Groundwork

Title: Groundwork (Sequel to "A Beautiful Friendship")
Author: psychi
Author Email: blackpsychi@yahoo.com
Spoilers: Season Four
Pairing: Chloe Sullivan/Lana Lang
Rating:NC-17
Archive: Yes, but please e-mail me before hand.
Feedback: It's appreciated.
Disclaimer: I own nothing...if I did, the meteor wouldn't have missed. No profit is being made.

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Lana stood inside her own little world, surrounded by Egyptian fantasies painted in varying shades of pink. She had always played the part of the little lost princess, even when she denied her own nature.

Chloe watched as the girl tried time and again to break away from what she was, only to disappoint herself. She couldn't help but wonder why Lana insisted on trying to be everything but what she was, trying on new identities like others tried on shoes. Fighter. Business woman. Artist.

In that quest, Lana mirrored Clark. Both of them spent so much of their lives desperately hiding from themselves. He wanted to be innocent and normal. She wanted to be anything, anyone else.

Even the black that Lana now wore to cover her own virginal purity seemed abhorrently tainted with an innocence it was never meant to represent.

"Do you want me to help you with that?" Chloe asked.

Lana stopped at the foot of the stairs leading to her apartment and acknowledged her with a smile. "If you want. I've got a few trips to make with these, but I think with your help we could make it in one."

Chloe grabbed an armful of paperback and hardcover books, all about symbols and body art. "You thinking of getting a tattoo?" She inquired once they reached the landing.

Lana fumbled a bit with her keys, almost dropping them, but said nothing. Chloe decided not to push.

They finally got the door opened and carefully laid their load upon the living room table.

"Thanks for helping me with that." Lana seemed skittish and stretched thin. Genevieve was right, the girl was definitely hiding something.

Chloe shrugged. "It was no problem. I wanted to stop by and talk to you anyway."

"Oh?"

"Yeah. I was wondering how things went with Jason?"

Lana laughed sardonically. "It went fine. It turns out that he broke up with me because of something else and he's perfectly alright keeping my virginity firmly intact."

"So you didn't?"

"No."

"Are you happy with that?"

Lana's shoulders dropped. "No. I'm tired of it." She started to pace a bit as she rambled. "I'm so tired of it all. Everyone in my life wants to keep me a little girl. I have to be protected and sheltered and saved. I'm just sick of it!"

Chloe gently grabbed her shoulder, stopping the frantic movements. She wiped away the single tear falling down Lana's perfectly anguished face. "I don't," she spoke in a low voice. "I see you. I always have. You're a strong, vibrant, intelligent and sexy woman. You don't need to be what they want you to be."

If there was going to be a move made, Chloe knew Lana would have to be the one to initiate it. The trick would be in making her think it was her idea.

Lana didn't move out of under Chloe's hands. "What if they're right? What if I'm stuck being a fairytale princess for the rest of my life. I don't want that, but I'm so scared that it's all I'll ever be."

"You can be whatever, whomever, you want to be Lana. You can blow them all off and break free from the cage they want to put you in." Chloe smiled brokenly. "And for what it's worth, you'll always have my support. You're my best friend." She wrapped her arms around the other girl and hugged her.

Lana clung tightly to her and Chloe petted her hair to calm the other girl.

"You do see me, don't you?" Lana asked, sniffling.

"Of course I do. You're a very special person," Chloe pulled back so that she could look into Lana's eyes. "Powerful." She rubbed the tear stained cheeks. "Alluring." She tilted her face so that all Lana would have to do was lean in. "Passionate."

Lana managed to look so hopeful and lost at the same time. She took the plunge and leaned into kiss Chloe.

Chloe let Lana have the control she so wanted, responding only to the other girl's explorations. Lana's hand clutched rhythmically over her back as the kiss deepened.

"You're not freaked out by this?" Lana gasped, breaking off their kiss.

"No," Chloe simply stated. "I'm not going to turn away from you, no matter what happens."

Lana seemed to take Chloe's words for the truth and something in her eyes solidified. "I don't want you to hold back. I want to do this with you," she whispered a little desperately, still holding Chloe so close to her that she could feel her breath.

"You don't have to prove anything." Just as she thought, Chloe's words wrought the exact opposite reaction from Lana - so similar to when they had discussed her having sex with Jason less than a week ago. The girl was predictably fickle.

"I want this." Lana backed up her words by claiming Chloe's mouth again in a fierce kiss. She sucked roughly on her lower lip, almost biting.

Chloe decided that since Lana had made the first clear move, she would be able to easily take matters a little more in hand. She let her hand thread through Lana's hair, far coarser than one would think, and yanked back so that Lana would know that Chloe was taking over. The other girl whimpered prettily and conceded control as Chloe licked and sucked and opened Lana's mouth to her ministrations.

Chloe traced her other hand up and down the side of Lana's body, feeling the slight frame tremble beneath her. Lana gasped into Chloe's mouth as her hand ghosted over one small breast. Chloe gently kissed her way across Lana's face and licked her way down Lana's to the soft skin where her neck and shoulders met.

Taking the small cries and moans of pleasure emanating from the other girl as encouragement, Chloe's hands sought to undo the buttons fastening Lana's shirt, smoothly slipped it from her shoulders and let the slip of fabric drop to the floor. A silky pale pink bra soon followed and Chloe flicked her tongue over small, dark nipples.

Lana gasped a muttered things like "Oh God", "Please" and "Chloe".

Chloe sucked harder, more viciously than she intended, but Lana only writhed more.

Her body clung more and more to Chloe's for support while arching and squirming under the roaming hands on her ass and the mouth doing wonderful things to her body. Finding even Lana's slight frame difficult to handle, Chloe backed her up to the couch and lowered her onto one of the cushions.

Lana passively reveled in the sensations running through her body and clutched at the fabric of the couch on either side of her. She made no move to reciprocate, but Chloe didn't mind. She found herself growing more and more excited from the power to make Lana quiver under her touch…to elicit all kinds of wonderfully dirty noises from the town princess.

Her hands roamed up Lana's jean clad thighs and squeezed teasingly at the sensitive juncture where her legs met the rest of her body. Lana arched right off the couch when Chloe's thumb brushed over the damp jeans covering her crotch. Chloe moved down Lana's body, mouthed her way down to where her thumb had been and bit through the fabric, causing the other girl to cry out.

Lana was so sensitive, Chloe started to question just how virginal she was. The girl probably never even got herself off before.

The jeans and the matching panty Lana wore soon found themselves on the floor next to the other discarded clothing.

Despite the warm temperature of the room, Lana shivered when Chloe licked her way up her right thigh. She cried out something guttural when Chloe nipped gently at the soft stretch of skin just below her belly button. She screamed "fuck yes" when Chloe's tongue trailed over skin and sparse pubic hair and buried itself between swollen and sensitive lips.

Chloe couldn't help but chuckle quietly at the obscenities coming from the town's little icon of purity. The vibrations from her laughter caused Lana to buck her hips. A few swirls of her tongue around the other girl's clit had her coming loudly. Chloe leaned back when Lana pulled herself away from the over sensitivity of their contact.

Loud banging on the door to the apartment rudely distracted them from the high running through both girls.

"Lana! Are you alright!" a decidedly male voice accompanied the beating on the door.

She watched as Lana struggled to think straight.

"Jason?" Lana called out questioningly, eyebrows knit together in confusion.

"Open the door!"

"Um…just a second."

Chloe grabbed the clothes littered around her and tossed them to Lana who dressed as quickly as possible. The noise stopped and Chloe straightened herself out before Lana answered the door.

Sure enough, Jason stood on the other side looking frantic. "Are you ok? I heard shouting."

"The television was on," Lana quickly covered.

Chloe grabbed her purse and tried to sound casual. "Hey Jason. We were just watching a movie."

He looked from her to Lana suspiciously. "I was worried."

"No reason to be," Lana answered.

"I think I'll just go and let you two talk," Chloe announced before moving around him to leave.

"I'll see you later," Lana called after her, still flushed and glowing.

Chloe smiled brightly. "Of course."