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Chapter Three

Lex Luthor had spent the entire night analyzing over the one picture he was given by Jimmy Olsen. Lex smirked. It took basically pure guts for the 25 year old to have negotiated five times the amount the Planet gave him for his entire set of photographs.

He sat there in his office chair, hitting the arrow keys to make the picture spin on the computer screen. The picture was worth its weight in gold. The one thing it lacked was a clear shot of the hero's, who is now dubbed Superman, face. But what the picture lacked, it gained with the expression that was captured on Lois Lane's face. Lex sat back in his chair and put his finger up against his lips. The look was a combination of fascination, amazement, and joy. If Lex did not know any better, it appeared as though Lois was in love.

Lex clicked on the picture to close the file and turned off his computer. He has decided he needed to plot out a plan at home. Lex figured he needed to meet the man who put that look on Lois's face. But more importantly, he needed to meet the Superman. Such awesome powers, with an ally like that…

Clark Kent put his feet up on his desk and sat comfortably in his chair as he waited for Lois Lane to arrive after her meeting with Superman. He smiled as he thought of the expression she had given him the day before. She had hoped to fish around and get any inkling as to whether there was a significant other in his life. But what he wanted to know most of all was if she would share the information with him, average guy Clark.

As he heard the elevator open and saw Lois emerge from the elevator doors, she was going to basically walk right past him and her desk directly towards Perry's office, closing the door behind her. Clark sat there for a moment with a perplexed look before finally getting up and making the move to quietly slip inside the Editor-in-Chief's office.

"Lois, I have to say you really outdid yourself this time," Perry mused as he looked at her article through the email she had sent him the night before.

Clark saw a smug look appear on Lois's face as he stuck his hands in his black dress pants' pockets.

"Naturally," she replied before turning to Clark with a smirk on her face. "Can we help you, Smallville or do you think of yourself as the Invisible Man whenever you're in a room?"

Perry gave Lois the same face Jonathan Kent had given Clark when he said something similar to Lois years ago. "Clark, sit down," Perry ordered as he motioned with his hand that he wanted Clark to sit next to Lois. "I read your piece on LuthorCorp industries and the death of Lionel Luthor…"

Lois sharply turned her head towards Clark, interrupting Perry. "You wrote about Lionel Luthor's death?"

Clark shrugged his shoulders. Of course he couldn't say that he was there at the time of the murder and saw the most talked about event to occur in Metropolis. That would look too weird. "Jealous, Lois?" Clark asked her with a 'got you' look. Lois looked as though she about to punch the hell out of him right on the spot.

Perry meanwhile watched their bantering and suddenly heard the light bulb turn on inside his brain. Reading both of their articles and seeing the great quality of the work, why not join these two forces together?

"Lois, Clark," Perry started as he got up from his chair, successfully distracting the two young reporters from the trouble brewing silently between them to having their complete attention as he paced in front of his desk. "I've got an idea…."

Two minutes later…..

Heads turned towards the office of Perry White as everyone heard Lois yelling "US? WORK TOGETHER!" and then stomping out of the office to the chair at her desk. Clark, on the other hand, thanked Perry for the opportunity and casually walked back to his desk. He thought there were two ways to look at the situation: one, be completely miserable with Lois as she drives him crazy or two, give her a taste of her own medicine and slowly but surely drive her crazy instead. Clark sat down at his desk the same way he had done earlier and smiled enthusiastically at a steaming Lois.

"What are you looking at four eyes?" Lois asked as she put her head in her hand.

"The spoils of my victory," Clark quipped.

"Why didn't Perry just kill me?" Lois asked, waving her hands in the air. "Me… stuck with a partner." She paused as she looked at Clark. "And with a hack from Nowheresville no less."

"Should I remind you that you overstayed in Nowheresville longer than you said you would?" Clark reminded Lois.

"That's because I had no choice."

"That's because you had no money to pay rent in Metropolis," Clark retorted.

"Why I oughtta…" Lois started with a fist in the air as though she was about to pop him one over the desk before being interrupted by Jimmy yelling out her name from a distance.

"My partner is right here Jimmy!" Clark answered for her as he points to her as Jimmy appeared into view, carrying a dozen roses in his hand.

"Partner?" Jimmy asked with a perplexed look glancing back and forth between an obviously ticked off Lois and an unexpectedly smug Clark.

"Perry stuck us together," Lois muttered as she then turns her attention towards Jimmy. "Who's the lucky girl Jimmy?"

"Huh?" Jimmy asked. Lois pointed to the red roses. "Oh." Jimmy placed them on her desk and handed her a card. "They're for you." She looked at him as she was opening the envelope. "I ran into the delivery guy and he was running late so I thought I'd bring them by."

Lois smirked as she read the card, making Clark very curious. "Who is it from Lois?" Jimmy asked with great enthusiasm.

"Apparently I have an admirer from a very high place," Lois replied as she looked at Clark leaning on the very backend of his chair. "They're from Lex Luthor, Jimmy." Clark fell over in his chair at the name, making people nearby stare at him with very strange looks.

As he got up from the ground, Clark saw Lois laughing her hardest after witnessing his fall and gave her an evil stare. "Why did he send you flowers?" Clarke asked as he fixed his chair and sat back down.

"Didn't you know that Lex Luthor has the hots for the Daily Planet's star reporter?" Jimmy asked with a bit of pride as he looked down at Lois who was smiling broadly at Clark.

"Lex Luthor?" Clark spat out as he looked at Lois. "Has the hots for you?"

"Men born into trust funds seem to have the hots for me, Clark," Lois informed him.

"Yeah. Bruce Wayne asked her on a date a few years ago," Jimmy added. "Did Lex Luthor finally do the same?"

Lois looked at the way Clark cringed at the very mention of Lex's name and thought this would be the perfect opportunity to tell him. "Yes Jimmy, he did."

"You're going to say no right?" Clark asked.

"Why actually I thought I'd say yes," Lois answered as she started to smell her red roses. "Jealous Clark?"