Author note: CH 6!!! yay... This Ch. showcases three mother's-one loving, one distant, and one evil-gone good....although I'm sorry to say, there's only one more Ch (or pobably two, or three i haven't decided yet) after this one...... But alas! there will be more CHLEX fics comin up from me.... Including a Valentines fic that will be up hopefully by next week....
The Seeds of Evil
by S. Ann Smith
Chapter six: Mothers Dearest(s)
Chloe and Pete were sitting in her car just outside the Metropolis Inquisitor.
"Why'd you drag me along?" Pete protested to his best friend for the seventh time, this hour. There had been, of course three of these hours, prior to the one they were in now.
She sighed. Obviously aware of the amount of times he had previously asked the same question. She hadn't given him an answer.
"Because, if you weren't here, I probably would chicken out." She took a deep reasuring breath and began to open the door. She stopped when she saw her.
Charlotte, Chloe's mother, was leaving the Inquisitor's main building, a new copy of the magazine under her arm.
She wore a black pinstripped buisness suit, with a white shirt underneath, she wore black pumps to finish it off. Chloe obviously had recieved just a little bit of fashion sense from her mother. Gabe had little or no fashion sense at all, and that's what made Chloe love him so much.
"Pete," Chloe's voice was barely above a whisper, "There she is." She pointed to the lady leaving the building.
"She looks like you." Pete said in a confirmation to nobody in particular. "Well, go on....Hello?"
She wasn't listening anymore. Actually she hadn't been listening in hte first place, but that was because of the woman who used to be her mother. Chloe's eyes were firmly trained on her mother, and the man who was holding her hand as they walked across the street.
The man, no older thatn Gabe, was distinguishinly handsome,. He was now holding the door to a blue Lincoln.
Chloe just sat there staring, watching, as Charlotte and the man drove by them.
Chloe did nothing, but watch, until they were out of sight around the corner.
She looked down, defeated, and started her car.
"So that's it then? You're just going to let her leave?" Pete asked as if it was the most unbelievable thing in the world and belonged on Ripley's Believe it or Not. She didn't answer and pulled out of her parking spot
"You're quitting? Stop the press we have a new cover story! I can picture it now, Chloe Sullivan, Quits!" He stopped joking when he saw that she wasn't laughing. " Come on Chlo, you never quit."
"I do now." She said her eyes never leaving mainstreet Metropolis.
"Why?" He asked the one word so simply that it really made her think for a minute. Why was she quitting anyways?
After about three minutes, which enevidably felt alot longer, Chloe answered. "Because she has her own life now, she doesn't need me fucking it up for her."
"That's never stopped you before, why now?" Did Pete just say I was nosy? The ass!
"Maybe I'll try some other time." She smiled not very convinced herself that there would be another time. She turned down the road that would eventually lead to the three way intersection that would lead them to Smallville.
A few hours later, they were driving down mainstreet Smallville. Chloe's cell phone rang.
"Talk to me." She said chipperly into the phone.
"I see you didn't go through with it." A recognizable voice on the other end said confirming the painfully obvious truth.
"Are you at the Talon?" She asked listening carefully to the indecipherable noises in the background.
"No, Try again." The billionaire's voice teased from the other end.
She listended carefully to he noise in the background and was rewarded with the roar of an expensive vehicle.
"No fair!You're going somewhere!" She protested.
"So what if I am?" He asked her nonchalantly.
She pulled into the Talon's parking lot to drop Pete off. "Just a second, dearie," She said to the phone, her voice reeking of false sweetness. Then to Pete she said, "Thank you Pete, even though nothing happened."
"No problem, what are friends for, and besides I feel special, you put 'dearie' on hold for me." He smiled a silly grin. "Bye Chlo," Pete obvilously didn't know who 'dearie' was.
"Bye Pete."
"I'm getting impatient Chloe" Lex's voice said smiring on the other end. Obviously Lex had trained his voice to smirk, because it did.
"Patience is a virtue."
"Meet me here." He said changing the subject.
Chloe heard the beep of an electrical alarm,a nd a creak of a rought iron gate.
He was at the mansion. Her perceptive journalism senses told her. As the thought ran through her mind, the phone cut off, and Chloe only heard silence.
Chloe quickly turned off her phone, and sped towards the Luthor's ancestrial mansion.
~*~*~
Once there Chloe watched the gate mysteriously open allowing her ot enter the premisis of the Luthor family estate.
Lex was waiting for her inside the big, solid oak doors.
Without saying a word, he motioned for her to come in, with his sexy bald head. She followed him into the enourmously magnificent estate that was his home. Her eyes grew when she saw where he was taking her.
She had been here before. Many times before-but not too many times to actually know what the upstairs looked like. She had only been in the ballroom, the banquet hall, and the study-not that she kept track or anything.
She silently followed him into an empty sitting room. He motioned for her to sit, and sat across from her when she did.
He licked his lips quickly befor speaking. "My mother died when I was very young, Chloe." He looked down at his hands. "I just thought you would need someone to talk to who has lost their mother too. I never wanted sympathy-from anyone- and I learned fast, to hide my emotions from my father." He stopped, and as only Lex Luthor could do, turned full stop ,and looked deep into Chloe's eyes. "Would you like anything?"
She shook her head,no.
"No, I know what you need." He said in that confirming-Lex way of his, as a devillish grin spread across his face. "Or at least what I need." He stood up, and to the semi shock of Chloe, sat beside her. "You need a hug" he stated with a triumphant tone, one that,she was sure, the first scientist that shouted 'Eureka' would have had, if he were a Luthor. But of course the 'Eureka' man was probably employed by a Luthor. He smiled, "And it's your lucky day, because I'll be obliged to give you one." He welcomingly held out his pale arms.
As if given release, she hugged him close. She so comforted by this selfless act from Lex, that she oped up the flood gates. She cried the tears she had felt when Clark had shown her the paper and said what he did. She cried the tears tha t she felt when she saw her mom and the strange man. She just cried-like there was no tomorrow.
Once she couldn't cry any more, she pulled out of his arms, wiped her tears, and kissed his lips softly. When she began to pull away, he pulled her closer to him, and deepened the kiss.
"Master Lex..." A stuffy british accent said coming into the room, "...I'm sorry! I didn't realize-" Lex quickly pulled away vrom Chloe.
"Of course you didn't realize." He shot back at the butler.
"It's just .. Sir, there is a Miss Kyle here to see you." The butler looked from Chloe to Lex nervously.
"Chloe, you should go." He said quietly.
"Why?" She dared him, her eyebrow raised. Who was this 'Miss Kyle'?
"Because Selena is an old friend." He stated simply. "Not *that* kind of friend." He corrected her when she rose her eyebrow a second time.
"Then I can stay." She smiled as she relaxed in the big green couch. Lex gently laced his fingers with hers.
"Fine, you can stay, but you should go home afterwards." He smiled warmly at her. "I don't want Gabe to be worried." Then he spoke to the flabberghasted butler, " send Selena in." The butler bowed respectfully and opened the door.
"Lex, i need your Hel-Hello. Selena Kyle, you are?" the blonde woman, who was now standing at the edge of the couch asked Chloe.
"Chloe Sullivan." Chloe smiled.
"Continue." Lex urged, noticing the small child peeking out from behind Selena's jeans. "Hello Helena." He said. The small brunette quickly hid behind Selena's jeans again.
"I need your help Lex." She looked right into his eyes. "Bruce left me, and I was just fired-can you spot me the rent?"
"For how long?"
"Just to help me get back up on my feet."
"How about I get you a secretorial job at the New Gotham Police Station? Gordan could always use the help."
"How about somewhere else?" She asked nevously, her face going paler than the marble on the coffee tables.
"Museum perhaps?" She remained pale. "How about Arkam. Do you want to visit some old friends Selena?" he spat at her with a trademark smirk.
"Come on Helena." She angrily said, picking up the small girl.
"Good bye Misther Loother" Helena waved a chubby hand over Selena's shoulder.
Lex waved at the little girl. "Selena!" Lex called in a very commanding voice. "I'll spot you the rent, until you get back on your feet, don't take my remarks out on Helena." Selena stopped in her spot.
"I would never hurt my daughter Mr. Luthor. Don't worry you won't have to support us for long." came the cold response from Selena Kyle. She left the room surprisingly colder than it had been before she had entered.
"Go home Chloe. I have a few phone calls to make for Miss Kyle." He turned to her and kissed her gently. With his thumb he traced the gentle contours of her face. She nodded.
~*~*~
She drove home, her lips tingling, and her mind searching for logical answers to Selena Kyle, and Lex's illogical actions.
Lana was still at the Talon, and her father was still at work. This relieved Chloe, as she didn't feel like talking to either of them right now. She brewed herself a pot of coffee and got to work. She had a new motivation for the time being.
She opened up her laptop, to look up Selena Kyle. Chloe just didn't trust her, and her instincts were rarely wrong. Chloe was confused about alot of things about this woman, and her past. Lex had offended her merely by mentioning the Police Department, Museum and someplace called Arkham.
Chloe just felt that she had to get to the bottom of this Selena Kyle. She had to.
Author note: I know I know, very long.... but I did warn you...... now the above circumstances I totally made up... I have no idea as to what happened in early-Helena Kyle times, but i just thought I'd make Lex seem even more evil.... not that the incident in ch 3 wasn't evil enough... I haven't finnished the next ch yet, so I don't know how long it will take to post it... I'm only like 1/3 finnished if that.... Finals are over now so I hope I'll be posting more than I have been...*sigh* I hate finals.
~S
