A/N: I'm pretty excited to start writing action. I love writing fight scenes and all that better then conversations and stuff. Maybe it's because of my love of description! Enjoy.

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Lex had dragged Chloe into the room seemingly easy. She didn't weigh much and all he had to do was wrap an arm around her waist and the other around her throat from behind. He had placed the gag back in her mouth and whispered in her ear.

"You have a visitor" and with that he whisked her away to where Clark was placed.

She had been kicking her legs and trying to flail around as much as possible, but when they reached the room she forgot her plight all together. Her eyes widened with horror at the sight of Clark Kent. He was chained to a wall with strange colored hand cuffs. She could have sworn they were glowing a faint green color. Almost like meteor rocks. Her thoughts were interrupted however as she noticed his wrists were bruised and bleeding. He looked weak.

"This is so not good" She thought silently.

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Clark sat straight up when Lex reappeared in the room with Chloe in his grasp. His wrist were burning and bruised and he noticed Chloe cease to struggle after seeing him. Obviously she had noticed his wrists as well. He wished she would keep fighting and not worry about him. He liked to think of Chloe as fierce and strong. Those things though she was, vanished when it came to him. He knew that was her weakness. She would die before betraying him. And he certainly didn't want her dieing. He struggled for words.

"Chlo..." He tried but lost the rest of his words.

"I think this belongs to you?" Lex asked mockingly. Chloe gave him a look that certainly would have killed ,buried, dug him up, and killed him again, had words had the power to kill. Despite the severeness of the situation, she couldn't help but be offended by being referred to as someone's property. She let it pass moments later, regaining her senses.

"Lex... let her go. Please." Clark gasped desperately.

Chloe bit down on the gag attempting to dislodge it, but Lex had other ideas.

"Hey now. Thats not nice. It's not your turn to talk yet." he sneered.

Clark noticed Chloe wince nervously. She looked very uncomfortable. Clark just assumed it was from being gaged and dragged around like a sack of potatoes. He didn't realize the true reason. Chloe could feel Lex's hot breath in her ear as he spoke. It almost seemed seductive. He must have noticed it though, she thought, from what he said next.

"Am I making you uncomfortable Chloe?" He asked mockingly. "What, what's wrong? Don't worry. Nothing has to happen if you cooperate." He waited for a reply and due to the gag, only got a mumbled obscenity in response. "Oh sorry I forgot about that. Let me help you with that." He took off the gag but very slowly as to make her wince again.

"Let go of me." she squeaked.

"Now why on earth would I do that? As far as I'm concerned your my one way ticket to Clark Kent."

"I don't know what the hell your talking about. Clark is just... Clark. What do you want with him?"

"Come on now. Don't play dumb. It's not becoming on such an intelligent girl as yourself." He reached out and touched her cheek causing her to turn her head swiftly from him. She couldn't really get very far being he still had her in a vice like grip. He had let her spin around but was still holding her roughly by the arms. That, however, didn't last long. Just as soon as he had spun her around, he had flung her back into her original, more secure position.

"See this Clark? See what I have? Now why don't you tell me the truth?"

"Let her go" he said trying hard to sound dangerous even though he probably wasn't. The pain was unbearable.

"That all depends on you Clark. What do you want the outcome to be. Remember we forge our own paths. But in your case, you forge her path." He emphasized the word her and ran a finger down Chloe's cheek.

"There isn't anything to tell you Lex." Clark pleaded.

"Is that true?" Lex asked Chloe threateningly.

"You bastard!" she spat. "Let him go. He's telling the truth."

"Now why don't I believe you?" Lex growled.

"Your never going to win this Lex. We'll find away out of here one way or another. I wouldn't tell you anything even if there was something to tell. But I'll say it again. There's not." She yelled at him.

"Wrong answer" Lex whispered only loud enough for Chloe to hear. Or and so he thought. Clark's super hearing was still in tact enough to make it out. He made a motion to speak against Lex but before he or Chloe knew it, Lex had pulled a knife from his pocket. It seemed to come out of no where.

"Why don't you try again?" Lex yelled, holding the blade vertically at Chloe's cheek. She managed to turn and spit in his face.

"Chloe NO!" Clark managed to shout but it was to late. Lex brought down the knife hard against her face from her right cheek bone to her lower lip. Blood began to gush from it. It wasn't deep enough to cause major damage but enough to hurt like hell.

Chloe screamed out in pain and tried to surge forward and away from Lex's grip enough to nurse her cut. He still held her tight though, and she fell back limp against his grip. He lifted her up for a minuet to reaffirm his grip. Hot tears flooded her cheeks. She tried to hold them in but it was sort of involuntary. Like when someone puts an onion to your eye. But she made sure not to make any crying noises. She didn't want him to get pleasure out of it. Then she began thinking maybe that meant she should hold back any more screams later on as well. She didn't think this was going away anytime soon. Things would certainly get worse before they got better.

"You should be thankful that was all." Lex growled, clearly fuming at his lack of getting anywhere in his mission for answers. Clark face had paled from the initial shock but now he was regaining his anger.

"Now I'll ask you again. What's going on with Clark. I'm starting to get inpatient Chloe." He jeered at her.

"And I'll ask you. What would your mother think if she saw how horrible you've become. I bet you have her spinning in her grave right now Alexander." She shot at him, venom dripping from the last word.

This was clearly the wrong thing to say. Then again it was Chloe, and Chloe had a way of putting her foot in her mouth. Almost on a daily basis.

"Lex LEAVE HER ALONE!" Clark screamed, voice full more of fear, then anger.

It was way to late. Lex threw her against the wall with all his might. Which Chloe soon found out was a lot, especially when angry. He stomped over to her and picked her up by her hair, Clark screaming all the while.

"LEX STOP! PLEASE, PLEASE! LET HER GO. STOP!"

After grabbing a handful of blond hair and bringing Chloe to her knees, Lex flung her again. This time to the ground in the middle of the room. She skidded a little. He continued to come at her. She scrambled back on her butt, almost crab like trying to get away. Lex resemble a bit of a bear who had just been kicked. Hard. She wasn't covering as much ground as she had hoped and flopped onto her belly trying to get away. When Lex had flung her she had landed strangely onto her foot, and was now unable to stand up fast enough, so she settled for the crawling thing. She didn't get very far though, and when Lex caught up to her he grabbed her foot causing her to fall from her knees and flat on her stomach. She kept flailing, hoping upon all hope to get away. He bent down and kept pulling on her foot. Furthermore, her bad foot. He flipped her over onto her back and straddled her, sitting right on her stomach, making it impossible for her to get away.

"Ow. OW! Lex stop that hurts. PLEASE!" She screamed as Clark kept flinging himself around against his hand cuffs. He growled in anger and fury at not being able to get to his friend in time.

"Damn it Lex! When I get free I'll kill you! You hear me?" Clark was almost in shock at his own words. He knew he probably wouldn't kill Lex. He hated death no matter who. And he found it impossible to live with himself when people died. Especially someone who had been his friend for so long.

Lex continued to restrain Chloe who wasn't ceasing to struggle, even if it seemed she couldn't get away. She was definitely a fighter. He grasped at her failing arms, finally managed to get a grip on them. Once he had done so, he applied such a firm grip, it made Chloe scream. 'Damn' she thought to herself. She had tried not to give Lex the satisfaction, but she could practically feel the bruises forming.

"Ow ow!" She yelled while trying to loosen his grip. Her efforts were futile.

"Sorry Chloe!" He yelled at her, not at all sorry. "You should know by now to keep your mouth shut! Don't you ever talk about my mother!"

Apparently today was a day Chloe was finding it hard to keep her mouth shut. She just wasn't rational when it came to Clark. In reality she really didn't know anything. She knew Clark had secrets that he kept hidden, and that he had a dark side. She had encountered that first hand. Nevertheless, she harbored deep feelings for him and would never do anything to put him in danger. She could have told Lex the truth. That she didn't know about Clark, or that she had seen him in Metropolis and only knew that he had been doing bad things. She could have played along in Lex's twisted game and turned on Clark, demanding him to tell her and Lex the truth. She may have saved herself by doing that. But as she saw it, doing exactly what she was doing was saving Clark. If she had got herself out of this mess then Lex would have been over with Clark torturing him instead. At least she was distracting him somewhat, and saving Clark physical pain. Although knowing Clark, it was just as hard for him to sit there helpless watching Chloe get tortured.

"I'll talk about whoever the hell I want to!" She retorted.

Lex punched her hard on the face, opposite her cut. He punched her in the eye. He grabbed her by the throat and squeezed. He had no intention of killing her. Yet anyways. But she had talked about his mother, the only person he had ever truly loved. He was finding ever possible way to hurt her now, without killing her.

Chloe didn't scream, and stopped pleading. She only continued to fight. To struggle against Lex's iron grip. He wasn't the tiniest thing ever either, and his weight on her stomach/chest was slowly deflating any trace of air left in her lungs as she struggled both to get away, and for air.

He put his face down, very close to hers, hands still on her neck.

"You just don't learn do you?" he breathed on her face.

Her eyes searched his face for any part of his former self. She found none.

"What can I say? You hurt Clark, I hurt you." she stated firmly, courage still very much in tact.

"Too bad I'm not that easily hurt. Nice try though. You on the other hand... aren't going to be so lucky."

Still having her hand in his grasp, by the wrist, he squeezed it hard. He put it up close to her face as she whimpered, still trying with reckless abandon. He shoved her hand next to her eye.

"Look at it!" he demanded. It was turning purple rapidly. "This doesn't take much. You'll break like glass if I want you to!"

He punched her again.

"Lex STOP" Clark tried again. He was weakening with every second while exposed to the kyrptonite. He was losing his ability to yell, but his head was still screaming. He was starting to lose consciousness and if he was passed out, how was he suppose to help Chloe? He couldn't fight it anymore and passed out, but not before throwing up on the ground, his last image of Chloe lying on the ground, pinned underneath Lex Luthor.

Chloe looked up to notice Clark had fallen unconscious on his seat. Lex continued to hit her. Not only with his hands but with words. He began telling Chloe things like "just give up you know Clark doesn't love you. You don't owe him anything" or "hows it feel being second to Lana Lang all the time?" Chloe tried to keep the tears from falling but it was certainly a difficult task.

About five minuets later Clark began to come around. He tried focusing his vision. It took him a minuet and a lot of effort. As soon as he succeeded, the first thing he saw was Lex and Chloe, just as they were before he had slipped into the darkness.

"Oh God!" he thought. "How long have I been out and what have I missed?"

He watched in horror. He was surprised to see that Chloe continued to fight fiercely, as much as she had started out. Then he heard Lex growl. It seemed that they had resorted to sitting there, trading insults. And he got the feeling that Chloe had just gotten the last word. Which was not a good thing.

Lex pulled his knife back out and pushed it against her neck.

"Come on Lex! Kill me! Do it! You'll never know what you want to know." She mocked.

Clark screamed as Lex reached out and jabbed the knife into Chloe arm with major force.

"AHHH!" She screamed. It was the most painful scream Clark had ever heard.

"What some more?" Lex yelled right in her face. "Come on I know you want more!" he screamed.

She stopped struggling for the time being and rolled, as much as being pinned under Lex had aloud her to roll, and gasped in pain. Then Chloe gave into the darkness.

Lex removed himself from her limp form.

"Lex..." Clark managed to choke out. "Please. Don't hurt her anymore!" His head lolled to one side. Lex stepped forward and placed a meteor rock in Clark's pocket. Being already weak, Clark gave out instantly and fell into unconsciousness again.