4.04 – Escape
Previously on Smallville:
"Mrs. Kent is coming to pick me up. Her and Pete are going to help me go through the stuff at home, start packing it up..."
"There is a Miss Lang on the phone. She is asking for either you or Ms. Sullivan..."
"But I'm just sick of everyone looking at me and treating me as if I'm going to have some kind of mental breakdown..." Chloe turned around and held them out in front of her, not even surprised to see Lex standing there, his expression as guilty as hers was angry... "Don't look at me like that."
"I'll be going to Paris next weekend. Could you please arrange a pilot and accommodations?"...
Pete reached out and hugged her tightly. She buried her face in his neck and didn't want to let go. "I'll miss you Pete."...
TEASER
Lex watched her silently staring out of the limo window, the cornfields and cows giving way to the small buildings of Smallville. They passed the Talon and Chloe averted her eyes. The driver turned left off of Main Street and continued on the way to the Luthor Corp Plant. He had some things to take care of in Smallville before he left for Paris the next day.
He still hadn't told Chloe about going yet; he was hoping to surprise her. The limo pulled into the plant parking lot. She was staring morosely at the seat in front of her. He knew that she missed Pete.
"Do you have any plans this weekend?" Lex asked her casually. Chloe looked up at him, a little surprised by the noise; they hadn't talked since they left the city.
"I was thinking about reading every book in your library," she deadpanned. "See if I can find any inconsistencies in the fourteen different Alexander the Great biographies that you have."
Lex smirked at that and opened his briefcase. "In that case, I have something for you," he pulled out a red and blue book and handed it to her.
Chloe turned the book over curiously. "A French-English dictionary," she read the cover and looked up at him again. "I don't get it."
He closed the case. "As interesting as your plans sound, I thought maybe you'd like to join me tomorrow evening," he smirked slightly, unable to hold it back when he saw her raised eyebrows. "I thought maybe we'd visit Lana. Paris is beautiful this time of year."
Her mouth dropped open slightly. "Seriously?" she asked him, disbelief written all over her face. Lex's smirk spread into a genuine smile.
"Plane leaves at nine," he told her. When she gave him a mega-watt grin, the first one he'd seen since before the trial, he almost laughed. "Better start packing."
Chloe nodded and stared at the book in her hands, completely dumbstruck. Lex said a quick goodbye and climbed out of the limo, feeling pretty great now, and heading towards the entrance doors.
Behind him he heard the limo door open and he paused, turning around. Chloe jumped out and hurried over to him. She stood on her tiptoes and quickly pressed a kiss to his cheek, before pulling away and giving him another grin. "Thanks Lex," she told him sincerely.
He mutely watched while she ran back over to the car. It drove away and left him in the parking lot, a surprised smile on his face.
TBC...