A/N: Disclaimer: Carter Bickson belongs too Clint Carpenter from DC Smallville comics, He's part of the Chloe Chronicles contiuation.
CH 5 The Heist
Lex woke up the next morning to see the bed empty. But then he remembered that he was in her house, so she couldn't have gone anywhere. He pulled out a pair of boxers and put on a robe from a drawer that she gave him a while ago.
He padded out into the enormous Penthouse and followed the sound of her voice, coming from the kitchen. He walked in and pulled his robe closed when he saw a man sitting across from her. They were looking at a large piece of paper that was on the table in front of them.
Chloe looked up and smiled "Good Morning honey" she said and motioned for him to come closer to her.
He did and leaned down to kiss her lightly on the lips, but she pushed her hands on the back of his head, drawing his tongue in her mouth.
When she pulled away he had to pull his robe even tighter. He looked over to see who the man was. "Bix" he said
"Luthor" the dark haired man replied.
Carter Bickson was the only other person that knew Chloe's true identity. Bix as he liked to be called was an ex-Navy Seal who did black ops and an ex-member of my father's Deletion Force. When she was seventeen she helped him escape across the boarder before he could be deleted.
She asked him to come back one day and he did. She introduced him to Bix when they decided to take down Lionel. Bix too led a life in secret; his identity was hidden to world like hers. He trusted her more then anyone and gladly followed her back into the life of crime.
Out of all her men, maybe this was the one who shared her bed. He couldn't expect her to be monogamous if he wasn't. Maybe they should talk about that.
Chloe could see the homicidal rage burning in Lex's eyes as he looked at Bix. She thought many times of telling him that none of these men ever shared her bed. Men were competitive by nature and would fight if one got better treatment then the rest. She needed their loyalty.
She enjoyed when he got jealous, it made her feel like it was more then just great sex for him, maybe he cared about her like he used too.
"I'll have the files for you by midnight" she said.
"Sounds good" he replied while pouring himself a cup of coffee.
"Do you want us to take care of the building as well Luthor?" Bix asked
"I'll leave that up to your expertise" Lex replied taking Bix's seat across from Chloe
"Ok, I'll go see, what kind of video footage the other's have of the base" Bix said and he left knowing that Chloe wanted to be alone with Lex.
You already have the access codes?" Lex asked
"Yes had them last night"
"That was quick" he replied.
"So what do these files have on you that makes you want them so quickly" She said bringing the coffee cup to her lips.
"It has things that I rather not have made public" He said
"Are you going to tell me what were looking for" she said smiling and got up
He got up and leaned in closer to whisper in her ear what was in the files and then kissed her. She moaned against his mouth loving the feeling when his hands when they explored her body.
"Uh excuse me" said a voice
Chloe whipped her head around to see who interrupted her moment with Lex.
"ah sorry boss, but we should leave for the helicopter if were going to get this done tonight"
Chloe looked at the clock on the wall. "Your right Jason we should go.. Just give me a minute"
He nodded and went to prepare the rest of the team
"Your going with..into the building?" Lex asked
"Of course Lex"
"I didn't think you would go, I thought you would just send a team in"
"If you want something done right you have do it yourself" she said
"It might be dangerous" he said worried
"Lex I live for danger" she said smiling
Looking at her face, knowing that there was no way he could talk her out of going along. He should have asked some one else, but she was the only one he trusted to give him files.
She turned around to walk out the room he grabbed her and kissed her "Chloe...be careful" he whispered in her ear.
"Always" she said kissing him one last time. "Wait for me at midnight" with that she left.
Lex went back in her room to get dressed, he was quickly sent out the door by one of the men that were left behind.
He hoped she would be ok; he wouldn't be able to live with himself if something happened. For the first time he was realizing that she was almost always putting her life in danger.
Up ahead a fortress loomed, a stark, sprawling four-story stone building with a formidable entryway, and gun turrets on every corner. Searchlights strobed the grounds, lighting up 12-foot high fences topped by concertina wire, making the place look like some huge beast contained within a cage
It was a moonless night -- which was just fine with Chloe. The deeper the darkness, the better chance they had of pulling this off.
Chloe and Bix studied the bases blueprints, once again so not to miss anything. She watched the dark landscape zoom by with her night-vision goggles. This place was empty except for an armful of guards. She looked over to her team and nodded.
They stopped the Jeeps a few miles from the base and got out. They ran in the cover of darkness to some little bushes in the other wise barren desert.
Chloe set up her sight, took aim and pulled the trigger. Her target fell to the ground before his mind could register what happened. The only sound that could be heard was the rest of the guards as they fell.
Chloe looked at her watch and silently counted to three. Suddenly the lights went out and they ran to the fence, they easily cut through it now that the electrical charge had been shut off.
The other part of her team was busy in a warehouse with video footage they had taken earlier. So all the Military bases watching this one would only see guards walking around. It paid to have Military men on her team.
Bix, Roane and Jason came with her to the front of the building. The rest moved the fallen soldiers out of the way.
She entered the code she memorized and the sound of gears grinding was heard as the metal panel slid open. She made her way to the back of the room to the security panel, she entered another code was brought into the main computer room.
With just a few keystrokes she brought up a glowing map of the base, showing her where the vault was that held the secret Military files. She was right this was much more exciting then stealing jewels.
They ran with guns drawn to the other doorways. It was supposed to be empty but you never know. She entered another code to enter the room. She had the vault open in seconds and was in the room searching for the files.
She found them, pulled them out with her gloved hands and looked through to make sure they had everything he said it would. She looked around the room, these were all secret Government files here, and she debated if she should take any. They could always be useful for blackmail.
She decided against and helped her men pour gasoline over all the files. They each set up bombs all over the room and set them for two minutes.
Chloe put the file in her bag and ran out of the room.
They ran to the Jeeps that were already waiting. As they were driving away her team pushed the detonators and building exploded in a fiery ball. They had made sure the building was empty she didn't like to kill.
When the guards woke up all they would be guarding was a pile of ashes.
Chloe kept her face staring straight ahead as the building went up in flames. She couldn't look because she still could remember all to well of what happened to her. The feeling of intense heat as it peeled away at her skin and flames that danced around her body.
TBC