Chloe & The Brothers 9: The Enemy of My Enemy Chapter 3, a Smallville + Vampire Diaries Crossover fanfic

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"Hey Ric," Chloe slipped into the alleyway next to him, a small smile on her face.

"It's good to see you Chloe." Alaric Saltzman surprised the blonde by giving her a hug. It wasn't that they were on bad terms or anything, he was Damon's best friend, but Alaric had always been someone she'd always looked up to and felt a bit intimidated by in Mystic Falls, and whenever he'd been around she'd always tried to give him and Damon time to be alone. He was Damon's only friend and she'd wanted to give them space.

Still, she hugged him back tightly and smiled brightly once she pulled back. "How have you been doing?"

"It's been busy in Mystic Falls." Alaric made a face as he motioned for her to join him as they moved from the alleyway and began to walk together, mingling and losing themselves in the crowd. "But I'm here because of the Originals, and Katherine, and because of you, Chloe." His gaze rested on her as he sighed. "I feel bad for lying to Damon but I knew I needed to talk to you alone when he nor the others were around, but especially him."

"It's really not good, huh?" She licked her lips and pulled down the baseball cap she wore, trying to cover her face better as they spoke. "You're worried he's going to do something rash and reckless like he always does."

"You know Damon." Alaric let out a sigh. "If he knew you were in danger he'd do something incredibly stupid."

"Why exactly am I in danger though, and from whom this time? I mean, I know I'm somewhat different, but what part of my difference has made me a target, and who is targeting me?" Chloe turned her gaze towards him with a frown. "Is it Katherine?"

"Why am I always painted the bad guy?" A voice wanted to know, causing both blondes to stop in their tracks. "Can't I actually want to help for once?"

Chloe's eyes widened as she turned to her left to see the vampire she'd only heard about for so long, Katherine Pierce, standing in all her ridiculously high-heeled glory.

Alaric tensed before he let out a little sigh. "If you want to convince them to let you help, you'll have to come up with a more believable reason than you actually wanting to help."

Chloe's eyes widened as she turned to Alaric. "Huh?"

"Why can't it just be out of the goodness of my blackened heart?" Katherine's lips twitched as she began to saunter towards them, hips swaying, curls bouncing perfectly. "So, hunter, you realized that I'm actually here to offer my assistance to my favorite boys and their little plaything. I have to admit that I'm impressed."

Plaything?

"It's part of the reason why I needed to talk to Chloe without Damon around." Alaric didn't look happy about this at all, in fact, he look very annoyed. "Damon wouldn't want to listen to reason and would just want to kill you."

"I'm way older than him, plus his sire, I could handle his temper tantrum." Katherine rolled her eyes, obviously not taking that threat seriously. Her gaze then turned on Chloe observantly, examining the blonde thoroughly as she tapped a finger to her glossed lips. "Other than the need for a serious fashion intervention, you're not too bad, I suppose."

Chloe felt completely confused. "What's going on?"

"Well, Goldielocks, let me put it this way…" Katherine reached out and picked judgmentally at Chloe's clothes, an unhappy expression on her pinched face. "Even though I stayed away, I kept an eye on my boys and so I know all about you and your… peculiarities. So I know that I'm not the only one who knows about them. I also know that egomanic of Klaus, and he's in the middle of a powerplay right now and wants you because you can give him something that he doesn't have, which means I don't want him to have you. And when it comes to keeping Klaus from having what he wants, well, let's just say I have hundreds of years of experience."

"What could I possibly have that Klaus would want?" Chloe made a face.

Katherine rolled her eyes. "I know you're blonde, but just stop and think about it for two seconds."

Chloe glared at her Grandsire.

Alaric glared at Katherine as well before he turned to Chloe. "What's your greatest ability?"

Chloe honestly couldn't think of one except: "Being able to go into a house without being invited?"

"Wait, I didn't know that one." Katherine blinked her thick eyelashes.

Alaric ignored Katherine. "What did Klaus do when he let out the vampire secret?"

And then it hit Chloe, hard. "He Compelled all those who weren't wearing Vervain."

"Dingdingding, we have a winner!" Katherine folded her arms over her chest as she raised a perfectly plucked eyebrow. "And who is the only vampire that we know of who seems to only be able to use her Compulsion on people using Vervain?"

"Just how closely have you been watching us?" Chloe narrowed her eyes at Katherine.

"Believe me, if it wasn't for the fact that you were useful, I would have killed you a long time ago," Katherine assured her spitefully. "But despite the fact that you've taken my two favorites from me, you're probably the most interesting vampire to have come from my bloodline, and there's no way in hell that I'm letting anything happen to you." She snorted. "Or letting Klaus get his grubby hands on you, and through you, total world domination."

Chloe made a face at the older vampire. "It wouldn't matter even if he did 'get his hands on me' because I wouldn't help him."

"That's sweet, but you wouldn't have a choice," Katherine sneered. "Originals have a nifty little ability you don't know of: they can Compel other vampires."

Chloe's eyes widened. "What?"

"It's one of the perks of being the first of the species." Katherine was obviously highly annoyed with this. "Believe me, it's highly unpleasant because you think that once you're not human anymore you're free from the threat of Compulsion ever again. Boy, are you wrong." She was obviously speaking from experience. "That doesn't matter now though, what matters is that Klaus knows about you and your ability, and he is planning on using you to finish Compelling the rest of the world."

Alaric narrowed his eyes. "Why wouldn't you want this? You're a vampire. Wouldn't you want even those wearing Vervain to think vampires are harmless and friendlies?"

"Of course." Katherine's smirk was pure mischief before her expression went serious. "But I don't trust what Klaus will do with no one to oppose him."

Chloe's phone rang and she reached into her pocket, pulling it out to see that the number was Dean's. She answered the phone. "Hey, uhm, now isn't the best-."

"Your psycho vampire grandmother was here."

Chloe's lips twitched when she saw Katherine pout at the description, the brunette able to hear him thanks to her vampiric hearing. "I'm staring at her right now, actually."

"What? Are you okay? Do you need-?"

"I'm fine, Dean. Don't worry about me, I'll handle this. You guys just go about your normal day as if nothing weird is happening, it's the best thing that you all can do right now." She took in a deep breath. "I'll, uh, I'll talk to you later, and thanks for the heads up." She hung up the phone and stared at Katherine. "You leave them out of this."

"I go for two brothers and I'm labeled a whore. You, on the other hand, go for four, and what do you get? A fanbase." Katherine rolled her eyes. "Seriously, it's sickening." She planted her hands on her hips and turned to Alaric. "Have you read the fanfiction on the websites circling around on the internet? It's basically hardcore porn."

Alaric raised an eyebrow before he turned to Chloe. "We need a place where we can set up a homebase. I brought my gear with me. I'm guessing the Winchesters' place is off limits so…"

"I know a place we can use," she assured him. "It's not exactly the Ritz, but it's big, and most importantly, private and secure."

"How about with a living owner who'll invite us in?" Katherine wanted to know, hands anchored on her hips. "Because not all of us can just go into places without being invited, but it's the best way to be safe from Klaus and other vampires in general."

"She's right," and Alaric looked pained to have to side with Katherine in any way. "Not that I will have a problem with invitation, but Stefan and Damon will."

"I know," Chloe reassured him as she put the phone back into her pocket. "I've got that covered." And yet she hesitated, gaze on Alaric. "Damon and Stefan took me out of Mystic Falls so she wouldn't know about me, how can you be so sure that we can trust her?"

"We can't," Alaric announced. "Katherine is a manipulative personality who'd sell us if it'd get her ahead."

"I'm right here," the vampire reminded them.

"But, it would seem, from my research, that this Klaus wants her dead," the hunter continued, as if she hadn't spoken.

Katherine's eyes widened before they narrowed and darkened. "How the hell do you know that?"

Alaric continued to ignore Katherine. "So it's in her best interest to protect you and keep you from him. And that is something we can trust: her need to protect herself."

Katherine moved lightning fast and grabbed Alaric by his throat, her eyes black. "I asked you a question."

Chloe moved and grabbed Katherine's fingers, bending them away from Ric's throat and pulling them free, pushing Katherine a couple of steps away as she moved in between the hunter and older vampire.

Katherine shook her head as she huffed. "Watch the manicure, I just got it done. Not that you'd know about those sorts of things. Your fingernails look like they're used to being bare."

Chloe ignored the constant jabs at her physical appearance and raised an eyebrow at the much older and stronger vampire. "I don't care if you're annoyed and jealous because you think I've stolen your favorite toys. If you really want to work together, you're going to do it our way or no way at all. And part of our way is that Ric doesn't get manhandled."

"I can take care of myself," he assured her.

Chloe ignored him, eyes narrowed on the brunette, realizing that this was Katherine testing her, seeing how far she could push, how far back the blonde would bend. Chloe had heard Stefan's stories about Katherine Pierce, and while Damon would only talk about Katherine when he was really drunk the blonde had heard about her from him as well, and she'd learnt a lot about the vampire who'd made the Salvatore brothers what they were. She knew Katherine was smart and cunning and resourceful, she knew that the brunette used people and situation to her advantage. The thing was that Chloe knew all of this, and she wasn't about to be taken advantage of, or to be blindly manipulated or played by Katherine Pierce.

The brunette eyed her darkly as she took a menacing step towards the blonde. "I'm older and stronger than you, you should remember that."

"And you need us," Chloe reminded. "You should remember that."

A muscle ticked in Katherine's cheek before she smirked darker. "We need each other."

Chloe let out a sigh.

That was what she was afraid of.

"Damn it!" Dean was shaking with fury. "She's cutting us out!"

"She's trying to protect us, but-." Sam clenched his fist.

Lois was quiet as she grabbed her things and headed towards the door.

Dean frowned as he looked up at her. "Where are you doing?"

"I need fresh air," the brunette announced as she opened the door. "I'll be back later." With that she closed the door and headed down the hallway towards the elevator, feeling horrible for lying to the boys, but it couldn't be helped. She was acting on a hunch anyway. And it wasn't as if they hadn't lied to her for a whole damned year either, so this was payback.

Anyway, how she saw it, things were happening and those vampire dudes were coming. Chloe wouldn't be bringing them here so she'd need to find a place to hole up, somewhere safe, and from the rules that had been discussed last night, Lois believed she might have an idea where Chloe was headed right now. There was no way that the brunette could sneak out if she had Dean and Sam with her, but alone she could definitely get out of here unnoticed and check out the place to see if her hunch was right. If so, she could get her cousin to spill on what exactly was going on and make sure that she wasn't left out of the loop.

Lois wasn't going to lose her cousin this time.

Determined, the brunette pushed on.

Ric's eyes lit up visibly as they pulled up towards the large cast iron gates to the humongous place. "Oh wow. I know you said it was big but I wasn't expecting this."

In the backseat, Katherine whistled as she leaned between the two front seats and looked in front as well, her eyebrow raised. "You've got to be joking."

Chloe sent the vampire a look. "What?"

"It looks haunted, for one." Katherine made a face.

Chloe hesitated a beat before decided to bluff for a reaction. "What if I said it was?"

Katherine sneered before she paused. "Wait, are you serious?"

Even Ric looked a little taken back by that one.

"I'm sure no one is going to cry if you don't stay with us," Chloe assured her.

Another muscle ticked in Katherine's cheek even as she smirked. "Why would I risk the chance though?" She raised her chin. "I was a very important person in both Stefan and Damon's lives, and I'm sure once they see me they'll want to waste no time catching up." That smirk grew. "We'll probably stay late into the night."

Alaric snorted. "Yeah… I don't know about that one. Damon will probably try and stake you within the first five minutes."

Katherine turned her dark, unhappy eyes on him. "He might be unhappy with me right now, but once Damon cools off he'll understand why I did what I did."

Feeling on edge, Chloe opened the door and emerged from the car as she headed towards the security box by the gate and flipped the lid open. She hesitated, knowing that there was no turning back once she did this, but this was the only place they could do this and she knew that they wouldn't mind. It would only mean that she should be expecting a call, very soon.

Licking her lips, Chloe placed her hand down on the screen, letting it scan her prints until it beeped, and then pulled her hand away and moved so that her eyes could be scanned.

"Identity confirmed: Watchtower." A tinny voice announced from the security box. "Proceeding to phase two."

She blinked. Phase two? Since when had there been a phase two?

Suddenly the screen went blank, and a dial-tone could be heard.

Chloe's eyes widened. No way. There was no way that-!

The screen suddenly showed somehow she hadn't expected to see, Oliver Queen sitting at his desk, his hands clasped in front of him, eyebrow raised. "Sidekick, long time no see."

"Ollie," she gulped, having been psyching herself for a phone call, not for this. "Hi."

He did not look pleased. "So, you're alive."

She flinched. "I deserve that."

He didn't deny it.

The blonde felt horrible and guilty and awkward as she stood there staring at him. "How's Dinah?""

"Relieved to know that you're alive, though pissed off to have found out through E!News, along with the rest of the world." Oliver Queen was seriously pissed off with her. "She's planning on joining Lana and Clark when they come to visit you."

Chloe blinked, surprised that Dinah really cared that much. It wasn't like they'd been besties, and considering that Dinah and Oliver were together now she would have thought that a mere phone call or message through someone else would have sufficed. "Oh, I-."

"You're lucky Bruce wasn't the one who answered this."

Seriously, just how pissed off was Ollie?

"He, Dick, Helena and Barbara have been working night and day and have barely spent a day out of the… uh… you know where." Oliver leaned closer to the screen as he kept his narrowed eyes on her. "Otherwise he probably would have noticed the beeping before me and picked up and then you'd be in the shitter."

He was acting as if she wasn't in the shitter now.

Chloe deserved it though, which was why she merely kept her head lowered and allowed him to say his mind.

Oliver merely sighed though. "It must be bad if you went there, knowing that you'd have to face one of us, and we all know confrontations are not your strong suit." He sighed once more. "Chloe, I'm sorry, I-I'm just glad you're alive."

She nodded silently.

He leaned back hard on his seat and ran his hand over his face. "How can we help?"

Her voice was soft. "I just need some friends invited in."

"Invited in." He raised an eyebrow. "So, we're talking vampires."

She hesitated before she nodded.

Oliver frowned. "Chloe, do vampires have to do with your disappearance a year ago?"

Chloe looked up at him finally. "I know I don't have the right to ask you for anything, Ollie, but you and Bruce co-own this place, and we need someplace safe."

Oliver frowned at her in silence before he took in a deep sigh. "We're not finished talking. I'll be getting in contact with you later. You owe us an explanation as to what the hell is going on there."

Chloe nodded slowly before she motioned to Katherine.

The vampire emerged from the car and sauntered towards them, eyeing Oliver with a smirk. "Well hello gorgeous."

Oliver raised an eyebrow. "This one of them?"

Chloe nodded.

Oliver frowned as he leaned forwards. "You have my permission to enter."

Katherine smirked. "Thank you."

Chloe's "Thank you" was much more humble.

Katherine was much too amused.

Oliver's screen went blank.

"So, I'm counting six." Katherine turned to Chloe. "No matter what you like to think, you and I are not too different. My big sin was being unable to choose between men I loved, and from what I hear, you have the same exact problem."

Chloe frowned as she eyed Katherine, unable to deny that.

"So what's the big difference between us that makes me the villain?" Katherine placed her hands on her hips before she turned and stormed towards the gates, pushing them open.

Chloe turned to look at the vampire, whose words rang hauntingly in her head.

Exactly what did make them so different? If anything, in that regard, Chloe was a hundred times worse than Katherine considering that the brunette had only been torn between two men, and the blonde was currently torn between four.

A frown touching her lips, Chloe made her way back towards the car.

"What is it?" Damon sent Stefan a look.

"It's Chloe." Stefan's gaze was on the screen of his phone. "She's just texted us the address of the place we're going to be staying. She says to let her know before we arrive because she needs to meet us outside. Apparently we need to be invited in."

"Smart, that way no other vampire can get into the house." Damon's gaze went to the front before he frowned. "Oh god, I hope it isn't with the Wonder Brats."

"I doubt they'd have us." Stefan licked his lips.

"Maybe that's what this little talk is all about." Damon's grip on the steering wheel tightened.

"No use worrying about it now." Stefan was, as always, boringly right. "We're almost there and we can find out when we do."

Lois didn't recognize the car in the front but knew that the fact that there was a car inside the gates at all meant that her hunch had been right and this was where her cousin had gone to. She got out of her own car and went towards the security box, flipping it open and slamming her palm down on it and letting it read her before pulling her palm away and letting her eyes be read.

"Identity confirmed: Legs." She was seriously going to kill Oliver for making that her overall codename, but considering that the gate opened she didn't complain too much, merely entered her car, drove up, and parked next to the other car. The girl looked up at the rearview mirror to make sure the gates were closing and then jumped when she realized that Chloe was suddenly standing next to her door. "Jesusfuck! Don't do that!"

The door opened, and an unhappy Chloe frowned at her. "What are you doing here?"

"You think a year apart made me forget how you think?" Lois rolled her eyes as she reached into the passenger's seat and grabbed a bag, pushing it into Chloe's chest. "Here, take this." She emerged from the car and went to the backseat. "My other stuff's in the backseat, and I have our other stuff in the trunk. The essentials."

Chloe held the bag tightly to her chest. "You shouldn't be here."

"Who's ride is that, by the way?" Lois motioned with her chin to the car.

"A friend rented it when he arrived," Chloe hedged. "Lois, you really shouldn't-it's dangerous."

"I know, you're going to have those two vampires around you." Lois frowned at the thought as she grabbed the bags from the back and passed one to Chloe before slinging one of the straps around her own shoulder and grabbing the handle of the humongous suitcase, which could thankfully be wheeled around.

"It's not them I'm worried about." Chloe sent a look towards the house as she fixed the strap around her shoulder and even took the other from Lois as well, obvious much stronger now as a vampire. "Katherine's here."

Lois hesitated a second before she somehow managed to yank the ridiculously huge suitcase out of the back of the car and to the ground, and slammed the door closed. "Met her for a split second, she seems like a bitch."

"Well, she won't win Miss Congeniality, that's for sure." Chloe moved to block Lois' way when the brunette turned towards the building. "Which is why I'm sure you can understand why the thought of you and her sleeping under the same roof does not sit well with me."

Lois stared at her cousin, who was burdened down with all of her bags, before she let out a little sigh. "I'm not leaving, Chlo."

The blonde stared at her before she looked away. "You think I'm going to just disappear again without saying goodbye, just like Dean does."

"I get why you did why you did." Lois licked her lips. "But I also get what you are now, Chloe. You're a bloodsucking vampire, and I realize that I've missed out on a lot of this whole new person you've become." She steeled herself. "I'm not going to miss out on anymore. We've always been the most important persons in each other's lives, above jobs and boyfriends, and that hasn't changed for me."

Chloe stared at her in silence, and for a split second Lois was scared the blonde was going to tell her that it had changed for her. And then Chloe gave a whimper, dropped Lois' bags to the ground, wrapped her arms around Lois tightly and hugged her. "I'll protect you."

Lois let out a little sniffle and would have hugged Chloe back, but the way Chloe was hugging her had her arms locked at her sides so she was unable to reciprocate the action. "I don't need protecting. Just teach me how to protect myself, and how to be useful."

"I-I know the perfect person to that sort of stuff," Chloe's voice was hoarse as she pulled away, a smile on her face. "He's the friend who rented the car, actually. He hunts vampires."

"Right," Lois nodded, having forgotten about the vampire hunter who was friends with vampires. "How does a vampire hunter befriends vampires? I'm curious."

"It's a complicated story, you'll have to ask him one day when he's drunk." Chloe picked up Lois' stuff once more. "Come on, I'll introduce you to Ric. We'll come back for the things in the trunk."

Lois nodded with a smile as they moved towards the entrance of the converted, abandoned hotel, which had once been a base of operations for the JL but had long since been abandoned and all intelligence on their operations scrubbed when they'd moved to their next HQ. It was now one of their many safe-houses located all across the globe.

On the way in they nearly ran into a tall, handsome blonde male who'd been on his way out.

"Sorry!" The guy blinked before his eyes widened. "You're Lois Lane!"

Lois blinked right back at him. "Guilty as charged."

Chloe looked between them curiously.

"I, uh, I watch Paranormal." The guy cleared his throat as he scratched the back of his head. He then shook his head as he held his hand out towards her. "Where are my manners? My name's Alaric Saltzman. I'm a friend of Chloe's, Damon's and Stefan's."

"Lois Lane, but you already knew that." Lois reached out her hand to shake his, admiring his strong grip. "So, Chloe said I should wait till you're drunk to ask-but how does a vampire hunter make friends with vampires?"

"Lois!" Chloe's eyes widened.

"No, it's okay." Ric's lips twitched as he nodded. "It's a very long, complicated story."

Lois eyed him thoughtfully. "You can tell me while you're training me then."

"Training you?" Alaric blinked, his gaze going to Chloe, only now seeming to realize how burdened down she was and taking some of the bags from her.

"She's going to be staying here, I can't get her to leave," Chloe gave a sigh. "So I was thinking that maybe you could give her lessons on how to protect herself, especially with the Princess of Darkness hanging around."

"I can hear you," Katherine's voice echoed from somewhere in the building.

Chloe ignored that, eyes on Ric, who nodded. "Thanks."

"No problem," the hunter gave her a small smile. "Considering she already has prior martial arts knowledge, and has the proper personal motivation, I think she'll take to this quickly."

Lois grinned brightly, admittedly excited at the prospect of not only having managed to get Chloe to accept the fact that she was going to stay here, but learning actual vampire hunting techniques from an honest to god vampire hunter. This day was suddenly seriously looking up.

TBC