MAKE DAMN SURE- Chapter 5

Hi Everyone! I am so pleased by the number of reviews I have had! Your interest keeps me going! Now, this chapter finds our heroine and hero the morning after but, before their next meeting. It is mostly filler. Sorry. More CHLEX in the next chapter as Chloe comes to a startling realization and decides that she needs Lex...'s help. I am such a tease.

Disclaimer: I want Lex to be mine. But he's not. In fact, none of this is mine.

Chloe Sullivan woke up to an extreme amount of sunlight and the familiar feeling that her body and head had been filled with lead.

'Oh God! I am never drinking that much again…..ugh!'

She then realized that her hangover was the only thing that she could place. Where she was and what she was doing there were somewhat harder.

'What happened last night? Who's bed is this? Am I….wearing…a…man's shirt? WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO LAST NIGHT SULLIVAN!?'

Chloe sat straight up in the extremely large and comfy bed that she was currently residing in and scanned her surroundings for clues. The room itself was about as big as her apartment. And it had even bigger windows and ceilings.

'Wait…those are the tops of buildings…..'

Chloe got out of bed and gratefully noticed that she still had on her underwear and bra.

'Okay, so maybe not too frisky last night.'

She made her way to the glass wall that seemed to be impersonating a window. She pressed her fingertips against it lightly and stepped up to the view it held.

'Oh wow. I can see all of Metropolis from here. This must be a penthouse. But who's? Come on, Sullivan. Think!'

As she turned away from the breathtaking panorama of Metropolis, Chloe began fingering the buttons on her shirt.

'Nice shirt. Silk? And purple, too…..I always liked that color. Had to stop wearing it when Lex moved to………LEX! LAST NIGHT! SHIT!'

As the events of the evening before came rushing back to her, Chloe felt equal amounts of anger, confusion, and embarrassment.

'The things I said! The things HE said! I have to get out of here!'

Chloe began frantically searching for her things but, as anyone with a hangover knows, sudden movements bring only pain and nausea. She rushed to the door on her left, hoping with ever fiber of her being that a bathroom lay behind it. After she released the remains of the night in a most unladylike fashion- crouched over the toilet bowl with hands clutching the sides- Chloe splashed some cold water on her face and noticed her things neatly piled on the shelf by the door.

She quickly dressed and, because her outfit screamed 'I JUST HAD A ONE NIGHT STAND' and she really didn't want anyone thinking that she had done that, Chloe threw the silk shirt on over the dress and made her way out of Lex's penthouse.

"Mr. Luthor?"

"It's 8 o'clock on a Saturday morning, Mercy! What is it?"

"A Miss Chloe Sullivan just left the building, sir. She is leaving in a taxi as we speak."

"I told you to keep an eye on her and report to me when she began moving around! How the hell did she get passed security!?."

"She seemed to know where the cameras were located, sir. I am sorry. Will you be able to make the appointment you have with your trainer? He will be in the gym at 9 am. He's planning a boxing match."

"No, Mercy. I will not. Cancel all appointments for today. I have something to do today."

"I will see to it, Mr. Luthor. Do you want the car brought around?"

"No, I will be by myself today."

Lex hung up the phone and pressed a button on the side of his nightstand. The thick curtains that had previously covered both of the wall sized windows in his corner bedroom began parting, letting bright sunlight into the room.

'Shit.She left.'

'Isn't that what you wanted, Lex old-boy?'

'No. Yes. I don't know.'

'Poor little Lex….did a certain blonde reporter get under your skin? Again?'

Lex couldn't answer his inner voice. It was true. Chloe Sullivan had gotten under his skin. She intrigued him. She was intelligent, driven, determined, courageous, beautiful, and she wasn't afraid of the information she had on him.

'Of course, you don't know how much information she has. She is still a reporter, Lex. You can't trust her.'

Lex leaped out of bed. He needed to find Chloe. He just wasn't sure why yet.

And there it is. A filler chapter before the next action packed one. And then...romance. sigh