Clark snapped his eyes open and shot up, "Loverboy?" he gulped, only one person called him that.
"Well you see I had a little run in with one bubbly blonde reporter before I got up here." Lex said pulling Clark back down on the couch beside him.
Clark thought that he would die of embarrassment, he couldn't believe that Chloe told Lex how he felt, especially when she knew what could happen if Lex hadn't of felt the same. "I'm gonna kill her, that's it, she's dead." Clark said with his head buried in the couch pillows
"Why Clark, she's the reason that we are here now isn't she?" Lex laughed pulling Clark's head up to look in his eyes. He was really overreacting this time. But that was one of the reasons he loves him wasn't it?
"I just can't believe that she told you how I felt about you," Clark whined slightly, "That would explain the phone call."
"What phone call?"
"Just before you got up here I was talking to Chloe on the phone and she told me that you loved me and that I should go for it." Well she didn't really call him, he called her after he heard her whispered message, but he couldn't really tell Lex that because he didn't know about his super hearing. A wave of guilt passed over Clark, he would have to tell Lex everything now, Lex deserved to know before he got into a serious or sexual relationship with him. Lex always deserved to know and Clark should have told him years ago but after lying to him all that time Clark was terrified that Lex would hate him. He wasn't scared that Lex would tell anyone or experiment on him, he hadn't been for years now, he just couldn't handle losing Lex and Lex couldn't handle lying.
Now it was Lex's turn to curse Chloe, "She promised me that she wouldn't tell you how I feel." He should have known, she was a reporter and they couldn't be trusted, he felt a pang of guilt at that thought. It simply wasn't true Chloe was an extremely trustworthy person, especially to Clark and it was unfair to class her with the reporters from the dirt mags that he was used to dealing with.
"You told Chloe how you felt about me?" Wow that was unexpected, Clark didn't expect Lex to even tell him how he felt about him, let alone tell Chloe.
"Well I didn't exactly come right out and confess my undying love for you or anything, she kind of beat it out of me with her reporter whiles."
"She tricked you into admitting it? Wow I am incredibly proud of her right now." Clark forgot his annoyance with Chloe at that point, revelling in the fact that she outsmarted Lex.
"She didn't trick me!" Lex said with mock offence, "She simply made an assumption about how I felt and I didn't deny it."
Clark laughed, "Leave it to Chloe to get through the iron clad Luthor control."
Lex looked deeply into his eyes, "No Clark leave it to you." He leaned down to kiss Clark, "If I didn't love you as much as I do, I wouldn't be half the man I am today. I would be my father, a cold heartless man. But loving you opened up my heart and that is something that people notice. When I am around you, or thinking about you my "iron clad Luthor control" as you call it goes out the window. I am nothing but a normal man unable to hide my feelings, instead wearing them on my face for the world to see. And it doesn't bother me, it should but I can't bring myself to care whether people know that I love you. If I could I would stand on the top of Lexcorp Plaza and yell for the whole world that "I Lex Luthor love Clark Kent". Sometimes I go up there and consider doing just that, the hell with the consequences for me, but then I think of you and what that would do to your life and I stop myself, instead I go to my study sit on my couch and whisper my feelings to the fire. There were times that I thought that having one-sided feelings for you would kill me one day, and even thought of losing contact with you. Getting on with my life and letting you get on with yours but then the selfish Luthor in me gets the best of me and I stay. Because I would rather be your friend and yearn for you than to yearn for you and not be your friend, I knew that it wouldn't be easy to give up on our friendship that you wouldn't allow it. I could have moved to Metropolis and still you would visit, so logically I knew that if I wanted to end our friendship I would have had to do something utterly unforgivable something that would make you hate me. The thought of you hating me killed me, to think about you walking by me on the street and not turning your beautiful face to me and smiling that wonderful smile of yours. Not being able to walk up those stairs and sit on this couch and just spend time with you, or walk into the Talon to have a coffee with you and your friends. It was just something that the selfish part of me wouldn't, no couldn't, give up. I couldn't imagine living the rest of my life without you in it; I don't want to imagine it."
"Lex," Clark cut him off.
Lex looked over at Clark again, having looked away sometime during his speech, to see tears running down Clark's face, "Lex, that was the most beautiful thing anyone has ever said to me. I'm glad you didn't leave; I don't know what I would have done without you. As for proclaiming your love for me off Lexcorp Plaza, I don't think that it's a good idea, what about telling our friends and family?" Clark smiled his megawatt smile, at the look of shock and love in Lex's eyes.
"Really? You want to tell people about us?" Lex was shocked; even though Clark said that he loved him Lex couldn't help but think that he was just some test subject for Clark's experimental phase, Lex knew that Clark couldn't consciously hurt him or anyone else and that he actually thought that he loved Lex. But Lex fully expected to be another in the long list of secrets that Clark kept; he never thought that Clark would want to be open about their relationship.
"Of course I want to tell people about us, I love you Lex, I want everyone to know that you love me back." Clark smiled, "Besides now that I know that I can hold you and kiss you I don't want to go back to keeping my distance. Face it, I'm addicted."
Tears impaired Lex's vision, blinking in an attempt to clear them he said, "I would love to tell everyone about us, I just didn't think that you would want people to know."
Clark cupped Lex's cheek in his hands, turning Lex's face upward to meet his eyes, "I want to stand on the top of Lexcorp Plaza and scream that "I Clark Kent love Lex Luthor"." Clark leaned down and kissed Lex, "But I have to tell you something first."