Chapter five
Lex drove to the town where Chloe had moved to he wanted to see her and he wanted to do it unexpectedly. He was going to try to run into her that way it didn't look suspicious. Once he was there he got out and started walking around the town. He didn't know where Chloe lived or where she worked he was just going to go around and try to spot her. He walked around for a few minutes and didn't see her so he got in his car and tried the next part of town. He saw a blonde enter a building so he parked and followed her in not knowing if it was her or not.
When he got in there were kids running everywhere. He looked for the blonde head he saw before and he found her he was a few inches behind her when he saw her stop and talk to a lady that worked there.
"He was good today like always. Such a happy baby you have." The lady smiled as she handed the woman a child.
Lex thought he would take the chance and call out her name. "Chloe?" Lex came up closer to the woman and watched as she turned around and he looked at the woman he hadn't seen in a year.
"Lex what are you doing here?" Chloe was extremely shocked her eyes were wide as she held the child in her arms.
"I could ask you the same question." Lex looked at the baby that Chloe held in her arms. "So what you take off and go have some other guy's kid?" The words came out harsh and he watched as Chloe grimaced at him.
"Not here Lex alright if you want to talk to me then you can come to my place. But not if you are going to be like this." Chloe started to walk past him the child in her arms and started out the door.
"I'm sorry where do you live?" He had caught up to her and in his body he was feeling great anger that some other man had touched Chloe that some other man had been with her and it made him ache inside.
"Follow me home." Chloe went out to her car and put the baby in the car seat and watched as Lex got into his car. She didn't want him here but now she didn't have a choice. Chloe got in and Lex followed her to her small apartment.
Chloe got out and picked up the baby and then she tried getting the bag and missed. Lex came over and got the bag for her. Chloe didn't say anything as she made her way to her apartment with him following her. Chloe unlocked her door and pushed it open and walked into the living room. Lex followed her in and closed the door he stood next to the door and waited.
"Lex you can have a seat I have to take care of him for a bit." Chloe took off down the small hallway and entered a bedroom.
Lex looked around the tiny apartment there were pictures of Chloe and the baby on the entertainment center. He looked for any trace of a man living here with them he couldn't see any but that didn't mean anything. He walked over to the couch and sat down when he did he landed on something hard. He pulled the small rattle out from underneath him and set it next to him.
Chloe was changing the baby's diaper and watched as he smiled at her and she smiled back at him. Getting another diaper ready knowing how he liked to try and get her sometimes. She put the diaper on him and watched as he started to close his eyes. So she laid him down in the crib and turned on his music maker. She then left the room and closed the door behind her.
When she walked into the living room and looked at Lex sitting on the couch she knew he had a million questions to ask her. She sat in the chair across from him and looked at him.
"You shouldn't have come here Lex." Chloe looked at him she hadn't wanted him to come looking for her she just wanted to live her life without him.
"Why not Chloe I missed you and I never got a call or anything you said that things weren't permanent but they were Chloe they still are! Tell me something does he live here with you?" Lex was angry and he wasn't about to hide it he wanted answers.
"Lex please he is sleeping and how can you just come here and start assuming things?" Chloe looked at him never once had he asked how she was doing or about the baby the only things he cared about was who she was seeing.
"I got pictures of you Chloe going to a club with some guy do you want to tell me who he was?" Lex looked at her he had the proof she couldn't get around this.
"Not that it is any of your business Lex but he is my co worker okay and we hang out sometimes that is it there is nothing more." Chloe looked at Lex she was pissed he still thought he could be in control of everything.
"Then who the hell is that kid's father?" Lex looked at Chloe he was sick of this he wanted answers and he wanted them now.
Chloe looked at Lex she dropped her head into her hands and she looked at Lex again. "Could you stop thinking that I was with someone and maybe think that he could be yours? But no Lex you can't think that because obviously I had to do something wrong when I left you. Yeah I went and got knocked up by some other guy when I was fucking depressed and stayed in a room all day long. I sure had time to go find someone to get me pregnant right?" Chloe looked at him she got up and went over to the sink and started washing out the baby bottles and other dishes.
Lex waited a few minutes before going over near Chloe and looking at her. "He's mine." He whispered to her.
"No Lex he is ours." Chloe turned and looked at him tears were streaming down her cheeks.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Lex looked at Chloe he was talking lower knowing that the baby was his eased his mind some.
"I don't know Lex because I had just left you and I was scared. You never think of anything as a whole you only think about yourself I didn't want you to become a father without being ready." Chloe turned back around and started to scrub more dishes knowing that he was going to get mad again.
"Chloe I would have helped you and how can you say that I am not fit to be a dad?" He was bewildered how Chloe could even think that he wouldn't have helped her.
"I didn't say that Lex I just said that you need to take more time to be a father than you had. I'm sorry I shouldn't have kept him from you but Lex you haven't asked me his name or how we are. All you cared about was if I was seeing someone." Chloe was hurt and tears were in her eyes again.
Lex turned he knew that he had barged in here asking her if she had been with someone else and he had never even asked how she was. "Where is the bathroom?"
"Down the hall first door on the right." Chloe told him.
Lex walked down the hallway and turned and looked behind him making sure Chloe wasn't following him. He went to the door to the left and walked into the room. He looked at the sleeping child in the crib. He went over and carefully picked him up trying not to wake him. He stroked his hair which was brown and he looked into his face. He could see that the child had some features that looked like him. If only he had looked harder the first time he had seen the child.
The baby woke up in his arms and he could see the familiar eyes he had seen them so many times when he looked at Chloe. The child didn't recognize him and he started to fuss. Lex tried to calm him down and he tried to rock him but that only made things worse and the child started to scream.
Chloe dropped the plate she was washing and ran into the baby's room. She looked at Lex holding the child. "What are you doing?"
Lex jumped he hadn't heard Chloe come in. "I just wanted to see him."
Chloe came over to Lex and took the child in her arms. He immediately stopped crying and smiled at his mother. "Don't do that Lex he isn't used to you." Chloe looked down at her baby and she started out of the room.
"Maybe he would be if you hadn't kept him from me." Lex called after her.
"Don't start with me Lex Luthor." Chloe went into the kitchen and got a bottle out while holding the baby in one arm. She poured the formula into it and added water she had boiled. She then went over to the couch and started to feed him. "There that is better." Chloe smiled at the baby while he sucked down his formula.
Lex looked at Chloe he couldn't believe she was doing this to him. If she thought that he was just going to leave without coming back to see his son she was sadly mistaken. "Chloe I'm sorry I just rushed to a conclusion. Can you just tell me what my I mean our son's name is?" He looked at Chloe.
"Logan, Logan Alexander Luthor." Chloe looked at Lex she shook her head at him she hated the fact that Lex wanted to control everything but he couldn't control her or the baby she wouldn't let him.
"You named him after me?" Lex was shocked he couldn't believe that after the way Chloe had left that she had named him after him.
"You are his father. There is no denying that he looks too much like you." Chloe took the bottle away from the baby and she started to burp him. He let out a few big ones before Chloe took him off her shoulder and fed him again.
"Well I thank you for that. Where did you learn all this?" Lex looked at Chloe he never knew that she knew how to be a mom so well.
"I read a lot of children magazines. Got help from some people at my job." Chloe looked at her son who was growing tired again he was starting to rub his eyes and he didn't want his bottle anymore. "Here he likes to be held a certain way. That is how he could tell you were someone different."
Chloe walked over to Lex and place his arms how he should have them with one hand. Then she placed Logan on Lex's hands and she looked at the two of them. She had never wanted Lex to not have a part in their child's life but she wasn't sure he would make a good one. She wanted to be sure before she just handed Logan to Lex. She didn't want Lex giving Logan off to some nanny like Lex's father had him.
Lex watched as Logan fell asleep in his arms. He made little gurgles every now and then.
"How old is he?" He looked back up at Chloe.
"He is 3 months and two days." Chloe smiled for the first time at Lex he actually seemed to be interested.
"You know that now I can't stay away." Lex looked at Chloe it was true he couldn't stay away from them now.
"I know but that doesn't mean that anything has changed between you and me." Chloe wanted to make things clear she was in no way entitled to Lex anymore she had her own life and she could live it her own way.
"I know but I am not going to abandon Logan." He looked down at the sleeping baby and gently rubbed his cheek.
"I don't want you to. He needs you in his life." She looked at the sleeping child and she remembered crying over him some nights missing Lex.
"How do you want this to work?" Lex had to work and Chloe lived a long way from his work and it would be hard to get over here to see his son.
"I don't want you alone with him if that is what you are asking at least not yet. You need to understand how to be a parent I don't want him shoved off to some nanny so he will never see you." She didn't trust Lex enough with their child. She was extremely protective over him after someone had tried to steal him. She also didn't want Logan to never see his father and be left with some nanny.
"What do you think that I am going to steal him or something? Because I wouldn't do that to you." Lex hoped that Chloe hadn't thought about that because he could take Logan away from her he had the power to do so.
"I know you wouldn't do that. I just want you to learn how to take care of a baby before you can be alone with him that is all." She looked at Lex with gentle eyes.
"I understand. Do you want to put him back in his room?" Lex looked at Chloe he knew that he did need to be taught how to care for a baby he understood her reasoning.
"Yeah you can."
Lex stood up carefully and went into Logan's room he gently laid the baby in his crib and then he closed the door behind him. He went back over to where Chloe was and he looked at her. "I'm sorry about everything that has happened between us Chloe." Lex wanted to touch her and show her that he still loved that he would do anything to keep her in his life.
"It's in the past Lex." She tried not to let her emotions show she was still in love with Lex but who wouldn't be. He had done terrible things and she knew that somehow she could never forgive him for that.
"I killed a man Chloe I never meant for that to happen he attacked me with his knife. I turned it and I didn't know. I didn't know that it was going to go through him and pierce his heart if I would have known I wouldn't have done that. But I can't take it back Chloe I want to but I can't." Lex knew that she only just said that it was in the past he knew the truth that she was mad at him for killing a man for holding all of the meteor freaks for holding her mother.
"What about everyone else Lex what about my mother?" Chloe looked at him tears were in her eyes. After Chloe had left Lex, Lex had put her mom back in the mental hospital. She came back without a scratch but Chloe didn't believe that nothing had happened to her.
"Chloe I never meant for her to come there my associates brought them all there. I was trying to make them stop. The man that I killed was the one who brought most of them there. He wanted to make an army and control them experiment on them. He was after us Chloe he was after you and me somehow he found out that we both had meteor rock in our systems. I went there to make sure he didn't hurt you." Lex looked at Chloe he had never gotten the chance to tell her before.
"Why didn't you tell me that before I left?" Chloe looked at him maybe if he had told her all of this then she wouldn't have of gotten as mad.
"You were upset I didn't think you would listen and even if I had told you that I didn't think you would believe me." He looked at Chloe he wanted her to know that he had gone there because he didn't want them to touch her. He hadn't known about it before he had gotten an email that Chloe was in danger.
"How did you find out?" Chloe hoped that Lex wasn't making up a story yet again and she looked at him.
"I got an email that you were in danger I got a few people to tell me what was going on. All those people on 33.1 were released after I saw what they were doing you just never gave me a chance to tell you that either. It took awhile for some of them like your mom. I tried to hurry up the process but it moved slowly." Lex looked down at his hands if only he hadn't tried to be a part of 33.1 in the first place.
"Who sent the tape?" Chloe still didn't understand she didn't understand how the tape had made him look so bad.
"I don't know I tried to hide it from you I didn't want it to worry you not when I was handling it." Lex closed his eyes that had been another mistake not letting Chloe in on things.
"You should have told me about the tape and about all this then maybe it would be different." Chloe looked at him she didn't know anymore she didn't know if she had known what Lex had just told her that things would be different that she might still be with him. That she would have married him and then they would have Logan and they would live a great life together.
"I know I'm sorry I guess I was just on my own so long it is hard to let people in." Lex knew that it was one of his problems that he needed to solve he needed to trust Chloe with his work.
"You wanted to marry me Lex and you didn't even trust me. You can't marry someone without trust. I am not saying that I was perfect either because I didn't trust you either." Chloe looked at him she knew he hadn't realized that she hadn't trusted him and she knew from the shocked look on his face that he hadn't known about it.
"What do you mean? I mean I know I needed to trust you more but you didn't trust me? You told me everything." Lex looked at her he couldn't believe that she hadn't trusted him.
"Not everything I didn't tell you the way I felt when you were downstairs with Lana. When I saw the two of you on the couch that one day. I didn't trust you with any woman. I felt my self grow angry when you were near some crazed person who was hitting on you." Chloe looked at him she had never told him that never told him that she felt the same way when it came to the opposite sex being near him like it angered him also.
"Chloe you have to know that I would never cheat on you and that time with Lana. I wasn't about to let anything happen. Lana isn't my type you were, you still are. My feelings for you have never changed. I have always wanted you with me. I don't want to lose you." Lex looked at Chloe still afraid to touch her.
"It's getting late. You can come back tomorrow." Chloe looked at Lex she couldn't keep him here anymore. She wanted to kiss him so bad that it was hard to contain her self.
"Alright I will get a hotel room. Night Chloe." Chloe showed Lex to the door and watched him leave.
"Goodnight Lex." She told him as she watched him go.