Yeah, but we all know how that one ends...EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited even though I know that they will get married (although, of course, I don't know when yet)! Chlex are going to get married. Chlex LOVE each other. Chlex are going to get married! HotCrossedBunny
Thanksloved the last 2 updates.lex and chloe agreed to give the relationship a try.loved the lex wants to marry her and in clark's own way he gave his blessing cbrunberg
Ready to get to know the reason their marriage is falling apart?oh, that is so sweet. Chloe and Lex fighting and then hot make up sex. So what happen to the marriage? We need to get back to the present to see why their marriage is falling apart. trckyrcky
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AN My apologies for updating so late. Now besides studying and going to classes, I have a lot of research and paper work to do because I want to spend my last year of studies abroad.
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Part 6
Some time later…
Chloe could not believe it, yet it was happening.
She remembered how she had barely met Lex and after a few weeks of being together, he had just proposed to her. She could not refuse. She had been so in love with him. Maybe it was the bliss that a person had when falling in love, but getting married had seemed a very good idea. Why would they wait? Life was short and they should live to the fullest.
The wedding had not been a huge event. They had wanted to celebrate their love, not the Luthor social status or connections. The only people present there were Lois and Clark as their witnesses. Then Chloe and Lex had gone for their honeymoon.
Problems started when they had come back home. They had had even more reasons to argue when people had put a stigma on Chloe. She had married a Luthor, a person that had been the main subject of the papers a few years back. Maybe Lex had been right when he had told her that there was nothing to write about him anymore, but his reputation had still been there. Probably would always be there. He had promised to be by her side, to be her support and she had thought she had been silly to argue about such stuff in the first place. She had gone back to work. It had been hard for her because the gossip column of the Planet had been writing about her and Lex for quite some time. It had not been pleasant, but it was not true either. After a day at work Chloe had been going back to Lex’s penthouse in Metropolis and he had made her forget. He loved her so much.
Now she was sitting in the bathroom with a small stick in her hand.
She couldn’t believe it, yet it was there. A small plus.
She was pregnant.
They had been talking about having a child for quite some time, but they did not think it would happen so fast once Chloe got off her birth control.
Once the shock passed, it was replaced by a sudden giddy feeling. She was happy. She was already imagining a little baby in her arms. She saw the happiness on Lex’s face once it would be brought into this world. She saw happiness. So much of it. Maybe baby was the answer. Maybe it would stop them from falling into those stupid insignificant quarrels? They were working hard not to have them, but sometimes they could not help it. They always apologized to each other by the end of the day though. They could not let those petty things come between them. Maybe baby would be the ultimate answer? Maybe their whole attention would be shifted to this little creature?
Chloe had tears in her eyes, so happy she was.
She heard the front door open and she ran out of the bathroom.
“Chloe? What happened? Why are you crying?” Lex asked worryingly when looking at her.
“Those are happy tears!” she squealed. “You’re going to be a daddy!!” she exclaimed and threw herself into his arms.
He caught her in his embrace, being a little shocked, but once the news sunk in, he actually smiled and tightened his hold on her, then twirled her around when laughing.
“We’re going to be parents!” he yelled when he finally put her down. She pulled away from him and he cupped her face, looking deep into her eyes. His own were watery by now too. “Chloe, I’m so happy. We’re going to give this baby a home we both never had. I will be the perfect daddy. I will be here and I will focus entirely on my family, I won’t even work so much, I promise! Our baby will have both parents and those parents will love him so much!”
“Him?” Chloe asked.
“Or her. I don’t care.”
She smiled again.
“I love you.”
“I love you too,” Lex answered and kissed her. She put her arms around him again and then jumped him, entwining his waist with her legs. He carried her to the bedroom when he intended to make love to her for a very long time.
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“I’m just saying we should at least talk about it!” Lex yelled, arguing with his wife again. “This private school will give our baby the best education!”
“NO!” Chloe shouted. “No, no and once again no! I will not send my baby to a private school where she’ll have false friends!”
“And I will not send her to a school where she’ll be picked on!” Lex did not agree with Chloe.
They just found out the gender of the baby and once they got home, they decided to choose the best future for her. That led to another fight.
“Lex, you were in private school,” Chloe sighed heavily, lowering her voice and massaging her temples with the tips of her fingers. “And I know you were not happy.”
“I was in a boarding school. Private school is in here, in Metropolis.”
“When all the kids will compete with each other to be most popular! She will not have friends there! She will have false friends, because she’s a Luthor! And she may even be hated!”
“Hated? Is that what you think of me? That people can only hate me?!”
“No!! I love you! Your friends love you! We are your family! But this baby… once she gets to school, she will have a very hard time, so let’s not make it even harder! She will not be placed in a private school. Period! I want her to get to know real life. Maybe it will be harder, but at least she’ll know where she stands! And in a public school, of course they are bullies too and mean kids, but this will the place where she will be able to find true friends too! I met Clark in a public school!”
“Clark is one in a million!”
“There’s always a person that can be your friend. You just need to give it time to find them.”
“Why can’t she do it in a private school?!”
“Lex, for a god’s sake! Stop it!” Chloe shouted, so tired of this fight. “This is all meaningless… we shouldn’t fight about this now!”
“This is the most serious thing we’ve ever had to discuss!” he was being stubborn.
“The kids in private schools will all be snobs! And I will not send our daughter there!” Chloe yelled, determined like the discussion was already finished.
“Ok,” Lex sighed heavily and rolled his eyes. “Then we’ll leave this decision to her.”
“What?”
“If she doesn’t like one school, she can go to the other.”
“And I presume the first school will be off your choice?” Chloe asked. “Save the money for her college education, Lex.”
“I have enough for everything!”
“You said you’ll be spending more time at home once the baby is born.”
“You’re hanging on to my words! Stop that!”
“Our baby will not be a lab rat! She can’t just go to all the schools to decide on her own just so we both stop fighting!”
Chloe took her bag and directed herself toward the door.
“Chloe!” Lex tried to stop her. He could tell she was crying by now.
“Leave me alone, Lex!” she jerked her arm free when he grabbed it. “I need time!!” she cried out, tears now clearly streaming down her face. “How can we have a baby when we can’t stop fighting?! We were fooling ourselves!”
“Chloe!”
But she did not listen.
Next thing he heard was her scream along with a sound that would haunt him for the rest of his life.
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“Doctor! How’s my wife?!” Lex got to the doctor that had taken care of Chloe once they had got to the hospital. Chloe had fallen down the stairs. “Is she ok? Is the baby ok?” Lex was shaking. He was terrified and he felt such a guilt that it was killing him. He loved his wife more than anything and he loved the baby just the same. His daughter. They were going to call her Lily. At least one thing they agreed on. Now he knew it was stupid to argue about school. What difference did it make if their daughter would go to a public or private school? At least he stopped caring now. He had been raised differently than Chloe. Maybe she was the one that was right? She had been raised by her father alone, but still, she had managed to have much happier childhood than Lex had ever had with both his parents, at least before his mother died. Then it only got worse.
“Mr. Luthor…” the doctor started and Lex knew already that something was wrong. “I am so sorry. We did everything we could, but your wife lost the baby. You can go see her now.”
Lex felt like his whole world just crumbled down around him.
The baby he already was buying stuff to. The baby room that was ready in their penthouse. The baby he imagined he would hold in his arm. The daughter that he would have to raise and protect from all the bad guys. He even thought of the first day she would start dating and he would have to be the father she needed then…
It was all gone now. She was gone. Dead.
Was it the Luthor curse? Can’t Luthors just be happy?
Lex walked into Chloe’s room on wobbly legs. He barely saw anything. He was afraid to face his wife and in the same time, he needed to be by her side. He needed to take her pain away even if that would destroy him.
Only he was never prepared for this.
“Chloe?” he asked so quietly that he thought she did not even hear him.
Chloe was lying in a hospital bed, her face pale and swollen from tears. She did not look at him. She looked in the direction of the window on the other side of the room.
“Chloe?” Lex repeated, coming closer to her. What should he say to her? He had no idea…
It was she who spoke next and those words broke his heart all over again.
“Get out,” she just told him, her voice emotionless, empty, alien to him now.
“Chloe…”
“You heard her,” that was Lois who was now standing in the door and right next to her was Clark.
“But…” Lex started, looking at them.
“Get out, Lex before you make it worse,” Lois was adamant and she actually threw him out of the room.
“But… Clark!” Lex turned to his friend, but he did not look at him at all.
He was left alone in the corridor, still not understanding what had just happened.
Then after another twenty minutes Clark walked out of there with a stone face.
“Can I see her now?” Lex got to the door immediately. “Clark, she’s my wife!” he cried out when his friend was still in the door, blocking his way in.
“I’m sorry, Lex, but Chloe doesn’t want to see you. There’s nothing I can do.”
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Now
He still remembered how hurt he had been then. It had been days and Chloe had still not wanted to talk to him.
Then she had sent him divorce papers and he had known.
She could not be with him anymore. She hated him. She probably blamed him for losing their daughter. She was done with fighting.
If only he wasn’t so stubborn… he could have had it all if only he had let go of some things.
Right now, when he was sitting by her side, again in a hospital, again it had happened because of him… he did not care about a school their child would have gone to. All he cared about was family. He just wanted it all back. He wanted family and he wanted a healthy child.
All gone…
“Chloe, I am so sorry…” he whispered, taking her hand and stroking it softly. “Can you ever forgive me? I love you so much… I never stopped…”
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