Chapter Seven
Tabloid Material
Stepping out of the Talon with a full cup of Vanilla latte in hand, Chloe Sullivan headed towards her car which was parked across the street. It was mid afternoon, around three o'clock or so, and Chloe had been talking with Clark and Kara inside the Talon for over an hour and a half about the still hot news of Smallville's newest hero – Supergirl. But now she had to leave to get started on digging up whatever she could on this Supergirl for her latest editorial for the Torch. After looking both ways before crossing, Chloe waited for a few cars to pass by while taking a sip from her latte and then adjusted the strap of the book bag she had on her shoulder. With the street now clear Chloe again looked both ways just to be on the safe side and then started to cross while digging her keys out of her jeans pocket. Just as she came to the middle of the street Chloe lost grip on her keys and dropped them.
"Dang it!" Chloe muttered under her breath while crouching down to grab them quickly before a vehicle came barreling down on her. Standing up quickly with keys in hand, she hardly took two steps when the onslaught of a heavy tires screeching and people on the sidewalks now screaming and shouting brought Chloe's head to sweep around to her immediate left, only stare wide-eyed in frozen horror as a eighteen wheeler came swerving down the street right for her as it side swiped parked cars along the way.
Unable to force her brain and body to act as one, Chloe became the proverbial deer caught in the headlights as the semi truck was only now seconds from hitting her. The last thing Chloe caught before she shut her eyes and prepared for the worst, was the sight of the driver behind the wheel sagging forward in his seat. A sudden hush seemed to have swept in over the entire street only for the sounds of tires being forced to slow down and metal groaning under some sort of pressure to take over and brining Chloe's eyes to open. Shocked to the core, Chloe just stared at the yellow monogrammed S-shield upon the background of a fire engine red cape sway lightly before her eyes. Very close to her eyes in fact. The fact that she was still alive and not one with the road at that very moment had the blonde loosing her balance as all strength left her legs. Chloe landed in a sitting position on the road while still continuing to stare up at the sight before her. Almost at the last second before the semi was close enough to hitting Chloe, Supergirl had dropped down out of the sky and held her arms straight out so that as the behemoth of a vehicle slammed into her open palms with a large amount of momentum behind it pushing forwards. Supergirl held her ground and pushed back, but only enough to both stop the semi and yet keep the driver inside from any major injuries as a result. The super hero was only pushed back enough by the force of the truck to where her cape just barely hung inches from Chloe's face.
Once the eighteen wheeler had stopped, Supergirl breathed a quiet sigh of relief as she stepped out the braced stance she had placed herself in and removed her hands from the grill of the semi. Her handprints were clearer seen within the cross hatching grill of the truck just going to show that this blonde young woman was extraordinarily inhuman in the strength she possessed. Turning partially around so that she now stood sideways, Supergirl looked down at Chloe who was still staring up at her with a doe-eyed expression of pure shock mixed with the terror of a near death experience she had just been dealt. Supergirl gave her a very much concerned look while crouching down to her level and placing a gloved hand on her shoulder. Every muscle in Chloe's body had gone completely tense during the whole ordeal and still remained that way as discovered by just touching her shoulder.
"Chloe, are you okay?" Supergirl asked while searching the frightened girl's face that stared back at her for an unspoken answer.
Chloe nodded her head in response, which in turn she received a relieved smile from the blonde hero who now removed her hand from its place on her shoulder and stood. Supergirl offered that same hand out to Chloe to take in order to stand her on her feet again, which she quickly took a hold of and then found herself easily pulled up without any sort of over excreted effort on Supergirl's part. "Thank you." Chloe managed to get out loud enough for her to hear.
Supergirl's smile grew a bit as she released Chloe's hand. "It's my job." She winked while glancing over towards the Talon from whose doors had already come several people she recognized – Clark and Lana. Both teens came running over to Chloe and asked if she was okay, to which she responded with a vigorous nodding of her head while her eyes remained on Supergirl who was now leaving the front of the truck to the driver side.
Stepping on to the metal step-up that stuck out from the semi truck's cab, Supergirl stood off to the right of the door and grabbed a hold of the handle. With a quick jerk the door lock snapped easily and allowed the door itself to swing openly freely. Supergirl looked into the cab and noticed that the driver was knocked unconscious. Already knowing that her stopping the truck had nothing to do with his status, as she had seen the truck swerving about on the road in the first place, Supergirl quickly checked to make sure he still had a pulse. When she found it a sense of even greater relief washed over her as she reached across him and broke the seatbelt slip to free him. Taking a hold of the truck driver in a careful way, Supergirl eased him out slowly as she floated off the metal step-up and then brought both her self and the driver down to the ground. Clark left Chloe with Lana as he came around to see how the driver was.
"Is he okay?" Clark asked while kneeling down beside the driver and looking him over quickly with an usually hard stare before he glanced up at Supergirl.
She nodded down at him in assurance. "I believe so. I didn't catch any broken bones or internal injuries when looked him over. It might just be a mild concussion, but something just doesn't seem right about all this." Supergirl replied in a quiet manner as she knelt down beside Clark to speak privately. "Clark, I called Chloe by her name. I don't think she caught it, but if she did, try and keep her from asking too many questions." Supergirl instructed quietly while glancing over towards the front of the truck where she now caught Lana and Chloe coming around from. "Stay with him." She added before getting up to her feet and giving the two girls a quick smile before she turned towards the trailer the semi was hauling.
The side of the truck held the name Luthor Corp. printed across its side in bold black letters. Figures. Her blue eyes narrowed at the name they read before focusing and kicking in the use of x-ray vision. The negative-like view of the inside of the trailer brought up a half packed cargo of metal drums holding labels reading bio hazard. Supergirl's breath nearly caught in her throat as she saw this. What the hell is this! Focusing harder she now saw the contents of the drums, which held a green glow to it. Oh god…. Supergirl's brow furrowed as she dismissed her use of x-ray vision and then shook her head lightly. Her eyes happened to glance over to Clark who seemed fine, as so was she. The kryptonite was too far from them to do any real harm, but that didn't mean it the smallest effects were going unfelt. A very faint sense of light headiness was starting to come up on Supergirl to which she shook her head slightly before looking to the right of her as the sounds of an approaching car coming to a stop caught her attention.
A silver Porsche had pulled up just off to the side of the semi truck. Not bad timing there Lex. Supergirl gave the guy stepping out of the expensive car a rather displeased look and then noticed that there were people just standing on the sidewalks pointing and talking amongst themselves over the whole event. Well, that's definitely something I'll never stop seeing here or back home. A faint smile flickered across her face as she laughed quietly to herself before she was approached by Lex Luthor.
"Supergirl, well, I see you're no stranger to saving the day." Lex commented as he came to stand just before the blonde and stared up at the truck bearing the company name. He could already tell this wasn't going to go well between him and this blonde beauty of unknown origins and phenomenal power. In return for this he received a rather mellow stare that hid the underlying icy glare hidden in her eyes. Lex looked over at her and offered a very sincere look of apology. "I assure you that I will personal look into this and find the cause." He assured her while happening to glance down at the unconscious truck driver that Clark was kneeling beside with Chloe and Lana standing over him looking down at the man. "Is he alright?" he asked while now turning his attention again to Supergirl.
"For the most part." She answered flatly. "It would be a good idea to get him to a hospital though." Supergirl stated while staring blankly at Lex, offering no expression of any sort to him.
Lex understood this rather well and decided to try and make the best of it as he extended a hand to her. "Thank you." He stated in gesture towards the heroic action she had taken. He had no real idea of what she had truly prevented since he had just come around the corner of the street to only see her knelt with Clark over the unconscious driver and then get up to only stare at the trailer. For all he could tell from this, he knew she had done more than he could guess and for that he wanted to thank her.
Clark watched along with Chloe and Lana as Supergirl took a moment before taking the offered hand of Lex Luthor. However, just between the two of them only they knew what was now said and done as Supergirl applied just a small amount of strength to Lex's hand in her grip. "I suggest that you don't try to become so friendly with me, Lex." She stated in a quiet voice that he heard well enough. "Not after what I just saw in that trailer."
Wincing in the slightest as his hand was starting to feel as though it were in a slowly closing vice grip Lex stared straight into Supergirl's blue eyes. "I assure you that whatever is in that trailer, I have no knowledge of. Our company wasn't even supposed to be shipping anything today." He stated in response to her rather rough acknowledgement to his offered hand that wasn't shook only held in that grip of hers.
"If you say so." Supergirl released her hold on his hand and only gave him one final stare of nothing before looking back over her shoulder at the group of teens who were now staring at her with rather awe struck stares. She gave them a friendly smile before nodding at them and turning away to walk passed Lex a few steps and take her self up into the skies, streaking off to leave everyone down on earth to gaze after her in wonder at the unbelievable sight of the laws of physics and even reason itself defied.
Chloe suddenly snapped out of the trance she had placed herself in during the whole ordeal as something finally struck her. "That's weird." She stated aloud, partially to herself while it also caught the attention of her friends to her. "Supergirl called me by my name, like she knew who I was." She explained while looking from Lana to Clark and back as she was starting to grow rather intrigued with this sudden discovery, and it clearly showed on her face. Lana and Clark were the only ones to pay attention to what Chloe had said as Lex was conveniently on his cell phone calling for an ambulance.
"Chloe!"
Hearing her name called, Chloe turned around to see Kara Kent come running over towards her from the Talon with a look of concern on her face. Reaching her, Kara placed both hands on her shoulders and stared her friend in the eyes. "Are you okay?" she asked while looking her over quickly.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Supergirl saved me from being run over." Chloe replied while smiling broadly at the blonde Kent. "Why are you just coming from the Talon now?" she asked as the realization to the fact that Kara was rather late in coming out to check on her was starting to become apparent.
Kara looked from Chloe to Lana with a somewhat guilty look on her face. "Oh, well, I had offered to take some flower arrangements into the back for Lana and hang them up. When I came out someone had mentioned that a semi had nearly run someone over." She explained while Lana came over to stand beside her and nod in agreement to this, while Kara now released Chloe's shoulders and seemed a bit more relieved than she had.
"Yeah, that's right. Kara I'm sorry, I should gotten you when we heard all the commotion." Lana apologized with a look of guilt that Kara had used not but a few seconds ago.
Shaking her head, Kara dismissed it with a smile to Lana who smiled back as she understood what Kara had meant by this as a 'don't worry about it'. Looking over to where Clark was Kara stared at the unconscious driver for a moment before then spotting an approaching Lex Luthor who came to stand in between were the girls stood and Clark was with the truck driver. "An ambulance is on its way." He announced to them while flipping his phone closed. "Apparently I was right. There weren't any deliveries of any kind being shipped today, and I just got word that a trailer was stolen from a Luthor Corp warehouse about an hour ago."
"What does that mean?" Clark asked as he looked up from the truck driver to Lex while the sounds of sirens started to come within distant hearing range.
"It means Clark, that the man lying there on the ground doesn't work for Luthor Corp or he's a very unlucky thief." Lex explained while glancing to where his car was parked as an ambulance had now pulled up and the medics came jumping out with their field kits in hand.
Clark stood up and got out of their way while coming to stand beside Chloe. The group watched as one of the medics went back to the ambulance to retrieve a stretcher while the other carefully placed a neck brace around the guy's neck. Kara glanced over at her cousin who caught her stare and looked over at her with his own perplexed look on the matter. The two shrugged meekly to each other before returning their attention back to the medics who now had the truck driver up on a stretcher and taking him to the back of the ambulance. Lex shook his head slightly and looked back at the group of four just behind him before heading over to his car.
Again exchanging looks with his cousin first, Clark then went after Lex before his friend disappeared inside his car to catch him. "Hey Lex, where are you going?" he asked while coming to a stop as he had a pretty good idea as to where Lex might be headed.
Lex opened the driver side door of his Porsche and then stopped there to answer Clark's question. "The hospital. When this guy wakes up I want to know what he was planning on doing with that trailer and whatever is inside of it."
"What about the trailer?" Clark asked as he looked over now to the large beast just sitting there in street completely dead.
Without even having to really answer that question, Lex merely looked passed Clark and even the girls as there were now several black SUVs pulling up. "I've taken care of it." He answered while giving Clark a small smirk before getting into his car and following after the ambulance that was now leaving for Smallville Community Hospital.
A few men got out of the SUVs and quickly ushered the teens off the street so they could deal with the situation of removing the truck and putting an end to the public scene. The group of four friends relocated themselves to the sidewalk just outside the Talon to watch the truck inspected and then checked to see if it would even start up again. Chloe had already zeroed in on the front grill where she stared at the two hand prints imprinted within the metal. This all greatly fascinated her as she was starting to grow excited over the whole being rescued by a super powered hero who happened to be a girl. This mounting excitement was caught first by Lana who grinned at the short haired blonde beside her.
"You seem rather happy for someone who nearly became close friends with a semi." Lana teased lightly as she wasn't too sure just how touchy the subject would become with Chloe, but as the blonde beamed at her, Lana was now thinking differently.
"She's amazing!" Chloe stated with a broad smile holding to her face. "I mean, I can't believe someone could be that strong and just hold back a rampaging truck like that!" she looked over at the trailer that was now started up and being guided by the other employees of Luthor Corp as it backed up and waited for the SUVs to move out of the way. "What confuses me is how she knew my name." Chloe gave her friends a confused look at this.
Clark and Kara both looked at Chloe with forced looks of puzzlement to accompany her own with fake expressions of surprise to this discovery as well. "Well…maybe she heard someone shout your name before swooping in and saving you." Kara suggested before biting the inside of her lip and hoping that her own little slip up hadn't gotten Chloe too suspicious, but apparently it had either way even as Chloe seemed to be agreeing for the most part to this.
"It makes sense, but I don't remember hearing my name being called out at all." Chloe pointed out while she looked from Kara to Clark and then to Lana with a rather intrigued look on her face that was now speaking volumes and having Kara cover up a grimace with a half hearted smile.
Nice going Kara. Now you've got your own little reporter chasing after your cape to find out who you are and where you came from. Is this some sort of super hero hazing no one told me about!
"Oh, Chloe, before I forget." Lana suddenly broke into the middle of Kara's frantic thoughts of how she was going to go about handling the situation of Chloe's reporter instinct, and handed over to Chloe the book bag she had been carrying and then dropped in the street. "I put your keys inside." She explained while the bag was taken from her.
Opening the free mouth of her bag, Chloe spotted the key chain holding her house, car, and various other keys on top of the many items inside. Satisfied in seeing them there as Lana had said they were, Chloe looked up at the brunette and gave her another bright smile. "Thanks Lana."
Lana nodded at her by way of reply and then looked over at the Kent cousins who were staring after the truck as it was now rumbling down the street towards whatever location Lex had specified for it in his phone call. She sighed to herself as she was starting to figure out what they were going to do now. Lana had only known Kara for about three days now and already she could tell that she was definitely related to Clark, and not just because they did seem to have the same facial features. This in a way was kind of odd seeing as how Clark had been adopted by his parents and Kara was blood related to Jonathan Kent as she had been informed after having met Kara. Whatever it was, Lana wasn't going to bust a brain cell trying to figure it out. It could all just be a weird sort of coincidence in the end anyways. "So, Clark, Kara. Are you two going to head off to the hospital as well?" Lana asked while slipping her hands into her jean pockets.
The cousins looked over at her at the same time which seemed kind of eerie to both Lana and Chloe when they did it. "Uh, yeah. How did you…?" Clark trailed off mid way through his sentence before he caught the small smirk on Lana's face and the look in her eye. "Oh, right." He murmured as he now understood what that look was for and what she had meant with that question.
Chloe perked up at this and shot her gaze over to Kara immediately. "You mind if I tag along?" she asked quickly as her reporter instinct had now taken over completely.
Kara's brows rose at the quickness in which Chloe displayed in recovering so quickly from a terrifying event like being near run over by a semi. What is it with these reporter types anyways? She just near died if it hadn't been for me, and now she's gone all Lane on me! Geez! Giving Chloe a small smile, Kara just shook her head that she didn't mind, not like if she had said no in any way that it would have stopped Chloe in the least. She may have only known her for a little over three days now like Lana, but already she came to know that when Chloe had set her mind on something there wasn't anything that would stop her from accomplishing the task. Clark just shook his head at how eager Chloe was in all this and grinned over at Lana.
"Well then I'll see you guys later." Lana stated simply while giving the slightest inclination of a tiny bow before heading back into the Talon, leaving the three to head for Clark's pick up across the street.
As soon as all three had their seat belts buckled, Clark pulled out of his spot and headed off towards the hospital. On the way there, Chloe continued to talk almost non-stop about her own suspicions concerning the whole semi gone wild in down town and voicing every question that came to her mind one after the other. And Kara being the one to which every question was mainly relayed to until they finally pulled into a visitor space in the hospital parking lot about twenty minutes later. Trying hard not to just jump from the cab as soon as the parking brake was put into place, Kara unlocked the door and quickly got out only making it look as though for the most part that she was somewhat eager to get inside the hospital. Clark and Chloe came out right after her, and the group made their way up to the front entrance of the hospital.
Just before the door Chloe hesitated and grabbed Kara by the arm and stopped her as well. The fact that he no longer had two blondes walking with him into a hospital caused Clark to now stop and turn to see what was keeping his friend and his cousin. "We'll catch up with you in a minute." Chloe stated while giving him a smile.
"Okay. I'll see you guys in there." Clark replied as he gave Kara an apologetic look before taking off in search of Lex and wherever the truck driver was being roomed in.
Kara looked to the hospital doors and then to Chloe with only having to move her eyes. "What's going on?" she asked in a near sing song voice as she knew there was more to this than Chloe had let on in the first place.
"Well, I just wanted to get your opinion on this whole thing so I can include it in my editorial. Of course it would be mentioned only as an anonymous quote only." Chloe quickly explained and then followed it up with an assurance to Kara's identity not being known when the editorial was read.
Sighing quietly to herself at firs Kara, only had to receive one puppy dog pout from her and she gave in. "Fine." She exhaled while throwing up her hands in defeat. "But you do now that eventually that little pout of yours won't work for much longer, right?" Kara asked while eyeing her friend for a moment with a rather teasing smile starting to crack across her face.
"Yeah I kind of figure that, but until then I might as well get as much use out of it as I can now." Chloe stated while grinning up at her blonde friend. "So…?"
"Honestly, I'm not quite sure what to think. It just all seems to be an accident so far, but considering what we heard from Lex, it looks as though may be only a partial accident." Kara answered while a defeated smile was given to Chloe. "I'm just glad that you're okay."
Chloe nodded at her before gesturing towards the hospital doors with her head. "Let's go find out for sure." She said while hooking her arm with Kara's and starting them off to pass through the automatic doors.
Just for the added humor of no particular reason, Kara glanced over at Chloe as they passed by the information window. "Hey, you think we can get some of that jell-o while we're here?" she asked and now had the fellow blonde laughing as they rounded a corner and headed for the emergency waiting room, where more than likely they would find Clark and Lex waiting for the doctor's report on the trucker driver's condition.
"I wonder who she is…" Chloe murmured quietly to her self aloud which had caught Kara's attention. Realizing this, Chloe glanced up at her and offered a meek smile. "Supergirl. I was talking about Supergirl." She restated her own thoughts to inform Kara of what she had meant.
"What about Supergirl?" Kara asked as she and Chloe unhooked arms on approach of the inside emergency entrance double doors.
"Everything." Chloe stated while Kara pushed open one the doors and allowed her to go in first, causing Chloe to stop and turn sideways after entering the waiting room so she could keep their conversation going between them. "I mean, come one, where did she get those incredible powers? Is she even a resident here in Smallville? I mean she just suddenly shows up out of nowhere a few days ago to stop a bank robbery and not that long after that whole thing with that red skinned pointy eared freak throwing cars around with some weird yellow light." She explained as she followed Kara over to the reception window where a male nurse sat behind a Plexiglas window with a small dome shaped cut out at the bottom.
Kara shook her head while coming to a stop just before the window. "That sounds like tabloid material to me more than anything else." She teased and received a playful glare from her friend before turning her attention to the male nurse.
"Can I help you?"
"Uh yeah, a truck driver was brought in about twenty minutes ago unconscious. I was wondering if you could tell me how he's doing." Kara held a hopeful look on her face while she tried to get information from the nurse, already knowing that more than likely she was going to be denied it seeing as how that was information they couldn't release that freely.
The male nurse gave her an apologetic look as he shook his head. "I'm sorry, but we can't release patient information at this time. You are more than welcome to have a seat and wait." He replied while pointing with a pen in hand towards the specifically grouped chairs that had only a few people sitting in them.
Chloe frowned at this and started to say something before Kara cut her off quickly by turning her about by the shoulders. "Thank you." Kara stated while ushering Chloe over to the chairs and leaving the window behind, only to pause a moment and return with another question. "Um, could you tell me if Lex Luthor is here already?" she asked, hoping at least this question could be answered for her. It was as the male nurse nodded his head in reply. "Thank you again."
"What was that all about?" Chloe asked in a rather annoyed manner as they sat down in the closest set of chairs.
"What was what?" Kara asked while looking over at her with a passive expression on her face for the most part.
"That! Why couldn't they just tell us if he's even alive and breathing?" she replied with just another question and waved her hand over in the direction of the window.
Kara sighed scratching the side of her temple. "Because Chloe, it's called patient confidentiality. Besides, since this guy has something to do with Luthor Corp you really think Lex wants anything getting out that some paper could use against him in false accusation?" she pointed out while glancing over at another set of white doors that held in red letters the words – ADMITANCE One visitor to a patient at a time when called – written directly at the center just above and below the silver push bars.
This caused Chloe to furrow her brow further as she read the message on the door. "Then where's Clark?" she countered as it was apparent that he was missing from the scene.
"He's probably with Lex, seeing as how we were about a minute delayed." Kara replied while looking over at the other few people in the waiting room with them. They didn't seem to be in dire need of medical attention, so she only assumed that they were waiting to visit someone they knew who was in emergency. "Don't worry Chloe, I'm sure Clark will come out eventually and fill us in on all the details." She assured her as it appeared that Chloe was getting ready to point out something else that Kara had now just covered and brought the short haired blonde to an end with the questions.
"But –" Chloe began, and then was immediately silenced as Kara raised a hand in gesture for her to stop before she even started. "You're no fun." She muttered while letting her attention take a new train of focus right over to the vending machine the waiting room had over in the corner.
"Yeah, I get that a lot." Kara replied before having to do a double take in order to realize where Chloe had relocated herself to all in about three seconds. Whoa, and I thought Flash moved fast. He's got nothing on a sugar deprived teen. Kara grinned to herself for comparing the fastest man alive with a teenager who was in need of having a chocolate craving.
As Chloe gave small 'yes' in triumph to having her wanted bag of m&m's come to her without a fight from the vending machine, the admittance door opened with Clark coming out from behind it and looking around towards the waiting room. Kara caught sight of him and got up from her seat to catch his attention. Seeing his blonde cousin coming towards him with Chloe in tow, Clark gave her a small gesture of the head in asking of them to step off to the side with him. Once the three were a little more out of the way to the admittance door and from the hearing range of others, Chloe shot the first question. "How's the driver?"
"Fine for the most part. He's still unconscious and the doctor's are thinking he might wake up with a mild to serious concussion, but there's no broken bones or internal injuries." Clark explained while flashing over a quick grin to Kara. "I guess Supergirl saved more than just one person in all of this." He commented while now turning his gaze to Chloe.
"Definitely. It would have ended a lot worse if it hadn't been for her showing up like she did." Chloe agreed while grimacing at the thought having been nearly killed just an hour ago. "So is Lex looking into this guy's employment with Luthor Corp?" she now asked to take the conversation in a different direction now and refocusing in on how the whole thing came to be.
Clark nodded to this in reply while Kara shook her head slightly for her own personal reasons. "That is going to be one heck of a clean up job on his part for whatever reasons." Kara pointed out just before the admittance door opened again and this time had Lex coming out from behind it with his cell phone on his ear. "Speak of the man."
Lex hung up his end of the call he had been involved with and looked over at the blonde Kent who was staring at him with a rather unreadable look on her face. "I assume you mean me with that." He gave her a small smile as he slipped his phone into the pocket of his coat. In return for this Lex received a nod of the head and faint smirk from Kara, to which only he seemed to smile just a bit more before addressing the others as well. "Apparently his name is George Anderson. He works at a Luthor Corp warehouse in Metropolis as a truck driver."
The mention of the name Metropolis had Kara perking up a bit as this reminded her of where John and Wally were at that moment tracking down Sinestro while trying to figure out a way home for them. I haven't heard from them since they left. Maybe I should check in on their status with the situation when we get back to the farm. Kara made a mental note and then returned her attention back to what Lex was saying about the truck driver.
"My father has already gotten word about the matter." Lex stated while taking more cynical tone to his voice as he talked. The look on his face told his feelings on this new matter he had relayed to them after receiving word.
"So, what's he gonna do Lex?" Clark asked as he managed to break the awkward silence before it could set in on them.
Lex looked over at Clark and smirked slightly at the question, as apparently he found some sort of humor in the answer he already knew. "He's coming in of course. Right now as we speak actually." He gave a very tiny laugh after this while watching a nurse pass by them and enter the emergency center behind him.
Kara looked over at Clark as she didn't quite understand why Lex seemed rather upset over the fact that his dad was coming in from wherever he currently was. Clark glanced over at Kara and just gave the smallest of head shakes to let her know that he would explain later on about the whole thing. Nodding to this, Kara returned her attention back to Lex. "When's he supposed to arrive?"
"He should be here in about twenty to thirty minutes, depending on just how important this really is to him." Lex replied in answer to Kara's question and then suddenly a rather amused look came across his face as he realized something. "That's right. You haven't had the pleasure of knowing who my father is." He stated while raising a brow at Kara.
"No, I haven't. But something tells me that he's not exactly a saint." Kara replied while allowing her lips to play with a smirk.
Something about the smirk Kara had given Lex intrigued him and almost registered as unintentional flirting on the blonde's part. "And you'd be more than correct in the sense, yes. So tell me, how did you come to that particular conclusion?" he asked while allowing his attention and gaze to remain solely on Kara, shutting out Clark and Chloe's presence there with them.
Kara shrugged to this while maintaining that same smirk from before. "Your tone of voice and the look on your face." She answered. "Practically gave it away."
Lex smiled broadly at this and looked to Clark. "Quite the cousin you have here Clark." He commented before looking at Kara again.
"Oh trust me, I'm full of surprises." Kara stated while raising her brows for a moment in emphasis to this as she crossed her arms.
Chloe glanced between both her friend and Lex Luthor for a moment, taking note of the whole conversation. She was starting to see something between the two of them and it seemed rather interesting to say the least. I don't believe it. Is Lex Luthor actually flirting with Kara? Thinking on this possibility, Chloe decided to talk with Kara about it later when either Lex or Clark was around to hear it. Instead, she now turned her attention back to the truck driver that worked Luthor Corp. "So Lex, what was in the trailer of the semi?" Chloe asked as she switched on her reporter mode.
Lex turned his attention to Chloe. "In all honesty, I have no idea as to what was in that trailer. I'll be finding out soon enough once it has been properly dealt with." He answered knowing that Chloe was digging for information to use in a Torch article. "However, once I do receive information on this whole situation I will make sure to that you are the first to receive what I can make available." He then assured her as a look crossed the young reporter's face that Lex recognized rather quickly.
"Well, I guess I'll just have to hold my editorial until later." Chloe sighed with a disappointed look on her face and then glanced over at Kara. "I guess we don't have too much of a reason to hang around here. How about we go get that jell-o you were talking about?" she suggested while offering her fellow blonde a grin.
A bright grin crossed Kara's face at this as she looked over at Clark to see if there was anything he had against them going off to the cafeteria. Clark nodded his head at her with a slight grin. "I'll catch up with you guys…I mean girls." He quickly re-corrected himself.
Both blondes suppressed their laughter at what Clark had said and then after saying short 'byes' to Lex, they left the waiting room lobby of the walk-in emergency and made their way towards the cafeteria. Chloe led the way as they walked side by side since of course she was familiar with the hospital, as she had been either a patient or visitor there at one point or another. For a while the two teen girls were quiet until Chloe decided to ask Kara a question she had been wanting an answer to for a while now. "So, Kara, you still never really answered me before when I asked how you knew Bruce Wayne."
"Right." Kara sighed while knowing that beating around the bush wasn't going to help this situation any longer. "What about him?" she asked while glancing over at Chloe who had brought them both in through the door to the cafeteria.
"How exactly, and in specific detail, do you know him?" Chloe asked as they headed towards a large refrigerator with sliding glass doors so one could see what they wanted before opening the door. Chloe slid the left side door open and grabbed a rather large plastic cup of red jell-o while keeping the door open for Kara.
Grabbing a cup of blue jell-o, Kara sighed while tapping the top of the plastic lid that covered the contents inside the small container. "Specific detail? There's really nothing that specific Chloe." She stated as it was actually half true in some sense. The two girls headed over to the cash register to pay for their desserts.
As Kara went to grab a few bills from her jeans pocket, Chloe stopped her. "Oh, no, this is on me." She declared while setting her own dish down and opening her purse as the lady behind the counter told Chloe that the total for both desserts was going to be 2.50 all together. "Okay then," she dug out a five and handed it over to the gal while glancing over at Kara. "Nothing that specific." Receiving her change back Chloe and Kara walked towards a small condiment counter where they grabbed a plastic spoon each and then headed for the nearest empty table.
As the two blonde teens sat down and popped off the lids to their deserts, Kara stabbed her spoon into the blue jell-o she had chosen. "I only met him Chloe, and it was in a…bookstore. Yeah, I bumped into him accidentally and when ended up having a short twenty-minute conversation in which he introduced himself as Bruce Wayne. That's it." She quickly explained before shoving a spoon full of jell-o into her mouth hoping that would end the discussion.
Chloe frowned at this, but apparently she did seem somewhat convinced for the moment and that Kara was grateful for. "Oh." Was the only reply Chloe gave to the story she had been given. "That's it? What did you guys talk about then?" she now asked as the small effect of defeat had suddenly passed over rather quickly.
Oh come on! "Well, now that I think about it…" Kara paused a moment as a confused looked crossed over her face. "I don't remember." She murmured partially to herself while her brows knitted together in a manner that told Chloe she really wasn't remembering.
Giving her friend a small smile, Chloe waved the whole thing off while slicing into her own jell-o. "Forget it then. It's fine. Besides, I got an exclusive in the works for the Torch." She stated as her smile grew a bit brighter before sticking a spoonful of jell-o into her mouth.
"The whole Luthor Corp truck nearly turning you into a pancake?" Kara asked just to clarify what Chloe was talking about and received a shake of the head in reply to this, which now actually had Kara confused to say the least as she raised an eyebrow.
"That's secondary right now since I don't have all the information." She replied. "I'm talking about Smallville's own personal superhero, Supergirl."
To which Kara replied to by nearly choking on her blue jell-o.
