Chloe awoke to the sounds of banging on the tent door. "LANA LANG, CHLOE SULLIVAN!! IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF THIS TENT IN 10 SECONDS I AM COMING IN THERE FOR YOU!!"

"SHUT UP LEX!!" Chloe shouted back. She was sure it was Lex but the baffled answer came back saying:

"It's Whitney!"

Lana looked at her strangely "Chloe they have totally different voices."

"Whatever." The confused girl buried her face in her pillow and willed the world to just shut up for a moment.

"Are you girls okay in there?" came Lex's voice.

Just as Chloe was about to respond, Lana called out, "Yeah Clark, just really tired."

"That wasn't Clark." Chloe told Lana.

"Yes it was, I could see his shadow on the tent. Are you sure you're okay?"

Chloe nodded and shook her head. "Yeah, like you said, I'm tired."

***

Later on in the day Chloe's head was slowly clearing, but for some reason, all her thoughts were still focused on Lex. As the sun reached the upper most point, otherwise known as midday, Chloe was really hot. She had stripped down to a small halter and a little, little skirt. Lex and Lana were walking beside her and were chatting about something to do with the Talon, and Chloe tuned out so she wouldn't mourn her lack of caffeine. Suddenly, her head started spinning, her knee's failed and she collapsed.

Lex caught her just before she hit the ground and lay her down gently. "Chloe can you hear me?"

The small girl looked up at him. "No." she said sarcastically. "I collapsed, I'm not deaf." The group had gathered around them and Lex smirked up at them.

"She's okay." He looked at Chloe "can you walk?"

"Let's see." She replied trying to stand. She fell back down and tried to laugh. "Nope."

Pete, frowned. "We should stop then, we were going to have lunch soon anyway." The party of people sat down and got out their lunch while asking Chloe if she had any idea what was wrong with her, when she had started feeling sick, how long she thought it would last and so on, and just as she was about to scream, Lana put up her hands and said, "Can we calm this down a little?"

Clark lent forward to place his hand on Chloe's arm "I'm sorry Chlo." His hand made contact and he immediately withdrew. His hand was going funny and his headached. His eyes widened, this only happened around meteor rocks! Clark did a quick scan of her jewellery and when he came up empty, he used his X-Ray vision to scan her body. Traces of green decorated her blood stream. Clark backed away, mumbling something about getting her some water.

Chloe rested her head on Lex's chest, he hadn't moved because Chloe hadn't gotten off him. Lex frowned at this, worried even more than before, they were never close enough for this kind of contact.

***

After Chloe felt better everyone packed up and continued their journey. Clark's unease grew as he realised that he couldn't even come within 3 feet of her. Lana stuck by Chloe's side for the whole hike until dinner, in case she fainted again. Lex followed close behind, but he failed to notice the spider crawling out of his backpack and under the collar of his polo shirt. But he did noticed the sting of the insects fangs and they dug into his skin. Lex slapped his hand against his neck and missed the spider which had crawled back into his bag. He continued his walk until a strange tingling sensation tickled his neck and chest. Lex looked under his shirt and saw the green glow spreading over his skin. 'This must have been what happened to Chloe.' Was his last conscious thought.

Lana heard the sound and saw Lex crumpled on the ground. "Oh my God!!" The whole group heard her cry and rushed to help Lex. Clark again felt helpless because he could do nothing.

***

Later that night, Lex emerged from his tent feeling like he had been hit by a truck, and the only thing he saw was Chloe, seven of her. He shook his head to clear it and the picture became normal. After he gave the routine 'I'm fine' to every question he sat next to Chloe, feeling some kind of an attraction. They looked at each other for a moment before leaping into a long and powerful make-out session. The onlookers were stunned. 'What the.'

"Lex? Chloe?" Pete detached himself from Linda and slowly walked over to them.

Lex tore himself away from the kiss and snarled at Pete. But the younger man saw the large green bite on the bald mans neck, and when Lex resumed the kiss and pulled Chloe's leg over his, Pete saw the one on the girls ankle. "Uh, guys, you'd better take a look at this."