Closed for Fumigation
Sway
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Smallville. but I'm working on it, ask me in a few years.
A/N: this was inspired by my reaction when I found out that my own local coffee shop was closed for Boxing Day. That sucked so I thought I'd put Chloe through the same thing. This is just friendship and the same rules apply to this as with 'Over it.' It's only friendship and Lex has a sense of humour.
Chloe marched through the door of the Luthor ancestral home with eyes searching for the young Luthor that lived there. Lex, attracted by the noise she was making appeared on top of the stairs of the room she was in, and started to descend. "Miss Sullivan?"
"Mr Luthor." She said meeting him halfway on the stairs.
"Is something the matter?" he asked alarmed at her tone.
"Yes, actually there is." Chloe announced. "The Talon is closed."
Lex looked perplexed for a second before understanding what she had said. "Yes, it is."
"Okay, I don't think you heard." Chloe stated incensed by his relaxed tone. "The *TALON* is *CLOSED*"
"I heard." Lex assured her, guiding her down the stairs. "The Talon is closed."
"Yes. And I'm asking.WHY????" Chloe asked, frantic.
"For fumigation." Lex answered, sitting her on the lounge chair, seeing she seemed unable to seat herself.
"I read that on the sign smartass." Chloe retorted. "But you can't close it. It's my oxygen. The air that I breathe. I can't not have coffee."
"Miss Sullivan, I'm sure that you will be able to survive the three days it will take. You still have-"
"Three days?? THREE days? As in, count them-" she held up three fingers "three??"
"Yes three. I'm not looking forward to having a lawsuit on my hands for hospitalised teens after they breathed in the toxic air." Lex answered. "As I was saying, you still have the Beanery."
"You know how Lana found that dirt on the Beanery?? Guess who found it. I know what's on that report and I am never drinking their coffee again." Chloe replied. "I'd rather risk re-admittance to the hospital by toxic fumes."
"Just asking, why didn't you go to Lana with this little discovery?" Lex asked leaning back in his chair, avoiding her not so subtle plea to allow her into the shop.
"I did. She pleaded innocent and sent me to you." Chloe glared at him.
"What's going on?" Clark asked, poking his head around the door.
"What, did I forget to lock the door?" Lex muttered to himself before standing and greeting his friend. "Chloe's caffeine stream is turning back into her blood stream." At Clark's blank look he explained further. "She has just pointed out the fact that the Talon was closed."
"A heinous crime." Clark smirked.
"It is!!" Chloe stood. "Oh. You were making fun of me. Fine. I see I'm getting no where talking to you-" she said picking up her bag and glaring at Lex who smirked back. "so I'll just be working on my slow and painful death by poisonous coffee in the Beanery." She said and stormed out of the castle.
"Interesting friend you got there Clark." Lex said watching the door slam, confirming her departure.
"I sure know how to pick them." Clark said, smiling at Lex.
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Chloe sat in the Beanery staring at the cup that contained her latte. She hadn't touched it. She watched the few whips of steam floating out of her cooling mug, imagining the green smoke that symbolised poison in the Saturday morning cartoons she'd never admit to watching. 'Maybe if I closed my eyes and imagined I'm in the Talon.' Chloe shook her head. She was almost on a first name basis with the doctors in the local hospital, no need to go back there yet.
So she settled for inhaling the bitter scent. It was marginally safer. 'Damn Lex. The Sadistic Freak. He did this deliberately. Just to piss me off.'
"Penny for your thoughts?" Lex sat down opposite her.
"How about reopening the Talon, then I'll tell you."
"No deal." Lex smirked.
"Fine." Chloe replied, returning to her thoughts.
Lex watched her a while before leaning over and touching her coffee cup. "Its cold. You haven't touched it."
"Yeah well I don't have a death wish."
"Your exaggerating. Their coffee isn't going to kill you." Lex told her.
"Yet I note you don't have a cup." Chloe observed.
"How would it look, the owner of a coffee shop drinking the opposition's coffee?"
"Oh please. I'm like the ambassador for your shop, all I'm missing is the sash and button. Yet here I am."
"You and your untouched coffee."
"You're a smartass."
"I've never heard that before." Lex smirked.
"Yeah, and I'm head cheerleader of the pompom brigade." Chloe rolled her eyes.
"Remind me to come to your practices."
"Lex, this is getting old, fast." Chloe told him in all seriousness. "You knew what this would do to me, why did you do it??" Chloe demanded.
"Yes, I knew this would happen, so that's why I smuggled a few bags of your favourite coffee beans out of the carton before I closed shop yesterday." Lex told her.
"You what?? And when were you planning on telling me about this?"
"I just did."
"But I threw a tantrum back at your house!! Why didn't you tell me then?" Chloe asked.
"I wanted to see how long you would last without making at least one threat on my life."
"But I didn't threaten you." Chloe said, confused.
"I felt one coming."
"True." Chloe confessed. "You were about one argument away from having this spoon in your throat."
"Good to know." Lex said, taking the spoon from her hand and setting it on his side of the table, along with any other potentially lethal objects.
"Where is the coffee?" Chloe asked.
"Back at my place."
"And you couldn't have told me when I was there?"
"Let's go, I'll give you a ride there."
"I have my car." Chloe told him.
"Just get in the car." Lex told her walking out of the shop.
Sway
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Smallville. but I'm working on it, ask me in a few years.
A/N: this was inspired by my reaction when I found out that my own local coffee shop was closed for Boxing Day. That sucked so I thought I'd put Chloe through the same thing. This is just friendship and the same rules apply to this as with 'Over it.' It's only friendship and Lex has a sense of humour.
Chloe marched through the door of the Luthor ancestral home with eyes searching for the young Luthor that lived there. Lex, attracted by the noise she was making appeared on top of the stairs of the room she was in, and started to descend. "Miss Sullivan?"
"Mr Luthor." She said meeting him halfway on the stairs.
"Is something the matter?" he asked alarmed at her tone.
"Yes, actually there is." Chloe announced. "The Talon is closed."
Lex looked perplexed for a second before understanding what she had said. "Yes, it is."
"Okay, I don't think you heard." Chloe stated incensed by his relaxed tone. "The *TALON* is *CLOSED*"
"I heard." Lex assured her, guiding her down the stairs. "The Talon is closed."
"Yes. And I'm asking.WHY????" Chloe asked, frantic.
"For fumigation." Lex answered, sitting her on the lounge chair, seeing she seemed unable to seat herself.
"I read that on the sign smartass." Chloe retorted. "But you can't close it. It's my oxygen. The air that I breathe. I can't not have coffee."
"Miss Sullivan, I'm sure that you will be able to survive the three days it will take. You still have-"
"Three days?? THREE days? As in, count them-" she held up three fingers "three??"
"Yes three. I'm not looking forward to having a lawsuit on my hands for hospitalised teens after they breathed in the toxic air." Lex answered. "As I was saying, you still have the Beanery."
"You know how Lana found that dirt on the Beanery?? Guess who found it. I know what's on that report and I am never drinking their coffee again." Chloe replied. "I'd rather risk re-admittance to the hospital by toxic fumes."
"Just asking, why didn't you go to Lana with this little discovery?" Lex asked leaning back in his chair, avoiding her not so subtle plea to allow her into the shop.
"I did. She pleaded innocent and sent me to you." Chloe glared at him.
"What's going on?" Clark asked, poking his head around the door.
"What, did I forget to lock the door?" Lex muttered to himself before standing and greeting his friend. "Chloe's caffeine stream is turning back into her blood stream." At Clark's blank look he explained further. "She has just pointed out the fact that the Talon was closed."
"A heinous crime." Clark smirked.
"It is!!" Chloe stood. "Oh. You were making fun of me. Fine. I see I'm getting no where talking to you-" she said picking up her bag and glaring at Lex who smirked back. "so I'll just be working on my slow and painful death by poisonous coffee in the Beanery." She said and stormed out of the castle.
"Interesting friend you got there Clark." Lex said watching the door slam, confirming her departure.
"I sure know how to pick them." Clark said, smiling at Lex.
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Chloe sat in the Beanery staring at the cup that contained her latte. She hadn't touched it. She watched the few whips of steam floating out of her cooling mug, imagining the green smoke that symbolised poison in the Saturday morning cartoons she'd never admit to watching. 'Maybe if I closed my eyes and imagined I'm in the Talon.' Chloe shook her head. She was almost on a first name basis with the doctors in the local hospital, no need to go back there yet.
So she settled for inhaling the bitter scent. It was marginally safer. 'Damn Lex. The Sadistic Freak. He did this deliberately. Just to piss me off.'
"Penny for your thoughts?" Lex sat down opposite her.
"How about reopening the Talon, then I'll tell you."
"No deal." Lex smirked.
"Fine." Chloe replied, returning to her thoughts.
Lex watched her a while before leaning over and touching her coffee cup. "Its cold. You haven't touched it."
"Yeah well I don't have a death wish."
"Your exaggerating. Their coffee isn't going to kill you." Lex told her.
"Yet I note you don't have a cup." Chloe observed.
"How would it look, the owner of a coffee shop drinking the opposition's coffee?"
"Oh please. I'm like the ambassador for your shop, all I'm missing is the sash and button. Yet here I am."
"You and your untouched coffee."
"You're a smartass."
"I've never heard that before." Lex smirked.
"Yeah, and I'm head cheerleader of the pompom brigade." Chloe rolled her eyes.
"Remind me to come to your practices."
"Lex, this is getting old, fast." Chloe told him in all seriousness. "You knew what this would do to me, why did you do it??" Chloe demanded.
"Yes, I knew this would happen, so that's why I smuggled a few bags of your favourite coffee beans out of the carton before I closed shop yesterday." Lex told her.
"You what?? And when were you planning on telling me about this?"
"I just did."
"But I threw a tantrum back at your house!! Why didn't you tell me then?" Chloe asked.
"I wanted to see how long you would last without making at least one threat on my life."
"But I didn't threaten you." Chloe said, confused.
"I felt one coming."
"True." Chloe confessed. "You were about one argument away from having this spoon in your throat."
"Good to know." Lex said, taking the spoon from her hand and setting it on his side of the table, along with any other potentially lethal objects.
"Where is the coffee?" Chloe asked.
"Back at my place."
"And you couldn't have told me when I was there?"
"Let's go, I'll give you a ride there."
"I have my car." Chloe told him.
"Just get in the car." Lex told her walking out of the shop.