Chapter 3: Silence

"Uhhg! Nothing is going right," Chloe threw her hands up in frustration. The Daily Planet had left her message about her first assignment. Now her computer seemed to have shut down, the printer wasn't working and her cell phone went dead. She shifted through some of her hard copy files, but nothing that she needed was there.

"Why does this always happen to me. Chloe Sullivan poor excuse for a reporter." She walked out of the Torch and down towards the basement of the high school. She needed to find the fuse box. Maybe something was wrong with the electrical outlets.

'It's not like I actually know what I'm doing. I'm no electrician, but how am I supposed to work without anything working'. She found the fuse box and started to fiddle around.

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Lex pulled in the parking lot next to the little red car and headed inside. He made his way to the reporter's lair. When he entered she was nowhere to be found, so he waited patiently. Looking around he found himself in front of her wall of weird. He remembered the first time he laid his eyes on the ever-growing wall. It was actually the first time he ever met Chloe. Gabe has always spoken highly of her, so much that he wanted to meet her. She intrigues him like no other. Now he had a deal for her. A chance to work with her, to be by her side.

Chloe strolled down the hallway more discouraged than before. As she approached the entrance to the Torch, she was surprised to see the billionaire bad boy glaring at her wall.

"Mr. Luthor, your kind of far from your side of town. Is there something I can help you with?" she asked with curiosity in her eyes.

He turned to meet her gaze, "Ah, Miss Sullivan. We're two of a kind, you and I. I find your research very intriguing. I believe your the only one who thinks the meteor rocks are to blame for everything that goes wrong in this god-for-saken town, instead of me."

She chuckled lightly, "Well for now I do anyways. So tell me again why your here?"

He walked towards her slowly. "I think we can help each other."

She sat down in her chair and glanced up at him. "Oh, and how do you suppose you could help me?"

He sat across from her in the available seat, "I need you to investigate my father. I believe he is setting me up to lose LexCorp, I just need to know how. I need to be one step ahead of him."

"And you think I can help you? Mr. Luthor, I'm sorry but I don't have the ability to do that."

"Yes you do. I know you Chloe. Clark has told me that you have hacked your way into numerous business'." A smirk formed on his face as he watched her.

Chloe looked down at the floor then back up at him, "What do I get in return if I do decide to help you?"

Lex moved the chair closer to her, "I'll help you get the unattainable. I'll help you get Clark Kent."

There they sat in silence. Staring at each other. Forming a bond that neither thought would ever happen.