Title: After Hours
Author: Danielle
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Summary: Lois decides
to investigate someone involved with Lex and things go wrong. Clark saves her,
but no one can save him from her.
Author's Notes: Okay, this is
a little old. It was written after Solitude. It´s my try to bring on some
detective stories with Lois and Clark. I hope you like it! Thank you
MadDogLane for beta-reading this and the rest of the chapters!
CHAPTER 1
Metropolis, Daily Planet
"I´m sorry Lois, but I really have to finish this article for today or--"
"I know, I know. Or Kahn is gonna kill you" Lois completed the sentence for her. She was sitting in front of Chloe, using another computer on an empty desk to read her e-mails.
"We can go out tomorrow, what do you think?" Chloe said, a little sorry for having to refuse her invitation to go out.
"You know, Chlo, I really hope you don't become one of those workaholic female reporters who doesn't have her own life and are just interested in winning some Pulitzer Prizes while waiting for their supermen to arrive from somewhere!" Lois joked.
Chloe smiled.
"Don't worry, Lo. It won't happen" she said, standing up with a file in her hands. "With you around me, I doubt that it even could happen!"
Lois smiled back.
"Do you see now? That's why I'm so important here!"
"Okay" Chloe said, checking the file. She looked worried with the article. "You're gonna stay here?"
"Wow. Are you banishing me, Chlo?"
"No" she smiled, surprised with her cousin's reaction. "I have to go to the copy room" she said, showing her the file and how many copies she had to do.
"Oh. That's too bad!" Lois said, looking how big the file was. "Is anything wrong if I stay a little bit? I'd like to check these e-mails first" Lois asked.
"No problem, Lo" Chloe answered with a smile.
Minutes later, Chloe's cell phone started to ring in her desk. Lois didn't care till the moment it seemed to her it wouldn't stop. Then she extended her arm to get the mobile and saw in its display that it was an unidentified call.
"Hello?" she asked.
"Meet me in the terrace of the abandoned building next to The Ace O' Clubs in thirty minutes" a guy said with a husky voice.
"Wait a minute, I'm not--"
"Thirty minutes" he repeated. "And I guarantee that what I have to offer to you about Lex Luthor will finish his campaign to the Senate"
Then, the line went dead.
Shocked, Lois stood up immediately and went to the copy room to find Chloe and tell her the news. But she didn't find her cousinanywhere. When she tried the elevators, a security guard hindered her:
"Hey, you don't work here", he told her.
"I'm a visitor" she said, showing her card.
"I'm sorry" he warned her, pointing to an advertising plate next to the elevator doors which said 'Restricted access to employees'. "It is the rule".
"What a stupid rule!" Lois protested, crossing her arms.
The security guard didn't care about her objection and Lois looked again at her cousin's cell phone. It was something related to Lex Luthor, so, she thought, it was her interest too. Making him lose the election was her biggest objective these days. Then, she looked at her watch. Time was running out.
TBC