Chapter Ten
Months had passed now.
Lex woke up again from the nightmare that he kept having. Lexi crying from him and he couldn't do anything he wanted to see his child and he knew that Lionel was hurting his baby. Every day he had to go through knowing his child could be living in pain. He had been invited to the Kent's every night since Lexi had been taking away and he knew that Martha had noticed he was getting skinner because he wasn't eating at his house. He couldn't sit in the dining room and look at the high chair and know that Lexi wouldn't be coming home. He missed her he wanted her back he needed her back. He had gotten a call that had cheered him up he could go see Chloe tomorrow but he was dreading the telling her about Lexi. He hoped she wouldn't feel guilty about it because it wasn't her fault. He tried to fall back to sleep trying to leave thoughts of Chloe and Lexi out of his head but he couldn't they were his life and he realized that there was nothing that could replace either of them. He wanted them to be together he missed Lexi at least he knew that Chloe was being well taking care of but just knowing that Lexi couldn't be killed him.
He woke up in the morning early and worked until it was time to go see Chloe. He knew that she would be back in her room and he hoped that she would be alright. He drove to the familiar hospital and he got out and was led to Chloe's room as soon as he opened the door Chloe ran to him embracing him in a huge hug. Lex held onto her tightly kissing her head holding her to him. His heart broke as he knew that she would ask him how Lexi was and he would have to tell her.
"Lex I'm so sorry I never wanted to hurt you." Chloe had backed away from him and was looking at him with sad eyes tears were weld up in them.
"I know Chloe I never blamed you. I love you so much." Lex placed a kiss on her cheek and they both went over and sat on the bed.
"You've gone through so much with me how can you still be here?" Chloe felt that if she had been married to anyone else they would have given up on her a long time ago.
"I promised I would never leave you and I'm not about to." Lex looked at her he wished she would stop thinking about him leaving her he could never do that.
"How is Lexi does she hate me?" Chloe was worried about her child she had felt that something was wrong she hoped it wouldn't be.
Lex sighed and he stood up and faced Chloe. "Lexi is with my father." The words pained him to say and he watched as Chloe's face looked shocked.
"What?" Chloe didn't understand why would Lionel have their child?
"After everything happened dad took me to court over Lexi and I lost. He bribed the judge I did everything I could to prevent it but you know how dad is. I feel awful I never wanted her to go there and now my dad is preventing her from seeing me." Lex wanted to cry he looked at Chloe and she looked sad.
"Lex what if he is hurting her?" Chloe looked at Lex she couldn't believe that Lionel had their child.
"I think he is but Chloe if I try and take her away I can go to jail because I will get caught and I need to be here for you too and I don't know what to do anymore." Lex sat back down and put his head in his hands.
"Take her and go Lex I don't want him hurting our child don't worry about me." Chloe didn't want Lexi hurt and she wanted to get her out of Lionel's clutches.
"I can't not unless you can come to I'm still trying to see her Chloe and I want to see her on her birthday but I don't think that he will let me." Nine months had passed since he had seen Lexi and in two more months it would be her birthday.
"Lex you can't keep her there just for me." Chloe looked at him why didn't he understand that he could leave her here she would be no use. She knew she could never get better.
"Chloe I'm not leaving you alone either." Lex looked at the man who was telling him it was time to go. Chloe noticed the man too and she stood up with Lex. Lex kissed her goodbye. "I love you Chloe and I'm going to get this family back together no matter how long it takes." He ran his hand over her face.
"I love you too and Lex please make sure she is alright." Chloe looked at him she wanted him to get their baby from Lionel but she knew that if he did that he would have to run and she knew that it would kill him to leave her.
Lex left the room leaving his wife behind he wanted nothing more to go back and hold her instead of going home to an empty home there would be no little blond head racing to the door to greet him there would be no one. He didn't want to go home not yet he wanted to try going to his father's again to see Lexi. He drove there even though it was hours away. He entered and was allowed into his father's study. Lionel looked at him glad that he had been warned before hand so that he could put Lexi in her room.
"I want to see her dad." Lex looked at his father with harsh eyes he was going to see Lexi even if his father said no.
"Lex I have already told you that I am not permitting you to see her." Lionel gazed at his son he was finally going to have the child he had always wanted and Lex wasn't about to stand in the way of that.
"Please you have to I miss her." Lex didn't want to beg his father but he figured that he was going to have to.
"My son used manners what a surprise. The answer is still no Lex I suggest you leave before I have my security take you away." Lionel was always threatening him he knew that Lex didn't want to end up in jail he had his family but he would never take Lexi without knowing Chloe could come with him. Which would never happen Chloe was going to hurt someone if she got out of the hospital.
"I don't care." Lex took off down the hall opening up doors looking inside then going to the next one he finally came to the door that was locked and he tried to make it open but it wouldn't budge. "Lexi are you in there?" Lex shouted through the door he wanted nothing more then to see her to hold her. Lex felt someone's hand on his shoulder pulling him away the security guard pulled Lex out of the house and Lex kept screaming for Lexi and he knew that he wasn't going to see him.
"Let him off the hook this time. But if you do it again Lex you will be sure I will send you away to jail." Lionel left his son and went back into the house.
Lex got into his car and went home knowing that the guards wouldn't let him in again. He wished he could have Clark's powers then he could see her. He needed to know how she was. He entered the empty mansion and he missed having someone there he wanted to fill the place with noise he was sick of being alone. He could remember how Chloe and him had talked about filling the mansion with children. They both hated being only kids although Lex knew it had been for the best that his mother had taken his brother's life so he could be the only one. This wasn't the life Chloe and Lex had planned for their child he wanted to know how Chloe had gotten her mental illness so suddenly there wasn't any warning signs. He trailed up into Lexi's room the toys were still left out as she had left them. He didn't feel like having them picked up it made him feel like she was still here. He stayed in the doorway imaging the small girl on the bed and he had just tucked her in and had given her a kiss goodnight. And before he would turn the light off she would tell him that she loved him. Chloe was right Lexi and he did have a special bond he knew it was strong because he was all she could depend on until Chloe got better. He closed his eyes for a minute sighing thinking that if he had worked harder his child would still be here.
Lex saw Chloe every day again for thirty minutes he talked to her doctor and the doctor told him that he thought that the people who medicated Chloe were giving her a drug to make her even sicker. Her doctor wanted to move her and Lex agreed they decided that the doctor would take Chloe to a house that Clark had found. If Chloe got better than Lex was going to kidnap Lexi and they were all going to go in the house together.
Chapter eleven
Months passed and it was Lexi's birthday so Lex got her a doll house, the one that she had picked out a long time ago and he got her a card. He went into his father's house to see her. He walked into the room where his dad was sitting.
"Where is Lexi?" Lex asked him he wanted to see her this time. It had been months and he missed her.
"At school Lex." Lionel told him from his desk as his eyes looked up at him.
"Well can I wait until she gets back?" Lex didn't know why he was asking so nicely but he hoped that if he did he could at least see Lexi for a little while.
"No you can't Lex I have things to do so go put that present in her room and go. The butler will lead you there." Lionel looked at Lex and he knew that Lex was about to refuse. "Don't even think about starting something Lex then you will never see her again." Lionel knew that his threats worked and he knew that he could pursue them if he had to.
"It's her birthday dad why can't I see her?" Lex didn't understand he just wanted to see her and it wasn't like he pushed his father a lot.
"Because I said no now do as I say Lex or otherwise you won't get to see her when I decide you can." Lionel was sick of Lex coming he thought that his son would never get the hint that he wasn't aloud to see her.
"When are you ever planning on letting me see her? She is my kid dad and I want to see her today." Lex looked at him with anger in his eyes.
"Not today Lex why don't you go see your wife instead?" Lionel smirked at Lex.
"Leave Chloe out of this." Lex was getting annoyed with his father.
"Why if you hadn't married her you might have a child that I didn't have to look after." Lionel loved making Lex feel guilty.
"Ever since Lexi was a baby you have wanted her. You wanted to control her since there is no way to control me anymore. If I find out that you have been hurting her I am going to find a way to get her out of this place." Lex hated the man in front of him ever since he had started seeing Chloe his father had disproved telling him he could do better and that Chloe would never love him for who he was. Lex knew that his father had been lying to him when he had heard the secret conversation between Chloe and Clark. Clark had thought that Chloe was making a mistake by dating him and Chloe had told him off telling him that she knew what Lex was and she didn't care and that she had finally found someone that loved her for who she was. Clark had backed off after that.
"You have no proof Lex so I would just stop and go put that present in her room I will make sure she gets it." Lionel smirked Lexi wouldn't be getting that present she was in trouble again and when she got home he was going to make sure she understood who was in control.
"She is my child dad you can't keep her away from me forever." Lex looked at his father he wasn't about to give up not when it came to Lexi.
"Don't you mean she is yours and Chloe's or did you forget about your mental wife? Didn't I tell you before that she was no good for you? Chloe is never going to live up to your standards and the only reason she stayed with you was for that child and because she knew that you wouldn't let her go." Lionel knew that Chloe had been in love with his son and he had tried to make her change her mind but the woman was not going to put up with Lionel.
"Don't call her mental dad and I love Chloe and Lexi I want Lexi back dad and don't think I am not going to stop trying to take her away from you. I remember how you treated me after mom died you were always trying to control me." Lex knew that Lionel was doing everything in his power to control Lexi.
"Is that why Chloe is gone from the mental hospital? Do you really think that you are going to get Lexi back if you get Chloe too? You can't have them both Lex so I would decide who you love more." Lionel took the present and the card from Lex's hands and he started towards Lexi's room. He knew that Lex was following him.
"I can have them both I love them both the same they mean everything to me and you know that." Lex kept following his dad as he opened up the door to Lexi's room that didn't have anything in it at all hardly. Lex knew that Lexi liked to have her doll on her bed but it wasn't there. "Where is the doll I gave her?" Lex looked at his father he knew that Lexi loved that doll and she wasn't about to give it up.
"In the closet don't worry about it Lex just get out of my house." Lionel turned around and faced his son getting him out of the room he wasn't about to tell him that he had ripped the doll up in front of Lexi because she had done something he didn't like.
"Where are you sending her to school dad? Boarding school like you did me so you didn't have to handle me because you started loosing your control." Lex was always bringing up things of the past to his father. He was standing in the hallway now.
"I am sending her to private school it is only an hour away from here so don't worry about it Lex just get out." Lionel looked at Lex he wished that Lex would stop coming their fights got worse ever time he came and he knew Lexi would be home in five minutes.
"No I don't have to not until I see Lexi." Lex was going to refuse this time he wasn't about to leave without seeing her.
"Get out Lex or else I will have my security take you out." Lionel wanted him out before Lexi came home.
"Then have them take me out." Lionel and Lex were back in the office and the limo driver was coming in with Lexi beside him he looked at Lionel with scared eyes. Lex went over to Lexi but was stopped by his father.
"Take her somewhere now." Lionel shouted at the limo driver.
"I'm sorry sir." The limo driver left but he left Lexi in the room he hoped that Lionel's son would do something about the way Lionel was treating her.
"Lexi." Lex said as he watched the child start to move towards him.
"Go to your room now." Lionel told Lexi but she wasn't listening to him she kept making her way towards Lex. Lionel grabbed Lexi and he turned her towards her room. "I said go to your room now." Lionel said in a more stern voice and Lexi obeyed looking back at her father with sad eyes. Then she went out of view.
"Your hurting her you bastard." Lex raised his hand to slap his father but Lionel caught it.
"No I'm not." Lionel lied to his son.
"I saw the bruises on her dad you can't tell me that you didn't hurt her." Lex had seen the bruises on Lexi's arms and legs and he knew that they weren't there by accident.
"You can't prove that I did. Your child is a klutz Lex what can I say." Lionel looked at Lex then he pressed a button on his intercom.
"You did hurt her." Lex started making his way to Lexi's room knowing where it was now and he was about to open the door when the security guard got him and then another one and Lex tried to fight them but they forced him out of the mansion.
"Make sure my son doesn't return here again." Lionel told the security team. Then he made his way into Lexi's room. He opened the door and she sat on the bed knowing that she was in trouble. He opened the present. "Look at what your daddy gave to you to bad you don't deserve it." Lionel picked up the dollhouse and grabbed Lexi's arm forcing her off the bed and she had no choice but to follow him into the room with the fireplace. He lit the fire and watched as it picked up he took the dollhouse and threw it into the fire forcing Lexi to watch it burn.
Lexi cried she wanted her dad she wanted him to come back and she knew that he had tried to save her.
Lionel waited for the dollhouse to disappear and then he took Lexi into her room. "What did you do wrong today?" He questioned her.
"I don't know." Lexi was scared and she was shaking.
"Yes you do tell me now you little brat."
"I don't know grandpa I don't know." She felt like she was about to cry but she wasn't about to, crying was a sign of weakness.
"You didn't listen to me."
"I'm sorry I just miss my dad." Lexi looked at Lionel hoping that more pain wasn't going to come.
Lex hated that he couldn't see Lexi and he could see the power that his father held over her. He knew she had gotten in trouble for not listening the first time. He hated that most of all that he couldn't protect her couldn't prevent his father from hurting her. Once he got home he started looking for schools an hour away from his father he was going to talk to her teacher and hopefully he could figure out how to take Lexi away from the life she was living. He had found a few and had called and asked if Lexi was there once he told people who he was they told him if she was there or not. Lex found the school that Lexi was at and today he had an appointment with the teacher at the school. He was on his way there. Once he made it and was shown into the classroom he watched as the teacher's eyes looked up at him and gave him a warm smile.
"Mr. Luthor please have a seat." She told him warmly
Lex sat down in the chair and looked at the teacher he didn't exactly know what to say first. "Please call me Lex and your name?" It was all he could think of.
"My name is Samantha but you can call me Sam. You have an extremely bright child and it is awful what your father is doing to that poor girl." Sam looked at Lex she knew that Lex was trying to find a way to get Lexi back.
"I always knew that Lexi was going to be bright. I want to know what my father does to her and how often he hurts and if you have any proof it might be helpful." Lex wanted to know even though it might kill him inside.
"Why don't you read what happens to her." Sam started to make her way over to the cabinet in the corner of the room.
Lex turned in his seat to look at her. "What do you mean?" Lex didn't understand why would a teacher have anything to do with his daughter and what his father did to her written down.
"I have journals for the kids to see how well they write and how they improve. Lexi is an extremely good writer and I told her that she could write about what happens to her. Why she gets all the bruises I told her I wouldn't read it but I couldn't help but know. I don't want any child to go through abuse but with your father it is hard he threatens and blackmails so he can get whatever he wants." Sam had taken the journal out of the cabinet and was back at her desk she slid the journal to Lex. "You can look over that for a few days it is all filled up and I got her a new one she won't ask for this one." Sam looked up at Lex hoping that in some way Lex could get Lexi away from Lionel.
"Thank you so much." Lex looked down at the journal almost afraid of what he would read in it. "Does she always have bruises on her?" Lex knew that even though he didn't want to hear the answer he needed to know.
"Yes all over her body. A few days ago she told me that it was her birthday I thought that Lionel would go easy on her but the next day she came in and she looked sad. Her knees were bent in and bruises were all over the red marks. Everyday she tells me that you are trying to see her and that you are going to get her back sometime." Sam looked hopeful that Lex would do everything to get his daughter back but she had also heard about his wife and she knew that Lex couldn't take Lexi back until he knew that his wife wasn't going to hurt her either.
"I really have to go now thank you for your help and tell Lexi I am trying to get her out of that place." Lex started to get up.
"I will I hope you can get her back." Sam watched as Lex left and then she sighed she knew she had just put her family in danger for helping Lex but she didn't care she couldn't see Lexi get hurt anymore.
Lex drove home the journal sat in the seat next to him and he was so afraid to read everything that was in it. Once he was home and brought the journal inside he put it down on his desk debating if he should read it now or later. He decided that it was better now rather than letter. His hands were shaking as he picked it up and opened the first page. It was about when Lionel first got Lexi.
Grandpa is always calling me a brat and that I am bad he says that he needs to teach me a lesson since daddy never did. Whenever I do something wrong he punishes me. He hits me hard and then he makes me wash the blood off in the bathtub.
Lex felt like crying knowing that his father had to hurt Lexi pretty bad to make her bleed and what were the other things he did to her? Lex read more and as he read he cried tears hit the journal it was almost all about how Lionel hit her.
Whenever I do something wrong I have to sit on my bed and wait for Grandpa to come in. I shake not knowing what he is going to do next I hate that feeling. I wonder if he plans everything that he does before. I'm not aloud to cry when he hurts me he tells me it is a sign of weakness. I don't want to be here anymore I want to go home with my daddy. I know that he would never hurt me like this.
Lex didn't know what to think he had read ten pages and he didn't want to read anymore but he had to find proof he knew that if he took his father to court they wouldn't believe a five year olds journal.
One night grandpa got really mad and he hurt me really bad. He took me to the hospital. He had broken one of my ribs the doctor asked me if it was Grandpa that hurt me but I didn't want to get in trouble I didn't want grandpa to hurt me anymore.
Lex kept reading and he got through half the diary when he found something that Lexi had written.
At night I always wonder if he is watching me from the TV in his room. It scares me I have bad dreams about it all the time. Ever since I saw it I worry. He knows every move I make he knows everything that I do.
Lex wondered if Lexi was talking about a camera that his father had put in her room. If he was doing that and keeping tapes then there would be proof but how could he get in without being seen? He didn't even know where the tapes were he assumed that they were in his father's room. He knew that he would have to get Clark to help him again. He hoped that Clark wouldn't mind he asked a lot of him but he needed Clark in order to help Lexi.
Lex took the journal with him and left the mansion he went to the Kent's. He was greeted by Clark and he let him into the house.
"Hey Lex." Clark said as Lex got inside.
"Hey Clark." Lex said he hoped that he wasn't asking too much of Clark.
"What's up?" Clark knew that Lex didn't drop by unless he needed company or help.
"I am grateful for how much you are doing for me but I think I need one more thing if it wouldn't be too much. I hate asking you for all these favors I feel like I should be doing something more but the truth is I can't." Lex confessed how he felt inside he didn't want to use Clark and he didn't want Clark to think that he was using him.
"Its okay Lex whatever I can do to help you know that." Clark gave Lex a warm smile and a pat on the back telling him that he didn't mind helping Lex out.
"I think that my father has a camera in Lexi's room and he might be keeping the tapes. I was hoping you could break in and see if has them if he does they would be in his room." Lex didn't want to talk about the fact that his father was taping his daughter.
"Lex if he is doing that then you can get Lexi back even though it is a horrible thing to do how did you find out?" Clark couldn't believe that Lionel had taped Lexi it was sick and he hoped that he hadn't done inappropriate things but Clark also knew that Lionel wanted control and that was one way to gain it.
"I found out from Lexi's journal her teacher gave to me. Here you can read it if you want I don't even want to finish it. It kills me inside knowing those things knowing I couldn't stop him." Lex looked at Clark he could feel the tears welling up in his eyes.
"I will check right now just wait here it shouldn't take that long I can get in and out pretty quick. Just wait here." Clark looked at Lex then he took off before Lex could get out what he wanted to say.
Lex waited for what seemed like hours even though it was just a few minutes. Clark had a bag full of tapes when he came back in his house. "You found them?" Lex asked Clark.
"Yeah loads of them look the police won't consider these as evidence because we took it from the home I called the cops they are on their way to your father's place and trust me I made sure they are going to find those tapes without Lionel destroying them I hid a few all around the room just in case." Clark put the bag on the table he was glad that Lexi was finally able to go home with Lex after this was over.
Lex took one of the tapes from the bag and went over to the TV he put it in and Clark came up next to him. Lex watched the horrifying images on the tape of his father. Lex had turned away from it within a few minutes he couldn't watch couldn't know how much pain his dad caused to Lexi. Clark kept watching it hurt him but not as much as Lex after all Lexi wasn't his child. He watched the horrifying images and closed his eyes he hated Lionel he was defiantly a sick bastard.
"Shut it off Clark please." Lex told him weakly the sound was on and he could hear Lexi's screams he didn't want to hear it anymore.
Clark turned off the TV and looked at Lex. "It will all be over soon he can't get out of this one." Clark tried to be more comforting but he knew Lex was in deep horror of what his father had done.
Clark and Lex waited at the house until Lex got a call on his cell phone to come to his father's place. Lex left alone and went into the mansion. He looked at all the cops that were there. His father was standing in the room trying to tell the police that he was innocent while one of the cops was watching the tape of Lionel hurting Lexi.
"Mr. Luthor we thought you should know what your father has been doing to Lexi." One of the police men told him.
"Where is my daughter?" Lex asked he wanted to see her.
"Social services took her for safe keeping unfortunately they can't give her back to you until a judge hands custody back over to you. We are making the trial go fast though she should be in your care in a few days I would say the trial should be tomorrow or the next day." The police man looked at Lex he could tell that it wasn't the answer he wanted.
"Can I see her there?" Lex had a nagging feeling he needed to see her he needed to hold her.
"I'm sorry Mr. Luthor but they might think that you were doing something to get her don't worry the trial for you to get custody should be tomorrow if you can just wait one more day." The police man told him.
"Yeah I can. Do you mind if I give a piece of my mind to my so called father." Lex didn't want to wait another day to get his daughter back but he knew there was no choice.
"Go ahead he deserves it." The police man told him.
Lex walked over to where his father was standing. He just looked at him anger in his eyes. "You make me sick you know that. What the hell you never hurt my kid never if you hadn't bribed the judge you would have never have of gotten her." Lex looked at him knowing he couldn't lose too much control because then he would have to hit his father and he couldn't do that with the police around.
"That child needed someone to teach her a lesson. Besides your wife was too mental to be a good parent anyway." Lionel smirked at Lex.
"You did something to Chloe didn't you?" Lex looked at Lionel with fury in his eyes.
"Just gave her some extra drugs made her think the voice was in her head and made her hurt Lexi and you. The only reason I did that was so I could bribe the judge to get Lexi in my care. You and that bitch don't deserve a child you aren't a good father." Lionel looked at Lex trying to get into his skin.
"Well dad apparently since you just confessed you are going to be in jail for a long time. I am going to get Lexi back and I am going to be a better father than you." Lex left him with that knowing that the police had heard his father's confession then he strode out of the house just glad that he was going to get his daughter back in at least two days.