Disclaimer: If I got sued you would get sarcasm, and not much else.  So it's not really worth it is it?

Author's Note: I'm glad you like it; it makes me happy when you review.  Crush was very good, Chloe got some action (not with Lex damn it!), and we found out the name of Lex's Mummy, Lillian is a nice name.

Chapter 14: Patricide is Illegal, Unfortunately.

Catherine sank back so she was sitting on the edge of the desk; Lionel was still stood near her.

"Come, come my dear, you didn't actually think I'd welcome you with open arms did you?  I know your mother didn't raise an idiot."

She took a deep breath and counted to ten.  When that didn't calm her down, she stood and whacked Lionel straight in the jaw with an amazingly strong right hook.  She grabbed her bag and stormed out, Lex followed suppressing laughter at the image his father presented.

By the time he got outside, Catherine was already tearing out of the grounds at high speed.  Lionel, still shaky from the punch arrived next to him.

"That girl is a fucking psychotic!"

"Yeah, I'm sure the tactful way you told her you didn't want her had nothing to do with it."  Lex said heading to his car.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"She's my sister."  He said as he got in.

"Lex, don't do it, you don't know what you're dealing with."

"That's as may be, but I'm not gonna let her do something stupid."  His car started and he tore off in the same direction as Catherine.

"This can't be good."  Lionel said, going to his own car and following his children.

The three cars raced along the road to Metropolis.  Catherine arrived about ten minutes before Lex due to her head start and the fact she was going about twice the speed limit.  Lex had driven marginally slower than Catherine, and Lionel had gone about the same speed as Lex.

The DB-7 arrived at the Metropolis Hilton, followed a few minutes later by Lionel's classic Jaguar.  Lex was already inside talking to the desk clerk.

"The Wayne party, where are they staying?"  He was asking.

"The Penthouse suite, would you like me to call up?"

"No."  Lex said halfway to the lift.

"Where's he going?"  Lionel asked the clerk.

"Penthouse."  She replied.

"Fucking, arsehole, bastard, fucker.  God I want him to fall off the world.  What was I thinking coming here?"  Catherine muttered to herself, while simultaneously chucking her clothes into her suitcase.

"You shouldn't let him get to you."  Lex said.  "The door was open."

"Fuck off."  She said.  Noticing Lionel skulking in the main doorway she added.  "And you can bugger off and all.  I know where I'm not wanted.  Don't worry, I won't fuck up your PR."  She said barging past them and to the lift, ready to go back down.

"Don't be a martyr, I'll give you however much you want."  Lionel said to her.

She whirled around on him and got right in his face.  "Look, I don't give a toss what you think, but I don't want your money.  I'm doing fine without you, as always.  So take your hush money and shove it up your arse."  The lift came and she got on.  "Don't forget to lock the door, Bruce has lots of pretty things, he'd be pissed if they went missing."

Lionel put his arm in the way to block the lift doors.  "You're dating Bruce Wayne?"  He asked a plan already forming in his head.

"As far as you're concerned?"  She said sweetly.  "NO!"  She shoved his arm out of the way and the doors closed in front of her.

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Okay, that was short, but I've got everything I wanted down.

More soon hope you like.

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