A/N : Anyone still reading this? Well here's the last two chapters of this episode.

(For disclaimer, etc - see chapter 1)

CHAPTER 3

"Lex, where are we?" Chloe asked as they exited the elevator in the LexCorp building. They were many floors down from his office which was on the top floor, Chloe guessed they were below ground level by now.

"The basement" Lex said as if it were obvious and Chloe laughed a little.

"I didn't know this building had a basement"

Lex just smiled widely.

"Chloe, nobody knows" he told her as they walked out of the elevator, hand in hand toward another door, which opened into a grey room. Chloe shivered from the cold as well as the eeriness of this place. It was too quiet, too lonely, too grey, she didn't like it, and she wondered why on earth they were there.

"This is why we're here" he said, answering her question as if he had read her mind.

He turned a box on a table until it was facing them both, before prising open the lid.

Chloe's eyes grew wide at what she saw. Two guns, very similar to any other ordinary pistols, but with coloured letters set into the handles. Both had the letter K, one in red and one in green.

"You brought me down here to show me guns?" Chloe asked, not understanding at all, "You couldn't hurt Superman with guns even if you wanted too"

Lex smiled.

"I can with these" he explained, "what do you think the K stands for?" he asked.

Chloe admitted she hadn't really thought about it as Lex lifted one of the weapons from it's lead case. He carefully pulled out the clip and handed it to Chloe. The bullets shone with an eerie green glow.

"Kryptonite?" she guessed, glancing between the object in her hands and the man in front of her.

"Exactly" he nodded and Chloe handed the clip back to him, her hands shaking.

"You're going to kill him, Superman, Clark" she babbled.

"No" Lex assured her, placing the clip back in the gun and the gun back in the box, "Not unless I have to. I'm going to use this on him first" he explained showing her the second gun and it's ammunition. The bullets in this gun shone red.

"These will alter his personality" Lex told her, although Chloe already knew the effects of the red Kryptonite anyway, "the scientists believe it could make him apathetic, therefore harmless to us"

"And if it doesn't work?" Chloe dared to ask.

"That's what this is for" he shrugged, gesturing to the green marked gun.

It took Chloe a while to take in what she was being told. This man, the man she felt such a connection to, that she was starting to think she loved, he wanted to shoot Superman. Not to kill him, at least not yet, but to stop him from doing what he would normally do. She had to admit, it was definitely a tempting idea to know that some justice had been done for the lies she'd been told and the threats she believed Clark had made to Lex. But if the plan with the red rocks failed, then he would die. Superman would die. Clark would die.

When Lex and Chloe got back up to his office, she slumped into the nearest chair, still in a certain amount of shock. She had not said a word since they were in the basement room.

"Chloe, are you okay?" Lex asked and she nodded, mutely, as inside her head, thoughts and fears and all manner of emotions swirled around and around.

Eventually, she had so many questions, she had to speak to find the answers she desperately needed.

"Lex, who knows you have those guns?"

"Just the two of us" he told her calmly, seating himself on the edge of the desk in front of her.

"What about the scientists or security people?" she wondered aloud.

"There are two scientists who made the red bullets, one who made the green, and a man who actually made the weapons themselves but none of them know about each other" he told her, "There were no security guards, I didn't want to attract any attention"

Chloe breathed deeply and he saw the worry on her face. He took hold of her hand in both of his

"Chloe, I'm doing this for us" he assured her, looking into her eyes, "I don't like it anymore than you do, but so long as the red Kryptonite works, and it should, we won't have to go so far as..."

"Killing him" she finished for him. He did have a point. If they could just make him so he didn't care anymore, he would leave them alone to live a life together, and she was sure that was what she wanted for now at least, to live her life with Lex Luthor.

"I understand" she told him, "and it is a good plan" she conceded, "It's just a lot to take in"

He nodded that he understood how she felt and at the same time, inwardly smiled that she was going along with everything. It was possible the red Kryptonite would work but there was the equal possibility that it wouldn't. He knew that if they had to dispose of Superman with the green bullets, it would be hard on Chloe, despite the fact she hated Clark now. He would always own a part of her heart and Lex hated it, but there would be justice, he was determined about that.

It was a week after Lex had shared his secret plan with Chloe, and he was sitting in his office, alone this time, working his way through the stack of paperwork on his desk. Chloe had gone shopping, in a limousine with bullet proof glass windows and two security guards, Lex had insisted on that. He couldn't lose her, she meant too much to him now, and as frightening as the thought was to him, he was almost certain he was in love with her. He hadn't told her yet, he wasn't absolutely sure about his feelings or hers, but it certainly seemed like the young Luthor was in love with the blonde reporter.

Lost in thought and only half paying attention to his surroundings, Lex barely heard Superman land on the balcony behind him.

"Lex" he said, striding in through the open French windows, "I think we need to talk"

"Come in , Superman" the billionaire said, standing up, "Oh, I see you've already let yourself in" he added, sarcastically, as the superhero appeared in front of him.

"This isn't a game Lex" he started, but was interrupted.

"I agree, games aren't nearly half so dangerous" Lex smirked, evilly, reaching into his desk drawer and pulling out a gun. He aimed it at the S emblazoned on Clark's chest, but the man of steel just scoffed at him.

"Lex, you cannot hurt me with that" he pointed out and Lex smiled fully.

"Its not about pain, Superman" he explained, his finger poised on the trigger, "It's about control" he added, squeezing the trigger and allowing just one bullet to leave the gun. He was sure that was all that would be needed.