Note: If this chapter is a lil bit out of character it's because Chloe's very much drunk and Lex doesn't know what the hell he's doing. lol

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Chapter 3: The Bulgarian Sheep Foundation

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Lex swung the door open and literally dragged Chloe inside.

"Where are we?" Chloe asked immediately. The apartment was very spacious, with a comfortable feel, not overly adorned.

"My place."

"I'm in a guy's home? In the middle of the night?" Chloe asked as Lex gently set her down onto the bed, "Wow... my dad would kill me if he found out." said giggling.

Lex shook his head, Drunk Chloe giggled way too much, "Your dad would probably kill me first... then raise me from the dead and kill me again.

Chloe grinned, still in her own dreamland, "I never knew you were so funny Lex."

"Didn't you know? All Luthors are comic geniuses."

Chloe erupted in laughter again. Lex half smiled at the absurdness of the situation. This was Chloe Sullivan, she was supposed to be the responsible level-headed and somewhat sarcastic reporter. A do-gooder. Her best friend was Clark for crying out loud, and that said a lot. Instead she was sprawled on the bed of a self-confessed millionaire playboy, totally wasted.

Lex reached for one of his shirts and tossed it to Chloe who tried to catch it five seconds after it had landed on the bed next to her.

"Take your clothes off and put that on," Lex ordered, "I'll be in the other room."

Chloe did as she was told, but failed miserably in doing up the buttons.

"Rex!"

"The name's Lex," he said emerging and kicking off his shoes.

"Whatever... come help me." Chloe said sitting at the edge of the bed.

Lex knelt down in front of her and did them up as quickly as possible, doing his best to avert his eyes.

"I miss Smallville." Chloe said suddenly.

Lex looked up at her surprised, then sat next to her on the bed. "I do too... the place eventually grows on you."

"Like fungus," Chloe said nodding.

"Like fungus," Lex agreed. He felt Chloe lean up against him.

"I miss my dad and the Torch and Clark and Pete... I even miss Lana! That's saying a lot since she stole Clark from me."

Lex raised an eyebrow. Chloe was the most articulate drunk person he'd ever run into... and he'd run into many. "Were you and Clark ever together like that?"

"Yes!" Chloe paused and gave a little sigh. "No... we weren't."

"It seems to me that you develop an ideal relationship in your mind and when it doesn't go according to how you envisioned you break down inside," Lex analyzed.

Chloe looked like she was thoughtfully pondering his words, "Nope, that's not it. The problem is that Clark doesn't love me! Nobody loves me!" Chloe's bottom lip hung out and she looked on the verge of tears.

"That's not true... lot's of people love you," Lex tried desperately to reassure her

"I used to love Clark a lot..."

Lex cleared his throught. He doubted Sober Chloe would be comfortable discussing this situation with him.

"I even used to dream about him all the time. We would be together in a phone booth and-"

"Woah! I don't really want those images in my head... ever." Lex stated. He got up to fetch a glass of water for Chloe.

"Sometimes you were in the phone booth with me instead of Clark."

Lex stopped dead in his tracks, had he just heard correctly?

"Sometimes I was in the phone booth with both of you, then I'd leave and you two would be alone togeth-"

Lex swore loudly, "Can you please talk about something else?!"

Chloe looked at him like a butterfly who's just gotten swatted. Suddenly she burst into a flood of tears.

"God, Chloe, I'm sorry! Please don't cry!" Lex sat down next to her with a glass of water, "here, drink this." he said putting the glass to her lips. If there was one thing he couldn't stand, it was when people started crying on him. He had no clue what to do.

Chloe sipped a little and then scrunched up her face. "There's something wrong with the coffee."

Lex smiled, "That's because it was made without coffee beans, sugar or milk."

"Ohh..." Chloe said nodding. She stopped crying, sniffing loudly and Lex got up to fetch her a tissue.

"Here," he said handing it to her. Chloe drew the tissue up to her face but hit herself in the eye instead.

"Ow!"

Lex sighed, he couldn't believe what he was about to do. He wrapped the tissue around Chloe's nose. "Blow."

Chloe did so and immediately felt better. She noticed the wide screen tv in the room, "Let's watch something!" She grabbed a shoe and tried using it as a remote. Lex shook his head and turned the television on for her. Chloe cuddled in the bed and started watching closely while Lex grabbed himself a pillow and headed for the couch, Chloe would probably fall asleep soon then there'd be a little peace and--

"No! You can't do that!" Chloe sobbed. Lex was there in a second, "What's wrong? Are you okay?"

Chloe shook her head crying. Lex groaned, she was thinking about her sad love life again. "Don't worry, you'll find the right guy someday, he could be anyone anywhere. It's only a matter of time before-"

"What are you talking about." Chloe interrupted.

"Uh..."

"I was crying about that," she pointed to the screen, "The Brazilian squirrel is endangered... they need $8000 to save it." she looked up into Lex's eyes, "If they don't get the money, the squirrels will die..."

Lex groaned. Damn the Discovery Channel.

Chloe reached for Lex's other shoe and held it up to her ear.

"What are you doing?" Lex asked.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" Chloe snapped through tears.

"There are so many ways to answer that question."

Chloe sighed, "I'm calling my bank. I have a savings account.. I could come up with most of the money but Id have to sell my car first though."

"Chloe I'm sure the Bolivian Snakes will be just fine..."

"How can you be so heartless? You don't know the first thing about the Burmese spider, do you?"

"Fine, put the phone down," he said taking the shoe away, "We'll donate some money in the morning."

Chloe looked up at him with pleading eyes and it almost hurt him to see her so sad... almost.

Lex swore and reached for his phone, he was due for another good deed anyway. Hopefully the press would hear about it.

"This is Lex Luthor... yes, I realise how late it is... It's an emergency... transfer $8000 from my account towards the Bulgarian Sheep Foundation... no, I'm not drunk, just make the transfer!" he yelled, hanging up the phone.

Suddenly he felt two small hands wrap around him from behind.

"Thank you, Rex."

"Anytime, will you go to sleep now?"

"Yeah..."

Chloe crawled under the duvet and was asleep in seconds. Lex smiled and took one last look at Chloe before turning out the lights. In the morning he'd have to explain the whole story to a potentially violent Sober Chloe... he wasn't looking forward to that. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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