A/N: Thank you for all the wonderful reviews and I will update this and my others as often as possible.

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Chapter Two: Coming to an agreement

Chloe awoke still exhausted and angry because of the bright fluorescent lights that came on jolting her awake. The door swung open and her anger grew as Lex Luthor swept into the room his coat tails billowing behind him. "Good Morning My Sweet, I bring news from the outside world." Chloe Cringed when she heard the forced pet name as he tossed the news paper to her she felt the lump in her throat grow as she saw the date and realized that the man taking a seat in the uncomfortable metal chairs had taken six months of her life. "Oh by the way your Boyfriend what was his name, oh yeah Jimmy, He dumped you via e-mail, and moved to Philadelphia, Lois and Clark have begun dating, Oh and Lana moved back to Paris," Chloe noticed the hint of bitterness when he mentioned Lana, "And no one is looking for you because I sent them various vague e-mails by you detailing a story your running deep in some jungle."

That was the proverbial straw, her faith had dwindled in Clark the longer she had stayed there, and now she knew she'd never be able to get out if she didn't agree with him. "I want separate bedrooms, and I want to keep my job, I'll play the 'Loving Little Wife' in public. Why didn't you just forge my signature Lex?" she asked.

"I knew you'd go running as soon as we got outside and told your beloved farm boy."

"What makes you think I won't do that now."

"Several reasons but I believe the fact that your father would have a fatal accident may have something to do with it, and we have to share a room, it would be to suspicious if we didn't."

"I never thought you'd use your father's old material to blackmail me you really have gotten pathetic Lex." venom laced her voice as she spat that him.

He smirked at her and he then continued, "I will expect faithfulness, this will not be an open marriage."

"Well as you might know my dance card has been empty for pretty much my whole life, but I would have remained faithful anyway, and that is a two way street Lex, I don't want the whole of Metropolis to talk about how my 'husband' screws everything but me."

"I'm not that big of a cad Chloe," he said getting irritated at the blonde.

"Oh really then why is your jeweler having such a good year." she saw his jaw clench in anger and glee mixed with her anger. "Ok so I have hated you for, well quite awhile, and I've been here for six months, how in the hell are we going to explain since I can't tell people the real reason we are in this convoluted mess." she sat up straighter on the cot and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Chloe you've known me for a long time you should know by now that I have all the details planned out."

"Well do you care to explain all the details to me Lex." she watched him reach into his jacket pocket and pulled out a document from the inside pocket along with a felt tip pen and stepped a good foot away from her before saying, "Sign first."

"Scared I was going to stab you Lex," Chloe said as she signed the paper and handed it back to him.

"A man in my position can never be to careful."

"And yet you want us to sleep in the same bed." she quipped.

"I'll have guards posted."

"No need you're not worth going to prison for. Now care to explain everything to me honey." her curiosity was peaked and she wanted to know what he had come up with.

He smirked and knew he had her attention he began to explain, "Well the 'lead' you got on your 'story' first led you to Gotham where you had to come to a charity function and you saw me. We talked and discussed the past and most recent break-ups and I asked you out for coffee, and you declined-"

"Yet you being the obsessive freak that you are kept asking me, you're right I have known you a long time." Chloe interrupted him.

"Yes you are right I kept asking you for three weeks until you finally said yes to get me to leave you alone, then our coffee date turned into lunch, dinner, and a wonderful night on the town before we went home alone, I knew you wouldn't sleep with me after the first date especially given our past, so I didn't even ask. We were inseparable and careful to avoid the press because you wanted to tell everyone in person and I agreed, two weeks later we finally slept together." he stopped to give her time to process, and she is impressed with how much time he'd spent thinking about this.

"Great that's about one month there are five left unaccounted for Lex."

"Very well after that night we never left each other's sight for the past four months and then we got married by a justice of the peace as per your request, and we've spent the last month in Italy, on our Honeymoon both of us agreeing to go back one day, because we didn't see much outside my Italian villa." the look in his eyes told her the exact reason why and her skin crawled at the mere thought of Lex touching her, and she had to suppress a shudder. "I won't cut off Clark completely he'd grow suspicious if I did and I'll never tell you his secret."

"I know that Chloe besides I knew getting you to tell me his secret was a near impossibility, and you won't cut him out of your life completely you'll just not spend as much time as you once did."

"Great now can I please get out of Dante's third rung of hell." he smirked and led the way.