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A/N: This Chap is dedicated Vagrant Dream! Happy Birthday girl! You rock! I totally wrote this for you so I hope you like it. And have a Chlavislicous Birthday!
A/N2: From KJ my sis: Hey guys I usually don't do this on Sally's fics, but I'm doing this on this chap for two reasons. 1) That this chap is for the awesome Vagrant Dream happy birthday! 2) For everybody else and Vagrant Dream, you guys are gonna LOVE the chap! I died happy when I read this! Enjoy!
A/N3: Blushes. Well thanks KJ and KJ is my Beta on this. So here it is.
Chloe have had dinner with George, Davis, Andrea, and their parents. Their Dad seemed a bit closed off and interesting.
The next day Chloe had to get ready for school. She couldn't put her whole life on hold because of the intergang. She couldn't miss too much class and who knew when this would end. She had to keep up with her school. She always had ton of crazy stuff going on but she always some how managed to keep up with school. This time couldn't be any different. Both Davis and George agreed she should still go to school their only problem was her safety and George insisted that Davis go with her every where to protect her. Chloe wasn't exactly happy about having an extension. And she argued that the intergang weren't likely to be hanging around a college but George insisted. Davis seemed to have a small argument with his brother. That seemed to happen a lot with them. Chloe hoped it wasn't because of her but she was afraid it was.
Chloe had gotten everything ready and Davis had called the admissions office and registered himself as auditing Chloe's classes for the time being. He could be very charming when he wanted to be. Chloe smiled as his smooth talk convinced the admissions office. Chloe had a feeling who ever he was talking to was a girl.
Davis followed Chloe around like a perfect gentlemen. It wasn't following really as it was standing by her waiting to be of assistance. When they arrived in her dorm room to get her books he waited politely to be invited in. Then he mosied in and was taken back by her wall of weird. He looked at it and examined every picture looking at it intently. Then he said,
"Wow. This is wow. Like the weird much."
Chloe shrugged her shoulders and looked at Davis intrigued and kind of pleased. She always loved explaining her passions to people most of the time people thought she was strange for having such a strange passion for weird things. In a way she supposed it was her own ability.
"I guess so. I guess I can't help but be fascinated by the strange and abnormal and want to show how a lot of it's connected."
"Connected?"
"Well most of these strange people have gotten their powers through the me…"
"The meteor of course." Davis said almost thinking to himself.
"You know about the meteor and the meteor shower."
"Me and George were staying at foster home in Smallville for a short time. It didn't last long it wasn't long after that until he was adopted and I ran away."
Chloe put her hand on his shoulder, "That must have been hard for you."
"I'm a survivor." Davis said.
"I can see that. So you were in Smallville huh? It's my home town. Did you like it much?"
"I never really got much of a chance to see the good things the good stuff about Smallville. I ran into a couple of well…they weren't nice and George did his research on them he said there was a local reporter who had this theory about the meteor infected the people in a strange way he thought that's what…" He stopped in midsentence and looked at Chloe's glowing smiling intrigued face.
He then took a deep intake of breath he had to remind himself to breath around her and he had to remind himself to not spill every detail about himself. She maybe used to the weird and strange but he was a murderer how could she ever accept that?
Then he said, "Sorry, now is not the time for my life story. We better get to your class."
Chloe nodded and said, "Well Davis Bloome. Are you ready to discover the vast world of journalism?"
"As long as I'm with you I'm willing to explore anything." Davis said and then he realized how dreamy and really clingy that sounded so he added, "You know because I have to be there to protect you from the intergang."
Chloe smiled and bit her lip and said, "Of course let's go."
Davis carried Chloe's books proudly as they walked to her class. He didn't care how silly he looked he got some kind of satisfaction out of serving her and making things easier for her. Davis felt a peace around Chloe. He felt a warmth that he never really felt before. He felt nervous and sure of himself at the same time and he wondered how exactly that contradiction was possible. He felt like a whole different person with her. He felt like his life before her was some strange dream, well a nightmare really and now he was finally awake.
As she sat in the front in her class he took an empty seat beside her and couldn't help but study her as she excitedly took notes like her professors words were candy. He couldn't help but give a small chuckle every time she asked her professor another relentless question and he couldn't help but laugh when she made her professor sweat when he didn't know the answer. He had a feeling this was bit of a routine for her and that she was used to making people nervous. It was hilarious. For a while there he felt calm and at ease and he almost forgot all about his haunted past and about what he was. For a little while he didn't feel like a monster, he felt like a regular guy in a journalism class studying a beautiful girl.
The rest of the day he had took some notes but mostly his notes were on her and her affect on people and mostly her affect on him. That was why he was here after all, to investigate her, to see what kind of power she had over him. He was here discovering just what was up with this one girl who had this calming affect on him. He wondered if it was her perfume. She smelled of strawberries and sunshine today but last night she was wearing a different perfume so that couldn't be it. Was it her laugh? Did the sound waves of her soft tone do something to the chemistry in his brain to make a calming affect on him? He really had to figure it out. Maybe he'd take a lock of her hair to figure it out it could be something in her DNA that next to his wrong DNA that kept him calm and head ache free and not a monster. Maybe she had some type of meteor power to calm monsters. What ever it was he was devoted to figuring it out.
After they were finished with her classes she went to the Daily Planet. They quickly went to the cafeteria and grabbed something to go. She said it was her routine she was always eating on the go. She always lived a pretty busy life. There was always something going on. Then as they arrived at the planet she was met with two girls. One had long dark raven black hair another had long light brown hair. They both gawked at Chloe and Davis having some kind of secret girl smiles on their face. That's the smile girls got when they were just laughing and talking about boys.
Chloe had that intrigued smile on her face again and she said, "Hey guys why are you camping at my desk."
"What?" Lois asked.
"Can't we visit our favorite reporter with out any ulterior motives? Oh who is this?" Lois asked a little obvious.
Then Chloe gave Lois a look and said, "Lois, Lana this is Davis Bloom, Davis this is my cousin Lois Lane and my roommate Lana Lang."
"Nice to meet you both. Any friend of Chloe's is a friend."
Then Lois with an ooooh guy candy smile said, "Lucky us."
Then Chloe said, "Uh Davis can you get me a coffee from the machine? It's just around the corner over there."
"Sure my pleasure." Then Davis was off.
Then Chloe said, "Alright girls what's going on?"
Then Lana said, "Well there's gossip."
"Gossip really? What kind?" Chloe asked.
"The Chloe has a new boyfriend following her around variety." Lana said.
"Lana you know that's not true. I told you about Davis and George it's all about a story their just protecting me from the intergang." Chloe said innocently.
"Right," Lois said. "So is he going to help you investigate?"
"Are you going to go under cover?" Then Lana asked.
Then Lois said, "Wait have you already gone under the covers if so as your cousin you owe me details?"
"Guys relax George and Davis are just helping me with a story and protecting me that's it. No funny business it's all very professional."
Lois and Lana hung there heads kind of bummed that they weren't going to get anything juicy.
Then Chloe got her self situated in her chair and turned on her computer and said, "Especially after last night when I kissed George and found out he had a girlfriend."
Both of the girls practically squealed with excitement finally getting some juicy news.
"What? Details, details." Lois said.
"Well nothing me and George were just doing some research."
"Research." Lana and Lois said at the same time in a yeah right kind of manner.
Then Chloe sighed and treaded on, "Then we kissed and his girlfriend and Davis walked in and that was it."
Then Lois said, "Chloe you are a writer I was expecting better details then that."
"Well that's all you're getting. Anyway I can't even think of Davis like that after I kissed George. It's just too slutty. I'm not a slut. I can't just…anyway it's better all three of us keep it all very professional."
"Right." Lois said.
Then he was on his way with her coffee. Chloe smiled and said, "Thanks."
Then she sipped her coffee and said, "Hmm it's just how I like it."
"Well it's how you got it the other day when we were waiting at the station."
"Oh." Chloe said smiling dreamily.
Then she saw Lana and Lois smirks, they were enjoying themselves a little too much.
"OK guys I have a lot of work to do. So if you don't mind."
"No problem we can take a hint you two get back to your professional journalism." Lois said putting special emphasis on "professional" and "journalism".
Chloe just looked at her drink and started playing with it and said, "See you later."
"Later and don't forget about that research." Lana said and Lois was about to say something even more embarrassing and blatant but Lana pulled her by her arm and led her out of there.
Then Chloe went to Davis and said, "Sorry about them."
"No need to apologize they seem nice."
"Oh so do you like them or one of them?" Chloe asked meekly.
"Oh well they're alright. I think the best thing about them is they clearly care about you." Davis said causing Chloe to blush.
Then she started to get to work. She had a lot to write about with all of the research she did with George the other day. As Chloe went through and started writing about all that she already found out. Davis asked her if he could go through some of her older stories and files and to see if there was anything in her old files or her old stories that could help them with intergang. Chloe didn't see how but she gave him full reign and handed over her lab top to him. She didn't think anything of it at first. It was so easy just handing her lives work to him and any files on Clark were secure and doubly password protected. It was just so easy with him being around him. She had to remind herself that he had a dark past there was something mysterious about him. It wasn't just this nice hot guy who was charming and friendly and paid so much undivided attention to her. She noticed he barely looked at Lana and Lois. She had to remind herself that she wasn't falling for him and feeling at ease with him. She would not let Lana and Lois win and let words like "research" and "professionalism" turn into dirty words. She would not be some slut who kisses one brother one day and another brother the next. She would not be that girl.
So she continued with her actual research and went through her notes and George's notes that George gave her. She started writing and tried to stay into the writing zone where everything escapes her and there's nothing but her writing and the story but Davis' dimples and his dark milky chocolate eyes were making that rather difficult. Damn those perfect dimples. He sat on the other side of her desk going through all of the files on her lab top concentrating on it intently being perfectly interested and his eyes glowed they lit up. He looked like he was reading something very interesting. He looked really awed and touched.
Chloe was curious to what exactly what he was reading what was it? Why was he so interested was it a particular story? She wanted to find out but it would be rude to look over his shoulder. So she simply hacked into her own laptop from her computer. What? She was just curious. And how is it rude to hack into her own computer? The story he was reading had a picture of Chloe and it was her article she wrote about the homeless when she was at the Daily Planet as a teen columnist. Chloe was kind of filled with pride when she saw the article he was reading and looking at the awed note of respect look on his face. She remembered writing about this article. She reflected about the homeless having meeting a homeless man herself wondering about the homeless and how he got there.
Chloe got out of her awe at Davis' awe. Enough of that. She knew Davis had it extremely tough living on the streets. He did what he had to, to survive. She kind of was holding that against him. So far he hasn't done anything unscrupulous he was the perfect gentlemen. So what if the intergang was afraid of him? That's a good thing right? It doesn't make him a bad guy. It was quite admirable actually being able to survive on the streets and then be able to pick himself up from his bootstraps and become a paramedic. Chloe couldn't help but fawn over him.
After she was done with that they were about to leave the Daily Planet when Clark arrived. Then Clark stopped and stared at Davis giving him a look of death. This whole over protective thing was beginning to get bothersome. The really bothersome part was the way Davis was looking at Clark. He had a fierce look at him like he was already defending himself.
Then Clark said, "Chloe what's going on? I thought George was protecting you?"
"Well Davis is protecting me too."
"Why don't you just let me take over then."
Chloe was about to speak but Davis interrupted and he said roughly, "I'm perfectly capable to protect Chloe myself Clint."
"The name is Clark." Clark said.
Davis put his hand on his head and he grabbed Chloe's hand and said, "Chloe."
Clark glared at him like he was about to hurt him and said, "Let go of her."
Then Chloe looked at Davis worried his eyes were getting red but the redness began to fade away as he held her hand. Then she said, "It's fine Clark. Davis. Are you ok?"
"Um," he looked at Chloe and then at Clark. Then he said, "Actually I'm not feeling so well. Can we please go home now?" He said this while staring deep in her emerald eyes and not looking at Clark. It felt better when he pretended that this Clark character didn't exist.
Chloe looked at Davis really concerned and she let her hand rest in his. Then she said, "Clark we got to go."
Then Clark protested but Chloe ignored him and she said, "Davis needs me and we still have a lot of work to do. I'll talk to you later."
Clark looked at her stunned as Chloe left with Davis hand in hand. They then went into the elevator holding hands. Davis leaned against the wall still holding Chloe's hand and feeling much better. He was afraid to let her go but he knew he should.
Then he let go of her hand said, "Thanks I think I'm ok now."
Then Chloe said, "Davis what happened there?"
"I was just having a bit of migraine but I guess it passed."
"That quickly?" Chloe asked.
"Davis your eyes turned red." Chloe said staring at him in all seriousness.
"Did they?" Davis said trying his hard to feign ignorance but he knew Chloe wasn't buying it.
Chloe pushed the emergency stop the elevator button and they both jolted. Then Chloe said, "What was that?"
Davis shrugged looking at the floor. She then touched his chin making him look at her. Her breath stopped as she saw his tender eyes there were tears. She didn't understand. She was trying to accuse him of something or at least get some kind of truth. There was definitely getting to the wall of weird territory she could feel it in her bones.
He looked down at her filled with such agony and gratefulness. He looked down at her and put her hand on her face and said, "You saved me."
Chloe took a big intake of breath. She had to remind herself to speak and she said, "How?"
He held her deep in his arms and he grabbed her hips pulling her close to him out of some kind of need and then he kissed her. Chloe was taken a back completely. All of her thought process just left her. She kissed him back out of sheer reflex and desire. It was full of emotion and intensity. She grazed her arms up his chest and then she pushed him against the elevator and then she kissed with such completeness she could hardly breathe. He kissed her requesting entry and she complied, she felt his tongue stroke deep caresses and she responded in kind. Then he spun them around and pushed her against the wall. They both were breathing hard gasping for breath.
He pulled back and he looked down at her like she had just saved him. Like through her kisses he was living some how. He caressed her cheek staring at her with pure desire. Chloe blushed thoroughly and then she was starting to breath again and regain her faculties. What was she doing? She couldn't be doing this.
"Davis we can't um this isn't the time or the place."
Davis breathed out hard gasping and said, "Right." As he gawked down at her cleavage he said,
"I was just doing a bit of research seeing what kind of affect you have on me. So far I like it."
Chloe then tugged on him and said, "Well if it's research."
They continued kissing fully and passionately there mouths caressing each other rapidly. Chloe felt the heat and the passion burning her hands lingered across his chest fiddling with his buttons on dark blue dress shirt.
Then the elevator opened and the tech guy opened it with Andrea just behind him pulling a mail cart and she said, "Wow, the girl's been busy."
