The Secret in a Necklace
Disclaimers: I do not own Smallville, the show belongs to the WB and their creators. Superman of course belongs to the comic book company that started the whole thing.
Author Notes: This takes place after the Prom episode, but I can't remember the title of it. Anyway it will also contain the episode when Clark loses his memory but everyone else just loses a few minutes of it. And parts of later episodes if something turned out just a little different. So this will be AU.
Ari-El is my character…
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"Good morning!"
Ari turned around, she smiled. "How did you sleep?"
Lex smiled, "Well." Lex placed a soft kiss on her lips. The two had not slept with each other but just laid in each other's arms. Ari was able to help wash away some of the pain he had endured in her absence and before her arrival. Lex touched her hair gently and smiled, "Thank you for showing me Julian's possible future."
"It would have been so much better for you and your mother if he had lived," Ari said with a smile and then frowned. "However your mother chose to take his life in her own hands, but that is the past. Today is today…"
"Still thank you," Lex said softly. "I've always wondered what might have been. But you also showed me bits of my future without him too."
Ari nodded, "Sometimes things just happen but in the end there is a reason behind everything." Ari felt his arms wrap around her waist and looked over to see his chin resting on her left shoulder. "What is it?"
"I'm just happy that you are back," Lex told her. "We need to buy you some clothes."
"So are you going to do the most scary thing for a man to do," Ari teased with a huge smile.
"What is that?"
"Shopping," Lex laughed at Ari's face expression. Lex twirled the girl around in the air and placed her back down on the ground. "So where are you going to take me?"
"Well, if I remember correctly this special one hundred and twenty year old woman only likes comfortable clothes," Lex said with a smirk.
"So you don't mind taking this old woman with you?" Ari said with an arched eyebrow. "I mean, I do have at least a century over you."
"I think it is less than that if you do the math correctly," Lex said as he held her hand. "Let's go to Metropolis and see what they have for you."
"Alright," Ari said with a smile. "I guess it is going to look strange having a woman dressed like the way I am, all the time."
Lex smiled as they went with each other out of the mansion. However when they came out there was Clark waiting at the front door, Lex held Ari's hand tightly in his. Ari looked up at him and rolled his eyes, but knew that he did not know about Clark's powers. So she would be discrete about it.
"Hello," Ari said warmly.
"I need to talk to you," Clark said simply at this point not caring about Lex.
"Why," Lex asked noticing he was looking at Ari.
Ari sighed, "Lex, Clark is my cousin."
"What," Lex said in shock as he looked over at the brunettes, one next to him and the other at the bottom of the steps.
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Chapter Four
"Lex, sit down!" Ari commanded as she used her powers to sit the Luthor down on the couch. Ari rolled her eyes at how men can act as if they were children at the strangest of moments. Lex struggled and glared over at Ari.
"That's not fair," Lex commented as he sat still.
"What did you do," Clark asked with concern.
Ari turned to look over at him with a smile, "The perks of being from two different planets. I get a little bit of both worlds."
Clark smiled, "I see…"
Don't worry about Lex, I can handle him. Clark looked over at Ari with a stunned expression. Then he realized she had more powers than he thought she could have, and also kind of feeling them for the first time. It was strange but at the same time made him more curious about her and the royal family.
Well, I needed to ask you something… Ari looked over at him in surprise and Lex knew what was going on.
"No fair using your powers Ari!" Lex shouted but Ari rolled her eyes at him.
What is it Clark, Ari began walking towards Lex and gave him a kiss on the cheek. Clark made a face but just kept his cool.
About the stone around Lois's neck, is it really safe for her to have it?
Ari looked up at and smiled, she pulled Lex's wrist up to show him. Clark then saw a similar stone on Lex's left wrist. From a distance it looked like any normal watch but reality it was a stone like the one around Lois's neck. It won't harm her Clark, though I am not sure of Jor-El's intentions for it. I can find out at a later time when I spend some quality time with Lois.
Thank you, Clark then took his leave. But before Lex could call out to him, Ari pressed a kiss on his lips. Clark was gone and just left the two in the house. Ari pulled away with a smile on her lips, she was erased the meeting with Clark from his mind…it wasn't time yet for Lex Luthor to know about Clark's origin.
"What are we doing in here," Lex asked confused as Ari was sitting in his lap.
"We got distracted from shopping," Ari told him with a soft smile. "Now are we going to make our little shopping trip or not?"
"As the lady wishes," Lex lifted Ari into his arms as he began walking towards the door. He placed Ari back on her feet and walked out hand in hand. However Lionel Luthor saw the affection between the two as he saw them walking out the door.
"Hello son," Lionel greeted him and then looked over at the girl he though of as troublesome, and he still did.
"What is with this visit," Lex asked as he pulled Ari closer to him. He knew that his father never had great feelings towards Ari, the fact that she would appear out of no where and put such thoughts into his head. She also had helped Lex through many of his trouble times, even help repress some memories that he wouldn't let go. She was protecting him more than Lionel would ever hope for.
"I see you have a visitor," Lionel said simply as he walked up to the steps. "An ageless beauty…"
"What is it that you need Lionel," Ari said flatly, speaking before Lex did. Lex looked down over to the brunette girl as Lionel just smiled.
"I came to see my son," Lionel said bluntly.
"Then I'll go over my cousin's house," Ari said as she began walking down the steps but was stopped by Lex. Lex had made his way down the steps to wrap his arm around her waist.
"Dad, you'll have to wait. I had made plans with Ari," Lex said as he opened the passenger door for Ari. Ari took the hint and sat down in the car as Lex went around to the driver's side. "I speak with you when I return."
"It's not natural for a woman like her to not age Lex," Lionel shouted but Ari growled and Lex heard it.
Lex just smiled, "What's the matter dad? Don't like the fact she has aged much better than you have?"
With that said, Lex drove off leaving his father to smell the dust of their departure. Lionel just stood there and stormed into the house looking for any evidence about the mystery woman that had just walked back into his son's life. Lex had made sure not to tell him anything about the woman that had graced their lives several times. He wanted to know her secrets, even more than he would have wanted to know of Clark Kent's. He sighed deeply as he went searching the house until the arrival of his son.
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Clark stood at his loft looking out his opening. He sighed deeply as Lois came up the stairs to wrap and arm around his waist. Clark was shocked at first but turned around to look down into her eyes. She had been acting strangely, when he had asked her about what happened the day he lost his memory, she wouldn't tell him.
"So are you going to tell me?"
"You have asked me for the entire weekend, I tell you the same answer every time," Lois said as she went over to sit down at the couch.
"Come on," Clark whined as he sat down next to the older girl. "What did I say that is making you not tell me?"
Lois smirked, "I told you if you remember what happened we could talk about it. Since you don't remember, we aren't going to talk about what happened while you were in your 'I have no memory today' mode."
"That's not fair, Lois." Clark told her as he smiled warmly at the witty girl.
"Life isn't fair Smallville," Lois said with a warm smile. "Besides, I think it's better to keep some more mystery between us."
"How can it be a mystery when you know something and I don't," Clark asked with an arched eyebrow. "It's only fair when it's both of us."
Lois shook her head, "I beg to differ. I like having something that you don't know for a change."
Clark sighed, "You win."
"I always do," Lois said with a huge smile as she looked out to the blue sky. "So did you get to talk with Ari?"
Clark nodded, "Well she and Lex were apparently going somewhere together. But she said she would look into the pendant, since the way Jor-El basically handed it to you."
"I'll be fine, so stop worrying," Lois said with a smile.
"Wait, how did you know I went to Lex's?" Clark asked.
Lois shrugged, "Just a hunch."
Clark smiled as he followed Lois down the stairs. Martha and Jonathan were below listening to the conversation, well more of the tone the two used with each other. Just in a matter of days it had changed from their fighting all out war to something much deeper. They watch the couple walk back to the house, but the older couple went back to finishing some of their chores. They both held huge smiles on their faces and would later go into the house to join the two young love birds. Well, they didn't know yet but they were.
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"Lex, I didn't need this many clothes," Ari argued as they drove back to the mansion.
"Only for the best for you," Lex took her left hand and placed a kiss. Ari just smiled as Lex looked at her with longing eyes. She knew that he wanted to fulfill his physical desires but he wasn't going to get that way easily.
"If this is a way of you wooing me over, it's almost working," Ari told him with a smile gracing her lips.
"When do I get to meet your cousin," Lex asked as he put his eyes back on the road.
"When you behave," Ari teased with a smirk as Lex just let out a small chuckle.
"What is that suppose to mean?"
"You know exactly what that means!"
"Are you saying I can't behave myself?"
"All I'm saying is that sometimes you take things out of hand or you can't keep a certain Lex Junior in your pants."
"You wound me with your words dear princess!"
Ari laughed, "You know it's true. You see a wonderfully attractive woman and you go for her. One night stand, and maybe if they don't go away you give them a pair of earrings."
"Ari, you know that I would not do that with you. Besides you probably leave me to return to your people on that distant planet of yours."
"Not unless I have a reason to stay," Ari said softly but it was not missed by Lex.
"What would be that reason?"
Before Ari answered they had arrived at the mansion. Ari got out of the car and went straight to the trunk to get her things out. Lex knew she wasn't going to answer right away especially after giving him that smile, "Curse her for being the only one that can truly get under my skin." Lex got out of the car and helped with some of the bags and boxes.
"I don't remember going to this store," Ari picked up a bag that had a very famous lingerie store's label on there. "Lex, are you trying to hint at something?"
"No, just figured you needed some here," Lex told her flatly. "After all on your planet these don't really exist. And with some of the outfits you picked out, it would be better if you were some under garments."
"How thoughtful," Ari said with a kiss on his cheek. They walked back up into the mansion and quickly made their way up to a spare room. Ari began putting things in their place and of course using her powers. Lex just shook his head, she always had to do things the easy way or show off to him. He didn't mind it though, he could watch how her body moved at certain movements that she made.
Ari sensed someone coming and stopped what she was doing. She was still in her white dress that she wore earlier and began doing things as if she was a normal earth girl. Lex looked at her curiously when Lionel appeared in the door frame.
"So I see you two went shopping," Lionel said coolly. "And Ari is staying here, how sweet."
"What do you want dad," Lex asked as he turned to fully face his father. "Whatever you have to say you can say it in front of Ari."
"What your physic new girlfriend," Lionel said with a chuckle but received a death glare from Ari. Lionel backed off, he never remembered the girl being so dark towards anyone. But then again she could sense many things that no one else could and it was what bothered him.
"I suggest you watch what you say," Lex warned his father.
"Lex, why don't you and your father talk downstairs," Ari suggested. "I want to finish putting some of the things away and get dressed for bed."
Lex then walked over to her and placed a quick kiss on her lips, "I'll be back up later." Ari nodded as Lex walked out of the room with his father. Ari then closed the door to quickly put things away and prepare for a bath. She needed it but after what she sensed from Lionel Luthor only proved some things never change. It would take more than a bath to forget about all the thoughts and feelings that were in Lionel Luthor held within him.
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Well here is chapter four! I hope you enjoyed it and leave a review if you like. I'll see you next chapter!