Major formatting error! OK, the translation of what Chloe said is : Oh, and
Mr. Luthor, I'm sure it's not all women. You seem to have an effect on
people. Bringing out their true feelings about you. Did you ever stop to
think you may be the jerk and not the woman?
I'm sorry for the mix up. I have no idea why it is not posted in the last chapter. I will be trying to fix that. However, it did show up in the file I have saved so it should have posted. Thanks to Ruffyan for pointing that out.
Also, last chapter note, a big thank you going out to scifichick774 for alerting me to the formatting error. I've since fixed that, hope it does not happen again.
Any spelling errors are because it's four in the morning and I just finished typing this. I hope to catch them all but I might miss some. Thanks for your willingness to read this even with my complete lack of understand with regards to English grammar.
OK, on with it:
Disclaimer : See first chapter.
Chapter Nine : When Love Returns
0o0o0o0o
Chloe walked quickly down the street. It was rather windy out side but the sun was still shining brightly above. She had arrived thirty minutes early, waiting just around the corner watching to see if, or rather when and how Lex would arrive. She was now pacing up and down the street. Finally looking at her watch, it was ten minutes after the time he had asked her to show up. She took a deep breath and walked in.
Mustering up all the strength in her she walked, heard held high, to the back where she saw him sitting. He looked extremely handsome. Wearing a deep red business shirt, with the top button open and navy blue dockers. He appeared rather nerves sitting their, she was not use to seeing him quite so distraught.
Forgetting that thought as she came to the table she slowly took the last few steps. 'Deep breath, this is it. The moment that could decide the rest of your life, don't mess it up.' Chloe thought to herself.
There was an awkward silence between them for a moment. With Lex finally breaking it, "I'm really glad you came."
Chloe only nodded, she sat down next to him with a slight sigh.
"Their is so much to be said." she replied, not looking him in the eye. It was Lex's turn to nod.
"Chloe, I-" "Lex, I, want-" they both began at the same time, "I'm sorry, Lex, you first." Chloe said with a little blush that caused Lex to grin slightly.
"Chloe," he paused "I know that the loss of your fathers' job that resulted in the lack of income and thus forcing your move back to Metropolis. Along with your believing that the plants closure had something to do with the war between my father, and I but believe me, I never thought that he would do something so rash. Has placed a great deal of stress on our relationship" He paused again to take a breath but she cut in.
"That's just the problem, Lex. I know how much, weather you like to acknowledge it or not, Smallville means to you. Maybe not the town as much, but the people. Being the daughter of the plant manager, I hear a lot of the remarks made about you. Up until the closure, no one had anything bad to say about you. I lashed out at you on the phone with out thinking of my choice of words. It was bad timing and for that I must apologies."
"You did have a right, Chloe. I should have stopped my father long before our personally feelings for one another interfered with the lives of Luthor Corp employees and their family's lives." He told her softly, he slowly reached out his hand, taking a light grasp of hers'.
"It seems we both regret our actions over the last weeks. Given both our personalities I know it's to much to believe we could completely forget this and put the past behind us, but perhaps,"
"I agree." Lex interrupted.
"I did not even finish what I had to say." their was a twinkle in Chloes' eyes when she added "The insight is just one of the many qualities I love about you." They both laughed at that, just sitting their, enjoying being near the other again.
"I've missed having you near, Chloe." Lex whispered extremely softly. She looked over at him, giving him a small smile and a quick kiss. "I love you." She said.
"You know not, how long I've waited to hear that, love." 'He called me "love"!' Chloe's mind shouted to her. She practically glowed.
"What would you say to going some where slightly more private?" She asked.
Lex did not respond verbally, merely stood up and offered her his arm. Chloe gladly excepted it and snuggled up next to him as they walked, placing her head on his shoulder.
Lex slide his hand into his pant pocket. 'I'm glad your with me mom. I know you would approve of giving this to her.' He thought, before Lillian had died, she had written him a letter,
-
My Beloved Son,
I can see what my death is doing to you even now that I am still alive. I'm so glad for the time we have spent together, how I wish I could see you through all the happy moments to come. To be their, guiding you through the hardships. You have kept me alive these past months. The doctors told me I would die with in a year, but because of you I've been here for eighteen months. I know it's been hell for you, seeing me this way. But that smile of yours that lights up a room has kept me going.
I know my time has come, I can feel it. Before I leave this life, I need you to know how much I truly love you my son. I will always be with you. No matter what, in live and death please trust in the knowledge that I will be watching over you. I'm very proud of you.
Their is something I wish to give you. I've already spoken with your father and he's promised to agree that I will be married with my wedding ring. However, I have also spoken with the funeral director. What your father does not know dear is that I've asked, after the visitation, to have my ring removed. I want you to have it.
As you know it was passed down from in my family for seven generations. I do love you father. Even after all that he has done. Yet I would like to know the rings glory will be restored. Please take it for your wife. It means a great deal to me, and their have been so many happy marriages it has seen.
I am certain you will chose someone worthy.
Again, please know you have my love. I wish you the best of luck for your future.
I will forever love you my son, and be with you always.
Your loving (and proud),
Mother
-
Lex smiled at the thought. He would ask Chloe. Since the day they met, he knew she was the one. He gave a final squeeze to his mothers' ring, pulled his hand out of his pocket and brings it up to Chloe's head pulled her closer to him and kissed the top of her head. Burying his face in her golden locks.
TCB....
One big request! Could someone please let me know what tags to use so that I may start putting parts of this in bold and italic.
kris : Thank you for the review! Always quite happy to know someone is enjoying this. Leigh : YES!! Thanks for guessing. Hope your enjoying this. Very happy to see a new person reviewing. S.Ann Smith : hehe, nice demand. I'm so glad you found this (also very happy you seem to like it). Yes, the mental image of Lionel with white hair and plastic skin really is something isn't it? hehe I'm not sure quite how to work that it, it might come up some time around killing Clark. OK, maybe another fic.
Ruffyan : I know NC-17 was banned. *cough* kind of signed a petition to get it back but that failed. More of a free speech thing then reading much of it. Bald vs. Sparks. um.. now that's an idea. *grin* I know it was kind of early for the ring but what can I say, I'm a hopeless romantic. So happy you enjoyed the flashback.
scifichick774 : ff.net loves messing up formatting! *rant over* Glad you liked the flashback. I've never really thought about how they met but I did enjoy playing with the flashback. It seemed to work.
Thank you to all of you that have reviewed! It means a lot to me. The next chapter will come sooner. I'm sorry it took so long to post this. I'm hoping to have the next posted by the end of the week. Remember, reviews make me post faster.
I'm sorry for the mix up. I have no idea why it is not posted in the last chapter. I will be trying to fix that. However, it did show up in the file I have saved so it should have posted. Thanks to Ruffyan for pointing that out.
Also, last chapter note, a big thank you going out to scifichick774 for alerting me to the formatting error. I've since fixed that, hope it does not happen again.
Any spelling errors are because it's four in the morning and I just finished typing this. I hope to catch them all but I might miss some. Thanks for your willingness to read this even with my complete lack of understand with regards to English grammar.
OK, on with it:
Disclaimer : See first chapter.
Chapter Nine : When Love Returns
0o0o0o0o
Chloe walked quickly down the street. It was rather windy out side but the sun was still shining brightly above. She had arrived thirty minutes early, waiting just around the corner watching to see if, or rather when and how Lex would arrive. She was now pacing up and down the street. Finally looking at her watch, it was ten minutes after the time he had asked her to show up. She took a deep breath and walked in.
Mustering up all the strength in her she walked, heard held high, to the back where she saw him sitting. He looked extremely handsome. Wearing a deep red business shirt, with the top button open and navy blue dockers. He appeared rather nerves sitting their, she was not use to seeing him quite so distraught.
Forgetting that thought as she came to the table she slowly took the last few steps. 'Deep breath, this is it. The moment that could decide the rest of your life, don't mess it up.' Chloe thought to herself.
There was an awkward silence between them for a moment. With Lex finally breaking it, "I'm really glad you came."
Chloe only nodded, she sat down next to him with a slight sigh.
"Their is so much to be said." she replied, not looking him in the eye. It was Lex's turn to nod.
"Chloe, I-" "Lex, I, want-" they both began at the same time, "I'm sorry, Lex, you first." Chloe said with a little blush that caused Lex to grin slightly.
"Chloe," he paused "I know that the loss of your fathers' job that resulted in the lack of income and thus forcing your move back to Metropolis. Along with your believing that the plants closure had something to do with the war between my father, and I but believe me, I never thought that he would do something so rash. Has placed a great deal of stress on our relationship" He paused again to take a breath but she cut in.
"That's just the problem, Lex. I know how much, weather you like to acknowledge it or not, Smallville means to you. Maybe not the town as much, but the people. Being the daughter of the plant manager, I hear a lot of the remarks made about you. Up until the closure, no one had anything bad to say about you. I lashed out at you on the phone with out thinking of my choice of words. It was bad timing and for that I must apologies."
"You did have a right, Chloe. I should have stopped my father long before our personally feelings for one another interfered with the lives of Luthor Corp employees and their family's lives." He told her softly, he slowly reached out his hand, taking a light grasp of hers'.
"It seems we both regret our actions over the last weeks. Given both our personalities I know it's to much to believe we could completely forget this and put the past behind us, but perhaps,"
"I agree." Lex interrupted.
"I did not even finish what I had to say." their was a twinkle in Chloes' eyes when she added "The insight is just one of the many qualities I love about you." They both laughed at that, just sitting their, enjoying being near the other again.
"I've missed having you near, Chloe." Lex whispered extremely softly. She looked over at him, giving him a small smile and a quick kiss. "I love you." She said.
"You know not, how long I've waited to hear that, love." 'He called me "love"!' Chloe's mind shouted to her. She practically glowed.
"What would you say to going some where slightly more private?" She asked.
Lex did not respond verbally, merely stood up and offered her his arm. Chloe gladly excepted it and snuggled up next to him as they walked, placing her head on his shoulder.
Lex slide his hand into his pant pocket. 'I'm glad your with me mom. I know you would approve of giving this to her.' He thought, before Lillian had died, she had written him a letter,
-
My Beloved Son,
I can see what my death is doing to you even now that I am still alive. I'm so glad for the time we have spent together, how I wish I could see you through all the happy moments to come. To be their, guiding you through the hardships. You have kept me alive these past months. The doctors told me I would die with in a year, but because of you I've been here for eighteen months. I know it's been hell for you, seeing me this way. But that smile of yours that lights up a room has kept me going.
I know my time has come, I can feel it. Before I leave this life, I need you to know how much I truly love you my son. I will always be with you. No matter what, in live and death please trust in the knowledge that I will be watching over you. I'm very proud of you.
Their is something I wish to give you. I've already spoken with your father and he's promised to agree that I will be married with my wedding ring. However, I have also spoken with the funeral director. What your father does not know dear is that I've asked, after the visitation, to have my ring removed. I want you to have it.
As you know it was passed down from in my family for seven generations. I do love you father. Even after all that he has done. Yet I would like to know the rings glory will be restored. Please take it for your wife. It means a great deal to me, and their have been so many happy marriages it has seen.
I am certain you will chose someone worthy.
Again, please know you have my love. I wish you the best of luck for your future.
I will forever love you my son, and be with you always.
Your loving (and proud),
Mother
-
Lex smiled at the thought. He would ask Chloe. Since the day they met, he knew she was the one. He gave a final squeeze to his mothers' ring, pulled his hand out of his pocket and brings it up to Chloe's head pulled her closer to him and kissed the top of her head. Burying his face in her golden locks.
TCB....
One big request! Could someone please let me know what tags to use so that I may start putting parts of this in bold and italic.
kris : Thank you for the review! Always quite happy to know someone is enjoying this. Leigh : YES!! Thanks for guessing. Hope your enjoying this. Very happy to see a new person reviewing. S.Ann Smith : hehe, nice demand. I'm so glad you found this (also very happy you seem to like it). Yes, the mental image of Lionel with white hair and plastic skin really is something isn't it? hehe I'm not sure quite how to work that it, it might come up some time around killing Clark. OK, maybe another fic.
Ruffyan : I know NC-17 was banned. *cough* kind of signed a petition to get it back but that failed. More of a free speech thing then reading much of it. Bald vs. Sparks. um.. now that's an idea. *grin* I know it was kind of early for the ring but what can I say, I'm a hopeless romantic. So happy you enjoyed the flashback.
scifichick774 : ff.net loves messing up formatting! *rant over* Glad you liked the flashback. I've never really thought about how they met but I did enjoy playing with the flashback. It seemed to work.
Thank you to all of you that have reviewed! It means a lot to me. The next chapter will come sooner. I'm sorry it took so long to post this. I'm hoping to have the next posted by the end of the week. Remember, reviews make me post faster.