A/N : What happens when Clark arrives on the scene...
(Disclaimer : See chapter 1)
"What happened?" Clark asked quickly, as soon as he got out of the truck.
"I don't know" Chloe answered, honestly, she had been kneeling next to Lex's lifeless body since she had made her call to Clark. She had been trying to revive him but to no avail. She had no way of knowing what was wrong with him and therefore no way of knowing how to help him.
Clark moved to Lex's side, next to Chloe. He put a hand on his friends head to check his temperature and then picked up his wrist and checked his pulse.
"He's got a fever and his pulse is weak" he told Chloe, "But I don't know why" Then he asked the question Chloe had been dreading, "What exactly happened?"
Chloe stood up and Clark's eyes followed her, as he waited for an answer. She glanced between him, Lex and the sky before she found an interesting spot on the road that she felt most comfortable focusing on.
"Chloe? Chloe, this is important" Clark wanted an answer, but his blonde friend was unable to find the words she needed. She could hardly tell him she'd hit Lex Luthor and almost knocked him out and then that she'd been him when suddenly he collapsed again!
Instead she mumbled something about keeping Lex warm to burn out his fever, and then something else about fetching his jacket from the car. Clark gave up on her and turned back to the ,an on the round in front of him. Lex was looking increasingly pale and his breathing was getting distinctly shallow.
"Chloe," Clark called over to her, "Chloe, I think we're going to have to call 911. I don't know what else to do"
"You sure you can't save the day, Clark?!" she spat back at him as she emerged from the passenger side of the car, "I mean usually you just have to everyone's saviour, Lex's, mine, Pete's, Lana's...are you sure you can bare to let the professionals handle this one?"
Clark looked at her in disbelief. Chloe had always been sarcastic and a little, no, a lot, cutting with her remarks but the tone of her voice was not playful, it was truly malicious.
"Chloe, that's not fair" he told her, "I just want Lex to be okay"
"Of course you do" Chloe laughed, humourlessly, "The great Lex Luthor and the wondrous Lana Lang - y'know Pete was right about you, whenever anyone with the initials LL are around the rest of us just don't exist, do we Clark?!"
She threw Lex's jacket down at Clark as she continued to rant. Clark stopped listening and covered up his feverish friend with the jacket before standing up to confront Chloe.
"Hey, what's the matter with you? One minute you go all quiet on me and the next your yelling your head off and everything is my fault!"
"Yeah well maybe that's because I've finally realised that the whole world does not revolve around you and how I feel about you!"
Clark looked confused as well as hurt. He knew that Chloe 'liked' him before and for a while he thought they could be more than friends, but he soon realised he couldn't forget Lana so easily, even if she was off-limits. Whitney had gone off to join the Marines but Lana had promised to wait for him and for once Clark hated himself for being the good guy and keeping his promise he had also made to Whitney, to look after Lana. He knew that meant he couldn't make a move on her and that hurt. But Clark and Chloe had agreed to be just good friends like they were before, 'but is it possible that Chloe still has feelings for me?' Clark thought, 'and if she does, could I still have feelings for her too?'
"Chloe, do you still like me?" he couldn't help but ask.
"No," she said, as if it were a reflex, "well, yes" she changed her mind, "but not the way you think, urgh!" she made a frustrated sounds and threw her arms around, violently gesturing as she continued to yell.
"Clark, it doesn't matter if I like you or not because you don't feel that way about me and besides I know someone who does like me, and I like him" she calmed down now and flashed a smug grin at Clark, "So I just don't need you anymore!"
Clark was feeling hurt but more than that he was still confused.
"Do you want to explain what you meant by that?" he asked her.
"Yeah, I do" Chloe started up again, "I don't need your attention anymore because I have Lex now. You wanna know what happened before you got here? I'll tell you, we kissed. Lex Luthor and me, we kissed!"
Clark was shocked, not really by what Chloe said but by the way she said it. Her tone of voice, her manner and her temper were far from her normal self. He opened his mouth to say something, but no words came out. He had no idea what to say to her or how to approach her, she had never acted like this before. It was so far out of character, she was starting to scare him. He opened his mouth again, but before he even had chance to try and say something, Chloe made a sound, somewhere between panic and pain. Clark stepped towards her but she managed to take one step back away from him.
"No, don't come near me" she breathed, "I just, I just feel a little dizzy"
She staggered a little before siting down on the ground next to Lex.
"Whatever happens, Clark" she said, quietly, "you'll always be my best friend, and Lex" she turned her attention to the man on the ground in front of her, "I think I've fallen in love with you" she whispered. Another painful sound escaped her lips, a similar expression covered her face and she too collapsed onto the ground, next to Lex.
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