Disclaimer: Don't own them, wouldn't know what to do with them if I did.



Chapter 1: Weirder and wierder.

Lex couldn't believe what he was seeing. When the two scruffy men had gotten out of the pick-up in the back alley behind the Talon things seemed weird. When said men started to beat on Lex, 'a little weirder' he thought. Now through the blood Lex could see Chloe Sullivan coming out of the Talon's back door wielding a Louisville slugger, 'the weirdest he thought'.

"Alright back away from my buddy quick and I may not use this thing."



Chloe advanced on the two dark haired men who had for the moment stopped their assault on Lex.

"Little lady this ain't got nothing to do with you."

The one with the beard drawled to Chloe. Even in Lex's present condition he could still manage to find humor in the man calling Chloe a "Little Lady" 'that'll tick her off far more than you two taking a few pot shots at me.'the bald, bleeding man thought starting to chuckle only to find it quickly change in to a coughing fit.

"Little lady?" Chloe repeated disbelievingly. "What is this Hee haw? Good Lord, just get in your truck and go back to redneckland or I'm going to start swinging this bat and I'll be aiming for your heads, empty as they may be."

The second of the two, the younger, or he could have just seemed younger because of the lack of facial hair, tried to reach for the bat. Chloe was ready for it and flipped the bat at his fingers giving them a good crack. "Son of a ...." the second man's curse was cut off as Lana Lang yelled from the Talon's back doorway, portable phone in hand. "I've called the police and they're on their way. They'll be here any second."

The two men ran the short distance to their dirty light blue truck. The first one turned back and yelled "This isn't over Luthor, you'll pay for what you and your father did to me!" He quickly climbed in the truck and sped away.

Chloe rushed over to a dirty and battered Lex as she heard Lana relaying the truck's license plate to the police. "Lex are you ok?" Chloe asked as she tried to help Lex up to a standing position. Lex looked into her eyes and managed a slight smile. "My hero." And with that Lex's world faded to black.