A/N: The long awaited Seeds of Evil sequel.... okay I changed the idea that I was originally going to use, making this one a little bit more interesting than the one that was in my head previously... another result of a long and overdrawn Math Class...hey it was better than Geometry.... Enough of my blabbering... here's the beginning of the Flowers of Destiny

The Flowers of Destiny

By S. Ann Smith

Chapter one: Dreammares and Nights

Chloe sat up in her bed, in a cold sweat. The summer air around her was stiffling hot. Humidity hung in the air like a warm mist, causing her breath to hitch slightly.

The silk sheets clung to her warm skin as she leant across the sleeping form beside her too grab the glass from his nightstand.

Chloe quickly slipped out of bed, careful not to wake him, he needed his sleep after his big day yesterday, his father's funeral. Chloe crept into the master bathroom to refresh the now stale water.

She couldn't remember what she had dreamt about, but she was still shaking and was abnormally pale, she deducted after a quick glance in the mirror. She was paler than she had ever been in her whole twenty-five years, and found no reason to be scared out of her mind over a little dream...

'There was no reason,' she decided after taking a deep breath, 'Just an over active imagination' She ran some cold water on her face, after which she snuck back into bed beside her boyfriend of eight and a half years. She didn't know he was awake until his arm wrapped around her waist.

"Chloe are you alright?" he mumbled into her ear. She nodded and leant into his body. "You don't seem alright." He said in his all knowing tone, that he only used when he knew he was concerened.

She shivered slightly and subconciously, pulling his arms tighter around her. "I'm fine, Goodnight Honey." she said softly.

"Liar," he said, matching her tone, into her neck.

"Good night Honey." She said a little more forcefully.

"Good night Chloe."

"Good night Lex."

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Lex was pacing in his office when Chloe walked in in the morning.

"What's wrong?" She asked a keen sixth sense kicking in.

"Nothing. Just buisness troubles."

"I be I could take your mind off of it."

"I bet you could, but I still have to hire work men to fix the garden after the last time you took my mind off of work." He smirked.

"Well that can easily be fixed by-" She stopped after hearing the door open behind her.

"Mr. Luthor, Mr. Roosevetler would like to know what to do with the arrangements you made for the rings?"

"Tell him I'll talk to him later."

"And the flowers?"

"Later, now out!" He said angrily to the maid.

"Rings?" Chloe asked raising her eybrow.

"Of fake flower for father's tomb."

"Right." She nodded as she wondered what it was really.

"What do you want for breakfast?" he asked sitting down on his desk, hand on the intercom to the kitchen. She walked up to him and moved his hand off of the intercom.

"I'll tell Sophia. Do you want anything?" She sked kissing him softly.

"I'm sure you could help me with that."

"I thought you didn't want me taking your mind off of buisness again." She said innocently. "Coffee I'm assuming."

"Please." He smirked."

"I'll be back"

"I'll be waiting don't be too long," he said as she walked to the door. She turned around and smiled before closing the door.

She returned carrying a tray with french toast, and Hashbrowns, followed by yet another maid, one that was different than the one that was in earlier, who was carrying a tray with two cups and a pot of coffee.

"Chloe you should've let Maria carry it, that is her job, you know."He said after the maid left.

"I have two perfectly good hands, I can carry my own food." She stated stubbornly.

"I know you have two perfectly good hands, but I'd have all those workers without jobs." He said, pulling her close to him. "And they do such good jobs." He mumbled before kissing her softly.

"That they do." She smiled as she leant towards him, giving him an equally soft kiss.

In an instant Chloe was enveloped by darkness, it was as if somebody had turned all the lights off in the Universe, and stuck her in a freezer. The light and heat returned just as quickly as they had left, and Chloe soon found herself in a corner of Lex's office on the floor shaking.

"Chloe, are you alright?" He asked. Lex was beside her now, and had his arm around her protectively. But all she could do was shake.

"C-can I-I have a g-g-glass of water?" She aske. She was shaking to the point that she was causing Lex to shake also.

Lex nodded and reluctantly moved away from her. Immediately after Lex had left her side she stopped shaking, and tried to stand.

"Chloe, don't-" He began, but stopped when she sat down in his overstuffed office chair, tears streaming down her face. She was scared, and he could see it in her eyes. She had the same haunted look that had the previous night, and she was so pale, he could've sworn she had never seen the sun in her life, which was funny, in a sick way, but funny all the same because they had just spent the entire day yesterday in the sun, and Chloe was complaining of a sunburn before she went to bed. He remembered it clearly because of the lotion he rubbed on her to soothe the burns. Lex handed her the glass of water.

"I'm fine Lex." She insisted, graciously took it, and guzzled it down, like it was a shot of vodka.

"Then you shouldn't be drinking that water too fast." When she gave him a confused look he clairified, "you might get hiccups." She nodded.

"Because we wouldn't want that now would we?"

"No we wouldn't." He smiled. "But I do think you should go lay down for a while."

"Spoil sport," she said quietly in defeat. Lex was the only one she would ever, ever give in to, and he used that to his advantage more than once. She walked over to him and gave him a kiss, and walke out of the room.

What ever it was that had just happened, happened the night before, she just hoped it wouldn't happen again, what ever it was.

tbc