeps things from me.’

‘There you go then. I can’t keep anything from you.’

‘You haven’t told me why you were experimenting with meteor rocks,’ she pointed out.

‘And you haven’t told me everything you have on my dad, so I’d say that makes us even.’

‘I’ll give if you will.’




TBC…

I know, I promised you guys a smut chapter – but I had to get this out of the way first. There will be smut in the next one; which, with any luck, should be up in a couple of hours.

[Gemini]

Yay&#33;&#33;&#33; I knew you&#39;d hold up your end of the bargain ;) This chapter was awesome&#33; Jealous Lex... confuzzled Clark... turned-on Chloe... and the images of their wedding&#33;&#33; Aw&#33;&#33;&#33;

[bluemoongirl23]

Score. An update from Kris. That makes me happy. As does the chapter. It was so good, with Clark being a dick, as usual, and Lex being all, &#39;Yeah, I&#39;m totally gonna marry you.&#39;

Hee

Blue

[dsapiro]

That was a great chapter, and another one coming very soon... Its a good day. :chlexsign2:

[scifichick774]

A/N: Sorry for the delay, but I got sidetracked and wrote the next chapter of Beloved instead.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“I’m just going to give Lex a ride home,” Chloe said to Clark. “Tell my dad that he was hurt and that I’m feeling good enough to drive, okay?”

“Chloe, I don’t think you should ---”

‘Well, nobody asked you, did they?’ Chloe thought snidely. Lex snickered and patted Clark’s shoulder condescendingly as they walked past him into the hallway.

“Guys – guys?” Clark called out. Chloe and Lex didn’t turn around though. Clark shook his head. “Man, I hope they come up with a cure for them soon.”

“How’s the head?” Chloe asked as she and Lex walked out toward his car.

“Sore,” he said truthfully. Chloe frowned.

“It probably will be for a while. We can wait if you ---”

“Funny,” he said sarcastically. Chloe smiled.

“Thanks, but I wasn’t kidding,” she said. ‘We don’t have to do this right now if you’re in too much pain.’

‘Are you trying to get out of our deal?’ he asked.

‘No – you?’

‘No,’ he thought and stopped her when they reached his car. He cupped her cheek with one hand and rested his other hand on her hip as he leaned toward her. Chloe smiled as their mouths were about to touch and Lex took advantage by opening his mouth and plunging his tongue into her immediately.

“Mmph,” Chloe said in surprise. Their tongues slid around each other’s while Lex’s hand trailed down her jaw to her neck and down her body until it grazed her breast. Chloe moaned and arched into him. ‘I thought we were going to your house.’

‘Ah. The exchange of information,’ he thought with an inner smirk.

‘If that’s what you want to call it,’ Chloe teased. They pulled away from their kiss and Lex rested his forehead on hers.

“I had my scientists start researching the meteor rock possibilities after I met you and you showed me your ‘wall of weird’,” he said quietly. “I should have told you before, but ---”

“You thought it probably wouldn’t be the best thing to do since I’m a reporter,” she finished for him. Lex nodded and looked into her eyes, seeing there that she had already forgiven him. She drew in a deep breath and then let it go before speaking again. “I have the stuff on your dad back at my house, but unless you want my dad to catch us – um ---”

Lex smirked and leaned down to kiss her again, and although it was passionate, it ended much too soon for Chloe’s tastes.

“So, you’re driving me back to my house, huh?” he asked suggestively. Chloe arched an eyebrow.

“That was just a line for Clark,” she said. “You’re actually willing to let me drive?”

“Sure,” he said with a shrug of his shoulders. He took the keys out of his pocket and handed them to Chloe, who simply looked down at them in surprise.

“You’re joking, right?”

Lex smirked at her and slid into the passenger’s side of the car.

“You’re not joking?” Chloe asked. “Oh, my God. Lex. It really was just a line. I don’t know if I would feel comfortable driving something this expensive,” she said while looking over the car.

‘And what does she think she’ll be driving after we get married? That Volkswagon of hers?’ Lex thought to himself. Chloe tilted her head at him.

‘I can still hear you,’ she reminded him. Instead of apologizing for the comment, he winked playfully at her. Chloe laughed and circled around to the driver’s side. “Okay,” she said as she adjusted the seat, “but if we die, you were warned.”

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

An irate Lionel came out of the house, charging toward them, the second Chloe pulled the car to a stop in Lex’s driveway. Lex looked at his father with amusement and climbed out of the car.

“Would you like to explain this?” Lionel asked, waving some paperwork in front of Lex’s face. Lex pulled his face back because the papers were so close, but then he grabbed them out of his father’s hand.

Lex quickly glanced over the documents. They looked like preliminary test results from his specialists regarding his situation with Chloe.

“Interesting,” Lex said, “I don’t see your name anywhere on these. Any particular reason you were looking at them?” Lionel pursed his lips.

‘Ooh, he’s getting pissed,’ Chloe thought.

‘Good. With any luck he’ll rant and storm off like last time,’ Lex thought. Chloe snickered and Lionel’s attention was quickly drawn to her.

“And you – Miss Sullivan – your name *is* on the paperwork,” he said accusingly. Chloe smiled mischievously.

‘You really want him to storm off?’ she asked.

‘Do it,’ Lex thought. Chloe took a few steps toward Lionel, keeping the bright, impish smile on her face.

“I don’t doubt that,” she said in a nonchalant tone. “By the way, how is the situation with Metropolis United going?” Lionel’s face paled ever so slightly, but Lex noticed.

“Metropolis United?” Lex asked, directing the question toward his father.

“They were storing all of those meteor bars for you, right?” she asked, still talking to Lionel. “But then lots of their employees started to get sick; I heard a few of them even died because of the radioactivity that the bars were letting off. I bet you’d be up to your ear in lawsuits if they were able to prove you were connected to it.” Her smile only grew wider as the elder Luthor showed the fact that he was both furious and perplexed at the same time. “Good thing you used one of your shadow subsidiary companies so they can’t trace it back to you.” Lionel opened his mouth to speak, raising his finger in the air to point at her warningly, but Lex started laughing and wrapped his arm around Chloe’s shoulders.

The action startled Lionel and he furrowed his brow at his son. Lex looked only at Chloe though.

“Have I told you that I love you?” he asked. Complete shock flickered over Lionel’s face.

“You have,” Chloe said and patted his chest. “Now, about what we were talking about before ---” Lex and Chloe started walking and went past Lionel to the front door of the house. Lex opened it for her and they walked inside, leaving a stunned Lionel in their wake.

‘Oh, man&#33; Did you see his face?’ Chloe thought as she laughed.

‘Priceless,’ Lex agreed. ‘Too bad I didn’t have a camera with me.’ Chloe snickered.

Lex started walking with her up the stairs, and Chloe just followed along, not really paying attention to where they were headed. She was too caught up in the moment of burning Lionel Luthor like that. Granted, it would have been more fun if she had been able to print it, but her sources were shady at best and they would never agree to go on record – which basically meant, that unless he admitted to everything, then no paper would be willing to print her story. They made it all the way to Lex’s bedroom before Chloe snapped out of her delight over what had happened with Lex’s dad.

Lex started kissing her again, opening the door as he backed her in. He tried to tear at the flannel shirt that Clark had loaned Chloe, but she swatted his hand away.

‘Take it off. I don’t want him on you,’ he thought. Chloe arched an eyebrow as she started to unbutton it.

‘It’s just his shirt.’

‘Doesn’t matter,’ he thought.

“You’re the one who wanted me to ask for it the first place,” she reminded him.

“So he wouldn’t be leering at you,” Lex countered. Chloe rolled her eyes and shrugged the oversized shirt off her shoulders. Lex gazed over her body hungrily and captured her mouth before Chloe even saw him coming. Within the span of a couple of minutes, the rest of their clothing was shed and their tongues were intertwined as he was lying her down on the large bed. Lex moved his mouth to her neck and kissed along her pulse point. “Say it,” he murmured. Chloe let out a small moan as his deft fingers gently caressed their way up her leg and to her curls. “Say it,” he repeated, taking the soft skin of her neck in between his teeth and gently nibbling.

“Aagh – I ---” she trailed off into a whimper as she felt one of his fingers penetrate her. He pumped it in and out of her once to tease her, but wasn’t going to do anything else until he heard what he needed to hear coming from her lips. Their eyes locked and Chloe pulled his face down to hers possessively. Their mouths met in a brutal kiss and Lex’s finger slid out of her as she rolled them over so she was on top, straddling him. She looked down at him as she rose to position herself over his waiting cock. “I love you.”

She slowly slid down, engulfing him inch by inch, earning a loud moan from both of them. She lifted herself up and thrust down on him again, taking him in even further. Chloe placed her hands on his shoulders and began developing a steady rhythm, which he met thrust for thrust. Lex trailed his hands up from her hips to her breasts and started to tease her nipples. Chloe threw her head back, letting go a scream of Lex’s name that made him swell with male pride.

‘So --- close ---’ she thought as she continued to ride him. Lex brought one of his hands back down her body and it tangled in her curls until he found her clit. Chloe’s eyes widened with the jolt of pleasure that ran through her body.

‘Just let go,’ he thought. Chloe closed her eyes and her vision started to grow splotchy before she felt her orgasm sweep over her. She screamed loudly and Lex growled her name before Chloe collapsed against him. Their breathing was ragged and Chloe had her face buried in the crook of his neck as she panted. Lex’s hand moved into her hair to bring her lips to his once again. Their tongues barely touched before a thought struck Lex’s mind and he smiled.

‘Was that enough adrenaline for you?’




TBC…

[dsapiro]

Wow, that was, wow. Really good chapter. I wish I could have seem Lionel&#39;s face. And they are gonna get married. :chlexsign2:

[Queen Of Tact]

Ok, you guys are just evil... Posting 2 ch, man now I&#39;m going to have to go write more of my story&#33; I&#39;m working on it now, so I promise to have more of it up tonight.....

Great ch Kris.... It was just filled with hot Chlexy goodness...

CC

[AlwaysPretending]

Wow, that was fantastic ;)

I love the fact that Lex is being so honest with his intentions - marriage&#33;&#33;

Kerry

[petriebird18]

Oh, i wish i could have seen Lionel&#39;s face&#33;&#33;&#33; :biggrin: Whew, now i think i&#39;ll go and take a nice cold shower ;)
~Deidre~
:chlexsign3:

Oh, and Lex is sooooo right about them getting married&#33;

[sabby]

Mhmm thank you Kris, I needed that smut fix&#33; Better than coffee, so what next? I wonder how SUPERDORK will react when he finds out and the thing with Lionel isn&#39;t over yet, too, right?

update soon again, please

hugs,
Sabby

[scifichick774]

A/N: Okay Gemini, you owe me a chapter now. Hint, hint.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“And you have absolutely no idea how a high school reporter could have dug up this information?” Lionel asked scathingly into his cell phone. It wasn’t that he didn’t believe what his closest contacts were telling him, it was that he couldn’t believe they had been so incompetent as to allow a pretty young woman like Chloe to slip by them unnoticed and come up with a story that would likely destroy him. He briefly wondered why she hadn’t printed it yet, but theorized that it had something to do with Lex.

His son told Chloe Sullivan that he loved her – or something akin to it anyway – and in front of him no less. Obviously Chloe had been the one to feed Lex all of the information he had used to make him feel so uncharacteristically weak just a week or two earlier. Lionel pursed his lips. While he couldn’t help but have a little pride that his son had been able to convince his girlfriend not to run the story, he couldn’t allow a liability like that to run around free. He would need to find out how much Lex knew and how much of it he could prove before he did away with the girl for good.

“Mr. Luthor, I swear, I have never even heard the name Chloe Sullivan,” the man on the other end of the phone said. “Did you want me to check her out for you?” Lionel let out a small, frustrated growl.

“That won’t be necessary,” he said, shutting the phone off after his last word was spoken. Any information he needed on Chloe Sullivan could be gotten by having her followed around for a few days. It would also give him the opportunity to have some ‘bonding time’ with his son and find out how much Lex really knew. A smirk played at the corners of his mouth as he opened his phone to call someone else. He hit the speed dial key and held the phone up to his ear.

“Yeah?” a man’s deep, gruff voice answered.

“It’s me,” Lionel said, examining the fingernails on his free hand. “I have a job for you.”

~*~*~*~*~*~

Chloe rolled away – or rather, *tried* to roll away from Lex.

‘Stay,’ he thought, pulling her closer to him with his arm. Chloe smiled and turned over to look at him.

‘You know I can’t.’

‘Why not?’ he thought as he started to nip gently at the crook of her neck. ‘You’re going to be in trouble anyway – why not just stay the night with me?’

‘Oh, good idea,’ she thought sarcastically. ‘I’ll only be grounded for life.’ Lex started chuckling against her skin and Chloe arched an eyebrow. ‘Something funny?’

“You’re forgetting that I know your dad, Chloe,” he said. She gave him a look that asked him to explain. Lex’s fingers trailed along the side of her body as he continued to speak. “Even if he did ground you, he would cave and let you out of the punishment in a couple of days max.”

“Ha&#33;” she said abruptly. Lex looked at her questioningly. “Shows how little you know. I got grounded for a week when ---” she trailed off when she realized what she had been about to say. Lex gave her an impish smile.

“When *what*?” he asked.

“You don’t wanna know,” she said, trying to brush away the subject. ‘Because you’ll kill him,’ she thought. Lex’s eyebrows rose and Chloe cringed ever so slightly, wishing that he couldn’t hear her *every* thought. “I don’t suppose we could change the topic?” Lex narrowed his eyes at her and pursed his lips. ‘Shit.’

“I’ll make you a deal,” he said.

“What kind of deal?” Chloe asked skeptically. One corner of Lex’s mouth curled upward and Chloe stomach twisted into a knot. Lex leaned his head toward her again and started kissing the shell of her ear.

“You stay the night with me and I’ll let it go,” he said in almost a whisper.

“Le-x,” she said, stringing out his name. “I already told you ---” her words gave way to a whimper when he brought her earlobe into his mouth and started to suck on it. ‘God, don’t stop,’ she thought, her hands reaching up to keep his lips where they were. She ran his hands over his smooth scalp and Lex stopped his ministrations, letting out an almost startled moan of pleasure at Chloe’s actions. ‘Ooh, he likes that,’ she thought. Lex grabbed the back of her neck and head and slammed his lips against her own.

‘More,’ he thought, driving his tongue into her mouth passionately. Chloe’s tongue intertwined with his, making sure to run her fingers over his head over and over again as they kissed. ‘God, Chloe,’ he inwardly moaned, rolling her so her back was on the bed and he was barely hovering over her.

‘You *really* like that,’ she thought. Chloe reluctantly pulled her mouth away from his so she could breathe and then she smiled up at him. “Why didn’t you just tell me before?” Lex nuzzled his face into her neck so his embarrassment wouldn’t be seen. ‘Lex?’

‘I ---’

‘What?’

“I didn’t know,” he mumbled against her skin. ‘It’s not usually a part of my body that women want to have their hands all over.’

Chloe’s reaction wasn’t what Lex was expecting. He felt her body start to shake with laughter underneath him and he raised his head ever so slightly to look at her.

“Find that amusing, do you?”

Chloe’s laughter came harder and harder, to the point where her arms had moved off of Lex and were clutching at her stomach as she rolled out to the side. Lex couldn’t help the smile that tugged at his own lips. It was nice to see her like this – relaxed and happy – even if it came at his expense. Chloe’s laughter died down and she smiled brightly at him with wet eyes from laughing so hard.

“Sorry,” she said in an unapologetic tone.

“It’s okay,” he said, raising a hand to sweep some hair out of her face. Chloe watched as Lex’s expression turned from content to seductive. He leaned closer to her again and spoke in a husky voice, “You can make it up to me.”

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“What do you mean ‘she went home with Lex’?” Gabe asked Clark, his eyes narrowed and his armed folded across his chest. Clark let out a nervous chuckle and ran his hand around the back of his neck. While it was true that Chloe’s dad wouldn’t be able to do any physical damage to him, he did have the capability of telling his parents what had happened and grounding him for an unspecified period of time.

“Well, like I said, Lex got hurt and Chloe felt she should give him a ride home since the paramedics said that he had a minor concussion,” Clark rambled.

“Clark?”

“Yeah?”

“What aren’t you telling me?”

Clark cringed at Gabe’s perceptiveness and swallowed uneasily. His eyes darted away from Gabe so he wouldn’t have to look at the man while he told him a few more details about what had happened. Clark took a deep breath and began talking.

“I went to the Torch office to get Chloe, just like you said to,” Clark started.

“Uh-huh.”

“And Chloe started doing that mind-talk thing that she and Lex do,” he continued. Gabe pursed his lips and looked at Clark expectantly. “Then, the next thing you know, Lex is charging into the room and attacking her.” He said the last part quickly, hoping that Chloe’s dad might not catch it, but he did. Gabe’s eyes grew wide.

“He attacked her?” Gabe asked in disbelief. Clark nodded quickly, the real adrenalin starting to pump through his veins as he told the story.

“He threw me out into the hall – like *literally* threw me. He would have raped her if I hadn’t gone back in,” Clark said. Gabe paled and shook his head lightly.

“Why would he do that? I thought they were getting along better ---”

“If it helps, I don’t think he was exactly in control. The doctors said that his testosterone levels were off the charts because of the chemical – maybe it’s affecting his impulse control,” Clark offered. Gabe tilted his head at the young man in front of him.

“That doesn’t make any sense, Clark. Impulse control is only needed when you have the impulse in the first…place ---” he trailed off as the thought of what was going on finally hit him. “Clark?” he asked somewhat hesitantly. “Please tell me that Lex doesn’t like Chloe.” It was a statement, not a question; as if Gabe was trying to prove to himself that it wasn’t true just because he said it wasn’t.

“I – uh ---” Clark stammered, not being able to come up with anything that would get him out of the awkward situation. He reasoned that he could use his super speed and just disappear, but he knew he’d live to regret it if he did – because obviously Gabe would see him and that would lead to all sorts of questions that he wouldn’t be able to answer. Clark looked at Gabe sheepishly. “Maybe it’s just the chemical,” he offered. “You know, they can read each other’s minds and stuff, but maybe it’s had a weird pheromonal reaction on them as well.”

Gabe stared at Clark almost blankly. First, the boy’s theory sounded like a loud of horse manure; but he couldn’t completely discount it because stranger things had definitely happened – especially in Smallville. And second, he couldn’t believe that Clark had actually just said the word ‘pheromonal’. Granted, he didn’t think Clark was stupid, but he never pictured him as the sharpest knife in the drawer either. Gabe sucked in a breath and then released it, keeping his eyes fixed on Clark as he did so. He nodded once.

“I suppose it’s possible,” he agreed somewhat begrudgingly. He paused for a second before speaking again. “So, why isn’t she home yet? It shouldn’t take anywhere near this long to drive him there and come back home.”

“Maybe she felt sick again and he kept her there to make sure she didn’t get in an accident,” Clark said, knowing it was a bold-faced lie.

“She would have called,” Gabe pointed out. Clark frowned. Gabe was right - the truth was that he knew Chloe and she would have called - even if she and Lex had gone at it again; she would have called her dad so he wouldn’t worry about her.

“You could try and call her. See if she’s left already?” Clark finally suggested. The expression on Gabe’s face softened and he nodded.

“Good idea.”




TBC…

[hfce]

Oh my Lord that was great. I hope they answer the phone because chloe will get an earful if she doesn&#39;t. Please don&#39;t let lionel hurt Chloe . More please.....


Hope :)

[dsapiro]

Great chapter Kris. Update soon.

[sabby]

MHMHMMMMM gotta love your Chlex smut, gotta hurt Clark, baaad&#33;

more soon, pretty please?

[AlwaysPretending]

Poor Gabe&#33; He really is getting up close and personal to how grown up Chloe is right now ;)

I&#39;m loving this&#33; Please post some more really soon&#33;

Kerry

[NightGlow]

"It’s not usually a part of my body that women want to have their hands all over."

I find that hard to believe&#33; But I laughed my ass off anyway. :biggrin: Another great addition. I can&#39;t wait for the next.

SIGNATURE REMOVED&#33;

[Gemini]

Oh... my goodness... I love this fic. I know I&#39;ve said it tons of times but I REALLY love it :biggrin: It puts me in such a great chlex mood... sigh... oh, and I just updated, so I do believe it&#39;s your turn- don&#39;t look at me, YOU started it :lol:

[scifichick774]

A/N: This part is pretty much some fun, fluffy filler – but there are a couple of plot points that snuck their way in there. Thanks for all the feedback you guys&#33; It’s so great to know that people are still reading this.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Chapter 27
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“So, how do you think Clark really tore the door off of its hinges?” Lex asked; his eyes up at the ceiling as he lay down next to Chloe. He heard Chloe sigh and he turned on his side to face her.

“As much as I hate to admit it, I think he was probably influenced by the meteor rocks.”

“You think he’s ‘wall of weird’ material?”

“You have to admit, it makes sense. All the times he’s mysteriously been able to save one of his friends, or been in dangerous if not life-threatening situations, and he always comes out of it without a scratch on him,” Chloe said.

“Not true. He was in that accident a couple of years ago and had a couple of bruised ribs. He couldn’t even lift a fence pole without help.”

“Hmm…that was right around the time I pegged Eric as ‘Superboy’ wasn’t it?” Chloe asked.

“I think so. Why?”

“Well, Clark and Eric were both hit by lightning. Do you think it’s possible that Clark’s abilities were temporarily transferred to Eric because of the electrical current?”

‘That’s a bit far-fetched,’ Lex thought.

“Why?”

“Because these people you have pictures of on your wall – they have their ‘gifts’ because the meteor exposure somehow altered their DNA, right?”

“I guess. It’s not like anyone has ever done testing on them to find out though,” Chloe answered. ‘Although…’

“Although?”

“I can’t help but wonder if that’s why your dad was really experimenting with meteor rocks,” Chloe said. “What if he’s known for a long time that the rocks were the source of so much strangeness in Smallville and decided to exploit it?”

“Entirely feasible,” Lex agreed. A grin curled up the corners of Chloe’s lips.

“You know, you never did tell me why *you* were having experiments done with them ---” she trailed off and arched an eyebrow at Lex.

“There isn’t a lot to tell. I was interested in your theory, and if I could prove that all of the town’s problems weren’t because of the plant, then I had to take that chance,” he said. Chloe nodded understandingly and a second later an impish smile played at her lips.

“I think we should come up with a name for Clark,” she said. Lex smiled.

“I hate to break it to you, but his parents already did that when they adopted him.”

“No, no. I meant to go along with his meteor mutant abilities,” she said. “I give all of them nicknames.”

“How very media-esque of you,” Lex quipped, his mouth still curved in a smile. Chloe just smiled back at him and started absently running her fingers up and down his arm.

“So – what do you think? I guess I can’t really use ‘Superboy’ again.”

“It would make him sound too young anyway. You say ‘Superboy’ and people will think he’s a five year old running around the house with a towel tied around his shoulders as a cape,” Lex said. Chloe burst out in laughter and immediately pictured a five year old Clark Kent with a towel tied around his shoulders striking the traditional comic book superhero pose of having his legs slightly spread and his hands on his hips. Lex rolled onto his back as his own laughter at the image that Chloe projected shook his body.

“Okay, I think it’s safe to say that ‘Superboy’ is out.”

“How about ‘Invincible Guy’?” Lex suggested. Chloe shook her head.

“That makes him sound too much like someone you would run into in a dark alley,” she said, quickly adding, “in a bad way.”

“What would you recommend then?”

“Maybe we should just leave out anything indicating his sex.”

“You want to make Clark sexually ambiguous? Interesting,” Lex teased. Chloe rolled her eyes.

“That’s not what I meant and you know it.”

“I admit nothing,” he said with a smirk.

“I’m not the Gestapo, Lex.”

“Are you sure?”

“Pretty sure. Don’t you think you would have heard some of their evil plans circling around in my brain if I was?”

“I don’t know,” Lex said, still using his teasing tone. “They train their agents so well ---” Lex’s words were interrupted by the sound of Chloe’s cell phone starting to ring. Chloe groaned and slid off the bed, proceeding to sift through her bag until her hand clasped around her phone and dug it out. “What are you going to tell him?”

“Damned if I know,” she muttered under her breath.

“Just tell him what happened,” Lex said. “I was injured and you had to give me a ride home.”

“Uh huh,” Chloe sarcastically. “And you want me to give him the details of what led up to your injury and what’s happened in the two and a half hours since then?”

‘Abducted by aliens?’ Lex thought. Chloe chuckled and pushed the button to turn the phone on, raising it to her ear to answer it.

“Hello?”

“Sweetheart, it’s me.” Gabe said.

“Hi Dad. What’s up?” she asked in as casual a voice as she could pull off. Lex rolled to his side and grinned at her as she spoke on the phone.

“Don’t even try it, Chloe,” Gabe warned. “Clark told me everything.”

‘Shit&#33; Stupid Clark&#33; Why couldn’t he just leave it alone?’ she thought.

‘He told him?’

‘Yes.’

‘There’s your nickname for him then,’ Lex thought, ‘‘The Meddler’.’ Chloe snickered.

“Chloe?” Gabe asked, his voice becoming more admonishing.

“Sorry Dad, just thinking,” she said.

“Uh huh.”

“So, what did Clark tell you exactly?”

“That he came to pick you up at the Torch, that Lex appeared out of nowhere and threw him into the hall so he could try and rape you, that ---,”

“Okay, okay, I got it,” she interrupted.

“Are you with him now?”

“Yes, but it’s not like you think,” she said.

‘Yes it is,’ Lex thought.

‘If you really love me, you will shut up now,’ she retorted. Lex smirked at her.

‘Even if I have something you can tell him?’

“Chloe, I don’t understand. Please explain to me how the man can almost *rape* you one minute and you’re driving him home the next? Not to mention staying there for the next couple of hours,” Gabe said.

‘I give. He’s pissed. What’s the ‘something’ I can tell him?’ Chloe thought.

‘Tell him that when you got here there was a message from the scientists asking us to meet them at the lab.’

‘Hmm…that *might* work,’ Chloe thought. She let out a fake sigh and started to lie. “Like I said – it’s not what you think. When we got here, there were a few ‘urgent messages’ that his researchers left for us – asking, well, actually *telling* us to come to the lab right away.”

Gabe’s eyebrows rose in surprise.

“Oh.”

“Yeah.”

“So, you’re at the lab now?”

“No. They just wanted to test their new drug on us,” she lied. “They said if it’s going to work, then it should be in the next twenty-four hours.”

“Oh. Are you coming home now then?”

“No – sorry. The doctors wanted us to stay nearby in case the drug affects either one of us negatively, and since Lex’s house is only ten minutes away and ours is a good half hour ---” she trailed off and heard her dad let out a sigh of relief.

“I knew there had to be a reasonable explanation,” Gabe said. “So you’re staying in one of his guest rooms I imagine? Just ---”

“What?”

“Just be careful, Chloe. I know it might seem like I’m overreacting ---”

‘Ya think?’

“--- but be sure to lock your door. Clark thinks that Lex --- likes you.”

“Everybody likes me,” she said teasingly. Gabe let out a small chuckle.

“No – I mean – Clark thinks that Lex *likes* you,” he said. “So, just be careful – okay?”

“Okay Dad.”

“And let me know if it works,” he said.

“I will.”

“Bye sweetie.”

“Bye. Oh no – wait&#33;” Chloe yelled into the phone.

“What?”

“Since it’s a twenty-four hour thing, do you think you could call the school and let them know that I won’t be there tomorrow?”

“Sure. No problem, sweetheart. Now, go get some rest,” Gabe said.

“Thanks Dad. I’ll talk to you later.”

She clicked off her phone and a complete look of surprise was on her face.

“He bought it?” Lex asked.

“He bought it,” she confirmed. “I can’t believe it.”

“So, we thwarted ‘The Meddler’s’ plans,” Lex quipped, a smile creeping across his lips. Chloe smiled, but creased her brow.

“Does that make us the villains?”

“Possibly. After all, our lives have been lived considerably closer to the line of the law than Clark’s has.”

“Speak for yourself,” Chloe said. Lex smirked.

“When you investigated my father – everything was completely legal?” he countered. Chloe bit her lower lip.

‘No.’ “Comment – no comment,” she added quickly.




TBC….

[dsapiro]

heehee &#39;no&#39;"Comment-no comment" Great stuff&#33; And an excuse that will give them some quality time together. Update soon&#33;

[Gemini]

Originally posted by dsapiro@Apr 14 2003, 12:15 AM
heehee &#39;no&#39;"Comment-no comment" Great stuff&#33;
Yes&#33; That was a brilliant line :lol: I&#39;m sooooooo glad you updated, this fic is still as yummy as ever.

[hfce]

That was so good Kris. I want more....

Hope :blinkkiss:

[drina]

“It would make him sound too young anyway. You say ‘Superboy’ and people will think he’s a five year old running around the house with a towel tied around his shoulders as a cape,”

i was laughing my ass off when i read there. funniest line ever&#33;&#33;&#33;

[bluemoongirl23]

Originally posted by scifichick774@Apr 9 2003, 06:21 PM
And second, he couldn’t believe that Clark had actually just said the word ‘pheromonal’. Granted, he didn’t think Clark was stupid, but he never pictured him as the sharpest knife in the drawer either.


I. Love. Gabe.

Blue

[ladymichelle]

Gabe is so sweet and gulible-- I just love him-- like they&#39;re going to sleep in seperate bedrooms. Like they are going to sleep&#33;
Wonderful, terrific, fantastic&#33; Update soon and I will find more adjectives&#33;

[Julie]

MAN.THIS.WAS.GOOD.... I&#39;ve been like reading all the past chapters, and... yikes&#33; Now, update :D

[AlwaysPretending]

Where have I been that has been so exciting that has made me miss all of these updates??&#33;&#33; This fic is going great&#33; (Except for Clark&#39;s interference, why can&#39;t he just bug off?&#33;)

Kerry

[scifichick774]

A/N: Oooh – you guys are going to be *so* mad at me – so let me just get this apology out of the way right now. I’m sorry that my muse is fickle and likes to change my mind at the last minute; so whatever I may have told you before – all bets are off. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I hope that will suffice. Oh – and there are some weird time switches at the end, but nothing too bad.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Lex laughed and held out his hand for Chloe, motioning for her to rejoin him on the bed.

“It’s a good thing not everybody can read my mind, or I’d never get away with lying,” she mumbled as she went to sit down on the edge of the bed.

“Do you usually?”

“Surprisingly – yes,” she answered and leaned to her side to lie down.

She rested her head on his chest and his hand reached up to start stroking her hair. Chloe yawned and began to trace invisible patters along Lex’s stomach, causing the muscles to ripple beneath. They lay that way for a few seconds, not saying or thinking anything, but just enjoying the fact that they were with each other without anyone knocking on the door or calling to interfere.

“What do you want to do tomorrow?” Lex finally asked. Chloe smiled, but didn’t lift her head.

“You’re working, so I guess I’ll just hang around the house and bug your dad all day,” she said teasingly. Lex chuckled.

“As much as I’d love to hear that, I’m thinking it wouldn’t be the best idea to leave you here alone with him.”

“Afraid I’ll bump him off?”

‘The other way around actually.’

‘Your dad’s not going to kill me. He may be a cold-blooded bastard, but --- okay, you’re right.’

“Glad you see it my way.”

“Uh-huh. Well, *your* way has left me with nothing to do tomorrow. This means that I may as well have not even lied to my dad, because I’m going to be stuck in this room by myself and bored out of my mind.”

“Are you saying I’m boring?”

“You’re working.”

“No, I’m not.”

“You’re not?” Chloe asked, raising her head to look at him.

“If I go into work, then your dad will know that you were lying and I’ll never see you again,” he explained. Chloe grinned and he returned it.

“That’s true.”

“So, what do you want to do tomorrow?”

“Hmm – a whole day with no interruptions, I don’t ----” Chloe’s words were cut off by the sound of Lex’s cell phone going off. They shared a look and Lex sighed as Chloe reached over to grab his phone from the end table.

“Luthor.”

“Mr. Luthor&#33; This is Dr. Robison,” the man’s voice on the other end of the line said excitedly. “We think we may have found something. We’d like you and Miss Sullivan to come down to the lab right away.”

“What?” Lex asked in almost muted shock. ‘This isn’t happening. They’re going to take her away from me,’ rambled through his head.

‘What?’

“I know we said that it might take years, but we really do think that we may have come across something. Since you have the ability to contact her through your thoughts, could you tell her to be at the lab as soon as possible?”

“I ---” Lex trailed off and looked at Chloe. Half of his expression still held surprise, and the other half held fear. Chloe frowned. “Yes. We’re on our way.”

“Good, good,” the scientist said. “We’ll be expecting you.”

Lex pushed the button to turn off his phone and buried his face in his hands. Chloe rubbed his should and upper arm lovingly.

“What’s wrong?”

“They think they may have found something,” he said quietly.

“Oh.” Chloe paused for a second, and when she started again, her voice was shaky and uneven. “But that’s a good thing, right? I mean you won’t have my voice in your head anymore and ---” Lex’s eyes rose to meet hers with a look that made Chloe’s heart constrict. She couldn’t come up with the words to comfort him, to reassure him that she felt the same way.

After being forced to spend time together, to share each other’s thoughts and dreams; and then going through the experience of not being able to hear the other person’s voice inside their heads when one of them was injured; it was an emotional overload to consider that it might really be permanent this time. That things might be going back to normal.

The problem was that normal wasn’t normal anymore, at least not for them. And neither one of them really wanted things to return to how they had been before, but they hadn’t needed to voice that before because they had been told that it would be years before the specialists would be able to come up with something. By then, they would probably be married, or at the very least officially engaged, and their relationship would be solid enough for it not to affect them as much. Chloe’s brow furrowed as the last thought crossed her mind.

She couldn’t be sure who had brought up the line of thinking in the first place, but both had jumped into it. She and Lex stared at each other and Lex gave her a small, lopsided grin when she creased her brow.

“If we can’t imagine things going back to the way they were now, then ---”

“--- Just imagine how it will be years down the line,” Chloe finished for him. He nodded in agreement and Chloe leaned toward him. Their lips barely brushed against each other before Lex felt a tear roll down Chloe’s cheek and dampen his skin before disappearing. He pressed his lips more firmly against hers and Chloe responded, opening her mouth to allow their tongues to duel. ‘We don’t have to go.’

‘Yes we do,’ he thought. They pulled apart from their embrace and Lex pushed a wisp of hair out of her face. “I couldn’t forgive myself if this we missed our one chance to do this just because we were wrapped up in the moment.” Chloe nodded.

“Okay.”

The two of them got dressed and Lex grabbed her arm as she started to open the door. He swung her around back into his arms and moved his mouth to hers with a passion that Chloe felt like she was drowning in. Her knees went weak and she was thankful for the fact that Lex’s arms were wound so tightly around her to help keep her up. Images started flashing through Lex’s mind that were immediately broadcast to Chloe.

The two of them getting married blurred into a picture of him kissing her swollen stomach which blurred into an image of them playing with a small red-haired boy in the park.

When they finally pulled away from each other, Lex didn’t see the look of shock or anger that he had been expecting to see etched on her face. Instead, Chloe had one eyebrow arched and a bemused grin on her lips.

“So, you think we’re going to have a boy, huh?” she asked. Lex opened his mouth to speak, but Chloe cut him off. “Our first kid could just as easily be a girl, you know?” She lightly slapped his chest and Lex’s open mouth rose at the corners until it spread into a wide smile.

“You’re right,” he said and leaned down to plant a small kiss on her forehead. “I guess I wasn’t thinking.”

“Uh-huh.”

~*~*~*~*~*~

Lionel’s lips curled into an evil smirk as he looked at the outside of the lab building from his limousine.

‘So, this is where Lex has bunkered his specialists,’ he thought. He glanced at his watch and frowned. ‘Now if only that idiot would hurry up and get out here, so I can find out why they’ve been running all of the damn tests in the first place.’

His cell phone rang and Lionel lazily held it up to his ear.

“Luthor,” he answered, keeping his eyes focused on the building beyond the gates.

“Mr. Luthor,” a man’s voice said quickly and seemingly out of breath. “I’m so sorry – it wasn’t my fault – I ---” Lionel cleared his throat impatiently and he could almost hear the man paling on the other end of the line. “Your son and the woman – they left. I was on the phone with ---”

“What?” Lionel snapped. “How long ago was this?”

“Uh – the security tape says about ten minutes.”

‘Shit&#33; It only takes that long to get here from the house and if this is where they’re heading ---’ his lips pursed and he gritted his teeth. “Thank you for telling me. You’re fired.” He hung up his phone and motioned to the driver to leave, knowing that he would have to retrieve the information from the person who had broken in at a later date. “Why must I be surrounded by such incompetence?”

He grumbled as he saw Lex drive up to the front gates on a different road. Hopefully his son would be too occupied with whatever it was that he had his mind on to notice his limousine traveling down the side road.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Chloe started bouncing back and forth between her heels and the balls of her feet. They had been at the lab for what seemed like an eternity already and they had only had additional blood samples taken rather than heard about any new treatment or cure that the scientists had developed.

“You’d think with how anxious they were to get us here that they would at least say *something*,” she said in an irritated voice. Lex smiled up at her from his chair.

“They have to compare it to how our blood looks now, not how it looked when they last drew it,” he explained. Chloe gave him a partial glare and a forced grin.

“Yes. I was there when the doctor told us that. Thank you for repeating it thought,” she said shortly. Lex’s smile turned into a smirk as he leaned forward in his seat. Chloe waved her hand back and forth in front of her. “No. Don’t even think it.”

“It would help pass the time,” he said suggestively. “But that’s not what I had in mind.” Chloe raised her eyebrows questioningly and Lex reminded her of her words from much earlier that day. She started laughing and crossed her arms as she shook her head.

“I am *not* telling you why I got grounded.”

“Why not? It can’t be *that* bad.”

“It can and it is,” she said. Lex tilted his head to the side.

“Just a hint?”

“No.”

“I’ll buy you something.”

“No.”

‘Come on – you know you want to tell me,’ he thought.

‘I *really* don’t.’

“Mr. Luthor, Miss Sullivan?”

Chloe turned to face the doctor now standing to their side and Lex rose from his chair. The man looked disappointed and a little nervous.

‘That can’t be a good sign,’ Chloe thought.

‘Depends on how you look at it.’

“I’m afraid that ---”

“--- It doesn’t work,” Lex finished for him.

“Oh, no – no. It works,” the man corrected. Chloe and Lex both looked surprised.

“Then why ---?”

“But it won’t work unless both of you receive it at the same time, and given the results of Miss Sullivan’s latest test results, that’s not a possibility at this time.”

“What? Why? What’s wrong with the results?” Chloe asked, her voice only betraying a small amount of the panic she felt after hearing the doctor’s words.

“Uh – well,” the specialist stammered, “nothing *wrong* per se – it’s just ---” he paused as he saw the expectant looks on Lex and Chloe’s faces. ‘I had to pick the short straw,’ he inwardly chided.

“Well?” Lex asked impatiently, placing his hand on the small of Chloe’s back for support.

“Well, like I said – nothing’s *wrong* - it’s just – we can’t give her the formula that we’ve developed – at least not yet - because she’s ---”

“Aargh&#33; Just spit it out already&#33;” Chloe yelled. Lex’s hand started to rub small, soothing circles on her back. With every stumble the doctor made in his sentence, his own sense of dread grew larger.

“Because you’re – um – maybe it would be better if you sat down,” the doctor said.

‘I’m going to kill this guy,’ she thought.

‘I’ll get rid of the body for you.’




TBC…

[Gemini]

OMG&#33; I can&#39;t believe you stopped there&#33;&#33;&#33; Arg&#33; You better not make me wait too long for the next chapter or else I *will* have a nervous break down and hold you personally responsible ;)

[sabby]

Great chappy Kris, and


WHATTHEHELL ARE YOU THINKING????

First of all, let the damn doc spit it out already and now&#33;

Second: Don&#39;t&#33; if you&#39;re going to do what I think you&#39;re going to do, then don&#39;t&#33; She&#39;s too young and this would have a majorr downswing on ther smutlife&#33;

anyway, post more like NOW&#33;&#33;&#33;

hugs,
Sabby

[Sunflow]

Arggghhh&#33;&#33; Update&#33; Update&#33; I love your work, and suspence is good, but for Chlex&#39;s sake you&#39;re damaging your readers&#39; minds ending a chapter in a moment like that&#33; Update&#33;

Sunflow

[Queen Of Tact]

I luv you Kris&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; Great ch.... You just had to with Chloe, didn&#39;t you? I can&#39;t wait to read more.... Please please please post more soon...

CC

[scifichick774]

A/N: It’s never what you think – it’s much, much worse. Haven’t you learned that already?

~*~*~*~*~*~

“You’re pregnant,” the doctor said nervously.

The man hiding behind the corner almost dropped the copies of the research he had stolen when he heard the specialist tell Lex and Chloe that she was expecting. This was big news and wasn’t included in any of the paperwork he had because the doctors were working off of new test results.

‘Mr. Luthor will want to know this,’ he thought and quietly scurried out a side exit so he wouldn’t be seen.

Chloe groaned and rubbed her eyes.

“Not this again,” she muttered under her breath as she shook her head. She turned and shot Lex a pleading look which he gave a curt nod to.

“She’s not,” Lex said confidently. “The chemical we were exposed to did something to alter her blood and ---” he trailed off when a thought struck his mind. “Wasn’t that treatment they gave you supposed to take care of that?”

“You’d think,” she said and then turned to the doctor. “So, what’s the deal? Am I sick again? Am I going to die?”

The doctor sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

“I don’t think so. I really believe ---” he paused when he could practically feel the daggers that Chloe was shooting him with her eyes, “--- Of course, there’s only one way to be sure. It’s still early, but we can do an ultrasound. See if there’s anything in there or if the chemical has taken over your body again.” Chloe rolled her eyes.

“Fine. Let’s go,” she stated, motioning with her arm down the direction of the hall that the doctor had appeared from. ‘Stupid specialists. There’s no fucking way in hell I’m pregnant.’

‘Watch your language in front of the baby, dear,’ Lex teased. Chloe punched his arm hard and Lex rubbed it with his hand, but still kept the smile on his face.

‘That’s not funny,’ she thought.

‘Really? I thought it was,’ he continued to joke.

‘Well, maybe I just don’t have a sense of humor right now. You should go try it out on Clark or something.’

‘And get my head bashed in? I think I’ll pass.’

“Uh-huh.”

The doctor turned his head slightly to look at Chloe as they walked.

“Did you say something?” he asked.

“Just thinking out loud,” she answered. He nodded in acceptance of her answer and they reached the room the doctor was taking them to.

He swiped a card through the magnetic lock and then opened the door.

“There are hospital gowns in the second drawer,” he said, motioning with his head. Chloe’s eyebrows rose.

“You’re joking, right?” she asked. “Why can’t I just wear what I have on? I’ll just unzip ---”

“It’s not that kind of ultrasound,” the doctor explained. “If you are pregnant, then we’ll need to do an internal ultrasound to see the baby at this stage.” Lex’s eyes grew large with the sight of the equipment that the man in front of him was preparing.

“The hell you will,” he said. “You’re not putting that in her.” The doctor sighed.

“It’s the only way,” the man said. “It won’t show up on a normal ultrasound at this point.” Chloe clenched her jaw and snatched a hospital gown out of the drawer.

“This sucks&#33;”

“Maybe there’s another way ---” Lex said, but trailed off when he saw Chloe raise her shirt over her arms.

“I’m not pregnant&#33;” she insisted. “It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard&#33;”

“More ridiculous than being able to read your boyfriend’s mind?” the doctor asked as he turned around. His mouth dropped open and Lex growled at him, warning him away from staring at Chloe, who was still changing. The man quickly turned around again, hoping that his ferocious blush would be gone by the time he needed to face her.

“Okay,” Chloe said. When the doctor turned around, Chloe was already sitting on the examination bed and practically daring him to make eye contact with her. He cleared his throat and motioned to the end of the bed. “What?”

“You need to lie down,” he said.

‘I hate this guy,’ she thought. ‘Why can’t he be torturing poor little meteor freaks like Clark instead of us?’

‘I hate to break it to you, but we’re included in the meteor freak category now,’ Lex thought.

“You know, really, this is good news either way,” the doctor said, trying to make conversation as he inserted the long, cold steel rod into her. Chloe gripped the sides of the bed with her hands as the doctor moved it around. Oblivious to her discomfort, he continued. “I mean, if you aren’t pregnant, then we can just put you through another round of the treatment we gave you before and it will only be a week before we can cure you two altogether. And if you are, then we can terminate the pregnancy and get you cured after you’ve recovered – couple of days max.”

He glanced up and saw Lex glaring threateningly at him.

“You’re not killing ---”

Chloe gripped his hand to stop him.

‘I’m not pregnant, remember? Don’t let him upset you.’

‘You were letting him upset you.’

‘Yeah – and I need at least one of us to be sane right now, okay?’

Lex couldn’t help the grin that drifted across his lips and he turned his hand over to squeeze hers back.

“Okay, here we ---” the doctor paused as he looked at the monitor with surprise. “There’s nothing there. You’re not pregnant.” He removed the rod from Chloe’s body and disconnected it from the machine so he could put it in the sterilizer.

“Thank you&#33; Next time maybe you should listen to your patient,” Chloe said irritably. The man turned back around to face them with an apologetic look.

“Well, this was unexpected. I’ll tell the others and they’ll get your treatment set up for you right away,” he said and got up to leave.

Chloe’s head flopped back against the small, uncomfortable pillow that was on the bed.

‘Great,’ Chloe thought sarcastically. ‘I’m dying. Again.’

“They know what’s wrong now. They can help you.”

Chloe shook her head and closed her eyes.

“I’m not sure I want them to.”

“Chloe ---”

“I mean it, Lex. What if I have to end up having one of these treatments one week out of every month for the rest of my life? You have no idea how much they hurt. It’s not worth it.”

‘God, Chloe, don’t talk like that. You’re scaring me.’

Chloe opened her eyes and gave Lex a sad smile.

“Sorry. I guess I’m just getting a little moody because it’s almost rag time,” she said. Lex furrowed his brow.

“What?” he asked. Chloe smiled almost evilly at him and Lex felt a knot tie in his stomach. That was a *bad* look.

“Oh – you’re going to *love* this.”

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“Pregnant?” Lionel asked into his cell phone. “You’re sure?”

“That’s what the doctor told them, Mr. Luthor.”

“I see.”

“You want to arrange a meet for me to give you the papers I copied?”

“Oh, yes. Most definitely,” Lionel answered. “It sounds like they’ll be gone for a while. Why don’t you bring them by now?”

“Yes, sir. On my way.”

Lionel hung up his phone and a thoughtful look swept across his face.

“Lex must have been doing the same kind of genetic research I was doing – although I never dreamed he’d be willing to take it as far as getting his girlfriend pregnant,” he mused aloud. A grin curled at his lips. “A Luthor with superhuman abilities. I may have to get back into my son’s good graces after all.” The grin was quickly replaced by a smirk. “Or just take his girlfriend and my grandchild.”




TBC…

[Gemini]

Oh my goodess Lionel is so evil&#33;&#33; :ohmy: Great job (as always) on this chapter, you really had me thinking she was pregnant, or she was about to die or pass out or something... I wonder what Lionel&#39;s planning??

:yay: Sigh, I luv this fic&#33;

[NightGlow]

And the plot thickens&#33;
Cliche, I know, but seriously--it&#39;s the only phrase applicable to such a lengthy and complex fic. And not complicated in a monotonous way, mind you, cuz it&#39;s all very entertaining.

Bless you, Scifichick. Out of ALL the fanfic writers I&#39;ve encoutered so far, you&#39;re probably the one with the biggest imagination. :partyhat:

(Yup.... that oughtta get her to update faster&#33; J/K :goof:)

[drina]

i wanna :hammer: Lionel. Why can&#39;t he leave chloe and lex alone? :idea: I know&#33; Make him have a fatal accident&#33; MUHAHAHAHAHAH *hack hack cough* ok sorry

:nono: u can&#39;t leave it there. i want more soon, scifichick&#33;

[sydsvaughn]

Liking the plot, loving the emotions, waiting eagerly for more smut&#33; This is a great chapter and I can&#39;t wait for more&#33;

Sara

[dsapiro]

What the- Lionel is doing genetic reserch? Lex is gonna kill him if he trys to take Chloe away :biggrin: Update soon&#33;

[beanie1816]

Uh oh&#33; Lionel thinks shes pregnant with a superbaby. bad very bad. cant wait to see what happens oh great one&#33; :blinkkiss: i seriously think you are the chlex god. so keep up the great work and update soon please.


:wub:
Megs

[bluemoongirl23]

Evil Lionel. Concerned and cute Lex. Strong Chloe. sigh. It just doesn&#39;t get any better.

Blue

[AlwaysPretending]

Uh oh, well the nasty Lionel has something up his sleeve - not good&#33;

I need more of this fic&#33;

Kerry

[chlexy]

More of this. More of this now please. :lol:

[scifichick774]

A/N: Crud. I really wanted to get 31 all the way done so I could post them at the same time, but real life...the next chapter won&#39;t be up for a few hours. Sorry.

~*~*~*~*~*~

“You’re sure you can get her out safely?” Lionel asked. “I know there’s a lot of security, and I don’t want to risk my grandchild being hurt.”

“It will take some maneuvering, but there shouldn’t be any difficulties,” the man on the other end of the phone answered. “You’re sure she’s pregnant though?”

“Yes.”

“I hadn’t heard,” the man said. “As you know, I’ve been in Metropolis.”

“It won’t be a problem, will it?”

“The only thing I’m worried about is Miss Sullivan. I have a feeling that she won’t cooperate.”

“She doesn’t *need* to cooperate,” Lionel said.

“Well, I can’t drug her,” the man protested. “It might hurt the fetus.” He heard Lionel grumble something through the phone before speaking.

“Do what you need to do. Just don’t hurt the baby.”

“Yes, sir.”

~*~*~*~*~

“Hey Dad, it’s me.”

“Hi, sweetheart - you sound upset. Is something wrong?” Gabe asked. Chloe sighed and ran her free hand through her hair.

“You could say that. The doctors called,” Chloe paused with a slight wince when she remembered her earlier lie, “*again*. Apparently my latest blood work showed that my stint in the hospital was for nothing.”

‘I wouldn’t say for *nothing*,’ Lex thought.

‘They weren’t keeping me there so we could sleep together – and even if they had been, I’m not telling *him* that.’

‘He’s going to find out about us eventually,’ Lex thought; giving her a pointed look that urged her to tell her dad the status of their relationship.

“Dad? Are you still there?” Chloe asked, trying to steer her mind away from her inner conversation with Lex.

“Yeah – yeah, I’m here,” Gabe answered after a second or two. “I’m just – God are you okay? Are you back in the hospital now?”

Chloe felt her heart go out to the man. His voice was choked with emotion and there wasn’t anything she could say to make him feel better.

“I’m at the lab. It looks like they’re gonna keep me here a while.”

“What about the thing they thought might cure you? Is that what brought this on? Because you were doing fine and ---”

“Or not apparently.”

“Chloe ---”

“They only did blood work before – that’s how they found out about my increased HCG-like levels again.”

“Oh. For some reason, I was under the impression that they had already given you the cure.”

“No. And they won’t be able to until my blood work is back to normal – so probably a week or so, maybe less. But hey – they’re sure it’s going to work now if that helps cheer you up.”

“I guess that’s good news. I just wish you were doing better now,” Gabe said.

“I know, Dad,” Chloe said and stole a glance at Lex. “Listen, I have to go now. But I’ll call you later, okay?”

“Okay, sweetheart. I love you.”

“I love you too. Bye.”

Chloe put the phone back on its hook and she closed her eyes as she let the back of her head hit the wall.

‘I’m going to hell.’

‘You’re not going to hell.’

‘I lied to my dad – repeatedly.’

‘I hardly think that’s something you’ll go to hell for. Besides, you know he’ll forgive you,’ Lex thought, slowly making his way over to where she stood against the wall. He let one hand travel down her side until it rested on her hip and he gave her a small grin.

“Yeah, right,” Chloe said sarcastically. “I can see it now: ‘Hey Dad, I lied to you about coming to the lab before because I was having sex with my boyfriend.’ I’m sure that’ll go over *really* well.”

“Fiancé,” Lex corrected. Chloe wrinkled her brow.

“What?”

“You said ‘boyfriend’, but ---” Lex trailed off as Chloe folded her arms across her chest and raised an eyebrow at him.

“Fiancé? I don’t remember you actually *asking* me to marry you – let alone answering in the affirmative.”

Lex opened his mouth to speak, but quickly closed it – effectively cutting off whatever protest he had been about to come up with. He braced his hands against the wall on both sides of her and then flashed her a tiny, self-assured smirk before nuzzling his face into the crook of her neck.

‘Chlo-e,’ he thought, stringing out her name teasingly in his mind as he grazed his teeth lightly over the smooth expanse of skin.

‘Lex, we can’t do this he-re,’ Chloe thought, her last word being drug out as Lex’s mouth started sucking greedily on the skin over the vein in her neck. “Oh, God.”

Her hands flew up around the back of his neck and pressed at the base of his skull to encourage him to keep doing what he was doing. Lex inwardly smirked at her reaction and pressed his body hard against her, shoving one of his legs between her thighs for friction. Chloe let out a loud moan and started to buck her hips rhythmically against him. Not wanting to be completely out of control, or at least not the only one, she began to caress his smooth head. A choked whimpering sound emanated from the back of his throat and in a split second he had moved his mouth to hers and thrust his tongue into her mouth.

‘Lex,’ she inwardly groaned; the tone of her voice inside his head sending a shiver of delight through his body.

“Chloe,” he murmured against her lips as they started to pull away for air. Even though they were both panting, their mouths met again; their tongues writhing hot and slick against each other. ‘Marry me.’

‘Lex, I ---’ Chloe snapped out of her thoughts when she felt Lex’s mouth sag against hers and his body fell in an unconscious heap to the floor. “Lex&#33;” she yelled, never taking her eyes off him as she dropped to her knees to check on him. “Lex, come on, wake up,” she said, shaking his body to try and wake him up.

“He’ll be asleep for a few hours,” a man’s voice said. Chloe looked up at the sound and mentally chided herself for not even noticing that someone had come into the room while she and Lex were making out.

The doctor walked over to a hazardous waste bin and threw the syringe he had used to inject Lex with something away.

“What did you give him?” she asked. “And why?”

“It’s just a mild sedative,” he answered. “And it looked like his ‘primal instincts’ were starting to take charge again. I’m afraid we couldn’t risk that since you’re about to begin your treatments.”

“But ---”

“Now, if you’ll come with me?” he asked, turning on his heel to walk toward the door.

“You can’t just leave him here on the floor,” Chloe argued. The doctor stopped and turned around, trying to hide his uneasiness with the situation. He couldn’t let her get riled up; it would call too much attention to them and security would come to check out the situation.

“Of course not,” he replied. “I’ll inform security to move him to a bed after we’ve gotten you comfortable.” Chloe glared angrily at him.

“*Now*,” she growled, refusing to rise from her position on the floor.

“Miss Sullivan ---”

“Now&#33;” she screamed threateningly. Some part of her realized that she was overreacting, but she couldn’t help it. ‘This idiot comes in here and interrupts us, gives Lex a sedative, and now he wants to leave him lying on the floor? Hmph. He must be friends with Clark.’ That’s when it hit her. The doctor’s demeanor – the nervousness underlying his stubbornness, the way he kept looking back to the door as if he was making sure that nobody was going to come in. She narrowed her eyes at him. “What’s going on?”

The doctor let out a sigh and started walking back over to her, one hand delving into his lab jacket as he did so.

“I’m sorry about this,” he said. “I really am.”

“Sorry for what?”

In the blink of an eye, he withdrew a filled syringe and pricked it into her upper arm. Chloe’s eyes fluttered closed and she collapsed to the floor next to Lex. The doctor moved to the waste bin once again and threw away the syringe. He stared down at the couple, a twinge of regret sweeping through him at the sight of them puddle up together on the floor. He took a deep breath and walked back over to the wall, where he picked up the phone and dialed a familiar number.

“Luthor,” Lionel answered on the other end of the line.

“Mr. Luthor, it’s Dr. Lewis. There’s a situation ---”

“I thought you said there weren’t going to be any problems?” Lionel interrupted.

“She wouldn’t cooperate – she became irate – she --- you ordered me not to hurt the baby,” the man rambled. He knew now, of course, that there was no baby, but he wasn’t about to tell Lionel that. An interesting idea started to swirl around in Lewis’s mind. “Listen, I know you’re waiting in the car. I think you should get in here right away. I’ll get you access to the north entrance.” He listened to Lionel mutter some colorful language under his breath. “Or I can just leave her here and come up with an excuse. It’s your choice.” Lewis had no idea where his sudden sense of bravado came from, but he had a feeling it had something to do with seeing Chloe and Lex lying so helplessly on the floor – and if he was able to pull off the plan that hatched in his mind only moments before, then it would be worth it. “Sir?”

“I’m on my way.”

Lewis heard Lionel hang up and he did the same, but only for a second to get a dial tone before calling an in-lab extension.

“Security.”

“This is Dr. Lewis. I have a job for you.”




TBC…

[sabby]

Oh My&#33; What an unexpected twist&#33; Now what is that doctor up to and will I like it?

Can&#39;t wait for the nexr update, hope you get it done soon

hugs,
Sabby

[Gemini]

OMG&#33;&#33;&#33; What&#39;s going to happen?? Ahhh&#33; All this tension you put us through really isn&#39;t good for our hearts&#33;

*calms down*

Okay... I&#39;m fine now... no need to look up mental institutions. Yet.

[NightGlow]

:huh: I&#39;m so confu-u-sed&#33; What&#39;s happening? What&#39;s going to happen? What is Lewis&#39; agenda? And what is with the "L" names on Smallville? I hope the hours go by quickly... :crygreen:

[bluemoongirl23]

In-ter-es-ting. Ok, if Lewis one ups Lionel I MAY forgive him for interrupting Chloe and Lex. Maybe.

Blue

[AlwaysPretending]

Now that is definitely a twist&#33; Where are you going with this one??

Kerry

[scifichick774]

A/N: Almost done – only a couple chapters left. Yay&#33;

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

“I thought I told you that she wasn’t to be harmed?&#33;” Lionel growled at Dr. Lewis as he caught sight of Chloe and Lex lying unconscious on the floor.

“Like I said, it couldn’t be helped – and the sedative I used shouldn’t have any ill effects on the fetus.”

“Hmm,” Lionel sounded, not quite signaling his approval of what the doctor had done. “So, why bring me in here? Couldn’t you have sent for one of my people to help you bring her outside?”

“That wasn’t the problem,” Lewis responded. “I only found out after I sedated her, but it seems that her body chemistry has gone askew again and she needs to be treated for it or she and in turn, the baby will die.” Lionel looked at him questioningly, but said nothing, so Lewis continued. “It happened before – that’s why she was in the hospital previously. She’ll need injections into an IV once every hour for five days. There’s no way around it.”

“I see,” Lionel said. “Do you have the treatment on hand?” Lewis shook his head.

“It’s kept in lab two, and they hadn’t even prepared enough for more than a day’s worth yet the last time I checked.”

Dr. Lewis watched Lionel pace back and forth in a relatively small area of space, keeping a watchful eye on Chloe and Lex the entire time as if he were plotting his next move.

“I know you said not to hurt the baby – I just thought you should know,” Lewis said to try and break the uncomfortable silence that had encompassed the room. Both of their heads turned when they heard the sound of footsteps out in the hallway. “Crap. They must be bringing her the first injection.” His eyes darted around the lab. “They can’t catch you in here. Quick – hide over here.”

“I’m not going to ---” Lionel’s words were cut off by the abrupt action of Lewis shoving him behind one of the lab counters and pushing him down. Lewis held up a finger to indicate that he shouldn’t say anything. Lionel frowned. If he didn’t know any better, he’d say that Dr. Lewis was enjoying his predicament.

“What happened?” Dr. Robison asked as he walked into the room, a vial of the green liquid in his hand. Lewis cleared his throat.

“Mr. Luthor had another ‘primal behavior’ attack and he needed to be sedated,” he answered, trying to sound a little nervous as he said it so Lionel would buy the act.

“And her?” Robison asked, motioning to Chloe.

“She threw a fit when I sedated him. And given the correlation between her level of ---” he trailed off when Robison nodded and sighed.

“Alright. Well, I suppose this will be better anyway. Heaven knows she wasn’t too fond of the treatment the first time around,” Robison said. “Come on – help me move her to the examination table. We can give her the first injection there and set her up with an IV in a bed later.” Lionel peeked over and saw the doctor place the vial down before bending over to pick up Chloe.

“I don’t know if this is a good idea,” Lewis said. “We don’t know what possible effects this treatment could have on the unborn child.”

“Most likely it will cause her to miscarry,” Robison answered with a shrug. “She’s young – a senior in high school I think. She’ll get over it.”

Lionel narrowed his eyes and squared his jaw at Robison’s words. The man sounded so callous about his grandchild’s life that it made him want to strangle him.

‘You would feel the same way if this child wasn’t ‘special’,’ Lionel’s inner voice told him.

Two security guards stopped by the lab’s front door on a ‘routine patrol’.

“Everything okay in here?” one of them asked.

“Fine,” Lewis answered a little too quickly. Robison gave him a strange look, as did the guards, and Lionel silently cursed the man for being such an idiot.

“Okay,” the second guard said. “Don’t mind us. We’ll just do a quick sweep of the room and be out of your hair pronto.”

“Al-right,” Dr. Robison strung out as he filled the syringe. “Here we ---”

“No&#33;” Lionel yelled as Robison was about to inject Chloe with the serum. He knew he was risking getting caught, but with his team of lawyers, he could easily get away from any charges without so much as a slap on the wrist - and besides – the life of his ‘special’ grandchild was at risk. He lunged at Robison and although the doctor was able to dodge his attack, the needle went flying into the air.

Within a second, the guards swiftly made their way over to subdue Lionel.

“You can’t do this&#33;” he yelled. “You’ll kill my grand--- AAGH&#33;” Lionel screamed, the needle puncturing the skin on the back of his neck on its decent back to the ground; and he couldn’t pull it out because the guards had his arms restrained behind him. Lewis and Robison exchanged surprised and almost horrified looks.

“Uh-oh,” Lewis said under his breath. Robison held up his hands.

“Okay – don’t panic – it’s --- oh shit,” he muttered the last part under his breath as he took the needle out of Lionel’s neck. More than half of the liquid inside had made its way into Lionel’s body because of the impact with which the needle hit. “Um,” he said and looked at the guards, “take him to one of the holding rooms and call the police.”

Lionel’s head started to spin and his vision started to blur. He swayed a little, even under the tight grip of the guards holding him up.

“What – did – you – do-o?” he trailed off and his body went limp, falling like a dead weight in the guards’ arms.

“Well --- it should make him easier to transport,” Robison said with an uneasy grin. Lewis shook his head and looked at Robison and the guards.

“This wasn’t supposed to happen,” he said more for his own benefit than for theirs. “I just ---” he trailed off when Robison came over and slapped his hand on his shoulder.

“You were just trying to make things right. Mr. Luthor – Lex – will understand that.”

“And what about him?” Lewis asked with a furrowed brow. An almost evil smile crept across Robison’s lips.

“From what I understand, Lex doesn’t have a very good relationship with him; but I’m sure he’ll want us to do everything in our power to make him normal again.”

“Testing?” Lewis asked, returning the evil grin.

“Lots and lots of testing.”

~*~*~*~*~

Chloe awoke in a groggy haze, stretching her arms up and out as she tried to take in her surroundings. A white room with medical equipment, but no windows or TV, made her remember that she was in the lab. Her eyes grew wide and her body shot up to a sitting position in panic as she recalled what had happened.

‘Oh, my God&#33; Where’s Lex?’ she thought, turning her head quickly from side to side to search the room, and getting dizzy while doing so, but not finding him. “I’ll kill that stupid doctor.”

‘Aww, *sweetheart*. You’d be willing to commit murder for me? I’m touched,’ Lex thought.

‘Where are you?’

‘Talking to the ‘stupid doctors’,’ Lex thought. ‘It’s about time you woke up. You were asleep an entire two hours longer than I was.’

‘Yeah, well, I’m smaller than you are – and he probably gave me the exact same dose,’ she reasoned. Lex chuckled.

‘I’m sure it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you haven’t been sleeping.’

‘And whose fault is that?’

‘I take sole responsibility,’ Lex thought smugly. Chloe smiled.

‘Good - because it’s entirely your fault.’

‘I’m on my way to your room now. You’re going to love what’s happened.’

‘What?’

‘Wait until I get there.’

‘No. Why can’t you just tell me now?’ Chloe asked.

‘Because you’ll need to see it to believe it.’

“What?&#33; Just tell me&#33;” Chloe said loudly out of frustration. Lex snickered.

‘Surround sound Chloe.’

‘What?’

‘I could hear you down the hall and in my head.’

‘You’re just down the hall? Let me ---’

‘Stay there. From what I heard, they had a hard enough time trying to get the IV in you once,’ he thought. Chloe frowned down at the large bruise on her right arm and then at the IV cord sticking out of her left arm.

‘Stupid doctors.’

“Indeed,” Lex said from the doorway. He smirked at her and she smiled broadly at him, holding her arms open wide for a hug.

“I’m glad you’re okay,” she said softly as she leaned into his embrace.

“You never answered my question,” he said into her hair the same tone, not releasing her from his arms.

‘What question?’

‘If I recall correctly, I believe I asked you to marry me,’ he thought. Chloe pulled away and rolled her eyes.

“No you didn’t.”

“Yes I did.”

“No-ooo. You said: ‘marry me’. It wasn’t a question – it was more like you weren’t giving me a choice in the matter. And besides, the stupid doctor drugged you before I could say anything,” she said. Lex leaned forward and brushed his lips against hers.

“And what were you going to say?”




TBC…

I’m not even sure why I’m bothering to ask this, but do you guys want another smut scene before this ends? Let me know. *smile*

[drina]

I’m not even sure why I’m bothering to ask this, but do you guys want another smut scene before this ends? Let me know. *smile*

:biggrin: Haha, let me think...hmmmm....tough decision....yes smut...no smut...yes...no...yes...no....what can i say....but a big HELL YA&#33; :devil:

[hfce]

SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT SMUT&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; :blush:




Hope :chlexsign3:

[Julie]

I think this one says it all ;

:read:

[dsapiro]

heehee, as if that is even a question...

[Queen Of Tact]

Kris you are so not funny.... You better get back here and post another ch, and like soon..... You know I can&#39;t wait long... Love this story...

CC

[scifichick774]

Chapter 32
~*~*~*~*~

“Don’t you think you overreacted just a little bit?” Chloe asked. “I mean, your dad is a completely isolated unit in the lab. There’s no way that I ever would have run into him there.”

“This wouldn’t have anything to do with you not wanting to be in the hospital again, would it?”

“So?” Chloe retorted, a slight smile teasing her lips. Lex sighed and shook his head as he ran the pad of his thumb over her hand.

“I didn’t want to take any chances,” he said. “If anyone could find a way around the security there, it’s him.”

“I guess you’re right.”

“You’re agreeing with me?” Lex joked with mock surprise, his eyebrows raised high. Chloe laughed.

“Yeah, well, don’t get used to it,” she said.

“Of course not,” he replied, the corners of his lips curling into a smirk. He took note that her eyes kept darting to the hospital room’s door. ‘You’re scared,’ he thought.

‘Not scared --- nervous,’ Chloe thought.

“About Clark?” Lex asked hesitantly. Chloe scoffed.

“No. He’s my friend, but it’s my life, not his.”

Lex nodded knowingly.

“Your dad then,” he said. Chloe’s face twisted into a concerned expression.

“I don’t suppose we could just keep lying to him for the next seven months or so until I start college?”

“Somehow I doubt he’d appreciate that,” Lex said. He leaned his head to the side and smirked at her again. “Besides, I’m pretty sure the ring will tip him off.”

“I could tell him it was costume jewelry,” Chloe said with a cheeky smile. Lex threw his head back in laughter. “It wasn’t *that* funny,” Chloe said before holding her left hand out to look at the rather large diamond that graced her ring finger. Her eyes moved to the door when she heard a light knock. “Come in,” she half-yelled toward the door. Lex shot her a look.

‘Don’t do that – you don’t know who’s there,’ he mentally scolded her.

“Hey guys,” Chloe greeted, looking past Lex to flash a bright smile at Clark and Lana as they came into the room. ‘Yeah, they look pretty shady,’ she thought teasingly.

“Hi Chloe,” Lana chirped and came over to Chloe’s bedside. “Are you feeling any better?”

“I was never feeling bad,” Chloe said. “The doctors just overreacted because their so-called treatment didn’t work --- which really makes me wonder why they’re even forcing me to take it again.”

“We’ve been through this,” Lex said, “It’s a modified formula.”

“That’s just what they want you to believe,” Chloe joked with a smile. Clark eyed their interaction and wondered if he should say anything. They still seemed entirely too intimate for comfort, but Chloe seemed happy and Lex wasn’t attacking her. All of a sudden, Clark was yanked out of his thoughts by a loud squeal coming from Lana’s mouth. The brunette girl jumped up and down and flapped her arms excitedly.

“Oh, my God&#33;” Lana exclaimed. “Why didn’t you tell me?&#33;” Clark followed Lana’s gaze down to where Lana was now holding Chloe’s left hand in hers and admiring the ring on her finger. Clark’s eyes grew wide and they shot up to Lex’s.

“What ---?” he trailed off, incapable of forming the rest of the words as he pointed to Chloe’s hand. Lex gave him a small smirk.

‘Mine,’ he thought.

‘Don’t tell him that, I don’t want him knocking you out again,’ Chloe thought.

“Have you set a date yet?” Lana interrupted excitedly, a huge smile beaming across her face. “I guess it’ll probably be after graduation, right? Ooh&#33; You could have a summer wedding – outside – maybe by the rose garden,” she rambled. Chloe smiled and let a small wisp of laughter escape her throat.

“We haven’t set a date, Lana,” she said.

Clark narrowed his eyes menacingly at Lex.

“You proposed to her? She’s still in high school, Lex&#33;” he said angrily. Lana frowned at Clark’s reaction.

“It’s not like they’re going to get married right away, Clark,” she argued. A small grin played at her mouth. “And I think it’s sweet. With everything that they’ve been through, and then knowing that they’re not going to have the whole mind reading thing anymore – it’s kind of like she became a part of him that he didn’t want to lose.”

‘It’s exactly like that,’ Lex thought.

‘Leave it to Lana to talk so poetically about it,’ Chloe thought. ‘I wonder if I could get her to tell my dad.’ Lex snickered.

“But ---” Clark stopped his protest to Lana abruptly and turned back to face Lex. “You can’t marry her. Her dad will never let you.”

‘Shit. You think *he’s* reading my mind now?’ Chloe asked.

‘I think he’s just grasping at straws,’ Lex thought. ‘Of course, if I see any images of the two of you together in my head then we’ll need to have a talk.’ Chloe burst out laughing, smiling brightly at Lex as she did so. He grinned back at her.

‘You’re the only one I think about like that.’

‘Yeah - *now*.’

‘Don’t get jealous,’ Chloe thought. ‘I would really prefer not to have mind sex in front of Clark and Lana just to prove something you already know anyway.’

‘Hmm…mind sex, you say?’ Lex thought suggestively.

“Lex – don’t,” Chloe warned him aloud. Clark and Lana looked over at her and then over at Lex, who had a Cheshire-like smile plastered across his lips. “I mean it.” Unfortunately, the giggle that accompanied her words made her sound considerably less serious.

“Out,” Lex said, not taking his eyes off Chloe.

“What?” Lana asked in confusion.

“Get – out,” Lex said, a small growl coming through in his voice.

“Oh. O-kay,” Lana strung out. “I think that’s our cue to leave.” She placed her hand on Clark’s arm and tried to guide him to the door.

‘Observant, isn’t she?’ Chloe thought. Her smile fell into a heated expression when she saw his normally blue eyes turn into pools of black. Clark turned back around.

“Chloe – you don’t have to do this. I can go get security, I ---”

Lana gave him a good shove, which served more to move her backward.

“Clark,” she hissed in what was practically a whisper. “They’re engaged&#33; And they’re obviously gonna ---” she trailed off, making a fidgety movement with her hands so she wouldn’t have to *say* what Chloe and Lex were about to do. Clark frowned and Lana resorted to using her pouty expression. Her eyes widened into doe-like orbs and she looked at him pleadingly. Clark felt a familiar clench in his stomach and barely managed to nod.

Lana smiled and took his arm to drag him out of the room; obviously pleased that she still had some affect on him. It seemed like ever since Chloe and Lex had the accident with the chemical spill, it had affected Clark too. He had been almost oblivious to the subtle flirting that generally would have thrown him for a loop, and Lana didn’t like it. From what she had been able to pry out of Pete, Clark had decided to start acting on his mixed feelings for Chloe after a run in with Lex; which explained why he had been acting so jealous and possessive of the blonde girl, much to both of the girls’ dismay.

That was one of the reasons Lana had been so pleased to see the large diamond ring adorning Chloe’s finger. She and Lex were serious. They were going to stay together even after the scientists gave them the cure. Clark would wake up from his daze and realize that he would never have Chloe and that he should be fawning all over her instead.

“What?” Clark asked, looking at Lana suspiciously. Lana snapped out of her thoughts and blinked a couple of times at him as they walked down the hospital corridor.

“Nothing,” she lied in a sweet voice.

“La-na,” he said almost warningly as he strung out her name. She smiled at him and, much to his surprise, looped her arm through his.

“I was just wondering what colors Chloe is going to choose for the wedding,” she said. It was partially true. It was one of the first things to cross her mind when she saw the ring on Chloe’s finger. “Do you think I could talk her into having pink as one of them?” Clark opened his mouth and tilted his head to the side before closing his mouth again and grinning at her.

“I wouldn’t get your hopes up.”



TBC...

[Queen Of Tact]

What that&#39;s all... Oh I so don&#39;t think so&#33;&#33;&#33; You better get back here and post more missy&#33;&#33;&#33;please please please....

CC

[Gemini]

:lol: That was one of the best chapters yet&#33;&#33; *grin* Please update agains soon?

[bluemoongirl23]

You. Are. Funny. Asking if we want more smut? Are you high? Um, when DON&#39;T we want smut? Oh, silly girl.

Lana&#39;s internal monologue was great. And the pink at the wedding, could you see Chloe&#39;s face? hee.

Blue

[drina]

Love your subtle dig at Lana. Heehee, reminds me of the slug stories. :goof:

[scifichick774]

A/N: Well, this is it – for now anyway. I have agreed to write a sequel, but it might not be up until some of my other stories are finished. Please enjoy this last part.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Lex crawled like a panther across the small amount of bed between them and then hovered over Chloe, resting his hands on the top of the bed that lay behind her upright position, careful not to disturb her IV line. Chloe smiled and let out a small laugh.

‘I thought you only wanted to do the mind sex thing,’ she thought. He leaned down to kiss her.

“I don’t remember saying that,” he said and then gave her a smirk, “Or even thinking it for that matter.”

“Lex,” Chloe said with a smile, placing a hand on his chest to still him from lurching toward her again. “My dad is going to be here soon.”

“We’ll hurry.”

‘Gee, *that’s romantic*,’ she thought sarcastically.

‘You want romantic?’ Lex thought huskily. He grinned at her and pushed the button on the bed railing that leaned the top of the bed back down to a horizontal position. Before she had a chance to refuse him, Lex trailed his hand up the side of her body, letting it graze her breast through the hospital gown before dragging the blankets that separated them off of her. Chloe bit her lip.

‘This is bad – bad, bad,’ she mentally scolded herself. ‘I shouldn’t be enjoying this.’

‘But you are.’

His mouth attached to her neck and he grazed his teeth lightly along the soft skin before he started to suck on it.

“Unh,” Chloe whimpered, her arms circling his body and tugging at his shirt from behind.

‘No time,’ he silently reminded her. His hand crept up to caress her breast, teasing her nipple through the thin fabric that still covered her. “Mmm,” Lex half-moaned against her neck. ‘Come here.’ He sat up and unzipped his slacks as Chloe moved to remove her panties before straddling his lap. His hand wove around her head and he slammed his mouth against hers as she positioned herself at his tip.

Their tongues frantically dove into each other’s mouths, pushing hard against one another until Chloe lowered herself onto his hard and waiting cock. She pulled her mouth away from his and closed her eyes as she started to ride him. Lex’s hands settled on her hips to steady her and he began to thrust into her every time she lowered herself. Chloe let out a strangled cry of pleasure when she felt his mouth close around her breast on top of the hospital gown.

“Lex,” she breathed.

‘Chloe, Chloe, Chloe, Chloe,’ he repeated the thought with each incredible push into her body. A string of incoherent, broken words and sounds escaped Chloe’s lips and Lex knew that she was as close as he was.

He trailed one hand from her hip and dipped into her folds to find her clit. He began to rub the hard button back and forth, his eyes fixed on where his length was appearing and disappearing beneath her curls. Chloe moaned loudly, her pace growing steadily faster until her body started to shake as her orgasm tore through her. Her vaginal muscles clenched hard around him, throwing him over the edge. He growled her name, thrusting into her once more before climaxing.

Chloe panted for breath and only Lex’s hands at her back kept her from collapsing on the bed behind her. Lex caught her eyes and moved his mouth to hers to kiss her again, this time soft and passionate rather than hard and frenzied. The knock on the door abruptly pulled them apart.

‘I think we need to have a lock installed on that door,’ Lex inwardly grumbled.

‘Or we could just stop bringing me back to this stupid hospital,’ Chloe countered. The knock continued and Chloe slid off of Lex and back down onto the bed, where she covered herself up to the top of her breasts with the blankets. The last thing she needed her dad to see was the wet circle that Lex had left around her breast during their coupling.

Lex pushed himself off of the bed and zipped up his pants on the way to answer the door. He opened the door to see Gabe standing there with bags of boxed take-out food in his hands and a suspicious look on his face. To Lex’s credit, he let no emotions he may have about his fiancée’s father interrupting show on his face.

“Gabe,” he greeted politely with a slight nod of his head.

“Lex,” Gabe said, returning the gesture and moving past him into the room. He forced himself to grin at his daughter. “You were complaining about the hospital’s food, so ---” he held up the bags and motioned to them with his head. Chloe’s face lit up and she pushed the button to raise herself to a sitting position again.

“Thanks,” she said, making sure that the blankets were tucked firmly under her arms so they wouldn’t fall down and expose her.

Gabe moved to the side of the bed and placed the bags on the floor before leaning down and hugging his daughter. Chloe was lucky and as Gabe pulled away he looked to the ground to sort through the boxes of food, giving her time to fix the blanket that had fallen during their quick embrace. Gabe’s eyes caught sight of the ring on her finger as he brought up some plastic utensils and he frowned.

He had run into Clark and Lana in the lobby and Clark, to what appeared to be Lana’s chagrin, had vaguely told him that Chloe and Lex had some news for him.

‘Three guesses as to what it is,’ Gabe thought dryly. He wasn’t pleased with his daughter agreeing to marry his boss, but with the way things stood now, he knew there wasn’t much of a chance to separate them. They could read each other’s minds. Even if he quit his job and forced Chloe to move away with him to some remote corner of the world, then Lex could find her because Chloe would just tell him where they were.

“So – any more news on your dad? How is he fairing?” Gabe asked; trying to avoid the topic that he knew would inevitably come up during the evening.

“Poorly,” Lex answered with a slight grin, unable to hide his amusement. “The doctors say that he’s having almost constant hallucinations and even though they’ve tried to help him, he keeps resisting the testing by pushing away the needles and breaking them.”

“Can’t they put him in a straight jacket and sedate him or something?” Gabe asked.

‘Not until I’m there to get it on tape,’ Lex joked. Chloe snickered.

Gabe looked back and forth between them and let out a sigh.

“You can’t get married,” he said as calmly as possible. Chloe and Lex exchanged a look and when Chloe opened her mouth to speak, Gabe held up his hand to stop her. “Let me finish.” Chloe nodded, a worried twisting feeling gnawing at her gut. “You’re still under the affects of that chemical, and I can understand how reading each other’s minds for almost a month would bring you closer to together – maybe even to the point where you think you love each other.”

“Gabe ---”

“*But*,” Gabe cut Lex off, shooting him a half-warning, half-sympathetic look. “You’re going to be getting the cure soon and things are going to go back to how they were. If you’re going to plan a lifelong relationship, then it should be based on a solid foundation and not some freak accident.”

“Dad ---”

“That said.” Gabe continued, “As much as it pains me to say this, you’re a grown woman and capable of making your own decisions. But, you are still living under my roof.”

“What are you saying, Dad?” Chloe asked. Gabe winced. He knew he had been rambling, but he had been futilely hoping that Chloe wouldn’t call him on it.

“I’m saying ---” Gabe paused and sucked in a large draw of breath, “I’m saying that if you want to remain engaged after things return to normal, then I won’t fight you on it – provided that you don’t get married until *after* you graduate, and preferably after you go to college for a couple of years. I just want you to have time to evaluate your feelings toward each other under normal circumstances.” Gabe leaned forward and clasped his hands together as he waited for what could possibly be a very loud outburst.

‘What do you think? Should we put him out of his misery?’ Chloe asked. Lex smiled at her and then at Gabe.

“We haven’t set a date,” Lex said. “And Chloe already told me that it wouldn’t be until after graduation and possibly after some time in college.” Gabe looked at Chloe with surprise.

“You did?” he asked. Chloe chuckled.

“Well – yeah. I’m not just going to ditch my life to get married during my senior year,” she said. “Besides, weddings take a lot of planning and I just don’t have the time for that with the Torch and all of my classes – not to mention that I’ll have some major catching up to do since I’ve missed so much school.” Relief visibly washed over Gabe’s face.

“Thank God,” he muttered under his breath.

‘I’m sure that Lana would plan it for us,’ Lex teased.

‘Yeah – and you’d end up wearing a baby blue tuxedo,’ she threw back. Lex cringed.

‘She comes nowhere near the wedding planning,’ he ordered.

‘Agreed.’

Lex’s cell phone started to ring and he went to retrieve it out of where his jacket was hanging.

“You’re supposed to turn those off in here,” Gabe said, shooting him a small look. Lex nodded in agreement.

“It must have slipped my mind.” He pushed the small button to answer it. “Luthor.” He noticed that Gabe was the only one paying attention to him, as Chloe was digging through the boxes of food in search of something she wanted. “Is everyone alright?” he asked. Chloe briefly glanced up at him.

‘What’s going on?’

‘I’ll explain in a second,’ he thought. “Yes, I see. Did you have any back-ups?” Lex contorted his face into what he hoped looked like a convincingly serious expression.

‘What did you do?’ Chloe asked accusingly.

“Thank you for telling me – yes, I’ll tell her.” Lex hung up the phone and focused his eyes on Gabe rather than Chloe. She had learned to read him too well and it had nothing to do with reading his mind. “There was an electrical fire at the lab.”

‘Liar.’

‘There was.’

‘Really? Oh. Is your dad okay?’

“Fortunately, nobody was hurt; but the section that they were housing the cure and the research for the cure was completely destroyed,” Lex said with a neutral expression. Chloe snorted and his eyes glanced over at her.

“Sorry,” she said and hit her chest. “It went down the wrong way.” Gabe seemed to buy her excuse and was considerably more intent on hearing more about the fire at the lab.

“So, what does this mean? They were keeping some of the formula here too, right?” he asked.

“Apparently not,” Lex said.

‘Why do I get the feeling that this ‘electrical fire’ wasn’t an accident?’ Chloe asked, an eyebrow arched high in the air at him.

‘You don’t think accidents can happen?’

‘Of course they can; I just don’t believe this *was* one.’

‘Smart girl,’ Lex thought with a small grin curling up one corner of his mouth.

“How much longer will it be before they can make more of it?” Gabe asked, interrupting Chloe and Lex’s internal dialogue.

“Hard to say since all of the research was destroyed as well,” he answered.

“So, we’re back to the maybe a year or more thing,” Gabe said to himself, a little dishearteningly.

“That would be my guess,” Lex said. Gabe nodded absently and Chloe shook her head with a modicum of amusement.

‘You’re so bad.’

‘You still love me.’

‘Are you asking me or telling me?’

‘Telling you – although, it’s always nice to hear,’ Lex answered. Chloe smiled at him and motioned for him to come sit down on the bed. He took her hand as he sat on the side of the bed.

“I love you,” she said. Lex smiled.

“I love you too.”

Gabe looked back and forth between them and eyed them warily as they leaned forward and kissed.

‘Accident my ass.’




The End

I’m not sure when I’m going to start the sequel, but I’ll try not to keep you guys waiting too long. If you’ve made it this far, please take the time to review. Thanks&#33;

[ghostwriter]

2 things:

1. NOOOOOO it&#39;s finished, i can&#39;t quite believe it yet :ohmy: ... but i suppose there is a sequal coming fairly soon right?

2. That was amazing, just truly amazing :)

Ellie
P.S. i haven&#39;t reviewed before but i have been following this story for the whole time, you should be honoured. lol

[bluemoongirl23]

Ah, Kris, absolutelyfreakingwonderful. Yeah, that&#39;s a word. Loved this one, the banter wa amazing. Keep them coming. Oh, wait, that sounded a bit wrong.....


Blue

[dce]

Accident my ass.
GREAT story&#33; Adored the banter and loved Gabe. :biggrin: He really is the coolest dad around. :cool: Now, I just can&#39;t wait for the sequel. MORE&#33;&#33;&#33;

[dsapiro]

Great story, fabulous ending and even better since your gonna do a sequel&#33;

[Tandy]

Wonderful ending&#33; I loved it&#33; I&#39;m glad that they can still hear each other&#39;s thoughts&#33;
Tandy

[AlwaysPretending]

Oh no, this fic is finished&#33; I can&#39;t believe that its over already. But still, I loved it while it lasted and I&#39;m definitely going to go back and reread from start to finish now all of the parts are up :)

I love the little "accident" at the end&#33;

Kerry

[drina]

Great story&#33; Can&#39;t wait for the sequel to start :yay: :chlexsign4:

[NightGlow]

How could you NOT have a sequel?
I mean... this is no ordinary fic, you know. Considering most fanfics, this is practically an epic. I&#39;d love for you to continue because it can only get better. :biggrin:

[Julie]

:worship2:


I love this&#33;&#33;&#33;

And... ... I actually don&#39;t think it needs a sequal...

*dodges the tomatoes*

It was a nice ending&#33;&#33;&#33;

*runs off*

[CS(TFMLL)]

I have read the whole story but I am waaaaay too lazy to comment every chappie so here is my thoughts on the whole thing:

1)It was great

2) :devil: should have died

3) :chlexsign3: I :worship: you.

4) Can&#39;t wait for the sequel&#33;&#33;

[ghostwriter]

I have just re-read this... again. And it is as good the fifth time as it is the first time :biggrin:

[Lady Candy]

I have already read this ff, but not the sequel, I am going to read it ;)

[gina]

I&#39;m kinda late but I just wanted to say how much I love this fic&#33; Great original plot and lots of sweet and sexy Chlex moments&#33; Nice work&#33;

*runs off to start the sequel*

[SinnerSaint]

Awww... Im sorry to see the end of this story but I am thrilled that there will be a sequel . I can hardly wait &#33;&#33;&#33;

[Sab_Luthor]

yes and the sequel is as good as the first part was

[Pieper]

Great Fic. :wub: it.
Femke :biggrin:

[Ainur]

:drool: This was entertaining and it had such a great plot. Clark was so stupid and Lana...let&#39;s leave it like that. Great job&#33; :worship2:

[meghan036]

Amazing fic! You did a great job writing it.

[starmoon]

i love this stoey it is one of my favorites on the site. having lex in chloe's head was cool. the smut was excellant. chlexforever!!!

[arkakitty]

Love it :)

[txalb]

You know, I’ve always said that it was hard to pick a favorite out of all of your stuff and I stand by that statement. That said this fic is very near the top. This is one that I find myself going back and rereading over and over again. I don’t think there is anything about this fic that I don’t like. The storyline is great. I love the idea of being able to speak to each other in their minds. I also love the idea of a somewhat more feral Lex (and you write him so well). I would be hard pressed to find anything about this that I didn’t like.

You did a wonderful job on this fic. Thank you so much for writing.

txalb

[stwbrrydelight]

Grrr..and wow
THis is my second time around reading this and still I cant believe it ended like this
But alas that is what sequals are for but still i have seen no such thing

[ggdoll18]

loved it!!!!

[Thaís]

Great Fic!!!!
It amused me untill the end... And the accident... So funny!!
Just keep writting these wondrful stories for us, ok?!?!

[katieandjason]

I just read through this and it was so funny. Chloe's comment about her calling Lex 'dump' when he called her 'sweetie' had me laughing out loud at work. :rofl:

[JasonsLea]

OMG I am so late but I loved it!

[KourtTears]

I just recently got back into the Chlex scene and I'm so glad I did. When I left this story wasn't finished yet, and now there's a sequel? Fantastic. Just wanted to say that your stories are my favorite out of the Chlex fandom and they are one of the reasons I got hooked on Chlex again.

[Ann]

Ok, I am so sad to see it end, but I absolutely loved it! And I loved the ending. There were times when I wanted to strangle Clark, but I'm glad that he had to realize that Chloe and Lex were serious about each other. And I LOVE that they're getting married! Can't wait for the sequel. :)

[Nonnie]

I'd love to be inside that head.

[~*~Tasha~*~]

Very interesting. Loved this one. I've already reread it once too since I found it. {Smiles}

[maryperk]

The mind link was cool. The mind sex was hot and the real sex was even better. Loved it.

[Alizaleven]

I love this fic so much!!! I just read it again and realized that I hadn't even commented... well I do love it so much :D and I'm gonna go read the sequel again hehe

[cassia]

I have read this story far more times than i care to admit and i still love it! You did an amazing job!

[SVfan1286]

This one of my favorite stories... I can't even count how many times I've read it. It's completely fantastic... absolutely funny from beginning to end!

I love the whole plot of Lex and Chloe being able to hear each other's thoughts and see images in each others heads... It's so original, and interesting! The romance was wonderful and the smut was just awesome. Brilliant story!!

[glasshadow]

Eh, sorry for the mid-reading late review, but I just got done with #47 and the one right after and I wanted to say how glad I was that Clark stopped Lex - and that they all realized it was a good thing. Hot and agressive is one thing, riding roughshod over the woman is another (and no, it wasn't Lex's fault, as Chloe said, but that doesn't make it okay). Clark doesn't know what goes on in their heads, and I think he acted as a good friend should. And points to him for recognizing that even if Chloe was okay with it Lex wouldn't be. Maybe he's a better friend than they give him credit for!

On a general note, I'm enjoying the story :)

[Tanschana]

Oh Boy!
I really like your stories!
Oh Boy!
I just realized that it will be a very short night for me! I can't go to sleep without reading more of your amazing stories!
Oh Boy!
I'm blaming you!
Oh Boy!
Thank YOU!!

[moonstar_sfu]

This story is absolutely fantastic. It is the perfect blend of angst, suspense, humour and smutty smutty goodness ;) Great job and now I'm off to read some more of your awesome fiction.

[dkangel1]

wonderful story!! Thank you.

[maja]

This story is so good. I laughed and laughed...I can't wait to read the sequel.

[Rachet]

realy liked how you tied up the M B. now i need to find your sequle.

[asarstar]

Just reread this over spring break and it's still one of my favorites! :)

[elementia]

hahahaha great story!
"Accident my arse"
:)

[Hippiekat]

great story, hope to see the sequel soon!

[Sarah77]

I can't help but love this. Lex and Chloe are just to funny in this and Clarks reaction to them, had me in tears, lol.

[starmoon]

this is such a great fic i love reading it over and over again.

[emms14]

Great story! I loved the "accident" at the end. After a whole story with Chloe and Lex in each others heads, it would just seem wrong to put an end to that. ;)

-emms14

[donhisiewen]

Wonderful fic. It had the right amount of humor and smut and the idea of having Lex and Chloe into each other's minds was just genius.

[randa]

i have just had the joy of rereading this fun-tastic story! thanks again for some of the best chlex fanfic out there

randa

[starmoon]

love this story it is one of my all time favorite stories ever. i love it more and more every time i read it.

[starmoon]

i just love reading this story and could read it everyday.

[JinxAlmighty]

i always love this fanfiction. i keep re-reading it.

[LEXSUPERFAN]

Amazing story.
I loved it, so original, the idea that they could read the mind of each other was great.
I loved that they were so in love and warm.
And I loved the ending.

[ajl_gurl84]

Oh my god! I love this story. I think I actually stumbled into this story ages ago from google but I wasn't familiar with the character and series back then so I didn't really get it but now that I got more info on what's going on... wooo XD
I love it because of the originality with the idea on what would happen if the 2 starring characters got exposed to meteor and definitely the banter between them. Can't wait to discover more great stories!

[18rogersil]

The story is great. I'm glad I found it. Looking forward to reading the rest.

[thewinddancer]

WHERE IS THE SEQUEL??? <3 this story so much... Thanks for making my day (:

[shuxx]

love this, it's hilarious!

[campbti]

I haven't read this in years but thought of it today and just had to come find and reread. So enjoyable. Thanks for giving this to all of us.

[starmoon]

i love this story and i enjoy reading it over and over again.

[carebear30]

I loved re-reading this one...one of my favs!!

[trckyrcky]

This is way too awesome! I just found this story and I finish reading in less than a day. Can't help but laugh at how dump Clark is acting toward Chloe and how primal Lex is towards Chloe. If there is a sequel, I hope I can find the story and read it too.

[CrazyGirlWriter]

I think this is the 3rd or 4th time reading this story and its awesome every time. Love the story and its sequel. Thanks for the awesome Chlex stories.

[jstarr713]

I loved this. Their mind banter was great. And having Clark feel Chloe's pain was a nice touch

[malugargula]

I love this fic. I love all Kris' fics
:)
Reread it and now I'm going to the sequel

[Stotrow]

One of the stories I always like to reread when the mood strikes me. Thanks!

[XANA]

Great fic!

[Shane77]

It was really fun and sexy ;) Thanks for a great fic!

[HotCrossedBunny]

Brilliant, simply brilliant although I do hope that they stop being able to read each other's thoughts soon as Gabe is right about their relationship. :)

[Ami Rose]

Loved this story. Hope I can find the sequal.

[TrinityR]

Ok... Let me just say... I CAN'T. I really can't.
I don't try to be mean here. I wanted to read this story - despite some obvious silly mistakes you made - because it was funny, but I gave up entirely.
this has very little sense to none.
I just point out a few things I notice as far as I read, because I truly can't rtead any further.
1) You don't get an orgasm from dirty thoughts/fantasies. you need a hand for that
2) You don't graze against you best friend and have an orgasm. Even Lex wouldn't just use Chloe and Clark like that
3) You don't HAVE YOUR FIRST TIME IN A LIMO ON A SIDEROAD. Chloe is a respectable young woman. And you just made her lose her virginity like at the back ofd some bar to a stranger. she would never ever act like this after flirting with the guy for barely a day, especially when it was her first time
4) YOU DON;T BLEED SO MUCH AFTER losing your virginity. You spot, more or less heavily but it stops once the hymen is broken and you don't bleed later on! You made it seem like Chloe has a misscariage or an abortion. Or she forgot she was going to have a period.

that what I gathered so far and I refuse to read any more of bullshit.

Once again, I;m not trying to insult you. I am a writer myself and I see how many terrible mistakes I made once. But I listen to a constructive ctritique so I can make myself better in the future. Guess what? I already am.

[lia00027]

I'm enjoying reading this funny and entertaining fic, the story itself even though not real but enjoyable to read and i couldn't stop myself reading it until end. Even though clark is annoying and chloe rather weak with him but it still ok because from the year you've written it it's the season where chloe still pining her hope for the farmboy.

[layell]

I really enjoyed reading this story. I would definitely read a sequel.

[missmagick]

Good story i like the earlier ones