Burned

By Shy Butterfly

Disclaimer: It seems that the Characters are not mine. Damn I so wish they would be but no that is not the case.

AN: That is my new Smallville Fic hope you like it but please again over look the mistakes I have made!!! Thanks! Shy Butterfly

I shouldn't be here, thought Chloe as she stood in front of the Luthor mansion. Lex was throwing a pool-party for Lucas and he invited Clark, Lana, herself and even Pete and his girl of the month. She knew that she would be all on her own tonight because Clark would be all the time with Lana and Pete with his new girl Liz. From the beginning she had said that she didn't want to come but her friends have persuaded her and now she stood at the front door hoping that she could leave soon.

As she got up to the door she began to panic because it was as if she would remember something that happened in there a long time ago. She remembered feelings, there were so many of them: pain, sadness but also happiness. Chloe felt that it came from the house but she didn't knew why she felt it and was about to turn around because it made her uncomfortable.

But something was pulling her to the door and she thought after all she was a reporter and as a reporter she wanted to find out the cause of it so she knocked at the door. As the butler opened it the feelings left her and she begun think that she had imagined everything.

The butler let her in and showed her the way to her friends. They were already sitting at the pool all wearing their bathing suits and as Chloe went in the entire group looked up.

"Ms. Sullivan how nice of you to join us! You are late!" greeted her Lex.

"Mr. Luthor my name is Chloe it would be nice of you if you would use it and we both know that I don't want to be hear so quite being such an ass or I'm leaving right now so that you can make fun of me!" bit Chloe back.

"Chloe stop it Lex was just greeting you." said now Clark.

Chloe rolled her eyes but didn't say anything in responds. The tall boy was already getting on her nerves. Sometimes she wondered why she even was friends with Clark sure he was a nice guy but he had hurt her so often but then she thought it was her own fault that she let him get to her and that she never said anything about it. But today, today was different from all the other times. In the morning she had asked Clark for the article he should have written but he apologized and said that he didn't have time. That meant that he was occupied with staring at Lana.

Lex smirked as he saw what was going to happen. Clark was in trouble because now Chloe was really mad. Secretly he liked that side on her because then she was more beautiful and she didn't even know it. When she was mad, her entire body would tense and her voice would get very low, her face would redden and then she would just explode. Her cheeks were already red and her voice low and dangerous and he knew that she would explode anytime soon and then it happened.

"You know Clark if you had written that article that I have asked you to do then there would have been no need for me to stay after school at the Torch to finish it. And that meant I wouldn't have been late in the first place!" she screamed and then continued in a quieter voice: "So now that we cleared things up I think we should forget what had happened or else the party will be ruined and that would not be a nice greeting to Lucas right!?" and Clark nodded guilty.

Lucas was amused by the entire scene Lex was right she was impressive and not easy to forget because not many people were talking to any of the Luthors like she did. He stood up, walked over to her and then introduced him self: "I'm Lucas Luthor I presume that you are Chloe Sullivan?"

"Damn right what gave you the hint?!" asked Chloe sarcastic. Lucas held up his hand to symbolize that he came in peace.

"Sorry I didn't mean to bit off your head I just had a bad day but it is nice meeting you Lucas." she said with a reconciled smile.

Lucas nodded and then Lana stood up and showed her the room where she could get changed. As Chloe had changed she came back out but she was still wearing her shirt over her bikini.

"Chloe you can take your shirt off we have seen women in bikini before!" said Pete as he saw her come back into the room.

"Then it shouldn't be a problem if I let it on because then you can imagine what it looks like under the shirt." responded Chloe.

"Oh come on Chloe take the shirt off and then I...I ... I buy you coffee for the next two days!" tried Pete to persuade her.

Chloe looked thoughtfully: "Okay I'll do it but just because you have asked so nice." she took off her shirt and showed a red triangle-bikini with a dark red lily on the left breast and one on the right hip of her bikini slip.

All the people at the pool were staring at her. Lex knew that Chloe was good looking but he didn't know how hot she would look in a bikini. Lucas was thinking the same as he saw the little blond in the red bikini. Pete and Clark were also stunned to see her like that because they never thought that she could look like that hot woman that stood now in front of them.

Chloe was a bit irritated because they were all staring at her without saying anything: "Okay?!...guys are you alright?"

Lana and Liz chuckled at the reaction of the boys because they knew that they never saw more in Chloe then their best friend but both girls knew that Chloe was an eye catcher if she wants to be.

"Yeah everything is okay it is just...you look...different!" said Pete who had recovered first and Clark nodded in agreement.

Now Chloe was really a bit confused and that happened not very often.

"Okay in what way? I mean good or bad? And didn't you say that you have seen women in bikini before then my looking shouldn't be such a surprise."

The Luthor brothers looked with amusement as Pete tried to answer her but couldn't find the right words so Lex helped him out.

"Chloe it isn't very often or I should I say never that we see you like this. I mean we all knew that you were good looking but in this bikini you look hot," Chloe was about to interrupt him as Lex added, "and I mean that in a good way you can compare to any woman I know."

"Take that as a compliment! Lex doesn't make one very often but this one was a compliment so you should feel special." said Lucas and looked at the blond.

They all waited for her to say something but nothing came out of her mouth. She just stood their and did nothing.

Chloe couldn't move the feelings had returned and they were more intense this time. Her breathe escaped in short breaths as the pain and sadness overtook her body. She crumpled under the torment and fall onto her knees. All her friends now stood worried around her, they all could see that something was very wrong and tried to speak to her but it didn't work. It didn't work because Chloe couldn't even hear them because she now also heard voices from the past.

She heard the voice of her mother; she was playing on the piano and sung to the melody. Chloe also could here the voice of her father and that of another man. It sound familiar to her but she couldn't recognize from where and then all the memories faded away and her breath returned to normal. The blond looked around herself and saw all the worried faces of her friends, Lex and Lucas included.

"Chloe?... Chloe are you feeling better now or do you want to lie down?" asked Lana the worry was evident in her voice but Chloe hadn't had the energy to answer her so she just nodded. Lex took her in his arms to bring her into a guestroom so that she could take a nap.

Chloe snuggled into him and draw in a deep breath as she rested in Lex's arms. She could smell the scent of Lex it was a very male one mixed from his own smell and something like Ylang-Ylang. Nobody knew that but she loved the smell of Ylang-Ylang it reminded her on someone she knew someone who made her fell safe and just like this person Lex made her feel safe too.

Lex in the meantime was enjoying the feeling of Chloe in his arms. She was feather light and he felt the need to protect her. As she was kneeling on the ground and her breathing was unregulated he felt fear inside him. Something that he hadn't felt since his mother had died.

As Chloe had broken out of her trance relief washed over him but she looked so lost so much like a little child that he then decided that he would do everything to make her feel better.

Earlier as Chloe had snuggled closer into his embrace he got the feeling that she belonged there...to him but shook it of because it wasn't the time to analyze his feelings that he had for the blond reporter.

As he laid her down he took a deep breath and took the scent of Chloe into every fiber of his body so as not to forget how she smelled. Wherever he would smell the scent of lemon and vanilla it would always remind him of her of that he was sure.

Lex tucked her under the cover and Chloe was snuggling deeper into the cover to get comfortable. Before she felt a sleep she turned her face to the bald man and looked him in the eyes.

"Thanks Lex you aren't half as bad as most people think! Tell Lucas I'm sorry." She murmured before she went to sleep.

Lex was touched by her words. He stood there for a while and watched her sleep. He thought that she looked calm and relaxed and he wished that he could lie down beside her, take her in his arms and be happy for his entire life but he knew that now was not the time. He left the room as quietly as he could and returned to the waiting group at the pool.

TBC

AN: So what do you think? Please review?