FINALLY!! They are talking. Sheesh it took them long enough. LOL!
FINALLY!! They are talking. Sheesh it took them long enough. LOL!
"Everyone seems normal until you get to know them. "
glad they are talking/can't wait for next chapter
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Finally some open conversation, it only took a car accident.
HotCrossedBunny, ladyfayerie, gecko, hfce, cbrunberg & tatie87 thank you for your reviews!
As I said this is the last chapter, I hope you will like it
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Part 9
“Lex…” Chloe started, her voice getting hoarse.
“We’re here,” her informed and turned right to get to Metropolis Healing Centre parking.
“Lex, we aren’t finished!” Chloe got angry with him. There was no other man on this earth that had the power to soften her just to agitate her a moment later. “If you want to save this marriage, we need to talk.”
“Save it?” He stopped the car and looked at her. Hope in his eyes. “Are you serious?”
“After what you’ve just told me and what I’ve figured out by myself, yeah, I guess we can.”
“I promise you I will tell you everything , but we’re here already, so we need to take care of that cut. You may have a concussion and…”
“Oh, for a God’s sake! Stop worrying so much! I’ll be fine!” she huffed and stepped out of the car.
Only as she did so, she tottered and had to support herself against the vehicle.
Lex was right there, helping her out. “You’re fine, hah?” he asked sarcastically.
“Just get me to that fucking doctor, so we can finally talk!” he yelled at him.
“Say no more,” he agreed rolling his eyes and they walked to the door together.
***
“I’m sorry, you have to wait. That cut doesn’t look that bad,” the nurse in the reception said.
“Wait?!” Lex sputtered. “My wife almost died!”
“Sir, don’t be so melodramatic. It’s just a minor bruise.”
“Do you have any idea who I am?!” Lex asked her, raising his voice. The people in the waiting room looking at him.
“Lex,” Chloe pulled on his sleeve, “Lex, let’s go. We can wait.”
“No, I will not fucking wait! You will call me an available doctor right away!” He turned back to the nurse.
Chloe just rolled her eyes. That was her Lex. And there was nothing she could do to change him. She even loved that side of him and sometimes she really wanted to laugh when people were treating him like he was insignificant and they didn’t bend to his whims.
She slowly paced over to the nearest chair and sat down in it, hiding her face in her hands. She felt dizzy. She’d really hit her head hard. Maybe that was the reason she suddenly begun calling him “her Lex” again? No, he’d actually confessed to her that he had feelings. More than she could suspect. That only made him more human in her eyes and therefore, she knew she could forgive him and keep loving him.
“Mrs. Luthor, I apologize for the waiting. Let’s go, I’ll take a look at that cut,” she suddenly heard a voice that didn’t belong to her husband.
She looked up and saw a doctor.
Waiting? What waiting? She wanted to ask. She’d barely waited a minute!
Then she shifted her eyes to Lex and saw that well-known self-satisfying smile on his face.
She shook her head at his stubbornness and stood up.
“Let me help you,” he immediately held her again.
“I think I’m a little bit better now,” she protested.
“Well, I will not let you collapse in the middle of the hall, so let me just help you out.”
They followed the doctor.
“Lex, how…”
“What? Don’t tell me it came as a surprise to you. When my wife needs medical attention she gets it rht away.”
***
“It’s not a concussion,” the doctor finally stated after having examined Chloe. “You will be fine. You may suffer from a headache for a while, but I will prescribe you some medication that will help with that,” he said and filled the prescription. “Consider yourself lucky, Mrs. Luthor. After all, you walked away from a car accident with only a bruise and a small cut.”
“Thank you for your help, doctor,” she told him and smiled to him, then shook his hand.
“You’re very welcome!”
“Thank you and expect a donation to this wing,” Lex notified him and soon escorted Chloe out of the room.
“Donation?” she asked him, her eyes opened widely. “Because he stuck a plaster to my forehead?”
“What? You’d rather I didn’t do it?” Lex asked.
“No, I’d rather you did things like that on daily basis. There are a lot of people and foundations in this world that need help. You can at least help some of them.”
“Well, why don’t you take care of that? That would give you some work,” Lex suggested.
“Lex, don’t try to wander away from the main topic here. Where can we go to talk? And I mean, honestly,” she nudged him.
“Well, there’s the Talon. The only descent place in this town.”
***
“So, you said the problem was you had too many feelings and then you pretty much admitted that you felt something when your father died. Did I understand it correctly?” Chloe made sure when they were already sitting in the Talon and had their coffees. Lex also ordered some muffins for her as she hadn’t had any breakfast this morning.
“Yes,” he admitted, too quietly like for him and avoided her eyes.
“Lex, why is this a bad thing?” she asked, clearly not getting his point. She reached for his hand across the table. “Why did you just pull away from me?”
“That was the only way I could deal with… with his death,” he finally admitted, looking at her. “I…” he closed his eyes for a second, then opened it, “Chloe, I did love him. But he never loved me. He didn’t deserve any affection from my side…” His clenched his fist in his free hand.
“Lex,” she said, her voice soft and soothing, her fingers gently stroking his knuckles. “Lex, it’s only human to love your father. You can’t help it. Why is it such a bad thing? I would never believe you are weak, you know that. Through love… we are humans. We love, we feel. We aren’t machines.”
“Yes, Chloe, but he didn’t deserve it!” Lex raised his voice a little, but then looked around and forced himself to tune it down a little. “He was evil. He was the biggest bastard I’ve ever known and yet…” Lex shook his head. “He didn’t deserve any of it. He didn’t deserve me grieving after he died or my mother’s love. He destroyed us all. He almost killed you there, when you were testifying against him.”
“So you thought I wouldn’t understand that you were grieving just because he was a bad man?” she made sure. “And because he hurt me?”
“Well, yeah… and there was the other thing…” He looked down again. “We were almost ready to have a child and I… I didn’t… still don’t think I can be a good father.
What If I become to my child what my father was to me?”
Chloe couldn’t comprehend her love for Lex at this moment. It was like she was loving him more and more with every second and it nearly leveled her, her heart nearly burst.
He’d been stupid.
She’d been stupid.
She should’ve pushed. She should’ve known that his issues weren’t about her. That they’d been rooted deep inside him, that they’d reached his childhood.
“My God, Lex…” she squealed and looked him in the eye so intensely he thought she hypnotized him. “You will be a wonderful, fantastic father. The fact that you’re afraid that you could become Lionel means that you know what it means to be a bad one. You also know what to do to change. You have a good heart and you can tell what is good and what is wrong. And you know what else you have?”
“What?” he asked, his voice husky.
“Me,” she said. “You have me. If we have children I will be their mother. I will not let you become Lionel. Thanks to me you have love in your life.”
“Chloe, I…”
“You have the right to love him even if he didn’t love you. It was his lost. You’re the most generous, magnificent, loving man I’d ever known. I believe in you. And I am sorry I didn’t think his death affected you.”
“It’s my fault really…” Lex said, trying to put himself together. “I was always so closed off.”
“That will change when you see the face of your new born child some day,” she told him. “That will open the rest of your heart.”
“It is open, right now, for you.”
“And I thank you for that.”
“So… we’re back together?” he asked, his voice a little hesitant.
“Of course.” She said and jumped from her seat, circled the table, sat on his laps, put her arms around his neck and kissed him.
They didn’t care they were in a public place. All that mattered was that they were together again, more in love than ever before.
“But you have to promise me you will never retreat to your work again,” she told him when their lips parted to catch a breath. “If there’s something, anything, you tell me. I will never think that you are weak. Actually… the fact that you just told me what was really going on inside,” she placed her hand on his heart, ”means that you are strong, Lex. And I love you for this.”
“I love you, too,” he told her and kissed her again.
“Damn it, I left my cell in my car,” she cursed. “Can I borrow yours?”
“What for?” he asked, giving her the device.
She just sent him a smile and dialed a number.
“Yes, it’s Chloe Luthor. I want you to stop working on that divorce papers. I decided to give my marriage another chance.”
When she ended the call Lex was looking at her with ambiguous expression on his face.
“What?” she asked.
“I will make sure you will never have to give me a third chance.”
“Well, I believe you will.”
***
When they finally drove back to Gabe’s house and got out of his car…
“Lex,” Chloe called his name in awe.
“What?” he turned to her.
“Look!” She just spread her arms and twirled around.
He wanted to tell her he was looking, at her, at the beauty he saw in her, but then he realized she was talking about the snow.
It was finally snowing. Just in time for Christmas.
“All I see is you,” he said, got to her and kissed her on the lips.
As they were kissing, completely forgetting when they were and what was going on around them, the door opened and they heard, “Finally! Can you, love birds, just go inside before you catch a cold?!” it was Gabe’s exaggerated voice. “I swear… you should’ve just told me in the beginning and we could’ve avoided all that drama!”
Chloe and Lex laughed and walked to the door while holding each other’s hands.
“Thank you, daddy,” Chloe said and placed a kiss on Gabe’s cheek.
“Go inside. Tina has prepared something delicious… wait… what the hell happened to your face?”
***
The Christmas dinner was over. Finally.
Chloe and Lex refused to stay for a movie that Gabe and Tina were about to watch downstairs and they just stumbled into their room, kissing, tearing on each other’s clothes.
Finally, they laid naked on the bed and Lex, after having checked that she was already wet for him, slid inside her, finding his home there. She was the love of his life and he’d known by now how it felt to lose her. He would never make the same mistake twice.
Chloe could just feel. Her heart was swelling at what she saw in his eyes, at that eternal devotion, at how he worshipped her.
Their bodies moving in urgent rhythm, their mouth closed as they didn’t want Gabe to hear them.
And Chloe would really like to scream as her core ruptured in a powerful orgasm, taking Lex with her, milking him.
She had to bite his shoulder as not to cry out in ecstasy and he buried his face in the pillow, the bite making his own release that much more intense.
“God, that was good…” Chloe sighed heavily as he rolled off of her and laid on his back, immediately pulling her to his chest. She took the hint and snuggled comfortably into him.
“When we get back home…” Lex started, trying to even out his breathing, “we’re not leaving the bedroom for at least a week.”
“No complaints from me,” she agreed.
As they were lying there, enjoying each other, loving each other, something struck her.
She finally understood the meaning that was lying behind her nightmares. Her subconscious wanted to show her that without her Lex would be lost. Lost in the darkness. Maybe the grief of losing the only love he had in his life would even push him over the edge to become Lionel.
“How did I not figure that out?” she spoke out loud.
“What?” Lex asked.
“That… that you loved me, that you would never choose your work over me. That you felt sorry for your father…”
“Hey, hey, I never expected you to just figure it out. I hid it all inside very well,” he told her, placing a kiss on her hair.
“I promise I will never leave you,” she said.
“And I promise I will never let you down again.”
“So… when do you want to start on making children?” Chloe asked him after few minutes of silence.
“Whenever you’re ready. I can assure you I don’t have any fertility problems. In fact I expect to succeed the very first time.”
“Oh, you pompous macho!” she huffed. “And no, you won’t, because when I stop taking the pills it may take a little before everything starts working properly down there.”
“Well, I’m willing to wait and… I don’t think I will complain if we have to keep having sex in order to get you pregnant.”
“I’m sure you won’t,” she giggled.
“I can wait, my love, we have our lives ahead of each other. We can make twenty children.”
“Oh, hell no!” She punched his chest gently. “This uterus will not be carrying twenty children! If it did, you would not be able to look at me without frowning in disgust! My body would look hideous!”
“Well, I was joking, but just in case… I don’t care, I love you. It’s not because of how you look, it’s not because of your body, it’s because of you. Of who you are.”
“Still not happening. We can have two, top three.”
“Fine by me. Even if you didn’t have any I would still love you and be with you.”
“Don’t you need a heir for your company?”
“I don’t care about my company as much as I care about you,” he said and moved his hand down to her stomach and finally slid his finger inside her. “Ready for another round?”
***
Some Time Later…
Lex was running late, he knew it, felt it. If only that damn elevator moved faster… Really, couldn’t they made a one that would speed? And why penthouse apartments were always so high?!
“I’m here! I’m here!” Lex finally jumped out of the elevator and stepped right into his hall. “I’m sorry for being so late… I…” He got to the living room, his breathing erratic.
“Were you running here or something?” Chloe asked from her position on the sofa. The dinner they were going to eat that night was already on the table, candles lit.
“I’m sorry. I know you agreed for me being busy this week because of Clark and Lana, but…” Lex started with his explanation as he got to the sofa and sat down on it, idly stroking Chloe’s leg that was resting there.
“Lex, you’re late…” she glanced at her phone, “exactly five minutes. You’re right, I should file for a divorce right on the spot,” she laughed.
“That’s not funny!”
“I know you only worked more, because you wanted to make sure Clark and Lana would be treated properly at the clinic LuthorCorp owns. I understand. Those are our friends and I told you I didn’t mind.”
“Really?”
“Really, silly,” she teased him and then placed a kiss on his bald head. “Now… tell me how did it go?”
“Pretty well, I can tell that it was successful. LuthorCorp will revolutionize the market. My scientists took a sample of Clark’s DNA and put it into his se…”
“I don’t need to know the details,” Chloe interrupted him fats, “but I’m glad it worked. I’m sure you will be able to help a lot of couples that are out there.” She smiled to him and brought him closer so she could kiss him properly on the lips.
“Now I will have all the time in the world for you, my love, and for this little one,” he added, placing his hand on her belly. “I want to see it growing inside you.”
Chloe laughed. “Don’t worry, I won’t just turn into an elephant over the night. You can lose me out of your sight for a while.”
“I won’t,” he promised anyway. “And I’m sure you will not be an elephant… So, how’s your work going?”
“I’m actually enjoying myself immensely,” she informed him. “I don’t know why I didn’t think about writing a book before. I always loved words, so if I can’t be a investigate reporter I can be a writer.”
“As long as it makes you happy.”
“Oh, it does, believe me, it does.”
THE END
Ahhhh lovely lovely lovely! *Feels all warm and gooey inside* Although I still wish that Lex would have put his money into helping the adoption system rather than baby making.
I'm sure Chloe will think of it, too;p After all he put her in charge of those things.Originally Posted by HotCrossedBunny
Good glad to hear it. I love you so much, new idea. How do you do it?
How do I do what? Inspire you to ideas? I don't know
I have few chlex ideas on my mind left, but right now it's Clark's timeI can't stop writing Becoming;]
He he
All writing is good.
I know this is not related to this story, but I've already posted a link to my Clark/OC story called Becoming and I have to tell you - just in case some of you are following - it's been moved to here: CLICK
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