Junior1985 - Clark does come into this story. Hopefully this chapter will clear up where Cecily fits in with the rest of the regular Smallville characters. Thanks for reading and reviewing. Hope you enjoy.

Lex was sitting in a comfortable leather chair, his feet propped up on another chair and a school book sitting in his lap. He was trying to get through the chapter they had to read for tomorrow's class but he wasn't getting very far.

He heard the door open and looked up. He saw the butler holding the door open and Cecily come in. Lex was immediately worried. It had been four months since their first date, and although she often came over to the mansion with him she had never showed up like this, on her own and unexpected. It didn't take him long to notice the tear stained face either.

"Cecily, what is it?" He asked softly, casting his book aside and crossing the room to meet her.

She threw her arms around him and started to sob on his shoulder. He held her tightly wishing he could some how take away all of her pain. He heard the door shut again as the butler discreetly left the room.

Lex held her until her sobs started to die down.

"Cecily, tell me what happened?" he asked again wanting to know what had gotten her so upset.

"It's my mother. She was killed in a car accident this morning," she told him through her tears.

"I'm so sorry," Lex told her holding her tighter not knowing what else to say. Knowing that really there wasn't anything he could say. He knew what it felt like to lose someone you loved. How empty the words felt that everyone said to you.

"No Dad, I understand. I'll be fine. All the arrangements are made already," Cecily told Jonathan Kent over the phone.

"Martha could come up there if you need her," Jonathan told her feeling bad that he couldn't be there with his daughter.

He and Morgan Logan hadn't been together since highschool. He hadn't even known about Cecily until she was three years old. Since then he had been the best father he could despite the distance between him and his daughter. As she got older she had spent more time on the farm with him, Martha, and Clark. She knew the truth about Clark. Knew what he could do.

Despite the relationship he had built with his daughter, he still hadn't talked to Morgan that much. Even when he had the conversations usually turned into an argument. He was sorry that she had been killed. Felt bad for his daughter that she had loss her mother but he couldn't say he really missed Morgan.

Still, if there was anyway he could have made the trip to Metropolis for the funeral he would do it, to be there for Cecily. But this was a critical time for the farm. Lost time now in the fields might never be made up. He could spend the whole season behind.

Cecily knew that. Plus she knew how her biological Mom and Dad had gotten along - not well at all.

"It's fine Dad," Cecily told him. "I know how important this time is to you guys. I'll be fine. I've got someone here for me," she added looking over at Lex who stood nearby.

Lex had been her rock these last few days. He had helped her make the arrangements for the funeral. Helped her make phone calls. Been a shoulder to cry on. She knew she wouldn't have gotten through these last few days without him.

"That's good to hear," Jonathan said wondering not for the first time who it was his daughter had been seeing these last few months. She wouldn't say much about the guy just that she was happy with him which Jonathan figured was the most important thing. "If you need anything . . ."

"I'll call," Cecily said finishing his thought for him. "I'll see you next week, Dad. I'm going to come home for spring break."

"Okay," he told her. "I love you Cecily."

"I love you too Dad."

June:

"I won't be going back to Metropolis University come the fall," Lex told Cecily. "Seems they've had enough of my antics."

"Can't you fight it?"

"Why bother," Lex told her. "This has always been my father's doing and not mine."

"You're not fooling me," she told him softly wrapping her arms around him. She knew that being kicked out of college bothered him. Helped reinforce his father's opinion of him that he couldn't do anything right.

She also knew this had been coming. Despite her best efforts, she still hadn't been able to keep him out of trouble. He still ran with the same group of guys. Was still sneaking into clubs and running into trouble with the law. Trouble that his father covered up.

Still she loved him. She wasn't giving up on him. In fact, she had already told her father that she wasn't coming home this summer. She was staying here in Metropolis.

September, one year later:

"Lex what's wrong?" Cecily asked as she looked across the table at him.

"My father is sending me to Smallville. He wants me to take over the plant down there."

"You don't sound too happy about that," Cecily said not understanding at all. Since being kicked out of Metropolis University Lex had become more involved in LuthorCorp. She thought that running a plant would mean a lot to him.

"My father is just sending me down there to get me out of the way," Lex told her. "He's waiting for me to fail."

"Then prove him wrong," she told him. Lex didn't say anything.

"When do you leave?" she asked him.

"The end of the month."

Lex had moved to Smallville at the end of the month. He hadn't been in Smallville that long when he had finally met Cecily's family, although not the way he had wanted to. Clark Kent had no idea that the young man he had pulled from the river was his sister's boyfriend. Lex hadn't realized who his savior was until he had met the boys father. From the moment that he had met Jonathan Kent he had realized why Cecily was hesitant to tell her father about the two of them. He knew she was right. Jonathan Kent would take it harder than his own father had.

In the weeks that passed after the accident, Lex and Cecily's relationship became shaky. Cecily knew both sides of what had happened and what was happening in Smallville. She knew of Lex's obsession with the crash and his theory about Clark. She also knew he was right but she couldn't tell him. It wasn't her secret to reveal.

The stress was too much for their relationship and the two of them had broken up. Still Cecily couldn't forget Lex. Then she had heard about Victoria Hardwig staying at the mansion their in Smallville. Cecily knew Lex couldn't love her. He had dated her once before, right before she had gotten together with Lex. Victoria had used Lex then and Cecily knew the two were using each other again.

Still, Cecily couldn't help but feel jealous. She knew then that she loved Lex. She always had and deep down she knew that she always would.

Cecily saw the announcement of LuthorCorp's take over of Sir Hardwig's company. She knew than that Lex had won the battle with Victoria Hardwig. She also knew that Victoria was out of the picture.

So she had made the drive out to Smallville. After seeing her family, seeing the damage done to the farm but the dumping of the LuthorCorp chemicals. She had talked to Clark. Listen to him as he told her about what had happened and finding out about Lex's past and Club Zero. The doubts that Clark had about what was the real truth about what happened.

Cecily knew but she couldn't put her brother at ease that what Lex had finally admitted to was the truth about Club Zero. Not without telling him about her and Lex. Not without putting him in between her and her parents. She wasn't about to do that.

Still she saw something in his eyes. It was almost as if he expected her to have the answer that he wanted. That he knew more than he was letting on. That somehow he knew, or at least suspected, about her and Lex.

She knew it was possible. She had told her family about Lex over the years they had been dating. She had always used his full first name though, Alexander, and was careful never to mention his last name. Still Clark always had been perceptive.

It was after her talk with Clark that she had headed over to the Luthor castle.

Lex had been sitting at his desk going over some corporate files on his computer when the butler had opened the door for her. She had seen the surprise on his face when he had seen her. He stood up from the desk and walked around it as the butler left the room.

Cecily could see that he was searching for words. That he wasn't sure what to say. She felt the same way. She knew what she wanted to say to him but she couldn't bring herself to say the words. They seemed empty some how.

Before she could change her mind she crossed over to him and put her arms around him hoping that he wouldn't push her away.

The move took Lex by surprise. He hadn't expected her to show up let alone this reaction. Still, he had to admit he liked the feel of her arms around him. He had missed her. There had been plenty of times that he had wanted to call her. Plead with her to take him back. Plenty of times that he had dreamed of her coming back to him. Still he had never expected it to happen.

Slowly though he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close. After what he had been through the last week, this was one part of his past he was glad to have back. The feel of her in his arms brought him comfort. He felt safe.

"I'm sorry Lex," she whispered to him eventually her heart on his chest listening to the rhythm of his heart beat. "I was wrong to try and shut you out of my life. To think I didn't need you in my life. I love you."

Lex closed his eyes. Those were the three words that he yearn to hear the most in his life. The words he thought he would never hear again after his mother died. Then he had met Cecily. She had said those words and he knew she had met them.

When he had been captured, helpless hanging upside down in that straight jacket, it had crossed his mind that he would never hear those words again. As the Jude look alike had pointed the gun at him, it was Cecily's face that had flashed through his mind. He would die and she would never know just how much he loved her. That was his biggest regret.

But he hadn't died. Clark had saved him. Lex had no idea how but he knew the only reason he was alive was because of Clark. Clark gave him another chance at life once again but Lex knew only Cecily could make that life worth living.

Lex knew what he had to do. He wasn't letting this chance slip by. Lex pulled away from Cecily. Cecily looked back at him. He could see the hurt and fright in her eyes. She thought he was pushing her away.

He cupped her chin in her hand and tilted her head up so that they were looking directly at one another.

"Wait here," he told her softly. "I'll be right back."

She nodded wondering what was going on.

Lex left the room and headed up to his room. He walked over to the dresser and pulled out a small jewelry box. The box held the diamond ring he had bought the previous fall. Before Cecily had walked out of his life.

He put the box in his pocket and headed back to the library. Back to where he had left Cecily.

She was still there. Standing in the same spot he had left her, looking around the room. Lex walked over to her and took her hands in his.

"Lex, what is it?" she asked confused by the way he was acting.

"You said you loved me. You don't know much I have longed to hear those words again," he told her softly. "Don't know how much I've missed you. How empty my life has been."

She searched his face. Searching for some hint as to what he was getting at.

"These last months without have made me realize just how much you mean to me. I know there are obstacles in our way but no matter what it takes, no matter what I have to give up, I know this - I want you with me, wherever that may be." Lex went down on one knee and took out the jewelry box opening it. "Cecily Logan-Kent will you do me the honor of becoming my wife."

Cecily felt her breath catch. She looked at the ring laying against the blue velvet. The diamond was not big as far as engagement rings went. She had friends at college who had larger diamonds but it wasn't small either. In fact Cecily thought it was perfect. Nothing too fancy. Simple. And Cecily knew that some of the best things in life were the simple things.

"Yes," she whispered softly. It was the only word she could force herself to say. She watched as Lex took the ring out of the box and slipped it on her hand. He then stood up and hugged her close.

Cecily hugged him back. She wished this moment didn't have to end. The hug ended but Lex kept one arm wrapped around her, holding her close. Cecily held out her left hand in front of her looking at the ring that sparkled there.

"If it isn't big enough I can always buy another," Lex told her jokingly.

"Don't even think about it. It's perfect," she told him tilting her head upwards. He leaned down toward her and they kissed.