Surviving Junior Year

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Summary: Clark and Lana are together in in season three. This takes place after the Kent's get the farm back and Lana never came to see him at the farm.

Chapter 1:

Clark walked into the Talon and saw Lana behing the counter cleaning up. She looked up and saw Clark at the door. "What are you doing here?" she asked. She was still angry with him.

"We have to talk." he said.

"Unless you are going to tell me what really happened in Metropolis I don't-"

"If you want all your questions answered...everything...every detail of my life will be open to you. If you really want to know who I am, come my lift later on tonight. I want to let you in." he said.

"Let me in?" Lana asked.

Clark looked at her and walked away. He ran to the house and found his mother in the kitchen. "Hi mom." he said sitting down.

"Hi Clark."

Johnathan walked in. "I have to talk to you guys." he said.

"About what?" Martha asked

"Lana is coming over soon. I'm ready to tell her everything."

"Are you sure about this?" Martha asked.

"Yes," Clark said. "I love her. I love her so much. I don't want her to be angry with me anymore. She has to know."

"Are you completely sure about this?" Johnathan asked.

"Yes," Clark said.

He went to the loft and began to think about how he was going to tell Lana. One hour later, he was pacing in his loft when Lana walked up the stairs. He didn't notice her until she let him know. "Clark?"

Clark stopped and looked at Lana. "I was beginning to think that you weren't going to show." Clark said.

"I wouldn't miss this for the world." she joked.

Clark took a deep breath. "I guess I should start." he said.

Lana moved closer to him. "Are you okay?"

Clark grabbed her hands and took a deep breath. "I have to show you something." he said.

"What?" she asked.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out something Lana has been looking for, for a while. "My necklace." she said taking it from Clark's hands.

"The day of the meteor shower, something came to earth. The meteor sower was meant to cover it's arrival. What do you mean by 'arrival'?"

"A spaceship came to earth that day. Inside the ship was a little boy, he grew and developed abilities, like super speed, super strength, invulnerability, x-ray vision, and heat vision."

"What happened to him?" Lana asked alreay knowing the answer.

"He was adopted by a farmer and his wife." Clark said.

Lana felt a tear rolling down her cheek. "So what you are saying is, the reason why the meteor shower happened was to cover your arrival."

"I'm from a planet called Krypton." he said. He watched as her expression softened.

She placed her hand on his cheek. "But you look just like everyone else."

"I can't explain it. All I know is that, this is the reason why I couldn't let you into my life. This is the reason why I am mysterious." Clark said.

Lana said nothing. She walked over to the couch and looked up at him. "What does this have to do with the way you acted in Metropolis?"

"I know I said that I was invulnerable, but there is only one thing that can hurt me. It's the meteor rock. It's called Kryptonite?"

"Kryptonite?"

"Yeah. There are 2 types. Red and green." he said. "The red makes me a totally different person. It makes me..."

"Free." she said.

"Yeah. I do all of the things that I wouldn't normally do."

"And what about the green?"

"It makes me sick. If I am around it long enough, it can kill me."

Lana stayed quiet and didn't look at Clark. "I am still the same Clark."

"I know it's just a lot to take in right now." Lana said. She looked up at him from the couch. She stood and walked over to him and smiled. "Even though I found out that the man I love is an alien, it doesn't change anything." she said as she placed her hand on his cheek. "I still love you. I always will love you."

"Really?" he asked.

"Yes." Lana said. "I love you Clark."

"I love you too Lana." he said.

He leaned down and she met his lips half way. She wrapped her arms around his neck and deepened the kiss.

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Clark and Lana were standing at the front door of Chloe's house. "I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Of course. How about I go to your house and pick you up for school?" she suggested.

"I love that idea." he smiled. He leaned down and gave Lana one more kiss before speeding away.


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Chapter 2: Extinction

The next morning, Clark was sitting at the island in the kitchen while Johnathan and Martha were in the kitchen and they heard a knock on the kitchen door. Johnathan walked over and answered the door. It was Lana. "Hello Lana, come in." he said. He moved to the side and let Lana walk into the house.

Lana walked over to Clark and gave him a quick kiss and Martha and Johnathan saw this. "I assume that you told her Clark." Martha asked.

"Yeah." Clark said.

Lana sat down on the stool next to Clark, and grabbed his hand. She looked up and Johnatan spoke up. "I hope you understand how big of a responsiblitly this is Lana. If the wrong person hears about this, then it will break this family." Johnathan said. "We have spent 17 years protecting this secret."

"Believe me, Mr. and Mrs. Kent, when I say that I will never tell anyone about this. I love Clark too much to even think about it." she said. "I'll will die before I tell anyone."

"You told her everything?" Martha asked.

"Yeah." Clark said.

"Even about the kryptonite and everyone you have faced." Martha said.

"Everything." Lana comfirmed.

Johna than look at his watch. "If you guys don't go now, you will be late for school." he said.

"Yeah." Clark said.

He and Lana left the house and she drove them to school. The news of them getting back together was spreading fast, but apparently not fast enough. Clark had to stay at school longer than usual to do a few things so that meant that Lana was going to go striaght to the Talon to get some work done. She walked out of the school and down the stairs. As she got in her car and turned on the engine, she looked up and saw a boy. "Hi," he said.

"Hi." she smiled. She drove away.

The boys name was Jake. He felt his best friend place a hand on his shoulder. "Hey man."

"Hey." he said.

"Who were you talking to?"

"Lana." he said. "She's free now."

"You didn't hear?" he asked.

"Hear what?"

"She got back with Kent."

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Clark walked into the Talon and saw Lana walking to the counter witha try in her hands. She snuck up behind her and wrapped his arms arounnd her waist. She jumped. Lana turned and looked up at Clark. "Clark you scared me." she said.

"Sorry." he laughed as he gave her a kiss.

"It's okay." she said. "Are you busy tonight?"

"Actually yeah, sorry. Because of my dad's heart problem, I have to pick up the slack at the farm." he said.

"Bummer."

"What did you have planned?"

"A swim in the school's pool." she smiled.

"Bummer." he said.


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Later that night, Lana stood on the diving board of the school pool and looked around her. She dived in and began her laps. She got about half way to the other side when she felt someone watching her. "Hello?" no one was there.

She began to swim again. She got to the other side and turned, when she was at the halfway mark again she felt someone grabbed her leg and pull her down. She looked at the person and saw it was Jake. She tried to push him away and managed to make it to the srface and yell ffor help but only to be pulled under again. Jake began to choke her and she thought she was going to die before she saw Jake get shot an stopped moving. She swam to the surface and swam to the closest side of the pool. When she looked up she saw someone with a gun in the lookout windows. He walked away.

She ran away and got help.

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Clark was sitting in the living room. Johnathan was watching tv relaxing with Martha and Clark when the phone rang. "I'll get it." Clark said. He stood up and answered the phone. "Hello?'

"Hello is this Clark Kent?"

"Yes."

"I am calling to inform you that, Lana Lang has been brought into the hospital and we need someone to pick her up."

"The hospital what happened?" he asked now very worried. The word hospital got Johnathan and Martha's attention.

"She was attacked while she was swimming at the highschool. She had made the request that you are the one to pick her up."

"Okay. I'll be there as soon as I can." Clark said.

He hung up the phone. "What happened?"

"Lana's in the hospital, she was attacked at school."

"Is she okay?"

"I guess so. I'm going to go pick her up."

"Hurry back."

Clark grabbed his jacket and keys and hopped in the truck. He drove to the hospital and once there, he went to Lana's room and saw that she was sitting on the bed waiting for Clark. "Lana." he rushed over and hugged her tightly. "I'm so glad your okay."

"Me too. Can you take me home now. I just too shaken up I don't want to drive."

"No problem." he said. She stood up and Clark wrapped his arm around her shoulder and drove her to his house where she spend a few hours there and then home.

"Thank you Clark." she said.

"No problem." he said hugging her. "I am just glad you are okay. I love you."

"Love you too." she said.

He kissed her and let her go inside.

After being accpted back on to the TORCH Clark was getting some imformation from Lana while she was at the Talon. "Hey Lana, dod you remember when you tolf the police that you saw a boy with Jake?" he asked as he stopped at the counter.

"Yeah." Clark opened the year book.

"Can you point him out for me?" he asked as he flipped through pages.

"That's him." Lana said.

"Van McNulty." he said. "Thanks."

"Hey guys." Chloe said walking over to them. She placed a folder on the counter. She opened it and began to lay out pictures. "Look at what my connection at the coroner's offices gave me. They're gills."

"That's discusting." Lana said.

"I find the gaping bullet wounds more disturbing." Clark said.

"If that shooter hadn't showed up when he did, I would be dead. Excuse me for not having more sympathy for Jake."

"Jake was exposed to the meteor rocks, he didn't ask for this."

"But he almost killed me. Every one that has gotten some sort of ablilites from the kr- the meteor rocks, has tried to kill someone." she forgot Chloe didn't know about Clark.

"A shot to the head seems a little more extreme."

"What makes you so dfferent from the shooter."

"I haven't killed anyone."

"What about Tina. The police found her impaled by a piece of wood."

"She did that to herself."

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Clark has some suspitions after talking with Van and fed those to Chloe. He and Pete went to go search Van's things for any sign of who would be next. They found a old hunting cabin of Van and his dad's. Once inside they found the word FREAK written across the walls in the cabin. One the wall he had print outs. "He had his own personal hit lit." he saw Lex's picture on the wall. "Pete call the sheriff." he said before running away.

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Lex was unlocking his car when he heard a gun shot. The next thing he knew he was on the ground and Clark was on top of him. "Someone is trying to kill him, get him inside. Go."

Him and some of the guards got Lex inside. Clark looked around for Van and saw him running away. Clark rann after him and tackled him to the ground. When he did, some kryptonite fell out of Van's backpack, and he fell to the ground in pain. "I saw you catch that bullet. Are you some bullett proff freak. Van looked at him confused and then saw where Clark's attention pointed to. He picked up the kryptonite and put it closer to Clark and grinned once he saw how much pain it was causing Clark.

He saw the cars speeding towards them and then he left the kryptonite and ran away.

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He warned Lex about what was going on and went to go see Chloe at the Torch.

"Think about it Clark. He survived a meteor shower, near fatal car accident, AND a plane crash. No one is that lucky. Look at this, his medical files show that he has a white blood count that is off the charts. It's more than enough to raise and eyebrow."

"How many people have you been keeping files on?" Clark asked. upset.

"Their my private notes."

"Have you wondered how Van knew about them. Look at the names on your list. He must have taken your data base and stolen everything." Clark said. "Van has the print outs in his cabin."

"Van halped network half of these computers. He must have cracked my passwords. What have I done." Chloe said sitting back in her chair.

"At least you didn't pull the trigger."

"No. But I did load the gun and point it in the right direction."

Clark then went to go see Lana at the Talon. He walked in and walked oer to the counter and gave her a kiss hello. "I heard what happened with Lex is he okay?"

"Yeah." he said.

"Are they sure that Van was the shooter."

"I am I saw him." he said. She gave him a look that said I don't want to believe you. "Lana I know that he save you you life, but I don't think that was the first thing on his mind."

"No it was and accident." she said. "Clark I thought I was going to die. For the first time you weren't there to save me. When he showed up I was relieved but I thought that there were others like you out there."

"He is not like me. He is a killer Lana." Clark said. "You can't be angry at all of the people that were affected by kryptonite. They didn't ask for this."

"Life would be so much better if the meteor shower never happened." Lana said before she could stop herself. Clark froze and so did Lana. "Clark I'm sorry I didn't mean it."

"No. It would be better. You would have your parents, no one would have died, and I wouldn't here to hurt you." he said hurt and angry.

Clark started to walk away before Lana grabbed his arm only to have him pull away. "Clark please."

"I'll talk to you later." he said before leaving the Talon.

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"Dad do you think that everything would be better if I never came to earth and the meteor shower never happened?"

Johnathan stopped what he was doing and looked at him. "What makes you think that?"

"Kryptonite is tied to a lot of the deaths in Smallville. If hadn't have came none of the people would have been infected and none of the people would have died."

"I don't ever want you to think that. Your mother and I can't imagine life with out you. That day was the happiest day of our lives."

Johnathan walked over and put some hay into the feeder and Clark did the same. "What about this kid Van? Who do you think will he go after next."

"I don't know." Clark said.

"Come on help me , we have to change the tire on the tractor."

Clark and Johnathan started to walk away. Clark felt something coming towards him and when he turned around he saw it was a bullet. He put his hand out to catch it but only falt pain as it went through his hand into his shoulder. He screamed out in pain as he his the ground. Johnathan turned and saw his sone on the ground in pain. "Clark?" he asked. He went to his side and saw the wound. "My God Clark. Come on I have to get you inside." John said.

He got Clark inside and called out to Martha who was upstairs doing laundry. "Martha! Martha!"

He laid Clark on the ground as Martha ran down the stairs. "Oh my god what happened"

"He was shot we have to get the bullett out. Get a knife and sterilize it and I need a bowl a towel and needle nose pliers."

Martha ran over and turned on he stove, she began to heat a knife and grabbed a bowl. Johnathan stayed on the florr with Clark trying to calm him down. "How's tha coming?"

"I got it." she ran over to them and handed him the knife. Johnathan ripped open Clarks shirt and tok the knife and opened the wound even more. Clark screamed out in pain. Martha sat Clark's side and grabbed his hand. "We're going to get it out okay?"

Clark laid his head down and "He's not breathing!"

"Give me the pliers." he said.

Martha handed him the pliers and he began to try to get the bullet out. "Johnathan hurry." Martha cried.

"I got it." he said. he pulled the bullet out and looked at it before puting in the bowl. "Get that out of here."

Martha ran out of the kitchen and it was a few moments before Clark's wound started to heal. Johnathan wiped his shoulder and sighed with relief."

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Lana was taking some trash out of the Talon as she was thinking. She couldn't thinking about what she said to Clark, and what he said was right. She put the trash in the dumpster and turned around to see Van. "Lana? It's me Van. I'm the one who saved you."

"I know who you are." she said a bit cautious.

"I need you help getting out of here. They're looking for me."

"I can't you killed those people. I think you should turn your self in."

"I did them a favor. I did you a favor. I thought you of all people would understand. You owe me."

"I don't OWE you anything. I'm sorry about what happened to your father, but killing everyone else isn't going to bring him back."

"Those freaks got what was coming to them." Van said. "Jake was my best friend for three years and I was beeing fooled. And you are being fooled just I was."

"What do you mean?" Lana asked as she backed into a gate. She knew what he was reffering to though.

"Your boyfriend. I saw him catch a bullett with his bare hands. He was a freak just like the rest of them."

Lana caught what he said. "What do you mean was?"

"He won't be able to hurt anyone else."

"What did you do?"

"I found his weakness and made special bullets."

"No." Lana said crying.

"That freak, got exactly what he deserves."

"Clark is more human than you will ever be." she said.

She slammed the gate in his face and he fall down the stairs. She ran into the Talon and called the police and told them to get to the Kent farm. She was then taken and put into his trunk. In the trunk she thought about Clark and the last thing she said to him.

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Clark opened his eyes and sat up and found him self in the kitchen floor. "Clark." he heard his mother.

He stood and Martha and Johnathan walked over to hiim. "How are you feeling?"

"A bit woozy but I'll be fine." he said.

"Go get some rest."

"I have to find Van," he said taking off his shirt. He ran upstairs and came down with another shirt to find the sheriff at the door.

"Rumors of your death have been greatly exadurated."

"What do you mean rumors of my death?"

"Someone said you had been murdered."

When the sheriff turned to clear Clark ran away and contacted Van and told him to meet him where he saw his dad's picture.

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Clark walked through the halls of the highschool and he turned the corner and found Van hold Lana hostage. "Lana." he said.

"You may survived one billet but I am not goint omake that kistake again."

"Let her go," Clark said.

"Not until she sees the real you." he said.

He threw Lana into some chairs and she watched as Van open fired on Clark. Each bullet hit Clark in the chest and stomach. "NOOOOO!" Lana cried.

Lana began to sit up as she watched Clark hit the wall and look up. He was going to take action before, Lana stood and kicked Van into the trophey case. She looked at Clark in amazment. She walked over to him and he untied broke her ropes. She was crying. "Clar those were kryptonite bullets, how-"

"Sometimes you have to come prepared." he said. He ripped open his shirt and showed he had a lead vest on. He took it off and dropped it on the floor. She began to cry even harder as he pulled her into a hug.

"I am sorry about everything I said before Clark. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me." she sobbed into his chest. "I love you."

"I love you too."

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Chapter 3: Slumber

Clark walked out of the bushes and onto the sand of Crator Lake. For some reason he felt hot and thought of the perfect way to cool off. He had been studing for his history exam and got bored. He called Lana and told her to meet him at Crator Lake. He walked out to the dock and took off his shirt. He began taking off his boots and that's when he heard Lana walk up behind him. "So what did you call me here for?"

"I was thinking, that we could take a swim today." he said.

"You should have told me I did not bring my bathing suit." Lana said.

"Who said that we needed bathing suits." he whispered into her ears.

Lana smiled. She walked past Clark. "No peeking."

Lana began to take off her clothes and Clark kept his back to her and the smiled never left his face. He heard her feet hitting the deck as she ran and he turned when he heard her hit the water. She came up and looked at him. "Come on. I won't peek."

Clark stripped down and dove into the water. He stayed down under water to play a trick on her and stayed under water. Lana looked around and didn't see Clark. "Clark. Clark where are you?"

All of a sudden, she felt two hands grab her waist and Clark popped up behind her. "Hey."

"Don't do that!" she said angry. She splashed water in his face and he laughed as he splashed her with water back. "That's not funny."

"I'm sorry." he laughed.

They stared into each others eyes and they slowly and unconsciously moved closer and closer together. Their lips were about to met when all of a sudden, they heard a girl screaming and running away from something. Clark said nothing as he hurried and got out of the lake and got dressed and ran after the girl.

He caught up with her in the woods. "What's wrong?"

She didn't answer. She walked around him and looked around the woods. "Run...Run!!" A hand reached up from the ground and grabbed her ankle and started to pulle her under. Clark grabbed her hand and tried to pull her back up. "Please don't let him take me! NOOO!!!"

Clarkk could not pull her back up. "NOOO!" he yelled as she was pulled under.

Clark looked at his hand and then back at the ground. Clark forgot about Lana and was in pure shock, that he could not save her. He went back to his house and told his parent about what happened the next morning.

"She just disappeared?" Martha asked.

"Yeah."

"I'll call the sheriff and have her look around. But in the mean time I think that we should show you something." Johnathan said.

"What?" Clark asked.

"Come on." he said.

He led Clark ouside and he saw a new blue truck. "Whoa you got a new truck?"

"She's not mine, she's yours." Johnathan said when they reached the truck.

"Really." Johnathan and Martha nodded. "I can't wait to show Lana and Pete."

"She's not just for fun son. We needed a new truck around here anyway."

"I don't know what to say."

Johnathan held up a set of keys. "Say that you will take good care of her."

Clark snatched the keys from Johnathan and they all laughed. "I'll take good care of her."

He gave his parents a hug before getting in the truck and driving off to school where he was going to met Lana.

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As he was walking through the halls, he felt two arms wrap around his waist. "Hey Clark."

"Hey." he said as he stopped and gave her a kiss. "Look about yesterday. I'm sorry I just left you."

"It's okay. Besides I got a very good view when you left." he blushed and smiled. "So...who was screaming?"

"Some girl."

"Is she okay?"

"I don't know I tried to help her but she just disappeared."

Lana looked at her watch. "I have to get to the library. I'll see you later okay?"

"Okay." he said. She stood on her toes and gave him a kiss before trning and walking away and then turning the corner.

Clark smiled and when heturned his head he saw the same girl he tried to save the day before. "Hey.' he aid running to get to her side. "Hey. What happened to you yesterday."

She didn't answer him.

"At least tell me your name." he said.

"Sara. Sara Conory."

"Okay. Sara. What's going on?"

She started to breath heavily and her eyes started to tear up. "He's after me."

"Who's aftter you?"

"He's always after me." she said.

Her eyes widened and Clark looked into the class of the trophey case and saw the reflection of a red hooded figure. He turned only to see Pete. "Clark where have you been?"

"Pete did you see that guy?" he asked.

Pete looked around. "What guy?"

"How could you miss him. He had a big red cape on. He was just standing here." Clark said. He turned. "Sara."

"Who's Sara?"

Clark turned back around to face Pete. "S-She was right there."

"Oh I get it the insanity defense."

"Pete I am not insane."

"Then what would you call skipping a history exam worth 50% of your grade."

"That's today?"

"That WAS today. You flunked." Pete said walking away.

The night after Clark dropped off Lana at her house, he headed back to his house. He turned off the engine and walk towards the gate. He stopped when he saw Sara walk out of the yard. "Sara?"

"Lilacs." she said admiring the flowers. "My mother always used to grow them. They are my favorites."

"Where is your family."

She looked up at him. 'Don't let him take me again."

"Who?"

"The traveler Clark."

"How do you know my name?"

Sara didn't have the time to answer when the Traveler appeared behind Clark. Clark made a move to punch him but he was grabbed and thrown and he landed on a bed of hay. The Traveler grabbed Sara and pulled her underground again. He punched the ground but he was pulled under as well.

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Clark opened his eyes and sat up and found that he was laying on the couch in his loft. "Clark." he heard.

He turned and saw his parents walking towards them. "Thank God, we have been so worried."

"What happened?" he asked.

Martha sat on the couch next to him and Johnathan sat on the arm of the couch. "You fell asleep studing for your history exam."

"That was a day and a half ago son." Johnathan said. We have been trying to wake you ever since."

"You must have been dreaming."

"It felt so real. I met this girl named Sara Conroy. She was in trouble but I couldn't save her."

"Conroy." Johnathan said. "That's our new next door neighbor. He had a teenage daughter."

"They moved into Lana's old house?"

"Yesterday."

"How can I be dreaming of someone I have never even met."

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Clark did not sleep that night. He did not go to school either. Lana was getting worried. Anytime she tried to call him or go to see him, his parent would say that he wasn't feeling well. After school she went to go see him. She had his home work and saw him unloading hay from the truck. "Missed you these past few days.I brought you your work. Mr Blurr said that you could make up your exam as lona as long as you have a note from your parents."

"Hey Lana." he said. He stopped and gave her a hug and a kiss on the lips. "I just haven't been feeling well these past few days."

"You do look tired. But wait. How can you be sick, I thought you said nothing can hurt you." Lana said getting worried.

"Yeah. I don't get it. I fell asleep studing and my parents said that I was out for 36 hours." he said as they started to walk to the house.

"Are you okay?"

"I had this dream an it really is freaking me out."

"What was it about?"

"A lot of things." he said. "There's this girl that needed help."

"And you saved her."

"No." he said. "I couldn't. Her name is Sara Conroy and she moved into you old house."

"When did you meet her?" Lana asked.

"I haven't." Clark said. "How can I be dreaming about a girl that I never met?"

"Why don't we go in and you walk me throught the dream, and maybe I can help you out."

"Okay." he said. He picked her up and two seconds later they were in the loft, and Clark was putting her down on her legs.

"I really have to get used to that." she laughed. He laughed and they sat down on the couch. "Okay where did you see her first?"

"Crator Lake. As a matter of fact you were there."

"And what were we doing?" she asked.

"Having one of the best swims of our lives." he said.

"Okay." Lana said. After hearing the dream Lana was just as stumped as Clark. "I have a better idea. Why don't we go and see Sara in person?"

"Okay." he said.

He grabbed her hand and they went out to her car and they went next door to Sara's.

After meeting with Sara and her uncle and finding out about Sara's condition, Clark and Lana went to the Talon to get some coffee to keep him awake. They sat at the table and Lana watched as Clark drank hhis coffee. "Sara crashed in a place where there is a very large amount of kryptonite right."

"Yeah."

"What if that gave her the ability to enter your dreams and keep you asleep for as long as she wanted."

"That would explain the 36 hour nap."

"And you said that you did not wake up until the Traveler appeared, that's when she disappeared."

"I think it's her uncle." he said.

"Her uncle?"

"Think about it Lana, he is all power ful in her life."

"She's scared of him and he appears as her traveler in your dreams."

"You want to head down to the court house to get get some public records on him?"

"Yeah." Lana said.

Clark finished his coffee and she drove them to the court house where they searched for the papers they needed.

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After collecting the papers they needed at the court house they headed back to Clark's loft to look them over. "Now I know why public records are publoic. They are incredibly boring." Lana said from her seat on te couch.

Clark stopped pacing around and sat next to her on the couch. "Not all of them. Look at this."

He hand them a peice of paper and her eyes widened. "Whoa. Sara's parents were rich."

"And they left everything to Sara. One guess who's control of the money."

"Uncle Nick."

"Yeah. As long she stays in a coma, he controls everything." he said.

"But he still hasn't done anything wrong. Taking care of your neice and living a nice life isn't exactly a crime."

Clark put the papers in his hand on the table in front of him. "Then why is so afraid of him." he yawned.

Lana looked at him. "You have to get some sleep Cark."

"I'm afraid to close my eyes." he said.

"I'll go put on another pot of coffee." she said.

They both snmiled and Clark gace her a kiss before she stood up and left the loft. Clark tried his hardest to keep his eyes opened. When he closed his eyes for just one second he heard footsteps. He opened his eyes. "Lana?"

But it wasn't Lana, it was Sara.

"Sara."

"Hi." she said smilling.

"I must have fallen asleep." he said to himself. "How do you get into me dreams." he asked Sara.

She shrugged her shoulders. "Clark, tis never happened to me before. Just suddenly the other day I was in the woods, and then at school, and then at your house. I realized what happened when you and Lana came to see me."

"Wait you can hear us?" Sara nodded.

"Yeah. I tried to reach out to you don't know what it's like to be locked in your own body."

"Sara who's the traveler?"

"We shouldn't talk about him." she said backing up to the railing. "He'll find us."

"Is it your uncle. Why are you so afraid of him? What does he do yo you?"

"I don't know. I used to be able to hear the doctors talking and they say that I should have woken up. Everytime I feel just a little bit better, he does some thing and I getsent back to a deep dark place. I almost woke up once, that's when he moved us here."

Suddenly the wind started to pick up and she was pulled back over the railing and she disappearded. Clark shot up on the couch and found Lana sitting next to him. "Clark are you okay?" she asked as she put down the cup of coffee she was holding and sat next to him on the couch.

"She heard us."

"What?"

"Sara knew we came to see her. She can hear everything that goes on around her. Including the doctors. They said that she should have woken up by now."

"He must be keeping her asleep."

"But how?"

"I don't know. That's what we have to figure out." Clark said.

The next day after talking to Lex and stealilng sample of the medicine from the Conroy's he headed home. On the way home he felt his eye lids close and his head hit the steering wheel. The truck steered of the road and hit a mound of dirt and then flipped over and landed on its roof. Meanwhile Lana walked into the kitchen door and saw Martha sitting at the table. "Hi Mrs. Kent."

""Hey Lana."

"Is Clark here, I brought him a little pick-me-up." she said.

"Clark is not back from Lex's yet, but he should be soon. You are welcome to stay ad wait."

"MARTHA! MARTHA COME QUICK IT'S CLARK!" They heard Johnathan's voice and ran outside.

"Oh my god. Johnathan!" Martha called.

When they reached the other side of the over turned truck, they saw Johnathan pulling Clark out of the truck. "What happened?" Lana asked as she kneeled down next to Clark, Johnathan, and Martha.

"He must have fallen asleep at the wheel."

Lana cupped Clark's face and Martha and Johnathan watched the love she had for him. "Where was he coming from? Lex's mansion is the other way." Martha said.

Johnathan sighed in realization. "I told you not to go to the Conroy's.'

Lana looked up at him. "This is my fault. I took him over there."

"He'll be fine." Martha said.

"We have to get him inside." Johnathan said.

After getting Clark inside and on the living roo couch Lana spoke up. "I have to go next door." she said.

"Lana no." Martha said.

"Mrs. Kent Kent I have to put a stop to this. I love Clark. I love him and I can't just sit around and continue to watch him suffer like this." she said.

"Just be careful okay?" Johnathan said.

"I will." Lana said.

Johnathan and Martha waited for Clark to wake up and 45 minutes later her did. "Clark." Martha said smiling.

"Lana's in trouble." he said. Not waiting another second he stood and ran out of the house. He founD Lana in the woods unconscious in her car which Nick was about to set on fire. He caught the light and threw Nick into a tree knocking him out. Clark walked over to the car and pulled Lana out of the car and held her in his arms. He knew that if he had woken up two seconds later she would be dead. He got her to the hospital and sent and ambulance to get Sara.

He managed to stay awak and wait for Lana to wake up. He was right by her side when she opened her eyes and saw him sitting by her bed in the hospital room. "Hey. How are you feeling?"

"Pretty stupid."

"ou saved Sara's life, that was really brave."

"And it almost cost me mine. I was just lucky you were there." she said smiling.

"You know me. I'll always be there Lana."

"Because with your abilities you have no reason not to be."

Clark laughed. "You got that right."

"How's Sara?"

"She's awake and I talked to her."

"Good."

"The doctor said that you can go home as soon as you wake up."

"And I am awake." she said.

They checked Lana out and Lana drove Clark home because they did not want to risk Clark falling asleep behind the wheel again. He wouldn't get hurt but Lana would.

Once they got to Clark's house. Lana walked him up to his room and he didn't wait he took off his shirt and got into bed. Lana laid with him. He fell asleep almost immediatly with one of his arms around Lana's waist. She was facing him and she stared at his face for the next 15 minutes before she fell asleep himself. He left his door opened so his parents wouldn't be angry for them being in the same bed alone.

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Chapter 4: Perry

Lana and Clark sat in his living room doing some home work and watching the news when a news report caught Clark's attention. It was about the sun. "Scientist are calling today's impact one of the most significant astrnomical events to happen in the last century. The enormous solar flare has already caused power surges."

Johnathan and Martha walked in with their arms full of groceries. "Clark." Lana looked up and stood to help them and Clark didn't move. Lana took a bag from Martha. "Hey Clark you want to give us a hand here."

Clark snapped out of his trance and stood and took a bag from his father. "Sorry I must have gotten sucked in."

"You did get sucked in." Lana laughed as she placed the bag of groceries onto the island in the kitchen.

"Funny. Anyway you caught me in the middle of this news special."

"What's the topic?" Johnathan asked.

"Solar flares and their effect on earth's atmosphere. According to NASA the sun took a direct hit from a comet causing one of the biggest solar flares ever to be recorded." he said.

"You sound excited about this Clark." Lana said.

"Actually, it's a relief to be studing a comic disaster that had nothing to with me."

Lana looked at her watch. "Oh shoot. I have to go to the Talon. My shift starts in fifteen minutes." Lana said as she made her way to the living room and grabbed her book and notebook and keys and went back into the kitchen.

"Speaking ofthe Talon I have to go an meet Pete." Clark said.

"Want a ride.' Lana asked.

"No I have to do something. I'll run."

"Okay, see you there." he said.

She stood on her toes and gave him a kiss on the lips before heading to the door. "Bye Mr. and Mrs. Kent."

"Bye Lana." they said.

Lana walked out the door. "You and Lana seem to be doing great."

"We are. I think that telling her my secret was the best thing I have ever done."

After Clark did a few things, he headed to the Talon. As he was running he made it to the 'Welcome to Smallville' Sign before his speed gave out.

He saw a car coming towards him and the driver had to swerve to miss hitting Clark. The driver Perry White, turned the wheel and hit a telephone pole so hard that it fell on the car. The ripped electrical wires were jumping around Clark and he rushed over to the driver's side of the car and ripped off the door and pulled Perry out. He picked him up and ran away from the car and placed him on the ground. "Are you okay?"

"You pulled the door right off the car with your bare hands. You walked right throught the power lines."

"You're a little drunk Mr..."

"White. Perry White."

"Okay Mr. White. We have to get you to the hospital." Clark said.

Clark took out his cell phone and called and ambulance. The ambulance was there less than five minute later along with the police and they took him to the hospital. They let Clark go and he went straight to the Talon and told his parents, Pete, and Lana what happened. "Is he going to be okay." Lana asked as Clark sat down at the counter.

"The parametic said he would be okay. He just needs some rest." Clark said. "I just hope that he doesn't remember anything that he saw."

"But you said he was drunk so maybe he won't remember anything."

"Maybe."

"But wait you said that he swerved to miss you." Pete said.

"Yeah."

"If you ran, then how could he see you." Lana asked.

"Another wierd thing. I was running her to meet Pete and my speed just gave out."

"What do gave out?" Lana asked filling a cup of cappachino."

"One second I was running lightning fast, and the next, I could only walk." Clark said. "Look I have to go." he said.

"Okay. See you later man." Pete said walked away.

"I'll come by after I get off here." Lana said.

"Okay." he said. He leaned over the counter and gave Lana a short but tender kiss on the lips.

"Give me another one." she smiled, and he did give her another kiss on the lips. "I'll see you later."

He walked out of the Talon and walked into the near by alley before running home.

The next day he was putting posts into the ground to fix the fence. He put in the first two posts with no problem and then when he put the third post in, he lost control of his strength and put the post oo far in. "Whoa, take it easy there son."

"I guess I misjudged my strength."

"I just got off the phone with the hospital, Mr White checked himself out last night. Do you think he remembers what you did."

"He probably doesn't even remember my name."

A truck pulled up and they heard, "Clark Kent."

He hopped the back and the truck drove away. He began walking towards them. "Last time I saw you, you were frisbing the door of my car and walking through power lines."

"Mr. White." he shook Clark's hand and then Johnathan's

"You must be Clark's father."

"Yes I am." he said. "I am glad you are feeling better."

"Thanks to you son. But my car didn't make it. Now your sherrif has suspended my liscense for DUI and my assignment editor is screaming for my head."

"You're a reporter?" Clark said.

"You could say that. At the moment I am the advance man for X-Tiles. It's a small cable tv show for the paranormally inclined."

"And what brings you to Smallville?" Johnathan asked.

"I am doing a peice on the meteor shower and the wierd things that have happened since then."

"You actually believe that nonsense." Johnathan laughed.

"Right up there with the tooth fairy." he said. He looked over Johnathan shoulder and saw the posts in the ground. "Don't you need tools for that?"

"What exactly are you doing here?" Clark asked changing the subject. "You didn't came all this way to thank me, did you?"

"No actually I think that we should discuss a settlement."

"A settlement?"

"Yesterday I swerved to miss your son. If you can loan me your son to show me around the town for the next few days, I won't sue. We'll call it even."

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Clark parked the truck in front of the Talon. "He're it is. The local coffee shop." he said turning off the truck. He opened the door and they both got out of the truck and walked into the Talon. They walked in and Lana looked up and saw them. She gave the table of people their drinks and walked over and gave Clark a kiss hello.

"Hey Clark."

"Hey." he said. They walked over to the counter. "This is Perry White. Mr. White this is my girlfriend Lana."

"Hi." she said.

"Hi." he said. "I would like a triple cappichino, a couple of those glazed donuts and." he reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out and old TIME magazine. "And interview,"

Lana looked down and felt tears startign to form. "Smallville's very own cover girl."

She looked up and Clark and Perry could see the hurt in her eyes, but only Clark cared. "What are you doing?"

"I'm getting a story."

"You never told me you wanted to interview her."

"You never asked.' Perry said. "Nothing fancy just a little Q $ A. I want to see how little miss meteor is doing 14 years after the big bang." he smiled.

"Maybe this is a joke to you, but my parents died that day."

"And I am sorry but that makes you news worthy.

Lana looked at Clark. "That's is you are leaving?" he said to Perry

"She's faces me now or she faces the camera's in the morning."

"I didn't bring you here to interview her. I brought you here because you want coffee."

"You can't make me leave."

"But I am part owner and I can. So leave." Lana said.

Perry grabbed his magazine and walked out of the Talon. "Clark why are you with him."

"I have no other choice but to be his tour guide for the next few days." Clark said.

"Why?"

"He said he would sue us unless I did."

"Why would he sue you."

"I caused the accident because he swerved to not hit me." Clark said repeating what Perry said to him and his father earlier. He pulled Lana into a hug. "Lana you know that I would never do anything to hurt you. I love you."

"I love you too Clark." she pulled away. "Just don't bring him around here any more."

"I won't." he said. He gave Lana a kiss and wiped away her tears before leaving the Talon and driving away with Perry.

"You did't tell me that she was apart of this."

"You never told me she was your girlfriend let alone you knew her. Look I am sorry I hurt her feelings, but she is a good source."

"Not anymore. You go near her again and I don't what you do to us, but you will regret it." he said.

Perry convinced him to take him to the TORCH and introduced him to Chloe and then he went back to the motel he was staying at.

Now he just parked the truck at the farm and sae Lana's car pull up. She walked out and walked over to him. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "Look I'm sorry for bringing him by the-"

"Clark it's okay." she said.

"You talked to Lex." he said as they started to walk out to the field.

"How did you know?" she asked.

"I ran into Lex and he took Perry off my hands." Clark smiled.

"Good." she said. "Maybe now he will go back to Metropolis."

They walked for a few minutes before they found Johnathan dealing with the tractor. "Hey Dad."

"Hey Mr. Kent."

"Hi Clark, Lana. Clark where's Mr. White."

"Hopefully he left." Clark said.

"I'm glad he's gone. Listen, can you help me I have been trying to get this thing up on a block for the last hour, would you give me a hand?"

"Sure." he said. He let go of Lana and went to the side of the tractor. He tried to lift it, but couldn't. He tried again, but even hard but couldn't do it.

"What's wrong?" Lana asked.

"It's like all of my strength is gone." Clark said.

"Why don't you give it one more try." Johnathan said.

Clark tried for a thrid time and not only did he lift it but he threw it. Lana and Johnathan walked up next to Clark. "At least you know your strength is not completely gone." she said.

The tractor land and broke in front of Perry while he waited for the bus to come. Clark ran and stopped when he saw the tractor in peices all over the road andeven worse Perry saw him.

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After convincing, the sheriff that the accident with the tractor was not his fault, Clark and Johanthan went back to the farm and Clark found Lana in the loft. She was looking at some pictures of the sun. "Hey Lana what are you doing?"

"Clark you said that the first glitch in you powers started yesterday right?" she said.

"Do you think that it has someting to with the solar flare yesterday?"

"Maybe." she said.

"Make that probably. Look at this." Pete said coming up the stairs holding a newpaper. "Yesterday's solar flare was the largest one ever recorded. I'm talking communication glitches, power surges-"

"That is exactly what has been happening to me. One minute I am helpless the next I am in overdrive. Maybe my strength and my speed, and everything I can do comes from the sun." Clark said walking over to the window and Lana started to read the paper.

"It's like you are a walking solar battery."

"According to this the effects of the solar flare should be done tommorw night. If that's true then maybe your powers will be over too."

"So as long as I don't use my powers I am fine?"

"Hey Clark." Chloe said coming up the stairs to the loft. "I just want to give you a heads up. Our resident Ghost Buster is still hunting."

"Perry White. I though he went back to Metropolis."

"Apparently he had a change of heart. And he seems to be especially interested in you Clark." she said looking at him suspiciously.

Clark sighed.

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Clark was doing everything on the farm without his powers. Lana was there and she was helping him with some things. They walked out of the barn and Clark was carrying a bucket of chicken feed. They looked up and saw Perry sitting on some hay. "Morning Clark, Lana."

"What are you doing here? he asked as he put down the feed.

"You inspire me." he said.

Lana was really uncomfortable around Perry. "Hey Clark I am going to see if you mom needs any help."

"Okay." he said. Lana walked away and didn't look at Perry.

"You have a gift and you should use it."

"Your drunk. Like always. You don't know what you are talking about."

"Yeah I do. I finally found my story." Perry said.

"And for some insane reason I think it's me."

"I have facts to back them up."

"Trust me Mr. White. there is nothing special about me."

"Oh I doubt that. So far I have you pegged as really strong and shock resistant. Question is what other tricks do you have up your sleve."

Clark was about to respond when he heard his mother calling him. "Clark."

Clark turned and started to jog in the direction that Martha was. "You can run but you can't-" before Perry could finish, Clark started to run as super speed. "You can't hide."

He ran past Lana and she felt a gust of wind and she knew what or it was. "Clark!"

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That night Johnathan picked up Clark from the bus stop and they talked about Perry seeing him running off the farm.

The next day Lana was working at the Talon and Clark and Pete were at the farm. They looked out of the window and saw Perry and his camera crew waiting for Clark to make a move.

"Clark if this solar flare theory is correct, things should go back to normal tonight."

"I don't believe this." Clark said. "I'm a prisoner in my own home." Suddenly Clark's eyes started to burn and he fekt what was going to happen. "PETE GET DOWN."

Pete dropped to the floor and Clark release his heat vision and hit the curtains. "Mom Dad."

Martha and Johnathan ran out from the kitchen and saw Clark trying to put the fire out but only to pull away. Johnathan grabbed the fire extingisher and put out the fire. "What happened?" Pete asked Clark as he saw him holding his hand.

"I Burned myself." he said. "My powers are gone again."

"Is everyone alright?" Martha asked.

"Yeah, but I can't stay here."

"You just have to get through today." Johnathan said.

"And what. Have another power surge and burn the house down. Next time I could hurt you or mom. And Perry White will be there to catch it all on tape." he said. "Dad, I can't stay here."

"Are are we going to get you out?" Johnathan said.

"I have and idea." Pete said. "You take the truck and start driving away acting like you are Clark trying to make a run for it. When they follow you, we'll go."

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The plan worked perfectly. They followed Johnathan and Clark and Pete packed some things and went camping. Meanwhile Perry was at the Talon having some cappichino, when Lana walked over to his table and handed him a sign. He picked it up and read it. "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."

"I think that you would be more comfortable at the Wild Coyote."

"I was until they kicked me out."

'Either way, I would like you to leave." she said turning around and walking to the counter.

"Please Ms. Lang." he caught up with her. "Sometimes I let my enthusiasm get the best of me."

Lana's eyes started to tear up "Is that your idea of an apology?"

"Okay I am a jerk. I'm sorry about what I did."

"If your job bothers you so much, then why don't you stop."

"Because I am a journalist. It's in my blood, and sometimes you have to push to get the truth. Even when it hurts."

"I'm going to call you a cab." she said about to walk past him.

"They won't come. It's a little issue over not paying my fares, but I will make you a deal. I will permanently stay out of your life in exchange for a ride to the busstop."

"I'll go get my jacket." she said.

Clark and Pete were about to set up camp when Clark got a phone call. "Hello...Lana?....What.....Okay....we'll be right there."

Clark hung up his phone. "What's going on?" Pete asked.

"I have to get to Saunder Gorge right now." he said. He tried running but it didn't work.

"Speed thing is still out?" Pete asked.

"Yeah." he said.

"I'll take you come on."

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They arrived at Saunder's Gorge and saw Lana running down the stairs. "Lana are you okay?"

"Yeah," she said. "I'm fine but-" she pointed to Perry who was standing on the ledge. "I was driving him to the busstop when he pretended to be sick. I pulled over and he got out onto the ledge and told me to get you over here or he would jump."

Clark started to walk towards him. "Clark be careful." she said. "He's really drunk."

Clark walked closer to Perry. "I knew you would never show for me, so I had to trick your girlfriend here to make the call."

"Don't do this."

"See the way I figure it, Your strong, your shock proof, and you can run really fast, plus you are cursed with this hero complex."

"Why don't you come back down on the deck, and we can talk about that."

"No, not until I have story."

"Look, Mr. Wite, you're wrong about me."

"I'm betting you'll still save me Clark."

"No I can't save you."

"I guess we will find out huh." he said. He jumped over the ledge and Clark tried to catch him.

"NOOO."

Clark was pulled down with him and they stopped falling because Perry had tied himself to a rope.

"CLARK." Lana yelled. She and Pete ran over to the railing and saw them hanging there. Perry was holding on to Clark and he was being held up by one foot.

They watched as Perry's liquor bottle fell out of his pocket. "Okay fun's over. Time to unleash those powers of yours Clark."

"I told you I don't hve any powers." Clark said. "Pete the camping gear, there is a rope."

Pete ran to his car to get the rope. The rope started to break. "Hold on guys. Pete hurry."

She looked back as Pete got the rope out of the trunk and she ran over to him she grabbed on end of the rope and he tied the other to the car. Lana ran over and dropped the rope over the edge and Clark grabbed it. Pete started his car.

The rope that was holding Perry broke completly and he grabbed ahold of Clark and now Clark was hold them both up. Lana signaled to Pete to back the car up and he did. They were half way up when the rope started to slip through Clark's hands and he managed to stop their fall by tightening his grip on the rope. Pete continued to back up and both men made it over the railing. Lana and Pete let out a sigh of relief. Clark fell to the ground exausted. Lana dropped to his side and higged him tightly as she started to cry.

"I thought I was going to lose you.' she pulled away and looked at his hands.

His hands were bleeding and because of the rope. Perry saw this and his eyes widened. Now he felt stupid. "Clark" she whispered. "We have to get you home."

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Clark was in the barn the next day moving some hay when his mother came in. "Clark breakfast is ready."

"I'll be in, in a second."

"So you're sure everything is okay now?" she asked.

Clark looked at her and threw the hay up and ran to catch it. Lana walked in to see him do that. "You like showing off your powers don't you." she laughed.

"Hi Lana would like to stay for breakfast?" Martha asked,

"Sure," she said.

"Okay. I will kee a plate warm for both of you." Martha said before walking out of the barn.

"I was going to come anf pick you up for school." Clark said as he walked down the stairs.

"Looks like I beaat you to the punch." she smiled. He gave her a kiss.

"Thank you." he said against her lips.

"For what?"

"For being there," he said.

"I'm glad I could help." she said. She grabbed his hand and looked at his palms. "So all your powers are back?"

"Yup all of them."

"That's great." she said.

"And I'm sorry." he said.

"For what?"

"Whether I meant to or not, I still helped bring all of those memories back. I'm glad you forgave me."

"I know you didn't mean it Clark. But I went to the grave yard before I came here."

"I bet tey were glad to see you."

"I realized that I hadn't been there for months. At first I felt guilty. Like I had done something wrong. But then I realized, that is the last thing that they would have wanted me to feel."

"So what did you tell them?" Clark asked as they started to walk to the house.

"That I never meant to ignore them, and you. And they were happy for us." Lana said. "And the important thing is, they know that they will always be in my heart."

Clark smiled and wrapped his arm around her shoulder as they went in for breakfast.

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"Thanks for the ride." Perry said.

"It was the only way I was sure you would get on to the bus."

"You really are freak you know that."

"Mr. White." Clark started.

"I'm serious. You try to helo everyone, including fools like me, and you never asked for anything in return. I saw your face after it was all over. I suddenly realized that I was gonig to tear down a good person. I just could believe that there was anyone like you out there."

"Trust me Mr. White, I am not that good."

"I'm just glad no one got hurt. All I know is that I got a wake up call. I am exactly 17 hours and five minutes sober." he said looking at his watch.

The buss pulled up. "I am gladd some good cam out of all this."

Perry started to walk up th steps of the bus before he stopped. "Clark."

"Yeah."

"You have a wonderful girl."

"I know."

"Tell her that I truely am sorry. I owe you one." he said before turning and getting into his seat.

The bus driver closed the door and Clark watched as he drove away.

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Chapter 5: Relic

Lana walked into the barn and saw Clark unloading hay from a flatbed. She was a little shaken up over the news that her great uncle had just told her. "Hey Lana." he said as he greeted her with a kiss.

"Hi Clark." she said.

"What's up."

"This." she said showing him the newpaper clipping.

"They look just like us," he said. "Who are they?"

"She's my great-aunt. She was murdered in 1961."

"What about him? Your uncle was the one that was convicted of her murder."

"The night of her murder, he saw that man running out of he barn. He said that he went in and saw Louise dead. That's when the sheriff arrived and foung him. "

"You believe him?"

"Why would Dexter lie to me. It's not like he can get the the last 40 years of his life back. "

Clark walked up to the loft and Lana followed him. "Lana, convicted murderers spend half their days trying to give into people that they are innocent. "

"Clark look at the picture, he looks exactly like you. Now, unless Dexter could see into the furute there is a pretty good chance that, that drifter was real."

Clark sat down on the couch and Lana sat next to him. Clark looked at the picture and his eyes wandered down to the medallion that the drifter was wearing. He froze. "Clark what is it?"

"Lana look at the necklace he's wearing." he said handing over the paper.

"What's so special about it."

"It's Kryptonian."

"But that means-"

"It was someone from Krypton."

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Lana, Clark, and Johnathan went to the caves, and Lana and Johnathan followed him in. They had a flash light and were looking for the same symbol on the wall. "I think that it was Jor-El." Clark said.

"From 1961."

"These cave walls say that people from Krypton have been here before. Why not my father.?"

"Don't you think that you are trying a little too hard to make a connection here Clark?"

"Both of you saw the medallion he was wearing, it was Kryptonian."

"Let's say that it was him. From the things that we know about him, it's not that far of a stretch to believe that he would kill someone."

"We don't know that much about him. Up until now, he has been some distant powerful threat. But he walked these streets, maybe we're not so different."

"Clark, Mr. Kent. I think I found it." they heard Lana's voice.

They looked in Lana's direction and she had her flashlight pointed to a symbol on the wall. It was the same symbol on the medallion. "I knew I saw it here before."

Clark touched it and the symbol moved before opening up. He reached in and a bright light came the hole. Clark saw flashes from the 60's, from when his father was on Earth. He pulled his hand out and Lana and Johnathan saw that he was shaking. "Clark?" Lana asked.

"Clark!" Johnathan said bringing Clark out of his trance.

Clark looked at them and opened his hand showing them tat he had the medallion in his hand.

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Later on that day, Clark Lana, and Pete ere walking in town. "The images I saw, must have been from the past." Clark said as they walked.

"Clark you really have to lay off of the late night television." Pete said.

"Pete I'm serious." I had all of these flashed but they went by so fast I couldn't make any sense of them." Clark said. Some guys walked in between Clark and Lana. He leaned against the mailbox and got a flash back.

THE DRIFTER SAVED LOUISE FROM A PURSE SNATCHER, AND INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS JOE.

Clark took hishand off of the mail box and felt Lana's hand on his. "Clark? Clark are you okay?"

"I just got another flashback. It was like I was in the fifties. This is where Joe was."

"Joe?" Pete asked.

"That's the name of the drifter." They all began to walk in the opposite direction. "Lana remember when I was in the caves and I got all of those flashes?"

"Yeah."

"I think that this medallion downloaded me with all of Jor-El's memories. And when I touch something of his, it triggers one."

"Right." Pete said not believing Clark.

"Louise was here too. The drifter saved her." Clark said.

"Of course he did. Clark, here in the 21st century, we call that a day dream. Look man I'll see you two later. I gotta go." he said. Pete walked away.

"There's gotta be a way to find out if what I saw really happened." Clark said. Then he and Lana looked at each other. "Chloe." they said simutaneously.

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In school, Chloe handed Clark and old dusty book. "Since when can you take police records out of city hall." Clark asked.

"Since I found the clerk and his girlfriend playing cops and robbers while on the job." Chloe laughed.

Clark opened the book. "The robbery hppened round June 19, 1961. That's when the moie was playing atthe Talon.

"I hate to give you the thried degree, but how do you know-"

"Chloe, I told you it was just a hunch." he said as they walked into the Torch.

"I get that, but the details."

"As the creator of the 'Wall of Wierd' just go with me on this okay." Clark said as he flipped through the pages and found the robber. "Look at the name of the robber."

"Lauchlan Luthor. That's Lex's grandfather." Clark loooked at her. "Oh come on. I had a three MB file on Lex. I know his favorite cereal. Maybe he knows something."

"Well you are going to have to find that out. I have to go meet Lana."

"This is where I am going to have to bail. The last time I researched the Luthor's it almost got Lex killed. "

"Please you are going to have to deal with him sooner or later." He left the Torch.

Clark met Lana in his loft. She was standing by the window when he got to the top of the stairs. "Lana."

He gave her a kiss hello. "Hey. Look I am sorry that I go so defensive this morning."

"It's okay." Lana smiled. "I did dump a lot on you."

Clark smiled and gave her abig hug. "I found some things of Louise's." she said. pointing to a box on the coffe table. "Maybe we can find something."

They walked over to the couch and sat down. Lana opened the box and Clark reached in and pulled out some pictures. Lana pulled out a love letter. "Dexter must have written this." Lana started to read the letter and her eyes widened. "I never knew that he could be so..."

"Passionate." Clark finished the statement for her.

"Yeah, " she said. She looked at the bottom of the letter. "Only an initial?"

Lana put down the letter and pulled a pearl necklace out of the box. "Could you?"

She turned and puller her hair to the side. When Clark grabbed the clasp, he got another flashback.

JOE AND LOUISE WERE IN HER BARN. THE BARN WHERE THEY CARRIED OUT THE FIRST STEP OF THEIR AFFAIR.

Clark pulled back. "What is it?" Lana asked.

"That love letter wasn't fromher husband. I think it was from the drifter, they were in love."

"Another flashback?"

Clark nodded as he told her about the flash back.

The next day he led her to the barn where Louise was killed. He bagan touching everything, hoping to get a flash back.

He walked over to a car that was covered with a sheet. He took off the sheet and looked at Lana before he touched the car.

JOE AND LOUISE WERE MAKING OUT IN THE BARN. JOE TOLD HER THAT, THAT WAS THE NIGHT HE HAD TO LEAVE AND SHE WANTED TO GO WITH HIM. HE WOULDN'T ALLOW IT. A MAN CAME IN AND TRIED TO SHOOT AND KILL JOE BUT TE BULLETS BOUNCED OFF OF HIM AND HIT AND KILLED LOUISE. IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT JOE LOVED HER.

Clark found himself cupping Lana's face. "Clark?"

She looked into his eyes and saw that there were tears that were waiting to break free. He backed away from her in shock. "I know who killed her."

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"I hate to rain on your parade but Lauchlan Luthor was in jail at the time of the murder."

"I know it was him." Clark said as he walked throught the halls with Lana and Chloe.

"How." Chloe asked. "You can't expect us to follow these hunches without telling us what going on." they followed Clark into the Torch."

"Tell her." Lana said.

"Tell me what?" Chloe asked.

Clark sighed. "Ever since I read that article I have been having flashbacks from 1961."

"What?" Chloe asked. She turned to Lana. "And you didn't tell me?"

"I asked her not to tell anyone." Clark said.

"Oh." Chloe said.

"It's like some wierd deja vu thing." Clark said.

"Like some reincarnation thing?" Chloe suggested.

"Chloe." Lana said.

"Genetic memory. Scientist theorize that we store our ancestors memory in our DNA." Chloe said. She looked at the computer screen. "Well, where ever your hunches are coming from, they are deadly accurate. Look at this, I asked the ledger to email me the newspapers police report that was missing from the log."

"Lauchlan was released from jail the morning of Louise's murder." Clark said looking over Chloe's shoulder.

"He only spent a few nights in jail for armed robbery?" Land asked shocked.

"Yeah, and look at the name of the deputy who released him." Chloe said as she walked over to the file cabinet.

Clark and Lana looked at the name. "Billy Tate."

"Better known as our honorable Mayor William Tate," she said showing them a picture of him.

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"Dex and Louise were my best friends. Arresting him was the hardest thing that I ever had to do." he said as he showed them a picture. He looked at Lana. "You bear a remarkable resembelance to your great aunt. Has anyone ever told you that?"

"Mayor Tate, do you remember booking someone named Lauchlan Luthor?" Clark said breaking in. "He was release the same day Louise was killed."

"It's hard to keep track of all the arrests I made." Tate said.

"We think your friend Dextor is innocent." Lana said.

"Trust me, of all the people I want to believe that more than anyone. Finally I had to admit that there was no drifter. He made up the story to cover up his own guilt."

Clark was in the back of the room looking at some of the things on the shelves. He saw a certificate on the shelf and it had Tate's signature on it. He knew he saw that handwriting somewhere. "Careful with that young man." Tate said as he placed his hand on Clark's shoulder.

BILLY TATE FOUND OUT ABOUT JOE AND LOUISE. HE TOLD JOE TO LEAVE TOWN BUT LOUISE STUCK UP FOR HIM. TATE TOLD LOUISE SHE WAS MAKING A MISTAKE. THAT'S WHEN LOUISE RELVEALED THAT SHE WAS FORCED INTO MARRING DEXTER AND THAT SHE DIDN'T LOVE HIM. LOUISE WANTED TO LEAVE WITH JOE BUT HE REFUSED AND HE SHOWED HER HIS ABILITIES AND TOLD HER THAT HE WAS AND ALIEN.

Clark and Lana went to go see the sheriff in town. "You want me to dredge up and investigation that was put to bed 40 years ago?" she asked.

"The mayor knows more than he is telling us." Clark said.

"Oh yes, the mysterious drifter of yours."

"We think that Mayor Tate made a deal to drop the charges on Lauchlan Luthor. If Lauchlan killed the drifter, they were going to pin the whole thing on Dextor." Clark said.

"Well you make a great story teller, Mr. Kent, but not much of a detective. You see I will need two small things called motive and evidence. Without those, I can't haul the leader of our community off to jail."

"Look at the handwriting on the police log, it matched the handwriting on this love letter." Lana said. "He was in love with her as well."

"With Dexter in jail, and the drifter dead, Tate could have Louise all to himself."

"I don't know if you kids can hear youselves right now, but you might want to be careful about you are pointing fingers at." the sheriif said before she walked away.

"Well what do we do now?" Lana asked.

"Let's get something to eat and go back to my house and take a break." Clark said.

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They walked into the kitchen and saw Martha and Johnathan canning some peaches. "Hey. Clark have you had any more of those visions?" Martha asked.

"No." Clark lied.

"Son I am sorry I doubted you." Johnathan said. "If you want, we can go to the barn and see if you missed anything."

Clark looked over his shoulder. Lana grabbed his hand. "Clark what is it?"

"That's granpa's gun." was the only thing he said as he and Johnathan walked over to the gun.

Johnathan grabbed the gun and held the handle out to Clark . Lana and Martha watched on as Cark grabbed the handle.

JOE AND HIRAM, JOHNATHAN'S FATHER MEET.

"The drifter was here on the farm with Grandp Kent." Clark said.

"Why don't you two go to the loft and we will meet you there." Johnathan said.

Clark and Lana went to the loft and they sat down on the couch. Clark was really quiet. "Hey are you okay?" she asked. Lana grabbed his arm and tried to get him to look at her in the eyes.

"I just want this all to be over."

"But you know what?"

"What." Clark said.

"You are about to get an innocent man out of jail and put a guilty man that has been running from this for the past 40 years in. " Lana said softly.

He looked at her and smiled. "I love you." he said softly.

"I love you too." she said. She cupped his face and he leaned down and captured her lips with his, and she responded. They only pulled away because they heard Johnathan clear his throut. They look ed and saw Johnathan was carrying a large box. They stood and walked over when Johnathe put down the box. The knelt by the box. "I haven't opened this since the day my father passed away. "

"Maybe something in here will help trigger some new memories." Martha said.

Johnathan showed Clark some things until Clark spotted brown leather jacket.

HIRAM GAVE JOE A NEW JACKET SO PEOPLE WOULD NOT RECOGNIZED HIM. HE WAS HELPING HIM GET OUT OF TOWN. JOE WAS ALSO GETTING HELP FROM JOHNATHAN'S MOTHER WHO WAS PREGNANT WITH HIM AT THE TIME.

Clark told his parents and Lana about the vision and got an idea.

Clark dressed as Joe and made a special trip to Mayor Tate's office. He showed up and started a fire in the fire place with his heat vision.

"Sheriff Tate." Clark said.

"Mr Kent I am not sire how you got in here but I do not find this very amusing."

"I think you 've got me confuse with someone else."

"The police are on their way." Tate said as he turned around, only to find Clark there as well. He saw the medallion around Clark's neck and gasped. "Where did you get that."

"I knew you'd remember me."

"This can't be real."

"You've done a pretty good job at hiding what's real." Clark said. "I know you made a deal with Lauchlan to kill me. But how did you feel when you found out that he killed Louise instead?"

Tate ran over to his desk drawer and pulled out a gun. "It was supposed to be you." he said. He tried to shoot Clark buthe dodged every bullet.

"You can't kill me. I'm already dead."

"Mother of God."

"If you ever want a day of peace you'll confess what you had done to the sheriff."

"No." he said holding the gun up to his head, "I am not going to jail."

Clark ran over to him and took the gun from his hands. "You are not going to take the easy way out."

As the door to the office opened, Clark sped out of the office and hid outside of the window and listened in as the mayor confessed everything to the sheriff.

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"The next day Lana was watching as Dexter was being helped into his wheel chair to be released. "I never expected for this day to come. It's just so hard to believe that Billy was behind all of this. You know he came to visit me every Sunday for the first two years I was here."

"I'm sorry I know he was your friend."

"I knew he loved Louise, but I never imagined he could do something like this, and im confessing after all of these years. Doesn't make any sense." he said.

Lana smiled on the inside. She and Johnathan's parents were the only people who knew what he did. "Maybe it had been haunting him."

"It's a terrible thing when love consumes you, and take over, I was so in love you Louise I couldn't see how unhappy she was. I wish I has know when to let go." Lana watched as he was wheeld away.

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Clark sat in his loft and heard Clark coming up the stairs and calling his name. "Clark.'

He saw reach the top step. "How's Dexter." he asked.

"I think that he is just relieved that his name has been cleared."

"Personally, I would be more relieved knowing that I wasn't going to be locked up again."

"He was wrong though, it wasn't the drifter."

"If he naver came, then none of that would have happened."

"I know what she did was wrong, but even though it was for a few days, she knew what love really was."

"You're right." Clark said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the medallion from his shirt pocket. "Can you wait here. I have to go to the cave for a few minutes."

"Okay." she said.

He smiled and he sped away to the caves. He walked over to the symbol on the wall and touched it.

JOE AND HIRAM WERE IN THE CAVES AND JOE WAS LEAVING. JOE USED THE OCTAGONAL KEY TO PLACE THE MEDALLION IN THE WALL.

Clark sped home and found Johnathan walking out of the barn. "Clark where you. You know Lana is in the loft sleeping."

"I went to the caves. I have another vision."

"What did you see?"

"The medallion is like a journal. He didn't want his father to have it. Jor'el was sent here for some kind of right of passage. Grandpa Kent was down there too. He told Joe that if there was anything that he ever needed...."

"Clark what is it?" Johnathan asked.

"I don't think that you and mom found me by accident. I think you were chosen."

"That can't be." Johnathan said shocked.

"Because of Grandpa Kent, Jor-El knew that I would be safe with you and mom."

Johnathan changed the subject. "Lana's asleep on the couch in the loft. Don't wake her, just put her in your bed and you take the couch."

Johnathan walked away and Clark went to the loft and carefully picked up Lana and placed her on his bed without waking her. He covered her up and kissed er forehead before leaving the room and taking his place on the couch.

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Chapter 6: Magnetic

Lana and Chloe were at the fair that came to Smallville one a year and stayed for a week. They were looking around and waiting for Clark to show up. Lana was looking at a snowglobe. The snow globe was suppose to be a copy of the meteor shower that hit Smallville. Lana shook it. "How tasteless is this. I think they even used real kr-meteor rock." Lana said. She almost slipped and she was lucky that Chloe did not catch it.

"The American version of closure." Chloe said. "You can only get over your grief when you merchendise your tradegy."

Lana put down the snow globe and Chloe spoke up. "OH. Cotten Candy." They walked over to the guy and Chloe took out her money. "One cotten candy please."

The man gave them the cotten candy and Chloe gave him the money. They both started to pick at the cotten candy. Lana had a piece in her hand when she felt two strong arms wrap around her waist. She smiled. "Hey Clark." she said.

She turned her head and gave him a kiss. "You want some." she said offering the cotten candy that was in her hand.

Clark opened his mouth and Lana put the cotten candy inside. "Do you want any thing to drink?"

"A coke." Lana said.

"What about you Chloe?" Clark asked.

"Dr. Pepper." she smiled.

"I'll be back." Clark said.

"Okay." Lana said.

She gave Clark one more kiss before walking away.

"Hey. Chloe Sullivan." Chloe and Lana looked up at the sound of Chloe's name. They looked in the direction of the voice. "You want to show off your arm. Amaze and astound your friends."

"Sure." she said. "Why not?"

They walked over to the game. "I'll let you in on a little secret. The game's rigged. Magnets. Just get it close and I'll give you the prize.'

"Won't you get in trouble for that?" Chloe asked.

"Oh no. It's the last day of the fair. What are they going to do?"

The boy walked away and Lana sat on the couch and smiled as she took some cotten candy. "What?" Chloe asked.

"Come on Chloe he was hitting on you."

"Seth is my lab partner."

"And he has also had a crush on you since...forever. He was the one who used to spell out your name using spaghettios."

"That was in sixth grade, and now he is into things like cars, comics, and game cubes."

"He's kind of cute thoug." Lana stood and then handed the two balls to Chloe and took the cotten candy from Chloe so she could throw the ball. The first time she threw the ball she missed and then she and Lana started to laugh. "Aim the ball." Lana said.

"I am aiming." Chloe laughed. She threw the ball again and missed. "I give up."

Seth walked over and grabbed the snow globe that Chloe and Lana were looking at earlier. "Here. For a good effort." he said placing in her hand and grabbing her hand in the process.

"Seth I can't-"

The man that went before Chloe walked over."I'll take it."

"I'm sorry sir, but you have to win first."

"Like her." he said pointing to Chloe.

"I think you should leave." Seth said.

The man jumped over the counter. "Make me."

"Here." Chloe said, handing the snow globe to the man. "Take it and leave him alone."

"You going to have a girl a fight your battles for you?" he asked.

Seth pushed the man into the prize rack and ran way. "Come on punk. I'm going to tear you apart." he said running after Seth.

"Lana, go get help." Chloe said as he ran after the two men. Lana ran in thhe other direction and she ran into Clark.

"Lana what's wrong?"

"Come on Clark. Follow me." Lana said. She grabbed his hand and led him through the crowd until they found Seth. Chloe was alreayd with him. The other man had smashed the globe on his head and now Seth had a large gash on his forehead. "Oh my God Seth."

Clark got too close to them and he grabbed Lana's hand. "Lana." he said as he started to feel the affects of the kryptonite from the globe.

She saw the look in his eyes and felt how weak he was. "Is it?"

"Yeah." he struggled to say. Lana helped him walk away. "I'll call am ambulance." he said. He pulled out his cell phone.

"Are you okay now?" she asked.

"I am. Now go helo Chloe with Seth." he said.

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Chloe was the hospital waiting for some news on Seth whe she heard some commotion coming from Seth's room. She ran over to his room and saw him laying down on the table of the MRI machine. She went over to the side on the table. "Seth are you okay?" Seth grabbed her hand and she smiled at him. "Lana was right. You are cute."

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Seth was in the hospital room and it was dark. He had a tray of food in from of him and saw there was a metal spoon in the jello. He looked at it and it started to float up in the air. He went to grab it when it fell and the door opened and Chloe walked in followed by Clark and Lana. "Hey," Lana said.

"How are you feeling?" Chloe asked.

"Better." he said.

"You should see the MRI machine." Clark said.

"Do they know what happened?" Chloe said getting closer to the bed.

"Umm...I guess something interfered with the magnetic field. Must have have been an old machine. Sorry for ruining your day at the fair guys, but thanks for bringing me to the hospital."

"Happy to helo." Lana said.

"You know Chloe I would really like to make it up to you." he said. "Maybe take you out sometime."

"Seth, you don't have to." Chloe said. Then Seth grabbed her hand without Clark and Lana seeing. Chloe smiled. "Okay. How about tonight."

Clark and Lana were confused at Chloe's answer. Confused and Shocked. They left the room and Chloe followed. "Hey guys what the rush?"

"We have to get to the farm.." Clark said.

"We promised Mrs. Kent that we would help her out." Lana and Clark lied.

"Okay. Well I meet you guys later." Chloe said before walking back into Seth's room.

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Back at Clark's house, he and Lana were in the kitchen with Martha and Clark was looking in the refridgerator. He closed the fridge and Johnathan walked in and gave Martha a kiss hello.

"Uh oh he went into the refridgerator and didn't eat the last piece of cherry pie. Something must be up."

"It's Chloe." Lana said.

"Seth asked her out today and she accepted." Clark said.

"What's wrong with that?" Johnathan asked.

"She has never shown showed any interest in him until today." Lana said. "She just changed."

"She answered so quickly." Clark said. "It was like she was waiting for him to asked her out."

"Maybe you should go talk to her." Martha said.

Clark looked at his watch. "We'll to that later. It's 12:30 now."

"Oh shoot. My shift at the Talon starts in 30 minutes."

"I'll take you." Clark said. 'Then I have to get back here so I can fix the fence."

"Alright." Lana said.

"Bye Mr. and Mrs. Kent.' Lana said.

"Bye Lana." Martha said.

"See you later." Johnathan said.

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Later on that night, Clark and Lana were at the Talon. Clark was helping Lana close the Talon when Chloe walked in. "Hey Clark, Hey Lana."

"Hey Chloe." they said. Lana and Clark were behind the counter. Lana placed Chloe's favorite on top of the counter and turned to turn off the coffe machine.

"I hope you don't mind, but I told Seth to pick me up here."

"Oh no. It's okay." Lana said.

"So. Do you know where Seth is taking you?" Clark asked.

"No. He won't me. And truthfully I don't even know why I said I would go out with him. "

"What do you mean?" Lana asked.

"I don't know. I wanted to say no, but I guess I said yes, just to make him feel better." Chloe said.

"So you're not into him?" Clark asked.

Chloe shook her head. "He's a nice enough, but I just don't feel anything."

"I know we shouldn't pry, but if you don't like Seth, then don't lead him on."

"Chloe?" Seth called from the Talon entrance and walked over to them.

"Hi Seth." Chloe said. "Umm can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Sure." he said.

Chloe led him over to a table on the other side of the Talon and Lana and Clark stayed at the counter. Chloe sat him down. "Look Seth I don't know how to say this...I know I said that I could go with you, but I can't. I really am sorry."

Seth was clearly hurt. "It's no problem. I know you are always bust with the Torch and everything. You should take a break." he said as he casually placed his hand on her shoulder. "Have a little bit of fun."

Chloe smiled. "You know what, you're right. I would love to go out with you."

Chloe stood and she and Seth left the Talon leaving Clark and Lana very confused.

"I thought she was going to break it off." Clark said.

"I thought so too." Lana said.

They heard the car start and it drive away. "Lana stay here." he said.

He sped after them leaving Lana alone.

Clark followed them to the fair and over heard Seth saying that after the MRI he could control metal objects. He turned on the farris wheel and the lights shined bright.

"Am I scaring you?" he asked Chloe.

"Actually I think that it's kind of cool." she said as they walked to the farris wheel car. He moved one of the cars to him and Chloe and she laughed. "Amazing."

He led her into the car, and started the wheel.

Clark watched as they went around in circles and when it stopped he heard Chloe scream and then laugh. He rushed over to the side of the ferris wheel and turned so that they were on that, Chloe and Seth could step off. "Clark? What are you doing here."

"I heard screaming, so I pulled the switch."

"What switch I didn't hear the motor go off."

"Do you always wander around in closed fairs Clark?" Seth asked.

Clark didn't answer any of their questions.

"Did you follow us here?" Chloe asked.

Seth grabbed her hand and led her out of the park hurt that Clark would follow her.

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The next in school, Clark walked to Seth's locker and saw him close it without touching it. "Nice trick."

"Don't you have anything better to do then follow me and Chloe around?"

"You can control metal can't you?"

"So what if I can?"

"Maybe even have some type of hold ove Chloe."

"I have to poke a hole in your theory Clark, but you know Chloe is not made out of steel."

He started to walk away but Clark followed him. "I don't know how you are doing it, but I am not going to let you force Chloe to be with you."

"I'm not forcing her Clark."

"She's not into you Seth."

"Sure fooled me." he said.

"I'm warning you stay away from Chloe."

"And I'm warning you, stay away from us. You have no idea what I am capable of." To mkake a point, he moved his hands and all of the locker in the hallwayy closed. He walked away.

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"So your saying that the meteor fragments from the snowglobe plus the MRI machine, made Seth be able to control metal?" Lana asked Clark as they search the medical record in the hospital. Clark nodded. "Assuming that Seth can control, what doed that have to do with Chloe's sudden attraction towards him?"

"It had something to do with the accident." Clark looked in a drawer. "I found it." he said. He took out a folder and flipped througt the pages. "The electro-magnetic activity in Seth's nervous systemis higher after the MRI."

"That would explain him being able to control metal." Lana said. "Why didn't the doctor's flag it?"

"They chopped it up to an accident. They're keeping an eye on his for a few weeks. Let's head back to the Torch."

Suddenly the door to the room opened and Lana pushed Clark against the wall as just as the lights turned on she captured Clark's lips in a kiss. Clark gladly reponded by wrapping his arms around her waist. The doctor that walked in saw them."What's going on? What are you two doing in here?"

Lana pulled away and looked at the doctor. "Nothing. We were jst taking a break from candy striping."

"This is a hospital young lady." the doctor said. "Vlunteering is about helping patients, not about make-out session in the file room.

He left the room, leaving Clark and Lana alone. Lana smiled and looked up at Clark. "Come on." Lana said smiling.

Clark smiled and followed her.

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That night, Lana and Clark walked into the barn to go to the loft when they saw Chloe sitting on the step waiting for him. "Chloe."

"I heard you told Seth to stay away from me." she said standing up and walking towards them. "First you follow us and now this."

"He's different. The MRI machine somehow made him magnetic,"

"I know. He told me." Chloe said. "I think that he's great."

"It's not just you." Lana said. "We think that he's somehow using his powers to make you like him."

"Don't be rediculous."

"Your brain is like a circiut board, with magnetic impulses," Cark said. "Lana and I think-"

"I can't believe you Lana. You believe him."

"It's like he is a giant magnet." Clark said. "And he can control those impulses..."

"You both are crazy." she said turning around and walking away.

"Chloe listen to us." Lana said. "The brain releases chemicals that controls depression hunger, why not attraction."

"Seth isn't touching me now." Chloe said turning around. "I am beginning to care moe about him then any other guy in my life. So how do you guys explain that."

"I don't know. Maybe it's like metal. The longer a magnet stays in contact with metal, the longer the effects last."

"Just stay out of my life. Both of you." Chloe said. She left the barn and left Lana and Clark alone.

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The next day Clark drove Lana to the Talon. They were in the car and Clark sighed. "Don't worry Clark she will come around."

They got out of the car and started to walk to the Talon. "I hope so."

Lana stopped and looked at Clark. "You know what."

Clark smiled. "What."

"I know that she will come around. She will finally see that Seth is comtrolling her and she will leave him." Lana said.

Clark leaned down and kissed her on the lips. "Come on." Clark said.

He and Lana walked over to the Talon door and found them unlocked. They walked in and found Lex walking in from the back. "Hey Lex." Lana said.

"What's going on?" Lana asked as Lex went around to the other side of the counter.

"Chloe is leaving town with her new boyfriend." Lex said opening the now empty cash drawer. "And she just cleared out the register. Don't worry guys. I'll call the sherff, they won't even make it out of town." He turned and took out his cell phone. Clark picked up Lana and they ran out of the Talon before Lex turned around.

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Clark stopped at a road and put Lana down. "What are we doing here?" Lana asked.

"I can stop them ." he said. They saw the car Chloe and Seth were in and Clark used his heat vison and melted the road. He the picked up Lana and her ran and they hid behind a bush to see what would happen.

They watched as the car got stuck and they heard the sheriff coming. And they also watched as Seth abandoned Chloe in the car.

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Clark and Lana were at the jail visiting Chloe. "I'm sorry guys. You were right about Seth. "

"It's okay." Lana said.

"We all make mistakes." Clark said. "Believe me."

"Sheriff Adams knows that you didn't steal the car and Lex is working with some laywers about the charges against you." Lana said.

"I just can't believe how mean I was to you guys. You are trying to help me."

"Do you have any idea where Seth went?" Clark asked.

"He has a brother in Grandville that works at a diner. We were going to stay with him." Chloe said.

"Thanks." Lana said.

"No thank you." Chloe said.

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Chloe sat in the jail cell and heard some banging. She saw Seth come and open the cell door. She ran over and hugged him. "I'm so glad thhat your here."

"Are you sure." Seth said. "I just saw Clark and Lana leave."

"I made up a story about you. I said that you were on your way to Grandville."

Put your hands in the air." they heardThey turned and saw a cop holding a gun up at them.

Seth raised his hands and controlled a piece of metal to knock the cop out. Seth took his gun for protection.

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Lana waited for Clark at his house as Clark check Grandville for Seth's brother. She sat in the living room watching T.V when she heard the door open and saw Clark walking through the door and Martha coming down the stairs. She stood and walked over to him. "Seth doesn't have a borther that works in Grandville. Chloe's trying to throw us off of her trail."

"She's clearly not herself." Martha said.

Pete walked into the house out of breath. "Hey Seth pulled a Bonnie and Clyde and broke Chloe out of jail."

"What?" Lana asked.

"Yeah, The sheriff has all of the roads blocked."

"She's going to ruin her life if she stays with him." Clark said. "We have to find her."

"They could be hiding anywhere. They are a needle in a haystack."

Clark looked at the table behind Martha. "Depends on the needle."

He grabbed the compass off of the table. "Lana stay here."

"Be careful okay?" she said. She gave him a kiss before he sped out of the house.

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Clark followed the compass to the Sea of Love in the fair. He went in and found Chloe and Seth kissing. He ran over and grabbed Seth and threw him to the ground causing the gun that was in his pocket to fall out. "You are not taking her anywhere." he said walking over to them and picking him up. "I told you to stay away from her."

"Clark." Chloe said.

Clark looked at her and saw that she had the gun pointed to him. "Let him go." he held on. "Let him go or I swear I will shoot." Clark still didn't move. "Get away from him Clark."

He let go. "Chloe I can handle it from here." Seth said as he made the gun come to him. He pointed the gun at Clark. "Meet me outside Chloe."

Chloe went out side and left Seth alone with Clark. As Seth got closer to Clark, Clark backed away. "You need help Seth."

He began to shoot and Clark jumped behind the small car and felt as each bullet hit his back but it didn't hurt him. He stood once he knew that Seth was out of bullets. He wiped the bullets off os his shoulder. "Looks like I'm not the only one with special powers."

He threw a car at Clark and he caught it. When Clark caught it, Seth pushed it against Clark and Clark was pushed throught the wall. Clark saw the electrical box in the wall and pulled out the wire and touched the car with it. That acted as a super magnet and Seth found him self drawn towards the car and being shocked and knocked unconscious.

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Chloe was sentenced to community service and she got off easy for what she did, and Seth was in a coma and they were not sure what he would remember when or if he ever woke up.


Lana and Clark were in the loft on the couch. Chloe walked up the stairs and saw Clark sitting with one leg on the couch and the other hanging over and he was resting his back on the arm of the couch and Lana was sitting in between his legs with her legs stretched out on the couch. When she walked up there, she saw Lana and Clark laughing about something. They didn't notice her until she cleared her throat.

Lana and Clark stopped and looked at her. "Hey Chloe." they stood from the couch.

"I came by to say thank you for saving me from Seth. And to apologize." Chloe said. "For real this time. I should have believed you two I'm sorry."

"You weren't your self."

"Even though I was being controlled a part of me knew the both of you were right." Chloe said. "It's just when I look at you guys I want to have the same thing that you have. I want to be able to go to someone all the time. I look at Seth and I thought that he was my chance. I thought that we could be like you."

"Hey you know what. You are going to meet someone that you are going to love."

"When."

"We're only in highschool you have the rest of your life."

Suddenly Chloe's phone rang. It was her father. "I better go. Thanks again."

"No problem." Lana said.

Chloe walked down the stairs.

"Do you think that you will ever leave me if something like that happened?" Clark asked.

"Never." Lana said. "I love you and I will never leave you no matter what?"

Clark leaned down and kissed her. "I love you too."

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Chapter 7: Shattered

Clark and Lana were just getting back from a horse ride. They rode for hours after Clark did his chores on the farm and so he was free to go out with Lana. They led their horses into the stable and Clark Lana smiling. "What are you smiling about?"

"We haven't done that in a long time." Lana said.

"I know that the last time we did that was the day before...."

"You ran off to Metropolis." Lana finished for him. She watched him as he closed the door to the stable and she grabbed his hand and they started to walk. "Don't worry Clark. That was months ago and I know what happened and I know about your powers so it doesn't matter anymore. You are here in Smallville with the people who love and care for you. It's all in the past."

"Come on, I have to take you home. It's late." he said. They got into his truck and he drove her home.

The next day, Clark walked up to his loft and about to start studying when he saw Lex. He was in bad shape, he had a cut above his eye and his clothes were ripped. "Lex?"

He got up and stood and Clark saw him wince in pain. "Are you alone?"

"Yeah. What happened to you?"

Lex limped over to the window. "Someone tried to kill me last night."

Clark walked over to his side. "We need to get you to the hospital. Call the police."

"No. No hospitals, no police. These people are profeesionals.They killed my security guard Darius. They tried to finish me off too." Lex said. "I just need time to think."

"Who would want to kill you?"

"The less you know the better." Lex said as he walked away from the window.

"Lex, I can't help you, if you don't tell me what's going on."

"It was probably my father." Lex said looking at him.

"Look I know that you guys havr had your problems, but do really think that your father would try to kill you?"

"It was either him or Morgan Edge."

"Morgan Edge." Clark said not believing him. "Isn't he the crime boss, I read, that was killed in the shoot out a few months ago?"

"He survived." Lex said. "He went underground and got a hack plastic surgeon to change his appearence."

"What does he have against you?"

"I have evidence that him and my father connected to a crime that can get them both the death penalty. That evidence was suppose to be delivered to the U.S. attorny this morning."

"Clark?" came Johnathan's voice. "Is that you?"

"It's in my safe Clark." Lex whispered. "I can't go back there."

"Clark!"

Lex hid behind the table and Clark turned to see his father. "Listen since you are up the cows anyway, why don't come down and give me a hand with the milking."

"Sorry I have some last minute craming to do." Clark said pointing to the books on the desk.

"Alright." Johnathan said. "But I expect you to get an A."

Yes. Sir." Clark said.

Johnathan smiled before walking down the stairs leaving Clark and Lex alone again.

Lex stood. "Alright. I'll go get what's in your safe."

"No. It's too dangerous Clark." Lex said. "The people in the mansion could be in on it."

"If anyone asks. I'll just play dumb. I'll tell them I came to see you." Clark said. "Now tell me exactly what happened."

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Clark went to Lex's mansion and check the safe with the keys and the code Lex gave him. He opene the safe and found that there was nothing inside. He went out into the hall way and saw that there were no signs of any kinds of attack. Clark asked one of the guards where Darius was, and he was told that Darius had the night off. Clark found a piece of glass beind one of the pieces of furniture in the hallway.

He went back to barn and told Lex what he had found. "I'm telling you Lex, It's like being in the Twilight Zone. There was nothing wrong."

"I didn't imagine getting shot at Clark." Lex said putting on the shirt Clark brought him. "They must have covered their tracks."

"Yeah, well they missed a spot." Clark said pulling out the piece of glass he found earlier. "I found this in the hall way."

Lex walked over and took it from him. :I called Darius' house to see if anyone knew if he ws missing, but according to his aswring machine, he and his wife and kids are off visiting their grandparents."

"Darius is probably at the bottom of Crator Lake by now."

"Maybe we should call the U.S. attorney."

"Tell him what? He was nervous about going after someone as powerful as Lionel Luthor to begin with. I don't think that he will be issuing warrents, based on a shard of glass."

"Is there anyone who could confirm any part of your story.

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Clark went to go see Chloe in the Torch, and realized that was tied into this whole deal as well. He realized that anyone who knew about this was in danger. Clark knew that he had to keep her safe. He told her to get her lap top and go to the farm with him. When they went back to the farm they saw Lionel Luthor talking to his parents outside. He walked over to them. "Hello Clark." he shook Clark's hand. "And Miss Sullivan, is it?" he asked shaking Chloe's hand as well pretending that they had not already met.

"Yeah."

"Clark, Mr Luthor has something he's like to talk to you about." Johnathan said.

"I'm afraid it's serious." Martha said.

"Have you seen Lex?" Lionel asked. "Clark."

"Not for a few days." Clark lied.

"Lex is missing It's important that I find him."

"Mr Luthor, I know Lex pretty well. If he wanted you to know where he was, he probably would."

"Lex is seriously ill. He needs help."

"What do you mean ill?" Clark asked.

"Lex has had a psychotic break."

"That can be right." Clark said.

"It happened while he was on the island. I thought that he had beaten but he had had a relapse....He is suffering from paranoid dillusions. He is hearing voices, he sees things that aren't there. Listen. I want my son, I want him back. The way he used to be. If you hear from him Clark, you have to help me. We have to give him the care he needs."

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Clark walked into the barn and heard someone singing. It was Lex. He turned and found him singing a lullaby. "Lex what are you doing down here?"

Lex turned. "I had to get the baby, he was crying. My father woke him." he said. looking up at Clark.

"The baby? What baby?"

Lex turned and Clark saw that he was holding a wrapped up blanket. "My little brother Jullian."

"Lex..."

"Shhh." Lex said putting his finger to his lip. "He's asleep." He continued to sing to the blanket.

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After talking to his parent and taking Lex to where Lex said that he saw Morgan Edge, only to find the building with Chinese workers. Clark took Lex where ever he wanted to go. He took him to the mansion where , they found that Darius was alive, and he threw a tantrum during his last session and threw a vase through the window, which was why the shard of glass was found. His doctor tried to give him a sedetive but he thought it was hallucinogen, and then flipped out. They wanted to take him to a hospital but he refused. Clark then took Lex to the Smallville stables where Clark called Lana.

Lana was in the Talon when she heard her cell phone ring. She smiled when she saw Clarks name. "Hey handsome."

"Lana I need you to come to the smallville stables, and bring food."

Lana heard the urgency in Clark's voice. "Clark what's wrong?"

"I can't exlain it right now. Just meet me here at the Smallville Stables." Clark said. "I love you."

"Love you too."

Lana hung up the phone.

Lana met them 15 minutes later. She walked in with a picnic basket and saw Clark and walked over to him.

"Clark. I brought the food, now please tell me what's going on."

Clark moved aside and Lana looked in one of the stables and saw Lex sitting on some hay. She saw Lex looked depressed. She walked over to him and knelt down in fron of him. "Hey what's wrong?" she asked Lex.

"There's a possibility he is being drugged." Clark spoke up. Lana looked at him. "People are after him. I can't take him to the farm and I knew that you knew this place."

Lana stood and walked over to him. "Why didn't you tell about this?" she asked.

"Because if Lex is right, anyone who knows about this is in danger, and I am not going to put you in danger. I love you too much to doo that but I had no choice but to call you."

"What exactly are we mixed up in?"

"I wish I knew." Clark said. "But look I need you to stay with him."

"Where are you going?" she asked worried abour him.

"I have to get some evidence to Chloe to prove that he is being drugged. She couldn't come here because we think she's being watched."

"Don't worry Lana." Lex said. "I'll tell you everything."

"Be careful," Clark whispered. "He's not himself."

"Go." Lana whispered back. Clark leaned down and kissed her passionately and she responded. "I'll be okay."

Clark looked at Lex one more time before leaving the stable and getting in his truck to take Chloe the drug.

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Chloe sat in her car and waited for Clark to come. She finally saw his red truck pull up and she got out of the car and went over to the window.

"Thanks for meeting me all the way out here." Clark said. as he parked his car.

"No problem." Chloe said.

Clark handed her the small bottle. "I need you to see if this can make some one halluinate."

"I'll het it to my source at the pharmacology lab."

"Also I need you to check a Dr. Claire Foster and the two security guards. If there is a conspiracy, they are probably in on it too." Clark was about to drive away before Chloe stopped him.

"Clark wait." she said. "I dug up some of Lex's medical records. Apparently this isn't the first time, he has had this...kind of problem."

"What are you taking about?"

"Well...after his brother died, Lex went right back to bording school, and soon after that he started showing pretty...bizarro behaver."

"What do you mean bizarro?"

"His house master fond him sitting in the bell tower in the middle of the night, singing a lullaby to a wrapped up blanket. I want to believe that this is a conspiracy jst as much as you do but, I thik that we have to prepare ourselves for the possibility that Lex really is losing his mind."

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Clark stood outside of the hospital room with tears threatening to fall as he watched Lana. Her leg was broken in mulitple places and the doctors said that she might not make it. **This is my fault.** he kept on thinking. If he hadn't have asked her to stay with Lex, she would not be here.

Lionel walked up next to Clark and looked at Lana through the window. As much as Clark didn't wan to leave the window he didn't want to stay close to Lionel. He began to walk away. "Wait a minute." Lionel said. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to find Lex." Clark said looking at him. 'If I were you I would be careful. Lex is convinced that you are the one that responsible for everything that has been happening to him."

"Wel I am touched by your concern but you and I both know which of us is to blame."

"Mr Luther I don't think-"

"No NO!" he shouted. "I don't want to hear it. If you had listened to me Lex would already be getting the help he needed, and your girlfriend would not here be fighting for her life!"

"Clark." they heard Chloe. "You okay?"

"Don't worry about me Clark. I know that my security personel are well equipt to protect me, and to find my son. Now I strongly suggest the two of you go home before you do any more damage." He started to walk away and walked past Chloe. "Miss. Sullivan." it was his way of saying 'good bye'.

Clark went back and looked into Lana's room. "The drug analysis came back. It was just a common sedetive."

"Lionel was right Chloe. I really screwed up." He said as a tear rolled down his cheek.

"Maybe not." Chloe said. "Now there are a lot of drugs that could make Lex see pink elephants, but the question is how did it get into his system."

For the first time in their conversation, Clark looked at her. "The mansion, everything is brought to him there. The food, the drinks."

"So as far as we know, they could have been dosing him for weeks."

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Clark barged into Lex's study. "How did you do it?"

Darius, who was on the couch stood up. "Do what?"

"Get the drugs in Lex's system."

"You know I don't appretiate some farm boy coming in here and accusing me of a felony."

Clark tripped Darius so that he was on his sotmach and held his arm behind his back. "Don't underestimate farm boys. Bailing all that hay can make you pretty strong."

Darius laid on the ground in pain. "Come one make your going to break my arm."

"Not if you tell me how you drugged Lex."

"It was the scotch."

"Tell me who you are working for!" Clark shouted.

"I don't know who they are alright. All I have is a cell phone number."

"Call them. Tell them to be at the Smallville Stables by noon with a bag full of Benjamins or I go to the cops."

"Kid, you're crazy. These people are not going to pay you off. They are going to kill you."

Clark leaned down and put his face close to Darius'. "I'll take my chances."

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After attacking the man that tried to kill him at the Smallville stables, and getting the information on where to find who he was looking for he headed to a house. It was the house where Morgan Edge was hiding. Clark walked in to find Lex pointing a gun at Edge's face. He got the gun away from Lex and felt week. "Hi Kal. I had a feeling we would be seeing eachother again, that's why I have been carrying these around." He wrapped a string of kryptonite around his hand. Lex looked at them.

"You know each other?"

"We go way back." Morgan said.

Lex moved around them and was behind Clark. "You in this too Clark. You in on this too?"

Clark hunched over in pain. "No Lex it's not what you think."

Morgan came to Clark's side and punched him in the face sending him to the ground. Morgan kicked him in the stomach and punched him once more before the the string broke and kryptonite was spread all over the floor. Morgan was shot and he fell out of the window and laid on the ground.

"Thank you." Clark said turning over on the ground.

"Don't thank me Clark. You're part of this. I have to kill you too," he said pointing the gun to him. Clark tried to push the kryptonite away from him. "Did you think that you could just sliver away from me Clark?"

"Lex. I'm your friend. I would never do anything to hurt you."

'What did you do? Did you betray Edge too? Is that why he beat you to a pulp?" Lex bent down and put the gun right in his face. "Come Clark. What's the price of a Judas Kiss these days?"

They heard a car start and Lex looked up and saw that Edge was no longer on the grass. "Edge."

Lex looked at Clark and threw him on the ground before running out to find Edge.

Clark managed to get out of te room and heard gunshots. When he went outside he saw Morgan edge, driving towards Lex and Lex shooting at him. Clark pushed Lex out of the way and was hit by the car. Lex saw eveyrthing. He looked as Clark stood, unscathed, and watched as he pushed the car way.

Clark realized, Lex witnessed everything. "I was right about you all along Clark. You are not even human."

Clark didn't know what to say. Clark heard a car pull up and ran away.

Lex tried to tell his psychiatrist that Clark was hit with the car and wasn't hurt, but she didn't believe him. That's when they took him away.

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Lana opened her eyes and found that Clark was sitting right there next to her. He looked up and smiled when she opened her eyes. "Hey."

She smiled. "How's Lex?"

"Lex isn't doing so good."

"I'm sorry." she could see that he was upset by this. "I know how much you wanted to help him."

"He saw me Lana."

"What?"

"He saw me use my powers."

"How?"

"I pushed him out of the way from a car and he saw me get hit and push the car away."

"What's going to happen?"

"Hopefully no one will believe him." Clark said. Then he wanted to change the subject."The doctors say that you are doing better."

"That's good." she said.

"Lana you almost died...because of me."

"Clark don't say that."

"Lana being around me is too dangerous."

"And it's my choice to stay with you. Clark I love you, and I will always love you. There is no way I am ever going to leave you. I don't care, if being around you is too dangerous. I want to be with you, and nothing is going to stop that." Lana said. She reached out her hand and Clark grabbed it. She slightly tugged on his hand and he moved closer to her. She smiled. "You haven't kissed me in a while."

Clark laughed and leaned foward and kissed her.


End of Shattered. Next Asylum.


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Chapter 8: Asylum

Clark went to Belle Reeve to visit Lex and while he was walking through the halls he ran into a few of the people he put there, like Ian and Van. They were very angry with him. He went into the main room and saw Lex. "Lex." he said.

Lex saw him and stood from his spot. He and Clark met half way. He grabbed his hand. "I was wondering if I was ever going to see you again."

"I've been trying to visit you for the past month, but the doctors said you weren't ready to see anyone." Lex smiled slightly. "You okay?"

"I know your secret." Lex whispered.

Clark looked at the camera on the wall, worried and Lex saw this. "Don't wory I won't tell anyone. I need you to break be out of here." he grabbed Cark's shoulders. I've seen what you can do. I saw tha car hit you at 60 miles an hour, you tossed it like a toy. Breaking me out of here isn't goign to be too much of a challenge."

"Lex, I want to but."

"Then do it. My father is never going to let me out of here. You're my friend. Please Clark."

"I'm Sorry."

Lex back away from Clark as if he had been betrayed. He then jumped to attack Clark and was stopped by two guards. Clark backed away. "I'll never forgive you for this Clark. Never!" Lex yelled.

Lex's outburst cause a lot of commotion in the room and Clark ran away.

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Clark was with Lana in the hospital telling her about Lex's attempt to break out of Belle Reeve. "He didn't make itout bacuse of the barbed wire." Clark said.

"I just shocked that he would try to break out."

"There's another thing." Clark said. "He knows about my powers."

"What?" Lana asked.

"Yeah." Clark said. "He said he's not going to tell anyone but..."

"There's no way to tell with him." Lana finished for him.

"Right."

"He asked me to break him out. I said no but he got really angry."

The door opened and in came Lana's physical therapist. "Okay Lana, come on time for physical therapy."

"It's 11:00 already."

"Yup." she said.

"It's okay I have to go talk to my parents." Clark said.

Clark stood and helped Lana get situated with her crutches. "Clark, I don't want you to see him again. There's no telling what he's going to try to do."

"I can't promise that I won't see him." Clark said. "But I'll try to stay away from him."

Lana smiled. Clark reached up and kissed her. "I'll come by later."

"Alright. Love you."

"Love you too."

Lana left with her therapist and Clark went home.

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Clark sat in the dining room with his parents and told them about his visit with Lex. "I've never seen Lex so angry with me. It's like he just went..."

"Crazy?" Johnathan finished.

"Well you can't take it personally Clark." Martha said.

"Well it's hard not to." Clark said. "He asked me to break him out."

"You said no right." Johnarhan said.

"Yeah." Clark said as he stood and followed his father to the kitchen taking his plate with him. "But He did try to break out himself and injured two guards along the way. He doesn't belong in there he's being drugged."

Martha walked into the kitchen. "We don't know that for sure. This isn't his first birst of mental illness."

"Well Lionel is never going to let him out. I'm his only chance."

"Clark." his father started. "You can't just break someone out of a state institution Then you would go to jail and Lex would be out there a fugitive with your secret on the tip of his tongue."

"Pete and Lana know my secret and that has turned out okay."

"Lex is different." Johnathan said. "Look Clark I am not saying that you should put your secret above Lex's well-being, I just...I think that you should stay out of this one."

"Dad-"

"Clark! You don't know everythig that's going on here. Now if you get involved...it could just get worse." he said. He gave Marttha a kiss on the cheek before leaving the house.

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Lana held the bars as she tried to walk witout her crutches. She had her physical therapist Tina right there next to her. "Good Lana, one more step." Lana took another step and got to the end. "Okay. Okay that's enough for today. That goes for you too Adam."

"I know my limits."

"If you over-do it you are going to undo all tat har work you have done." Tina said as she helped Lana into her crutches.

"If I listen to people like you I'd still be laying in bed."

Tina turned to Lana. "Good work today sweetie."

"Thanks." Lana said.

She turned and saw as the boy that Tina was talking to turned around and stood up. "Hurts doesn't it."

"Like you wouldn't believe."

"I think you're getting off way too easy." he said walking over and getting his things.

"Excuse me?"

"You have to learn how to push through the pain. If we all sat down, every time it hurt. This country would have never been built."

He walked past Lana and she followed him. Well I doubt that the founding fathers broke their leg in places."

"What happened. Bad pile up in cheerleading practice." he laughed. Lana had flashbacks of the day she broke her leg. She tried to walk past him but he stopped her. "Seriously how did you end up in here?"

"Horse got spooked. I ended up under its hooves."

"I'm guessing that's not a good place to be." He held out his hand. "I'm Adam."

Lana shook his hand. "Lana."

"Alright Lana." he put his bags and walked over to the training bar. "We both know that you have at least one more lap in you for this puppy. Let's see it."

"How about not," she said getting annoyed.

"I know 'sruggle' is probably not in your vocabulary but just to let you know here it's credo (sp?)"

"For your information,I haven't walked in a month."

"Feeling sorry for yourself may work now, buts it's not going to get you up a flight of stairs is it?"

"Are you always this obnoxious?" Lana asked.

I'm just telling you how it is. No one is ever honest to girls like you." he said. "I bet you have a boyfriend that is always protecting you. He's not here. No on is going to figh this battle for you. You're on your own. See you around." He left.

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Clark was in the Torch using the computer in the dark when Chloe came in." Clark what are you doing here in the dark? Turn on the light it's bad for your eyes? What are you doing burning the mid-night oil?"

"Trying to prove that Lex doen't belong in Belle Reeve."

"What did you find on Lex?" she asked.

"His medical records.Doctor Foster is definatly drugging him."

Chloe look at the papers, Clark had given her. "Clark, there are a million reasons why she could be administring this drug. Psycho therapy is just trial and error. This doesn't prove anything."

"I know." he sighed. "But I gotta do something."

"Why don't we finish this in the morning. You are suppose to be picking up Lana from the hospital."

"I know." he said. Chloe was about to walk out when he saw something that cought his attention. "Chloe wait. Dr. Foster has recommended Lex for...Radicalelectro shock therapy?"

"That's a little extreme don't you think?" she said walking over to the computer.

"It is." Clark said. "Memory loss is almost a given, if everything doesn't go exactly as planned, Lex could end up as a vegetable."

"When does this happen?"

"24 hours."

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Lana was in her room when Clark walked in. She smiled. "Have you come to take me home my prince?" she asked.

"Of course my princess." he smiled. He walked over to her side and gave her a kiss. "Are you ready?"

"Yeah, I just need you to grab my bag." she said.

They left the hospital and Clark helped Lana into the truck. On the way home, Lana noticed Clark was really quiet. "Something's wrong. What is it?"

"Lex."

"Did you go to see him?"

"No. But, in 24 hous, Lex is going to get Radical-electro shock therapy."

"That sounds harsh."

"Someone in his case should not be getting it." Clark said. "Something's up and I am going to find out."

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The next day, Clark and Chloe went to see Dr. Foster and they tried to talk her out of giving Lex the treatment.

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Lana was in the physical therapy room alone trying to walk by herself. She got to the end and tried to make it to her crutches but fell to the ground, and Adam who was walking in saw this and rushed to her side. "Whoa, you okay?"

"Yeah. I'm just pushing hrough the pain."

Lana used the weight bench to pull herself up and Adam handed her the crutches. "I see you changed your therapy time."

"Yeah. I wasn't crazy about the company." she said standing up.

"Would you believe me if I told you that I was a nice guy once?" he asked. "With no issues."

"Nice guys normally have the most issues." Lana said speaking from her past years with Clark.

"That's why I came. I wanted to apologize. Sorry for taking it out on you."

"I was upset. Because you are kind of right. I haven't really been pushing myself." Lana said. So you never told me how you got in here."

"Well uhh.. I tried to get into a burning building and a beam collapsped on me. My parents were inside. I thought I could save them."

"I'm so sorry."

"It happened. Now I have to move on."

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The next day Clark and Pete were walking throught the halls of school. "I convinced Foster to stop the procedure. She's on her way to sign the cancellation papers."

"And you think this is a good thing?" Pete asked. "Clark he knows your secret."

"I can't let him turn Lex into a vegetable just for that." Clark said as they walked into the Torch.

"You can't trust him." Pete said.

"Well you have never given him a chance." Clark said.

"You give him too many!" Pete said getting angry. "You think it's easy keeping a lid on your secret? I have to think about it everytime we are around someone. I have to remember to say meteor rock instead of kryptonite, and me and Lana always have too cover your unexplained exits."

"Pete I'm sorry. Why didn't you tell me this before?"

"That's not the point. The point is me and Lana have your back. Lex won't."

Chloe walked into the Torch upset. "Chloe? What's wrong."

"Dr. Foster is dead. He car was found wrapped around a tree off highway 54."

"I feel the invisible hand of Lionel Luthor. You too better back off, before he sets his sight on you."

Pete walked out of the Torch and Chloe spoke up. "I know you were trying to helo Lex but I think you have made matter's worse."

"No there's got to be another way to help him."

"Dr. Foster tried to stop it and look at what happened to her." Chloe said. "Lionel Luthor is going to make sure that this therapy happens."

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That night, Clark went up to the Belle Reeve fence and broke it open. He sped into Lex's room and broke the restraints. "All this time...I was right about you."

Clark started to feel weak. He tuned and saw Ian holding a meteor rock and then punch him in the face. Clark fell to the ground and Ian began to repeatedly punch him. His double came him and began to beat Lex.

Ian punched Clark in the face. "If it weren't for you Kent. I'd be at Harvard right now. With a co-ed on each arm."

He put the kryptonite in Clark's shirt and Lex saw this. "What the Hell are you doing to him?"

"Your buddy is our first class ticket out of here."

"How do you plan to escape. I'm not giving you a cent!"

"Well you aught to pick your friend better, considering her didn't tell you his little secret." Lex was ounched once more. Ian and his double began to drag Clark out of the room and Lex tried to follow them.

"Leave him alone."

"Or you'll do what Mr Luthor. Considering they are coming to fry your ass in about 5 minutes."

Lex tried to follow them but fell unconscious on the ground.

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Clark was taken down to the basement. "Well here he is." Ian said. "Right on time."

They wheeled him next to a generator and Eric popped up. "Eric."

"Time to give me those powers back. It's not like you use them any way."

He took jumper cable and began to connect them to the generator and to the table he was on. "This will never work."

"Are you kidding, there is enough power in here to power a small third world country." they walked away.

Clark tried to get up. "Save your strength Clark. I'm going to need it."

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"There you go." Adam said to Lana as she walked with out the help of the beam. "Almost." She finished. "It's not Mount Everest but it is a start."

Adam haned her, her crutches. "A few days ago I wouldn't have even thought that was possible."

"Sometimes you just have to look at possiblity straight in the eye."

Martha walked in and Lana and Adam looked at her. "Mrs. Kent what are you doing here. I thought Clark was going to pick me up?"

"I haven't heard from him all day. We've tried calling his phone he won't pick up."

"I'm going to go." Adam said.

"Bye." Lana said. Adam left.

"Do have any idea where he is?"

"No I....."

"Lana what is it?"

"He was upset about Lex. You don't think he went to break him out do you?"

"With him there is no telling what he would do."

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"Hey come on let's go!" Eric yelled looking for Ian.

"I'm right here."

"Where's your twin."

"It's easier to break one person out than it is two."

"Let's go."

Eric walked over and placed the kryptonite in Clark's hand and grabbed it as Ian pulled the switch.

Clark's powers were transfered to Eric and in the process all the power in the building went out. Clark laid on the ground in pain as Eric stood and removed his glasses. "Do you feel any different?" Ian asked.

Eric picked up Clark easily and threw him across the room. "Does that answer your question?"

Eric sped over to Clark and picked him up. "Welcome back to being normal Clark. Kind of sucks doesn't it?"

He continued to throw him around."Eric let's go."

"I'm not through with him yet."

"They are going to relize that we're gone. They are gong to be here any minute."

"What do I care, it's not my problem."

"We are a team I thought we were friends."

"There's no such thing as friends in here," Eric said as he puched Iana and sent him flying into a pipe.

Clark grabbed the kryptonie and sat up. "Hey..Is that you got." he said weak.

"That jolt make you insane" Eric asked as he walked closer to Clark and once he was close enough Clark held up the kryptonite and weakened him. Clark grabbed him and pushed him into the generator again where Clark's powers were returned to him.

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Clark ran to Lex's room where h was given the therapy to hear Lionel saying it's over to Lex. He was too late.

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Lana walked into Adams room with a picnic basket in her hand. Clark was with her but he was upset about Lex so he stayed out of sight. She saw he wasin bed with an IV in his arm and he was reading a book. Instead of using crutches she was using a cane. "Hi."

"Hey."

"Am I seeing things? No crutches."

"Well it is pretty amazing what you can acomplish with someone cracking a whip over your head." Adam laughed. "You okay?"

"Don't let this spook you. I tend to get dehydrated from time to time." Adam said. Then he saw a figure behind Lana. "Who's that?"

Lana moved inside and let Clark in. "This is my boyfriend Clark. I wanted to bring him so he could meet the man who helpd me through physical therapy."

"Hey." Clark said.

Adam stretched his hand out and Clark shook it. "You alright man?"

"It's a long story." Clark said. "Look Lana. I'm going to wait in the truck."

"Okay."

Clark walked out of the room. Lana walked to the other side of the bed and placed the basket on the table. "Well I know that this won't compare to the desserts in here, but I wanted to thank you for being such a pain in the butt."

"Anytime." Adam said knowing he would like the food in the basket. Lana laughed. "So I guess this is good bye."

"No it's not. Just because I am finished physical therapy doesn't mean I won't come to visit."

"Lana please. I am a memory of a painful moment in your life. Plus you have your boyfriend and all of your friend to catch up with."

"You helped me. I'm not going to forget that. Friends?"

"Friends." they shook hands.

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Clark went to go see Lex and saw that he didn't remember anything, including Clark having powers. After he left he picked up Lana and they went to the farm. Clark was with his parents and Lana in the kitchen and he was telling them about his visit with Lex. "Lex is okay okay. Your secret is safe. You have to find some consulation in that."

"Lex is right. Lionel got away with murder."

"But you didn't tell him was really happened." Johnathan said.

"What's the point?"

Johnathan then realized what was going through his son's mind. "Clark and Lana. I don't want to see you and Chloe taking up this charge."

"Someone is going to make Lionel pay for what he did."

Everyone saw how angry Clark was. "Someday, someone is going to make him pay for his crime, but that day is not today Clark. Now I know that this is very difficult for you, but you have to realized but there are people out there who are more powerful than you are."

Clark said nothing as he walked into the living room and sat on the couch. Lana was about to follow him but Martha stopped her. Martha walked into the living room and sat on the arm of the couch and grabbed Clark's hand. "You okay?"

"You know why I envy Lex? He seems so happy. I wish that I could erase all the bad things that have happened to me in the last few months of my life."

Martha got close to him so only he couold hear her. "Why don't you take Lana to the Talon. Take her to the 'Welcome Back' party, get your mind off of Lex and have some fun. Lana is finally out of the hospital and this is your chance to spend some time with her."

Clark looked back at Lana who was sitting at the island staring at her cup. Martha was right.

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Clark and Lana walked into the Talon and heard "SURPRISE!"

Lana and Clark smiled. She looked at Clark. "Did you know about this?"

"Maybe." he said.

She reached up and gave him a kiss before walking in and saying hi to all of her friends.

[akuma]

Great update, it will be interestin how u add Adam too this since they wont be dating, but he still has to go after Lana right? PPMS

[clana1fan4ever]

GREAT update ppms

[maru11]

great updaet1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[xfreak1990]

Chapter 9:

Clark stood in front of the jewerly store window looking at the different jewelry. He was looking when he heard Lana next to him. "Looking for someone special." He loked down and saw Lana standing there without her cane.

Clark smiled. "No cane?"

"The doctor told me I could stop using it last night. I wanted it to be a surprise."

"Well it is one." he said. He leaned down and gave her a kiss.

"So what are you doing here any way?" she asked.

"My mother's birthday is coming up." he said. "Would you like to help me?"

"I can't sorry." Lana said. "I have to get to the Talon. Michelle's sick."

"Oh okay. I'll catch up with you after this." he said.

Clark gave her one more kiss before she walked away and he walked inside and went to the counter.

Clark was looking and the store clerk knew who he was and took out a peice of jewelry. "Last time Martha was here, she made a point of trying these on."

Clark saw the price. "Did she try anything that didn't have four numbers in the price.."

The clerk laughed. "Well I just in some nice costume pieces from a local designer. Quite unique. Cam straight from outer space."

Clark started to feel week because the jewel was kryptonite. The clerk looked at him wierd. "Thanks, but I'll keep looking."

All of a sudden, they heard a very loud high pitch noise. Everyone got down on their knee and tried to cover their ears. he noise was so high the glass arouns them started to break. A man came in with a sock over his head and a gun in his hand. The piece of jewerly made from kryptonite flew in the air. Clark tried to shoot the guy with his heat vision but the kryptonite got in the way. He managed to make the guy drop his gun but some of the heat reflected off of the kryptonite and hit his eyes.

"Not another step." the store clerk said as he held up a shot gun to the robber. "Don't move, the police are on their way."

Some people started to move out of the store and Lana came in and saw Clark on the ground. She rushed over to his side. "Clark? Clark are you alright?"

"Lana?" he asked.

"Clark it's me." Lana said. She placed her hand on his face.

"Lana it's my eyes, I can't see."

"We have to get you home to your parent's." she said. "Come on." she said. Lana helped Clark stand and helped him walk to her car. "Clark I'm going to drive you home." Lana helped him get into the car and she got into the driver's seat and started the car. She began to drive and she reached over and grabbed his hand which was shaking. "Clark what happened?"

"I tried to stop the robber with my heat vision but there was kryptonite that was made into a jewel and that got in the way and my heat vision hit me in the eyes."

When she pulled up to the farm, she got out of the car and ran to the other side. She opened the door and helped Clark get out. She grabbed his hand and led him to the door of the house. They walked in. "Mr. and Mrs. Kent." Lana called. "Come quick it's Clark."

Martha came down the stairs followed by Johnathan. "What happened?"

"Someone tried to rob the jewerly store and when Clark tried to stop him, he went blind." Lana said.

"We have to do something." Martha asked.

"Like what?" Johnatan asked. "We can't take him to a doctor his secret will be exposed."

"I think I should go." Clark said. He and Lana were still standing and he was holding her hand. "If there is a chance to help we should risk it."

Johnathan thought about it for a minute. "Lana can you drive him?"

She nodded. "Of course." she said.

"Go, we'll meet you there." Johnathan said.

Lana helped Clark back into her car and she drove them to the hospital.

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After being checked out at the hospital, they got Clark back home and Martha and Johnathan watched Lana help Clark to the couch and sit down. She sat down next to him and grabbed his hand. "We hav to do something Johnathan." Martha whispering.

"I know sweetheart." Johnathan answered. "But what? Clark's retinas were scarred by that heat burst. You saw that doctor he was baffled."

"He wasn't baffled Johnathan. You handcuffed him." Martha said.

Clark and Lana were stting on the couch listening to everthing they were saying.

'The last doctor we trusted, she sold his blood to Lionel Luthor."

"Then we'll find someone we can trust."

"I am not risking that."

"Clark has lost his sight." Martha said. "We may hav to risk someone learning his secret."

"Martha this is not about Clark's secret. His powers have now done something that have hurt him." Johnathan said as his voice craked. He was upset. "And I think that before we just run out and do something, we aught to think this whole thing through."

Clark used the arm of the couch and Lana's help to stand up. "Don't I get a vote?"

Johnathan placed his hand on Clark's shoulder. "Of course you do Clark."

"I think that it may be a question of time before I get better."

"Sweetheart, It could be permanent." Martha said.

"And there's a lot of people that learn to live with disabilities everyday. What's the worst thing that could happen. Go to school and walk into a wall?" Clark said trying to lighten the mood.

Lana sighed as she looked at her watch. "Clark I am so sorry. It's 8:45."

"You have to close the Talon?" he asked knowing that Lana closed the Talon at nine every night.

"Yeah."

"Go. I'm fine Lana." he smiled holding her hands.

"We'll leave you guys alone." Johnathan said. He and Martha left the room.

Lana and Clark sat on the couch. "Lana, I know things have changed and you don't have to help me-"

"Clark. I love you. This isn't going to make me walk away from you." Lana said tearing up. She hated seeing Clark so helpless. "Nothing will make me leave you, especially not this. I just...I never thought I would see the day where you would get hurt."

Clark reached up and felt her face. When he did he felt that she was crying. With the tip of his thumb, he felt the corner of her mouth and her leaned foward and kissed her. After they parted, they hugged each other very tightly before Lana lef the house.

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The next day Clark and Pete were walking through the halls. Pete held Clark's arm and led him to his locker. People heard bout the robbery and about Clark's blindness. The one's that didn't believe it, finally did when they saw Clark wearing sunglasses. He knew that they were staring at him. "Everyone's staring aren't they?"

"No They're just digging your shades." They got to his locker and Pete took over. "Hey man. Let me give you a hand. I've been up on this combination ever since the thrid grade. Here you go." Pete opened the locker and Clark smiled. He reached in grabbed his books. "If it helps, the guy who did this landed on my mom's court calender. Some how don't think that Judge Ross is going to be giving this guys any breaks."

Lana walked out of the classroom across the hall and saw Clark and Pete across the hall. "Clark. I thought you weren't coming to school today otherwise I would have led you around school."

"Just came for a pittstop." Clark said. The he dropped of his books. Lana bent down to pick them up and Clark did too. She picked up his books and then started to hand them back to him. As he was taking the books from her he felt and grabbed her hands. "Thanks."

"I'm always going to be here." she smiled.

Pete closed the locker and it was really loud to Clark. All of the sounds around him were being magnified, like the zippers on people's bookbags and the heels on their shoes. He covered his ears. "Clark are you okay?" Lana aked.

"Did you hear that?" He then heard a

"Hear what?" Lana asked.

He then heard Chloe's voice. "Chloe?"

"She's not here Clark." Lana said.

"I can hear her right now." Clark said.

Clark listen onto her telephone conversation and found that she was investigating him for Lionel Luthor.

Suddenly the bell rang and Clark winced in pain. "Clark what is it?" Pete asked.

"Pete can you take me home? There's something wrong." he asked.

"Yeah."

"I'll go with you." Lana said. "I have the rest of the day excused anyway."

They led Clark through the hall way and out of the school.

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Lana, Clark, and his parent walked up the stairs of the loft. "So these sound just hit you all at once?" Johnathan asked him.

"It's like someone turned on a qiant stereo full blast. Suddenly all the sound were magnified." Lana helped him sit on the couch. "The they all just went away. It was all kind of random."

"Well with your x-ray abilities and your heat vision, I'm not really sure how your sences are supposed to develop." Johnathan said.

Martha sat on the arm of the couch."Maybe it was just a one time thing, or maybe your body is trying to make up for the lack of sight."

"I just hope that it goes away." Clark said. "All the sounds....they were so loud. I didn't even know whee tey were coming from. Or what they were. The there was Chloe and Lionel." he said.

"What about them?" Lana asked.

"They must have been on the phone. They were talking about me, and I don't think it was for the first time either." he said.

"Hey." they heard. Lex came walking up the stairs.

"Lex. It's nice to see you." Marha said.

"Mr Kent." Lex said as he shook his hand.

"Hi Lex." Lana said.

"Hey Lana."

"Well I am going to go and fill out some papers for Clark's principal." Martha said. She walked out and Johnathan followed her.

"Yeah, that stuff's due tomorrow." he said.

"I'm going to go and leave you guys alone to talk." Lana said.

"Okay." Clark said.

Lana stood and kissed him on the top of his head before leaving the loft.

"Clark I don't know what to say."

"How about 'Hello'." he laughed. "Come on, behind the shades I am still the same old Clark."

"You know when my father lost his sight, I made contact with some of the wold's top opthromologists. You say the word and I can make any of them availiable to you."

"I appritiate that Lex but this isn't a problem to be solved, this is something I need to learn to live with I really don't to talk about my condition.Even when people don't mention it, I can hear the concern in their voices."

Lex sat down on the couch next to Clark. "Trust me. I know the feeling.I discovered there is almost a mid-evil prejudice against people with a mental illness. I decided that the only way that I can put the insinuations behind me is by proving my worth."

"What are you going to do."

"Return to Luthorcorp. My father had offered me my old position back."

"Lex do you think that, that job offer is for real."

"Why Clark? You know something I don't?"

"Look I heard that, that job is a sham. Your dad doesn't really think that you are better."

Lex laughed. So he thinks that I am just going to sit in my office and twidle my thumbs?"

"His exact words were sharpening pencils."

Lex looked at Clark an realized that he was telling the truth. "Clark where did you hear this?"

"Doesn't matter where I heard it. The important this is, you have to be careful."

"Thanks." Lex said standing from his spot on the couch. "I have to go, I'll see you later."

"Bye."

After Lex left Lana came back up the stairs. She sat on the couch. "You okay?"

"Yeah." Clark said.

"Do you want me to help you with your work?" Lana asked.

"Yeah." he said smiling.

She smiled and opened his history book.

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Later on that day Clark and Lana were in the loft still and they had just got done their work and Clark sudden;y picked up his parents talking. The thing was, his parent were in the kitchen.

"Hi sweetheart." he heard his father say.

"Hi." Martha replied. "You know Johnathan I was thinking, maybe we should look into hiring some extra hands here.You look tired. I'm concered about you."

"No Martha. We are barely making ends meet as it is."

"And it wobn't help if youend up in a hospital bed." she said.

"I'll be alright. I just need to catch my breath. What are you doing?"

"Board of Education Disability application to get Clark a special teacher."

"His counselor said that he could take all of his regular classes."

"Until when? His life had changed, and so has yours, but neither one of you will admit that."

"Martha-"

"You both think that you are supermen, who can do everything alone, but you can't anymore!" Martha said. Clark heard how upset she was. "You need to learn how to start relying on other people. And so does he."

Clark heard her walk away from him.

"Clark are you okay" Lana asked.

"Yeah." he said.

"Look I have to get home." Lana said.

"Alright." Clark said.

Lana reached over and kissed him and he responded. "I love you."

"I love you too."

Lana kissed him again before standing up and leaving the loft.

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Lana walked into Lex's office and saw he was sitting at his desk. "So. I got a letter from my insurance company saying that my entire medical bill has been paid for." she sat on the arm of the couch.

"Well who said that all insurance companies are evil. Look it wasn't your fault Lana. It was mine. I was the one who pushed you into the stall, that spooked the horse."

Lana stood. "Lex you were-"

"Crazy?"

"Not yourself."

"You got caugh in the crossfire tring to help me and all I did was hurt you."

"As much as I appritiate the grand gestures, you could have juststopped by the Talon and said Hello."

"Well, the grand gestures have always come easier for me." Lex said. "I'm sorry I wasn't there to help with your rehabilitation, but I am sure Clark was more than happy to pick up the slack."

Lana smiled. "He was."

"How is he anyway?"

"He's getting through. You know it was just a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"By the way? Who's Adam? You do have a boyfriend. I noticed that the Talon bills had a gift basket on there sent to him at the Smallville Medical Center."

"He's a guy that helped me get through physical therapy. When Clark wasn't there, he's the one that really help me walk again. He's a friend." Lana said. She began to walk out of his office. "Don't be a stranger."

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Back at the farm, Clark was in the barn and he heard someone's car pull up. "Clark?"

"Chloe."

She walked over to him. "Hi. As much as I try to avoid unbearable cliches, if there is anything I can do...."

Clark was upset about the conversation he heard between Chloe and Lionel about him. "I'll manage. You didn't come all the way out here to check out the blind guy."

"Actually, I'm on sort of a mission. Have you seen Pete?" she caught herself saying 'seen'. "Sorry. Umm...we were suppose to meet this morning and double team on my daily planet column."

"The column Lionel Luther helped you land."

"What's that suppoose to mean?"

"I may have lost my sight but things are becoming much more clear to me now. Exactly how long have you and Lionel been looking into my life."

Chloe hesitated. "Since last spring. The day fter Lex's wedding."

It all made sense to Clark. "When you saw me and Lana together. Is that why you did this?" Chloe didn't answer. "Your silence is defening. What did you give him."

"Nothing.Nothing that he already didn't know."

"Well then what is he sharing with you!"

"Nothing. Believe it or not Clark I was...I was trying to help you."

"Oh by spying on me."

"No. By just trying to understand why he is so intrigued with you."

"And if the Torch got a few new computers and you made a name for yourself at the Daily Planet, that was okay too." Clark said angry. "For all the times you accused me of keeping secrets how could you do this to me!"

"I was...He caught me at an especially bad time, and I caved. I have been trying to get out of it ever since, when but people like Lionel Luther have you, they don't want to let go. You know I thought that you out of all people would understand making a stupid decision in a moment of weakness, but I guess I was wrong." she walked away crying.

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Clark sat on the fence on the far side of the farm when he heard a car pull up. "Clark."

He got off the fence. "Pete."

"You parent's are ready to start gluing your picture to milk cartons man, how did you get out here any how?"

"I walked. I guess I do know every inch of this farm." Pete laughed. "I really didn't mean to scare them. I couldn't take all the noise."

"So your mega hearing thing is back."

"Suddenly I am the ultimate eavesdropper." Suddnly Clark heard a rattling noise. "Did someone follow you?"

"Why?" It got too loud for Clkark and he covered his ears. "Clark."

A red tow truck pulled up and a boy that they knew from their school got out of the truck. "Ross get in the truck!"

"Pete what's going on?" Clark asked.

The guy made a loud ringing noise with his throat and Clark and Pete covered their ears. The windows of Pete's car broke. The ringing stopped and even thoug it stopped Clark and Pete's ears still hurt. The guy walked over and forced Pete to get into the truck. "I said get in the truck."

"Pete who is that? Pete what's gonig on talk to me."

He drove away. "Pete."

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After calling the police and finding out that the man that tried to rob the jewerly store was not working alone they found out that there was a ransom for Pete. Clark was inh the barn listening to the whole thing.

He turned on a lot of thing sin the barn like the tractor the sewing machine etc... and he parents soon came out. They walked in and saw Clark trying to get a station on the radio and him getting angry and pushing it off the table, sending it to the floor. "Clark. Do you mind telling us what's gong on in here?"

"I'm trying to focus my hearing." he said over all of the noise.

"I take it you are not having any luck." Martha and Johnath started to turned off all of the things that were on.

"If I don't get a hanlde on this I can't save Pete."

"Clark, Judge Ross was at the house."

"I know Dad, I heard. But playing chicken with the kidnappers is not a good idea. They are going to kille Pete I have to focus help me." he said.

"Alright lets get work then."

Martha and Johnathan turned on everything and Martha walked over to Clark and Johnathan walked to theother side of the barn. "Listen for your father's voice." he heard his mother say.

Clark began to focus on each of the sounds and he finally heard his father. "Concentrate Clark. Concentrate on my voice son."

"Dad." he said he pointed to where Johnathan was.

Johnathan walked over an knocked a nail off of the table and it was loud to Clark. He grabbed his ears in pain. "Clark!"

"Dad, it's okay. I can here you."

"That's great I was barely whispering. Let's keep on working." Johnathan said.

Johnathan walked to a different spot and Martha nodded for him to start. "Focus Clark. Focus on my voice." Clark looked in his direction. "You can hear me?" Clark nodded and smiled. "Good."

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Johnathan and Clark were driving into town. "Dad I am really worried about Pete We looked everywhere."

Johnathan parked the car. "Well, we are in town Clark." he said getting out of the car. "I thought that maybe we could get an update. I'll be riht back."

Seconds later, he heard the door open and then close again. "That was fast."

He felt a kiss on his lips and smiled knowing who it was. "Your dad told me you were out here."

"Hey Lana."

"I heard about happened to Pete. Still no word."

"No, I fell so helpless because I can't do anything." he said.

"You can't save everyone Clark."

"I have to try."

"What about your hearing thing."

"I can control it now." he said.

"You can?"

"Yeah."

Clark grabbed Lana's hand and kissed it.

That's when Clark heard the same rattling noise from when Pete was taken. "Lana what is that?"

"What the tow truck?" she asked as she watched him get out of the car. She got out of the car and went over to his side.

"That's the same sound as when Pete was taken. Lana go get my Dad."

Lana ran inside and Clark followed the sound and hopped onto the back of the truck.

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Clark sat in the kitchen at he farm with Lana and his parents. He told them about what he found with Pete and the guy. He could see, but it was all really blury. "Anymore improvement?" Johnathan asked.

"Just a little, it's still a blur, at least I won't be walking through any walls." he said looking at an apple.

"What about your other abilities?" Martha said.

"No the heat and x-ray vision are still gone." he put the apple back and made sure it stayed.

"The heat from the torch must have broken up the scar tissue." Lana said. "Maybe the rest will just take time to heal."

"Pete is still out there." Clark said putting on his sunglasses.

"Clark. Pete could be anywhere. Besides you already told sheriff Adams everything you know."

"Well I can't just sit here."

"Okay, but before we do anything else, there's one stop we have to make."

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Martha, Johnathan and Lana walked out of a room in the medical center and Clark would not come out. "Come on Clark." Lana said.

Clark walked out of the room wearing glasses. "Sweetie they look fine." Martha said.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Yes. Now what is your plan?" Johnathan said.

"The hearing is in an hour, we know that they are trying to set up an exchange. If Mrs Ross let's him go, I'll follow him."

"Son, that is such a long shot."

"I know, but it's all I've got."

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Clark was at the courthouse and listened into a conversationa and from the conversation he heard that Ross was at the junk yard. Clark sped there. He walked into the junk yard and saw a man walking. He walked over to him. "Hey do you work here?" he asked.

Nathan's eyes widened. "What are you doing here blind man?"

Clark grabbed Nathan by the collar. "Where's Pete?"

"In a minute none of you will care." he said and then he made the high pitched noise. Clark backed up into the pile of cars and then they started to fall. Clark ran out of the way and the pile of cars fell on Nathan.

"HELP ME! CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME!" Pete yelled.

Clark used his super hearing and ran to the compactor and stopped it and opened the trunk of the car. "Pete. Pete are you okay?"

Pete looked up and saw Clark and smiled and then sighed with relief. "Clark."

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The next day at the Talon Clark over heard Pete talking about how he saved himself. He walked over to them and heard on of the girls saying "Call me." Clark wanted to laugh.

"I will do that."

"I have a feeling that I will be hearing this story for a while."

"Busted. But you know what can OI say, chicks dig a hero. I hope you don't mind me bending the truth a little bit."

"Pete look at who you are talking to. The master truth bender. Besides after everyething you did fo me it's the least I could do." Clark took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"My eyes are just adjusting, I think I need a new prescription." he said putting on his glasses.

Chloe walked up to them. "Hey."

"Hey." Pete said. 'I am ready for my big Torch interview."

"Sorry Pete I am going to have to rescedule. I am really glad you are feeling better." she said before she started to walk away and they stopped her.

"Chloe what's wrong?"

"I just lost my daily planet column."

"What? Why?"

"They didn't exactly spell it out on the pink slip. And if that's not enough, my father just got laid from Luthorcorp off this morning."

"That doesn't make any sense, you father has been working there for years."

"If you want answers ask Lex. He was the one who fired him."

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Clark went to go see Lex and had no luck. He went back to the loft and looked at him self in the mirror. He took off his glasses and realized that his vision was perfect again. He looked in the mirror and saw Lana pop up behind him. "Looks like you are back to normal." she smiled.

He turned and smiled. "Hey Lana." he said.

She walked over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck and he wrapped his arms around her waist. "You know I love those eyes." she said kissing him softly.

"You know what scared me the most the day I went blind?"

"No, what?"

"The thought of never seeing your face again. I love you and now, I never want to look at anything else but you."

"I love you too. And what scared me the most is that I knew that you would never be truely happy."

"And day I'm with you, I can't be any happier." he said.

She smiled and stood on her toes. He closed the gap between them and kissed her.


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Chapter 10: Delete part 1

Clark walked out of the hospital room and began to walk down th hallway. He was walking when he heard someone call his name. He turned to see Lana. "Hey Lana."

"Hey Clark." she said walking over and giving him a kiss on the lips. "I was visiting Adam when I heard that you tried to hit Chloe with your truck." she said angry.

"That's not true." Clark said. "That last thing I remember, I was in the library working on my paper."

Lana was confused. "And what about after that?"

"I was getting out of my truck and found Chloe under it."

Suddenly a ringing sound came from Lana's purse. She reached in and took out a PDA. "I swear, ever since Lex gave me this thing, no one could change a coffee filter on their own."

"Look I have to go. You go see Chloe, I don't think she wants anything to do with me right now."

"Alright. I'll come by tomorrow morning to pick you for school."

"Okay." he said. He gave Lana a kiss on the lips before he left.

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The next morning, Clark was in the barn with Lana he was taking his bookbag and lap top out of the now ruined truck. Lana took his book bag and put it on the bale of hay and he looked at the truck. 'If you are looking for signs of tampering, I'll save you some time. There's nothing wrong with it. I asked the mechanic."

"There's got to be some explanation."

"As to why you tried to mow me over?"

"Clark would never hurt you Chloe." Lana said.

"Didn't you tell the sheriff that I lost control of the truck?"

"I was covering for you Clark," she said tearing up. "You chased me onto the sidewalk. Now I know that you are still upset with me about the whole Lionel thing, but don't you think that manslaughter is a little extreme."

"Chloe, you don't think that I would try to hurt you do you?"

"I don't know. But with the way you hav ebeen acting lately...I can only appologize so many times."

"Chloe I have been having a hard time getting over this." he said. "Everytime I look at you, I can't but picture you and Lionel talking.You are not the same person you used to be."

"Kind of like if I moved to Metropolis and became a motorcycle riding party animal and told you to get out of my life." Chloe said. "Kind of like that right?"

Clark stayed quiet. "You know what, as much fun as this guilt trip is, I came to see if you put anymore pieces together from last night. What happened after the library?"

"I don't even remember leaving the library." he said. "The last thing I do remember, is working on my laptop. Clark leaned on the side of the bed of the truck and covered his face with hands as Chloe walked over and opened Clark's laptop. Lana walked over and rubbed Clark's back.

"You okay?"

"What's happening Lana?" he asked.

"Well at least your paper was recovered. That is an interesting take on General Sherman."

Clark and Lana walked over looked at the screen. "You never even finished your sentence." Lana said.

Clark reached over and pressed a button and then another screen came up. "It says that I downloaded an email right before the accident." Clark said. He tried opening the email but it was locked. "It won't open."

"Who's brainwave?" Lana asked.

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Delete PART 2

Later on that day Lana was giving Adam a tour of the school before she had to take him back to the hospital. "So remind me what your school mascot again? Oh wait, that's right, it's a bird."

Lana laughed. "This is a small town, we take our school spirit very seriously."

They walked throught the halls and ran into Clark. "Hey Clark." she said giving him a kiss on the lips. "Any luck?"

"No. What are you up?"

"I was about to take Adam back to the hospital."

"I have to go to the Torch." Clark said. "I'll meet you at the Talon later on."

Lana smiled. "Okay." She gave him another kiss before he walked away. She turned away and faced Adam. "You know what I forgot my history book. I'll meet you outside."

"Okay." Adam said. He walked away.

Lana began walking down the hall when she heard her PDA ring. She stopped and took it out of her purse. She went to her email and when she opened it it looked like a matrix code and Lana was drawn in.

Lana looked up and saw Chloe looking at the school notices on the bulliten board. She dropped her PDA and walked towards Chloe. Chloe turned towards her. "Oh hey Lana I've benn looking for you."

Lana grabbed Chloe's head banged it against the wall and then threw her down the stairs. People the were coming up the stairs moved out of the way. Chloe stood and watched as Lana walked down the stairs. "Lana what are you doing?"

"Killing Chloe Sullivan."

Lana does a spin kick to Chloe's back, knocking her down the next flight of stairs. Again, Chloe stops at the landing and gets to her feet as Lana follows her down. Lana kicks Chloe in the stomach, and Chloe slams up against the wall behind her. Then she stumbles forward and Lana punches her in the face, causing her to trip down the first few steps of the next flight of stairs and run into the railing. She turns around, leaning against the railing.
Lana grabs onto Chloe's jacket, and Chloe grabs onto Lana, shaking her back and forth, finally starting to fight back. Chloe whips Lana around so that Lana's back is to the stairs and punches Lana hard across the face. Lana flips around, then falls down the stairs.

When Lana gets to her feet, Chloe runs down the stairs and rams her shoulder into Lana's stomach, smashing her against the fire hose case on the wall, breaking the glass. Lana knees Chloe in the stomach, then kicks her in the face, sending Chloe sprawling onto her back on the ground. Lana turns around and grabs a fire ax from the case. There is a trickle of blood coming from her nose. She swings the ax at Chloe who rolls out of the way, and the onlookers scream as the ax connects with the floor. Chloe stands up and jumps backwards, dodging another swing of the ax, this one aimed at her stomach.

Lana kicks Chloe in the stomach and she slams backwards into the double doors of the girls' locker room. Lana then swings the ax at Chloe's head and Chloe tilts out of the way as the ax lodges in the door. Chloe takes a brief, terrified look at the ax before Lana kicks her in the stomach again, causing the door to open and Chloe to fall backwards into the locker room as Lana pulls the ax out of the door.

The room is full of girls standing at their lockers and changing their clothes who all begin to scream. Still on the floor, Chloe backs away frantically as Lana swings the ax at her, hitting the ground between Chloe's legs. She swings again, and Chloe catches her arms, lying back and kicking Lana in the stomach, sending her flipping over Chloe.

Neither of them let go of the ax, and they both pull on it as they stand up across from each other. Lana tugs on the ax, pulling Chloe to her side, then kicks her in the back. Chloe loses her grip on the ax as she slams into a row of lockers, then immediately ducks as Lana swings the ax at her, missing once again. Chloe straightens up and Lana does a spin kick to Chloe's stomach which sends her backwards into the showers. All the girls in the showers run away, leaving Chloe sitting against the wall as the water pours down on her, soaking her hair and clothes.
Lana pulls the ax out of the locker door and storms toward Chloe, holding the ax above her head. Chloe looks up at her, completely helpless and having nowhere else to run.

Suddenly, a hand grabs onto the ax. Lana turns and sees that it's Adam. Never letting the ax go, Lana does a spin kick to Adam's stomach.

"Aah." Adam said in pain.

Lana tries to swing the ax at Adam, but he pulls out a high kick of his own, connecting with Lana's shoulder causing her to drop the ax and stumble against the shower wall. Adam picks up the ax and spins around kicking Lana in the stomach, holding his foot there, pinning her to the wall. She grabs his foot and twists it, sending his whole body into a spin and he falls to the ground.
Chloe reaches out with her leg and kicks Lana in the back of the foot, tripping her. Lana falls onto her back, banging her head on the hard floor as blood pours from her nose. She opens her eyes, dazed as Adam and Chloe lean over her.

"What happened?" Lana said.

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Chloe, Lana, Clark, and Adam are sitting in the Talon and Chloe is drinking acup of coffee. "So we can rule out paranoia. Someone is officialy trying to kill me."

"Not just someone."

"Yeah. But either way, it still doesn't look great for me." Chloe said.

Lana came and sat in between Clark and Chloe and tried to put an ice pack to her head but Chloe backed away. "Chloe I am so sorry. I can't believe that I went after you like that."

Chloe took the ice pack and put it to her head, "I can't believe you got us suspended. Thankfully Adam was there. Really nice move, what was that Kung Fu? Judo?"

"I know." he sighed. "Guess I watched a few too many Jackie Chan movies."

Clark did not believe him.

"Well who would have thought it would have come in handy in the halls of Smallville High." Chloe said.

Just then it hit Clark. "Just before this did you get any wierd emails?"

"Let me check." Lana reached into her purse and pulled out her PDA and looked at the screen. "I did. But I don't remember opening it." she looked at Clark confused.

"It sounds like the same thing happened to both of us. It's like we were hypnotized."

"It could be a subliminal message."

"I could have been hidden in the binary codes."

Lana handed the PDA to Clark. "How did I get snapped out of it?"

"Right now I am a little more concered with what triggered the kill Chloe impulse in the first place."

Clark looked up. "It's from brainwave again."

*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*

Adam is sitting in front of a laptop with the PDA hooked up to the laptop. He is typing away. "Every computer online has an IP address so I should be able to track the message to the computer it was sent from?"

"You can do that?" Clark asked.

"We'll see."

"If this brainwave person wants me dead so badly, why didn't they just send me a message to off myself."

"The brain is hardwired to stay alive. No matter what you do, you can't override someone's survival instincts."

"Did you pick that up somewhere?" Clark asked.

"I was in physical rehab for months. There is nothing to do but read." Adam said.

A window pops up on the screen saying "Computer registered to Chloe Sullivan, IP address registered to LuthorCorp."

"I thought Lionel took back all of your computers. Why would anyone at LuthorCorp try to kill you." Lana asked.

*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*

After talking to Lex in Metropolis, Clark went back to the Talon to see Lana. He walked in and saw that Lana was with a customer so he walked over and sat on the couch. He sighed and waited for Lana. He was waiting for about a minute before he felt the weight on the couch shift. He looked and smiled when he saw Lana. He leaned over and gave her a kiss. "Any luck with Lex?" she asked.

"He doesn't think his father is behind it, but I think he knows who does."

"Do you know who?"

"No." Clark said.

"How about you take a break." she said.

"I can't. I have to put an end to this before someone else goes after Chloe. And none of use want them to succeed."

"I know." she said.

"What are you doing later?"

"I am going to see Adam after I get off of work."

"Oh." he said.

"You okay?" she asked.

"Yeah." he said. But she could tell that he was lying.

"You know that I can tell when you are lying, right." she said. 'Is this about Adam." Clark stayed quiet. "You don't like me spending time with him do you. You don't trust me around him."

"Lana I trust you, just not him."

Lana grabbed his hand and kissed it. "Hey. Nothing is going to happen. I love you and he can't make me do anything I don't want to do. And if he does try anything, I know that my very loving boyfriend wouldn't just stand around. He going to do something about it."

Clark smiled. "And your boyfriend loves you more than anything else in the world."

Lana leaned foward and kissed him on the lips and then hugged him tightly. "I love you too."

*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*

After work, Lana went to the hospital to see Adam. She walked into his room and found him packing. "Are you leaving?" she asked.

Adam laughed. "Paroled, good behavior."

"So are you heading back to Metropolis?"

"Actually. I was thinking about....staying in Smallville."

"Why?" Lana asked.

"Ow. That hurt."

"That's not I meant. I mean you've seen what happens in Smallville why would you want to stay? You could go anywhere."

Adam walked close to Lana. "Actually it's about as close to a home that I have." he touched her face. "And I was hoping that I could spend some more time with a coffee shop owner who has the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen.

Lana pulled away. "Adam I have a boyfriend."

"That's not it. We could still be friends so what's the reason?"

Lana walked away from him. "No one learns martial arts without remembering where they learned it. Chloe can't hack a computer like you can, and if you got it all from reading, where are the books?"

"Wow. I think you should go."

"Gladly." she said as she walked out of the room and left the hospital.

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Clark is working in the Torch and watches as Chloe walks in. "Chloe."

She jumps. "Don't sneek up on me like that Clark."

"Sorry." he said. "Look I talked to Lex today and they found your computer at LuthorCorp, but the hard drive was missing."

"Including all of my email-addresses."

Clark takes tu a picture and shows it to Chloe. "This is wo he thinks took it. She may be working for Lionel. He name is Molly-"

"Griggs, yeah, I know. And for once the connection isn't with Lionel. I interviewed her for a story I did about a month ago about Summerholt."

"Isn't that where Ryan used to be." Clark asked.

Chloe oulled out a fule from her drawer. "Yeah. to study his ESP. That's why I started looking into the place. Apparently he isn't the only patient Dr. Garner held against their will."

Chloe hands Clark the file. "Well, his methods are right out of the Mengele handbook. Why was Molly there?"

"Uh, MIT recruited her at 15. She was a total engineer whiz kid until she went homicidal on another student. After her breakdown, they sent her to Summerholt."

"Well Summerholt isn't exactly a phsyc ward."

"For megalo-maniacs it is."

"Why would she want to kill you?"

"Well, when I talked to her, she was pretty adamant that Dr. Garner had given her a new life. I had enough ammunition in that article to shut him down in a second."

"Who else know about this article."

"Max." she said to herself.

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"Chloe, I've been looking at your Summerholt story. I think you've got something here." he pauses to listen to Chloe. "Wait, slow down, threats are a part of the job. But I appreciate the heads up. You'll get used to it." Max's secretary Maureen enters the office, takes a pencil out of a stack, and sharpens it in the electric sharpener. Then she looks at the tip of the pencil, making sure it's sharp enough. Max puts his hand over the phone and looks at Maureen over his shoulder. "You need something, Maureen?

Chloe is listening on the other line and hears Max's secretary screaming. "Max?....Max...Max?"

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Because Clark was busy with Chloe Lana went back to do some work at the Talon. She was bussing tables and walking back to the counter when she heard, "Library." She looked back and saw Adam. 'That's where you will find all of the books I read."

"I thought you would be on your way back to Metropolis by now." she said.

Adam follows he to the counter. "I was but I didn't want to leave thing that way they were. I can be a little abrupt."

"That's one way of putting it."You are driving me nuts. I can see how strong you are, and then for some stupid reason, you retreat into this hurt little girl facade. It's ridiculous."

"This is your way of ending things on better terms?"

"People here don't say what they think. I wasn't trying to hide anything from you."

"Then why are you so guarded?"

"There are patched of my life that I just can't piece back together."

Lana understood. "And everyone who could answer those questions is gone."

"It's kind of scary." Adam said. "I'm going to miss my bus."

Before he could walk away Lana grabbed his hand. "I think I know of a place where you could stay."

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After Clark drops Chloe off at Lex's mansion, he goes to see Dr. Garner, and finds out where Molly lives. He walked in to find Lex with Molly and finds that she sent a email to his mother. Clark sped home to find his mother unconscious on the ground and his father strangling Chloe. He rushes over and pushes Johnathan to the floor and Chloe falls to the floor and Clark kneels at her side. "Are you okay?"

She nods and Johnathan pulls a peice of Kryptonite from his pocket and comes towards Clark. Chloe yells, "Clark!"

Jonathan punches Clark across the face with the rock and Clark falls down. Chloe stands up as Jonathan leans over Clark and punches him repeatedly. Chloe looks around for some way to help and notices stacks of hay bales on the upper floor of the loft. She runs to the wall and pulls a lever, causing the railing to fall away and the hay bales come crashing down on top of Clark and Jonathan. The kryptonite rolls away and its green glow goes out. Clark throws a bale of hay off of himself and Chloe sighs, relieved that he's all right.

"Mom."

Clark gets up and throws a bale of hay off of Johnathan before he goes to his mother. "What happened?" Martha asked.

"You okay?" Clark asked.

Johnathan sits up coughing and he and Martha look at Clark and Chloe in confusion.

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Clark sat down in his loft. He sighed. His parents were in bed, Chloe was at home resting and everything was back to normal. He heard footsteps and looked up to see Lana climbing the stairs. "Hey." he said.

She sat down next to him on the couch and rested her head on her shoulder. "Chloe told me that everything is back to normal." she said.

"Yeah. We got the girl." Clark said.

"That's good." Lana said. "Now I turn into a crazy nija girl and attack my friends." she laughed.

Clark laughed along with her. "So what did you do today?"

"Well I talked to Lex and we both agreed that we were going to let Adam stay in the apartment above the Talon." she said unsure of what his reaction would be.

"Oh..Okay.' Clark said. Lana was surprised. He took it better than she expected.

"Wow." she said.

"What." he asked.

"You took that beter than I expected."

"Well I was thinking about our conversation earlier today, and I realized that I shouldn't have to worry about oyu and Adam. But if he ever tries anything, I'll kill him." Clark said.

Lana smiled. She knew he would not kill kill him but he would make it clear to Adam that he better not come near Lana. They sat on the couch and just enjoyed each others company.

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The next day, Clark and Lana walked into the Torch and saw Chloe hooking up computers. "New computers?" Lana asked.

"Same computers new Luthor." she said.

"Lex?" Clark asked.

"Yeah. He returned them to me, no strings attached. I guess he felt guilty about firing my Dad."

"Well at least you are up and running." Lana said.

"Sans cyber stalker." Chloe laughed.

"Your soul is still intact."

"Yeah." Chloe said. "You know all this stuff with Molly...there's just part of me that feels like I desreve it."

"No Chloe..." Clark started before Chloe jumps in.

"No, like it was my penance, you know, for what I did to you."

"You can't take all the blame." he said. "You went to Lionel because I pushed you away."

"You know. I never set out to investigate you Clark. It was just so flattering that someone was interested in my work. "

"It made you feel like you mattered." Lana said.

"Yeah. And then Lionel...he set my dreams out right in front of me. I just," she begins to cry. "I just gave into all of my worst instincts."

"No. He caught you at a week moment, we all have them." he said. "You both found me in Metropolis and you didn't turn your back on me. You both gave me a second chance, Chloe I think I owe you the same thing."

Chloe smiled and wipes away her tears. "I'd like that. But what now. Do we forget everything that's happened?"

"You have to understand that there are things about me tat will never add up."

Chloe laughed. "I know that."

"Are you willing to stop digging?"

"Yeah. I figure that you will tell me when you are ready."

Clark and Lana smiled. "I'll see you tomorrow." he said.

"Okay." Chloe said.

She watched as Clark and Lana left the Torch hand in hand.

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Chapter 11: Hereafter part one

Lana and the rest of the track team were jogging around the school grounds as their warm-up. The track team was getting tired when they saw another person running past them. They saw him run to the track and up to their coach. They finally reached their coach and stopped to catch their breath. "Good run everybody. Don't forget to stretch it out." their coach Mr. Altman said.

Everyone walked away and Jordan walked away and Lana walked foward to her coach. "Mr. Altman I just wanted to let you know that, if there's anything I can do...." she started

"Well there is nothing any of us can do now." he paused. "She really loved this time of year."
Lana watched as he walked away.

Lana then walked over to the table with the water cooler on it and wipes her faces. The same boy that she saw running came over to get a drink of water. "You were really focused out there. Speaking as one of the dozens you passed. I'm Lana."

"Jordan Cross. I just started here a few days ago."

They both reach for the same plastic cup on the table and touch hands. Jordan pulls away and the cup that they both grabbed tips over and falls off the table. "Sorry." he said.

"It's okay. There is plenty more where that came from." Lana said.

Lana watches as Jordan walks away. She sees him bump into the coach and then he ran away. That left Lana confused.

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Clark walked out of the school and sees Jordan. "Jordan." he calls out. Jordan stops and turna around. "The totally overwhelmed look gave you away. I'm Clark." he said holding out his hand.

He notices that Jordan puts his hands in his pocket instead of shaking his hand. "Right, the mentor guy."

"W e were supposed to meet in the gym, but you bolted. Is everything okay?"

"I'm still trying to get used to all of these people. I was home schooled up until now."

"Well allow me to be your lifeline. All new students here are assigned a mentor. I have a map for you."

Clark takes a map out of his pocket and is about to hand it to Jordan before he cuts him off. "Do you mind if I check in with my dad?" he asked.

Clark looks out to the parking ot and sees Jordan's father getting out of his truck and waving. "Sure."

Clark watches as Jordan walks over ot his father and talks to him. About one minutes passes before, Clark hears a car speeding down the street and Jordan looking over at Atlman and he heard him saying . "No. Not today. Please don't be today."

Clark watches as Altman stands in front of the on coming car. He uses his super speed and pushes Altman out of the way of the car. "Mr. Altman are you okay?"

"Why did you stop me?" he cried. "I just want to be with my little girl. My daughter is dead and it is my fault.

*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*

Lana and her friedn Megan are walking in the halls of the hospital when Lana looks up and sees Clark. "Megan. Can you go ask the nurce if Mr. Altman is ready for visitors?"

She nods and walks away.

Lana walks over to Clark who is sitting in the chair and he looks up when he sees her. "Hey." he said.

"Hi." she said giving him a hug. "How's Mr. Altman doing?"

"He's pretty heavily sedated. They want to keep him here until they can do a full psych evalutation." he said. "I didn't know that you and Megan knew Mr. Altman so well."

"It's really through his daughter. We were all cheerleaders. He was never the same after she got hurt."

"I remembr. She was hit by a car."

"Yeah. She was walking home from our end season party. The doctors said that there was no chance for recovery, but he kept on hoping for a miracale. He took her off life support last month."

"I wouldn't wish that on anyone." he said. "It's hard when you blame yourself for everything that has happened."

She grabbed his hand with one of hers and placed her other hand on his cheek. She knew he was speaking from experience, because he blamed himself for everything that went wrong in Smallville. "Don't think that.....I'll see you later okay?"

He nodded. "Bye."

She walked away and walked into Altman's room and heard Megan talking. "If I could change that night, I would. I don't even remember why Julia and I were fighting."

"Megan don't do this."

"Julia left that night because she was mad at me. I should have stopped her."

"I wish I had gone after her to, but none of us knew that this was going to happen. You can't keep on blaming yourself."

"I should have told him then."

"He's inder sedations. I'm not sure that he can hear you. Come on Lets go."

Lana leads Megan out of the room.

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The next day at school, Clark and Lana are walking up the stairs and they see Jordan. He reaches out and touches his shoulder. Jordan turned. "Hey Jordan it's just me." he said.

"Hi." he said in a shakey voice.

"I just wanted to apologize for dropping the mentor ball yesterday."

"Mr. Altman's lucky you were there. I just wish my Dad hadn't seen it."

Jordan goes down the stairs trying not to touch people and Clark and Lana follow him. "Just tell him that Smallville High is rarely that exciting." Lana said.

"Trust me when I say this but my parents wrote the book on being over protective. You'll be just fine." He tried to reach out and pat Jordan on the shoulder but he dodged it.

"You okay?" Lana asked.

"I just don't like being touched."

"Fair enough."

Some one comes and bumps into Jordan and he grabs his head, and then another and another. By the time the third person bumps into him he is out of breath. Lana and Clark watch him confused. and he notices this. "What?"

"Nothing, it's just that you had that same reaction yesterday...just before Mr Altman jumped in front of the car. Like you know it was going to happen."

"I have to go." he said.

Lana and Clark watched him.

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That night, Lana had a very wierd and painful encounter with Adam. He was having a very big nightmare and when she tried to wake him she got kicked in the stomach and sent into the wall. When he did wake up he said it was no big deal. She left the apartment and when she went down stairs holding her stomach. She reached the last step and heard the door open. "Lana?" it was Clark.

"Hey Clark." she said.

He saw she was holding her stomach. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." she said taking her hand off of her stomach. "I'm fine."

He walked over to her. "Are you sure."

"Yeah." she said. She looked up at him and he had the look in his eyes that was saying, 'Tell me the Truth.'

"Adam just had a major nightmre. When I tried to wake wake him, he accidently kicked me in the stomach."

"I'm going to kill him." Clark said as he started to walked to the stairs of the Talon, but Lana grabbed his arm and stopped him.

"Clark it's okay. It was just a accident." she said.

"Lana he hit you."

"Clark." she said. "It's okay. I'm fine. What didyou come here for anyway, you know the Talon is closed."

"I wanted to give you a ride home because I know you don't have your car right now."

Lana smiled. "If you help me finish locking up, then we can go faster."

Clark sped around the Talon and put the rest of the chairs on the table and locked the back doors and then stopped in front of Lana holding her purse and coat. "All done."

Lana laughed and grabbed his hand. "You know it comes in handy to have a boyfriend with superhuman abilities." she said.

"Come on." Clark laughed as he helped Lana with her coat and they went outside to his truck.

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

The next day Clark was working in the Torch when Chloe and Pete walked in. "Hey guys have you guys heard about that new kid, Jordan Cross?"

"You mean Mr. "Pathalogically Afraid of Human Contact." Pete said.

"I guess he made quite a first impression." Clark said. "I know this is going to sound crzy but I think that Jordan had apremonition about Mr. Altman."

"What made you think that?" Chloe asked.

"Call it a gut feeling." Clark said.

"Well maybe that is the same thing that Jordan had." Pete said.

"What do you mean?" Clark said.

"Well some people think that premonitions are just heightened intuition." Chloe said.

"Yeah, maybe he overheard something or saw a look in Mr. Altman's eyes." Pete said.

"Yeah. But given your past track record, I think we should look into it." Chloe said.

"Thanks." Clark smiled.

Chloe sat down at her computer. "No thanks required. It's kind of fun being the Woodward to your Bernstein again."

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

Lana walked into Lex's office and saw him doing something on his laptop and he closed it when she walked in. "Hi Lana."

"You message said it was important. Something wrong?" she asked.

"I was hoping that you could tell me." he started. "I understand that there was an incident at the Talon last night. Some neighbors heard your tenant screaming."

"I think that 'incident' is a pretty strong word." Lana said. "Adam had a bad dream. That's it. It's no deal."

"If it had been the first time I would have agreed with you." Lex said.

"What do you mean?" Lana asked.

Lex held up a file. "I can read an invoice." he stands and opened the file. "Let's see, reapairs for broken windows and replacing furniture. All in te last week. Is there a reason why you didn't tell me."

"Maybe I thought that you would jumo to conclusions." Lana said.

"You have to admit that Adam's behavior is unusual."

"Adam has been a big help around the Talon, putting up with him is a small price to pay."

"Look, it's your call. But at the very least you should be asking yourself, how much do you really know about your new friend."

Lana leaves the office confused.

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

Clark was in the Torch working at the computer when Chloe walked in. "Chloe I think I found something."

"Yeah. Looks you haver been hammering away at the Jordan."

"Yeah, I pulled this off the Ledger database." Chloe looked over Clark's shoulder. Apperantly when Jordan was six, he went ballistic outside of a rollar coater saying that someonewas going to be killed. His dad pulled him away and when they restarted the ride, one of the cars broke loose."

Chloe was reading the article with him. "Killing the woman standing in line with him."

"Mr Altman wasn't Jordan's first premonition."

"Well cue the spooky music, because Jordan was born on the day of the metoer shower." she handed Clark a file. "I went to the court house and asked them to pull up anything pertaining to Cross."

Clark read the file. "According to this Jordan's mother died shortoly after he was born...as a result from a direct hit from a meteor?"

"As one life ends, another one begins."

"That must be the connection."

"Mix that with the meteor rocks and you could be entering John Edward territory."

That's when they hard a lot of commotion outside of the Torch. "That can't be good."

They hear Jordan yelling outside. "Just for one second. Megan, please."

"That's Jordan." Clark said.

They run outside and see the crowd of students surrounding Megan who trying to get out and Jordan who keeps on blocking her way. "Stop it."

"Megan, Stop Please. I'm just asking you to let me walk you home. You don't understand. It's not what you think."

"Leave me alone." Megan yelled.

Megan runs away and Clark runns to Jordan. "Jordan what's going on?"

"I have to help her."

"Why? Calm down! What's going to happen to Megan?"

"She's going to die, Clark! You don't understand, she's going to die." Jordan then runs away in the direction that Megan ran.

Clark runs and catches up to Jordan while he is running across the football field away from the school. "Jordan wait!"

Jordan stops and turns around. "My father was right, Clark. This is a mistake. I should have never came to school."

"Jordan I believe you. You saw something when you touched Megan, didn't you?"

"I don't know what you are talking about."

"I know about the rollar coaster. When you touched Megan, what did you see?"

"I saw...fire...and smole. Meganwas screaming. She couldn't breath. Clark I had to warn her."

"Maybe we can."

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

Clark and Jordan are waing along th road. "Megan's house is just around the corner." Clark said. "These visions, when they hit, what are they like?"

"It's hard to describe. It's like a curtain is being pulled back long enough for me to see the moment that they die."

"Have you ever been able to stop one of these visions from coming true?"

"Never. My dad and I did everything we could. We called the police, the paramedics, we begged people to take us seriouly, but no matter what we did, the visions..they always come true."

"That's how you knew Mr. Altman was going to kill himself."

"Except he survived. Because of you. How did you do it? I had a vision of you when you grabbed me in the hallway."

"What do you mean? What did you see?"

"It's like you don't have an end like other people. it's like you live forever."

"Come on Jordan you're wrong." Clark said.

"No. Maybe that's why you were able to save Mr.Altman. Nobody has beenable to stop one of the death's before. Maybe you can do it again for Megan."

The hear a radio and realize that they are standing outside of Megan's house.They see Sheriff Adams talking with Megan's mother and another police officer.

"Mr. Kent, why am I not surprised?" Adams said as she walked over to him."

"What's going on?"

"We just found Megan Calder's car abandoned of the main highway. There we signs of a struggle." she looks at Jordan. "Are you Jordan Cross?" he nods. "I am told thjat you got into an argument with Miss Calder today?"

"I was there Sheriff, it was no big deal."

"I have a missing Mr Kent. That makes everything a big deal." she turned to Jordan. "We better talk."


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Lana is in ther Talon taking drinks to a table whehn she see's Chloe walk in and follow her. "I think it is a little early for your second triple cap isn't it?"

"I actually came to talk to you about something. Is Adam around?"

Lana unloads the tray. "Umm...No. I haven't seen him in a while. You okay?"

"I am just having one of those "it sucks to be a reporter" days. I know that Adam is your friend and all but..."

"Chloe what's wrong?"

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

Jordan's father arrives in front of Megan's house and gets out of his car. "Jordan are you alright."

"I had another vision. I thought I could help." Jordan said as his father looked over at Clark. "It's okay. Clark knows."

"Wait for me in the car."

"Dad Please."

"Jordan," he said in a warning voice.

"Excuse me." Mr Cross said, he started to walk past Clark but Clark stopped him.

"Mr. Cross Jordan really wants to make a go at school. Just give him another chance."

"I really appreciate all that you have done Clark, but Jordan is special. If he at home I can try to protect him. " they realize that Jordan is gone. His bookbag is on the hood of the car and Mr. Cross runs out to the road and calls, "Jordan!"

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

That ngiht Clark was in the barn. He was frantically looking around and he finally find a flashlight. That's when Johanthan comes in. "Clark you have been looking for Jordan all over town. I think that it is time for you to call it a night."

"I was supposed to help him fit in. Instead I put him on the sheriff's radar."

"That's not your fault."

"Well he would have been a lot better if he never met me."

Clark begins to leave but Johnathan stopped him. "Clark, if he ran away, it's because he didn't like he had anybody at home to talk to."

"His Dad seemed like a good man."

"I am sre he is but I am also sure that he feels like he is doing the best thing for Jordan. When you have a son, and that son has a gift, your first temptation is to hide him away, to shelter him from everything."

"You didn't."

"I wanted to, but your mother was the one who convinced me that you needed to experience the whole world. Not just this farm. And she was right. Jordan will come home when he is good and ready. Okay?"

Clark nodded. "Yeah."

Johnathan is about to leave when they see Jordan in the doorway of the barn. "Clark.."

Clark walks up to Jordan and he and his father see Jordan's face is red. "Jordan what happened to you?"

"I was in school with Lana when somebody attacked us. I think they took her."

"Who took her?"

"I don't know I didn't see him. Clark I had another vision of Lana."

"What do you mean another?"

"I'm not sure. The other day she touched my hand on the track. It was okay. She was peaceful, she was old. It was gher time."

"That changed?"

"She was trapped in the fire. Just like Megan!"

"Okay Okay calm down. What else did you see?"

"Stuff on the floor. Photos were burning. Lana and Megan were in one of them, but they were younger. They were in cheerleading outfits."

Clark pulls a photo out of his bookbag and shows it to Jordan. "Is this the girl?"

"Mr. Altman's daughter."

"When I saved him, I changed everything. Even what is supposed to happen to Lana. Did you see anything that night tell us where Lana is?"

"There was...an old sign in side."

"What did it say?"

"It said, "Wandering Hills."

"I know where that is." Clark is about to leave when Jordan stops him.

"Clark take me with you."

"No way."

"I have seen the house. Maybe I can help you find it. Please."

"First sign of danger you back off." Jordan nods. "Let's go."

"Clark here." Johnathan said. He gave Clark the keys to the truck."

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

Mr. Altman is in the basement of an old house carrying gas cans in each hand. Night. He puts one of the cans down and sets the other one down next to Lana who is sitting on the ground with her hands tied to a beam behind her. Megan is across the room from Lana, also tied to a beam. They are surrounded by gas cans.

"Mr Altman why are you doing this?" Lana said afraid.

"Please, you don't have to do this!" Megan said.

"You'e going to pay for what you did to Julia."

"What are you talking about?" Lana asked.

"I heard you at the hospital. Megan had a fight with her and you let her leave. You should've been looking out for her." he said pointing to Lana."

"We didn't cause the accident." Lana said.

"You might as well have. My little girl was out there all alone because of you."

Megan was not crying. "It wasn't out fault."

Altman picks up another gas can and starts pouring it all over a shrine to Julia against the wall, covered with pictures of Julia.

"For years I blamed myself for not being there." he said.

"Mr. Atlman. This is not the way."

"But now I know that I wasn't responsible. You two killed her."

"No we didn't-"

Altman pulls a lighter out of his pocket and lights the flame. Megan and Lana struggle against the rope that was holding them down. Altman tosses the lighter at the shrine and it bursts into flames immediately. Megan and Lana continue to scream as the fire spreads from the shrine to the wall behind it. Altman kneels down slowly, almost ceremonially in front of the shrine as the fire swallows the pictures of Julia.

"Help us Please!" Megan yells.

Clark and Jordan pulled up in front of the house and see the fire. Clark gets out of the car. "Jordan stay here."

"He's got Lana and Megan. You are going to need some help."

"Stay in the car Jordan."

Clark runs to the to the house, bursting through the basement door. He sees Megan and Lana tied to the beams and the fire is consuming the room quickly. Lana and Megan both seem to be unconscious. He runs to Lana and lifts her head. "Lana? Lana."

"Save Megan."

Altman comes up behind Clark and grabs him. "Get out."

Clark pushes Altman hard and sends him into a wall. Clakrs kneels back down and helps Lana when Jordan comes in. "Jordan."

"I'll get Megan." Jordan runs to Megan and begins to untie her.

Atlman crawls towards the shine of Julia. "Stay away from me. I want to be with my little girl."

"Come on Lana. Let's Go." Clark said.

Clark helps Lana and Megan outside. "Where's Jordan."

"I didn't see him come out with us."

Clark looks back to the house and watches as the fir gets higher higher. "Clark." Lana said.

"Run." he told them.

They did as they were told and Clark ran back into the house. Lana watched as he disappeared and came out moments later with Jordan.
Once he gets to the edge of the yard, he puts Jordan down on the ground and lies on top of him just as the house explodes sending fire and debris shooting in every direction. The fire engulfs Clark and Jordan. When it clears, Clark sits up. His face is smudged with black and his jacket is burnt, but Jordan is unburned. He shakes Jordan's shoulders and feels his neck for a pulse as Lana and Megan run toward him.

"Is he okay?" Megan asked.

"He's not breathing."

"Jordan."

Clark starts to give Jordan chest compressions. "Come on Jordan you can't die on me."

Lana and Megan watch fearfully until finally Jordan starts to choke and sits up. Lana sighs in relief. "Clark?"

"You are going to be okay." Clark said putting his hand on Jordan's. "You are are going to be okay?"

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

The next day, Lana is climbing up the stairs to see Lex. "Lex?"

"Lana how are you feeling?"

"Between the fire and my leg, I have seen enough hospitals to last a life time." Lana joked.

"Have a seat."

"Thanks." she sits. "I think you were right about taking a closer look at Adam."

"Why the sudden change of heart?"

"Chloe caught him using some sort of needle at school. When I confronted him about it, he almost lost it."

"Lana, Ive always had people assume the worst about me all of my life. Trust me, it's hard to respond when people always jumps to the wrong conclusions.."

"That last time we talk I was under the impression that you would be happier if I kicked him out."

"It's not my choice to make. But I have had a chance to ask a few questions. Adam hasn't been healing as well as his doctors had hoped. Apparently he's part os a chlinical medical trial testing a new drug."

"That mgiht explain the needle. But not why he was hiding it. I am begining to wonder who I let into my life."

"You should trust your instincts."

"Thanks Lex."

Lana leaves.

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

Clark and Jordan are at his house walking in the front door. "I promise your second week at school will be easier."

"The paramedics said tat if you hadn't given me CPR I'd be..dead."

"But you're not." Clark said.

They walk into the living room. :I saw her Clark."

"Who?"

"My Mom. In that moment, right before you pulled me back. She was so beautiful. I tried to run to her but I couldn't."

"Maybe it wasn't your time."

"When I woke up, they were gone."

"The visions."

"Maybe I was destined to lose them when I met you."

Thats when Lana walked in.

"Mind if I interrupt? Jordan I brought you your homework."

"Why do I have the feeling you've replace me as your mentor?"

"I have offered to help Jordan get back on his feet, and he is going to help me become faster on mine."

"I think you are getting the hang of this highschool thing." Clark said.

"Come by after this okay?" Clark said.

"Okay." she said.

He reached down and gave Lana a kiss before looking over to Jordan. "I'll you tomorrow."

Clark left the room.

"So, we have a lot of work to do." Lana and Jordan sit on the couch and Lana takes a binder out of her book bag. Jordan looks at her awkwardly as if he wants to say something. "What's wrong?"

"It's about your friend. The one in the hall Adam. He's from Oklahoma right?"

"I don't know. He's never really said anything. Jordan what's going on?"

"I think something bad happened to him."

"He's been in the hospital. He was pretty seriously injured a few months ago."

"This is going to sound really strange. But, I think it's worse than that. I don't think that he was just hurt. I think he died."

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

That night, Clark and Lana are sitting in the kitchen at the Kent farm and watch as Martha pulls a sheet of cookies out of the oven. Lana and Clark are sitting at the island each with a glas of milk. "You are awfully quiet today."

"Having someone tell you yhat you can change destiny is a lot to handle."

"Jordan's visions really struck a chord." Lana said to Martha as she walked away and got a plate from the cupboard.

"Or just brought up questions I had all along. By helping Mr. Atlman, I put three other people in jeopardy. You being one of those people." he said to Lana.

"But you were there for us." Lana said grabbing his hand.

"If it weren't for mw, he would have never had the change to hurt anyone."

"Clark what is this really about?" Martha asked as she put some cookies on a plate.

"I'm just wondering if that's why I was really sent here. To change destiny. What if I make a wrong choice and I'm not there to make it right?" Cark said.

"It's a huge responsibility. You have to concentrate on the good that you do. Think of all the people you've saved. Lana, your dad and me and Lex. He's turned out to be a really good friend. Sweetheart, you just have to do the best you can. You can't save everybody." she said. "I;m going to take these out to your father."

"We'll do it." Clark said.

He and Lana stood and put on their coats. "Lana, could make sure that he doesn't eat all of these cookies. I want to make sure that most of them get out to the barn."

Lana smiled. "Sure."

"Thank you."

Clark and Lana walked to the barn and that's when Clark grabbed one of the cookies from the plate and bit it. "Clark."

He laughed. "She said to the barn."

Lana laughed and they looked around. It was noisey because of the saw. "Dad!" he called out.

They look at the table and watch as a board falls off and see that Johnathan isn't there. Clark walks to the saw and turned it off. They walked to the other side of the table and see Johnathan on the ground. Clark drops the plate on the floor causing it o shatter and both he and Lana kneel at Johnathan's side. "Dad?....Dad."

He and Lana turned Johnathan over and they see his face is covered with saw dust and he is in pain. "Dad?"

"Mr. Kent?"

"Not now! Not yet." it looked as if he was speaking to someone. He turns to Clark. "I love you, son."

That's when Johnathan goes limp in Clark's arms. "Dad? Mom! Mom!"

"I'll get your mom and, call an amubulance." Lana said as she stood and ran to the house as she took out her cell phone and dialed 9-1-1. "I need an ambulance to the Kent Farm."

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I am writing Velocity now, but I am going to let you all know that I am not going to do Obession, maily because I can't find away around the Alicia thing. If you know a way around it let me know and we can work on it together.

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Chapter 12: Velocity part one

Martha, Clark and, Lana sat in the hospital room waiting for Johnathan to wake up. They found out that he had, had a heart attack. Lana was sitting next to Clark and was grabbing his hand. "You know Lana you don't have to stay here. You should go home and get some sleep."

"Im not going any where Clark." Lana said. "He's like my father and I just can't leave him."

Clark smiled and they all sat in silence waiting for Johnathan to wake up. After a few more minutes of waiting, they heard Johnathan stir from his bed and they all stood up. "Dad?" Clark called out.

"Sweetheart." Martha started and they all walked over to the bed. "How are you feeling?"

"Are you three still here? I think you need to go back. Back home and get some rest." Johnathan saw the look on Clark's face. "Hey Clark. Don't worry about me. It will tke a whole lot more than...than a heart attack to keep your ol man."

"I just fell like this is all my fault." Clark said.

"Come here." Johnathan said as he held out his hand.

Clark walked over and grabbed it. "here are a lot of things that you can do, but causing cardia arrest is not one of them."

"Last time you were at the doctors, you had the heart of a 20 year old. That was right before I went to Metropolis."

"If you are suggesting that your biological father had anything to do with this-" Johnathan said before he was interuppted by Clark.

"He gave you powers to bring me home, that no human was meant to have and I don't think that your heart could handle it."

"Clark no there were other factors." Martha said.

"If I hadn't put on that ring, and abandoned you and Mom when you needed me the most, you wouldn't be lying here in this bed." Clark said.

"As hard as it is to believe, not everything that goes wrong in Smallville is Clark Kent's fault."

"He right Clark." Lana said.

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Martha was driving the truck along the road. Clark was sitting by the window and Lana was in between the two. She stopped at a stop sign and looked over at Tom who was looking out the window. Martha pressed the gas pedal and was about to pull out into the intersection when Clark yelled "Watch out."

They watched as two cars sped across intersection causiing Martha to slam on the brakes. "Clark unbuckled his seat belt and Lana spoke up with a shakey voice. "W-Where are you going?"

"They are going to kill someone." he said. "You guys go home."

He got out of the car and sped after them. When he stopped he found a bunch of people cheering for the winner of the race. "Pete 'the boss' Ross".

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The next day, Clark went to go find Pete. He found out where Pete was and followed him to a garage. He parked the truck and got out of the car and found Pete and Dante looking in the trunk of a truck. "Hey, Pete."

"Clark." he said closing the trunk because of the kryptonite. "What are you doing here."

"Hey, nice ride man." Dante says sarcastically loking at Clark's truck. "What's that thing do? 0-60 in an hour? Hey, if you ever want to turn that tortoise into a hare, giev me call, all right?" Clark forces a smile and Dante turns to Pete and slaps him on the back. "See ya bro."

Dante walks away and leaves Clark and Pete alone. "Hey, how's your dad?"

"He doing okay. But in case you didn't notice, you almost obliterated our truck last night. My mom was behind the wheel and Lana was in the car with us."

"Look I am sorry if I scared your mom and Lana, but I was in complete control the whole time."

"At 100 miles and hour?" Clark asked.

Pete walks into nthe garage and Clark follows him. "Clark you are not one to talk about breaking the speed limit. You know what it is like to move so fast that no one can touch you. For me, this is as close as I can get."

Clark looks around the garage. "How long have you been doing this?"

"A couple of months."

"How come you didn't tell me about this?" Clark asked.

"Because I knew that you would want to ground me and take away my allowance."

"Pete, this isn't a joke. You could really hurt someone."

"Clark I know how to hanlde these cars. Dante's the best driver in Lowell County. He taught me everything he knows."

"Including how to break the law. Street racing racing is illegal. You could go to jail."

"Not is no one finds out. You're good at keeping secrets. You are not going to tell anyone, right?"

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Lana is in Adam's apartment above the Talon. She is holding a newspaper article titled "Tulsa Valedictorian Dead at 17". There is a picture of a boy named Chad Nash, and he looks exactly like Adam.

"You know they say everyone has someone that looks like them."

"Chad Nash doesn't look like you." Lana said. "Karate team, orchestra, computer club. All the things you just happen to be a master of? According to this article you died five months ago of a rare liver disease, and suddenly you are standing in front of me with a different name?"

"Who else have you shown this to?"

"No one."

"Are you sure? You haven't told Clark?"

"I haven't told anyone! Adam, tell me. What is going on?"

"Lana you can not tell anyone." Lana listened to what he says as she also watched as the white part of his eye turns red. "You have to promise me, that you not tell anyone."

Blood starts to drip from Adam's eye. "Adam, your eye."

Adam touches the blood and looks at his finger. "This happens all the time. It's just a broken capillary."

"Are you sure you are okay?" Lana asked.

"I'm fine." he says as he grabs Lana's arm and walked her to the door. "Lana, please you have to promise me that you are not going to tell anyone about this, okay?"

"Adam-"

"My life could depend on it." he said pushing her out the door. "Please, my life could depend on it."

Lana nodded and as soon as she did she he shut the door. Lana stood the scared and confused.

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After Clark's 'meeting' with Pete he went to see his Dad in the hospital. He walked into the hospital room carrying a checkers game. "Hey." Johnathan said.

"You are looking like you're feeling better."

Johnathan dropped the remote he was holding. "They need to give this room to someone who really needs it. I have a farm to run."

"Everything is take care of. What you need to concentrate on is feeling better and your checkers stradegy, not necessarily in that order."

Clark sets the bored on the table and rolls the table over to the bed. "Clark you have been here every night. Why don't you go go out with your friends, have some fun."

Clark sat on the edge of the bed. "Why would I want to go out with my friends, when Icould beat my Dad at checkers?"

"I'm serious.Just becuase I am stuck in here doesn't mean you need to be. "Call Lana or Pete and go to the movies. I'll watch TV."

Clark began setting up the game. "Lana is working and Pete has other plans."

Johnathan could see the hurt expression on his face. "Are you two okay?"

"He's been hanging out with a different crowd lately."

"And when you say different, you mean wrong?"

"Wihout realizing it, I think that I have taken Pete for granted.

"Well, you and Pete have been friends since the sandbox, son. Maybe he's just going through a phase. As long as he's not getting himself into any trouble, give it some time.

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After beating his father in checkers Clark left the hospital and as he was pasing through the waiting room, he ran into Lana. "Hey, how's your Dad?"

"He'll be better once we get him home." Clark said. "I hate to, but have to go. His room is right around the corner. He'll be happy to see you."

"Wait, before you go, I wanted to ask you if you have seen Adam?" she asked.

"Is everything okay?"

"I just hope your Dad likes the balloons. It was either these or the "Get Well" teddy bear."

"Lana, what's going on?" he asked not liking the way she avoided his question.

"Clark everything is fine." she lied. She wanted to tell him about Adam, but she didn't know what Adam would do if he found out that she had told someone. Then she changed the subject. "So what room did you say your Dad was in?"

"Around the corner, room 236." Clark said.

"Okay." Lana said.

Clark reached over and gave her a comforting hug knowing something was bothering her. He pulled away. "I have to go but I'll call you later, okay."

"Okay." she smiled.

He gave her a kiss. "Bye."

"Bye." she whispered.

He gave her one more kiss before walking away. She watched him and let out a breath she did not realize she was holding.

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After talking to Pete, and finding out the trouble he was in, he went to Dante's garage and found at least a dozen license plate. He grabbed a pen and paper and wrote down all of the license plates numbers and then went to go see Chloe in the Torch.

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Clark and Chloe were in the Torch and Chloe was at the computer.

"So you think that Dante is more grand theft auto than Indy 500, huh?"

"Why else would he have a personal collection of license plate with brand new registrations that match?"

"Journallistic obbestions aside, it almost seems like you have kind of vested interest in this story."

"You know how i is Chloe. Once you get started on a really good story, you can't stop until you get to the bottom."

Chloe stops typing and looks at Clark. "I just talked with the motor heads ups in auto shop. Your source wouldn't have to be Pete 'The Boss" Ross, would it?" The look on Clark's face told her she was right. "I understand protecting your source, but we are talking about of a friend who is putting his life at risk everytime he goes for the checkered flag."

"Pete asked me to keep this a secret, and I am going to keep my word."

"Yeah, but Clark, you of all people should know that when you friend is doing reckless, sometimes keeping a secret hurts more than it helps. He need a friend. Now might just listen to me."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Clark asked.

"It's called sibiling rivalry. You and Pete are practically brothers. Now, from what I've heard, it's hard to take advice from your sibiling." Chloe goes back to work on her computer and pulled up a list of stolen cars and they all match the plates in Dante's garage. "Whoa. You were right about Jason Dante. He could be the poster boy for Lojack. All the VIN munbers yout ook down were for stolen cars."

"That is all the evidence we need. I'm gonna go talk to the sheriff.

Clark leaves the Torch.

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A few hours later, Clark and Lana were in the living room watching TV on the couch. Clark was sitting and Lana had her resting on his chest and he had his arm around her shoulder. They were relaxed and they heard a knock on the door. "I'll get it." Clark said.

He stood from the couch and opened it to find the sheriff. "Good work Mr. Kent. It only took eight deputies and four cruisers to discover that, that barn was as clean as my grandmother's pantry."

"That's couldn't be, I saw those license plates."

"The only plates in there were in the kitchenette sink. And non eof the VIN numbers you gave were even remotely similar to the cars in that garage."

"Sheriff that is impossible"

"As usual Mr. Kent, your information is about as accurate as the local weatherman. I'm going to give you some slack this time because I have had my eye on Jason Dante for a while now and he is one slippery fish. But next time you say that there is a stom a-brewing, I better see some rain." She sees Lana. "Ms. Lang."

The sheriff leaves and Clark turns back to Lana. "What was that all about?" she asked.

Clark sighed and walked over to the couch before he sat down again. She sat down next to him and grabbed his hand. "Clark what's going on?"

"My plan to help someone has just back fired."

"Who are you trying to help?"

"Pete."

"Look I don't know what's going on, but come on. Let's go to the Talon and get something."

"Okay."

[Nemu]

Lana should thread carefully with her questions... cause she is hiding something too...

Now that was good... PPMS :D

[mysteryman1]

Why don't you have Alicia and Lana fight for Clark?

Anyways, Update Soon.

[mysteryman1]

Update Soon.

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yea like what chloe said in the mortal epi. stop asking question or ill start asking mine

[maru11]

update soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[*#~ ClAnAfAn99210~#*]

ppms

[xfreak1990]

I am so sorry that this took this long to update but after my last update school started. And then when I finally had time to type it up I sprained my hand, but I don't know how I did it. But here is the finally part of Velocity.

After spending some time at the Talon, Clark and Lana decided to get some studying done and so they went to the farm and went up to the loft. They walked up the stairs and Clark put their books on the desk and they realized that someone was in the loft with them.

"Pete?" Clark asked.

Pete walked out of the shadows and both Clark and Lana see that his face his bloody and cut up. "Oh my God Pete, what happened?" Lana asked.

"Dante thought that I was the one that called the sheriff. It was you Clark. ante knew about the raid because he's got a deputy in his pocket."

"That's why he never get's busted." Clark said.

"Pete we have to get you inside and clean you up." Clark said as he tried to take his arms but Pete pulls away.

"Clark I'll be fine! I just need you to get me that $20,000."

"Pete where am I supposed to get that much money?"

"Go Kal on an ATM machine. You've done it before."

"When I was on Red Kryptonite."

"Then go slip on a ring."

"Pete I can't do that!" Clark shouted.

"Clark you don't get it. Dante's a psyco. He told me that he's going to kill my parents first, then if I still don't pay up, he is going to come after me."

"Pete you know I would never let anything happen to you or your family. But it doesn't give me the right to break the law."

"That has never bothered you before1 We've gone Watergate on so many buildings, I've lost count!"

"We were trying to help people."

"Now I am the one that needs help! Me." Pete's eyes start to tear up. "Clark if you beat him up he's just going to come after us later. Of course you're not going to kill him and let's face it. You can't be on secret service detail forever. I have to put an end to this."

"There's got to be another way."

"Clark this is my family we're talking about! If you don't get me that money, we're dead."

Clark disappeared and came back two seconds later with the first aid kit in his hand. He gave it to Lana. "Lana help him."

He walked to the top of the stairs and Lana followed him. "What are you going to do?"

"I have to go see Lex." Clark said before he sped away.

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Lana and Pete waited in the loft waiting for Clark to come back. "So what do you think of me now?"

"I don't think any differently of you. I just wish that you would have listened to Clark in the first place." Lana said.

That's when they heard a car driving up the drive way. The stood and looked out of the window.

"That's Lex's car." Lana said.

She and Pete went down the stairs and watch as the cars is parked and Clark gets out of the car. "Here's your $20,000."

"This car is worth a lot more than that. Lex gave it to you?" Pete asked.

"Not Exactly." Clark said.

"Wait you stole it?" Lana asked.

"I plan on giving it back." he said to Lana. "Pete you are going to challenge Dante to a race that he can't say no to."

"What are you talking about?" Pete asked.

"If he wins, the Prsche is his. If you win, your debt is settled."

"The problem is, as fast as this car is, it won't stand a chance against versus Dante's car."

"No. This is the prize. You are going to drive the car you always drive."

"I appreciate your confidence in me, but Dante's never lost a race."

"He will this time. I am going to use my heat vision and fry his engine. I can stay away from the kryptonite and no one gets hurt."

"A last minute tune up."Pete said getting excited as Clark walked away. "Clark you are awsome."

Clark stopped and turned around angry. "I'm glad your happy, Pete Because I had to lie for and I had to steal for you and now I have to cheat for you. Let's get this done."

Pete turned and got into the car and Clark walked over to Lana. "Lana I want you to stay here okay."

"Why?"

"Because if someone does get hurt, I don't want it to be you."

"I heard the word kryptonite. Be careful...okay?"

"Okay.' he said.

She leaned up and kissed him tenderly on the lips.

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Clark listen to Pete challenge Dante to the race and watched as Dante accepted it. He watched as Pete drove off with the car and heard Dante's plan to kill Pete. When he tried to stop them, he was knock out because there was kryptonite around. When he woke up he found that he was in the trunk of a car. He sees the tube of the kryptonie booster coming from the floor of the trunk. He punches the bottom of the trunk punching through the gas tank and causing it to drain all over the road. He feels as the car begins to slow down and eventually comes to a stop.

When he gets out of the trunk he sees Pete looking over at what used to be Dante's car. "Oh my God. think he's dead."

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Lana was in the Talon walking up the stairs. She was going to attempt getting some answers out of Adam. She gets to his door and hears footsteps. She knocks on the door. "Adam are you there?"

"I'll be right there." comes a strained voice.

"Adam are you okay?"

The door opened and Adam steps out and he seems to be fine. "I'm fine." he said.

"Um. Adam I kept my word. I didn't tell anyone about Chad Nash. But I think I deserve an explanation."

"Lana, this is bigger than you realize. Whatever you know, just forget about it. For your own good."

"No Adam I can't do that." Lana said. "If you are going to live here, you have to be honest with me."

"Lana do you want the truth?" He beings to walk towards her threateningly. "You tell anyone what you found out. You are going to regret ever meeting me."

Adam backs up into his apartment and closes the door leaving Lana scared.

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After Clark's encounter with Lex about his Porsche and his talk with his father. He called Lana and she said that she was going to come over and they could go into town. He was shooting some hoops when Pete pulled up in his car. "Hey." he said.

"Hey." Clark responds.

"Clark I know you are mad as hell at me and I don't blame you. All I can say is I am sorry."

"I am too Pete. I had to steel from friend to help another. And someone died."

"I know. If I had listened to you from the start none of this would never have happened. Clark you told me your secret because you are my friend. And at times that is not an easy thing to be. But it doesn't give me the right to what I did. I just wanted to say that.....Clark it will never happen again... I know I let you down. But I will never disrespect your powers again."

Clark doesn't answer. He just looks at Pete and Pete tried to lighten the mood. He smacks the ball from Clark's hands and begins to dribble it. "Do you want to play some hoops?"

"Actually I was about to go out with Lana." Clark says as Lana pulls up.

"Come on. Game of 21 by 2's. 3 pointer is outside the crack. No powers." he tosses the ball to Clark who sighs. "Not today Pete." he drops the ball and walks over to Lana's car leaving Pete alone.

End of Velocity.

Remember I said I was going to skip Obsession and skip right to Resurrection.

[eriii1]

You are an awesome writer xfreak! Keep it up!! PPMS!

[clanalove101]

great ppms lovin the clana! hope ur habds all better now!

[Hahaveryfunny]

Its been awhile since you updated this. Can we get an update for this story soon or when you have the time???

PPMS!!!