Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Author: Sezza
Disclaimer: I own nothing but this fic
Rating: PG
Pairings: Chlex and Candy.
Spoilers: Season 1 of Smallville and 1 & 2 of Roswell
Summary: Chloe is in love with Lex, Lex is in love with Chloe but meets Maria
and finds himself attracted. Michael is in love with Maria who is fighting with
Michael, who is Chloe’s sort of brother. Confused? Then read.
Authors note: This idea came from Marcia over at Kraving Candy who inspired
me to write this. I hope I didn’t disappoint.
Email: sezza43@hotmail.com
*****
Michael walked out of his room and noticed Chloe sitting on the couch with red
eyes.
“What are you doing?”
Chloe looked p startled at his presence. “Wallowing in my own self pity, you?”
Michael shrugged. “Same.”
“Maria?” Chloe asked. Tonight was the night of Maria and Lex’s date. Lex was taking her on a picnic in the desert.
Michael nodded then looked at her. “Lex?”
Chloe looked shocked but nodded anyway. “How’d you guess?”
Michael smiled. “I’ve seen the way you look at him, I’m not blind.”
Chloe looked away sadly. “Well he is.”
Michael turned her to face him. “Well then he’s stupid.” Chloe smiled as Michael wiped a tear from her cheeks.
The Desert
Lex laughed as Maria told him a story from her childhood. “You’re
a very strange girl Maria Deluca”
Maria smiled. “Why thankyou Lex, I’ll take that as a compliment” Lex laughed again. “So Lex, tell me how you and Chloe became friends”
Lex smiled. “Well it was after her school prom, she was supposed to go with her best friend but half way through he ditched her” Maria gasped in shock.
“Bastard”
Lex grinned. “Yep, good ole Clark Kent. Anyway the day after I found her in the Talon, it’s a coffee shop, and she was crying. I went up to her and asked her what was wrong and she told me. I then told her what had happened with my father, and don’t ask, and well then I guess it just happened. We’d go to each other if we had a problem, or just wanted to talk. She’s my life line.”
Maria smiled. “It’s good to have people like that around you” Lex nodded. After another hour of getting to know each other they packed up and started to head home.
Once they were at Maria’s front door she turned to him. “Thankyou for tonight Lex, I had a great time.”
Lex smiled charmingly then started to lean in.
Nearby bushes
“I can’t believe we’re actually spying on them,” Chloe
whispered. Michael shook his head.
“Hey it was your idea”
Chloe rolled her eyes. “I didn’t think we’d actually do it, oh look there back.” Michael and Chloe watched as Lex said goodnight then lean towards her. A sob escaped Chloe’s mouth when Lex and Maria engaged in a passionate kiss.
Michael vowed to kill Lex, not only for kissing his woman but also for making Chloe cry. They then stood by and idly watched as Maria let Lex inside. Chloe couldn’t take it anymore and ran off, Michael hot on her feet.
Front porch
Maria accepted Lex’s lips on hers. They were softer than what she expected.
He was good but lacked the passion Michael created.
Lex massaged his tongue with hers. It was nice, great even but it was missing a certain something. When they pulled apart Maria smiled at him.
“There’s nothing between us is there?” she stated more than asked.
Lex shook his head. “I hoped there would be but I just don’t feel it.”
Maria nodded then took his hand. “Maybe it’s because I’m not a certain snarky reporter.” Lex looked at her in shock. How did she know? Lex then smirked.
“It could be because I lack a certain amount of hair.” Maria laughed at Lex’s round about way of telling her it was because of Michael.
Maria motioned towards her door. “You wanna go in and talk about them?” Lex nodded and followed her in not noticing two heart broken people disappear into the night.
Michael’s apartment
Michael rocked Chloe softly to try to calm her down. “Chloe shhh, it’s
ok”
Chloe shook her head. “No it’s not,” she sobbed. “I brought Lex here to tell him that I loved him, not watch him fall for someone else”
Michael closed his eyes and breathed deeply trying to push back his own tears. Maybe he and Maria will never get another chance after all.
Maria’s house
“So your in love with Chloe but haven’t told her. Why?” Maria
asked as she placed a drink in front of him.
Lex sighed. “I don’t think she feels the same way, I can’t stand to be rejected. I don’t want to get hurt.”
Maria nodded. “I understand but I don’t think you have to worry about that”
Lex looked at her suspiciously. “What do you mean?”
Maria smiled. “I think Chloe’s in love with you too, it was the way she talked about you at the mall yesterday, her face lit up every time your name was mentioned.”
Lex’s smile grew until it could no more. “You think so? Well maybe it’s about time I talk to our fair haired reporter.” Maria giggled and Lex took a hole of her hand. “And maybe you should give Michael a chance”
Maria shook her head. “I don’t think I can”
Lex smiled softly. “Yes you can, you love him Maria and he loves you, you should have heard the way he talked about you the night we arrived, he’s whipped, 100% whipped. You should really talk to him, you both love each other and you’ll regret it if you don’t give what you have a chance”
Maria nudged him. “I think Chloe love has turned you into mush”
Lex laughed. “Chloe love?” he shook his head. “You really are a strange one Maria”
Michael’s Apartment
Chloe woke up the next morning and went straight to the couch to talk to Lex
but found it empty and the sheets still folded neatly on the end. Chloe’s
eyes misted over as she grabbed the blankets in her hands and at. Michael walked
out and saw her in her frozen state.
“Chloe?”
“He didn’t come home,” she whispered. Michael was about to ask what she was talking about then spotted the blanket in her hands, still folded. Lex had spent the night at Maria’s.
Michael shook his head. “No, Maria wouldn’t do that, she wouldn’t” he tried to convince himself. He grabbed Chloe’s hand. “Get dressed, we’re going to the Crashdown, I’m sure they’ll be there, we’ll ask them what happened.” Chloe nodded then left to change.
The Crashdown
Once they had finished ordering Lex glanced at Maria and smiled. “Thanks
for letting me stay, I have to say your couch is better than Michael’s.”
Maria laughed. “I couldn’t let you drive tired Lex.” Lex nodded. He and Maria had talked for another 2 hours after there date and when they had finished Maria noticed that Lex had been too tired to drive home so she let him sleep on the couch.
“Thanks anyway. So, what exactly is in a ‘Blood of alien’ smoothe?”
Chloe and Michael walked into the Crashdown and instantly spotted Maria and Lex at a booth laughing. They went to join them. “Hey guys”
Maria smiled. “Hey, what are you doing here?”
Chloe shrugged. “Eating, so how was your date?”
Lex smiled. “It was great, we have a lot in common.” Chloe sighed then walked out of the café. She didn’t want to hear anything else. Lex looked at Maria in confusion. “I’m going to talk to her” Maria nodded.
“Good luck” she smiled.
Maria turned and found Michael glaring at her.
Outside
“Chloe wait, what’s the matter?” Lex asked as he caught up
with her. He turned her around and took in her tear-streaked face. “Chloe?”
“How could you sleep with her Lex?” she whispered.
Lex shook his head. “We didn’t sleep together Chloe, I was too tired to drive so she let me have the couch, honest”
Chloe avoided his eyes in embarrassment. “Oh I thought---“
Lex smiled and lifted her face with his fingers. “I didn’t sleep with her, it wouldn’t be right”
Chloe looked up in confusion. “Why?”
Lex hugged her and she buried her head in his chest taking in his warmth. “Because, if I did I’d only have been thinking about you the whole time.” Chloe pulled away in shock.
“What?”
Lex grazed her lips in a soft and gentle kiss. “I love you Chloe” he blurted out then closed his eyes awaiting the inevitable rejection. He opened them, when she didn’t say anything, to see her smiling face.
She grabbed his face in her hands and gently caressed his cheeks. “I love you too”
Inside
“Have a fun time?” Michael asked snidely. Maria nodded.
“Yes in fact I did” she replied not understanding why he looked so pissed off.
“So is he good in bed?” Michael asked red faced. He was about to explode with anger but Maria got there first.
“WHAT?” she yelled in shock.
Michael got up and dragged her into the backroom. “I said is he good in bed, after all you’d know.”
Maria pulled out of his vice like grip. “I should slap you for that comment you ass but I won’t. And for your information I wouldn’t know, because WE DIDN’T SLEEP TOGETHER.” She yelled at him.
Michel shook his head. “But you guys kissed then went inside and he didn’t come back to my place”
Maria’s jaw shot to the floor. “You spied on us?” Michael wanted to bang his head up against a wall. How stupid was he? “I cannot believe you spied on us, not only did you invade a private moment but you TOTALLY SCREWED IT UP.”
Michael ducked his head in shame while Maria continued to rant. “First of all, the kiss turned out to mean nothing as we didn’t feel anything from it, secondly I let him sleep on the couch because it would have been stupid to let him drive home when he was so tired.”
“Maria I’m sorry---“
She cut him off. “I can’t believe you think that low of me Michael,” she said softly.
Michael took her hand and made her sit on the couch; he kneeled in front of her. “Maria, I don’t think like that ok, look I was just worried, when he didn’t come back I suspected the worst and got it wrong and I’m truly sorry Maria. It’s just, I don’t want to lose you Maria, I need you in my life. You’re my everything and I was afraid he’d take you away from me”
Maria let a tear slid down her face. “Too late, Courtney already did that”
Michael wiped the tear away. “No Maria, listen to me. I only kissed Courtney to get information, I felt nothing for her, it was you Maria, and it always has been. You’re the one I want, you’re the one I love.”
Maria looked into his eyes and saw that her genuinely meant everything. “But I got that flash from you of Courtney.”
Michael nodded. “I know but Isabel and I think it was only because we were talking about her. Maria I love you, I love you.” Michael lifted her hands to his face and Maria started to receive flashes.
**Maria at school talking to Liz**
**Maria in the Crashdown**
**Maria and him kissing**
**Maria consoling him after Hank**
Michael pulled his hands away. “See, you’re the one I think about Maria, you’re the one I want in my life, not just now but for a very long time.”
Maria smiled. “Really?” Michael nodded and she sighed. “I love you too Michael”
Michael grinned in relief and crushed her body to his holding her as the sobs became too much.
After she had settled down they walked back into the main part of the café and saw Lex and Chloe already in the booth staring into each other’s eyes. “Hey” Maria greeted.
“Hey” Chloe replied dreamily. Maria smiled as Lex mouthed ‘Thankyou’ and Lex smiled as she mouthed back ‘you too’.
“So you two together or what?” Michael asked. Lex nodded then placed his arm around Chloe in a possessive mode. “Well I guess all I have to say is you hurt her you die”. Lex nodded and motioned to Maria.
“Same goes for her” Michael nodded and snaked his arm around Maria’s waist. Both Maria and Chloe rolled their eyes at the male display.
2 Days later
Maria hugged Chloe as Lex put their things in the car. Today was the day they
had to leave. “I’ll miss you girl”
Chloe smiled. Over the last two days her and Maria had talked and formed a friendship. “Miss you too”
Lex walked over to Michael and shook his hand. “Thanks for letting us stay even though you have a crap couch” Michael laughed.
“No problem”
Lex stood in front of Maria and hugged her. “Thanks for making me tell her, I owe you,” he whispered in her ear.
Maria shook her head. “No, you made me realise that I needed Michael, so we’re even.” Lex smiled at her then hopped in the car.
Chloe hugged Michael. “Call me sometime ok”
Michael smiled. “Definitely, remember to come visit me again ok”
Chloe nodded then waved as she too got into the car. Lex honked the horn as they drove off and Michael and Maria waved. “I’m glad they came” Maria said after a moment.
Michael nodded then hugged her to him. “Me too, me too.” He said smiling as he kissed the top of her head. “I love you Maria”
“I love you too”
Lex’s car
Chloe glared at Lex. Not even 5 minutes out of Roswell and he had already pissed
her off. “Why?” she demanded.
Lex shook his head. “Because I’ve seen the way you drive”
“And you drive any better?” She smirked. Lex rolled his eyes and Chloe sighed in frustration. “Just let me drive Lex”
Lex laughed and shook his head again. “Nope, I’d like to arrive in Smallville in one piece.”
Chloe smiled at him. “Lex would you like to return to Smallville with a girlfriend?” she asked him innocently. Lex sighed and pulled over.
“I can’t believe your using our relationship to get your own way.”
Chloe raised her eyebrow. “I’m serious Lex”
Lex glared at her. “I know,” he said as he handed her the keys. Chloe got out of the car and bounced happily to the driver’s side. Lex smiled at her change in mood. “Happy now?”
Chloe smiled and kissed him. “Yes honey, now get in I want to ride this baby.”
Lex laughed and got in. “Your lucky I love you”
Chloe winked at him. “I know” Chloe then started the car and drove off onto the road. Lex groaned he had no doubt he would forever be regretting to let her drive his car.
THE END