Chapter 4: Finding What's Lost

They pulled off the road at a place in the middle of nowhere...in the middle of nowhere.

"How do you know where Clark is? Where is he Lana? Is he alive, please God let him be alive." Martha was crying, she couldn't keep her thoughts in anymore. She hadn't seen her son in 2 years and she wanted answers now.

Lana looked at her and she was scared. She had a right to be scared. She looked at her and she let out a shaky breath. "Mrs. Kent I've known where Clark has been for the last 2 years." She watched Martha's face turn from worry to anger. "I'm actually the one who got him put there." She watched her intently, hoping and praying that she wouldn't strangle her for what she was about to say. "2 years ago I noticed Clark walk into the Talon to talk to you. When he got inside, I snuck under his truck and put in a handy-mans hydraulics, these were super spring loaded so when I pressed a button presto! The truck would flip. I know about Clark's abilities, I've known about them since the day he saved Lex when he was kidnapped. When Clark got back in his truck to leave, I followed him and when he got near that field full of meteor rock that Lex planted I pressed and button and sent Clark flying. He fell right into it but he still managed to crawl out. He still managed to crawl up to Lois's apartment and then crawl back home. He went in the house for about 20 minutes and came back out barely standing. I walked up to him and told him everything would be ok, that I would save him." She looked down at the floor board, unable to handle the deadly gaze Martha Kent was giving her. She slowly drew in another breath and released it with her last words, "I seduced him into the Mansion. He's been locked in there and tortured by Lex for 2 long years."

Martha turned again facing the windshield unable to look at the pathetic piece of life that sat beside her. How could she keep this kind of information from her, Lois or Chloe for all these years? How could she do that to them. She turned back to face her and her head was pointed down. "Look at me Lana." And Lana looked up immediately with fear and guilt clearly expressed on her face. Martha grabbed her face and forced her to keep eye contact. "I don't know your reasons, I don't care. I want my son back." Lana just stared at her as Martha's anger rose. "GIVE ME MY SON BACK!"

Lex walked into the green room to check on his prisoner, to see if anymore damage could be done. He had no guilt about shoot him, he only had guilt that he couldn't kill him yet. He walked over slowly, admiring the wholes in his hands, the scars on his once chiseled stomach and the bones sticking out through his chest. The bruises that covered his body from being beaten on that night when they captured him. He remembered that fight, he had a scars on the back of his head from it and every time he gets angry it rips open again and bleeds. Only a small amount of pay back compared to what he was doing to the alien before him. And as he continued to walk towards the battered body he noticed that it hadn't acknowledged his existence in the room, which angered him. He grabbed him by his hair and pulled his face up only to jump back in surprise; his eyes were glowing red, something he had never seen before.

He reached up his hand to the crimson sockets and placed his finger near the lids. As soon as his skin came in contact it immediately burned. He could hear it sizzle as he staggered backwards. He looked at the bubbling skin shocked, not knowing Clark had that power. But Clark on the other hand couldn't feel his presence, he couldn't he him cursing towards him, all he could see was a blinding white light and a hand holding on to him for dear life.

He looked down at the person to which the hand belonged and he said nothing. He reached down and lifted the hand to his face, loving the feeling of her skin on his. This is what he had missed so much, just the simple pleasures that he had taken for granted. And that look in her eyes sent chills coursing through him and his knees almost gave way. She reached out with her other hand and grabbed his face, pulling herself into the most passionate kiss of herself. She struggled for breath and control, neither of which she seemed to have. Every time she saw him in her dreams he took her breath away and made her want to lose all control. They kissed like there was no tomorrow, hoping that this wasn't a dream and that it was real.

Clark broke the kiss just to stare into her hazel eyes, her perfect hazel eyes. And she looked back at him with such love and passion and desire that he wanted to just take her but in some part of his mind he knew that this wasn't real and he was only dreaming. He was only dreaming.

"Lois." Was all he managed to say before he pulled her into a hug. He smiled and shed every thought of her not loving him, every thought that he was in pain. He smelled her hair and there was nothing. This really was a dream and he broke the hug only to see her start to cry. "No...please, please don't cry Lois." He begged.

She sniffed and looked up at him, "I know I'm only dreaming, I know this isn't real. I can't find you Clark, I can't find you." She looked into his eyes and she saw the same worry reflected back. She put her head on his shoulder and whispered, "Why won't you let me find you?"

Taken back he moved her head back into view and just looked at her. What could he say? What could tell her that this wasn't a dream, that this was really him and not some fantasy. "Lois I need you to listen to me. You are not dreaming." She laughed.

"Clark don't lie to me. I just want you to be with me in this dream don't lie." She looked at him with pleading eyes.

He knew that if he didn't convince her of otherwise she would never see him again he knew he was on the brink of existence and there wasn't much holding him back. He grabbed her shoulders, "Lois I'm not lying to you. I'm really here and you are really here. Well spiritually at least." She looked at him blankly. She looked around at the clouds that surrounded them and the white light just behind him. She wanted to believe him so badly but she knew in her heart that this was just another figment of her imagination, that he could never speak to her like this. He saw the doubt in her eyes, "Lois please believe me. I just need you to believe me. You wanna know why?" She looked up at him expecting him to just disappear and her to wake up screaming his name. "Because I haven't lost my hope yet that you will find me and save me."

But when she didn't wake she knew this was real. And she grabbed on to him for dear life. She wrapped her arms around his neck and just held him there. She listened to his slow and steady heartbeat and she became calm. "Oh God Smallville! I thought I was never going to see you again. I missed you so much...and if you ever leave me like that again I swear if I find you I kick your ass." She looked up at him and she was glowing, she believed him.

"Lois you've got to find me, you gotta save me I'm dieing." He started to cry. He never imagined telling the woman he loved that either she risking her life or he lost his. He was ashamed of it somewhere in his mind but before him the woman he loves proved to him every second of the day that you have to put faith in the hard decisions.

"Clark where are you?"

"Luthor Mansion."

"What the...Luthor Mansion? You mean..." Her face started turning red and the rage was evident in her voice. "You mean to tell me that little pink f&kin princess and Mr. I've got money coming out my $$ have you? How Clark?"

"I can't explain that now Lois. I just need you to save me. I've never asked you to help me before and I never thought I would." He looked at her and cupped her face. "But being in that room trapped for so long I've realized that I will only ask you for two things."

She looked at him with a mischievous look in her eye. "Thinking dirty are we Smallville."

He just smiled, this is why he loves her so much. No matter what the situation she can always find the right words to pull him through to make everything seem okay. "No Lois. Can you save me?" She shook her head and he began to turn, walking back towards the light.

"Wait Clark!" And he turned. "What was the other thing you wanted to ask of me?"

He walked back over to her and crashed his lips upon hers, igniting the flames that they had snuffed for so long. He looked into her eyes, making her want to melt as their lips never parted. "Will you love me with all your heart?" And then he turned and he was gone.

And with a snap Clark's eyes went from red back to normal and he gasped for air. Lex cautiously made his way towards him as he snapped out of his trance. "So where have you been Clark? You've been out of it for a good 20 minutes." He looked at him trying to read his face but he was giving nothing away. Lex grabbed the basin of ice he had used on his hand and threw it at him smashing it against Clark's face. He screamed out in pain feeling the glass break into his bones. The ice trailing its way down his body dripping from his bare feet, some collecting on the rags hanging over his mid section. And he was still screaming in pain. Lex walked from side to side in front of him, examining the broken creature that has hung from his walls since November 18, 2006 at 7:03 P.M. He had pocked and prodded away at his alien tissue so many times between then and now. At the beginning Lana used to stand and watch, sometimes laughing, sometimes assisting, sometimes cutting him apart. A wicked smile spread across his face at the memories as she walked out of the room, frustrated and tired.

Lois lay in a cold sweat yet again on Clark's bed, in Clark's shirt, snuggled up to Clark's pillows. She knew where to find him and this time it wasn't a dream. She sat there and contemplated her memories. "Oh God. That green room...it's real."

She jumped from the bed pulling on some clothes when she heard Mrs. Kent's car pull up. She ran out the front door to greet her and tell her everything when she saw the angry look on her face. In her hand she had the arm of Lana Lang, who looked horrified. Lois's face went from happy to pure blinding rage as she reached her arm back and slugged her as hard as she could. She put her boot on her throat and slowly bent down to her face. "You will pay for what you did to him, you lying.." Kick. "Two faced.." Kick. "Bitch from hell!" authors note..i like not beeping it out...sorry..just this once And she began kicking her until she was sure she heard a bone or two crack. She put her hand around her throat and Mrs. Kent grabbed Lois's arm.

"Lois how did you know that she knew about Clark?" And Lois looked up and explained everything. Everything except the whole looking up to the stars, kissing him, reading his journal thing. And when she was done Martha looked in awe at her. Lois was crying, she just couldn't hold herself back anymore. "Ok. So we need a plan. We need a plan."

Lois smiled through her tears, "I know just the person to call." She flipped open her cell phone and dialed a number incredibly fast. "Yeah Chloe, we've got a problem. Care to help?" She looked up at Martha with a wink and a bright smile on her face. Her son would be freed, she knew it.

3 hours, 2 trips to Wal-mart, Goody's and K-mart later they were set. Dressed in full black attire, hand guns and shot guns in hand, black paint on their faces, they looked...ridiculous. "Chloe are you sure we should wear all of this? I mean seriously." Lois complained.

"If you want to get this done right and try to go unseen then yes. Wait a minute what did you do with Lana?"

Lois smiled. "Oh, just threw her off the truck on the way back...no biggie." She laughed to herself, giving Martha a look of accomplishment. Martha had driven while Lois threw her overboard. They seriously thought they heard her arm break when she hit the ground but they didn't care.

"Ok. I've got my laptop ready. Before we enter the house and go through with our plan I have to get this hooked up to the power system and shut it off. That way we can get through unseen and if you all be quite, unheard." She looked at Lois warily and Mrs. Kent snickered.

"All right, all right let's just go already!" Mrs. Kent complained. Both Lois and Chloe looked at her funny, she was acting like a teenager. But they dismissed the thought and hopped in, ready for the battle of a life time.

½ a mile away from Luthor Mansion they hopped out of the cab and began to run towards the entrance. They stopped abruptly after Chloe smacked Lois in the back of the head, reminding her to not be rash and let her shut off the power. Within a few seconds all lights went out. Mission go.

They had no real plan, they just knew where the room was based on Lois's description. Each one of them had 2 guns and 2 boxes full of bullets and a mission. Chloe was to distract Lex, Martha to distract the guards and Lois had to get to that green room. And so they ran, ran to their destinations, no walkie-talkie nothing but a plan.

As soon as they entered the house Chloe took off running like a wild woman, she didn't know where Lex stayed and she didn't know how to stop him but she would try anything at this point to get her best friend back. Martha turned slowly and saw security coming at a fast rate and Lois looked at her worried. Martha signaled for her to run and she did, looking over her shoulder the entire time.

Chloe had made it to Lex's room and he was still asleep in the bed. He didn't even flinch when she opened the door but he did manage to get out, "Clark will die." Before rolling over again. She gritted her teeth, it was all she could do to keep herself from breaking out the guns and blowing him to shreds.

Martha Kent was down stairs running like her life depended on it. She knew she had to so Lois would have enough time to find her son, her only will to keep running.

Lois was running down the halls as fast as she could kicking open every door and yelling in frustration when it wasn't the right one. She had to find him fast, she didn't know how much time he had left.

Lex rolled over again, wide awake to Chloe standing over him gun in his face. "Chloe...woah. Take it easy." He said raising his hands in surprise. Slowly creeping out of the bed, gun still pointed at his temple.

"Shut up Luthor. I don't want to hear it." She said angrily. She didn't care what he had to say but she had to keep calm.

He smirked. "I see you found out that Clark was here. Hmm. Interesting. And how did you come across such dangerous information?" He said side stepping the gun only to have it pressed against the same place.

"That doesn't matter. What matters is that Clark will be free again, and you Mr. Luthor, you are going down." She pulled the gun away for one second and shot at the wall. She knew that if she shot him it would be the end of her. She couldn't kill anyone let alone Lex Luthor.

The security team below became alarmed at the gun shot and they began firing their own. Lois was still running and frantically kicking open the doors, she couldn't find him she just couldn't find him. She heard the gun shot and she panicked and began breaking the doors faster. Martha on the other hand, down stairs was trapped in a corner, 7 big men surrounding her. She had no where to run, but she was a distraction, she had to keep them away from her son.

Lois kicked the last door in the hallway before another corner came into view. She kicked it with all her might and it wouldn't budge. She kicked it over and over and over. Nothing.

Chloe put the gun back to his temple only to have Lex smash it out of her hand and throw her against the ground unconscious. He ran blindly to the green room, the one that he had kept secret for so long and he knew that someone was there, he had a gut feeling about it.

She pulled out her gun and she blew the door knob to smithereens, gave it one final kick and it finally gave way. She opened the door cautiously unsure of what she might or might not find. She sidled around the door and saw the familiar green glow that had haunted her for so long. She pulled the flashlight out of her bag and nearly died at the sight before her. Clark was looking at her with his eyes sunk in his head. His skin hanging off his bones, all his muscles deteriorated. Scars all over his body, blood dripping from his pores.

The only thing he said to her nearly broke her heart, "Help me Lois. Please." She ran to him, she grabbed the hammer from her bag and began pounding away at his shackles. She pounded with all her might, all her frustration and not even a scratch. She began to cry, she couldn't save him. She loved him so much and she couldn't break him free. She had to, she can't leave him hear like this. She looked up at him and he smiled at her before shutting his eyes.

"Smallville?" She shook him. "Clark?" She put her head to his chest. "No heart beat. No. NO!!! CLARK!!! NO!!!! Please don't leave me." She wrapped her arms around his lifeless body. "I love you."

Her breath was taken away, a blue diamond shaped light came glowing out from under her black turtleneck. She pushed back her sleeve to reveal the bracelet below. She looked at it in awe, wondering why it was glowing again. With her head still on his chest she began to hear his heart beat again. She screamed, thanking God for bringing him back. She got the hammer out again and hit the chain. With one blow she shattered it and she moved on to the next. When his arms were free he fell forward, still unconscious and probably to tired and weak to hold himself up.

She got the chains off of his feet, and she began to cry again. She put him on her back and she hardly felt any weight. "What did they do to you Clark?" She ran him out of the room, to run smack dab into Lex. As soon as she touched him Clark's body jumped and he began to squirm trying to break free from her grip. She sat him down and he stood, she had no idea how.

"So trying to escape are we Lois? You'll never make it out alive." He smirked pulling the gun he just stole from Chloe.

"You son of a b$h!" She kicked him in the balls. He fell to the ground and he pulled the trigger.

She turned around to only see Clark's body crumpled on the floor. She bit back her rage and pulled the pistol from her bag. She held it to his face and whispered in his ear, "This is for Clark you heartless b$trd." Bam! Blood shot every where. And Lex was gone. She stood only to see Chloe, blood running down her face, with tear mixing in. She didn't bother to say anything, it wouldn't do any good. Lois had killed a man for the man she loved.

She took off running out the door, Clark back in the same position on her back. She placed him in the cab where he awoke with a wince. "Lois?" And he grabbed his shoulder. And his eyes widened in shock as he saw Chloe running for her life out of the Luthor Mansion, his mom at her side. The security team was fast on their trail, guns pulled and ready to fire. Chloe made it to the car first hopping in the drivers seat and turning the key expecting Martha to get any. But as that key was turned a shot was fired and her lifeless body hit the ground with a thud.

Lois turned and looked at Clark, and he looked like he had just lost everything. He franatically tried to get up, to run to her but Lois stopped him, she was fighting her own pain. "MOM!!! NO!!! MOM!!! Mom...no...no..." He leaned into her shoulder and dropped his head and the flood began. Lois pushed him further in and shut the door behind her, as Chloe began to pull away. She held onto him for dear life, hoping that he wouldn't be joining her anytime soon. She listening to him cry, it was the worst thing she had ever heard. There was more pain and fear in his sobs than in anything she had ever witnessed, he just lost any sense of family that he would ever have. He was an adopted child, he didn't know of his real parents, he just lost the people that he called his own. All she could do was sit there and rub his back, and stare wide-eyed at the road ahead, afraid of her next move. He was broken and she was the only one to be able to piece him back together.