Clumsy In Love (PG)

[Chlexed]

This Is just a fic I have been wroking on It's nothing special...just a little fun.

Summary: Lex and Chloe are barely on speaking terms except for the occasional hello in passing but all of that is about to change, they find they have more in common then they at first thought. A friendship blossoms but will they be willing to risk their new found friendship for love.


Chapter One...

Chloe Sullivan had never been a morning person and this morning was no different, mumbling obscenities as she turned her alarm clock off and got out of bed. She had spent the whole night re-writing her English essay realising after she had finished the first copy she had mis-read the question. Taking a quick look in the mirror she decided she was a 6/10 on the scary metre and could risk going down stairs for her morning coffee fix before her shower.
Walking down the stairs she could hear muffled voices coming from the kitchen assuming it was Gabe and Lana she walked comfortably into the kitchen.


“Good morning Chloe” her father greeted her as she made her way over to the coffee pot not once taking her eyes off the prize.

“Mmph”

As Lana and Gabe knew Chloe did not communicate with words first thing in the morning and they knew her language well, ‘mmph’ usually meant good morning ‘mmm’ meant yes and ‘grrmph’ was a definite no.
However Lex Luther did not know this, holding the Talon books in one hand, he watches Chloe make her coffee and is clearly amused. Lex had never really gotten to know the blonde reporter, looking at her now he wondered maybe he should remedy that.

“Chloe, sweetie why don’t you go upstairs and have a shower? ”. Gabe asked Chloe cautiously trying to lessen the embarrassment for his daughter if she found Lex Luther in their kitchen in her current state.

“mmm” Chloe walked over to the cupboard in search of sugar.

Watching her Lex found, even though he had caught Chloe at her weakest she was still rather beautiful, wearing a spaghetti strapped tank top and pair of loss fitting pyjama bottoms and a ridiculously large pair of fluffy slippers. Her hair was slightly messy but in the most erotic way and found himself picturing what she would look like in his kitchen. Lex shook his head mentally chiding himself for having such thoughts, especially when the girls father was standing in the same room.


‘God I hate mornings’ Chloe thought to herself. The few hours of sleep she had were filled with dreams, not nice dreams where you are disapointed because you had to wake up but the types of dreams you get when you eat three chocolate bars before you go to bed and wake up thinking 'what the f**k'.

Taking her eyes away from her coffee briefly she looked at the people in the room.

‘Dad ah god I hate that tie, Lana dressed to perfection as usual, Lex Luther, mmm sweet coffee….what the’. her internal monolog came to an abrupt end.

She looked up from her coffee and into Lex Luther eyes by this time she was beyond embarrassed, quickly looking down at her attire and then once again back at him.

“Holy cra….”

She unfortunately didn’t get to finish that sentence in her haste to leave the room as quickly as possibly her slippers had caught on one another causing her to land in a heap on the floor, pleased no one could see her embarrassment as she was shielded from view by the kitchen counter.

‘Breath in, breath out’ Chloe reminded herself only to look up and find the bald billionaire himself looking down at her smiling uncharacteristically.

“Miss Sullivan would you like some help up” He asked. Hoping she would accept his offer any excuse to touch her at this moment would be most welcomed on his part.

“No I’m good” Chloe said as she pulled herself to her feet using the counter top as leverage.

Once up she looked over at Gabe and Lana both reactions contrasting drastically Gabe had his head in his hands obviously just as mortified as Chloe and Lana trying desperately to restrain herself from laughing.

“Well I must get going, thanks for the books for the Talon Lana, and Miss Sullivan why don’t you call my office for that interview we never seemed to finish” Lex said looking at Chloe once more and handing her his card before exiting the Kitchen.

“See you at work Gabe” he called back as he exited the house.

Looking down at his card she saw his personal phone number on the back. Chloe turned around in time to catch Gabe and Lana silently laughing. Apparently her father had found humour in this situation. Glaring at them she walked up the stairs
.
“Smug son of a….Probably laughing at me the whole time….I’ll give him an interview”.

Lana and Gabe were smiling at each other until they heard Chloe’s last mumbled words from the steps but both visibly winced with the last statement.

“Empty threat?” Lana questioned Gabe hopefully.

“Since when have Chloe’s threats ever been empty?” Gabe said frowning as various scenarios popped into mind.

Meanwhile upstairs the quirky little blonde was plotting her revenge.

[Chlexed]

Chapter Two...

"Why are we doing this again?" Lana asked as she glanced nervously around Lex's office.

The two girls had arrived an hour ago and had entered the mansion easily. It was no wonder Lex was so easily attacked or kidnapped for that matter.

"Because..." Chloe sighed. She had already been through this with Lana twice this morning. "Lex thought he was so clever the other morning, you saw the way he was laughing at me Lana."

"I really don't think he meant it that way Chloe and don't you think this is going a bit too far?" Lana asked as she watched Chloe.

Chloe had effectively bobbie trapped his entire mansion, she knew that some of the help would be in the line of fire but It was for a greater cause.

"There" Chloe said proudly as she placed the last ping pong ball into his cupboard.
Chloe had filled all of his office cupboards with hundreds of ping pong balls and closed them carefully knowing the next person who opened one of them would be in for a hell of a suprise.

'hopefully Lex' she thought.

Chloe had already saran wrapped every toilet in the mansion with the exception of Lex's personal one. She has spent 20 minutes looking for his room but had no such luck, which was slightly dissapointing but she made do with what she had. She had painted all of Lex's glasses which were sitting next to a a glass bottle filled with alcohol of some description with nail biters polish, she had even gone to the effort of pulling random keys off the keyboard to Lex's personal computer and switching them with others. Lana would have found this amusing if it had been anyone else but If Lex found out she was involved she'd hate to see what happened.

"Lets go" Chloe said turning towards the doors to his office Lana in toe.

Turning to look back into the office she glanced at Lana over her shoulder.

"Let the games begin" Chloe announced proudly recieving what sounded like a whimpering sound from Lana.

[Chlexed]

Chapter 3...

Lex looked at his watch for the third time in the past ten minutes. He hated these meetings but each week none the less he met with the heads of the various departments for a progress report on plant activity. Each head had given a brief five-minute report with the exception of Mr Jacobs who was now closing in on an hour. Looking across the table he saw Gabe try and fight back a yawn when he saw that Lex had caught him out he simply rolled his eyes and gestured with his head to the man speaking, Lex nodded in reply and smirked back at him.

"Mr Jacobs" Lex said loudly gaining everyone’s attention.

"As interesting as this is" 'and it really isn't’ Lex thought to himself. " I have a previous engagement" 'with a bottle of scotch' he added silently.

Watching as everyone in the room gathered their various reports and papers Lex did the same. When he heard the last person leave and close the door behind them he slumped back in his chair rubbing his temples.

'Home, drink and then bed' he thought to himself the idea bringing a smile to his face.


~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"He's going to kill me...no wait, he is going to take the Talon, kill me then resurrect me so he can kill me again" Lana rambled from the passenger seat of the car.

"Relax Lana" Chloe replied clearly exasperated. "He'll never know it was us, I mean anyone in town could have done it It's not like he has no enemies"

"I guess your right" Lana said as she relaxed back into the seat.

Both girls sat in comfortable silence, Lana looking out the window and Chloe singing along with the radio. Lana and Chloe had become close the fact that Lana would put herself in Lex's firing line on Chloe's behalf meant quite alot to her but the fact that she hadn't stopped worrying since they left the mansion was trying Chloe’s temper.

"NO WAIT STOP" Lana yelled making Chloe put her foot straight on the brake causing the car to jump slightly and then stop.

"Geez Lana are you trying to kill us?" Chloe screeched back.

"Security cameras" Lana explained, "the mansion has got to be wired with them, we have to go back"

"What Lana we can't" Chloe said shaking her head "He has to have a sense of humour right?" Chloe asked hopefully.

Lana looked back at Chloe incredulously.

"We have to go back,” Chloe said into the car receiving a nod of the head from Lana.

Pulling the car around she headed in the direction of the mansion the only sound that could be heard were the screeching of tires.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Walking into his office Lex took of his jacket and placed in on his sofa. After the meeting he had stayed back a little to catch up on some work. Realising he had left one of the documents he needed in one of his cupboards he had decided to finish the rest at home. Walking over to the crystal canter filled with scotch he poured himself a glass and sat it on the table.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid" Chloe said to herself.

Lana had now started jogging slowly to keep up with Chloe who was marching across the driveway and towards the mansion. Reaching the door Chloe swung it open and walked inside, not even bothering with caution.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"What the f**k?" Lex said as he typed the key again.

Looking down at the keyboard something was amiss but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. Deciding to move onto something else he moved towards one of the office cupboards.

"NO!" He heard coming from the doorway but it was to late the door was already starting to open.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Chloe's heart felt like it stopped as she saw him about to open the cupboard.
'Oh god I'm so dead' Chloe thought.

"NO!" she yelled trying to stop the inevitable. Realising there was no way to stop the ping pong balls flying from the cupboard she did what she had to do.... she ran towards him and tackled him to the ground like she had seen Pete do in football practice so many times before. Shielding him with her body she waited until she felt the last ping-pong ball hit her back and glanced at him cautiously, her body still firmly pressed on his.
For a moment his expression was unreadable he simply lay there looking at her before he broke out into his trademark smirk.

"Miss Sullivan, what a pleasant surprise" he said resulting in a nervous chuckle from Chloe.

"Have you ever considered professional football as a career choice?” He continued teasingly.

Chloe narrowed her eyes at him.

'I should of let him have it' she thought angrily

"Are you calling me butch Luthor?" Chloe replied sternly.

[Chlexed]

Chapter Four....

Lex looked at Chloe as her cheeks began to flush and her eyes narrowed at him. He wasn't implying she was butch.

'Quite the opposite' he thought as he raked his eyes over her body.

Chloe had seen red as Lex had looked her up and down, confirmation the he indeed thought she was butch. .

"Wrong answer" Chloe replied punching him in the stomach as she got up.

Lex couldn't help the look of pure shock that crossed his face. The fact that the 5'5 blonde had just knocked the wind out of him was one thing but why she punched him at all was a complete mystery. Then it dawned on him, he hadn't meant for it to come across in that way. Most of the women he looked at like that were all over him within seconds, Chloe was the first one to punch him.

"Chloe I wasn't implying you were butch merely that you packed a mean tackle" Lex amended smiling reassuringly at her whilst holding his stomach.

"But the question still remains why you needed to tackle me at all"

Chloe looked on in guilt as he apologised. Not only had she broken into his castle and set up various traps and pranks but she had tackled him to the ground and punched him and all in the span of a few hours. They had lived in the same town for a year now and in the past hour they had, had more contact then that entire time.
Looking to the door for support from Lana she realised the brunette was no longer there.

"Where did Lana go?" She asked Lex.

"Lana?" He questioned.

"Yes, brunette about this tall" she replied sarcastically holding her hand a little shorter then her height.

"Why would I have seen Lana?" Now he was really confused.

"That little witch” Chloe said as she crossed her arms across her chest defensively, concluding that Lana had made a run for it.

‘Well it looks like I’m on my own’ Chloe thought as she looked at Lex.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Lana had bolted when she had seen the events play out before her. She sat on the front steps to the mansion and pulled her cell phone out of her purse. Dialling Clark’s number she waited patiently for him to pick up the phone.

“Kent farm”, came Clarks reply.

“Clark, It’s Lana”

Clark couldn’t help but smile when her heard Lana’s voice on the other end. It always had that effect on him.

“Hey Lana what’s up?”

“How quickly can you be at Lex’s mansion?” she asked

“Um….10 minutes…why?” Clark asked confused and a little worried at the same time. He really hoped nothing had happened to Lex.

“Look to make a long story short, It looks like Chloe and Lex are about to declare war, so you better hurry up and get here before we have casualties” Lana declared and then hung up.

Looking at the phone in shock Clark grabbed the keys and bolted out the door.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

10 minutes later Clark pulled up outside of the mansion. Giving Lana a quick smile as he got out of the truck. He was surprised when she grabbed hold of his hand and started to pull him inside quickly. Clark was shocked at the strength Lana displayed as she practically dragged him up the steps.

“Their in Lex’s office” Lana offered as an explanation as she continued to pull him by the hand down the hall. Stopping in front of the door leading into his office, she turned around to look at him.

“Watch the ping-pong balls” she warned and then disappeared through the door.

‘What the hell?’ Clark thought to himself not quite sure what was going on.

“Come on” Lana pleaded grabbing his hand and yanking him inside.

[Magyck]

*giggles* Chloe PUNCHED him!! ahh... how romantic hehe... I really enjoyed reading this... and slightly curious to see what Chole and Lex are up to 10 minutes later... hehe...

[jo]

i liked it!!!!! is there more?? wat will they be doing in 10 mins? i think i already know the answer.