A/N : Sorry, sorry, sorry - major apologies. I know I said I'd post the next chapter sooner than this but I am currently writing 3 fics and I'm having trouble keeping up with them all! Anyway I'm here now so, thanx to Merrie, Robyn, berk and Kristin for the reviews on chapter 12 and here's chapter 13 leaving just two or three more chapters after this I think.

Disclaimer : You really think I'd me sitting here writing fanfic if I owned the characters?!

A knock on the door awoke Chloe from her shallow sleep. All the crying she had done had made her tired but she found sleeping hard work with all the thoughts and fears that raced through her mind. She had calmed down a lot at Clarks and by the time she got home she was able to talk to her father without showing any signs of sadness or worry. Gabe Sullivan had no idea about the pain his daughter suffered. She did not want to tell him, not now, not when there was a tiny chance of sorting out this mess. If her father found out what had happened, Chloe didn't want to think about his possible reaction. So she didn't tell him, she just went to her room, telling him she had Torch stuff to catch up on and he believed her.

Shortly after the knock on the door, Chloe heard her father call her name. She went to see what was going on.

"What is it Dad?" she asked as she came down the stairs.

"There's a letter for you, hand delivered from the Luthor Mansion" he told her.

"Lex brought it?" she asked, feeling herself turn pale.

"No, one of Hs staff" Gabe replied, holding out the envelope in his hand.

"Thanks" Chloe said, quickly taking the letter from her father and running back up the stairs to the sanctuary of her own bedroom.

She laid down on her bed, on her stomach, and opened the white envelope which said, simply 'Chloe' on the front. Inside she found a letter on a single piece of writing paper. She began to read;

'My Dearest Chloe,

I want you to know that I love you, more than I ever knew it was possible to love anybody. Whatever happens I want you to remember always how much I love you. I understand that I upset you today, and I assure you that was not my intention. I have never been in love, not the way I am in love with you and I wanted to be completely honest with you for the start. There are too many people in my life that I am forced to lie too, I will not allow you to be one of them. I want to explain to you exactly what I meant, when I told you about my father. When we were in the hospital you asked me how I had got injured. Chloe, I did not lie about what happened, the storm blew in the windows and knocked me down with a cabinet on top of me, which I escaped from myself. What I never told you was that my father was present when the storm hit. We had been discussing the closure of the plant when the accident happened. The pillar in the centre of my office came down and trapped my father's legs. The fallen pillar caused the ceiling to cave in too. I knew that if I didn't free my father from the pillar, the ceiling would come down further and that would be the end. I will admit to you now, darling Chloe, that I did not help him immediately. I had power over him like I had never had before. By the time I moved to free him, I was too late. I cannot change what happened now, and I want you to know I have never felt more guilty about anything in my life, except perhaps for upsetting you. I know I have hurt you in a terrible way and I know I am a horrible human being. I don't want your sympathy and I don't expect your forgiveness, I just wanted you to know exactly what happened before it was too late for me too. All I ask is that you remember me, my precious Chloe, as the man you fell in love with, and not as the monster that I will be painted as when what really happened becomes known to the world.

I want you to know that nothing that happens to me is your fault, it is mine alone.

Do not forget me, darling.

Lex'

Chloe had realised by the end of the letter that this was no ordinary apology note. Maybe it was just the reporter in her, maybe it was because she loved Lex so much but she knew exactly what was on his mind. She wasn't sure if she could forgive him, but she knew she could not forget him. Whatever happened she loved him and she had to stop him.

A/N : Okay, kind of a cliffhanger, but if you all review I will post some more ASAP!