Title: Complex Mission
Author: Nadia Mack
Rated: PG-13
Disclaimer: I Own Nothing
Timeline: Post-Season 4
Summary: It's summer time, and an assignment forces Chloe to put Lois and Clark on a mission neither is looking forward to.
Author's Note: This idea just came to me, and it was too amusing to pass up.

Chloe Sullivan has been working part time for the Metropolis Journal for the last three weeks. Since then, she has familiarized herself with the inner-workings of professional journalism, but her high school articles alone still aren't enough for her to be taken seriously.

Now, Chloe got an anonymous tip that one of Metropolis' local hotels is being used for drug trafficking, and in order to find the truth, she needed help, and she found that help by trying desperately to convince two people.

Chloe had just finished explaining her plan to Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me," says Lois, her mind still processing what her cousin is asking her to do. She couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"You don't possibly think…" Clark chimed in. Like Lois, he was having a hard time grasping his best friend's ludicrous plan.

They paused…

Then one look at Chloe Sullivan's very serious expression, they jumped up protesting.

"Absolutely not!" and "Never going to happen!" Lois and Clark say simultaneously. Chloe's plan was not in their list of things to do in their lifetime.

"Guys, come on! I need people I can trust"

"Then use Lana, instead!" Lois says loudly. "They'd be perfect for each other," she adds with sarcasm, knowing full well the history between the two and the train wreck it was, but Lois didn't notice Clark's very annoyed and aghast reaction when she recommended the ex-girlfriend.

Chloe sighed at her cousin's stubbornness. "I love Lana, I do, but the girl has too much baggage. I need this to be flawless, not dramatic," she admitted.

"Chloe, isn't there anybody else?" Clark interrupted; he wanted nothing to do with Lana or anything about her. He was so tired of yearning for something that's only caused him pain and gave him little happiness. He was just sorry that no one else could see that he had moved on.

Anyway, with all things said and done, Lois was the last person he'd ever want to be caught in that position with.

"I trust the two of you with my life," Chloe continues to encourage. "There really isn't anyone else better for the job. Whether the two of you like it or not, you work well together, admit it," she accused.

"Just because we've helped with an article here and there, that doesn't constitute what you're asking us to do," Lois argues with her.

"Yeah, what she said," Clark dumbly repeated what Lois just pointed out.

"Smooth, Smallville" Lois says trying not to roll her eyes. Farm boy can be so dense some times.

Sighing, "Please," Chloe says giving her best heart felt facial expression. She needed them to do this.

Lois and Clark gave each other shaking glances for a very long moment before giving up and saying yes.

Defeated, "All right," says Lois in a monotonous tone.

"Fine," says Clark, not liking the idea one bit, but he'll do it anyway just for his best friend.

"We'll do it," Lois added, her tone still monotonous.

Chloe jumped with great excitement, and she hugged each one of them. This was going to be the story of a lifetime.

"I now pronounce you husband and wife," Chloe announced much too happily, getting a very aggravated look from Lane and Kent.

"Yay," Clark says with barely any enthusiasm.

Lois puts a hand to her temple to seize an incoming migraine, not that it worked. "Oh, this is going to be so much fun," she expressed blandly.

Two hours later…

Walking into the Ramada Inn together with fake smiles plastered on their faces, Lois whom is pretending to be Teri gives a sideways glance to her husband that Clark Kent is pretending to be.

"Explain why we agreed to do this again?" she asks without turning to him.

Clark, who is now Dean, is looking for their targets. "Because Chloe is our best friend and we love her very much," he reminded her, and in a way, reminding himself.

"Right," she nods, still reeling over the fact that she's actually doing this insane, albeit brilliant so-long-as-she-never-knows idea.

They were the last two people on earth Chloe should have put together. It shouldn't even have been an option.

But here they were.

Pretending to be a married couple.

She already knew this was going to be a long weekend.

At the front desk, they plastered their smiles once again and were greeted by a very bubbly desk clerk.

"Good morning, what can I do for you folks?" the blonde clerk asked.

Clark briefly stumbled with his words, even having to adjust the glasses Lois actually thought would be a great disguise. He had argued why she couldn't do it, and he was met with a mocking, 'because I'm your wife' response.

"Yes, actually. We have a reservation," Clark points to himself and Lois. "Teri and Dean Cain"

To be Continued...