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A/N: Okay everybody I think today's a good enough day to update. And just so you know, I think I've come up with an updating schedule. Now, prepare yourselves, I don't want to induce any heart attacks. ;) :P

Chapter 6 is below, and then I think I'll be updating Chapter 7 on 12-31-09... then afterward I'll be back up at school and my new semester will be starting. Since 3 out of the 5 days I have a very busy schedule, the one day I think I'll be able to update will be... once a week on Tuesdays.

So that's how it'll go unless something comes up and I can find time to update sooner, but I doubt it...

Thanks for reading and enjoy the next chapter! 8-)

NEW A/N: EDITED 10/24/17 - Wow. 2009. I can't believe how long ago that is now. You know, it's a little strange coming back to these stories. Because now I can imagine how Lois and Clark looked in S10 in my mind's eye when we hadn't even seen it yet when I wrote it. Funny. Anyway, I'm rambling again. Hope you still enjoy and please still let me know what you think! :)

Chapter 6

"Come on, let me take you home," Chloe helped him up and led him to her car.

"How do I know I can trust you?" Clark walked with her anyway.

"If I was going to hurt you, don't you think I would by now?" Chloe pointed out. He didn't remember anything, but he was still all about safety.

"Good point," Clark got in her red VW bug.

After a very quiet drive to the Kent Farm, they pulled up to the house. It was going to be very hard to explain to him that inside his house were himself and her cousin from the future. He'd find out eventually.

Clark rolled down the window and took in his surroundings. They both got out of the car and walked around it, heading for the house.

Chloe broke the awkward silence, "Must be kinda weird seeing the house you grew up in for the first time... Do you recognize anything? I mean t-the house? Or the cows? The tractor? Anything?"

"You sure this is where I live?" Clark looked around.

"Yeah," Chloe assured him and looked back to the barn, "U-Um, you spend most of your time over there."

"In a barn?" Clark looked at her like she was crazy.

"Well normal was never really your style, Clark," Chloe teased. He gave her one of his confused puppy dog looks.

"That was my attempt at humor. Sometimes I crash and burn, sorry."

He turned around and headed up the porch stairs with Chloe following him. He raised his fist to knock on the door, but Chloe stopped him and reminded him, "Clark, it's your house."

"Right," Clark lowered his fist and started pulling on the door handle. It wouldn't budge. He gave it one hard yank and sent the door flying across the yard.

He tried was stunned, "I… It was- It w-was stuck."

"Actually, I think it was locked," Chloe was amused. She walked into the house followed by Clark. While Clark was looking at what he assumed to be a family picture. Chloe searched the house for his parents.

Kent heard her calling out his parents' names and stepped out his bedroom door, "Chloe? What's the matter?"

"Kent!" Chloe breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness you're here."

"What's the matter?" Lane popped up behind Kent.

"Clark's downstairs and he has amnesia," Chloe explained.

"Amnesia?" Kent asked.

"Did that not happen to you?" Chloe was confused. Before she could go on some panicky tangent, Kent interrupted her, "No, it did. I just… well, I just forgot."

"I'll put the twins down for a nap and we'll be right down," Lane assured her. Chloe nodded and headed downstairs to see Clark turn away from the refrigerator.

Then Lois came through the now vacant doorway, "What the hell happened to the door?"

"You know, I tried to open it and then…" Clark started, but Chloe cut him off to cover for him, "Yeah! And then some freak wind came and just blew it right off."

Clark looked at Chloe strangely, but just accepted her input.

"Right," Lois wasn't buying it, but she wasn't going to harp on it.

"So, Lois, do you know where the Kents are?" Chloe asked. She knew everything would be fine with Lane and Kent coming down, but she wanted to make sure everything was okay with Clark's parents.

"They're in Metropolis for Mr. Kent's heart exam," Lois replied slowly and turned to Clark, "Clark, you know that."

"Well not so much," Chloe revealed, "He has amnesia and he's having a hard time…"

"Again?" Lois cut her off.

"What do you mean again?" Clark asked as Lois walked right up to him.

She looked like she was studying him and tilted her head. She grabbed his arm and gave him a friendly slug, "Well, at least this time you've got clothes on."

Clark furrowed his brows. What the hell did she mean by that?

"So, what happened?" Lois referred to Clark's amnesia state.

"Well the last thing I remember, I woke up in the alley," Clark provided, "I was with uh…"

He never asked what her name was.

"Chloe," Chloe replied and turned back to Lois, "I'm thinking he caught up to whoever was behind the robbery-in-plain-sight incident."

"And what, we have a thief with memory repo?" Lois asked while Chloe shrugged.

She took out some jelly from the fridge, "I guess that could explain why in some weird Smallvillian way, I zoned out eight coffee orders before I found the till was empty."

Chloe looked to Clark. She knew what she was about to say next would make no sense to him, but she had to let Lois know, "Lane and Kent are coming down to help."

"All right," Lois nodded.

Clark looked like he wanted to ask who they were talking about, but Chloe cut him off before he could say anything, "I'm gonna go to The Torch and see what I can find out about amnesia."

"Yeah, just leave Mr. Memory Reboot to me. I'm getting to be a pro at this," Lois told her and gestured to Clark with a knife, "But you know what? You're going to have to put up with PB and J because that's the extent of my culinary skills."

"Okay?" Chloe looked to Clark and started to walk out.

"Uhh, please tell me I'm not related to her," Clark stopped her from leaving.

"No I am. You live with her," Chloe smiled back.

He lived with her? Were they a couple?

"Clark," Lois warned him before throwing the peanut butter jar at him. He had his hand on the lid to open it, but Chloe swiped it from him.

She opened it instead and slid it back to Lois, "You know what? I think I'll head over to The Talon to see what clues I can find over there instead."

"Suit yourself. We'll be here," Lois smiled.

Clark waved goodbye to Chloe and took a seat at the kitchen island. He watched Lois make their peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

"Lois?" Clark started. Lois nodded for him to continue.

"Who are Lane and Kent?"

Lois sighed and put the knife down. How does one explain to a boy with amnesia that their future selves were currently upstairs?

"They're… well, they're us from the future," Lane explained carefully.

"The future?" Clark didn't believe it. What was it with the people of this town? First he finds out that he spends most of his time in a barn and now he's being told that his future self and her future self were in the house with them.

"I know it sounds crazy, but who are you to argue, Mr. Amnesia?" Lane countered as she cut their sandwiches into halves.

"Good point," Clark shrugged and accepted the sandwich. They began to eat. Clark swallowed what he was chewing, "Can I ask you another question?"

"Shoot," Lois replied.

"Are we a couple?" Clark furrowed his brows.

Lois spat out part of her sandwich all over Clark and coughed. She took a napkin and wiped her mouth, "I'm sorry?"

Clark wiped off his face from Lois' spew, "Chloe said that we live together… so I was just wondering if we were a couple?"

"No," Lois shook her head vehemently, "No. We're just good friends, Clark."

"Oh," Clark looked down. Was he… disappointed? Before Lois could ask him about that, Lane and Kent came down the stairs.

"Chloe told us what happened," Lane came down first.

"Wow," Clark widened his eyes. If it was possible, Lois' future self was even more radiant than the girl sitting across from him.

"Is there anything we can do to help?" Lane asked.

"You can try to explain the weirdness of this town to him," Lois tried, "That oughta take awhile."

Kent ran his eyes over his younger self. He didn't have any recollection of what happened in the original timeline and he was grateful to see that his younger self didn't look hurt from the thief exposing him to kryptonite.

Lois looked at her cell phone, "I'd love to stay here and help, but Chloe just texted me… I'm gonna head over to The Talon to help her investigate."

"We'll be fine here," Kent nodded her off. Lois smiled and left leaving Clark with Kent and Lane.

"I'm sure you're very freaked out right now," Lane put an empathizing hand on his shoulder, "Just ask us anything and we'll try to explain it."

"How can you two be from the future?" Clark asked, "How did you get here?"

"Well, in answer to your first question, we just are," Lane replied, "And as for your second question, well we're not really sure, but we're pretty sure it was from two shooting stars."

"That's a little unreal," Clark shook his head.

"One thing you'll get used to in this town," Lane smiled. Clark smiled back at her in a dopey grin. Suddenly, his eyes started to burn. He quickly shut them.

"My eyes are burning!" Clark yelled. He turned his head and opened his eyes when the heat became too much. He set the kitchen curtains on fire.

Kent sped over to them and blew it out with his super breath before it could spread.

"I-I'm sorry! I don't know what just happened! First I rip the door of its hinges and throw it across the yard and now this."

Lane and Kent shared a look. Kent gave Lane a nod that she instantly understood. She'd leave Kent with himself for a chat.

"I'm gonna go back upstairs and leave you two to talk."

"How did I do that?" Clark looked scared. Kent sighed, pulled out a chair and sat down.

"I don't know how to tell you everything without freaking you out," Kent treaded carefully.

"After creating a fire with my eyes, I don't think there's anything else that could freak me out," Clark let out an uneasy laugh with a shake of his head.

"You-" Kent started. He didn't know how to phrase it. He sighed and figured he should just come out with it, "You're a super powered alien from another planet. You have a vast array of abilities."

"An alien?" Clark cast his gaze down. He didn't know how to process that, "What else can I do? And how do I control it?"

Kent spent the rest of the day telling Clark everything he needed to know, how to control his more dangerous abilities, and practiced some of them.

Eventually Lane came back down to the kitchen with John and Lara in each arm, "How's everything going down here?"

"We're doing fine," Kent said as he took John from her.

"I'm gonna head to the barn to see if anything up there will refresh my memory," Clark stood up, "Thank you for telling me everything, Kent."

"Don't mention it," Kent nodded back. Clark walked out of the kitchen and headed up to his wooden fortress of solitude.

"You must've had an interesting conversation," Lane sat down.

Kent nodded, "Yeah."

"You okay?" Lane's tone was full of concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine… It's just I just realized that when this happened in the original timeline, Chloe witnessed me using my powers and never called me on it until after the second meteor shower," Kent shook his head. He took a seat next to his wife.

"Chloe can be a good friend when she wants to be," Lane nodded, "Makes me wonder why she did what she did with Davis."

"Let's not go into that please," Kent wanted to change the subject. That was one point in his life he never wanted to re-live. If Jimmy hadn't turned around when he did when Davis tried to kill him, Jimmy would've been dead. Instead they fought and Davis killed himself on the spikes.

"Chloe and I found a clue at The Talon," Lois announced as she entered the kitchen.

"Good," Kent smiled. He was glad there was a distraction from the whole Doomsday talk they almost started.

"Where's Clark?" Lois asked.

"He went up to the loft to think and process everything… and to see if anything up there could jog his memory," Lane replied. She remembered checking on Clark in the original timeline and if they wanted things to stay mostly the same, they had to make sure certain events stayed on track.

~L&C~

Up in his loft, Clark started sifting through pictures of some brunette that he quickly tossed aside. She must've been one of his friends from school. He turned his attention to some cryptic drawings and tried to make sense of them from some of the things Kent told him. It was all too much. He threw the papers down in frustration and laid a frustrated hand on his neck.

Lois came up the stairs, "Looks like one more thing you don't remember…"

Clark turned his head to her as she finished coming up the stairs.

"You usually hide all those emotions."

She grabbed a chair, "I came to ask if you were doing okay… but looks like I got my answer."

She brought the chair closer to him and sat down in it.

"My life is a complete void. How would you feel?" Clark bit back at her.

"Oh, pity party. These are fun," Lois swung her legs back in forth with her words.

"Kent told me a lot and it made me realize that there are a lot of people that I can't trust," Clark phrased himself carefully. He was told that his Lois didn't know about him like Lane.

"And you can't tell who they are," Lois empathized with him. She had to bring him out of this brood mode, "Look, you may not remember all the players on the board, but you can still play the game."

"Can you tell me how I'm supposed to do that?" Clark wondered.

"Trust your gut," Lois told him, "Like what's it say about me?"

"That we fight a lot, but underneath it all we like each other?" Clark smirked.

"You're on the right track," Lois smiled, "Keep it up, Smallville."

She got up and headed down the stairs, back to the house to get ready for bed. Clark took one more glance at all the pictures and drawings. He got up, figuring he could leave it for another day.

~L&C~

The next day, Clark entered Smallville High to see if he could find Lois or Chloe. Lane and Kent told him they would be there. Hence why he went looking for them. When he turned the corner, he saw the girl from the pictures in his loft putting on her jacket at her locker. Curious, he walked up to her.

She closed her locker and looked up seeing Clark, "Hi, Clark."

"Hi," Clark replied.

"I heard about what happened to you. I-" Lana started and berated herself, "Oh, um, I'm sorry. I suppose you don't even know who I am… I'm Lana."

"Nice to meet you, Lana," Clark smiled, "I just came over here because I found some pictures of you in my loft. And when I saw you over here, I figured I should find out who you are."

"And now you know," Lana nodded with a smile, "I hope you'll get your memory back soon."

"You and me both," Clark smiled.

Lois and Chloe were walking down the hallway when they saw Clark. Lois looked confused, "How did he get here?"

Thinking Lana and Clark's conversation was going differently, Chloe couldn't help but comment, "Looks like the heart remembers more than the brain."

Lana bid her goodbye to Clark and walked away.

Walking backwards as they headed over to Clark, "Come on, cuz. Don't give one more second thought to those vacant baby blues."

The inflection in her voice seemed like she was telling herself that more than Chloe.

"Hey! Uh, good news, uh we traced that day pass Lois and I found to Grand View Motor Cross Park," Chloe told him with a little pep in her voice, "Belongs to a guy named Kevin Grady."

"He lives in Smallville so we thought we'd go check out the address," Lois added, "Coming?"

Clark followed Lois and Chloe out of the school.

~L&C~

When they got to the house they were greeted by Kevin's father. Chloe noticed a pass to the Summerholt Institute and commented on it. Mr. Grady passed it under the rug and told them about the accident between him and his sons at Oughtry Clearing. He told them how he lost his other son Dylan. He made it apparent that Kevin accidentally killed his brother when loading his gun and how by going to Summerholt, he might get help to erase those memories. Mr. Grady bid them goodbye and closed the door leaving Lois, Chloe, and Clark on the porch.

Chloe and Clark gave Lois a look after Mr. Grady's speech.

"Look, it tugs at the heartstrings, but I'm not sure I totally buy it," Lois said, "I'm gonna go have a look around."

After Lois had a look around, Lois and Clark went back to the Kent Farm and Chloe went to Lex to see if he still had his contact at the Summerholt Institute. She got the information she needed and went back to the Kent Farm to join Lois and Clark.

"I got it," Chloe smiled triumphantly as she entered the kitchen.

"What do you have?" Lois asked.

"A way to get into Summerholt," Chloe replied, "But I need to head over to The Torch to finish things up for the next issue."

"Well, I can head over there instead while you go back to school," Lois offered.

"Uh, okay… Thanks, Lois," Chloe replied. Lois shrugged it off and went out the door to see what she could dig up at Summerholt.

"You gonna come with me to school, Clark?" Chloe gestured out the door with her thumb.

"I actually wanted to ask Lane and Kent something first, but I can meet you there," Clark replied. Chloe nodded and headed out as Clark went upstairs.

~L&C~

Lois snuck into Summerholt, narrowly being caught by two nurses. She headed into an office and sat down at the computer looking for information on Kevin Grady. She grabbed a disk, popped it into the computer and started transferring the files. She typed in Chloe's e-mail address: chloetorch and sent the files to it.

She took out her cell and dialed Chloe.

"Hello?"

"Chloe," Lois started.

"Hey, Lois, you there?" Chloe started.

"Yeah, incoming. Check your e-mail," Lois told her.

"Got it," Chloe assured her and they both hung up.

Lois exited out of all the windows and just as she was about ready to stand up, a man covered her mouth and grabbed her.

~L&C~

Meanwhile, Clark raced over to The Torch after Lane and Kent told him to. After all, they had already gone through this and knew best.

Walking into the office, "Chloe?! I…"

"Clark, you gotta look at this," Chloe beckoned him over to the computer, "Lois called and told me to download some files she e-mailed from Summerholt."

She double-clicked on the video and it started to play.

"Y-You don't have to do this," Kevin Grady's recorded voice appeared on the screen. He was strapped down to a table and extremely scared, "I-I won't tell anyone. I promise. I-I won't tell em what happened. I know it was an accident. I know you didn't mean to."

"Kevin didn't kill his brother," Clark observed.

"No, no," Kevin pleaded.

"Whoever erased Kevin's memories must've planted a few new ones," Chloe said.

"How could someone do that?" Clark started pacing, "Let Kevin walk around thinking he killed his own brother."

"Someone who obviously can't live with themselves," Chloe answered.

"I need to find Kevin," Clark knew what he had to do.

"And where you gonna find him?" Chloe asked sarcastically.

"Where his brother died seems like a pretty good place to start," Clark said.

Chloe looked down, "Wait a minute, didn't his dad say that the accident happened at…"

Clark super sped away but she was still talking, "Oughtry Clearing… Clark? Go get em, Speedy."

TBC

In case you didn't see, in the Author's Note before the update I stated what my updating schedule will be. I hope it'll be alright. :)

Oh, and I'm brainstorming ideas for new stories... I have one silly idea, but I'm not too confident with it, and the other is from a poster RPK sent me. 8-)

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NEW A/N: EDITED 10/24/17 - Whether you're re-reading this story or enjoying it for the first time, I hope you like it and if you get a chance, let me know what you think. :)