Chloe walks into her apartment not long after the incident in the bathroom. She had convinced the editor to let her work from home, it hadn't been easy but she'd done it. Chris had gotten called 'Up There' not to long ago, and had said he would be back as soon as he could. Setting her stuff down on the counter, she goes and sits down on the couch, grabbing the phone. Dialing Lois's number, she doodles on a piece of paper while it rings.
"Hello?" Came Lois's breathless voice from the other end after a few rings.
"Hey, Lo. It's me. Did I catch you at a bad time?" She asks curiously, noticing that she was out of breath.
"Uh no. I was just a little...busy and I had to run to get the phone." Lois says, Chloe easily being able to tell she's lying.
"Oh yea? What are you doing?" She says, reporter side kicking in. While waiting for Lois to answer, she runs her mind over a few possible explanations as to why Lois would be lying about something as trivial as this.
"It's nothing Chloe, I was just working. So anyway, shouldn't you be at work?" Lois tries to change the subject and not very successfully. Especially not when a male voice was then heard in the background.
"Lois, get off the phone and come back to bed." The voice says in a playful voice.
Chloe sits there in silence for a couple of minutes before finally saying in a surprised voice. "Was that Clark?"
"No. You think I'd sleep with Smallville?" Lois says with a nervous laugh. Then you can hear her shushing the person.
"Lois, stop lying, please." Chloe says, sounding upset.
"Chloe, I'm sorry. I wanted to tell you I just thought you'd be upset because of...how you feel about him."
"How I feel about him? Lois I havent' liked Clark for awhile." She says lying.She still had feelings for Clark, but she wasn't going to let Lois know that, especially not now. "Anyway I have a boyfriend." She babbles out, before realizing what she was saying.
About that time Chris orbed in and noticed Chloe sitting there with a hand over her mouth and her eyes wide, with the phone to her ear. Worried that something had happened, he walks over to the couch and sits beside Chloe. "Are you okay?"
Lois had just asked who Chloe's boyfriend was when Chloe notices that Chris is now beside her, so once again her mouth seems to have a mind of its own. "Chris! His name is Chris. Uh Lois I have to go. Bye." She says, quickly hanging up, then looking at Chris, her expression shocked.
He looks back at her, confused and curious. "Chloe whats going on?"
"Umm, Chris. I kinda need a favor."
"What?" He asks, not sure if he should be worried about this favor or not.
"Well you know how you said you'd be staying with me for awhile? I'm supposed to go to Smallville tomorrow and you'd have to go with me right?"
"Right."
"Ikindaneedyoutopretendtobemyboyfriend." She says really fast.
"One more time, only this time, breath." Chris says, not being able to decipher what she said.
Taking a deep breath, Chloe repeats what she said. "I need you to pretend to be my boyfriend, please." After saying that, she looks up at him, hopeful.
"What? Why?"
"Because I told my cousin that I had a boyfriend named Chris, after I found out she was sleeping with my bestfriend."
"And let me guess, you like your friend."
"No!" She says defensively. Then sighing, she says. "Kinda, I don't know, I'm not sure anymore. Will you do it please?"
"No, Chloe I'm supposed to be here keeping you safe, not helping you fool your friends." He says, looking at her like she had lost her mind.
"Please Chris, normally I wouldn't ask something like this anyway, but it was like I just didn't have any control over my mouth at all. It just blurted it out, please." She says making herself look as pitiful as possible, to try and make him give in.
"No, and don't use that look on me. It won't work, I live in a house full of women." Although, contrary to his words, the look was starting to get to him. Which was why he was doing his best to avoid eye contact.
"Please Chris, I'll make your job a lot easier, by not doing anything stupid. And I'll tell you everytime I go out instead of trying to sneak out." She says, putting a slight whine in her voice. She was very determined to get him to go along with it, if he didn't she wouldn't be able to go tomorrow, for fear of Lois finding out.
"No." As he says this, he keeps his eyes looking directly foward. Not being able to stop himself, he turns his head and looks at her. Sighing, he says. "Fine, but my main concern is keeping you safe, so that Paige doesn't kill me."
"Yes!" She says and can't contain her excitement. Forgetting that she didn't really know Chris, she launches herself at him, hugging him.
"Uh... Chloe... Your... Choking... Me." He barely manages to get out, because she really was squeezing hard enough to start choking him.
-Meanwhile: Lois and Clark-
When Lois hangs up the phone, she throws it at Clark, hitting him in the stomach. "Nice move Smallville, because now Chloe knows about us. We weren't ready to tell her."
Clark rubs his stomach lightly and looks up at Lois concerned. "How'd she take it? Is she gonna be okay? She's not mad is she?" He asks, not realizing he's asking a lot of questions at once. He was just worried that Chloe would be mad at him, he didn't want to lose her as a friend, because she was his best friend.
"She sounded a little upset. Did you know Chloe has a boyfriend?" She says, while going and getting back into bed with Clark, resting her head on his chest.
"Uh no. I just talked to her earlier today, she didn't mention anything about it."
"Well, I think he's coming with her tomorrow. Hopefully he is, because I need to find out if this guy is good enough for her. Don't want her to be going out with a psycho. So that means we're going to be interrogating him, alright Smallville?"
"Lois. You'll scare him away, shouldn't we just leave him alone for now. Wait until they start to get serious, if they do, before you scare the poor guy. And could you stop calling me Smallville? We're dating and sleeping together, I think they lets us call each other by our names." He says, adding the last part as more of an afterthought than anything.
-The Next Day: Back to Chloe and Chris.-
Chloe walks out of the bathroom, showered and dressed, ready to go. Walking into the kitchen she puts on a pot of coffee, she would definitely need it for today. It was going to be a nervewracking day.After the coffee maker is turned on, she walks into the living room and over to the couch. Seeing Chris still asleep, she puts her hand on his shoulder and shakes him gently.
"Chris. Time to get up, its time to go to Smallville."
Chris swats at her hand. "Five more minutes, mom." He mumbles in his sleep, before turning over and pulling his covers up over his head.
Chloe tries a couple more times to get him to wake up, each time failing miserably. All of a sudden she gets an idea. Smiling evilly to herself, she walks back into the kitchen. Opening up the refrigerator, she pulls out a pitcher of water and pours some into a glass. Glass in hand, she walks back into the living room and holds it over Chris's hand. "Chris, I'm telling you one last time before I take drastic measures. Wake up." Not seeing him even stir, she dumps the ice cold water on his head.
Chris jumps up off the couch, when he feels the water. "Dammit! What did you do that for!" He says and glares at Chloe, when he finally notices her beside him laughing.
"You... You... Wouldn't wake up." Chloe manages to get out, in between laughs, before finally stopping. "You should probably get changed before we go."
Still glaring at her, Chris goes over to a bag of clothes he had brought with him. Picking it up, he goes into the bathroom and takes a quick shower, getting dressed. Coming out of the bathroom, he finds Chloe in the kitchen drinking coffee, and acting like she had already had a lot. "Are you okay? You seem kind of...Jittery?"
"Yea. Yea. I'm fine, just nerves you know? Now remember, we're dating. And we have an hourdrive, so we can get our story straight on the way there."
"Question. Why don't I just orb us there? It'll save time." He asks, stating what he thinks is the obvious.
"Oh why didn't I think of that?" She says sarcastically. "And then when someone asks me how we got there because they don't see my car, what do I say? How about... 'Oh my pretend boyfriend orbed us here. He has that ability because he's half witch and half whitelighter. What's a whitelighter you ask? Oh its kinda like an angel.' Yea. That'll go over well then they'll throw us both in the loony bin." She says babbling a little because of coffee and nerves.
"Ok Chloe, I get it. No need to be so sarcastic about it." He says, rolling his eyes. "Can we just go already?"
Smiling apologetically at him, she picks up the keys. "Sorry Chris, just kinda on edge right now." She says as they walk out of the apartment building. Getting into her car, she pulls out of the parking lot and starts the hour drive to Smallville.