Title: The Curse
Author: scifichick774
Rating: NC-17 eventually, but it will take a while to get there
Category: Humor/Friendship/Romance/Smut/Supernatural (sort of)
Spoilers: Up through the end of season 2 to be safe.
Summary: Lex becomes the victim of a curse, and because of it develops a strange addiction to Chloe.
Disclaimer: If they were mine, Dr. Bryce would never have been on the show and Lucas would have been a permanent addition. So – you know – they’re not mine and I’m making no money whatsoever.
Feedback: YES!! REVIEW!! Geez, that sounded incredibly needy.
Archival: Sure – just let me know where.
Author’s Note: Response to Imp’s challenge. And, as it says in my disclaimer, ‘she who shall not be named’ has never existed in this SV fic and Lucas stuck around. The time frame – eh – somewhere during Chloe’s senior year in high school. Oh – and many thanks to Sabby for letting me use her name in the fic. *smile*
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“Sabrina, the teenage witch,” Lucas sang teasingly. His girlfriend rolled her eyes.
“You’re never going to let that go, are you?” she asked.
“Nope,” he responded cheerfully.
“Remind me why I’m dating you again?”
“I’m great in bed,” Lucas answered without missing a beat. Sabrina smiled.
“True.”
“So, when are you going to do something cool?” he asked, perusing the book shelves in front of him.
“I already told you that I don’t have powers, Lucas,” she explained as she watched him take an old and somewhat dusty book off of one of the magic store’s shelves and flip through it.
“Yeah, yeah,” he said, completely sloughing off her statement. “But you can do spells and stuff, right?”
“I guess. Why? Did you have one in mind?”
He smiled impishly at her.
“Can you turn Lex into a toad?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because I’d need some of his hair, of which he has none, so ---”
“Bummer,” Lucas said, turning his attention back to the book. His face seemed to light up when he found one that interested him. “What about this one?” he asked, pointing his finger down to the page. Sabrina squinted her eyes a little to read the scrolling script on the page. She shook her head.
“That’s not a spell, it’s a curse.”
“So? What’s the difference?”
“There’s a big difference,” she argued. “With a spell, you ---”
“So, can you do it?” Lucas interrupted, his impatience winning out. She sighed.
“I suppose Lex is the one you want me to curse?”
“Obviously.”
“What do you have against him anyway? He’s your brother!” his girlfriend exclaimed.
“Yes,” Lucas agreed. “My brother who always gets his way because he’s the favorite.” Sabrina arched an eyebrow.
“You want me to curse him just because he’s your dad’s favorite?” she asked with a twinge of disbelief.
“Not *you*,” he said, wrapping an arm around her back and pulling her closer, “*us*. Think of it as a bonding experience.”
“I don’t know,” she teased. “What do I get out of it?” She shivered when she felt Lucas’s tongue dart out to help suckle her earlobe into his mouth. She closed her eyes and hummed in delight. “You’re sure you want to do this?”
“Ye-ah,” he strung out, drawing himself away from her. “And don’t get me wrong – I like the guy, but when your own father tries to kill you ---”
“You were holding Lex at *gunpoint*, Lu-cas.”
“It was *staged*, Sa-bri-na,” Lucas argued, mimicking her way of annunciating names when she was trying to make a point. His girlfriend watched as the emotions on his face went from frustrated and somewhat angry to mischievous in the blink of an eye. “So, can you do it?” She took the book away from him and took a closer look at what the curse would require.
“You’re absolutely sure you want me to?”
“Sabby,” he half-whined her nickname and shot her his best puppy-dog look. “Come on. You know you want to. It’ll be fun.”
“You use that excuse every time.”
“Because it always works.”
“It doesn’t look too hard,” she finally answered, her eyes focused on the page in front of her. “But if it works, then ---”
“Then?”
“I don’t see a lift for the curse in here,” she answered. “I don’t know if I could ever undo it.”
“Who’s asking you to?”
“You’re evil,” she joked.
“I’m aware of that.”
“Okay, fine,” she said, giving up when it became clear that he wasn’t just going to let the subject drop. She closed the book and shoved it toward him. “But since it’s your idea, you’re paying for the book.”
An hour or so later, they were back at her parents’ house and Lucas was listening intently to what they needed to do. Sabrina was having trouble believing that he was getting so into it, but then, it did mean placing a curse on his brother, so she shouldn’t have been that surprised.
“We need to pick someone who he can’t be anymore than friendly acquaintances with, but who he’ll see on a somewhat regular basis for the first week while the curse ingrains itself into his system,” she said.
“We could get one of his ex-girlfriends,” Lucas suggested. “It’s not like he ever gets to know any of them.” She shook her head.
“Correct me if I’m wrong, but he hasn’t dated anyone in Smallville. Besides, if you want this to work it needs to be someone who, under normal circumstances, wouldn’t agree to go out with him.”
“Damn. Where am I supposed to find someone who ---?” he trailed off as an impish spark lit up in his eyes. “What about Chloe?”
“Sullivan?”
“Yeah. She fits the criteria you’ve told me about,” he said, holding out his hand to start counting the reasons on his fingers. “First of all, they’re not even sort-of friends. They’re both just friends of Kent.”
“But he won’t see ---”
“Second,” he interrupted, sticking out another finger as he counted and giving her a delicious smile that she seemed to lose herself in. “She just took a part-time job as one of my dad’s personal assistants – so Lex will see her plenty.”
“Don’t get me wrong because Chloe’s really smart, but why would your dad hire her over all the other people out there that were probably clamoring for that position?” Lucas shrugged.
“Eye candy?” he offered. Sabrina snickered.
“How do you know she wouldn’t agree to go out with Lex?” she asked, bringing the conversation back to the original topic. “I mean – he’s *Lex*,” she said, as if that explained everything. Lucas shot her a look.
“Please. No matter how much she denies it, she still has a major crush on Clark,” he said. “I don’t even think she notices other guys.”
“Not that there’s a wide selection here in town,” Sabrina mumbled.
“Yeah, you got lucky,” Lucas said, smiling broadly at her. She laughed and nodded.
“Okay. Chloe sounds like a good choice.”
“Good,” Lucas said and rubbed his hands together. “So, what do we need to do?”
TBC…
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