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I don't know much about cruise ships and such so bear with me and try to go with it.

I wasn't planning on dividing chapters, but a good ship mystery was hard to resist!

Honeymoon part 1

The bright sun shone shamelessly against the clear blue sky, its strong rays bathing the deck of the luxurious ship. The occupants didn't seem to complain, but rather all dressed in bathing suits sat back and enjoyed the heat the sun provided. After a night of rain and of preoccupation on the vacationers, the sun shone and they happily headed for a day of sun bathing. The pool deck was practically full by breakfast, giving those who got up later and were eating rather than swimming a show of semi naked bodies and kids splashing around.

Chloe stared out the window, bored to her wits ends. They were sitting with another couple who were considerably older than them, but apparently the man was a high executive in one of the companies Lex was keeping an eye on. At least something along those lines was what he had explained to her earlier. The woman sitting next to her excused herself from the table and Chloe took the chance to leave as well, leaving the two men to talk.

She made her way back to their room, smiling to herself as she remembered the events of the day before.

"Well so much for sun and water," Lex commented as they walked towards the ship, its sharp, bright colors contrasting with the dark sky

"More like lots of water and no sun." she smiled uneasily, from a plane to a ship, and in Lex's company no less.

"Feeling nervous? It's a perfectly safe ship, even if it storms on us, you won't even feel it inside." Lex tried to soothe her.

"Yeah? That's what they said on the Titanic, remember? Oh and the Queen Mary as well. I don't know Lex, forgive my skepticism, but we as individuals are chaos magnets, us together, and in the open sea, I don't want to know."

"Relax, you trust me, right?" she nodded and rolled her eyes. He smiled. "well then, trust me to make the most of this trip, okay?"

They walked in silence as they were being led to their suite, each lost in thought.

"Here we are Mr. and Mrs. Luthor. Enjoy your honeymoon with us." The young man gave them a flashing smile and handed Lex the card key.

"This looks more like a hotel room than a ship cabin." She said as she took in their surroundings.

"See, just as if we were on the ground." The suite was divided like a small apartment, they were standing in the living room, lavishly decorated with turn of the century furniture; to the far right there was a bar and in the center of the room was a large king sized bed.

Chloe stared at the bed, suddenly realizing they had sleeping arrangements they hadn't thought of. She chewed on her lip pensively.

"The bed is big enough for the both us, you won't even feel me at night." He said as if reading her thoughts.

"No, I "she stumbled over her words. Somehow she had thought he could take the couch or something, wait, there was no couch, and this was Lex Luthor.

"Lets take a look around, shall we?" he reached for her hand and led her out of the room.

Lex now sat in one of the tables besides the pool talking to Mr. Schneider, Head chairman of Tackle industries, a small company Lex wanted to absorb. The older man was kind and heartfelt, qualities he could learn to admire in people, but not in potential business partners.

"Where's your wife? I haven't seen her since breakfast" Mrs. Schneider sat next to her husband.

My wife, that's going to get some getting used to. And where is Chloe? Probably talking to the captain to make sure there are enough life boats. He smiled inwardly.

"She should be out any minute, she mentioned earlier she wanted to cool down." That was partially true, but he hadn't seen for several hours already. The couple kept talking while Lex scanned the pool. He noticed a woman enter the pool area, her face was hidden behind dark sunglasses and the shade a straw hat provided.

Suddenly he was enthralled, her movements were graceful, but not pretentious; the curves of her body enticing, but not hardened by exercise; the whiteness of her skin made her look soft to touch and contrasted divinely with the red of her two piece bathing suit.

"Oh, there she is." He barely heard the woman speak. "Why Mr. Luthor, you really do have the newlywed signs all over you." She smiled condescendingly. He turned towards her.

"I'm sorry?" he was trying hard not to rude.

"To look at your wife as if it were the first time, Mr. Luthor, that's something only a newlywed in love can do." Her words sank in and he turned slowly to stare at the woman again.

A bright smile was flashed his way as Chloe raised her arm to greet and walked towards their table. He closed his eyes in disbelief, this was going to be tougher than he thought.

"Is everything set?" a tall man asked into the phone

"affirmative" came the response.

"Okay, let's give Luthor his wedding gift." He snarled and put the phone back in its place.

Tonight was going to be hard to forget.