Disclaimer: I own nada
Parings: Clark/Lana, Chloe/Lionel, Lucas/Other
Rating: PG 13 (but it might go up, I'll let you know if it does)
A/N: This is kinda a crossover with Angel but there is only a little bit of the Angel characters mentioned in this fic, also Bruce Wayne is mentioned. The time lines are a bit off but hopefully you'll bare with me. Angel- Cordy & Conner haven't slept together so that doesn't exist, so I guess it's around season 4. Smallville- Lionel hasn't gotten Chloe to investigate Clark but Chloe is still working for him, just investigating other companies but Lexcorp.
A/N 2: This is my first Chloe/Lionel fic, I've written a couple of Chlex fics but I'm not too sure if I'm gonna post it yet.
Chapter 1
Chloe walked up to the Hotel where her cousin worked, she did a double take when she saw at the address and the building, outside it was nearly worn down pretty much begging to be rebuilt, 'Damn Cordy' Chloe muttered to herself shaking her head, 'You better not be some house keeper cause your doing a shitty job of it' and Chloe decided that if she was then Cordy would never hear the end of it. Chloe slowly made her way into the hotel, slowly forgetting everything in Smallville and Metropolis and pretty much everything in Kansa's, she just hoped that her cousin didn't mind her just dropping in like this. Chloe made her way through the double glass doors and then saw her cousin sitting at the front desk flicking through a magazine 'Yep classic Cordy' Chloe thought as she slowly made her way to the front desk. Chloe stood at the desk and waited for Cordy to notice that someone was there, she didn't have to wait for long.
"Welcome to Angel Investigations, we help the helpless" Cordy said somewhat automatically as she stood up and then noticed the young blonde woman standing in front of her "Chloe?" Cordy asked somewhat disbelievingly.
"Hey Cordy" Chloe said with a small smile and a wave
"Oh My Gawd Chloe!" Cordy squealed from the other side of the desk and jumped down form her chair and ran from the counter to where Chloe was standing and enveloped her in a huge hug, Chloe just shook her head at how much Cordy reminded her of Lana hopefully with out her fascination with the colour pink as well.
"Cordy, air. Issue. Soon." Chloe managed to get out
"Sorry" Cordy said pulling away with a huge smile on her face "It's just that I haven't seen you in ages"
"That's cool" Chloe said dismissingly, as Cordy led her to a couch that was in the foyer and began to set off about a million questions
"What are you doing here? When did you get here? How long are you here for? Does Uncle Gabe know you're here? Boyfriend?"
Chloe laughed 'And people thought that I was the reporter in the family' Chloe thought to herself before answering "Well I'm here for summer break, I got here a couple of hours ago, Dad's at a conference but he knows I'm here and no" Chloe took a breath 'it's not a lie' Chloe thought to herself
Cordy raised an eyebrow "Trouble in paradise?"
"I wouldn't call Smallville paradise Cordy" Chloe said with a laugh
"So Uncle Gabe knows you're here?" Cordy asked with a raised eyebrow, she'd always known that Gabe would let Chloe do what ever she wanted to whether she had his permission or not, she just didn't want to deal with her Uncle yelling and screaming and telling Chloe to come back home. Chloe nodded "And he let you come here on his own?"
Chloe nodded again "Yeah, he didn't really have a say in it, his boss sent him away on the conference before I decided to come here, so when I did I called him and told him and he agreed"
"What about your friends in Smallville?"
"They've all got plans, I needed to get out of Kansa's" Chloe paused 'and away from the Luthors' Chloe added silently to herself "So I thought I'd come and visit my cousin on the west coast, go to the beach, catch some rays and relax before my final year and the rest of my life begins"
Cordy nodded, knowing just what that felt like, having felt the exact same thing when she was in Sunnydale.
Chloe and Cordy sat on the couch catching up when a tall, dark, handsome man came walking out of the office
"Cordy have you got that Anderson file" The man stopped mid sentence
"It's on my desk" Cordy replied getting up and walking to her desk to get him the file "Oh Angel this is my cousin Chloe, she's from Kansa's, Chloe this is my boss Angel"
"Ah you're the mysterious boss that I've heard so much about?" Chloe said standing up and extending a hand to Angel
"I guess" Angel replied with a raised eyebrow
"Don't worry it's all good" Chloe said with a smile as they shook hands "Cold hands"
"I get that all the time" Angel replied with a shrug
"Here you go" Cordy said handing him the file as her and Chloe sat back down on the couch "Oh Conner, Wes, Fred and Gunn will be here soon"
"Where did they go?" Angel asked as he flicked through the file, Chloe watched him and as he did so it reminded her of when Lionel or even Lex for that matter would look through a file, reading yet still paying attention to the world around them
"Conner and Gunn to the arcade and Wes and Fred went to the bookshop he was telling you about"
Angel nodded
"So what do you investigate here?" Chloe asked, seeing the weapons in a cabinet on the other side of the world and wondered whether she should get some when she goes on the wall of weird expeditions again, and decided that she would stick to same old method of Pepper spray.
Angel and Cordy looked at each other, both wondering what to tell her, that they investigate, Vampires, demons and pretty much anything that goes bump in the night. "We investigate and eradicate unusual activities" Cordy replied quizzically and a shrug of her shoulders, and Chloe thought 'unusual activities you should come to Smallville cause that unusual activities with all the meteor freaks that lived there'
"So" Angel started but was cut off by Chloe's cell phone ringing
"Sorry" Chloe said pausing to answer the phone, Angel and Cordy motioned that it was Ok, and started to go through the file whilst listening to her conversation which Chloe was all to well aware of "Hello"
"Hello Miss Sullivan, are we able to come to Metropolis tomorrow?"
"No I can't"
"Why?"
"Because"
"Because is not an answer Miss Sullivan"
"Well it will have to do"
"Well will I get that report that you promised me?"
"It's on it's way, it will be on your desk first thing in the morning"
"May I ask where you are?"
"I'm visiting my cousin if you must know"
"Your cousin?"
"Yes, I haven't seen her in awhile I thought I'd come and visit her before my final year and since I'm caught up with work I didn't think you would mind"
"Well you have lived up to you end of the agreement"
"That I have"
"When will you be gracing us with your presence?"
"I'll be back soon"
"I would like I definite answer Miss Sullivan"
"Well I don't know, I'll let you know"
"That you will"
"Look I've gottta go"
"May I call you?"
"What?"
"I said my I call you whilst your on this vacation of yours?"
"No you can't I need this time to sought my head out"
"You sure?"
"Yes I am, I'll call you once I get back home" Chloe said hanging up giving the person on the other end on chance to respond, and she turned her phone off knowing that he'll call back, Chloe looked at Cordy and Angel who were looking at her "My boss" Chloe said of as explanation.
"You didn't tell your boss you were coming here?" Cordy asked with a raised eyebrow
"No, he wouldn't have let me have the time off work, I did the work he wanted, he's out of the country, so everything's cool. I'll just call him when I get back home" Chloe explained, as she threw her phone in her bag
"So who do you work for? What do you do?" Cordy asked
Chloe paused and thought about her answer, the truth that she investigates companies for weaknesses so her boss can exploit them and get a cheaper deal and out do his competitors "I work for a friends dad, and I do PA type stuff" Chloe replied after taking a deep breath 'ok not the complete truth but not a complete lie either'
"So what's your boss like?" Angel asked
Chloe shrugged and smirked, not a Luthor type smirk but a smirk nevertheless, "Depends on who you ask. Some say he's the devil incarnate" Chloe didn't notice the look between Angel and Cordy both hoping that it was some metaphor and not a real live devil "His son's, well that's a tricky question cause there's a lot of tension there"
"And you?" Angel asked now knowing that it's just a metaphor that people use and not someone that they have to kill
Chloe shrugged "Depends on my mood, most day's he's Ok?"
"What does Uncle Gabe say bout it?"
Chloe looked guilty for a second which both Cordy and Angel caught, 'Damn I really have to work on my mask' Chloe thought for a second "Well considering the public opinion of the guy no one knows and that's what we both want"
"You mean no one?"
"Yep, cause for one the whole town would freak cause it pretty much means I've sold my soul to the devil to be in the same room with him, his eldest son would lecture me bout what it's like working for his father and my friends well" Chloe paused to shrug "I don't know where to begin there"
"Then why work for him then?"
"Cause I wanted to and it's a great job opportunity for me"
"You want to work in the corporate world?" Angel asked
Chloe laughed, "No, investigative reporter to the 'Daily Planet', working for the guy I work with it's helping me make good contacts that I might use in the future"
"So your networking then?" Cordy asked
"Yeah basically" Chloe answered 'not really but sure' Chloe thought to herself
"Where are you staying?" Cordy asked
Just as Chloe was about to answer four people came into the room
"Conner I so kicked your butt man" a Bald man said, instantly reminding Chloe of Pete
"Yeah but I'll get you next time" Conner said with a smile
"Hey guys" the woman said
"Hey Fred" Cordy said "You guys have fun? Got the books?"
"Yep" the bald man and Conner said at the same time
"Yep" the other man said holding the books up
"Hi" Fred to Chloe
"Client?" the bald man asked
"No Cordy's cousin" Angel explained
"Hi" Chloe said with a wave
"This is Gunn" Cordy said pointing to the bald man "Conner, Fred and Wes" Cordy said pointing the rest out
"Hi" they all said, before going there separate ways. Conner upstairs muttering something about homework, Fred and Wes followed Angel into the office.
"Hey feel free to hang out for awhile, gotta go to work for a bit" Cordy said before following the others into the office, leaving just Gunn and Chloe in the foyer.
"Aren't you going to go into the office?" Chloe asked
Gunn shook his head "Nah, that's book stuff, not so good with that" Gunn said sitting next to Chloe "So your Cordy's cousin"
"Yep"
"Any juicy embarrassing stories you wanna share?"
"Nope"
"You say much?" Gunn asked with a smile
Chloe looked at him and smiled herself "I've been known to construct a sentence or two"
Gunn raised an eye brow "Where are you from?"
"Kansa's, Smallville actually"
"Is that as small as it sounds?" Gunn asked with laughter in his voice
"Smaller" Chloe said with a laugh "You?"
"LA native. So what do you do back home?"
"Well for starters I'm a high school senior, next year anyway, I'm the editor of the school paper called the 'Torch', I'm also a PA to the local Devil"
Gunn had a shocked look on his face wondering what she meant by that
Chloe laughed "Don't worry he's not really, but I wouldn't get on his bad side though"
They sat in silence for a few moments "So Girlfriend?"
"See where getting to the dirty stuff" Gunn said with a laugh which Chloe returned "No. you?"
"No" Chloe replied 'yes Chloe keep going with that' Chloe thought to herself
Just then the door to the office swang open and Cordy came bouncing out "Hey cuz, where are you staying?"
Chloe thought for a second "At a hotel down the road. Why?"
"Not anymore, your staying here, don't worry I've cleared it with the old broody one"
Chloe raised any eyebrow "What do you mean?"
"Well Chloe if you haven't realised we're in a hotel so there's plenty of room, plus no board" Cordy finished off with a smile
Chloe smiled "Thanks, that would be great"
"Good, now Gunn will go with you to get your stuff"
"I will?" Gunn asked in amusement
"You will" Cordy said with a smile, then turned and walked back into the office
Chloe and Gunn got off of the couch and slowly made there way out "Is she always like that?"
Gunn nodded "Yep. So how long you staying for?"
Chloe shrugged "I don't know yet, I just gotta sort some stuff out before I go back"
"K then"
Chloe looked up at Gunn with a look "What?"
"I was just wondering if you knew where I good coffee shop is, cause I haven't had a decent cup since I left Metropolis several hours ago and if I don't get a decent amount in me soon it won't be pretty"
Gunn raised an eyebrow "What do you mean?"
"Once I was out of coffee and I went camping with some friends, don't ask me why we went with such low supplies of coffee cause I'll never know, and as soon as we got back to town and went into the coffee shop, I pushed down the co-owner cause he got in the way of me an the counter, and he got a black eye"
Gunn laughed "What did he do?"
Chloe laughed at the memory "Nothing, he just saw the look in my eye, backed away and didn't come near me till I had my second cup and then put a rule in that if I'm running into the shop I get served first to prevent injuries, and the funny thing is he doesn't back away from anyone they back away from him"
"So you scared him?"
Chloe nodded "The first time in history I think, I think he thought I was going to kill him"
"Well were you?' Gunn asked with a raised eye brow
Chloe smirked "Maybe, Maybe not he got in my way and had warned him previously about it"
Gunn laughed Did he get hurt?"
Chloe laughed "Yeah a black eye, needless to say now whenever we're are in the coffee shop together he buys me my coffee"
"You give the guy a black eye and he gives you free coffee" Gunn said in awe
"Well it was either that or an expose on him, fact or fiction it didn't matter"
"So you bribed him?"
"Yep" Chloe said with a smile as they got into the car
"You always get what you want?"
"Nope, but I will do my best to get it" Chloe said with a laugh
"Well we better get some coffee into you before you go all crazy on us"
"That would be greatly appreciated kind sir" Chloe said with a smile
"Sir?"
"Well you are leading me to reason of existence so I think the phrase 'Sir' is warranted here"
Gunn laughed as they pulled away from the hotel.
Chloe looked out the window and though 'Yep, just where I need to be to forget about everything back home, I just hope that he doesn't come and try to find me cause that's the last thing I need right now, an overprotective billionaire who doesn't know what he wants'
A/N: what do you guys think? Continue? Don't? Let me know.
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