A/N: Just like I said, here's another chapter. I figure if I make it a daily occurrence for me to write this story, it will continue to be written. I am also currently watching Smallville all the way through, so I have a source of inspiration. So here's the sixth chapter.
Kaitlyn felt herself being pulled out of the darkness by someone shaking her and calling her name.
"Kaitlyn! Kaitlyn! Wake up!" came the voice, finally forcing her to open her eyes.
When she opened her eyes, she saw who it was that was shaking her awake. Lex's face filled her field of vision and her nightmare came flooding back to her. She started to scream and scrambled up to get away from Lex.
"Get away from me!" she screamed at him, cowering in the corner of her bedroom covering her head as to protect herself. Lana was in the room with them and ran over to comfort her friend.
"Kaitlyn! What's wrong?" she asked wrapping her arm around her shoulders.
Tears streaming down her face, she looked at Lex, fear in her eyes from her vision of him trying to kill her. Lex stood on the other side of the bed, confusion and slight hurt clouding his face.
"Lex, I think you should leave. Let me handle this. I will talk to you later," Lana said, gesturing to the door with her eyes.
Lex gathered himself and slowly made his way out of the room, closing the door behind him. He ran down the stairs, almost knocking Deb over in the process.
"Lex? What's wrong?"
Lex didn't reply and just ran out the door and drove away in his car. Deb continued up the stairs to her daughter's bedroom door. She could hear Kaitlyn's sobbing and Lana's comforting sounds. She decided that she would check on them later. Lana was probably a better person for Kaitlyn to talk to if it concerned Lex.
Lana waited patiently for Kaitlyn to calm down and tell her what was going on. She had never seen her this freaked out before, and she assumed that she must have had a very bad dream about Lex for her to react like that.
"You had a dream about Lex didn't you?"
Kaitlyn nodded and wiped her eyes on her sleeve. "It started out wonderful, but it slowly started to go bad. He tried to kill me!"
"That would explain the reaction you had when you saw him."
"Oh Lex. I must have scared him so badly. I need to talk to him!" Kaitlyn said, trying to stand up to go find Lex. Lana grabbed her hand and pulled her back down to the floor to stop her.
"You need to calm yourself down first. Tell me exactly what happened in your dream."
Kaitlyn sighed and told Lana everything that had happened in her dream in detail, shaking as she told the end part where Lex had tried to kill her.
"It seemed so real! I really don't want this one to come true. I think I need to think through my relationship with Lex. Maybe I should avoid forming anything other than a friendship with him. That would change the future and stop the dream from coming true."
Lana felt horrible that Kaitlyn had to go through all this doubt. She wondered if her "gift" made Kaitlyn's life more difficult than it had to be. Constantly knowing what was going to happen placed a large burden on her shoulders and her condition that made her lose consciousness when the dream came true was a constant worry for her and those around her.
"I think it would be wise to move forward with caution, but don't cheat yourself out of what could be a wonderful relationship just because of this dream. You said that before things went bad, that you and Lex were living a happy life. Maybe you can still find that, just change the future in a different way to prevent that from happening."
Kaitlyn though on that point carefully. "I guess you're right Lana. There is no guarantee he'll even talk to me again after what just happened."
"I'm sure if you just explain to him that you were having a nightmare, he'll understand. Just go talk to him and clear things up. You will never get anywhere in any relationship without talking about things."
"Yeah, I know. I have to find out where he went first. Do you have any idea where he would have gone?" Kaitlyn asked, getting to her feet again.
"I would check the mansion. He probably went home."
Kaitlyn grabbed her keys off her dresser and went down the stairs with Lana behind her. She walked outside and got in her car. Putting her keys in the ignition, she started the car and drove out of her driveway and turned onto the main road to go to Luthor Mansion.
Once she reached the mansion, she turned off the ignition and rested her head on the steering wheel. Now that she was here, she realized that she didn't know what she was going to say to Lex. How was she going to explain what happened in her dream without freaking him out?
She got out of her car and walked up the stairs of the mansion, pausing before knocking on the door. She waited impatiently for someone to answer the door. Lex's security guard answered the door and ushered her in.
"Hi, my name is Kaitlyn Fordman. I'm here to see Lex Luthor, is he here?"
"Yes he is. I'll let him know you're here. Wait here," the security guard responded walking into the security office to call Lex.
Kaitlyn crossed her arms and looked around the entrance of the mansion. It looked exactly the same as it had in her dream. She vividly remembered running across the entryway and out the door. She shivered and shook her head, clearing the image from her mind.
The guard came back and gestured to the hallway. "Please follow me Ms. Fordman."
Kaitlyn followed the guard down the hallway to Lex's office. She tried to not picture this same path from her dream. Would she ever be able to walk through the mansion without it bringing up the events from her nightmare? When they reached the office, the guard opened the door and let her in, closing it behind her. She saw Lex sitting in a chair, staring into the fireplace.
"Lex... I came here to talk to you about what happened. I'm sorry if I scared you…"
Lex looked away from the fire and up at her face. "If you scared me? I'm not sure I was the one scared in that situation."
He reached out his hand to her and she moved forward past him to the chair across from him. Kaitlyn wasn't sure what to say.
"Yeah, I was scared. I wasn't scared of you, per say, I was just scared of the dream you woke me out of."
"It must have been some nightmare to provoke such a bad reaction," Lex said, reaching forward and taking her hand, "you looked terrified."
Kaitlyn looked down at their joined hands with a small sad smile. "It was a horrible nightmare, but I can get past it. It was only a dream after all."
Lex tilted her face up towards him with his other hand. "If you need someone to talk to, I'm willing to listen."
"Thanks Lex. I'm sure we will be good friends. I'm glad I came to talk to you." Kaitlyn smiled at him and he returned the smile.
"I'm glad you did too. I was really concerned. I would have come to see you eventually, I just figured after your reaction, that you would want some space. I knew as soon as I met you I realized that there was something special about you. I like to keep those kinds of people as friends, I feel that I can trust them."
Kaitlyn blushed and looked down at the floor again with a smile on her face.
"Well I'm glad you got that out of our disastrous encounters. Between me running into you constantly, fainting in your arms and screaming at you, I would have figured you would be running for the hills by now."
"I'm not that easy to scare away. I'm afraid you're stuck with me," Lex laughed, standing and walking over to his desk.
Kaitlyn stood up and walked over to the door. "Well, since we have gotten over that awkward bump in the road, I guess I should be getting back home so I can explain what happened to my mom."
"I'll see you around then. Try to avoid more disasters on your way home," Lex smirked at her.
"Haha very funny. I'll see you around Lex," Kaitlyn replied waving as she walked out his office.
Kaitlyn drove home with a smile on her face. She was glad that she had cleared the air with Lex. Maybe Lana was right, taking a chance was better than avoiding the situation all together. Hopefully she could change her future so it wouldn't have such a disastrous outcome. Pulling into her driveway, she turned off her car and went into the house.
"Mom? I'm back!" she called out, walking into the kitchen.
Deb came down the stairs and walked into the kitchen, pulling Kaitlyn into her arms in a hug.
"What happened earlier? I heard screaming and then Lex ran out of the house faster than Speedy Gonzales."
"I had a nightmare and Lex woke me up from it and I was scared so I reacted badly. I'm afraid my reaction scared him. Lana was there, so she calmed me down. After I calmed down, I went to talk to Lex so he would know what happened. Everything is cleared up now, and I seemed to have gained a friend."
"Well, that's good. I wasn't sure what happened, but I figured you would tell me eventually. I'm glad you we able to clear things up with Lex. I know how much he means to you and I wouldn't want you to miss out on a chance to get to know him."
Kaitlyn smiled at her mother. "Yeah, he does mean a lot to me. I'm glad I'm getting the chance to be his friend."
"What was your nightmare about that was so horrible?" Deb asked, sitting down on a chair, patting the one next to her for Kaitlyn to sit down.
Kaitlyn sat down and relayed everything about the dream she had to her mother. She didn't feel as scared as she had before. She realized that she had told Lex the truth when she said she could move past it.
"I can see how that would be scary. I must say that I agree with Lana, you can't let your fears hold you back from forming a relationship with Lex. Every relationship has a sense of unknowing when you go into it. For all you know, the future could be completely different."
"I'm holding onto that hope. I want to see where this goes, hopefully without visions of the future. I would rather see how things play out in real time than in my dreams."
Deb smiled and reached out, grabbing Kaitlyn's hands in her own. "I'm proud of you for making those decisions. Just know that I will always be here to support whatever decisions you make."
"Thanks mom," Kaitlyn replied, leaning forward to hug her mother.
A/N: So contrary to what the previous chapter said, I didn't update as soon as I was hoping. I started this chapter right after that one but didn't get around to finishing it until now. Please review!