Title: Friday Nights With the Lady's Man

By: sinful delight

Rating: T

Summary: High School is over and Chloe is on her way to becoming just what she's always wanted. Just how she gets there isn't exactly the way she had in mind.

Disclaimer: Ha! Foolish one that you are to think I hold any power!

Author's Note: Sorry it's taken me so long to post again! I'm horrible I know! Anyway, I promise to post the next chapter soon (say in the next week or something). Please remember to review! Thanks!
Also, just to clear some points up, this story basically goes against the TV show. In this story there was no second meteor shower. Lex is basically how he was in the first few seasons (a bit more sane) and Chloe never made a deal with Lionel. Yep, never happened. Just nod your head and act like this is all normal.


Chapter 2: The Proposition

3 Weeks Later

"Chloe! I do you have that info I asked you for?"

"Yeah, right here!" Chloe quickly sorted through the pile of papers strewn across her desk. Triumphantly, she snatched at the papers she was looking for just as Silvia Marshall walked out of her office.

Silvia Marshall was the Daily Planet's top news reporter. Awarded the "Article of the Year" twice and nominated for the third year in a row she walked about the Daily Planet as if she owned the place. Long brown hair, bright blue eyes, and perfectly manicured nails, Silvia was considered a goddess to most. Chloe preferred the term royal pain in the ass. Ever since she had started interning for her, Silvia had, had Chloe running around doing all of her dirty work. Collecting information, researching news stories. Meanwhile, Silvia spent most of her time in her recently redone office, doing who knows what.

"Is that it?" Silvia asked impatiently as she grabbed for the papers, scanning them over quickly. "Great! Now I need you to do a background check on a Greg Milano. Something about his story doesn't check out. I need to know what it is."

Forcing a smile on her face, Chloe nodded. "Sure thing! I'll get right on it!"

Silvia's cell rang. "Opps! I better take this! Could be important!" Quickly she flipped open her phone and headed back into her office, shutting the door behind her.

Immediately, Chloe's fake smile dropped. She dropped back into her desk and began typing away furiously the whole while fuming.

"Of course Silvia! Anything you want Silvia! Why of course I don't mind doing all the research for your articles! Wouldn't want to break a nail now would we? The self-centered, little…"

"Am I interrupting something?" A voice stopped Chloe's rant mid-sentence. Quickly she looked up to see a smirking Lex Luthor leaning against her desk.

"Lex! Not at all! I was just…" Chloe stumbled as she tried to think of an excuse.

"It sounded like you were cursing out your computer to me." Lex tried to hide his amusement. "Hard day?"

"More like hard few weeks!" replied Chloe

"No one ever said that being a journalist was easy." Lex said unsympathetically.

Chloe shook her head. "Its not the job that's the problem, its…"

"Chloe!" Silvia's voice rang out. "I need you to…" She came to a halt as her eyes fell upon Lex leaning against her interns desk.

"Mr. Luthor," her voice instantly became sweet and syrupy. "I wasn't expecting you. Is there something I can help you with?"

"Actually I just stopped by to see my good friend Chloe here." Lex watched with amusement at Silvia's shocked expression. Her smile faltered for a second as she turned to glare at Chloe before becoming plastered back on.

"Your friend? Why, Chloe never mentioned that you two were so close."

"Oh, the closest." Said Chloe with a smile.

"Yes well, when you're done with your little chit chat, Chloe, would you be a dear and go fetch me a fresh cup of coffee. I'll just be in my office." She turned to face Lex once more. "Mr. Luthor, it's been a pleasure. Be sure to call me when you get a chance." She flashed her smile once more before turning on her heel and heading back into her office.

"What a nightmare!" said Lex once the door had closed behind her. "You work with her?"

"For her," corrected Chloe. "I'm her intern, which in her terms basically makes me her office bitch."

"Ouch!" Lex winced. "No wonder you're so uptight! Silvia Marshall is no piece of cake."

"You're telling me," Chloe said with a sigh. "Three weeks here and the highlight of the job is background checking her sources. I was hoping when I started this job I would get a shot at really working some stories. Do a few interviews. Write up a review. Hell, at this point I'd jump at the chance to do an obituary!"

Lex laughed. "Chloe, what would you say if I told you I had a way to make your wish come true and thoroughly piss off Ms. Marshall?"

"Lex, as much as I would love to write your obituary, I think its better off if you don't commit suicide on my behalf."

"I'm serious Chloe."

"So am I," Chloe said with a grin.

"If you continue to make jokes I will be forced to take my proposition elsewhere," Lex said dryly.

"Alright, alright. Business mongrel! What's the offer?"

"How would you like to interview me?"

Chloe raised her eyebrows. "Seriously?"

"Sure. I mean the Daily Planet's been trying to get an interview for months now. Marshall's been calling LuthorCorp for weeks trying to get me on the phone for just a minute." He paused. "It sure would tick her off if her little 'office bitch' got the interview she's been dying for."

"Why, Mr. Luthor, you are positively evil!"

"Why, thank you, Ms. Sullivan!" said Lex with a smirk. "So what do you think?"

Chloe paused, considering it for a moment. "A real interview? Not just some prissy, multi-million playboy deal?"

"Actually its multi-billion playboy, thank you very much."

"I'm serious Lex." Chloe said. "I can ask you anything I want?"

"Anything," Lex assured her. "Although I do reserve the right to say 'no comment'."

"As long as you give me some info for a decent article." Chloe insisted.

"Fair enough"

"Alright, deal." Chloe stuck out her hand to shake.

"Great! I'll call up the editor and get it all cleared away!"

"Luthor," she called out as he turned to go. "We do this on my terms. I will not be made a fool!"

Lex shook his head. "No one could make you look foolish Chloe." He turned to go while calling out behind him. "Well work out the details at a later date."

Chloe watched him hurrying out the door as she smiled to herself. She had just gotten herself an interview with Metropolis' number one billionaire. Just wait until Silvia heard about this. She was going to flip!

AN: Sorry this chapter is so short! I was going to go further but decided that this was the best place to stop. I promise that the next chapter will be longer!