CHAPTER FOUR

SEARCHING FOR THE PYRAMID

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions
Oh lets go back to the start
Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a silence apart

Nobody said it was easy
Oh its such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said that it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start

Ollie and Lana made an odd couple sitting on his plane together, on their way to area 51, in search of the elusive pyramid.

"You didn't have to come along Lana…" he eyed her over a bottled water. Pretty, petite and somehow dangerous. Even if she hadn't been Clark's on again off again girlfriend, she would still be a bad idea.

"Yes I did, I can't stand not doing anything."

"What are you going to do if we can bring him back?"

"Try to make it work between us, I've let to many things get in the way."

"Lana, you know…maybe there's a reason you keep having problems."

"No, I'm not letting him go again."

"He needs to focus on his destiny, and he can't do that if he's constantly worrying about his love life."

"Oliver, I'm not going to stand in his way anymore, I'm going to be standing beside him."

Ollie sighed and wondered if it would really work between them this time.

"Well first we have to get that pyramid…"

Oliver had all the necessary identification to get into the supposedly high security laboratory, thanks to a certain Mr. Wayne.

With Lana accompanying him, the meet with the same gentleman that Lois had meet with. The news he shared with them was the same.

"So a Mr. Lionel Luther actually has the artifact?"

That's correct Agent Lang, My goodness but this is a popular artifact…What kind of project are you working on?"

"That's classified Dr." Oliver said quickly and then asked, "Can you tell us exactly when he was given this artifact?"

"It's all right here in this report."

Lana sensed something wasn't right and asked, "Doctor, what exactly did you mean when you said that this was a popular artifact?"

"Well, I've already had someone from the Homeland Security come and ask about the artifact."

"Really?"

"Can you remember who?"

"Oh, I'm not sure…oh yes…it was another doctor, Laynne I believe."

Lana and Ollie looked at each other and realized…Lois was on the trail of the artifact, which meant that she had to know something.

But what?

Chloe was searching through databases all day long, and still she had no clue as to what had happened to Clark's fortress. She couldn't believe that it would collapse and not leave a key to rebuilding it. She started by breaking into the Luther corp databases, there she saw many items being moved to the same vault that Lois had been in.

Suddenly she wondered, what in the hell had Lois put in that briefcase.

Picking up her cell, she called Lois's cell, only to get her voice mail.

"Lois, call me…this is important!"
She grabbed her keys and suddenly she was wishing that she could super speed. Leaving Isis, she headed straight to the Talon.

Her phone rang again and she ignored it. She wasn't going to answer anyone. She wasn't going to try to sleep; she was going to find what she had to before she did anything else. She had tried to sleep, only to wake up with an urgency that she couldn't explain.

Shelby was following her, and she happened to be sneezing all around the farm. He looked up at Lois and whined.

"I know, I miss him too….But maybe you can help me figure out why I'm dreaming about him….maybe I can find whatever it is that I'm supposed to find…and I can…"

But she didn't finish…she didn't feel like she could do anything. She had stopped the medicine, she wasn't sleeping, and she felt heavy with depression. No longer numb, she decided to get up and start moving, just as she had when her mother died.

Searching through the house, with Shelby at her heels…she finally gave up finding anything in the house, looking out the window; it was the one place she didn't want to go.

Walking out the door, the moon hung above the barn like an ornament. The stars were clear and bright. A large one hovered above the barn, pointing the way.

"Come on boy; don't make me do this by myself."

She slowly walked to the doors they were closed. Pulling on them, they seemed stuck at first, but after a couple of pulls, they opened. Wind rushed around her, and she looked around behind her, but there was nothing there.

"Clark, you better not be haunting me, I swear…I'll kill you if you are!"

Shelby barked at the sound of his friends name. Lois looked at him and smiled. She then leaned down and rubbed his head… "Stay close boy…" she felt nervous. It was as if no one had been in the barn for months. Musty and dusty, it even had spider webs growing. She turned on the flashlight and made her way up the stairs, to his loft…his fortress of solitude. She couldn't remember if she had heard him call it that, or Chloe. It suited his loft whoever said it first.

She sat down at the couch and wondered what she would find in such a large place. "God Shelby where do I start?"

He laid his head in her lap, and once again, she sneezed. And then she saw his trunk, the one he kept locked. Sitting right in front of her. She raised an eyebrow, took something out of her pocket, and began to pick the lock. Two seconds later, it popped open.

"Sorry about this Smallville…"

She opened the trunk and found all sorts of weird things, books with those Indian drawings, and papers with them, a football jersey, a football, and then something wrapped in cloth, she unfolded the cloth only to find a bracelet.

"Hmm. Secret girlfriend keepsake?" she started to put it down, and suddenly Shelby was barking, it was emitting a high frequency noise, but she didn't hear it. but she could see he was clearly barking because she had set it down. "Okay okay…"She picked it back up and he stopped barking. Sighing she put it in her pocket, and started down the stairs, she started looking through everything, the tool box, the bench, the ugly green tractor that Clark could never fix. Walking around in frustration staring at the floor, she asked Shelby, "You don't think he put it under the hay do you?"

Shelby just looked at her.
"I didn't think so….God Clark…what am I even looking for?"

Then she saw it, the floorboard. And she realized it was loose. Rushing over she pulled it open and sitting underneath was a box. When she opened it, there it was the octagon. She had no idea what it was, but somehow she knew…this was it. This is what she needed to find. Jumping up she rushed out to her car, calling after Shelby, she said…

"Come-on boy, we have a cave to go to…"