A/N : I hope people are still reading this. If you are, please review so I know that there is a point to me updating. Thanx to those who did review; kj, Queen Of Tact, and raniatlw, it means a lot.

Now on with the show...

(Disclaimer : see chapter 1)

"Is she going to be okay, Lex?" Clark asked me as soon as I came back from the doctors office.

"They don't know, but she stands a chance. Chloe's a fighter and I have faith she'll pull through" I told him, "She has too, I need her"

There was a pause and then we both sat down.

"Clark, I want to tell you what happened today" I started and he turned to look at me. I possess the knack of being able to stay calm and emotionless most of the time, regardless of the feelings that are building up inside of me. It was a skill I learnt after my mother died.

"There was a reason why Chloe crashed the car. She was chasing me"

"Chasing you? Why?" he looked curious which is what I'd expected.

"We had an argument" I said, looking him right in the eye, "about you"

"Me? I don't understand..." he shook his head and I stood up unable to sit close to him or even look at him as I explained.

"She told me the truth, Clark, about.....that night" I phrased it in the least graphic way possible as a pain flashed through me and tears stung my eyes again.

"Lex, I'm so sorry, I really am..." Clark began his defence and stood up next to me. I cut him off mid-apology.

"You want to know why she told me?" I said quickly, which silenced him immediately.

"Why?" he asked in a quiet voice.

"Because she didn't know whether she was carrying your kid or mine" I managed to hold back the tears I could feel behind my eyes as I told him the truth. He practically fell back into his seat and put his head in his hands. I sat down beside him again and waited for him to say something. Eventually he lifted his head and checked my meaning.

"She's pregnant?" he looked worried as he asked, and I paused before I put him out of his misery.

"No, the doctor says she isn't but she thought she was. I don't know what she's going to react like when her tell her she's not" I stared off down the corridor, towards the room where I know my Chloe laid, helpless and painfully close to the edge of death.

"Oh God...Lex, I, I just don't know what to say apart from I'm sorry and I mean that I really do. It was a mistake and it should never have happened and I should have told you before but,..." Clark began to ramble again, but I understood.

"...but you were scared, same as she was" he nodded in agreement. "Y'know I honestly think she thought I was going to hit her when I found out. I could never hurt her, never. I realised then that even though you and her had done something so bad, I'd done something so much worse. I'd treated my Chloe so badly that she had to turn to someone else for comfort. When that car went over and I thought she was dead", my voice cracked, just saying her name and that word in the same sentence and I had to swallow hard, "I didn't know what I was going to do, the pain was so bad. I thought I'd lost the one thing that I had to live for" The tears finally fell from my eyes and I dragged the back of my hand over my face.

"I wish there was something I could do to put this right..." Clark said, quietly, trailing off.

"There is one thing" I said seriously, as I wiped away the salty dampness from my face. "Don't put yourself and Lana through all this. Tell her the truth, Clark, tell her about you and Chloe"

There was silence and I watched as he got up from his seat again and wandered down the corridor a little way before turning and coming back.

"Lex, it could ruin my marriage" he told me, desperately.

"Yes, it could" I admitted, "but it could also save it. If Lana finds out another way you'll cause her more pain than you could ever imagine, believe me, I know"

"Mr Luthor, your wife is awake and she's asking for you" a nurses voice broke the silence that had fallen between us. The nurse barely finished her sentence before I was up out of my seat and down the corridor behind her. I took a quick look back at Clark and gave him a questioning look. He nodded and I knew that meant he would do what I asked.

Clark always did what he was asked to do, he couldn't help it, it was like a compulsion he had to please everybody. To have hurt someone the way he hurt me and the way I knew he was about to hurt Lana was a new experience for him. One I'm sure he would avoid if he could turn back the clock, but I learnt a long time ago that that isn't possible. Clark must face the mistakes he made just like the rest of us, but in all honesty I didn't care what he did now.

Chloe was alive and beyond that I didn't want to think about anything else, but I knew I had to. Now I had to tell my love that she was not going to have a baby. She was not having Clark's and she was not having mine, and I wasn't exactly sure what her reaction to the news would be, but I was about to find out.

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