Title: Buried Secrets Summary: What happens when Lionel finds out Clark's buried secrets? Time line: This takes place after the episode "Extinction" Rated PG-13
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"Hey Lana!" Clark yelled to Lana when she was about 50 yards from him. Lana smiled and said something, but Clark didn't hear her. Instead he turned to see a bullet coming towards him. He reached out his hand to stop it.

The bullet penetrated threw Clark's hand and continued threw the air until it him in his left shoulder.

"AHHHH!" Clark screamed in pain.

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"Clark!" Lana asked worriedly as she heard him scream. She ran over to him, as he fell to the ground. She turned him over, "Clark? Clark!"

"Ahh...my hand.... ahhh!" Clark screamed.

Lana looked to his hand and saw the blood, and panicked. She stroked Clark's hair, "what happened? CLARK!" Lana was so confused.

Lana went pale when she saw a spot of blood on Clark's shirt grow bigger and bigger. She ripped opened his shirt to see he had been shot.

Lana started crying, her cell phone was in the car, and she screamed, "HELP!"

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Jonathan heard a scream, and looked out the window to see Lana's body leaning over Clark's on the ground. Jonathan didn't know what was going on. Why was Clark on the ground? He ran out side up to Lana.

"What's wrong? What happened to him?" Jonathan asked.

"I think he is shot! We have to help him!" Lana yelled threw her tears as Clark started breathing heavier and cried out in pain.

Jonathan struggled to bring Clark into the house and placed him on the kitchen floor as Martha came running, "Oh my God! Jonathan, what happened! Clark!" She said dropping to the ground and stroking his hair.

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Lana couldn't watch Clark bleed anymore and broke down crying in the Kent's living room. She slumped against the wall, shaking as she sobbed harder than she ever had in her life. Clark was going to die.

Lana got up and raced into the kitchen were she saw Jonathan huddled over Clark.

"It's going to be okay baby, Dad's going to get it out." Martha was saying to Clark.

Jonathan put what looked like a pliers into the bullet wound, as Clark let out a loud gasp of pain, then Clark collapsed back to the floor.

"Clark!" Lana screamed. Martha and Jonathan didn't notice her.

"Jonathan! He's not breathing! Do something!" Martha screamed threw tears.

"Martha, it's in there so far." Jonathan said trying to calm down and focus enough to pull out the bullet.

Lana watched as Jonathan pulled out a bullet and put it in a bowl and Martha carried it outside. Lana turned away in horror when she saw the bullet being pulled out. She couldn't watch. She heard Jonathan whispering words to Clark. She heard Martha crying even harder than her.

When Lana turned around and went over to Clark, he wasn't breathing. But his wound had healed. There was blood on his chest, and Jonathan's hands.

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"But how?" Lana asked as she glanced over at Clark's limp body. He was breathing now, and that set everyone at ease a little bit.

"Lana, Clark's different." Jonathan said.

"I kind of guessed... but different HOW?" Lana asked nervous to hear the answer. She knew this was Clark's secret that he had hidden from her for so long.

"Clark can do things, no one else can." Martha said.

"He was infected by the meteors, wasn't he?" Lana asked, knowing that if he was, it would have all made sense. She was a little surprised how the thought of it didn't even upset or shock her.

"No." Jonathan said.

There was an uncomfortable silence as Lana and the Kent's exchanged looks of, confusion, and hesitation.

Jonathan and Martha knew they had to tell Lana about Clark, after she had seen his bullet wound miraculously disappear. But they didn't know how, or if they should tell her the whole truth, or if they should just say it was the meteors that had affected him. Finally Jonathan spoke.

"Lana, Clark... was not affected by the meteors. In fact, when he gets around them he gets very ill, that bullet was made of Krypton"meteor rock."

"Then, why is Clark different? How is Clark different?" Lana asked so confused and nervous about what the next seconds held for her, what would she find out? Could she handle it?

"Clark is strong, and he is fast." Martha said trying to make Clark's abilities sound lesser than they were.

"Clark is different because... he is not human." Jonathan said more bluntly than he had intended.

Lana knew by the seriousness and looks of the Kent's that they were drop dead serious. She had not been prepared for this. Being infected by meteor rocks she could handle, grasp, understand... but not being human entirely...

"What?" was all Lana managed to get out.

"The day of the meteor shower, we found Clark, well he found us actually, at first we thought that he was lost, separated from his parents in the chaos. But he looked so calm, and he was so clean, completely naked. We walked around a bit to see if there was any signs of his parents. What we found instead was...was a..." Jonathan didn't know if he should say it.

"What was it?" Lana asked taking in everything she was hearing.

"A spaceship." Martha said softly, but Lana heard her.

"But... I mean... he looks... I...an alien?" Lana couldn't even put together full sentences.

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After an hour of talking about it, Lana was relived to find out that she wasn't freaked... That much. It was like she knew along, and just needed someone to put it into words. Clark was different, always had been, always will be. But it was still Clark, the Clark she loved.

When Clark had gotten shot, Lana swore she felt her heart stop. If Clark died, she would never get over him. He was all she had left in her life. Today had been the worst and best day of her life. She thought she had lost Clark; he had stopped breathing, she thought she would never get to see him smile, not even one more time. But then, the turned around, Clark started breathing again, and she knew that he was going to be okay. That she had him back again, and nothing "NOTHING, could have made her feel that happy.

Lana was snapped out of her thoughts as she saw Clark stir, on the kitchen floor. She immediately went over to him.

Lana started crying when she saw his eyes open. Instinctively, at seeing Lana crying, he sat up and embraced Lana in a hug. Lana hugged him back, "Thank God, you are okay." Lana said as she cried harder.

"I'm okay... it's okay." Clark said holding Lana in his arms.

"Clark, I love you so much!" Lana said resting on Clark's shoulders as he slowly rocked back and forth.

"I love you too." Clark said, going against everything he had done the past few weeks since he broke up with her.

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"So you are really alright with it? With me being...different?" Clark asked for about the 100th time in a week.

"Clark, yes!" Lana said truthfully.

Clark couldn't believe that Lana was handling the news so well. She accepted him for who her REALLY was.

Clark couldn't fight it any longer, he wrapped his arm around Lana's waist and pulled her into an intense kiss. Clark caressed Lana's neck while he kissed her, not wanting to let her go. When the kiss ended, Clark was just starring into Lana's eyes.

Lana smiled and said, "Does this mean we are back together?"

Clark only answered her with another kiss.

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"What!" Jonathan yelled into the phone.

Martha watched him with worried eyes.

Clark was just entering the house, after finishing his farm chores to catch the end of his father's conversation on the phone.

"No! No! You can't! .... He knows... he is.... No! He can't just ...I don't care what he says! I know that ...yah, you bet I'll take it up with him!" Jonathan slammed the phone down on the receiver.

"Dad? What's going on?" Clark asked worried.

"Son...it's about your adoption." Jonathon said angry and scared.