A/N: Well we all know Lana is the major cockblocker of them all. It's that damn nosy personality of hers. I bet Chloe slaps the shit out of her when they're playing Clue.

6.

Lex raised his head and looked up at the door. "We've been alone for five minutes, do they think I took you back here to beat you senseless?"

Chloe sniffled and swiped the tears that had gathered in the corners of her eyes. "You never know."

Lex smiled down at her and ignoring the next knock on his office door, he brushed his lips across her forehead. "Are we in agreement that we aren't finished here?"

Chloe arched a brow and smiled at him tauntingly. "I suppose."

Lex squeezed her to him and laid his cheek against the crown of her head. "Did I ever tell you that I loved you?"

Chloe smiled wide against the front of his shirt and knew when he answered the door, his shirt would have little splotches of water on them from her spilt tears. "All the time."

Lex sighed and eased her away from him. "Guess I should unlock that before they break it down."

Chloe leaned back against his oak desk and watched him move away from her, across the span of the room. She composed herself as she told herself everything would be fine now. Lex opened the door and to both his and Chloe's satisfaction, Pete spilled into the office his fist raised in mid swing. Chloe laughed softly as she shook her head and Pete pulled himself up and glared at Lex. "I need to talk to Chloe."

Chloe's eyes danced with amusement and Lex's calm appearance nearly made her laugh again. Here was Pete, intruding on probably the most important part of her life up to date, and he was having a stare down with Lex. She wondered if they were mentally challenging eachother to a pissing match out back in the alley behind the Talon. Lex's lips quirked up at one corner and he walked back towards Chloe, and for the first time in what felt like forever he smiled at her with his back to Pete. He stepped around her and settled in the chair behind his desk, and leaned back, crossing his arms over his chest.

"What'd you need to talk to me about?" Chloe pushed away from the edge of the desk and stood in the center of the room.

"I just wanted to make sure everything was okay in here."

Chloe looked back at Lex over her shoulder and fought back the smile as he shrugged his shoulders as if saying, 'Who, me? I'm innocent.'

Chloe sighed and shoved her hair out of her eyes with one hand. "Everything's fine, Pete. Really."

Pete shifted from his left foot to his right and then back again. "I've got to get back to the school, practice and all." He studied Lex carefully then his eyes went to Chloe's again. "You sure everything's alright?"

Chloe rolled her eyes and walked toward him, shoving him backwards and out the door. "Fucking peachy, Pete. Now go!" She shut the door in his face and flicked the lock into place. She turned and leaned her back against the door, opening her eyes to meet Lex's. His solid blue gaze held hers steadily.

"You should be lucky to have friends like that."

Chloe snorted and moved towards him. "Right. Overbearing, overwhelming jock-wannabe's. Are any of your friends like that? If not, you can have mine!"

Lex laughed and stood up when she reached him and wrapped his arms tightly around her, pulling her into his embrace until her face was turned into the crook of his arm. "Even if I wanted them, I don't think they'd have me."

Chloe lifted her chin to rest against his collarbone and turned her lips to brush the against the line of his jaw. "Then I guess you'll have to settle for me." When Lex stiffened Chloe cringed and pulled out of his arms. "I'm sorry, I didn't even think about whether or not you'd want to pick..."

Her mouth was covered with his as his tongue swept between her parted teeth. Chloe's tongue touched with his tentatively as if testing the waters. The bolt of arousal that shot down to her center made her groan in aggrevation. Feeding off one another, their lips rocked and their tongues mated slowly. Lex pulled back away from her and ran his tongue over his bottom lip. "I most definitely want to pick up where we left off."

Chloe nibbled her lower lip and looked up at him, her hazel eyes unsure. "I don't think you want to do that."

Lex let his hands fall back down to his sides and casually slipped them into the front pockets of his slacks. "Why's that."

He could literally see her swallow, the slim column of her neck moving rapidly. When she looked back up at him he could see the uncertainty mixing with the false sense of hope. "It's just that..." Instead of trying to explain it to him she felt around the nape of her neck and pulled a silver chain away from her skin, the rest that was hidden in the front of her shirt soon followed. On the end of it flashed a thin band of platinum and Lex grasped it with his fingers, the chain long enough for him to study it without strangling her.

"It was my mother's." He said softly.

Chloe nodded and let him look at it closely. "You told me, one night, you told me all about her. Then we went to bed and you woke me up at midnight and asked me to wear it."

Lex's gaze that had once been glued to the slim band now met hers and his brows creased together in frustration. "So, we're not..."

Chloe's eyes widened and she shook her head. "No." She laughed out loud and shook her head again as if what he'd said was absolutely absurd. "No, I'm sorry. It's not funny, it's just that..." She took a deep breath and pulled the chain off over her head and dropped the platinum links into his palm. "When you asked me to wear that ring, I thought you were going to ask me to marry you and I kind of wigged out. I said I couldn't possibly and you interupted me...in a very diabolical way, and in the morning when we woke up you told me you just wanted me to wear it, keep it safe."

Lex held the ring in his hand tightly and breathed in deep, slowly letting his lungs fill with air. "I still want you to keep it, Chloe." He unhooked the chain and slid the ring into his hand. Turning around he put the necklace on his desk and grabbed her hand in his right one when he faced her again. He slowly slid the ring onto her ring finger on her right hand. "I still want you to wear it."

Chloe eyes pooled with tears of happiness and she blinked them back and swallowed the down as best she could. "Are you sure?" She said softly.

Lex looked at her surprised. "Yes."

Chloe smiled and brought his face down to hers, each hand cupping the sides of his face. "I do still love you." She told him and was relieved when he smiled back at her slowly.

"Thank you." He hugged her to him and rocked her gently in his arms. His heart felt fuller than it ever had and he had a feeling that he'd never stopped loving her either. He just couldn't say the words.

When Lex and Chloe finally emerged from his office it was nearly two hours later. Mostly they'd just sat on the leather couch and talked, and every once again his greedy lips would return to hers and he'd coax her into a brief makeout session.

Lana looked up from taking an order and her eyes widened as Chloe tossed the apron over at her without barely looking away from Lex. "I'm heading home now, okay?"

Lana nodded and grabbed Chloe's things from under the counter, pushing them towards her. "Sure, I'll see you there." Chloe smiled and her and nodded once.

"Sounds like a plan." She looked over at Lex weird and he shrugged. Lana noticed the way he watched her as she walked away, when she was about halfway to the doors she saw Ben step up and say something to her. Chloe paused for a second then shrugged and nodded.

He followed her out to her car.

Lex's eyes narrowed a fraction as little bolts of red appeared in his line of vision. "Who was that?"

Lana stopped drying the cup she was wiping down with a dishtowel. "Uhm, Ben?"

Lex stared at her expectantly. "He's some guy that goes to our school, I think he was asking her out before you got here and led her away to your dungeon, errr, I mean office."

Lex's brows both raised at her playful slip-up. They soon lowered into a scowl. "What do you mean he was asking her out?"

TBC...

points at Kam(eurydices) She made me update....