Lex sat back. Another company slipped from under the owner's feet and into Luthorcorp's hands. Lex smiled and reached for his glass of Scotch. Could his life get any better?
Well … yes. It could get a lot better. If one blonde haired reporter had anything to do with it. Chloe had come by the mansion earlier. She normally came over as her and Lex had developed a rather unique relationship. It was built on the truth both him and Chloe were always searching for. Chloe would come by often to share with Lex another mysterious story that she was determined to uncover. With the help of Lex, Chloe had solved mysteries from meteor freak to meteor freak. And not once had she failed.
But Lex had a secret. He loved the relationship him and Chloe shared but he wanted a little bit more. When did a Luthor never want a little bit more? After the first three or four "Sherlock Holmes expeditions" as Chloe liked to call them, Lex had started to, putting it bluntly, fall in love with Chloe Sullivan.
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Chloe stepped out of her Big Red Bug and walked up the steps to the mansion. She didn't have a story to uncover. She didn't have a mystery waiting to be solved. She didn't need Lex's help. She needed Lex's company. Sitting alone in the Torch earlier, Chloe had realised that she was getting bored of the reasons as to why she always ended up in Lex's library.
Chloe was going to become , dare she say it, a friend of a Luthor. She wanted to talk to Lex about ordinary stuff that friends would talk about. Of course being a bald billionaire with a company the size of a continent and his house being a castle, she didn't exactly know what ordinary things Lex talked about. Well, here goes nothing I guess …
She came to the door and the Guard let her straight in. She walked through the endless corridors until she reached the double doors leading to Lex's library. She walked through and found Lex at his desk typing furiously at his laptop. Well there's one thing we have in common.
"Hey Lex" Lex looked up and smiled. He closed his lid and gestured towards the chair by the fire.
"So to what do I owe this pleasure Chloe" Well at least it wasn't Miss Sullivan anymore.
"You know Lex, I swear you say that to me everytime I come by" Chloe smiled. Lex melted. But as always a Luthor does, hid his longing feelings.
"What mystery do you have today?"
"Why do you think I came to see you just because I wanted your help with a Wall of Weird story?"
Lex chuckled "What are you here for then?"
" Well we're friends right? So I came over to see how you're doing and to chat and stuff."
Lex looked at her cautiously.
"I'm telling the truth!" Chloe protested.
"Well … good. So how's the Torch going?"
And that was how the evening went by. Chloe actually managed to get Lex to open up a little, Of course after promising everything in their conversation was Off the Record. They talked about everyone, everything and every subject.
She made her way down the Mansion steps and into her car smiling. She started the engine but it failed.
"Damn stupid car. I knew I should have got one of those big things like Lana" Chloe said aloud.
A dark figure startled her as it loomed across her car window. The car door was suddenly flung open, and a face was the last thing Chloe remembered before blacking out.
AUTHORS NOTESorry it's a little short, but I didn't want to get too ambitious on my first FanFic.
Next Chapter …
Where has Chloe been taken? And what is Lex's reaction to the news of Chloe's disappearance?