NOTE: this is somewhat AU
Chapter 1
"Hi stranger, what are you doing?" Chloe asked her cousin when she saw her behind a laptop and a ton and a half of files and documents as she walked into their Talon apartment they sometimes shared since Lois spent regular nights at the Kents when she stayed for dinner.
"Investigating…"
When her cousin didn't continue she asked, "Care to elaborate on that?" raising an eyebrow.
"I was going to explain but got lost in my thoughts." Lois responded rolling her eyes, "I am investigating this girl – a Miss Lara Sparks- its seems she just came out of thin air 'cause there was no record of her until her few weeks ago, I mean one minute there is no activity on her name and now there's flight records, credit card activity, phone calls and…"
"So? She kept on a low key until now and decided to live her life, which hardly qualifies for the inquisition you got goin' on." Chloe interrupted, eyeing the mess of papers on the table.
"I wasn't finished!" Lois said with a smile, "then two weeks ago was her twenty-first birthday and suddenly she inherited more money from some mysterious benefactor that would give Ollie a run for his money…two or three times over!"
"WOW!" was all Chloe could say before her phone rang. "it's Lana." And she walked outside the Talon apartment to take the call.
Fifteen minutes later she returned.
"How is Lana?" Lois asked with genuine interest, she and Lana had never been close during the time she was in Smallville till she decided to return to Paris with here boyfriend Jason something… Lois couldn't remember, however they were friendly.
"Good, but she misses Smallville," she stopped with her report when she saw Lois' eyes roll and facial expression then clarified, "the towns not Clark, besides, you're the only person who calls him thatand she has a boyfriend."
"I know that, I was referring to the fact she actually misses this town – the town with the crazies that tried to kill her on a regular basis- to one of the most romantic cities in the world!" Lois explained her expression previously.
"Any way what are you doing about Miss Sparks?" Chloe asked changing the topic of conversation.
"I called Ollie and it turns out Sparks is staying in one of Ollie's hotels in Star City and with some persuasion I got him to give me life footage from his hotel and maybe bug her room…" Lois trailed of looking slightly guilty.
"YOU WHAT?" Chloe chastised her cousin.
"Hey, it's rule number three" she shrugged, "Do whatever it takes to get the story."
"How did you convince Ollie to do that?"
"Ollie likes me, like- like me- like me. And may have used that to my advantage,"
She paused when she saw Chloe's skeptical look and sighed.
"And when that didn't work I used my friendship with Smallville and they are like." She showed up her two fingers close together, "I mean Smallville took our advice to get more guy friends and now its like they're brothers…maybe you're getting replaced." She finished, eyeing Chloe.
"Ha Ha, but there's no rule that says a person can't have more than one best friend nor one about multiple metaphorical siblings."
"Speaking of Smallville, where's Farm Boy?"
"He's hanging out with Ollie and some of his guy friends."
"Oh." Lois muttered
"Sound disappointed." Chloe stated looking at her cousin/sister, "maybe I'm not the one whose worried about being 'replaced'."
"Shut up. Look you wanna watch the footage or not?"
"Yes, lets."
After a half hour of boring, normal activity they saw the young woman in question; Lara Sparks. She looked younger than her age, she wore a navy blue business suit and carried herself almost gracefully as she sat down by one of the tables near the corner. It was only after she turned and Chloe saw her better and she looked like someone she knew because some of the features looked familiar somehow but coulded place them.
Then some five minutes later both girls got a shock when Clark Kent strolled in and walked over to Lara and huged her and gave her a kiss on her cheek.
"What the HELL is Smallville doin' there?"
Tbc…