Title: Something In The Way
Rating: PG - language
Verse: Smallville (AUish)
Pairing: Chloe/Lex
Disclaimer: I own a concept, nothing more.
Summary: Chloe talks to her baby.

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"When I was just a toddler my mom and dad would sit with me and tell me the way they met, the way they fell in love. When I was five, my mom walked out on me. Just up and left. One second she was leaning down to kiss my forehead after making me lunch and the next she was getting into a cab. I should have stopped believing in love then. But I didn't. Well I did. But then I found the man of my dreams. Clark Kent. When my father and I made the move from Metropolis to Smallville for work related reasons I fell in love. Head over heels, pulse pounding in my chest, love.

"It was nice to be in love, nice to pretend maybe someone loved you back. With Clark that's what it always was. It was me pretending. Pretending that he cared about me, pretending that he just maybe thought of me in some other way as just one of the good ole guys. I wasn't a guy then, and he knew it. There were just more feminine girls for him to look at.

"Then I met Lex Luthor. Our hands gripped in a brisk handshake and it was then that I forgot about Clark. Kent who? *Chloe shook her head* Seriously. One look into those blue pools and I lost it. That night I had my first wet dream and it had everything to do with those hands. *Knock on the door* Yeah?"

"How much longer do you plan on hiding in there?"

*Chloe rolls her eyes* "Anyway, like I was saying. I met him and then that was it. I knew he was the one for me. Complete sap, right? I totally agree. *Chloe frowns looking back on the memory* Which is why I didn't pursue it. I thought if I pretended nothing was there between us that it would go away. It didn't. I made it through my four years of high school and said good riddance, off to Met U I go. See, Clark and I didn't speak to each other for a good chunk of our senior year. He crushed me, broke my heart.

"Funny thing was, I was mad at myself, not at him and Lana Lang. *Chloe's lips curled in a sneer* I won't get into Lana though because once I start I may just have to look her up and commit murder. Yes, she was that bad. Okay, anyway, back to where I was going. See, Lex had just gotten married for his second time and I had yet to tell him anything. After the first one I meant to say something, really, but I didn't. I held back and waited till I was a little older.

"My freshman year of college was hard on me, my dad wasn't doing so well health wise and he worked for Lex Luthor. I hadn't thought twice about asking Lex for additional care, I thought if it didn't turn around for the better, that I could just quit school. Move back to Smallville to be with him. It was January when Clark and I started talking again and Lex was on his fifth wife. He was knocking them down one a year. It was entertaining in a sadistic way, I suppose, because two months later Clark and I had our first official date and Lex had just gotten a divorce.

"This is where it gets complicated. Very complicated. So complicated I could have my facts wrong because everything was a big blur to me. See, A year and a half later, Clark and I were still dating. I had been hinting at getting engaged at least and he'd roll his eyes and tell me his salary wouldn't afford it.

"We were walking through the park on a Sunday afternoon, a slight overcast hung in the sky and my phone rang. It was my dad. *A tear slipped down Chloe's cheek. * He told me he was dying. I asked him what from and he had informed me that the doctor's weren't sure about it. They had never seen anything like it. I immediately went home. Leaving Clark behind wasn't all that hard. It wasn't all it had chalked up to be. *Chloe wipes the wetness from her face* So I get home and I see my dad in the hospital and I just lose it. I blame the meteor rocks naturally, just because.

"The next day I marched my ass up the stone steps of the Luthor Mansion. Wife number six burst through the front oak door and screamed profanities behind her as she hopped into a waiting limo and it sped off. If I had thought better of it at the time I would have never entered the house on that particular day. But I was pissed. More than pissed. LexCorp, the company for which my dad worked, had been experimenting with these meteor fragments. And Lex Luthor, the man I'd had wet dreams about for the last four years was the man in charge of what went on at LexCorp.

"So what did I do? I strolled into Luthor mansion as if I owned it."

"Chloe, honey, what are you doing? Or do I not want to know?"

*Chloe laughed and unlocked the bathroom door.* "Just sit still and be quiet while I'm recording."

*Her guest nodded.*

"Okay, Like I was saying, I strolled into Luthor Mansion as if I owned it. Found one heavily drunken Lex Luthor in his study and began to rip him a new asshole. I screamed at him until my voice was hoarse and then he just stared at me like I wasn't there. Finally I walked over to him and slapped him hard across the face. My hand stung for nearly... *Chloe giggles and kicks at her assailant* Stop it, I'm serious."

"Keep going." Her guest urges her on.

*Chloe sighs and blows a puff of air up at her bangs* "Okay, anyway, I slapped him, hard, and then all of a sudden he smiled. Like he had had an epiphany. And I smiled back because he looked kinda deranged and I didn't want to...Lex, stop it, I'm serious."

"Can't you finish this in the morning? Or afternoon? Or the next day?"

*Chloe laughed* "I suppose, why what did you have in mind?"

"Let me just turn this..." *Click*