Description: Chlex/ Passion brought them together, but then broke them apart. When Chloe is about to sign the divorce papers, she has an accident. Will she and Lex find their way back to each other?
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Part 1
Present Day
Chloe got into her car with papers in her hand. She had just visited her lawyer and one signature would be enough for her now to regain her freedom.
Five years of marriage and just a few seconds to sign the papers. That was how it would end.
Once she had thought they had been a perfect match. Maybe even match made in heaven even despite the circumstances that had brought them together.
She had never met an equally strong person to her. Maybe that was the problem? She thought. Maybe that was why they hadn’t worked. They had kept arguing about petty things, then about much larger until finally… one of those arguments had caused Chloe something she had had considered the most precious thing.
He had been sorry. He still was sorry, but she could see that he was slowly giving up. He was tired of fighting, of convincing her that they could still make it work. Tired of telling her that he loved her.
Well, she still loved him too, but sometimes love wasn’t enough. She knew they would kill each other eventually if they stayed together, so she decided to end it. For both their sakes.
Sometimes passion in love was not a good thing. Sometimes it destroyed it.
Chloe finally had the courage to send Lex the divorce papers. All he needed to do was to sign them. And they would be no longer.
She was afraid of her life going on after that. She was afraid she would lose their mutual friends. Clark, man she had known since high school, was Lex’s best friend now. He was Chloe’s friend too. Would she see him again? Would they be nice to each other?
Why her whole life was crashing down around her? Why she needed to be the one to make sacrifices? Lex would stay in Metropolis, where his company was, he would lead the same life he had before, except without her by his side.
Chloe, on the other hand, would probably have to move. How could she stay in the Daily Planet after this? She had already sacrificed a lot for her relationship when not being able to write about her husband. She had made up for it by discovering other affairs and she had eventually been promoted. Now she would be laughed upon in the building. She would be mocked. Why had she sacrificed so much, worked so hard when eventually, her relationship crumbled anyway?
Maybe she should move. But to where? Metropolis was the city she loved with her whole heart. She didn’t imagine her life anywhere else.
Tears appears in her eyes and she wiped them up quickly. She had already cried out a whole ocean of them. She would not start again.
She grabbed a pen from her purse with the intention of signing the papers and then dropping them off to Lex’s secretary in LuthorCorp, but she hesitated.
“Shit, I’m late!” she yelled when she glanced at the watch on her hand.
She dropped the papers and started the car.
Just fucking sign it, she told herself, just do it and it’ll be over with!
Chloe looked at the road to see if there was any car that she needed to be careful about and then she reached for the papers again. She could just sign them on the spot and it would be all over. That was what she wanted, wasn’t it?
Only in the very moment she took her eyes off the road and started looking for the pen she had dropped… she heard a screech of tires and then felt a crash.
After that she did not see or feel anything. She drifted away…
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Lex was working.
Those days he had been always working. Everything as not to think about Chloe and about his personal life falling apart.
There was nothing more he could do. She would not listen to him. She was adamant on leaving him and it was killing him.
He loved her. He had loved her from the moment they had had sex for the first time. He knew that it did not sound pretty, but that was the ugly truth. She had taken his heart back then and walked away with it when they had finished… no, it hadn’t been making love, he thought… when they had finished fucking.
Still, it did not change the fact that he loved her. He would always be in love with her. She was so different than anyone else. She was independent, bossy, she said what she thought, she never let him change her or her opinions on things. He loved that about her, but in the same time that was the very thing that broke them apart. They couldn’t seem to coexist together without starting a fight. Eventually, that had caused them something very dear. The lost was unbearable and Lex could still feel the pain that it left. There was nothing he could do about it, so he had tried to focus on wining Chloe back, on convincing her that they could still be together.
He failed.
And it was over.
Just like that.
His heart was broken and he couldn’t believe how much pain that had caused him too.
“Mr. Luthor,” his secretary walked inside, smiling to him coquettishly and swaying her hips a little too eagerly.
Lex kept on ignoring her pathetic attempts at seducing him and usually he laughed it off, but right now it wasn’t funny anymore. It was annoying. And he was done tolerating it.
“Ms…” he started, almost saying her name to tell her off and threaten her with firing her when his cell phone rang.
He reached for it and answered it instead, “Luthor.”
“Lex Luthor? Are you the husband of Chloe Sullivan-Luthor?” somebody asked.
“Yes…” Lex hesitated. For how long now? Technically, he still was her husband, so he did not correct himself.
“Mr. Luthor, I’m very sorry, but your wife had an accident. She’s in hospital right now.”
“What?! What happened?! Is she alright?!” Lex raised his voice, standing up and taking his car keys.
“She had a car accident. She will pull through, but she’s unconscious at the moment. We had to put her into induced coma. When the accident happened, your wife wasn’t wearing any seatbelts and she crashed through the front window. I can assure you though, that she was lucky. Actually, she was extremely lucky, Mr. Luthor.”
“Where?!” he growled at the poor guy who was just doing his job.
“Metropolis General, sir.”
“I’ll be right there!” Lex hang up and ran to the door.
“Mr. Luthor… what…?” The damned secretary was still there.
“My wife’s in the hospital and you’re trying to hit on me? If that happens again, I will have to fire you. Now, excuse me, I need to go! Cancel all my meetings for the rest of day!”
And he was gone.
***
“Lex Luthor. I’m looking for my wife.” Lex finally got to the hospital.
“Oh, yes, Mr. Luthor, you can go see her in the room 223,” he was informed by a nurse.
“How is she?” he asked, worried sick. “Is she alright?”
“Nothing seems to be broken, but she hit her head pretty hard. She’s in a coma for now. It helps to heal the brain faster.”
“Thank you.”
Lex turned around to find the right room.
He was so relieved that Chloe would be alright. He didn’t know what he would do if something more severe happened to her.
“Oh and… Mr. Luthor?” the nurse called after him.
“Yes?” He turned back to her, now clearly annoyed that she dared keeping him away from his wife.
“This was in the car with her. We think… this might have something to do with your wife’s distraction on the road.” The nurse handed him over some documents and he took them, seeing the blood stains on them.
Then Lex froze. Those were the divorce papers…
He did this to Chloe. He was always the one to hurt her again, even when he didn’t want to. She crashed her car because she was about to sign those or… she was hesitating.
Lex closed his eyes and took a deep breath. The sight of Chloe’s blood on the papers made him nauseous. He refused to look at the nurse again. He knew what her eyes would tell him. She was probably thinking that he was a bad man. Well, she could join the Luthors hate club in Metropolis, because Lex was sure that too many people hated him. They hated him for no reason but his blood. They hated him for what his father had been doing when he had still been alive. The fact that Lex had seemed to turn it all around did not seem to matter to those people at all.
He finally reached Chloe’s room and saw her pale and unconscious, lying in bed, the machines around her beeping.
His hands shook and he almost dropped the papers, then he walked over to her bedside table and left them there.
There was a chair right next to the bed, so he sat in it.
“Chloe, I’m so sorry…” he whispered, his voice shaking. “What can I ever do to repay you for all of this? You know I never wanted it. I always wanted to give you happiness. I love you!”
She couldn’t hear him.
He reached his hand to touch hers, but then he changed his mind. They were getting a divorce. In fact, he could sign the bloody papers - metaphorically and literally, what made a cruel irony - and then all they needed was for her to sign it once she woke up.
He didn’t touch it though. He just stayed by her side.
“I wish I could turn back time. I wish I could be different. Please, forgive me, Chloe,” he asked again, not really expecting any response.
He went back in his mind to the moment that had started their bumpy relationship...
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