Chapter Four
Clark and Chloe were pulling into the Kent driveway when Chloe's cell-phone rang. "Hello," she answered. "Hi, Chloe. I was wondering if you could help me with something." Lana said into the phone. "Yeah, what is it?" The truck came to a stop and Chloe and Clark jumped out. "Well, about five years ago Lex opened a computer factory with another guy. They were working fine together until one day there was and explosion. Lex had evidence that his partner planted a bomb there to gain insurance money. Lex sued him, so that he could own the whole business instead of just half. Lex won, but some people think that the man was innocent. I want to know the truth. Did the man actually do that, was the explosion a complete accident, or did Lex plant the bomb so he could make fake evidence and sue the man for all of the business." She answered swiftly. Chloe shifted her wait and leaned against the truck. "I didn't even know that Lex had ever owned a computer factory. Who was his partner?" Chloe asked curiously. "Umm…Robert Blake. He's Travis Blake's dad. You know Travis Blake, he goes to Met. U. I was talking to Travis the today and he was telling me about it." Lana said. "Ok. I'll look into it. Did you ask Lex about it?" Lana rolled her eyes annoyed with Lex. "Yeah. He said he had real evidence against Mr. Blake. But I'm not sure I believe him." Chloe smirked knowingly. "Well, there's no reason why we can't look into it. I'll see what I can dig up." "Thanks Chloe. I better go. Bye." Lana said. "Bye Lana." She said before hanging up. "What did she say?" Clark asked. "Oh, she wants me to look into something about Lex. It's one of those times where there might be a chance that Lex made up fake evidence to blame somebody for something they didn't do. You know, nothing new." Clark smiled at Chloe's casualness. She said it as if it was one of Lex's hobbies to go around cheating people out of things. He walked into the barn and jogged up the steps followed by Chloe. She sat down on the couch and pulled her laptop out of her bag. She was starting to open it when Clark said, "What are you doing?" She glanced up at him. "I'm looking into what Lana wanted me to look into." She said, typing. "Ok. What about tonight? We need to find out if it was Lex who is gonna kill you or if it is someone else pretending to be Lex." Chloe looked up from her laptop. "How do we even know that someone is going to try to kill me. I mean it was just a dream, Clark." He sat down next to her. "Chloe it felt so real, and I just have this feeling." Chloe bit her lip. "Well I have to say your feelings are usually right. This is kind of a stretch, though." Clark raised his eyebrows. "I thought there was no such thing as a stretch for you." Chloe closed her laptop and turned to look at Clark. "Sorry Clark. I just don't want you to be right this time. Would you want to know that someone was gonna try to kill you tonight and there was a chance that this person just might succeed." She gave a big sigh and leaned back against the couch. "Chloe I know this would be kind of scary, but I'm not gonna let anything happen to you. I promise." He gave a small smile. "Thanks Clark." He pulled her into a hug. He held her for a couple minutes before she pulled away. "Now I know how Lana felt when she almost got shot by Adam. You were there for her and I know you'll be there for me. Now let's figure this thing out." She stood up and tapped herself on the chin with her index finger. Clark also stood up. "Do you know why Lex would want to kill you, and if it wasn't Lex do you know anyone else who would want to kill you?" Clark inquired. "Let's see I can think of lots of people who don't like me because of stories I wrote about them or their families, but I can't think of anyone who would actually go as far as to kill me." Clark took a few steps then turned around to face Chloe. "Remember when you got sprayed with that stuff, that when people talked to you they had to tell the truth whether they wanted to or not. You uncovered that story about Mrs. Taylor and she had to go into hiding. Then her son tried to kill you. Have you done anything like that recently?" She sat back down. "I hate to burst your bubbles, but I try not to go around making people go into hiding. When I got sprayed with that truth serum stuff, I was so mean. I don't even like to think about it. I can't believe I was going to ask your parents about you. I still feel so horrible about that." Clark again sat next to her. "Chloe that was the past. I know that you would never do anything like that now. Besides you know my secret now. You can forget that ever happened." She smiled. Then held up her finger. "I know someone who would be mad at me and Lex. If what he told Lana was true." She opened her laptop and began to rapidly type. "Who?" Clark asked. "Travis Blake." Clark looked at Chloe. "Doesn't he go to Met. U." Chloe tilted her head. "You heard of him?" "Yeah. Lana mentioned him. He's in her astronomy class, and he went to Smallville High his senior year. Why would he be mad at Lex or you?" He said, sitting back. "Oh yeah, I forgot that he went to Smallville High. Well anyways, Lex and his dad, Robert Blake, opened a company together, there was and explosion, Lex blamed Mr. Blake, Lex sued, Lex won. Travis says his dad was innocent. End of story. And as for me I wrote the article about the explosion and made Travis' dad look like the bad guy. Travis didn't like it to much. He has been mad at me ever since."
"Would he kill you for that, though? And what about Lana?" Chloe raised her eyebrows. "There's a rumor going around that Travis really likes Lana. So he may want Lana and Lex to break up, plus he doesn't like Lex, and would probably enjoy him being in jail with a murder sentence hanging over his head." She made that I just solved a mystery face and smiled. Clark was glad that they were just about sure who it was that was gonna kill Chloe, but he still had two questions, "How are we going to find out for sure it was him? And how did he make himself look so much like Lex?" Chloe bit her lip. "Well we'll probably have to wait till after he does it to prove it. Second he could have had plastic surgery." Clark shook his head. "No it couldn't be plastic surgery; later that night when Lana and I came out of the mansion I saw a glimpse of him. And it was him he didn't look like Lex." Chloe started to strum her fingers on her laptop. "Hmm……I got it!" She through her hands up in the air and opened her laptop. Clark leaned over to look at the computer screen. "What?" He asked. "Travis might not have lived here for the first meteor shower, but he was here for the second one. Here we go. High school graduate injured in second meteor shower in sixteen years."
"Maybe he gained some sort of powers from the meteor." Clark stated. Chloe scrolled down. "Maybe not." She looked up at Clark. "What do you mean?" Clark asked. "They put some kind of metal plate in his head. Maybe that has something to do with this."
"It has to. Do you remember what Tina Greer was able to do?" Chloe nodded. "When she made herself look like Lex and robbed the bank, she knocked me into a storefront window. I couldn't believe it was really Lex. First of all because Lex has so much money he wouldn't need to rob a bank, and second of all because he was so strong. So I used my x-ray vision and saw that she had a metal plate in her head, maybe Travis can do what Tina was able to do." Chloe looked up from her laptop. "I think you have just solved our mystery. Great job!"
"How did Lana find out about Lex and Robert Blake?" Clark asked. Chloe shut her laptop and turned to Clark. "She talked to Travis the other day. We better start thinking about what we are gonna do tonight, before I get fried." A big grin crossed Chloe's face.