AN 1: First of all, thank you MercyFrost and Ica013 for reviewing. This is my first fic, guys and you were so so so helpful. Thank you LOADS!

AN 2: I am also really sorry that I couldn't upload earlier. There was a small error in the internet connection and I did all but break my PC. So I hope you'll forgive me…..

AN 3: (I'll stop my babble, this is the last AN)This is Tess Chappie two. Hope not to be killed, but this takes a TessXOC, Clois and Chlollie romance *covers from rotten tomatoes hurled at me*

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Chapter Two

When Tess came to the supermarket/mall, she paid the taxi cab and waked to an ATM machine. To stay in the shadows, paying with credit cards won't work. As she drew some money from her account, she felt suspicious and she kept looking around. People rushed to and fro, but didn't held her gaze for too long. But Tess was still a bit paranoid. It was genes, she couldn't help it. Pulling the hood over her already covered head, she walked into the mall.

She didn't know where Lex was, but Tess was going on a limb to say that he might be in the Luthor Mansion. Until she's ready and able to take revenge, overpowering him, she ought to stay in the shadows. She has to kill him, but first, she should learn to overpower him. And right now, she was weak.

She paid for some essentials and a bleach bottle, a pair of scissors, rope, dark shades and some dark clothes. The cashier joked that Tess looked like a serial killer. Oh, if only she knew. She walked outside and tried to hail a cab, when she saw a limo heading her way. It was black and very very familiar. Lex Luthor, Tess said to herself. She donned on the pair of dark shades and kept her head low. She didn't want anybody to notice her, especially Lex. She walked through the crowd, hoping that nobody would notice her. She had to be very careful.

As she turned in a corner, she accidently knocked on an iron pole. Regaining her consciousness, she looked up but noticed… cotton? Tess squinted her eyes, trying to figure out what was in front of her and noticed for her disgrace, Clark Kent, the man of steel.

"E-Excuse me" he stammered in his alter ego way and Tess was surprised to see that he had perfected his bumbling country boy persona. And he didn't recognize her, thankfully.

He quickly walked away, hunching down nerd-like. She smiled to herself, but quickly turned away and crossed the road. She got on a New York bus, and tried to stay unnoticed. But, luck wasn't apparently on her side, for the same reporter/detective guy sat next to her. She turned away to face the window and hoped that reporter boy would just get down from the next halt.

Meanwhile, in the Daily Planet, tall and pretty brunette, Lois Lane was busily typing away on her computer. She wanted a promotion, so bad, and she'd be dragging her under achieving fiancé all the way up with her. With a pencil tucked behind her ear, Lois smiled. Almost finished.

"Lo!" came a voice and Lois turned around to greet her baby cousin.

Chloe was looking tired and beat to the punch, and Lois didn't know why, but just looking at her cousin mad her tired.

"Lo, before you tell anything, I've got big news" Chloe held up her hand, knowing all about Lois's motor mouth and smart wits.

"Ok, if by big news you mean daily planet front page, I'm all up for it, cuz" Lois said.

"Uh… Front page?" Chloe looked uncertain, but jogged to keep up as Lois ran to the paper room, "Not exactly front page, but….. Something related to …. Our team…"

Lois turned around with a stack of papers to face Chloe. She narrowed her eyes and looked at her cousin. Our team?

"Tess is alive" Chloe said

"What?" asked Lois, hardly believing her ears.

"Well from your reaction, I know very well that you-"

"Chlo!"

"-Tess is alive" Chloe repeated, "I just met her, Lo"

"Wait, I thought that Lex…."

"No, I mean, yeah, I mean…. She's alive. Apparently, I had been her emergency contact, and that's why the hospital called me, saying that an unnamed female was found on the hospital grounds, bleeding to death"

"So, that means, that Lex couldn't finish what he started…. At the hospital grounds? Who brought her there?" asked Lois.

"Well, somebody who cared for her" Chloe stated the obvious.

"But not that much" Lois said almost to herself, "Shall we call the superhero contacts? O Clarkie!" sing-songed Lois, as her fiancé, Clark Kent a.k.a The Blur, came down the stairs.

"Lois, I was… Chloe" he looked at his best friend in surprise, "What brings you here?"

"Smallville, it took you so long to come here and now you are so surprised that Chloe's here?" Lois asked, with her arms crossed against her chest.

Chloe tried hard not to laugh as Clark covered from the glare his fiancée was aiming and said in a whiny tone, "But, I super-sped"

"You've gotta watch those batteries" Lois said and Clark all but begged down at her feet in tears.

"Guys, hate to break it up" Chloe said, ignoring Clark's pleased look, "But confusing situation here"

"What's up, Chlo? Trouble in paradise?" asked Clark.

"Well, no, not this time" Chloe bit her lip, "But…"

"The world's going to end, Smallville. Lex didn't finish off something he wanted to" said Lois

Clark looked to and fro from the two cousins, wanting an explanation. The mention of Lex Luthor already had him in a dark mood.

"Clark, Tess is alive"

Tess woke up from the nightmare she had. She was sweating head-to-toe and it was still the afternoon. She swallowed the lump that had unconsciously formed in her throat and tried to lift her head. Stuck. Again. Tess turned around slowly and was met with a mass of brown hair smelling like mint.

Urgh!

The journalist guy was comfortably sleeping on her shoulder. Her shoulder. With two fingers, Tess tossed his head away from her shoulder, as the guy grunted and fell back to the other side, snoring lightly. Out of curiosity and boredom, Tess picked his bag and searched through the files he had. 'Billionaire Heiress, dead?', 'Tess Mercy never giving Mercy', 'Tess Mercer, the future of destruction'. Tess gasped. Who was this guy? She scanned the name below the article: Mike Fuller. Why did that name sound so familiar?

When the buss came to a stop at the halt, Tess quickly shoved the papers in the guys bag and picked up hers. She got down from the bus and started to walk towards a café. a coffee would do mighty good at this time of the day. Plus she was still a bit paranoid after the last nightmare she had.

"Hey, stop right there!" that guy's voice, "Why were you poking your nose into my articles?"

Tess froze, probably for the second time that day, for the same reason.

AN 3: Okay, it's kinda short, but I wanted to get a spooky cliff hanging. It was there, right? The spooky effect? So, you like it? Please comment….. flames are fine as well… I am also in need of a beta, any volunteers?

*hugs*,

Sarah