Chapter 1

Clark walked in the Talon and found Lois slinging coffee to the customers. She had volunteered to run the Talon until Lana came back from Metropolis. At the moment it looked like she was handling it. Lois saw Clark and sighed,she knew that Clark was going to try and bust her chops. She knew that she could get the upper hand on this battle.

"What do you want old Macdonald?"she said.

"I want to make sure that you haven't ran Lana's business into the ground."Clark said.

"Funny,while your out there playing in the dirt,I've sold about four hundred cups of coffee that I never heard of."Lois said.

"Some people are meant for great things."Clark said.

"Did you what something?"Lois said. She knew that she had lost this battle.

"I need one cup of from the bean coffee."Clark said.

"Right."Lois said. Then she turned to get Clark his coffee.

Clark watched as Lois filled his order. For some odd reason,he found himself watching Lois. He found this simple act very attractive. He had been doing it for a while. He just could not take his eyes off of her. Lois turned around to find Clark staring at her.

"Smallville,were you checking out the goods. If you were I'll break your arm."Lois threated.

"Lois,I wouldn't check you out if you were the last girl on earth."Clark said. He took his coffee and walked out.

"Liar!"Lois yelled. Then she went back to work.

Chloe and Lana sat in the office of Inspector Maggie Sawyer. Chloe and Lana had been taken to the police station when they found a policemen and told him about what they saw.

"The man you saw killed was John Lee,he was a accountant for Jerry Sloan a major crime boss in the city."Maggie said. Then door opened and in walked Sawyer's partner. Inspector Henry Henderson. He walked over to Maggie and handed her a mug shot book.

"Ladies I want you two to look in here and see if you can Id the two men with Lee"Maggie said.

"Sure no problem."Lana said. Chloe nodded in agreement.

"Great, I 'm going to get some tea,would you girls like anything?"she asked.

"I'm fine."Chloe said.

"So am I."Lana said.

"Okay,girls take your time."Maggie said and then left the room.

"You think that those guys will be in here?"Lana asked.

"From what I hear Sloan only hires known killers."Chloe said.

They opened the book and began to look though the book. Maggie walked in a few moments later. She sat down and sipped her tea as Chloe and Lana looked though the book. They were half way done when Lana saw one of the men.

"Chloe that's one of the guys."Lana said. Chloe looked at the picture.

"Your right that's is one of them."Chloe said. They had the book back to Maggie.

"That's one of them."Lana said.

"That's Rex Greer,he's hired muscle been in and out of jail since he was fifteen."Maggie said. "Do you think you can find the other one?"Maggie asked.

"Yeah."Chloe and Lana said.

They took the book back and started to look again. It took them about twenty minutes for Chloe and Lana to find the other guy.

"This one is Burt Jackson, a small time hood until he saved Sloan's life."Maggie said.

"So what do we do?"Lana asked.

"We'll start looking for them and take them in. Then it will go to the DA. Now you girls do know that you will have to comeback and pick them out of a line up."Maggie said.

"I'll do it."Chloe said.

"So will I."Lana said.

"Good. I'll have Henderson drive you girls back to your hotel. I'll also call Sheriff Adams in Smallville and let her know what's going on. Then I'll get you guys some protection."Maggie said.

"Protection from who?"Lana asked.

"From Sloan if he finds out that two of his men are in the can and they have witnesses against them they might turn and give him up."Maggie said.

"In other words they'll come after us."Chloe said.

"Exactly."Maggie said.

"Don't worry once we get back home will be safe."Lana said.

"You will?"Maggie said.

"Yeah, we got Clark Kent watching over us."Chloe said.

Clark sat at the table he was nursing a glass of milk when his dad walked in.

"Son."Jonathon said. Clark said nothing he just kept staring at the glass of milk. Jonathon looked at his son and wondered what the problem was. He sat down on the other side of the table.

"Clark!"He said. This time Clark snapped out of it.

"Sorry,what.?"Clark said.

"Thing wrong son."Jonathon asked.

"Dad have you ever stared at a girl?"Clark asked.

"Of course, It's one the things that unfortunately makes women think all men are dogs,at least that your mother says."Jonathon said.

"What about a girl you though you would never be attracted to?"Clark said.

"No,Clark you want tell me who this girl is?"Jonathon said.

"It was Lois."Clark said.

"Lois."Jonathon said.

"I mean Lois is beautiful,but she not my type."Clark said.

"Clark,I think your wrong about that."Jonathon said.

"What do you mean?"Clark asked.

"Clark,it case you haven't notice Lana Lang and Chloe Sullivan think the sun rises and sets on you. Lois on the other hand doesn't. I think that's why your attracted to her, she won't take any of your crap. Just like your mother never took any of mine."Jonathon said.

"Dad, me and Lois will never be together. We're just to different."Clark said. Jonathon got up from the table and started for the door. He stopped at the door and turned back toward his son.

"Son,the person we end up with may not our first choice."Jonathon said and then walked out. Clark turned back to his milk.

Jerry Sloan sat in his office. The driver of the car handed him the pictures that he took of Lana and Chloe. Sloan flipped thought the pictures. He stopped at the close ups and studied them. Then he dropped them on his desk.

"So who are these girls?"Sloan asked.

"Two girls from Smallville,their here for some conference."The Driver said.

"Have they gone to the cops?"Sloan asked.

"Yeah,their back at there hotel,they leave back tomorrow."The Driver said.

"We can't have any loose ends."Sloan said. He took a cigar from his desk and lit it. He pointed at the pictures.

"Kill'em both"Sloan said. Then puffed on his cigar. The two hit men left the room they had work to do.

TO BE CONUTINED...