Hi, I'm sorry… another plot. I've had this on my mind for a long time but I never liked it when I wrote it down… I hope you enjoy the story.
Disappeared - 1
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Martha was finishing wrapping up Clark's birthday present when she suddenly heard him coming down so she quickly manage to hide it behind her back.
"Good morning" he said coming into the sitting room and kissing his mother's cheek.
"Morning, sweetheart" she said nervously "…and happy birthday"
"What are you hiding?" he asked.
"Nothing!" she exclaimed walking backwards to the table, looking for her handbag so she could hide the little box.
"Is it my birthday present?"
"Clark! It's a surprise… don't look, please… You'll have it tonight"
"But I do want to know what it is…"
"No!" she said, but then she noticed that look on him, that deep and concentrated look that could only mean he was looking through her "Clark!" Martha yelled out after a silence.
"What?"
"I told you a hundred times not to do that!"
"I-I'm sorry… I won't do it again… I…"
"Is everything alright?" she wondered "You saw it… I wanted it to be a surprise"
"No, no… no… I didn't, I swear... I… Mom, is there anything you'd like to tell me?"
"Actually there is, I'm meeting Lionel after my appointment with the doctor, so I'm having lunch in the city … You don't care, do you?"
"No, of course not… Have fun with your boyfriend, I'll see you tonight" he said.
"He's not my boyfriend" Martha replied on a childish tone.
"He better be…" Clark whispered so low she couldn't hear.
Around two o'clock Clark was having lunch alone in the farm when the phone rang.
"Kent's farm"
"Clark?" Lionel Luthor's voice asked.
"Lionel… hi" the boy replied wondering why was he calling at that time when he was supposed to be eating with his mom.
"Is your mother home?"
"She isn't. You were having lunch together, weren't you?"
"We should be… I've been waiting for her for an hour now, and she doesn't answer my call on her mobile phone."
"She had an appointment with her doctor at half eleven, I'm sure she left the office late… I'll call the clinic to check"
"Ok, I'll stay in the restaurant just in case she appears"
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A while later, Lionel did saw a familiar face coming into the restaurant, but it wasn't Martha.
"Clark, what are you doing here?"
"I've called to my mother's doctor… she hasn't gone to her appointment this morning. Lionel, I don't know where she can be"
"Ok, don't panic… At what time did she left the farm?"
"Around nine o'clock… do you think she could have had an accident on the road?"
"No way… but we'll call the police just in case"
"They won't do anything until twenty-four hours later…"
"I have contacts, I'll have all the city's police looking for your mother in ten minutes, don't worry…"
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Back to earlier that morning… Martha took her things and left the farm after telling Clark she wouldn't be home for lunch. He'd been joking about her and Lionel since she'd started to be more open about their relationship with him, what made her think that he'd already guessed they had something else than just friendship, but also that he accepted that fact.
On the road to Metropolis, Martha noticed the car behind her coming closer, so she went a little faster because it always annoyed her to have another car stuck to her while she was driving, but then the black car in front of her stopped all of a sudden and she had to brake the car not to crash. "Are you crazy!" she shouted right when she noticed two guys coming out of the car in front of her, with their faces covered and carrying guns on their hands. She put the reverse, but there was the other car blocking her way.
"Open the door" said one of the guys aiming her from the other side of the window.
Martha unlocked the car and the man asked her to move to the copilot sit. The other armed guy sat behind them and then they continued their way following the black car.
"Who are you? What do you want?"
"You should keep your mouth closed, ma'am" the man from the back said while she felt the cold metal of his gun on her neck.
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TO BE CONTINUED…