Author note: THANK YOU FOR THE PATIENT PPL!!... and the not so patient ppl......... Any ways.... Just lettin ya know that I was just away for the holidays(possibly abducted by Aliens, B/C I seem to have lost at least three days of my holidays), and work was keeping me from being the good person that keeps posting.... Thanx to the new reviewers.... All two of you... oh well......^_^ reviews are reviews.... I'll stop talking now and let you all get ur Seeds of Evil fix for the day.....Okay I won't keep you from this much longer...... Ur all probably thinking... finally,

Here it is the long awaited chapter three in:

The Seeds of Evil

by S. Ann Smith

Chapter three: A Date With Lexiny

Chloe sat across the small table from Lex. There were candles, and it was a dimly lit room. The flickering candle flames made his eyes seem to glow.

Chloe realized she was staring again and looked down at the menu.

She had been here once before, a long tiem ago. With both her parents, but then it was a small Burger joint. Mr. Happy Burger's Heaven. Chloe smiled fondly recollecting her long lost memory.

"You look even more beautiful whtn you smile." Lex said, his voice snapping her back to teh now. He leaned towards her. "Let me pick dinner," He put his hand ontop of the menu.

Chloe smiled again and looked down at the menu. Each dish was at least thirty dollars, she marvelled, she would never have come back here at that price. Lex watched her face as he took the menu from her hands.

"What do you want to drink? Lex asked looking intently at her. His eyes had never left her face.

"Shirly Temple." She replied returning a simmilar look.

" Just as I thought." he smiled.

She watched him order drinks with an air of superiority, almost like they were the most important people in the world. Chloe thought it was good change. She was tierde of playing seccond fiddle.

Lex ordered some fancy Italian pasta dish for the two of them that she had only read about.

"So Chloe why were you upset earlier?" he asked his attention redrawn towards her.

"It's nothing." Why would he want to know about my trivial problems? He has a company to run.

"No, it's sometyhing." He said softly,"Clark told me what happened." His voice deepened and got quieter, "you don't have to lie to me," he paused, "when you lie the corner of your lips twich. Right here."he brought his finger to her lip. She watched his eyes. They shone with a fire of something that Chloe never thought someone would have for her. Then, as if she burned him, his hand abruptly moved away from her mouth."I'll never lie to you, so don't feel you have to lie to me."

"I thought I was over him alright?" She said small tears coming to her eyes. She tried to fight the lump growing in her throat. "Is this why you brought me here?" She cried quietly not wanting to draw more attention to them.

"No Chloe, I brought you here..." Lex stands, coming to her side"... so I could kiss you." He moved closer to her, but Chloe was still reeling from the shock of what she just heard. Kiss me?

She watched him, her eyes refused to leave his. Dhloe felt the warmth of his breath, her heart fluttered furiously in her chest.

I think I just stepped into the twilight zone.

Chloe saw a blinding flash of light. She blinked trying vainly to regain her vision.

"Daily Planet." a bubbly voice said "Mr. Luthor would you like to make a statement?"

Lex stood infront of Chloe protectively,sheilding her from the cameras.

"No," Lex stated angrily.Chloe felt she could read his thoughts,let them make their ownstory, they're going to anyways. "All I want is to finnish off my date. Now go away." Lex said still obviously Very angry.

The reporters surprisingly backed away and loaded the booths around them. But Lex and Chloe still got their dinners and a chance to eat in peace, even if their conversation was now being taperecorded by the thirty-some-odd taperecorders that seemed to halo them and their table.

"We'll finnish the CK issue in the car." Lex whispered, looking directly at her hazel eyes, when the bill came.

Chloe nodded,and watched Lex take out a crisp hundred dollar, and place it under the cheque tray.

The server came and Lex whispered into his ear. The boy, no younger than herself, Chloe noted, nodded. Without saying a word Lex stood up, and motioned for Chloe to do the same. Lex grabbed her hand, his hand warm but not clammy, and pulled her gently out of the restaurant and away from the prying eyes of the Daily Planet and the other nosy reporters.

"Finnally some serenity." Lex said in his usual monotonal tone. "I hate press. They're always digging their noses into other peoples lives..." Chloe raised an eyebrow, looking at him,and at the convinning smile was now on Lex's face."But I don't hate the Torch." Chloe smiled at his honesty.

They sped out of the parkinglot, in Lex's mercedes, leaving behind a thick cloud of dust. They left behind a crowd of shocked reporters, as they headed towards Smallville and the end of their date.

"Why were you so hurt by what Clark and Lana did?" Lex asked breaking the moment of awkward silence as he turned down the road that would take them to busy downtown Smallville, if of course,Smallville could be considered having a busy downtown.

"I told you already," Chloe said quietly, avoiding his eyes, "I wasn't over Clark and Lana's my friend."

"But you're over Clark now, right?" Lex asked, and Chloe noticed that there was a hint of something un-Lex like, in the way he asked her. Does Lex really want to know?
There was silence in the car, and Chloe wondered if she had spoke it aloud. She sometimes had a tendancy to do that.They slowed down to let a car turn onto the road.

"I think so." she said carefully, looking at him, his eyes were trained on her, he looked back on the road quickly, and sped up to pass the car, the occupants called Lex an asshole, but he didn't seem to hear the quiet voices through the car, even though Chloe heard it clearly. He's ignoring them.

"That's good. Although it's not good for Clark."

"Why is that?"

"Because he doesn't have you." Lex said quietly.

The usually very articulate Chloe Sullivan had nothing to say to that.

Lex turned down Chloe's driveway, and stopped at the mailbox, by the main road.

He turned towards her and she could see a faint smile on his face in the dim light. She felt an almost magnetic pull, pulling her towards him.

When their lips met, she felt the hunger, she had thought was for Clark, awaken. Lex pressed his tongue to her lips, begging them to relent. She did, and their tongues touched almost sensually, Chloe didn;t even notice, or care that his hand was around her waist pulling her closer. The other, was undoing her seatbelt.

There was a knock on the window.

"Chloe?" Lana's muffled voice called, sending her and Lex, crashing down to earth. Chloe's face turned red, as she gently pushed Lex away.

"Lana?" Chloe asked after pushing the window's down button. Lex's hands were now on her knee.

"You're dad's home, and curfew's in five." Chloe looked down at her watch.10:55.

"So it is." She smiled feeling her face slowly return back to it's normal color, she looked at Lex and blushed again realizing what had happened..

"I'll see you tomorrow," he said quietly. Chloe nodded, speachless. Lex grabbed her hand quickly as she had turned to leave. She turned, facing him again. He kissed it gently. "Good bye Chloe."

"Bye." She said just as quietly; as she got out of the car.

Neither girl said anything until they were almost at the house, and Lex's car had dissappeared.

"I'm guessing that your date went well." Lana said.

"Yeah." Chloe smlied.

"I told you to wear the red dress." Lana said all-knowingly,as if she knew what was going to happen, as she opened the door.

Gabe Sullivan was sitting in the living room of their two-storey-house. Greying at the temples, the years of fertilizer work had aged him quickly, far quicker than if they still lived in the City. But of course, Chloe's mother leaving hadn't made him any younger, either.

It was like God had given him another light, when Lana came to live with them. There was now someone else to care for, someone else to be a close friend with Chloe. A confident for her.

"How was your date honey?" He asked when he saw the two girls walk in.

"Fine Dad." She said monotonally.

"God! You sound like my boss!"

At this Lana giggled and turned up the stairs tto her room.

"Sorry Dad."

"just as long as I get to meet this mystery date, to give him the what for when it comes to dating my daughter."

"You will Dad." Chloe nodded. Even though you already do know him.

"Good, now off to bed, you have School in the morning, and I don't want to face the wrath of Chloe-in-the-morning alright?"

Chloe smiled. "You say it like it's a bad thing." Chloe turned to the stairs, and went down the hallway at the top.

Lana's room was dark when she went by it.

Chloe climbed into bed,after quickly brushing her teeth, and ridding her hair of the evils of hairspray. She sighed deeply to herself and lay down, once she rolled over she was quickly in dreamland, dreaming about Lex and that awesome kiss that was still lingering on her lips and hand.

She smiled to herself, and was soon asleep.

Author's note: Well waddya think???? Please let me know.........Ch 4 soon to come..... ^_______^ (and please read my new original fantasy if you have time, cause I need to know if I should continue it....... but of course if you don't want I completely understand.)