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Title: The Past is the Future
Rating: PG13
Pairs: Clana (of course)
Disclaimer: Own absolutely nothing,
Summary: Five to six months after phantom, the world is in chaos because of this, three people come up with a very interesting plan. These three bring it to the attention of four others and they together form it into a realistic plan. Not knowing if it would work or not, they still went through with it.

Think of it like this, the Clark Kent we all know, has gone through pain, suffering, death, the list goes on and on. What if he could change that? To somehow get to the past and do it all over again. But this time he knows everything that is going to happen. The version of Smallville that we all know, he knows. Using it to his advantage to change the past for a better future. But doing to much changing makes the future worse, so he can only change certain things. But what? That is the question? And who will help him? Will he do it by himself? Or join forces?

Chapter 1: Emotions

This story starts out like any other normal day, well as normal as Smallville can get anyways. It's kinda cloudy outside but maybe it's just fog. All Clark knew was that it didn't stop Pete from riding down the sidewalk like a madman. He couldn't quite understand what Pete was doing but, out of the whole conversation he had with him, he learned one very valuable thing: "Forget about the past and focus on the future!"

That very phrase caused Clark to realize what's important to him. The one person who has always believed in him and forgiven him for all the dumb things he has ever done. Walking into the Talon he sees that very person……..Lana. "Hey."

She's bent down writing on the Talon's special board when Clark walks in. Looking up she answers him, "Hey." Without even realizing it until it was too late she broke the chalk she was using to write the specials. Changing the subject quickly she asks, "Did you hear about Travis?"

He looks down at her, "Yeah, pretty sad, huh?"

"Yeah, the police think he might have been on something, which is the only explanation." She said standing up to get a better view of Clark. "I mean, we always assume that we have all the time in the world, but we never know." He nods in agreement as she turns to walk back to the counter, "The school counselor told me I need to look forward, embrace living, carpe diem." As she walks behind the counter she continues, "At first I thought it sounded corny, but the more I think about it, she's right. You know, I just don't want to be a spectator in my own life." She stops at a tray to put the broken chalk down.

He nods in agreement not really paying attention to her, "Yeah, me either." Suddenly he gets the courage and looks straight at her, "We should go on a date, together…" This catches Lana's attention so she looks up slowly, a little startled. "…In the near future."

Wondering if what she heard him say was correct she asks, "Are you serious?"

"I was," He said a little nervous she would say no, "But if you don't want to go…."

Realizing she heard him correct she answers with a smile, "When?"

He looks at her shocked she said yes, "You mean you'll go?"

"Yeah, I-I assume that was the answer you were looking for?" She says with a smile.

A grin spreads across Clark's face, "Yeah, I just didn't think it would be that easy."

"Well, all you had to do was ask." She said to him reassuring.

"Well, how about tomorrow?" He asks excited about his first official date with Lana.

A grin spreads across her face, "Sounds like fun."

"Alright, it's a date."

"Okay," she said extra excited.

Clark turns around not realizing that both of them have smiles spread across their faces.

They go on with the rest of their day. Clark heads to the Kawatche Cave to clean up all the garbage from the Rave. After picking up a few pieces of garbage, Lex walks in notifying Clark that he has a team coming to clean up all the garbage. As they are talking Lex notices a book in Clark's backpack. A book called Deciphering the Mysterious of Hieroglyphics by Fredrick Walden. This book seems to interest Lex, Clark just can't figure out why?

Back at the Talon Lana is organizing a vase of flowers as Chloe walks in. Chloe puts her journalist instincts to work and wonders why it seems Lana has been avoiding her. She brushes it off by saying that "It's just how I cope." So Chloe drops it like a good friend should.

Chloe then brings up her serious shopping trip to Metropolis and was hoping Lana would go since her dad was joining the conspiracy and would get them out of school early. But Lana had to decline because of her plans with Clark. When Lana mentioned the part about the plans being date kind of plans, Chloe pretty much froze. They talk about it but in the end Chloe convinces Lana that it's her decision whether she goes or not, not Chloe's. That leaves Lana standing there feeling guilty.

A lot of other things happen in this day like, Martha convincing Jonathon to let Clark go on a date with Lana, Lex hiring Dr. Walden for his preservation study on the Caves and Chloe getting bitten by the insect that is infecting Pete. Which caused Pete to jump in front of a bus, luckily Clark was there to save him or else he would be squished. Pete even turns on Clark by using his weakness against him to get him to leave him alone. As Dr. Walden begins his research on the Kawatche Cave he extracts the insect that has bitten Chloe and Pete.

The next day Clark walks into the Talon. "Hey, you're early. I wasn't expecting you for another hour." Lana says sounding kind of nervous. "Not that I mind. I'm really excited for our date." She says with a smile.

"So was I……." He trails off as he grips his head and feels a sudden pain before blacking out. Falling to the ground, he blacks out before he even hits it.

Lana instinctively runs around the counter, dropping to her knees to see if Clark will wake up. Nothing she does works so she pulls out her cell phone and instead of calling 911, she calls the Kent's.

"Hello," Martha answers with a cheery voice.

"Mrs. Kent, Clark's……been…..he's….on.....the……passed…out….." Lana says between breaths as shock consumes her.

"Honey calm down. What's happened to Clark?" Martha asks concerned for her baby,

"He came into the Talon and I was talking to him and all of a sudden he just…..passed out. What should I do?"

Martha thinks for a second, "Wait there, Jonathon and I will come and get him."

"But shouldn't I call 911?" Lana asks wondering why Martha wouldn't say that.

"No, we'll be there in 10 minutes."

"Okay," Lana says feeling a little better but not by much.

Martha hangs up and runs out calling Jonathon. Once she finally finds him, she informs him of what Lana said, without any hesitation Jonathon drops what he is doing and drives down to the Talon. Running into the Talon, they see that Lana was in tears.

Jonathon runs up to Clark and lifts him up with the help of Martha then she turns to Lana, "Lana, Clark's going to be okay."

She looks up at them with teary eyes, "Can I come back with you guys to sit with him?"

"Sure, but you'll have to take your own vehicle." She nodded as Martha and Jonathon turned around, heading back for the door, dragging Clark along unconscious.

Lana turned to her assistant manager, and without hesitation the assistant understood that she would be the manager until Lana could come back. She thanked her before heading to the backroom to get her keys and out to the front to drive to the Kent's.

Chloe and Pete drive to the Talon just as the Kent's and Lana leave in a hurry. "I wonder what that is all about." Chloe says sounding kind of concerned but then just laughs.

"Who cares, let's go find us some fun." Pete puts his car in drive and screeches off. Driving down the road, Pete turns to Chloe, "So where to?"

"How about we jump Saunders Gorge that would be a wild ride?" Chloe said smirking at how much fun that would be.

"Alright, he we go, off to Saunders Gorge." Steeping on the gas, he speeds up there pace to the Gorge.

Once at the Gorge, they look over the edge before backing up. "Okay here we go." Pete says with confidence.

He switches into drive and steps on the gas pedal as hard as he can. Going 200km/hr, they rip towards the edge. As the front wheels leave the cliff, Chloe disappears. Pete is too caught up he doesn't notice, he's too excited for the jump. He flies off the edge, falling to his death. The car totals with Pete in it, killing him instantly.

Back at the top of the cliff a man holds Chloe with no effort. "What are you doing man? Let me go." Chloe yells thrashing around trying to get loose.

"I'm sorry; your joy ride is over. I'm taking you to the hospital." The mysterious man says in a deep voice.

Without another word he super-speeds to the hospital, places Chloe on a bed and tells the doctor to take an x-ray to remove the insect in her body. He then waves his hand in front of the doctor's head and then speeds away.

The doctor looks from side to side wondering what he is doing there and then turns to Chloe. Somehow he knows her name and is supposed to x-ray her. "Weird, I could've sworn I was in the office. Anyways I should go help Chloe. How did I know that name? This day is very strange." He walks over to Chloe and takes her into an examination room.

Back at the Kent Farm, Lana is sitting next to the couch watching Clark while Martha and Jonathon are in the kitchen discussing what they should do. "Jonathon, what are we going to do?"

"I don't know, he's never acted this way before. We might, dare I say need to trust a doctor to tell us what is wrong with him." He whispers looking concerned for his son.

"Are you sure that's a good idea? What if the doctor exposes Clark?" Martha whispers back.

"Would you rather not know what is wrong with our son and whether or not he will ever come out of this?"

"No, but who could we trust?" She looks at him for answers.

"I don't know sweetheart, I don't know." He brings her into a hug.

Lana looks at Clark with tears in her eyes. "Oh Clark, what happened to you?" She brushes a piece of hair from his face behind his ear. "You were fine all day. Please don't die. You mean everything to me."

A couple hours later at the hospital, Chloe is lying in a hospital bed. The doctors had just removed the insect 10 minutes ago. Depending on her affect to the anaesthetics, she could come out soon or later. There's no way to tell.

It's 10pm, when Lana walks into Chloe's room to see that she's awake. "Hey Chloe, how are you feeling?"

"I'm pretty good, so do you know if they got a picture of that thing they extracted from me?" Chloe said hoping to see what caused her to put black streaks in her hair.

"Ugh, you don't want to see it. They showed me a picture, it was pretty gross." Lana said making a face which caused Chloe to laugh.

After laughing a bit she notices that Lana looks as if she's been crying. "Lana, are you okay?" She asks concerned for her friend.

"Yah, it's……nothing." Lana says trying to keep it together.

Chloe sees right through her attempt. "Lana, I can tell that you aren't telling me the truth. What's wrong?"

Lana looks from her hands back to Chloe, "It's Clark. He passed out in the Talon today." Chloe looked at her concerned about to say something but Lana continued. "He's at the Kent farm. He hasn't woken up yet and it's been five hours. I'm starting to get worried."

"Why isn't he here at the hospital?"

"I don't know, but when I left Doctor Bryce showed up. So maybe she will tell us what's wrong with Clark." She broke down crying, she couldn't take it anymore.

Chloe put her arms up and Lana accepted by wrapping her arms around Chloe and letting go of her tears. She sits in her arms and cries for a long period of time before they hear a noise coming from the TV that sounded like a crash.

They turn to the TV; Chloe grabs the remote and turns it up. The newscast lady is speaking, "It appears that this young driver lost control of his vehicle and flew off the gorge, crashing down to his death. Wait………info is coming in……….the unknown driver is…..Pete Ross. The impact of the crash killed him instantly, he didn't feel a thing."

Chloe and Lana stare in shock, "It can't be true," Chloe says. Lana is in so much shock that she can't even say anything. Tears begin running down their cheeks.

The camera on the TV follows the news lady to the driver's side. "Yes, it is confirmed this is Pete Ross. According to the M.E. (Medical Examiner) on site, he definitely didn't feel anything. It was death on impact." Looking straight at the camera, "There you have it folks, the death of yet another teenager."

By now Chloe and Lana are bawling. Dealing with the death of a friend and the potential death of another friend really hung over them. The tears ran down their faces like there was no hope for anything.

So now it's your chance to tell me what you thought about this chapter. Did you like it? Did you hate it? Be honest, I like to know if my reader's are interested or not. :D

Jenni