Downward Spiral Part VII: Sequel to The Sins of the Father
A Smallville story by Merrie
Disclaimer: If I did own anything from Smallville, you would see my name in the credits, now wouldn't you? Alas, I've checked and it's not there.
Summary: Sequel to The Sins of the Father. Lex needs Chloe's help in a big way, but will she be around when he needs her?
Characters: Any and all, including Lance Thorne, an all new, problem causing OFC!!
Author's Note: To any and all of you worrying about Chloe, have no fear, I decided that it would be mean to have Lex go through withdrawal without her. Of course, that doesn't mean that everything will be alright between the two of them. Quite the opposite in fact. Enjoy! Also, to all my 'The Nothingness of Love' readers, I'm sorry. This story decided that it wanted to get updated first, and as I am fanfiction's slave, I could only obey. I have written most of the new chapter though, so it should be up soon. Sorry for the wait!
Rating: This story is rated PG-13 for language, angst-filled dramatic scenes and drug use.
Chapter Seven: Escape to Neverland
White, that's all she saw, that's all she could see for the moment. Blaring whiteness. After a moment of trying to figure out where she was and why she felt something sticking out of her mouth. Chloe started as the events of the day came crashing back to her, and began to choke on the tube running out of her mouth. 'Oh my God! I was off to find Lex when something or someone hit me!' Looking around at the whiteness again, coughing, she grabbed the tube and began to pull. As she pulled, some part of her brain wondered if perhaps she had died and that she was now in heaven. After a moment, she frowned. 'No, this can't be heaven, it smells too, too medicinal, and there's no way I would have to put up with something like this goddamned tube coming out of my mouth either. This must be the hospital. I must be in the hospital. Oh my God, what happened to me?' She coughed again and gagged a little as she finally managed to pull the tube out of her mouth, and looked around the room, her eyes stopping on one person. "No," she rasped, her throat scratchy and raw from the hasty removal of the tube. "It can't be. Not Lex." She closed her eyes and shook her head, hoping that she was somehow dreaming. When the image before her didn't go away, she sat up and pushed the covers off of herself. The exertion of even that took a lot out of her and she had to sit and rest a moment before moving on. Wanting to look at something, anything to take her view off of Lex's still body, she looked down at her hands before her. Grimacing at the IV in one of them, she braced herself and took a hold of it, slowly yanking it out as well. With a small gasp of pain, she then began to remove the other wires surrounding her body, wincing as her heart monitor started it's warning as it lost its connection with her heartbeat. Annoyed, she reached over to turn it off and then looked back across the room. 'Lex, I've got to get to Lex. God, let him be alright. Please let him be alright.' Placing her bare feet on the cold tile floor, she stood slowly, almost losing her balance in the process. 'Why am I so weak? What's wrong with me?' She looked down at herself and didn't notice any broken limbs. 'Nothing seems to be broken, so why was I here?' Shaking her head, she moved across the room to Lex, gasping at what she saw know that she was right next to him. "Oh God, why would they do this to you, my precious Alexander?" Chloe whispered to herself, noticing the restraints on Lex's wrists. "I've got to get these off of you." She said, undoing his right arm first. After undoing both of the restraints, she placed a hand on Lex's face and gasped as his eyes snapped open. "Lex? You're awake! What's happened to you? Why did they put you in restraints?"
"Chloe?" Lex murmured, his eyes wide with shock and he backed away from her touch. "No! It's not you, not Chloe. Not my Chloe. She's hurt. I hurt her. Alexander hurt her."
"What? You didn't hurt-" Chloe gasped as she realized what had happened, the pieces of what she could remember from the accident finally falling into place. "You-you hit me?" Chloe asked, not wanting to believe it.
"No!" Lex yelled, pushing his way out of bed and onto the floor. "You're not her. You're not Chloe! I've hurt my Chloe. I've killed my Chloe." Lex whispered.
"What? Lex, please talk to me. You aren't making any sense. I'm alright. You didn't kill anyone. See? I'm right here. I'm alive." Chloe could only stand and stare as Lex shook his head, not believing a word of what she was saying. "What's happened to you? Please Lex, tell me what's wrong!" Chloe said, moving towards him. At her sudden movement, Lex's eyes went wide and he turned around and ran out of the room. Chloe tried to chase after him, but found that she couldn't stand any longer and fell to the ground in exhaustion. "Lex, what's happened to you?"
"Alright, we've been here long enough. I want to get back to Chloe now. I need to see how's she doing." Gabe Sullivan said, standing up from the hospital cafeteria table.
"The doctor said the sedatives he gave Lex wouldn't last long as well. We need to be there for him when he wakes up. No one should have to go through this alone." Jonathan Kent said quietly, earning mild stares of disbelief from both Clark and Martha. Not acknowledging their looks, he merely followed Gabe's retreating back out of the cafeteria and over to Chloe and Lex's room. They walked briskly but silently back to the room, each one of them praying for the best but expecting the worst. As their eyes fell upon an awake Chloe, lying in bed a nurse standing over her and tucking her in, they knew the best had shockingly come.
"Chloe! You're awake, you're alright!" Gabe said, running to her side and hugging her. "I was so worried! Don't ever do that to me again!" He pulled back to look at her and noticed that she wasn't returning his joy. "What's wrong now, sweetheart?"
"Wait a minute, where's Lex?" Martha Kent asked upon noticing the empty bed.
"Who?" The nurse asked, confused. "I wasn't aware there was anyone else in this room."
"Lex, Lex Luthor." Clark said. "Chloe, do you know what happened to Lex?"
"He's-he's gone." Chloe rasped slowly, her eyes welling up with tears.
"Gone? Where did they take him?" Jonathan asked with a frown.
"They didn't take him anywhere. He ran away." Chloe answered him quietly.
"Lex Luthor? The Lex Luthor? You're saying that he got up and left?" The nurse said, a sickened look on her face.
"He couldn't have gotten up and left, he was strapped to the bed." Martha said, still disgusted by the very thought of it.
"You knew they did that to him? Why? How could you allow something so, so, wrong?" Chloe rasped out.
"He was going through the first stages of heroin withdrawal. The doctor had him strapped down so he wouldn't try to hurt anyone, including himself."
"What? Oh my God, I knew it. I knew there was something wrong with him. Why didn't he tell me?" Chloe looked down at her lap for a minute, sadness in her face. She suddenly looked up sharply and said, "You've got to find him! If he's out there going through withdrawal."
"I'll find him." Clark said, running out the door before anyone could say anything to him.
"What have I done?" Chloe asked herself quietly after casting a glance at the empty bed. "Please Clark, bring him back to me."
In the parking lot of Smallville Memorial Hospital, only two thoughts went through Lex's splintered mind. Random thoughts of heroin and taking heroin and using heroin and the feeling heroin gives him, and thoughts of Chloe and the fact that he killed Chloe and that he would never see Chloe again. He didn't necessarily know where he was going or what he would do when he got there other than get another fix, but he knew that he had to get away from the liar who had Chloe's face. She had said that she was his Chloe, even called him Alexander like she used to, but Lex knew better. He knew that he had killed her. He had killed his Chloe and there was nothing that he could do about it. 'I've got to get away from here. I've got to get away from Chloe.' He thought, searching the parking lot for his car. 'I've got to go. I've got to get away. I've got to get fixed. Yes, fixed. Perhaps then the pain will go away. If I get fixed enough, maybe all the pain will go away.' Not seeing any of his cars, he merely picked one close to him, picked up a stray piece of concrete from the lot, and broke the driver's side window. Struggling with the blaring of the car alarm, he did what came naturally to him and hotwired the car. Once the car was running and the alarm was mercifully disconnected, Lex sped out of the parking lot, not really knowing or caring where he was going, as long as he could get away.
Clark couldn't risk running at top speed through the hospital without being seen, so he was forced to rely on his x-ray vision, praying that Lex was still in the hospital where he could see him. Unfortunately, after scanning every floor for the familiar silhouette of his friend, he hadn't had any luck. Running to the front entrance, he prayed that Lex hadn't gotten this far, but he knew that when his friend set his mind on something, he wasn't going to stop until it was completed to his satisfaction. Lex had wanted to leave, to get out of the hospital, and Clark feared that he had already done so and was long gone. Suddenly, the sound of a car alarm and squealing tires pricked his ears, and Clark ran towards them as fast as he could, no longer caring about the consequences. If Lex got away, what would happen then?
TBC
A/N: Hmm, sorry for the cliffhanger, but I got creative all of a sudden and wrote this little chapter, not really planning to end it like this until it was written. Don't worry though, the next chapter should be up soon.
A Smallville story by Merrie
Disclaimer: If I did own anything from Smallville, you would see my name in the credits, now wouldn't you? Alas, I've checked and it's not there.
Summary: Sequel to The Sins of the Father. Lex needs Chloe's help in a big way, but will she be around when he needs her?
Characters: Any and all, including Lance Thorne, an all new, problem causing OFC!!
Author's Note: To any and all of you worrying about Chloe, have no fear, I decided that it would be mean to have Lex go through withdrawal without her. Of course, that doesn't mean that everything will be alright between the two of them. Quite the opposite in fact. Enjoy! Also, to all my 'The Nothingness of Love' readers, I'm sorry. This story decided that it wanted to get updated first, and as I am fanfiction's slave, I could only obey. I have written most of the new chapter though, so it should be up soon. Sorry for the wait!
Rating: This story is rated PG-13 for language, angst-filled dramatic scenes and drug use.
Chapter Seven: Escape to Neverland
White, that's all she saw, that's all she could see for the moment. Blaring whiteness. After a moment of trying to figure out where she was and why she felt something sticking out of her mouth. Chloe started as the events of the day came crashing back to her, and began to choke on the tube running out of her mouth. 'Oh my God! I was off to find Lex when something or someone hit me!' Looking around at the whiteness again, coughing, she grabbed the tube and began to pull. As she pulled, some part of her brain wondered if perhaps she had died and that she was now in heaven. After a moment, she frowned. 'No, this can't be heaven, it smells too, too medicinal, and there's no way I would have to put up with something like this goddamned tube coming out of my mouth either. This must be the hospital. I must be in the hospital. Oh my God, what happened to me?' She coughed again and gagged a little as she finally managed to pull the tube out of her mouth, and looked around the room, her eyes stopping on one person. "No," she rasped, her throat scratchy and raw from the hasty removal of the tube. "It can't be. Not Lex." She closed her eyes and shook her head, hoping that she was somehow dreaming. When the image before her didn't go away, she sat up and pushed the covers off of herself. The exertion of even that took a lot out of her and she had to sit and rest a moment before moving on. Wanting to look at something, anything to take her view off of Lex's still body, she looked down at her hands before her. Grimacing at the IV in one of them, she braced herself and took a hold of it, slowly yanking it out as well. With a small gasp of pain, she then began to remove the other wires surrounding her body, wincing as her heart monitor started it's warning as it lost its connection with her heartbeat. Annoyed, she reached over to turn it off and then looked back across the room. 'Lex, I've got to get to Lex. God, let him be alright. Please let him be alright.' Placing her bare feet on the cold tile floor, she stood slowly, almost losing her balance in the process. 'Why am I so weak? What's wrong with me?' She looked down at herself and didn't notice any broken limbs. 'Nothing seems to be broken, so why was I here?' Shaking her head, she moved across the room to Lex, gasping at what she saw know that she was right next to him. "Oh God, why would they do this to you, my precious Alexander?" Chloe whispered to herself, noticing the restraints on Lex's wrists. "I've got to get these off of you." She said, undoing his right arm first. After undoing both of the restraints, she placed a hand on Lex's face and gasped as his eyes snapped open. "Lex? You're awake! What's happened to you? Why did they put you in restraints?"
"Chloe?" Lex murmured, his eyes wide with shock and he backed away from her touch. "No! It's not you, not Chloe. Not my Chloe. She's hurt. I hurt her. Alexander hurt her."
"What? You didn't hurt-" Chloe gasped as she realized what had happened, the pieces of what she could remember from the accident finally falling into place. "You-you hit me?" Chloe asked, not wanting to believe it.
"No!" Lex yelled, pushing his way out of bed and onto the floor. "You're not her. You're not Chloe! I've hurt my Chloe. I've killed my Chloe." Lex whispered.
"What? Lex, please talk to me. You aren't making any sense. I'm alright. You didn't kill anyone. See? I'm right here. I'm alive." Chloe could only stand and stare as Lex shook his head, not believing a word of what she was saying. "What's happened to you? Please Lex, tell me what's wrong!" Chloe said, moving towards him. At her sudden movement, Lex's eyes went wide and he turned around and ran out of the room. Chloe tried to chase after him, but found that she couldn't stand any longer and fell to the ground in exhaustion. "Lex, what's happened to you?"
"Alright, we've been here long enough. I want to get back to Chloe now. I need to see how's she doing." Gabe Sullivan said, standing up from the hospital cafeteria table.
"The doctor said the sedatives he gave Lex wouldn't last long as well. We need to be there for him when he wakes up. No one should have to go through this alone." Jonathan Kent said quietly, earning mild stares of disbelief from both Clark and Martha. Not acknowledging their looks, he merely followed Gabe's retreating back out of the cafeteria and over to Chloe and Lex's room. They walked briskly but silently back to the room, each one of them praying for the best but expecting the worst. As their eyes fell upon an awake Chloe, lying in bed a nurse standing over her and tucking her in, they knew the best had shockingly come.
"Chloe! You're awake, you're alright!" Gabe said, running to her side and hugging her. "I was so worried! Don't ever do that to me again!" He pulled back to look at her and noticed that she wasn't returning his joy. "What's wrong now, sweetheart?"
"Wait a minute, where's Lex?" Martha Kent asked upon noticing the empty bed.
"Who?" The nurse asked, confused. "I wasn't aware there was anyone else in this room."
"Lex, Lex Luthor." Clark said. "Chloe, do you know what happened to Lex?"
"He's-he's gone." Chloe rasped slowly, her eyes welling up with tears.
"Gone? Where did they take him?" Jonathan asked with a frown.
"They didn't take him anywhere. He ran away." Chloe answered him quietly.
"Lex Luthor? The Lex Luthor? You're saying that he got up and left?" The nurse said, a sickened look on her face.
"He couldn't have gotten up and left, he was strapped to the bed." Martha said, still disgusted by the very thought of it.
"You knew they did that to him? Why? How could you allow something so, so, wrong?" Chloe rasped out.
"He was going through the first stages of heroin withdrawal. The doctor had him strapped down so he wouldn't try to hurt anyone, including himself."
"What? Oh my God, I knew it. I knew there was something wrong with him. Why didn't he tell me?" Chloe looked down at her lap for a minute, sadness in her face. She suddenly looked up sharply and said, "You've got to find him! If he's out there going through withdrawal."
"I'll find him." Clark said, running out the door before anyone could say anything to him.
"What have I done?" Chloe asked herself quietly after casting a glance at the empty bed. "Please Clark, bring him back to me."
In the parking lot of Smallville Memorial Hospital, only two thoughts went through Lex's splintered mind. Random thoughts of heroin and taking heroin and using heroin and the feeling heroin gives him, and thoughts of Chloe and the fact that he killed Chloe and that he would never see Chloe again. He didn't necessarily know where he was going or what he would do when he got there other than get another fix, but he knew that he had to get away from the liar who had Chloe's face. She had said that she was his Chloe, even called him Alexander like she used to, but Lex knew better. He knew that he had killed her. He had killed his Chloe and there was nothing that he could do about it. 'I've got to get away from here. I've got to get away from Chloe.' He thought, searching the parking lot for his car. 'I've got to go. I've got to get away. I've got to get fixed. Yes, fixed. Perhaps then the pain will go away. If I get fixed enough, maybe all the pain will go away.' Not seeing any of his cars, he merely picked one close to him, picked up a stray piece of concrete from the lot, and broke the driver's side window. Struggling with the blaring of the car alarm, he did what came naturally to him and hotwired the car. Once the car was running and the alarm was mercifully disconnected, Lex sped out of the parking lot, not really knowing or caring where he was going, as long as he could get away.
Clark couldn't risk running at top speed through the hospital without being seen, so he was forced to rely on his x-ray vision, praying that Lex was still in the hospital where he could see him. Unfortunately, after scanning every floor for the familiar silhouette of his friend, he hadn't had any luck. Running to the front entrance, he prayed that Lex hadn't gotten this far, but he knew that when his friend set his mind on something, he wasn't going to stop until it was completed to his satisfaction. Lex had wanted to leave, to get out of the hospital, and Clark feared that he had already done so and was long gone. Suddenly, the sound of a car alarm and squealing tires pricked his ears, and Clark ran towards them as fast as he could, no longer caring about the consequences. If Lex got away, what would happen then?
TBC
A/N: Hmm, sorry for the cliffhanger, but I got creative all of a sudden and wrote this little chapter, not really planning to end it like this until it was written. Don't worry though, the next chapter should be up soon.