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Summary: Chloe and Lex meet again after 10 years. He thought she was killed, because she was about to testify against his father, but instead Chloe was recruited by CIA and now is an agent.
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Hey, I know, those of you who read something of mine earlier would probably say that I promised not to write anything long, because I wanted to focus on my original books. Well, that was true, I still want to, but while going through my folder where I had all my ideas I found a couple that I definitely won’t write, because I don’t want to go into that particular direction. This is one of those.
I adjusted this to Chlex, but it’s AU. Chloe is a CIA agent and meets Lex again in unusual circumstances. There will be three parts (all published here) and lots of chapters. Now I’m not able to say how long it’ll be or how long I’ll be writing it. I have a lot on my head right now, of course my priority is getting my BA degree, but I’ll still have some time for making videos (for those who subscribe my YouTube channel) and writing my original work and this one.
Don't own any SV connected things (only the plot stripped off the show relations is mine)
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I needed a second female character, so there will be Lana in this story. She seemed to be the perfect choice, because of the connection she has to Chloe, but there WILL BE NO LEXANA, so don’t worry. Lana will surprise you all, I can’t tell how and whether she’ll be good or bad, but I have one request:
I love Lana’s character, so please, keep your hate out of this theme, ok? Comment her character in this story, not the one in Smallville. I promise she won’t be pining over Lex!
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Actually, this is my first AU Smallville work that will be written like a book, so I’m pretty excited. I never had any longer Chlex and anything that was not the canon, unless it was post finale. I have two stories about Lex/OC, but they’re short.
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No infringement intended. I do not own any Smallville’s plot or characters.
Only the outline of the plot – without any Smallville background and the characters’ past - is mine.
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PROLOG:
Lex Luthor walked over to his desk while sipping another glass of his expensive scotch.
He sat down in his comfortable chair and looked into the fire that was cracking in the fireplace. Then he put the glass down on his desk and hid his face in his hands.
What should he do? What was he supposed to do?
What did he really want?
He sighed heavily while thinking about Chloe Sullivan. That small and inconspicuous, but in the same time witty and brave blond high school reporter.
Lex still couldn’t figure out what was it about that girl that was driving him to her, attracting him. He thought he’d experienced everything when it came to men and women relations. He’d been in love, he’d even gotten married, twice. He thought he knew everything there was to know. After Helen had deceived him he’d given up on love for good, he’d been satisfying his needs while sleeping with an unknown amount of brunettes, but with time he’d been getting more bored and bored…
Then Chloe Sullivan entered the picture while asking him for help. That seemed to change everything.
Suddenly he felt alive again, ecstatic, on fire once more. And he started to wonder if he’d ever felt that way before. Sure, Chloe was in high school, but she was graduating this year and there would be no valid reason for him as not to actually pursue her.
There was only one problem – his father.
Chloe was a witness now, she was about to take Lionel down, put him in prison for good. She was the only one who could do that and her safety had to come first.
Yes, Lex could tell her that he would like them to be more than just friends, but he was hesitant. He didn’t want her to feel obligated if she rejected him. He didn’t want her to feel like she owed his something for protecting her from his father.
He was Lex Luthor, not some horny teenager, he could wait. There was no rush. He’d gotten burned and used by the opposite sex so many times that he had no intention to rush now, even though he knew Chloe was different than all the others.
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Chloe Sullivan vigorously rubbed her eyes.
She was working too hard.
She was sitting in her Torch office, probably being the very last person in the building at such a late hour, and working on her next article. Add to that the fact the she was constantly afraid that something might happen to her. She’d even had a fight with Lex earlier on about her walking around without protection. Chloe remembered how she told him that she could take care of herself, but she knew they were just empty words. She needed him and he needed her, so she decided that she would agree to some discreet bodyguard that would watch over her. It was still very early and no one important knew about what she and Lex were planning to do, but still, Lionel’s resourcefulness had no boundaries. He’d proven that before, so she shouldn’t expect nothing less now.
The other reason why she was such a mess were also her feelings. Yeah, she was going to be the key witness in Lionel Luthor’s trial, she had the last year of school on her mind, the Torch, exams… and she was worrying about her feelings toward Lex
It was wrong, she was telling to herself. She came to him for help, not for affection, but she couldn’t help thinking about him in that special way. What more, she was pretty sure he was getting more and more interested in her as well. She could notice it in his eyes. There was always some special bond between them, some intimacy that only they alone could share. It was that way since their first meeting and only deepened later on. They hadn’t been spending too much time together, but their sharing encounters were always meaningful and full of strange tension. She could still remember how she’d gotten infected in one of LuthorCorp’s facilities and obtained the power to make people tell her the truth to every question possible. The way Lex had confessed to her that he only wanted his father to love him shattered her somehow. She felt like since that time one tiny piece of her soul escaped, was separated from her and wandered toward Lex. It was silly, she knew that, but it felt that way. She’d never been able to look at him in the same way again. Now, she saw a human.
With another sigh she stood up and picked all her things up from the desk, then she thrust them to her bag and prepared to leave.
Five minutes later she was leaving the school premise.
She decided to agree to Lex’s proposal and let him hire a bodyguard.
She wasn’t safe anymore.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, two big grown up men in black suits appeared right in front of her.
She didn’t even manage to scream, because her voice was somehow stuck in her tightened throat.
Oh, no, she thought, no, please! Let them not be Lionel’s people! I want to live! I want… I want to see Lex again…
She thought about his cold blue gray eyes that seemed to be lightened up with a warm flickers only when she was around, about the way how he looked at her, how he talked to her… their famous word sparing…
“Chloe Sullivan?” one of the men asked.
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Lex was driving so fast that it was a miracle that he got to the LuthorCorp without an accident.
He parked the car on the sidewalk, jumped out of his vehicle and after slamming the door shut, ran toward the door.
“Mr Luthor, I have to take your car to…” the foreman started, but Lex ignored him. “Mr Luthor, your keys!! You can’t park here!”
“I can park wherever I fucking want!” Lex snapped at him without giving him a glance and found himself inside his father’s company.
Disbelief.
Pain.
Agony.
Guilt.
That how it was. That how he felt. One feeling came and soon was replaced by another. Like a flood.
He failed her.
Failed her.
He had no idea how to live from now on, how to cope with that fact. No idea what to do.
He was confused and hurt. Never felt that way before. Of course, he’d lost some women in his life before, but it was never like that. He’d felt deceived then, his heartbreaks hadn’t been that much important like that stinging betrayals, but now…
Now he didn’t know what to do, what to think. He was torn between that horrible, agonizing pain in his heart and that guilt he felt.
Why had he listened to her? Why hadn’t he just hired a body guard after all? She would’ve never even known! Lex’s bodyguards could be discreet! They could be just unnoticeable shadows…
But it wasn’t only his fault. He wasn’t the one responsible after all.
They didn’t know who did it. There was no evidence that would point toward his father. No evidence at all.
And Chloe Sullivan was dead.
Along with her father.
Lex finally got to the top floor and strode right into Lionel’s office
The younger Luthor pushed the door open so hard that it slammed against the wall and got to his father who was sitting behind his desk.
“Lex, what…” Lionel started, completely baffled, but before he could say something more Lex grabbed the fabric of his jacket up front and pulled him to a standing position.
“WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO HER?! WHY?!” he roared and shook his father like he was just a rag doll.
“Lex… Lex, calm down…” Lionel started, clearly terrified. “Are you having another breakdown? Remember when in BelleReve…”
“I’M TALKING ABOUT CHLOE! CHLOE SULLIVAN! DOES THAT NAME RING A BELL?!”
“Son… what happened?” Lionel asked even more bewildered.
“She’s… dead! She’s dead! And you killed her! You killed her father as well!!” Lex’s voice faltered and Lionel could hear the despair in it clearly.
Lex took his hands off his father while shaking him one last time and turned round, his face contorted in pain, tears in his eyes. He was trembling. It was like just now, when he finally said those words at loud, they really sank in and the reality hit him even harder. He was swept off his feet.
She was really dead.
And he didn’t save her.
All because he wanted to respect her decision. He’d listened to her instead of his instinct.
“Ms Sullivan is dead? I had no idea… why do you think I killed her? And what more important… were you two close? Is she… was she even legal?”
Lex wanted to snap his father’s neck like a twig.
He took a deep breath instead and said:
“Don’t play innocent on me. You had to somehow find out about everything. You had to…” He didn’t turn back to face him though.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about, son and… frankly, such infatuation is just humiliating. How old was she?”
Lex took a swing and while turning around he hit his father in the face.
“You killed her!” Then he jumped to the older Luthor.
“Mr Luthor!” In the very same moment the guards came in and pulled him away from his father who was wiping the blood off his mouth.
“You killed her! You’ll pay for that! You’ll rot in jail!!” Lex kept screaming at him while the armed men were taking him out of the office.
Well… Lionel didn’t pay. At least not like Lex intended him to.
And Chloe and Gabe’s killer was never really found…
Lex spent the whole next year trying to prove that his father was guilty. It was all fruitless, but not even for one moment did he doubt that Lionel did this.
It had to be him.
Then, surprisingly Lionel was sentenced to life imprisonment. Not for the murder of Chloe and Gabe Sullivan, but for his previous crimes.
The trial was secret, no one was allowed in, not even Lex, what surprised him. Who found enough evidence to sentence Lionel? Who needed to be so discreet as not to even tell the truth to Lionel’s only living son?
The answer was only one: the government.
But it also meant that it had nothing to do with Chloe.
She was dead.
Couple of years later his father died in prison, liver disease.
Lex was left completely alone. Broken. Immersed into his business, immersed into running the LexCorp as not to be able to have any time to think about his painful past.
There was never any other woman than Chloe and there would never be. He even stopped sleeping with brunettes.
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Ok, so that was the prolog. The next part will be the chapter 1 – 10 years later.
I hope you liked it : )
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