Rating - R

CH 7 I Need You

I have spoke with the tongue of Angels

I have held the hand of the Devil

It was warm at night

I was cold as stone

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

The Chimes Lyrics

The clock read one minute past midnight but he was worried. She's never late. He wouldn't be able to live if she died; he needed her more then he thought he did.

When she told him what happened in that year everyone thought she died. His heart almost broke. She had no family or friends with her, she went through all that pain and suffering alone.

Lionel's biggest mistake was failing to kill her.

He was jolted from his thoughts as he heard a knock at his door. She rarely ever used the door, something's wrong he thought running to answer it.

He saw her standing there she was shaking. "Chloe" he whispered as she fell into his chest. He brought his arms around her and held her close. "Chloe what's wrong" he said worried "are you hurt"

"No" she said weakly. Lex held her tighter

"Lex I'm fine" she said and pulled away her mask falling into place.

He closed the door. Like him she only opened up when she was ready.

"Here are the files" she said holding them out to him

He didn't care about the files he wanted to make sure she was ok. But he knew if he pressed the issue he would get nothing but her leaving.

"Can I take a shower?" she asked

"Of course...you don't have to ask" he replied

"Ok"

He waited patiently for her to finish. Something happened to make to make her show weakness. she never did But he didn't think he would learn anything from her, she perfected her mask, like him and pushed the pain away.

Chloe walked out back into the room wearing one of his fluffy white robes normally she wears her silky purple robe that he had bought. Her black hair still dripping down her back. But again those green eyes stared out at him capturing him inside them.

In that robe she looked like that young girl he once knew, the one who didn't have the coldness in her eyes. I

t would take something big to make that girl show through, even if it's only for a minute.

She sat down on his couch hugging the robe tighter.

He sat down across from her. "Chloe" he said softly

"You can't help me Lex" she said turning her head away from him.

"I want too"

"Why?" she asked her big green eyes staring at him

"Because...I.." he wanted to tell her how he felt, but for some reason he couldn't

"You what?...Lex" she said

"I worry about you"

"You can't make my nightmares go away"

Lex looked down. She was the only one that he showed weakness too, that's what made him turn her away before. He had lost so much when he watched her walk away from him.

"I try to forget who I am Lex.. I try to bury myself...to become someone else, some one who doesn't exist" she said with her eyes closed "But when I'm with you I remember" she took a deep breath.

He looked at her. He tried to forget her too, and for three years living without her almost killed him. He had to keep telling himself that love was a weakness. He looked back over at Chloe and their eyes locked.

"You make me feel real" she whispered. Lex walked up to her and fell to his knees. He wrapped his arms around her waist and her head fell on his shoulder. She finally let the tears roll down her face, tears that she hasn't let fall in nine years. Lex too was near tears as he held her.

After a few minutes of just holding each other Chloe brought her head up and kissed the top of his. Her hands went to his face and pushed it up to look at her then she leaned down to kiss him.

The soft kiss reminded him of their first time together, he had never felt so much passion as he made love to her on the floor of his office.

His fingertips were on her knees easing them apart, his hand stoked her thighs and then slid up slowly under her robe to cup her bottom and pull her towards him.

He kissed the side of her neck, then her throat. When her head fell back against the couch, his lips trailed slowly down along the V of silkily flesh exposed by the robes lapels. "Chloe" he said hoarsely.

Chloe slid her own fingers up his smooth scalp urging him on. "Don't stop Lex" she said sliding her hand under his shirt, needing to feel his skin beneath her fingertips. She loved feeling the hard muscles of his chest.

Lex moaned as her hand cupped his growing erection. He needed her and it was more then just for sex, he loved her.

"Facciamo l'amore." She said make love too her, of course he could never deny her anything. He got one hand between them long enough to tug at the belt of her robe, and she felt the garment open up as if it were designed to slip over heated flesh.

Her hands went up to slide his shirt over his head, and then went to his pants. He had to stand up to slide them off and that earned him a groan of protest.

She slid her legs onto the couch and he fell on top of her, his mouth crushing hers. She cried out in pleasure when she could feel him inside her.

"Ti penso sempre" He said as he drove into her liquid center, filling her with a single deep thrust that left her gasping for air. Rocking together, Chloe hands reached around to grip his rippling shoulder muscles as her tongue lathed across his chin to flick playfully at the corners of his mouth. Their bodies merged together into a sea of roiling lust as her thrusting tongue matched his hips, stroke for pounding stroke.

"Ich liebe dich," Chloe said in husky German as her body jerked into his and they fell deeper into the couch a breathless heap of sweat-slicked bodies. Flipping them over, she rode him hard as he reached for the throbbing point between her legs that burned for his touch. She bowed her back, her senses concentrating on his touch both inside and out as he bucked faster, the earth-shattering tremor starting deep within her core and radiating outward like wildfire.

When the peak came they both shuddered from the force of the wave of ecstasy that tore through every nerve in their bodies.

Chloe fell on top of him and buried her face in the curve of his neck, he breathed in the scent of her. "I love you too" he replied while wrapping his arms around her feeling her warm breath touch his skin.

TBC
A/N: Ich liebe dich - I love you

Ti penso sempre - I always think of you.