Hey, it's me again, since I haven't got any reviews yet, I thought I would post the second chapter. It starts to get into the story, sort of telling you what is to happen.

P.S – This story can get confusing, just go with it, it will explain everything eventually.

Chapter 2: The Note

It has been 2 very long years and a couple months since Clark fell into a coma and Pete died. Ever since that day, Chloe and Lana have been very cautious and careful about everything they do because they know Clark won't be there to save them. They also became very aware at how strong they really are. It takes a lot of strength to visit your best friend while he's in a coma. Hoping that maybe today will be the day that he wakes up.

A couple months after the accident Chloe and Lana had come up with a system. They would take turns sitting with Clark all day. Yes, that meant missing a couple days of school each week but before the system teachers worried about them 24/7. Assignments weren't handed in, test marks were very low and well projects, they didn't even read the sheet. So teachers agreed with the system as long as they brought up their grades. Soon after the system came into play, grades went up.

Today, April 6th 2005 is Lana's day to sit with Clark. She had just finished eating lunch and was now sitting next to Clark's bed in a comfy chair that Mr. and Mrs. Kent had bought just for this purpose.

Surprisingly enough Lana is actually the one out of the four to be the most optimistic about Clark waking up. They're always telling her that she shouldn't have high hopes because there's a chance he may never come out of it. What they didn't know is that her reasoning for being so optimistic is because she is worried that she will never be able to tell him how she really feels about him.

There was a couple times in the past where she was going to tell him about how she felt but there always was an obstacle. It was always either Whitney or Chloe or him pulling back.

She regrets it everyday not telling him the truth. So many signs pointed her to Clark: the video she sent to Whitney, the look of love in his eyes in the Talon after Lex's first wedding on that scorching day. She knew that no one could make her happier than him but she also knew that she may never be able to tell him how much she cares for him. Care for him, is too small of a gesture, that's not what she feels for him. What she feels is love and without him she feels empty, like a piece of her heart is gone.

All she feels is sadness, nothing else. She hasn't smiled since the day Clark had come in when he passed out. Excitement for their date was shattered within seconds as Clark fell to the ground. Memories of that day flooded back to her but she focused on the present hoping they would go away. Sure enough they did but a tear still fell down her cheek.

"Clark…." She stopped thinking of what to say, "You have been there for me so many times," tears fall freely down her cheeks. "And when you rescue me, you tell me everything is going to be okay," she sniffs. "I want to hear you say those words again Clark……..I need you. Please come back to me." She said as she broke down crying, resting her head down in her hands.

While crying she feels a sudden movement of the bed, the comforter had brushed past her knees. Slowly looking up, she sees Clark sitting vertically with his eyes wide open. She couldn't believe it, Clark is awake.

Clark turns his head and rests his eyes on Lana. "Lana," he said kind of quiet and sounding a little confused. "What are you doing here? You shouldn't be here? Lex's men are watching this house like dogs; I don't want to lose you." He said in a whisper.

This confused her, "Clark, what are you talking about? Why would Lex be watching your house?"

Clark adjusted how he was sitting by swinging his legs off the side to face Lana. "Lana……." He was about to tell her why when he realized that he was in his room. Looking around his room he realized something and had to ask about it. "What year is it?"

"2005, the year we graduate, why?"

"It can't be," he said below a whisper but Lana still heard it. "Are you sure it's not 2007?"

"Yup, it's 2005," she said a little confused as to why he was thinking it was 2007.

He stood up and started pacing the room, mumbling all kinds of things. She had no idea what he was saying but she noticed something in his back pocket. "Hey Clark," he turned to face her, "It looks like you have something in your pocket."

Looking at her confused he reaches back and sure enough there was a piece of paper in his pocket. After pulling it out he sat down on the bed motioning for Lana to come and sit next to him to look at the paper. She was so shocked that Clark was letting her in on this; normally he would have kept it to himself.

Clark opens up the paper to find a letter and a long list. He began to read it out loud:

Dear Clark:

You're probably wondering what is going on right now. Why are you in the past? Well there is a simple answer for that. But I can't tell you; you have to do a certain amount of things before the memories will come back to you as to how you got to be in the year 2005. That's the year we calculated you would wake up in. We didn't know exactly when you would wake up, but we had an idea as to when you would wake up so we gave you a list of everything that has to be changed or left as is. So if certain things have already happened then don't worry about it, it's probably changed enough as it is since you were in a coma during that time.

We know you remember everything that has happened up until before you, Lana and Chloe come up with the plan that you are carrying out right now. I know, you don't know what it is but you will soon. Just know that everything that happened to you, from the time that you asked Lana for the very first time on a date and then broke it off up until whatever you remember last didn't happen the same way in this reality.

I'm sure Lana and Chloe will fill you in on what happened while you were in a coma. You can't tell them very much, it all depends on whether or not you want to involve them. If you involve them then by all means tell them what you want but you still can only change what the list says to change. By the way, if you look at the top of the list it says "Tell Lana and Chloe you're secret," in bold letters. Now you know both of them will accept you, even though it did take you longer to tell Lana but then she actually is the only one you told on your own free will I guess. Anyways, it's your choice to tell them or not but I think it would make this time around more pleasant and less hurtful for you as you already know what happens. Plus Lana and Chloe are the ones who made it number 1, we weren't going to include it because we felt you were able to do that yourself without instruction but they insisted.

I think we've explained everything. If not, well everything will come back to you soon enough. Until then, you won't know everything about the plan. Only what we told you in this letter.

Sincerely
Clark Kent, Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, and Unknown

P.S. We had to say unknown for those last four names because if we told you who they were it could jeopardize what we took so long to plan for. Plus they will come to you eventually.

List of things to Change and Not Change

From our extensive research, we're guessing it's the year 2005, a couple weeks before Prom.

1. TELL LANA AND CHLOE YOU'RE SECRET!
2. Go talk to Lionel; he should like in your version be a changed man just for different reasons. Tell him that if you switch bodies with him using the stone you know he has that he will be healed of his liver disease because he is an asset to us and we can't have him die on us.
3. Either before or after #2, take all the final exams for grade 10 and 11. Then take all the tests to catch up to where they are in grade 12 so you are even with the plan.
4. You have a choice about Prom, you can go it the way you had it or you can change it. It's up to you.
5. Same for the week after that, you lose your memory. You can keep it the way it is or change it. #4 and #5 aren't that important. So do what you want.
6. Try and stay Lex's friend for as long as possible and don't break up with Lana so she doesn't go to Lex.
7. Do the training Jor-el asks of you after the meteor shower or pay the consequences of losing Jonathon again because we both know you wouldn't keep it like the first time that day went through.
8. More to come as the future changes.

If you're wondering how more changes will appear, well, see from then on, if you don't do any of what we ask, more will appear like the rest but if you change it. Different things will appear; things we could not even imagine. And as the future changes, we will begin to disappear and as that happens your memories will slowly come back about what the plan is. How it was created and all the other questions you have?

Different things will happen depending on what you do.

Remember: what you do now to change the past will affect how the future will turn out.

Keep this phrase in you mind at all times and the future will turn out better than it is now: THE PAST IS THE FUTURE!

"The past is the future, well I guess we know what we have to do," Clark said before looking over at Lana.

Lana had looked away after he finished reading the letter thinking that there was no way that Clark would do what the paper said and tell her his secret. I mean this was Clark Kent, shy Clark Kent, he wouldn't do that.

Clark noticed her in deep thought, "Lana, are you okay?" He asked concerned.

"Yah, it's nothing." She said brushing it off.

Clark saw right through her, "Lana, I know that face, you're not okay. Come on, tell me."

Still looking away she responds, "I just don't believe that you will do what the letter says and tell me your secret."

Realizing that she was hurt he kneeled down on the ground in front of her so that he was close to being eye level with her so he could see into her eyes. "Lana, I know you're hurt and think that I won't tell you but you have to remember that I am a different me then before." She looked down into his eyes a little confused. "I have seen everything that is going to happen, and a couple months before I found myself waking up here, I told you my secret out of my own free will….like the letter said I did. You accepted me for who I am and what I can do. We could finally start the relationship we both had been waiting years to have. Now I'm in the past, if I tell you now in this year just that will change a huge portion of the future. I wouldn't trade anything to see you accepting me, so I'm not going to pass up the chance to do it again. But this time earlier than the last time. You are the one and only Lana Lang, the girl I have been in love with my whole life."

Lana was practically in tears from his memorable words, "I love you too."

"I know I have heard you say it so many times but it feels so refreshing to hear you say it again. I never get tired of it." He looked up into her beautiful hazel eyes, getting lost in them.

Before he knew it Lana leaned down and their lips connected. Her hands cupped his face as she slowly kissed him. Clark placed his hands on the small of her back. This sent shivers up Lana's spine which caused Lana to jump a little. But still held the kiss as it felt kinda nice to feel so close to him.

Finally she gives him one more quick kiss and pulls away. "That was nice," she said in a daze because that technically her first real kiss with him.

He sits up on the side of the bed again and looks at the letter once more. "Once Chloe and my parents get here we can go over what we will do, sound good?"

Lana is still in a daze from the kiss, "yah."

Now it's your turn, what did you think of that chapter?

Try and guess the other four, maybe you will get them right. Like I said above, they will be revealed eventually. Just be patient.

-Jenni