Disclaimer: The characters aren't mine *shock!* If they were, I would be incorporating my sick, sad ideas into the script, and not spending my nights writing ff.

Warning: Contains slash. Don't like, don't read. Simple as that.

Chapter 1: The Discovery

"Ok, now I need to see Lex, Lana and Mrs Kent, then over to the great barn to work on my chem. project with Clark, and over to the Torch to finish off this damn article." Chloe was running through a checklist she had drawn up, so that she could try and get herself organised.

She may be the Editor-in-Chief of The Talon, but her life was in a complete state of confusion. She had lost track of what she had to do, and when she had to do it. She was at her wits end when Pete and Clark brought up the idea of writing things down. Why she hadn't thought of that before was a mystery to her, but she thought it was a good idea, and so she was writing it all down, which is how we come to find her at Luthor Manor.

"Who is it" the intercom asked her.

"Chloe Sulivan, here by appointment to meet with Alexander Luthor" She wasn't sure why she called him Alexander, but it seemed more formal to her. Alexander for business, and Lex when they were friends. They weren't really friends, but she acted civil around him for Clark's sake. Why he liked Lex was another of life's mysteries, but she liked Clark, and that was enough to keep her usually wide-open mouth shut.

Walking in Luthor Manor was like walking through the chamber of horrors, you knew that there was nothing to be afraid of, but there was something about the place that made you wonder if maybe you should be afraid. Well, not much scared Chloe, only a strange fear of blue flowers, and she wasn't sure why, but that wasn't quite right to her. The sky is blue, not flowers. It's just so wrong! Her mind was never on track, always wandering off the topic, as she was shuddering at the thought of blue flowers, she came to the door at the end of the hallway.

She could distinguish Clark's voice on the other side of it, even if she couldn't hear what exactly it was saying.

"Convenient," she thought, "now we can get right over to the barn, and I don't have to search all over the place for him to get this lab assignment done. Thinking nothing of it, she swung open the door, and before she even processed what she was saying, "Clark I want to see you after I've spoken to Alexander." An "Oh My God" and finally "Pete owes me $10" quickly followed that.