Disclaimer: Don't own it.

Authors Note: Okay, thanks for the reviews, I'm glad you guys liked the last chapter. But it was shorter than the others, so I thought I'd get a new one up quick. And I've decided I'm going to try and make the chapters longer, but no promises. This one was 8 words short of being a 1000, not counting authors notes or disclaimer, so I did better! Anyway, read and enjoy.

Ch. 5

A couple of days after first meeting Paige and Chris.

Chloe parks outside of her apartment, just getting back from a day of work at the Daily Planet. Getting out, she walks inside and up a couple of flights of stairs to her room. Stopping at her door, she unlocks it walking in, then walks over to the answering machine to check for messages. Seeing the blinking light, she presses the 'play' button and sits down in the chair next to the machine to listen to the one message she had.

Lana: Hey Chloe, I just wanted to call and tell you that I'm spending a couple of days at Lex's. We need a little bit of "bonding" time, things are a little tense. I didn't want you to get worried when I didn't come home. Well I guess I'll talk to you later. Bye.

Pressing the delete message, Chloe thinks, Well atleast I'll get a few days of peace and quiet. Time for a little more research. Her yawning interrupts her thoughts. "Okay maybe the research will have to take place tomorrow, time for sleep." She says yawning once more.

Walking to her room, Chloe grabs a pair of boxer shorts and tank top to sleep in. Turning and walking back out of her room, she goes to the bathroom and showers. Once she finishes brushing her teeth, she looks at herself in the mirror, noting the bags under her eyes. "Woah, guess it's been a long couple of days." She says to herself. She hadn't gotten much sleep since she found out about the demons, she'd been spending a lot of time researching about witches and everything, trying to get a better grasp on everything. So once she started researching, she'd just get so absorbed in it that she'd forget about everything else and the time would fly by, hence the lack of sleep. Finally, she leaves the bathroom and goes back into her room, laying down and almost immediately going to sleep.

A couple of hours later, Chloe wakes up to the sound of someone moving around in the apartment. Lying still, she tries to think of what to do, she knew it couldn't be Lana, because of the earlier message. Slipping out of bed, she walks slowly and quietly to her door. Opening the door slightly, she peeks out, seeing a pretty big man in the living room, he seemed to be going in and out of each room. Closing her door back, she looks around for her room for something that she could use for a weapon. Her eyes search the room a couple of times, but the only thing she spies is the lamp on her bedside table. Walking over to it she unplugs it and walks back to the door. Sneaking out, she see's the man is distracted by something so she goes up behind him and smashes the lamp over his head. Moving backwards quickly, she expects him to fall down, but he just stands there for a couple of seconds before turning to look at her.

"Okay not good, Sullivan." She says, panicking.She starts backing away as the man slowly advances on her. "Uh, I didn't mean to? My hand slipped?" She says, trying to stall.

The man just stares at her, before he opens his mouth and spits something at her, she couldn't see what because it was dark in the apartment.. Chloe throws her hands up in from of her as a sort of defense. Her eyes widen when ablue forcefieldtype thingcomes from her hand and deflects whatever it was back at the man -now identified as a demon- hitting him in the chest. Chloe watches in horror as the demon screams like he's in pain and then seems to melt into a puddle of -for lack of better word- goo.

"Oh god. I just killed somebody." She says staring at her hands, not understanding what just happened. "And I'm like a meteor freak. Paige!" Chloe shouts the name and waits for Paige to appear.

Paige appears a couple of seconds later, in her pajamas. Yawning she looks around in the now bright room, Chloe had turned the lights on. "What's going on?"

"I just killed somebody! Well he tried to kill me first but I killed him! And I don't know how!" Chloe says, in a state of panic.

"Chloe, calm down." Paige says and leads Chloe over to the couch to sit down. "Now, slowly and calmly, tell me exactly what happened." She says sitting down next to her on the couch.

After Chloe gets through explaining what happened, Paige stands up and goes to look at the spot where the demon was vanquished. "Okay first, the demon. Now you say he spit something at you?" She looks towards Chloe, seeing her nod. "And when it deflected back at him, he got vanquished?" She asks, and once again gets a nod from Chloe. "Hmm. Off the top of my head, the only demonI can think of is a Scabber demon, they spit acid. Which is a good thing that you apparently got deflection as a power, because they can only be vanquished by their acid."

"Deflection? But how did I do it?"

"My guess would be that when you got frightened, your powers decided to emerge, which was lucky for you. I can try and help you get better control over it, if you want, because I have a feeling your going to need it."

"Of course I want you to help me! People -demons!- are trying to kill me! What I want to know is why?"

Paige sighs, "I wish I knew the answer to that Chloe, but I don't. All I can do is try to keep you safe until we find out."

"Great, just great." She says sarcastically, while looking at Paige.

Authors Note: Okay now that the chapters over with and I can't spoil anything, I can thank a couple of people for ideas. Thanks to Veronica for first bringing up Chloe having powers, cause I really hadn't thought of that, but I'm glad she brought it up cause I like it. And thanks to ForeverBrokenForever for mentioning demon attacks, because I hadn't planned on having a demon attack again yet, but after the mention, I started thinking about it so I did. Lastly, thanks to Jenn for the power, because I couldn't pick. :)