What Might Have Been
Authors note: Yet another fic from me to you! This was going to be a song fic but I made some minor alterations and decided to go in a whole other direction
Takes place about 6 years into the future. Lana and Clark were together at one point...oh you'll read about it in the story...it's kind of a weird one, like the scrooge story... Enjoy and R/R!! Hey Stef! My #1 fan!
Disclaimer: Nope not a thing... well...maybe hunky angel guy...
Lana never thought it could be this difficult to drive and read a map at the same time. Of course it might have helped had it been daylight and she had even the slightest clue how to get where she was going.
"Was Kansas always this darned flat?", she asked herself while staring out at the vast nothingness before her. The rain outside was pitter-pattering on the roof and the windows, making it even harder to see the road signs and rest-stops. Lana had moved to St. Louis after she had completed college but she was going to Metropolis to help out a friend who was in her ninth month of pregnancy. The poor thing could hardly bend over to tie her shoes and the fact that the father was long gone couldn't be too easy to deal with either. Lana finally decided to give up on the idea of a map and just do her best with out it. "It's not like I'm actually going to hit anything out here anyway." she sighed to herself.
She decided to flick on the radio and see what was playing. Maybe something will take her mind off the rain and the fact that it was 1:24 am. After a few moments of screaming used car commercials and late- night call in shows, she found a soft rock station. The words to a began to fill the air and she found herself singing the lyrics to the all familiar tune.
Sure I think about you now and then,
But its been a long, long time.
I've got a good life now and I've moved on.
So when you cross my mind...
I try not to think about what might have been,
cause that was then.
And we have taken different roads.
We can't go back again.
There's no use giving in.
And there's no way to know,
what might have been.
We can sit and talk about this all night long.
And wonder why we didn't last.
Yes, they might be the best days we will ever know,
but we'll have to leave them in the past.
So try not to think about what might have been,
cause that was then.
And we have taken different roads.
We can't go back again.
There's no use giving in.
And there's no way to know,
what might have been.
That same old look in your eyes.
It's a beautiful night.
I'm so tempted to stay.
But too much time has gone by,
we should just say, "goodbye"
and turn and walk away.
And try not to think about what might have been,
cause that was then.
And we have taken different roads.
We can't go back again.
There's no use giving in.
And there's no way to know,
what might have been.
It must have been the song and the fact that she was totally alone with her thoughts, because at that moment, she began to think about Clark. She broke up with him because, well, it always seemed that he was hiding something and she felt hurt that he didn't trust her enough to tell her. He had always said he'd tell her when the time was right...but the time was never right. The question of "what if?" had plagued her on a few occasions, and this was one such occasion. As her mind began to wander, so did her eyes. They wandered off the road, and off the guard rail she was about to ram into. The force of the impact thrust her forward but, luckily, she was wearing her seat belt and didn't come to much harm.
"What a fabulous night for a car wreck.", she muttered to herself as she opened the car door. The rain had picked up and it had even started to thunder and lightning. The front of the car wasn't too bad, just one headlight was out and there was a horrendous scratch all the way down the side. Oh, and a busted tire. Even though Lana, carried a spare with her in the trunk, she hadn't a clue on how to actually change the busted tire. As she was walking around to the trunk, she was enveloped by a blinding whitish blue light, and felt the electricity coarse through her body, jerking her violently for a few moments, and then it was gone. Her body collapsed in a heap on the wet pavement.