7.11 Cure by MR & AM (Part VI)

as retold by RepairmanBob

MR: Lex and Hope are standing in an empty warehouse. Mr. Hassad walks in.
TW: Wait, Clark just walks away?
AM: Chloe did ask him to go.
TW: But why would Clark give up on Chloe when he knows something is bothering her?
AoT: Secrets and lies – got to love them.
AM: Mr. Hassad looks agitated. “Can you explain why this cannot wait, Mr. Luthor? Kal-El’s minions just destroyed a shipment of the materials my people need. That monster nearly eradicated our world, and now he attacks us here! Here, at the backwater edge of known space, he hunts us like animals!” Hassad is growing more and more agitated as he rants. “I need more time! I need more materials! And you call me here, while my people are dying because of that monster, so we can talk! So please, Mr. Luthor, tell me what is so damn important!”
AoT: Oh, Baltar.
MR: Lex looks slightly amused as Hassad rants.
AM: Kahloe appears. “Slightly over-dramatic, or completely over-dramatic?”
MR: “Completely.” To Hassad – “Are you finished? I called you here for business, but if you feel the need to continue ranting, please be my guest.”
AM: Hassad quickly calms himself. “I apologize, Mr Luthor. This is a difficult time for my people, but you have been a friend to us. I should not take my anger at that Kryptonian beast out on you. Why have you contacted me?”
MR: “Actually, I have a proposal that could be of use to you, considering your recent difficulties. I need advanced medical equipment for some of my own defenses against Kal-El.” Lex smiles and lists a bunch of hi-tech medical mumbo-jumbo.
ED: You two were too lazy to even invent medical words?
MR: I was going to watch old Star Trek episodes for ideas, but Tom came over and we played Wii bowling until 2:00 AM.
TW: What can I say? I like to bowl.
AM: I am going to be surrounded in hi-tech mumbo-jumbo in a few weeks. No way I am doing it a moment sooner than I have to. Hassad smiles. “Fortunately for you, I have equipment on this world that will meet your needs, Mr. Luthor. But in exchange, I will require something more than a few shipments of goods.
MR: “What did you have in mind?”
AM: “I need a secured facility, with access to a large power source. I want to establish a base where Kal-El’s lackeys on this world cannot strike at me. If you can give me that, I can deliver your equipment.”
MR: Lex smiles. “I have several facilities here in Kansas that will meet your requirements.” He hands Hassad a piece of paper. “Now, how soon can you deliver my medical devices to this address?”

AM: Back at the Torch.
MR: Actually, the Daily Planet.
TW: It is still the Daily Planet?
MR: It never changed after Clark left.
KK: So, the Daily Planet.
MR: It changes to the study.
AoT: What?
MR: The Torch turned into the Daily Planet, then into the study! What is so hard to understand about that?
ED: I am confused.
JG: In other shocking news, today ends with Y and Clark liked pie.
AM: Sex cast an illusion only Chloe could see that made the Torch look like the Daily Planet. Now, he made it look like Lex’s study.
KK: Like Harvey in Farscape!
AoT: Who?
MR: Far what?
TW: Was that a Stargate spin-off?
KK: Farscape! Commander John Crichton! Aeryn Sun! More sexual tension in a single scene that Clark an Lana accomplished in six years!
(Rest of cast exchanges confused glances)
KK: Fucking heathens.
MR: Sex looks at Chloe. “If you really are finished with your high school crush, maybe what you are looking for is a more mature relationship.” He walks behind Lex’s desk and sits down.
AM: Chloe laughs. “With you? A figment of my imagination?”
MR: “While I assure you the experience would be… “ he throws Chloe a sexy Lex smile, “stimulating, I was thinking of my corporal counterpart.”
AM: “I hardly think Lex would be an improvement.”
MR: “ Come now. You enjoy dealing with Lex. He challenges you intellectually, pushes you to be your absolute best.”
AM: “He kidnapped my mother!”
MR: “He freed her from her coma and allowed you to be reunited with her. Lex has done great things.”
AM: “He created Level 33.1, and tortured countless people!”
MR: “I said great things. Not good or evil. Do you really think Lex would have gone so far if you stayed at his side three years ago? If Clark had not lied to him for all those years?”
AM: Chloe puts her head down. “I don’t know. Lex is Lex. And while I may still care for him on some level, I refuse to excuse his actions, no matter what excuse he,” she looks at Sex, “or you come up with. Some things you cannot take back.”
MR: “Then move forward. You know why Lex is building his army. The Kryptonians, Zoners, meta-humans; new threats to humanity are appearing every day. Lex simply wants to protect the people of the world. You could help him find a better way to do that. With your abilities and vision, is that so hard to imagine?”
AM: Chloe looks directly at Sex.
MR: Sex stand up. “Chloe, you and Lex could keep the world safe. You could change the world for the better.”
AM: “You mean rule it.”
MR: “Would that really be so bad? Do you think you and Lex would do a worse job than the fools and psychopaths that rule now? And consider how devoted Lex was to Lana and she was little more than a simple pawn in his games with Clark.“
KK: Hey!
MR: Sex moves around the desk and stands in front of Chloe. “Lex would worship you like a goddess. He would shower you with the affection Clark has always denied you. Just imagine it.” He bends down and puts his face close the Chloe. “An equal, Chloe, who would love you and you alone. Who would push you to achieve your potential, and place the world at you feet. A man who is worthy of you.”
JG: Damn.
AoT: That actually makes Lex sound good.
ED: I’d do him.
KK: Same here.
AM: Sex bends in for a kiss, and at the last second Chloe moves away. “I don’t want the world.” The illusion of the study fades away. “And I am not Lana - I want more than illusions and pretty words.”
MR: Sex looks annoyed. “ You could have everything you want! Power, love, fame –“
AM: For the first time, Chloe loses her cool. “Do you know what I want?” Objects around the office start to shake. “I want to be writing for the Daily Planet, not stressing out about appearing in an article on meta-humans!” Chloe rises off the ground. “I want to drink a cup of coffee without wondering if someone drugged it so they can strap me to a table in a secret lab!” Chloe starts to tear up, and objects start to fly around the room. “I want to be able to touch someone without worrying about taking their pain or their thoughts or their powers!” The computers in the Torch start to go haywire. “I want to stop being scared every second of every day that I will hurt everyone I care about!” Chloe glows, and waves of heat are visible rising from her body. She scream, and we see sound-waves fly out and shatter the windows of the Torch. “I want to be Chloe Sullivan again, not the goddamn freak who killed her mother and best friend!”
AoT: Damn.
KK: Chloe is a mess. Never thought you would write that, Allison.
AM: Well, if this is my last episode I want some good juicy scenes.
ED: Emmy tape?
AM: Damn straight.
MR: Sex looks sadly at Chloe and fades away.
AM: Chloe lowers herself to the ground, and completely breaks down. She lies on the floor and sobs.
TW: Well, that was depressing.

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