A/N : A little bit of Clana and some major Chlex...

(Disclaimer : see chapter 1)

"Clark, do you love me?"

"Lana, I..." Clark began nervously, looking everywhere except at the person he was speaking too.

"Clark, the truth, please" Lana insisted, "It's important"

After what had happened in the last couple of days, with the Nicodemus and Chloe and Lex being so close to deaths door, Clark thought it was about time he was honest. His life may not be as fragile as other people's but he knew no-one could live forever and we have to make the most of the time we have.

"Lana, you know what the truth is" he began, "Of course I love you, I always have" he blushed. He couldn't believe he had finally told her how he felt.

Lana breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

"It took me a while" she told him, "but I know now that I love you too and you totally freaked me out earlier" Clark didn't understand.

"When was that?"

"Out on the road, when we fetched the flower from Lex's car. I thought the plant had sprayed you when you started telling me you loved me and everything..."

"I what?" Clark was still confused. He definitely did not remember saying that to Lana, there was no way he could have, he would remember something like that unless.....the Nicodemus. Obviously it had a temporary affect on him because of who and what he was.

"Clark, are you okay?" Lana checked, noticing the confusion on his face.

He didn't know what to tell her. Was now the best time to tell her about him, the truth about him and where he came from?

"Chloe it's been an hour now, are you going to talk to me or not?" Lex tried to get some sort of response out of the girl in the next bed.

"Not!" she responded. She was still embarrassed about Lex finding out how she felt about him, most especially the way he found out.

"Well, if I talk to you are you at least going to listen to me?" he tried again.

"Do I have a choice?" she spat back at him.

"Not really no" Lex realised, "but I'd like to think you were listening because you want to and not because you have to"

Chloe was starting to feel bad about turning her back on Lex, literally, and for ignoring him and refusing to speak but that didn't mean she wanted to hold a conversation with the guy, not yet. She turned onto her back and looked up at the ceiling.

"If you've got something to say Luthor, then say it" she knew she sounded a lot more mad than she actually was, but it was easier to keep him at arms length than to be civil at the moment.

"Chloe, I might not remember exactly what I said or what I did before, but I do know that I love you. I've known that for a long time, from almost the first time I ever saw you. I never thought I stood a chance of getting close to you. We were friends after a while but I always though that was all we would ever be and I was willing to leave it at that but now I know you feel the same way about me as I do about you I don't think I can just ignore my love for you" Lex sounded sincere and that scared Chloe a little bit. Lex Luthor was a complex man and there was a lot she didn't know about him but she did know he was not often this honest with anybody and it was unnerving, but in a good way. It meant he really did love her, as much as she loved him, possibly even more and her embarrassment began to subside as she realised she had nothing to be embarrassed about.

"You don't have to say anything" Lex continued, "but I hope you listened to me and I hope you believe me..."

"I did and I do" Chloe interrupted him, she was one of the few people who would ever dare to interrupt a Luthor, but she felt she had the right, given that she loved him and that he apparently loved her. She turned to face him and she smiled.

"We really are a pair of idiots, aren't we?" Lex smiled but wasn't sure he fully understood her.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well, I love you and you love me and we've been wandering around like a pair of idiots totally oblivious as to what the other one felt"

"So much for your reporters instincts, Sullivan" Lex smirked at her.

"If you're going to start with the insults, Luthor" she answered sarcastically, "I may have to come over there and..."

"And what?" Lex wanted to know and he wasn't disappointed with the response he got as Chloe climbed out of her bed, walked over to his and kissed him deeply. When they finally broke apart, he smiled and spoke quietly and sarcastically.

"Well, maybe I should be insulting more often"

"Yeah," Chloe grinned, "maybe you should" before leaning over and kissing him again.

"I'm beginning to think the Doctor discovering that Nicodemus wasn't such a bad thing" Lex whispered between kisses, causing Chloe to pull away quickly.

"What did you say?" she said quickly and quite loudly, "What doctor discovered it?"

Lex put a hand to his head, not quite believing what he had said. He had just confessed to being involved and he had confessed it to Chloe. Now he was in trouble.

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