CHAPTER 2

Lex looked at his security guard in wide-eyed shock. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Chloe had been abducted. She was here just ten minutes ago, smiling and joking, and now he was being told that she had been kidnapped. He was feeling something for someone and it definitely didn't happen often. If this has anything to do with Chloe being friends with me I'll never forgive myself.

After finishing talking with his security guard, Lex reached for a glass and went to pour into it Scotch but stopped himself. This wasn't going to solve anything. Getting drunk wasn't going to bring her back. He had to find her and if he couldn't save her before she got hurt, that would be when he'd never forgive himself.

He read the note again for the thousandth time, it had been found on the driver's seat of Chloe's car.

Call the police, and Miss Sullivan dies. Don't worry no harm will come to her. Much.

He was going to get her back; he just needed some help.

The phone rang at the Kent Farm.

"Clark, can you get that?" Martha shouted from upstairs.

Clark left his studying to pick up the phone. Before Clark could say hello, Lex started the story in an obviously emotional state.

"Clark, I need your help, Chloe's been kidnapped. She came over this evening and after she left my security found her car abandoned on my drive. I don't know what's happened to her and I need your help to find her."

"Ok, ok. Lex just stay calm, I'll be over at the mansion in a couple of minutes"

Lex put the phone down and went back to his desk. A million thoughts were running through his head and about 98 were about Chloe. He loved her. He knew that Chloe may never feel the same way, but that wasn't important now. What was important was getting her back and finding out who took her. I'm gonna punch that guy's face in when I have the chance.

Clark arrived and Lex showed him the note. Clark read it with the same expression Lex had had when he had read it for the first time. Worry. Deep, deep worry.

"Nobody saw anything?"

"No, I talked to my security guards but nobody saw anything. I think whoever took her, had been in the grounds for a while."

"What was she doing here anyway?"

"Oh, she just wanted my help with something, that's all."

Clark looked at him suspiciously and Lex could feel his stare even as he looked away but Clark decided not to press the matter.

"We should go to the Torch Office to see if we can find something."

Lex drove Clark and himself to Smallville High. Clark got out of the car and marched into the school. Lex followed and made his way to the Torch Office. As he stood in the doorway, he looked around at the mass of files and folders, print-outs and paper, that were strewn about the office all over the place.

They both started to look through some of the papers and folders.

"You think we'll find anything in this mess?" Lex asked.

"Hope so"

After half an hour of looking through the office Clark gave out a triumphant "Ah ha!"

Lex looked up and joined Clark to look at the folder he was holding. It was an unfinished article about a Research Facility in Edge City called Lerroy Sciences. The article held damaging information on this Facility. Enough to affect a lot of people.

"I think we found something"