A/N: Hey guys! I know you are mad at me for my lack of updating of my other stories but trust me if you were as stressed as I was right now you wouldn't be mad at all. College is keeping me busier than I've ever been. My muse decided to wake up and slap me in the face with this one and not leave me alone until I wrote it. I am very sorry. Hopefully I'll have time to update this weekend because I'll finally have a break before Midterms! Well this is a new story I wanted to start just because I recently got addicted to Smallville!
Remember, I don't own anything you recognize.
Chapter 1
Kayla stood in front of her packed-to-the-brim SUV in the driveway anxious to leave. She graduated from high school two years early and got accepted into Smallville Community College. She couldn't wait to see her best friend and the more exciting part was she would be living with him and his family. Yes, Clark Kent would be surprised. She hadn't seen him in years because after her first stepfather died, her mother moved them out here near her grandparents.
She missed Smallville but didn't miss getting made fun of for being a science nerd. No she wasn't fully athletically inclined, but that didn't make her a nerd. That was when she and Clark became best friends. He stood up for her one day when the school jock in middle school had knocked all her books out of her hand and threw her papers everywhere. Clark had told him to stuff it and to get away from her and helped her pick everything up. After that they were inseparable; that is, until she moved away. They still talked whenever they could but she felt like they were drifting apart.
So here she was, standing in front of her car, ready to drive through the night to go to college in her hometown. She heard the front door open and close and turned around to see exactly what she expected, her mother fighting tears and her stepfather's ever stoic face.
"Guys, it's not the end of the world!" She said laughing.
"Shut up!" Her mother said with a playful glare. "Be careful. Call us if anything happens and call us when you get there!" She finished.
"I will, Mom!" Kayla said laughing then turned to her stepfather who crushed her in a hug so tight she couldn't move. "Um, daddy? I can't breathe or move!"
"I just want you to know I love you." He said.
"Okay, I love you, too." She said. "Can you let go now? I would like to leave and make it to Kansas and past Metropolis before rush hour!" He smiled and let her go. "It's not like I won't be back on the first flight we can afford." With that she got into her car and left.
The drive was pretty uneventful. She stopped for gas a total of three times, and loved the fact that there was no traffic, which is why she decided to drive through the night. She actually made it to the farm early, but Clark was already in school.
Mrs. Kent rushed outside to greet her.
"My word you have grown up into a beautiful young lady!" She said.
"Thank you!" Kayla replied blushing.
"Come on in. You must be exhausted. Jonathan will help you unload when he is done with the chores. Are you hungry?"
"I'm starving." Kayla said laughing at how Mrs. Kent was fussing. "When will Clark be home?"
"Well school doesn't get out until around 2:30 so not for a while. You can pick him up from school if you want and surprise him." Mrs. Kent suggested.
"I just may do that. After I unpack of course so there is room for him!" Around that time Mr. Kent came strolling into the kitchen.
"Do my eyes deceive me?" He said rubbing his eyes dramatically. "Is that the little book worm our son couldn't be separated from?"
"Yes, it's me!" She said jumping into his arms. "It's so good to be back in Smallville!"
"It's good to have you back. Clark has been wondering why you haven't emailed him in a while." Mr. Kent replied.
"I have been busy packing and getting things ready to move here with my second family!" Kayla said walking outside.
"Let's unpack your car while Martha finishes up breakfast." Jonathan suggested and he followed Kayla outside who already had her hatch up and was already pulling boxes out. "Someone is just a little eager to move in, I see."
"I haven't seen y'all in years! I just want to hurry so I can spend time with everyone." Kayla said laughing.
"Would you just listen to what Tennessee did to your accent?" Jonathan said laughing.
"Yeah, it got a little worse since moving." They both laughed while taking boxes upstairs. It didn't take long for all of them to be unloaded and in her new room. When they were all seated, Mrs. Kent suddenly jumped up. "Clark forgot his lunch!" She said seeing it on the counter.
"I'll take it to him!" Kayla said. "It'll be a nice surprise. Just let me jump in the shower really quickly since he still has a couple hours before lunch." With that she rushed upstairs and straight into the bathroom. After the shower, she looked at herself in the mirror and she did see changes from the nerd no one liked in middle school. She had contacts now, she had filled out very well, her acne was finally gone, and her hair had finally grown out. She could practically sit on it now. She put some moose in her hair and let it dry while doing her makeup. A few minutes later she flitted down the stairs in jeans and a black tank top. She grabbed Clark's lunch off the table and went outside to her SUV.
"I'll be back later! I have to run by campus for a few minutes before I bring him home!" She shouted out into the field where both Kent's were feeding the cows. They waved at her and she left.
"I still cannot believe you are going without lunch because you forgot it, again!" Pete said following Clark to his locker.
"It's cool I'll just eat when I get home." Clark said putting his books from previous classes away and getting the other half out. "I'll just sit and study in the bleachers."
Pete laughed when he saw the picture Clark had of him and Kayla in his locker when they were younger. "I still cannot believe you have a picture of nerd girl in your locker."
"We're best friends, Pete." Clark said. "And it's calling her names like that one that will get you knocked into a locker." He said before laughing and trying to put Pete in a head lock.
"Boys I think you might want to turn around and see if she is still a nerd for yourselves." Chloe said walking up.
They both turned around and both of their jaws dropped. Gone was the slightly chunky little girl they all knew.
"Careful, boys." Kayla said walking up. "You might catch flies."
Clark smiled and enveloped her in a hug. "What are you doing here?"
"Didn't you hear? I graduated two years early and I'm going to the community college here." She smiled at the look on Pete's face. "Hey there, jerk face." She said laughing.
"Where are you staying?" Chloe asked.
"Holy cow! Chloe? You look amazing!" Kayla said hugging the blonde. "And I'm staying on the Kent farm I got in a little over two hours ago."
"My parents didn't say anything about a new roommate!" Clark said picking his back pack up.
"That is because I wanted it to be a surprise!" Kayla said. "You forgot this, by the way." She finished handing him his lunch.
"Wanna eat with us? We were just about to head outside to the football bleachers." Pete said.
"Sure! Just let me get my lunch out of the car." She said turning around and walking off.
Pete whistled behind her. "Clark, if you don't make a move, I will." He said as they watched her walk away.
"Let's go before Pete's brain turns into goo." Chloe said and they all laughed.
"What do you have for lunch?" Clark asked.
"Stopped by a drive through on the way to the school." Kayla said. "Look in your bag."
He opened it to find his normal lunch gone and replaced by the same food she had. "Don't tell my mom, she may kick you out."
"It'll be our little secret." She said and saw Clark look longingly at the football practice going on as well as at a certain cheerleader. "Is that Lana Lang?"
"The one and only!" Chloe piped up.
"Wow, she hasn't changed at all."
"You, on the other hand," Chloe said. "You have changed a lot."
"I just grew up, that's all." Kayla said laughing. "Clark, why don't you join the team?"
"I just… can't. Dad said he needs me on the farm." Clark said giving her a warning look.
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" She replied smirking. "I'd better go; I have to be on campus to get my classes and books taken care of. I'll be back to pick you up and take you home, farm boy!" She said laughing as she walked away. When she turned around, she saw Pete in a yellow uniform. "Pete, did you join the team?" She asked.
"I'm trying out! How do I look?" He asked looking up at Clark.
"Like a tackle dummy. Good luck." Clark said.
Later that day, 2:30 came and went and still no Kayla. He called her cell phone and decided to meet her on the bridge right by the school. When she got there she pulled over and walked over to Clark.
"I'm so sorry! I had to fight with the office over transcripts and then they wanted to over-charge me for my books." She said.
"Don't worry about it." Clark said. "What classes are you taking?"
"Advanced Calculus and Biology, an English class, an Anthropology class, and Japanese." She said reading off her schedule. "A grand total of 17 credit hours."
"Will you have time to even breathe?" Clark asked laughing. "And why in the world would you want to take Japanese?"
"I took it in high school." She replied simply. "And yes because three are on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday while the others are on Tuesday and Thursday, I'll be able to get a lot of chores done around the farm also between studying times."
"Since you are taking advanced classes, I may need help with my own homework." Clark said causing them to both laugh.
"It's a deal. Now let's go, farm boy, your parents are probably wondering if I kidnapped you." They started walking towards the SUV when a piece of wrapped barbed wire came off a truck driving by. That's when Kayla saw an expensive Porsche driving way over the speed limit drive over it and barrel towards them. Clark pushed her away and she flew backwards and her back his her SUV while she saw Clark get hit by the car and go tumbling into the river below.
"Clark!" She screamed. She stood up ignoring the throbbing pain in her back and ran to the guard rail. When she saw him break the surface she found a way down and ran to him while he was laying a man down on the rocks. "Oh my god, are you okay?" She said.
"I'm fine." Clark replied. "I don't think he is breathing!" He exclaimed starting CPR. After a few breaths, the man coughed and sputtered to life.
"I could have sworn I hit you." The man said looking around.
"If you did," Clark said, "I'd be dead."
Kayla's eyebrows rose at the smooth lie he let out. So no one knew what she did about Clark Kent? That was why he gave her a warning look about the football topic! She decided to stow that topic of discussion away for later.
About half an hour later, the whole place was swarming with cops and EMT's. They saw Kayla limping and she said she had fallen when Clark pushed her out of the way of the out of control car. Clark winced when she cried out when they poked and prodded to make sure she hadn't broken any ribs. They said nothing was broken but a few ribs were bruised so they gave her something for the pain and sent her on her way. That was the moment Jonathan Kent decided to run up.
"Clark! Kayla!" He called running up to them. "Are you two alright?"
"I'm fine, but Kayla is a little worse off than I am." Clark said and they both turned to look at her.
"What? I'm fine! I've been through worse." She said wincing and sucking in her breath when she tried to stand. "Although I will say, those meds they gave me make me feel funny." She finished before giggling causing Jonathan to sigh in relief that nothing serious was wrong and Clark to smile at her comment. "I'm sorry; I'm kind of high as a kite right now. Can we go now?" She asked.
"Who is the maniac that was driving that car?" Jonathan demanded.
"That would be me." A voice said to their right. They all turned to the man in all black. "I'm Lex Luthor," He introduced himself holding his hand out but Jonathan didn't take it.
"I'm Jonathan Kent. This is my son and a family friend, Kayla, who is staying with us that you could have killed." He replied.
"Thanks for saving my life." Lex said and looked at Kayla. "If you need a doctor I could call my personal one."
"I'm good!" She said. "Just give me more of these meds and I'll be just...perfect!" She said struggling for the word she was looking for. Clark and Lex smiled at her while Jonathan shook his head.
"It's time to get her home before she falls and drowns herself." Jonathan said causing Kayla to erupt into giggles but gasped when she tried to stand.
"Can I have a little help here?" She said and Clark rushed over to her and helped her up feeling a pang of guilt when the tears threatened to fall down her cheeks when she started breathing heavily.
"You've got an extraordinary son, sir." Lex said. "Is there anything I can do to repay you?"
"Yes," Jonathan said, "Drive slower." They all walked off and went home.
That night, Clark couldn't sleep so he went to the loft in the barn he thought of as his place of solace. He walked up to the telescope and fixed it on Lana's house and saw her with her boyfriend on their front porch.
"Having fun stalking the neighbors?" A voice from behind him caused him to jump. He turned around to see Kayla in sweats with her hair in a braid that reached all the way down her back.
"Hey, shouldn't you be lying down?" He asked.
"I should be, but I wanted to come see you." She said sitting on the couch that was up there. "I missed this barn."
"It missed you too." Clark said causing them both to smile. "I'm sorry about pushing you so hard earlier. I saw the car and I just panicked."
"No, Clark," Kayla said standing up slowly and carefully and walking up to him. "Don't ever be sorry for saving me. This is nothing compared to what could have happened. I'm going to go to bed. My classes start tomorrow."
"Good luck." He replied.
"I'll need it." She said reaching up and kissing his cheek. "Thanks again, Clark. You really are my Superman. Good night."
He watched as she walked away and smiled.
The next day he walked outside to see Kayla smiling and sitting on the hood of a brand new truck sitting in his driveway.
"Hey, farm boy," She called out. "I guess someone is grateful you saved their life!" She carefully got down and walked up to him. "I'm going to classes but I'll see you later?"
He nodded and smiled back at her as she got into her car and drove off.
"Hey mom," he called out seeing her getting on a tractor. "Whose truck?"
"It's yours." She replied. "It's a gift from Lex Luthor." She handed him the card.
"This is awesome! Where are the keys?" He asked.
"Your father has them." Martha replied nodding to where his father was working.
He turned off the wood chipper when he saw Clark walking up to him. "I know how much you want it, son, but you can't have it."
"Why not?" Clark asked. "I saved the guy's life."
"So you think you deserve a prize?" Jonathan said.
"That's not what I meant."
The argument continued but in the end, Jonathan won.
Later that afternoon when Kayla returned from classes she immediately knew something was wrong.
"Where is Clark? I went to pick him up from school but Pete said he never showed up." She said putting her books down.
"We got into an argument and he took off." Jonathan said from the kitchen.
"What was the argument about?" She asked.
"About the truck and it turned into where he came from." Martha said putting a plate down in front of Kayla.
"I take it he didn't like what he heard?" Kayla said.
"Not at all." Jonathan said going outside.
"How were your classes today?" Martha asked.
"I have two hours of math homework at least, a book I have to read half of by Wednesday and already I have Japanese homework also." She said in a complaining tone.
"You love it, don't you?" Martha said with a knowing look causing Kayla to smile.
"I totally love it! For once I feel challenged and for once I'm not the genius nerd." Kayla said laughing. "Don't worry, Clark will come back."
"I hope you're right." Martha replied.
"Do you think Clark would mind if I used the barn loft to study in tonight? It feels great outside and I wanted to study out there." She asked.
"Not at all! Go on out when you're finished eating. We can't have you falling behind on your first day." Martha said chuckling.
Later that night, Clark walked into the barn and smiled when he saw Kayla doing her homework.
"Do you have a lot of homework?" He asked.
She looked up and smiled. "Tons of it but I don't mind. It's almost the weekend and I have tons of time to do it. I told your mom you would come home. She said you and your dad had an argument."
"Yeah we did," Clark confirmed. "I just hope I didn't hurt his feelings too bad."
"He's strong too, Clark," Kayla said, "He will bounce back. Just wait. So do you have a date for the dance coming up?"
"That is a beg negative." Clark said.
"So Miss Lana Lang has a date?" Kayla asked teasing him.
"You are so funny! But yes she is going with Whitney." Clark replied.
"She's going out with that jerk?" Kayla asked surprised. "Hasn't he hated you ever since you stood up for me in middle school?"
"That about sums it up." Clark said.
"Don't worry, you'll find a date." Kayla said.
"How much more homework do you have to do?" Clark asked.
"Well, I have two more sections of math, two pages of Japanese, and by Wednesday of next week, I have to have read half of the most boring book known to man so I would say quite a lot. But I don't mind. It keeps me busy." She replied.
"It sounds like it." Clark said. "Well, I think I'm going to hit the sack. Good night."
"Good night, farm boy." Kayla said putting her ear phones in and returned to her homework. It was going to be a long night.
The next day Clark woke up for school but didn't see Kayla. "Mom, isn't she going to over sleep?" He asked as he grabbed his lunch and jacket.
"Her two classes today don't start until noon today." Martha replied. "So I thought since she was up so late last night doing homework she could sleep in a little bit today and get started on her chores after classes."
"Lucky girl!" Clark said and went to catch the bus.
Later that afternoon, Clark went to visit Lex to give the keys to the truck back. He walked around most of the mansion but couldn't find him. He finally found him when two people who were fencing came through the hallway into another room.
After he was done giving the truck back, Chloe called him saying she had some interesting news.
"His name is Jeremy Creek. This is a picture I found of him twelve years ago, and this is the picture I took of him four hours ago." She said.
"That's impossible." Clark said. "He would be like 26 now. It must be a kid who looks like him."
"My money was on an evil twin theory," Pete said, "Until we checked his missing persons."
"Jeremy escaped from the infirmary a few days ago where he'd been in a coma for twelve years." Chloe explained. "They say he suffered from massive electrolyte imbalance."
"That's why he hasn't aged a day." Pete said.
They all turned when they heard a knock at the door to see Kayla peeking in. "I'm sorry. Am I interrupting? I was waiting outside but you didn't come out so I decided to be a one man search party."
"No, it's fine. Chloe was just showing us something weird." Clark said smiling.
"We found a guy who woke up from a twelve year coma who hasn't aged a day." Pete said.
"That's freaky." Kayla said. "Mind if I join? It would be a nice break from studying."
"Of course!" Chloe said. "Come on in!"
"So you guys are telling me he just woke up?" Clark asked returning to the subject at hand.
"No there was a huge electrical storm and the hospital's generator went down. And when it came back on, Jeremy was gone." Chloe explained sitting at her desk.
"The electricity must have charged him up like a Duracell." Pete said.
"So you're saying the storm pulled a Frankenstein on the kid?" Kayla said.
"And now he is back in Smallville putting former jocks into comas." Clark finished for her.
"I came back to Smallville for a normal life!" Kayla joked.
"Good luck finding that here." Clark said smiling at her. "Why is he doing this?"
"Because twelve years ago today they chose Jeremy Creek as the scarecrow." Pete said.
"Wait a minute, what is the scarecrow?" Kayla asked.
"Every year the jocks pick someone to string up in a corn field and strip him down and paint a red S on his chest." Pete explained.
"It says here he was found comatose in a field twenty yards from the strike." Clark said.
"The strike must have done something to his body." Chloe said.
"No, this can't be right." Clark said.
"Why not?" Kayla asked.
"I think you ought to show them both." Pete told Chloe.
"Show us what?" Kayla asked.
"Come with me." Chloe said and they headed back to the school.
When they got to the school, they walked into a janitor's closet and Kayla gasped when she saw the wall.
"It started out as a scrapbook then it kind of mutated." Chloe explained.
"What is it?" Clark asked.
"I call it the 'Wall of Weird'," Chloe replied. "It's every strange and unexplained event that has happened since the meteor shower. That's when it all began."
"Why didn't you tell me about this?" Clark asked.
Kayla was about to say something when an article caught her eye. When she got closer she saw it was a picture of her when she was younger and it showed her back with the tattoos of angel wings that went down her back that appeared the day of the meteor shower after a meteor hit her house. "I'm on here too?"
"It just seemed weird that they would just show up so I put it up here." Chloe said.
"Great so now I'm on your freak wall. No wonder everyone hated me when I was a kid." Kayla said before storming out in tears.
Clark looked at Chloe with an irritated look in his eyes.
"Don't get mad at me! Do you tell me everything that happens in your life?" Chloe responded.
That was when he saw the picture of the cover of Time Magazine and his eyes widened. It was Lana when she was little right after her parents died from being struck by a meteor.
"It's all my fault." He said before rushing out into the parking lot. When he got outside he saw Kayla struggling to find her keys. It was when she dropped them that he noticed her shoulders shaking. "Kayla," he called out walking up to her. "What's wrong? Is it about the article? It's just that…an article what does it prove?"
"It proves that I'm a freak!" She yelled. "I've tried for so long to hide it and for years I have but Chloe dug in and as it turns out, it never went away."
"What are you talking about?" Clark asked confused. "Is it about the 'supposed' tattoos?"
"The tattoos are real, Clark. You just never noticed them before because I can usually cover them with clothing." She continued.
"What's so special about tattoos?" He asked not getting it.
Before she could respond, a hand grabbed Clark's shoulder. He turned around to see Whitney standing there.
"Congratulations, Clark, you're this year's scarecrow." He said.
"Stay away from him!" Kayla yelled trying to get Whitney off of Clark.
"Stay out of it, freak!" Whitney said. "You thought I forgot didn't you, nerd-girl?" He said sneering.
"Don't mess with me right now." Clark said getting pissed off when he saw Kayla shrink down.
"Fine," Whitney said shoving Clark. "Bring it!"
Clark went for the first move which ripped Whitney's shirt open to reveal a necklace with a green bead on it. Kayla gasped when it started glowing and when she saw Clark go down.
Whitney easily knocked him to the ground. "What's going on with you and Lana?" He asked.
"Nothing," Clark replied and that was the first time Kayla heard pure hatred come out in his tone. He looked at the necklace again except this time Whitney noticed.
"You like her necklace?" He asked. He took it off and put it on Clark. "Good, because it's the closed you're ever going to get to her."
"Stop it! Leave him alone!" Kayla said running up to Whitney but he shoved her away and she fell to the ground and her arm immediately went around her ribs.
"Don't you touch her again." Clark said but was too weak to do anything as they loaded him into the bed of a truck. Kayla watched helpless as they drove off.
When Kayla could stand up, she got into her car and raced back to the farm.
"Where is Clark?" Martha asked.
"Some guys said they were going to use him as a 'scarecrow' or something, beat him up and took him!" Kayla said rushing upstairs to change. "I'm going to go look for him because he could be in any field in Smallville!"
"How do you plan to do that?" Jonathan asked. "Kayla, I know you want to help Clark, but I don't see how they even could beat him up like you said."
"I don't know what happened but somehow they bested his abilities." Kayla said. "I have to find him!"
"Sweetheart, how do you plan to search every field in Smallville? There are so many acres to every farm around here." Martha asked.
"I don't expect you to understand right away but when I go outside you will see how and I promise I will explain everything later when I get Clark back." Kayla said grabbing a tank top and heading outside.
She walked outside and both the Kents gasped at what they saw next. Kayla gasped as if she was in pain and within a few seconds two wings shot out of the traced tattoos on her back. When she turned around, they saw her eyes had turned the lightest shade of blue they had ever seen.
"This is what the meteor shower did to me when it hit my house." She said. Her wings sparkled in the late afternoon sun as she took off from the ground and glided off into the sky.
A few hours had gone by and she still hadn't seen Clark. It was dark by then and she was about to give up and head home when she saw a scarecrow stake in a field with what looked like a person on it.
"Clark," she whispered as she dove down and landed right in front of him.
"Who are you?" He could barely whisper.
"It's me, Kayla, Clark." She said as she walked up to him.
"You have wings?" He asked.
"That's what I was trying to tell you earlier. These sprout from the tattoos and they have since I was a little girl right after the meteor shower. We'll talk about it later. Right now we need to get you off of this thing." She said.
"Wait," Clark whispered. "You have beautiful eyes," He finished and Kayla smiled sweetly before retracting her wings and changing her eyes back to normal in case someone stumbled upon them.
Right after that they both heard footsteps. They turned around to see Jeremy Creek standing there.
"It never changes does it?" He asked.
"Help me!" Clark pleaded as Kayla tried to undo the knots.
"It hurts doesn't it?" Jeremy asked.
"You're Jeremy." Clark stated.
"I thought if I punished them it would stop." Jeremy continued. "But it never stops." He started to turn away.
"Stop rambling and come over here and help me get him down!" Kayla screamed at him and felt her eyes change color again at her rage. "Where are you going?"
"The homecoming dance." Jeremy replied. "I never made it to mine."
Kayla gasped when she realized he meant to kill everyone.
"Please, get me down." Clark pleaded.
"You're safer here." Jeremy said with a smile that Kayla didn't like at all.
"No don't go! Help me get him down!" Kayla screamed after him but he was gone.
"Kayla," Clark said and she turned her attention back to him.
"I'm getting you down Clark." She said but after clawing at the knots she still couldn't undo them. "Were these assholes boy scouts?" She screamed. "Clark, I can't get them."
"Go to the school. Try to stop Jeremy." He said.
"No, I've got to get you down!" Kayla said.
"No, go and protect the other students." Clark replied. "It's not like I'm going anywhere."
"Don't joke like that." Kayla said. "I'm coming right back for you." She said letting her wings out and Clark thought he had never seen a more beautiful thing in his life. She turned back around and did something neither of them expected. She kissed him. "I'm coming right back, farm boy." She whispered before taking off into the night. She had never flown so fast in her life. She had to beat Jeremy to the school. She got there around the time he was.
"Jeremy!" She shouted as she landed. "You don't have to do this!" She retracted her wings but kept her eyes the blue color because she could see better at night that way.
"Yes I do! You saw what they did to Clark! They have to be punished." He replied.
She walked up to him and grabbed his arm. "Stop what you are doing or I will make you. How does that sound?" She said in a darker tone. She saw his eyes darken before she felt electricity shoot through her body and she felt herself flying backwards before everything went black.
Clark arrived just in time to see Kayla get electrocuted and felt rage tear through him. He walked up to see him heading for the sprinkler system.
"Jeremy," he said, "You need to stop this. You just hurt an innocent girl."
"I don't know how you got here, but she tried to stop me so she deserved what she got." Jeremy said walking towards Clark. "You should've stayed away."
"I won't let you hurt anymore of my friends." Clark said.
"Those people in there aren't your friends." Jeremy said. "The sprinklers will get them nice and wet. I'll handle the rest."
"They never did anything to you," Clark felt his temper rising.
"I'm not doing this for me. I'm doing this for you and all the others like us." Jeremy snapped.
"What happened to you was my fault." Clark said. He saw movement behind Jeremy and saw Kayla sneaking up behind him but saw her look of confusion at his statement. "I can understand your pain."
"I'm not in pain. I have a gift." Jeremy said. "And a purpose." He said turning around.
"And I'm just pissed off." Kayla said before punching him in the nose. "That's for shocking me!"
He tried to run but Clark used his speed to cut him off. "So do I." Kayla gasped when she saw electricity coat Jeremy before he grabbed Clark.
"Clark!" She yelled but knew if she touched them she could die. She watched as Clark, who seemed almost unfazed by the shock, threw Jeremy into a nearby truck.
"Give it up, Jeremy." Clark said as Jeremy energized himself and touched the truck and it started.
"What is this guy, the energizer bunny?" Kayla asked.
"Kayla…" Clark started as Jeremy drove the truck right for him. "MOVE!" He shouted and she jumped out of the way in the nick of time and watched as Jeremy drove both of them right over a water main and through a concrete wall.
"Clark!" She screamed running around the corner.
"Stay back there's water!" Clark said and she jumped out of the puddle she was standing in. They both watched in horror as the water started coming into the truck and Jeremy electrocuted himself and Clark was knocked backwards by the voltage. Kayla tried to get to him but the water was still energized so she couldn't do anything. She breathed easier when Clark got up and pulled the truck forward to get Jeremy out. In one bright flash, the electricity was gone but Kayla was taking no chances.
Clark pushed Jeremy back in his seat to see if he was still alive when Jeremy opened his eyes.
"Are you ok?" He asked.
"Who are you?" Jeremy asked and Kayla's eyes widened in shock. Did the electricity reboot his brain or something? "Where am I?"
"I'm Clark Kent and you're in Smallville." He replied.
After Jeremy was taken care of, Kayla watched Clark go inside the school and followed him. She found him looking over the balcony to the gym and she saw who he was looking at.
"I'm sorry you didn't get to dance with her." Kayla said. "I know how you feel about her."
"There will be other dances. Not to mention, I don't think Whitney would appreciate me dancing with her." Clark said with a sad smile.
"What does she see in that jack ass anyway?" Kayla asked and smiled when she heard Clark let out a bark of laughter.
"I have no clue." He said and a silence fell between them.
"Listen, Clark, about what happened the field. I'm…" She didn't get to finish because Clark had turned around and put a light kiss to her lips.
"I'm not." He said before walking off. "It's nice to know I have an angel looking out for me." He called over his shoulder. Kayla smiled and followed him out. She smiled even wider when she saw him eying the trucks of the guys who strung him up.
"You thinking what I'm thinking, farm boy?" She asked as her wings sprouted.
"I don't know can you lift a truck?" He asked and she laughed.
"Boy I've got tricks you've never seen." She said as she grabbed Whitney's turned it upside down, and let it fall onto his friend's truck. Clark grabbed the next one and tossed it on top of Whitney's. "Clark, I think we've got a masterpiece!"
"I think you're right. Now let's go home." He said.
"I'll race you!" Kayla said launching herself into the sky and smiled as Clark took off on the ground.
He obviously beat her home. When she landed she knew the Kents were waiting for her to explain but she wasn't quite ready to face them yet so she followed Clark to the barn and sat on the couch as he looked through his telescope.
"You're grandfather gave me that telescope when I was about your age." Jonathan's voice rang out causing them to turn around and Kayla started. "I came downstairs for breakfast one morning and there it was." He saw Clark sit down slowly. "Are you ok?"
Clark just turned at looked at his father. "Can I answer that in about 5 years?" He asked.
Jonathan chuckled. "Yeah," he said before leaving the barn and winked at Kayla.
"Dad," Clark said walking over to the landing. "I'm glad you and mom are the ones that found me."
"We didn't find you, Clark," Jonathan replied. "You found us."
Clark smiled and walked over turning the radio on.
"Hey, Clark," Kayla started with hesitance. "You said Jeremy's condition was your fault. How is that?"
Clark sighed. "My abilities weren't caused by the meteor shower…"
"Then what else caused them or are you like the X-men?" She joked causing a small smile to form on Clark's face.
"It's a little more complicated but I kind of fell out of the sky. Well, my ship did anyway and when the rock surrounding me broke up in the atmosphere…"
"The meteor shower ensued." Kayla finished for him.
"I'm responsible for everything bad that has happened to people since. I'm the reason you're on Chloe's Wall of Weird." Clark said putting his head in his hands.
He looked up when he felt Kayla's hands lift his face up. "It may be your fault, Clark Kent, but so are my beautiful eyes." She said and they both smiled. "The only reason I tried to hide it was so I wouldn't be put in a lab to be a rat. I actually love flying. I have never felt freer than when I fly. If anything, you gave me a gift. Thank you."
He smiled and stood up. "I may not have gotten to dance with Lana but may I have this dance Ms. Sanders?"
Kayla giggled. "Yes, Mr. Kent, you may." She knew that there was a good chance that nothing would ever come of the events of this evening but she was willing to let herself feel something for someone, if only for tonight.