Fracture
A Smallville Fanfic
A short story
Every moment is like a tiny fracture in a piece of ice – slowly, slowly, each little hairline crack has an impact on when that ice will finally open and shatter.
I can feel her; she's near – yet so far away, somehow. She's talking to me – her voice is like music to me.
Sad music. What happened? The memories are there, but distorted and confused, swirling and slipping past one another in a whirlpool of chaos in my mind. What's going on? Where am I? Why is she crying?
Something tells me I'm in pain – she's in pain – but I can't feel anymore.
Lana.
Every moment slips by so fast, but so slowly, the fractures continuing on. I feel the need to tell her – tell her everything – but I can't. And I don't know why.
Oh, Lana. What happened?
Lana. I love you. I love you more than anything I've ever had in my entire life. I always will. I always have. Lana, don't leave me.
I can still remember the moment I first saw her. The memories are still sliding by. I can still see her, back in high school, as I tripped and fell on my face, my books scattering in all directions. That necklace. Green kryptonite.
Lana.
Lana. I love you.
Her voice is still there. It's so beautiful. She's so beautiful. I can see her in my mind's eye. How is it possible for one person to be so beautiful?
There is a moment of frigid silence, and somewhere, the last fracture breaks the ice apart.
I see her again, and I realize it's not in my mind, but for real, right before my eyes. Lana.
I'm falling, rising upwards in a slow whirlwind of nothing and everything as fast as I've ever moved in my entire life. Lana. Lana. The name repeats in my mind.
I'm in more pain than I've ever felt in my life – yet I've never felt such bliss.
What's happening? The confusion is too much, and even as I realize that, everything falls into place.
And then there was nothing. The ice had shattered.