A/N : Thanx to moonmaid, everYours, Starburst and alecsgrl for the reviews on chapter 1. Here's the second chapter, and Chloe finally gets her interview...

(For disclaimer, etc - see chapter 1)

CHAPTER 2

"7:05" Chloe read aloud from her desk clock.

"He's late" stated a voice behind her.

"Superman" she breathed spinning around.

Clark took in her appearance. A vision in the pale lilac material that graced her body, fitted at the top and sweeping down from her waist to the floor.

"You look very nice" he told her.

"Thankyou" she smiled, "How did you know I was here?" she asked "And that I was waiting for someone?"

"Clark" they said together. She should have known, those two, Clark and Superman, seemed to tell each other everything.

"Did he tell you who I was waiting for?" she asked him next.

"Lex Luthor" Superman sighed, "Be careful of him Chloe" he warned, "he's not all he seems"

"Superman" she smiled, "You know me well enough to know I can take care of myself around men"

He smiled at that because he knew it was true, but this was different.

"Chloe, Lex Luthor isn't like other men" he told her, she almost laughed then.

"Well, he's not the only one" she said, running a hand over his arm, "You're hardly an average guy yourself"

Clark realised she wasn't understanding his meaning but he didn't have time to say anymore. At that very moment a bell sound signalled the arrival of the man they were waiting for. The elevator doors slid apart and there he stood, long black cloak over his perfectly tailored suit. For just a second Chloe was breathless as she saw him standing there, hardly even noticing the breeze that passed by her as Superman disappeared out of the window and into the night.

"Lex" she said, looking over at the man who just entered, and he smiled when he saw her.

"Chloe" he said, coming toward her, "you look radiant"

She coloured a little at his compliment and his smile.

"You look very nice yourself, Lex" she smiled as he took her hand and kissed it.

"Thankyou" he laughed lightly, "Shall we go to dinner, Miss Sullivan?" he asked with a small smile.

"I think we should" she smiled brightly, "before another crazed lunatic with a gun bursts in and knocks me unconscious" she joked. She wasn't sure why she was so nervous but she seemed to be and because of this a bad sense of humour seemed to have come to her.

Lex wasn't quite sure how to react to that so he just smiled again and led the reporter back to the elevator and then out of the Daily Planet building to his waiting limousine.

The drive to the exclusive restaurant was short and fairly quiet. Chloe was somewhat stunned by the luxury of the car she was travelling in. Yes, she's flown with the Man of Steel and it was wonderful, but this was something else. Lex was stunned at just how beautiful the woman sitting next to him really was. He had only seen her the one time, when she was semi-conscious, before that he had not seen her since they were in Smallville. She was an annoying kid to him, obsessed with journalism and gooey eyed over Clark. To her he had been Clark's friend, her Dad's boss and a man she never thought she'd see again once she left the leafy little hamlet she had called home for a while.

Neither of them ever imagined they would be going to dinner together one day. Her for an interview with one of the richest most powerful men in the country, even the world. Him for, well, he hadn't quite decided yet. It had been about an interview and doing a favour for a girl he once knew, in the beginning. Later, it had been about seduction and a certain amount of revenge against Clark and Superman. Now? Sitting next to this elegant creature in the comfort of his luxurious transport, Lex Luthor was starting to think maybe he could get more out of this than he'd originally planned.

With Chloe watching the world go by, out of the one-way glass of the car window, and Lex lost in deep thought, neither really noticed the driver tell them they had arrived.

"Well, you obviously understand the term 'fine dining'" Chloe smiled as she got out of the limousine and she saw that they were outside the most expensive and exclusive restaurant in Metropolis.

"I want the best of everything in my life, Chloe" he told her, "and I always get what I want"

The reporter was not blind to the look in his eyes and the smirk on his lips when he said that. It's a look Chloe had seen in the faces of other men, but Lex Luthor was the last person she expected to look at her like that.

"I have no doubt about that" she smiled back, seemingly unfazed, but inside she felt faint, nauseous and embarrassed all at the same time.

"Shall we go inside" Lex asked, breaking the 'moment' the two seemed to have had.

"Yes, let's do that" she nodded, "because I want to get this interview started" she said, walking a step in front of him. Turning back to look at him, she added, "and I always get what I want too"

"So, you have your own business now, Lexcorp, which is completely separate from Luthorcorp..." Chloe went over the basic information first, "so what is the relationship between you and your father like these days?"

"Don't start with the easy questions will you Miss Sullivan" Lex smirked, using Chloe's full name.

She grinned.

"Just because I'm in 'reporter mode' tonight, Mr Luthor" she countered, "does not mean you have to be in 'smug-billionaire mode'"

He smiled at her nerve to speak to him that way.

"Furthermore" she continued, "our readers will not be interested in the answers to the so-called 'easy' questions, so I see no point in asking them"

A waiter came to take their order, so Lex did not get a chance to answer.

The entire evening passed in this way. Chloe asking all the complicated and awkward questions which Lex mostly managed to give proper answers too. It was much like their 'verbal judo' that had occurred during Chloe's very first interview with the billionaire, the interview which resulted in her falling from a second storey window at his mansion, but it all went remarkably smoothly until Chloe finally finished her questions.

"Well, I think that's everything" she said, satisfied she had grilled the man enough for one interview.

"You mean I might actually get to ask you some questions now?" he asked her, just as their coffee arrived.

"What would the great Lex Luthor want to ask a lowly reporter like myself?" she laughed a little.

"Well" he said, pretending to think about it, even though he knew exactly what he wanted to ask, "are you dating Clark?"

Chloe laughed.

"Why would you think that?"

"Well, I seem to remember a certain blonde teen with a crush on a certain farmboy" he smirked.

"That was a long time ago" she told him, "Clark and I are the best of friends but nothing else"

"What about Superman?" he asked next, sipping his coffee.

"What about him?" she asked, avoiding the question and bringing her own cup to her lips.

"Don't tell me, he's just a friend too?"

"Me and Superman" she shrugged, "It's...undefined" she sighed, before a thought struck her and she just couldn't resist it..

"What's the matter, Mr Luthor" she said, playfully, "Are you jealous?"

He didn't answer her, but the look he gave her said it all. It thrilled her and scared her at the same time. No man had ever looked into her eyes quite like that, she'd never felt quite this way before. It wasn't love, at least Chloe didn't think that's what it was, but it was some kind of want or desire. She glanced away but when she looked back, his gaze hadn't shifted.

"Let's get out of here" he said finally, and Chloe found herself nodding and following this man out of the restaurant and back into the waiting limo, not knowing quite where she was going or why, but positive that she was doing the right thing.

A/N : Please review - more coming soon!