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A/N - PLease review if you read....this fic is feeling neglected....BTW, I cut out the chapter about CLOIS so just to keep you abreast, they're a thing.
Chapter 23 – Back Home
“Just drop me here. I’ll call you.” Chloe got out of the car and headed up the steps.
“Chloe,” Lois jumped out of the car, starting to plead with Chloe.
“Lois, go home and wait for me to call you – I have to take care of this on my own.” Chloe shoved her key in the lock just as the guard opened the door for her. “Hi. I wanted to have another go with Lex.”
“He’s not here right now Miss Sullivan, but you’re welcome to wait for him. How’s the arm?” The guard helped her to her room and waited to see if she needed anything.
“It hurts but bones heal.” The guard excused himself as Chloe started going through her closet as a ruse. When he departed, she headed out the other door of her room through the one that connected to Lex’s room and the office. Sneaking into the office, she looked around and listened. Not hearing anyone coming, she quietly opened the box on the shelf and pocketed the object in it, just in case.
“Where’s Chloe?” Clark ran out to Lois’s car as she got out.
“At the mansion – she said she wanted to figure out what was going on and that she was the only one that was going to be allowed in there. Clark I am really worried about her – if he comes back and finds her there, who knows what he will do to her.” Lois fell into his arms and started to cry. Breathing heavy, Clark closed his eyes and held her for a moment.
“I’m going over there.” Lois grabbed his hand as he started to the truck. “Clark, don’t – I need you.” Lois continued pulling on his hand. “Lex will kill you – he’ll kill both of you.” Clark turned and kissed her passionately and hugged her.
“I’ll be fine – we’re both going to be fine.” Clark got in the truck and drove away.
Chloe continued to tool through the room as the computer loaded. She keyed past the firewall of the computer and started searching the files for the last few days. Stopping on one folder, she noticed that many of the files were identical to the ones from her computer. He’s been stealing from me – not my Lex but still – oh God. Chloe continued reading the file, swallowing hard realizing that her research just set up a massive experiment that Lionel had first started. Sitting back in the chair, she couldn’t believe what he had started, what she had helped to start.
“Nice to see that my fiancée is taking an interest in my business dealings. Why don’t you just ask.” She peered over the computer screen to see Lex leaning over the desk, eyes firmly glued to her. As he pulled the cord out of the computer, he leaned further over the desk, pressing the screen down. Almost close enough to touch her lips, he whispered, “Now, why are you home? Want to go make up?” He smirked as he held his hand out to her.
Chloe got up out of the chair and walked around the opposite side of the desk, trying to avoid him. He moved closer to her as she stopped. She could feel that electricity that she usually felt with his touch as he ran his fingers along the sling her arm was in. “I’m so sorry honey.”
“I’m not your honey,” Chloe breathed as she pulled herself away from him. Starting to the door, she watched as he passed and closed the door.
“Not so fast,” he responded as he turned back around and walked toward her.
“That’s close enough.” Lex stopped suddenly when he saw Chloe pull his gun out of her bag sitting on the corner of the couch. “Back off. What’s 33.1?” She could see Lex’s eyes get bigger when she posed the question.
“You shouldn’t get involved in things – I always knew you were a nosy little bitch. I was really hoping that I wouldn’t have to kill you because actually there is a little of the old me in here and we could have been a great couple.” Chloe held the gun steady as she heard the words roll of his lips. Trying to not concentrate on the words, bitch.
“BACK OFF!” Lex stepped closer to her and held his hand out to pull the gun off her. “STOP RIGHT THERE!” Suddenly the gun went off, and she dropped it on the floor as Lex fell backwards onto the floor.
From outside, Clark watched as Chloe shot Lex in his office but his hearing alerted him to another area of the mansion.
Chapter 24 – RIP?
Clark continued to follow the screaming from inside the mansion as he x-rayed the building, trying to avoid having to hurt any guards. Breaking a window, he jumped into the basement to find several locked vaults. Listening more intently, he could groans of pain coming from the vault in the corner of the basement. Lex.
“Lex, how do I get the door off?” Clark yelled and waited for an answer. Hearing the groans had subsided, Clark closed his eyes and prayed that Lex was ok but unconscious. Putting both hands on the handle, he jerked the door out of the hinges and laid it on the ground. He saw Lex slumped over on the floor with his hands and legs still bound. He was holding his stomach, which was bleeding. Clark picked him up and ran him up to the office upstairs.
“Clark, I think he’s dead.” He could see Chloe leaning over another bleeding body bawling. She was pressing his coat up against the bullet wound. Tears continued to fall on Lex’s body, “I killed him.”
“Chloe, I think we have a problem.” Chloe looked up as Clark put the other Lex down on the floor next to the other body. “Now, Chloe, you remember what happened exactly at the plant that caused this to happen?” Chloe crawled over to the other body and placed her hands on her face, starting to bawl again. She laid her head on his chest, hugging his shoulders. Her Lex. Clark pulled her hands off of him, “Chloe, you gotta help me or we could have a real problem. He could die. Think.”
Chloe sat up and recounted the events in the plant from a couple of days ago and tried to put the pieces together. She looked up at Clark.
“What?”
“We need a meteor rock and a lot of heat.”
Clark breathed in heavy and closed his eyes. “How much heat?”
“I don’t know exactly. It was enough to cause the green meteor rocks to turn to onyx – almost black.” Chloe held Lex’s hand and squeezed. She could hear him barely breathing and touched his chest. “Clark, there’s barely a heartbeat. You gotta do something.”
Clark paced in the office thinking how he could possibly bring Lex back in one piece without giving up his secret. After listening to Chloe’s pleading and hearing Lex’s heart beat to nothingness, he knew he had no choice. “Chloe, you have to keep what’s about to happen a secret, even from Lex and Lois, and we won’t discuss it. No one can know.”
Chloe looked at Clark in confusion. “Ok,” she barely whispered. Clark shook his head and supersped out the mansion door, to the house and back. When he got back a few seconds later, Chloe was still sitting on the floor with a stunned look on her face. “How did you?”
“You promised we wouldn’t discuss it. Now, you want him to live right?” Chloe held Lex’s hand and shook her head.
Clark laid the lead box that Lex had given him years ago down between the two bodies and went up the stairs to the library. “Chloe, open the box, put both of their hands on it, and then get out of the room.” Chloe did as Clark instructed and left the room. She waited outside in the hallway as she could see a blinding light come from office and hear Lex scream in agony. She sunk into a ball in the hallway and waited until the light was gone. “Chloe, close the box, quick.”
She walked in and shut the box just as Clark zipped through the office and disappeared with the box. Laying there next to it was Lex, still unconscious and bleeding but complete. Clark returned and listened. “His heart’s stopped again. The electricity from the crystal started it momentarily. We need to get him to the hospital. Do you trust me?” Chloe shook her head yes as she watched Clark pick him up and head to the door of the office. “I’ll meet you at the hospital.” Clark then was gone, with Lex in hand. Still in shock from what she had seen from Clark, she picked up her bag and headed for her car.
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Chapter 25 – Shadow in the Bunker
“Sir, Lex has been compromised.” The man on the other line said solemnly.
“Is he dead? Is my son,” Lionel stopped realizing what could have happened.
“No sir, I don’t believe so, but the second has been eradicated in some measure.”
“Fine.” Lionel hung up the phone and sat at his desk in the hidden bunker. Looking at the computer screen, he watched as the footage from the mansion’s office showed some kind of explosion that Chloe Sullivan and Clark Kent were involved in.
Turning back to the other computer, he looked over the file open on the computer dealing with 33.1. Well, son, you messed up again. Lionel smiled as he continued to go over sketches of the new facility he was building unbeknownst to his son or son’s fiancée.
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