Experiment 001

Chapter 14: The Calm Before the Storm

Nearly a week passed, and though the conversation between Chloe, Pete and Alley was not forgotten, it was pushed aside. Lex had told Alley how bold Frampson was becoming and Alley asked her two new confidants to help protect her. It was clearly seen how frightened she was. Even the slightest noise made her jump, and on occasion, even noises a human ear couldn't possibly pick up made her spring to her feet.

There was one good event that occurred. Pete had actually asked Alley on a date. After blushing and stammering and quite a few words in Kryptonian, she said yes. Pete never told Alley that it was actually Chloe who pressured him into it, and decided that he didn't want to anyway. When he actually talked to her, alone, she had many interesting stories about her various homes and he was even able to get a story about Krypton out of her. He listened intently and was amazed to discover just how different life was. He now understood why she missed it so much; and he was even more surprised to discover that she hated the looking at the sky because it was blue. She was odd alright, but she was kind and wanted to know about his past as well. She listened intently to each of his stories and when he gave out only as little detail as was needed, she pressed him for more.

She seemed taken aback when he gave his reason for disliking the Luthor's. She told him not to judge Lex by his father, but left it at that. Pete thought that was kind of her. She didn't press her view of Lex on him, and though she defended him, she never tried to force him to change his mind on her older brother.

He made a mental note to ask her about it when she was in a more sound state of mind.

At the moment, Chloe and he were sitting in the journalism room waiting for Alley. Pete was starting to get slightly anxious; neither of them had seen her since lunch.

"Should we go look for her?" Chloe asked, trying to be optimistic and failing miserably.

Pete swallowed, "No, she'll be here, just give her a few more minutes."

Suddenly the door was thrown open with great force. Lex stood in the doorway, panting.

"Lex!" Chloe exclaimed.

Pete's stomach tightened fearfully, "What's wrong?!"

Pete noticed uncharacteristic tracks of tears on the young man's face that Lex had not even attempted to hide. Lex only said five words, but they were enough. "He got her."

A/N: Okay, okay. I know. I know. And I'm pretty sure you all want to kill me about now, but things have been going way wrong. I did pretty poorly on my poli-sci midterm, I did NOT win homecoming (big surprise), I failed a "should have been REALLY simple" chem test, had a huge fight with a friend which resulted in the end of said friendship, and was forced to go to Louisiana where I saw both my grandparents, and while my mom's mom and dad are pretty cool, seeing my dad's mother is so mondo-ly horrible I kind of just avoided her the entire night.

Sigh. Also I've been writing a Quantum Leap fanfic as a sort of "therapy" for my dad. It is so creatively titled "Daddy". It should be posted in a week or two and I ask all of you who even bother to read my author's notes to please read it, even if you don't like Quantum Leap because it's for my daddy. I cried the entire time I wrote it. But my dad was the one who got me hooked on nearly every show I like, and he liked Quantum Leap a lot, so it's only fitting. I wish I watched All My Children…cause that would be an even better fanfic, seeing how in 25 years he never missed an episode. But yeah, so please read it, "Daddy".

And I shall post a new chapter BY FRIDAY. I promise. And there are two people that I know of who go to RCC who I'm sure will bug me about it, so none of you have to worry. (Right Berto? Anthony?)

So, yes, by Friday.

Till then!