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Here is a Chlexy chapter, as Lex and Chloe start to uncover the truth about what happened when they were 'under the influence'.....

(Disclaimer : see chapter 1)

Chloe, yawned and opened her eyes.

"Well good morning sleepy head" Lex smiled at her from the next bed.

"What happened?" Chloe asked him, finding it hard to remember anything at all.

"Don't ask me" Lex replied. "All I know is I was driving along, I swerved to stop myself from hitting something, the car flipped and that was that. Then I woke up here about an hour ago"

Chloe tried to take in what he said and dredged back into her memory banks trying to focus in on the events Lex described.

"That was me" she said slowly.

"What was?" Lex was becoming confused too.

"The thing you swerved for, it was me" she told him as she tried to piece together what had happened, "but you weren't unconscious right away"

Lex looked at her strangely.

"Then why don't I remember anymore?"

"I think I can answer that" said a doctor, suddenly bursting into the room. "Good morning Mr Luthor, Miss Sullivan, my name is Dr Davies and I think I might be able to fill in a few blanks for you"

"Please do" Chloe urged, her memory still not working as well as it might.

"Your condition was caused by a new form of the Nicodemus plant" the doctor began to explain. Lex suddenly had a terrible feeling in the pit of his stomach. Of course, the Nicodemus. He had almost completely forgotten that he'd had it in the car when it rolled. He felt wretched but not the slightest hint of his feelings showed on his face.

"A new form?" Chloe wanted to know more.

"Yes, it seems to have been resurrected by a different substance to the last form. It's too early to say exactly what resurrected it but whatever it was it made the effects of the flower much stronger and more dangerous" the doctor explained.

"So, you're telling me we could have..." Chloe couldn't finish her sentence. She already knew the answer she and Lex could have died.

"If you have anymore questions I'll be back later but right now I have to go" the doctor said, moving back towards the door. "Oh, your friends asked me to call them as soon as you were both awake so they will probably be by to visit soon, okay?" he added as he left.

"Well that explains why I don't remember anything" Lex began to understand, "nobody remembers what they did under the effects of the plant"

"No" Chloe said quickly, hoping he wasn't going to put it together. She now remembered exactly what Lex had done whilst he was 'under the influence' and she really didn't want to have to tell him.

"But you said I wasn't unconscious right after the car flipped" Lex continued but Chloe didn't answer, she didn't even want to stay in the room, but it was a hospital - where was she going to go?!

"Which means the Nicodemus must have sprayed me and made me black out before it got you"

"Yeah, so?" Chloe tried to act ignorant, but it was no use.

"Chloe, what did I do?" he asked, knowing he must have done something. He remembered how the plants poison had made other people act last time and given what he felt for Chloe it was likely he had done something out of character and something he definitely shouldn't have done.

"Nothing" Chloe lied, but the colour in her cheeks gave her away.

"Chloe please, I have to know" Lex hated to ask, but he had to know just how much of an idiot he had made of himself.

"Well, you got out of the car and you were acting really weird and I asked to borrow your phone and you told me it was in your pocket...."

"And?" Lex wished Chloe would just get on with it but she didn't know what to say.

"And you said it was in your pocket and when I went for it you kind of grabbed me and I think you were trying to kiss me"

"Oh God, I'm sorry, Chloe, really"

"It's okay" Chloe tried to smile, "I kind of hit you before you had a chance to do anything" she admitted.

"Oh, I see" Lex nodded, "well that explains this" he said, hold up his bruised arm for Chloe to see. She felt very guilty and she started to apologise but he wouldn't let her.

"It's okay, I obviously deserved it" he told her, "So that was when I passed out, right?" Lex checked.

"Not exactly" Chloe said, quietly.

"Do I want to know what else I did?" he couldn't look at her.

"Probably not" she told him, "but you should probably be told" she really didn't want to tell him what he'd said, but part of her was curious to know how he would react.

"Go on" Lex looked at the ceiling as he spoke, anywhere was preferable to directly at Chloe.

"Well, you fell down when I hit you and I helped you to sit up and you said, well you kind of told me..." she couldn't find the words for it, it was just to embarrassing.

"Spit it out Chloe!" Lex was impatient.

"You kind of told me you loved me and we kind of kissed" Chloe said the whole thing in one breath, as fast as she could, without looking at Lex at all, but he caught every word she said. He had admitted to loving this woman and he had kissed her and he didn't remember any of it. He was going to apologise but he didn't want too. He certainly wasn't sorry about the way he felt, but...

"Hey guys, we're so glad you're awake!" Clark burst through the door with Lana behind him. The moment was gone, for now, but Lex knew they'd be kept in hospital for a while and there would be other moments, he'd just have to wait a while.

A/N : As usual, please review and I will update soon.