Clark waited patiently for everyone as he knew this was when everyone was coming to see his baby sister today. Clark guesses he did have one advantage over Lindsey. He came with his powers so his parents were so afraid of the truth coming out that they kept him hidden from the world for about a year so he could learn proper English so he never had people just staring at him. Clark was just gently rocking his little sister as he saw the first person coming it was Alicia.

Alicia smiled looking at Clark holding his baby sister. "Oh she's so cute."

Clark just put a finger up to his mouth signaling to be quiet because she's asleep. "We just got her down."

Alicia smiled watching Clark put her in the bassinet as he sat down on the couch. Alicia just looked at him and smiled. "So take it little sister is keeping you up at night."

Clark just shrugged thankful for his Kryptonian DNA. "Sleep never bothered me I didn't actually need it." Clark said as he opened a window letting sunlight in.

Alicia just looked at the couch. "Clark, can we talk?"

Clark just nodded and sat down on the couch. "So what do you want to talk about?"

Alicia was just looking at her fingers. "Clark before Tess got me out my parents locked me in a room that took away my powers and kept me there. I met Tina and Kyla they were both great and then I met you. You were undoubtedly the strongest of us. But ironically you are undoubtedly the kindest person in the group. And I know I probably sound like an idiot it's just I like you. I have feelings for you. I was wondering if somewhere in you that maybe you have the same feelings for me."

"Alicia... I wish I felt the same way, but I don't. At least not right now."

Alicia just frowned. "Yeah I had a hunch that a red head has your heart."

Clark just looked at her how did she know?

Alicia just looked at Clark and chuckled. "Oh please any time you two are left together in the same room sparks go up and everyone knows it."

Alicia gets up its not like she didn't know. "Had a feeling but I just wanted to get the words out."

Alicia went to stare at the bassinet as Carter came in and joined her looking at the view.

Clark just got up to greet him. "So did Kent decide not to come?"

"Curiosity got the better of him and he used the helmet. He's sleeping it off as we speak" Carter answered looking at the sleeping baby.

Clark just smiled so his little sister has a fate he wonders what it is. "What did he see?"

Carter just chuckled. "Well she'll have an obsession for red white and blue and as her big brother you are going to have your hands full as she grows up."

Clark just looked at Hawkman he really hates cryptic. "Not telling me whether or not she'll have powers are you?"

"No"

Clark just went outside as all the guests started showing up more and more. Clark decides to take a breather and heads for the back 40. When he emerges he sees an arrow coming right at his head and catches it turning around to see one of his best friends fired it at his head. "Chloe what the hell?"

Chloe just looked at him. "You're the one who superspeeded out here."

"Still doesn't explain why you nearly shot me in the head." Clark countered.

Chloe just pointed behind him and Clark turned around and saw the bullseye. "Oh"

Chloe just smirked. "You're the only person I know of that can run fast enough into the target."

Clark just gave her the arrow back. "So what are you doing out here?"

"I saw the baby already this week." Chloe said shooting an arrow right into the bullseye.

Clark just watched. "You are getting really good at that."

Chloe just smiled. "Yeah I know. Oliver has taken to calling me his Artemis."

"Goddess of the hunt fitting." Clark replied. "You like him don't you?"

Chloe just nodded. "I figured he'd be another rich boy with his head wedged up his ass. But his parents' death and being trapped on that island with Tess made him a decent guy. So how about you and Tess?"

Clark just looked at her before hitting the bullseye with a tiny piece of heat vision. "What about us?"

"Are you two finally together?" Chloe asked taking another shot.

Clark looked at her. "What do you mean by that?"

Chloe just sighed. "You're a man she's a woman do I need to draw you a diagram."

"The talk with my parents was traumatic enough." Clark assured her. "And it's complicated."

"Can't be that complicated I saw her kiss you." Chloe finished.

Clark was confused and looked up. "How good are the satellites she has up there?" Clark asked causing Chloe to laugh.

Chloe just stood next to him and lowered her bow. "Clark I stopped by when you were sick. Tess was so upset that she might have changed the future and killed you that she just kissed you. She likes you and you like her. So who's going to say the scary words first?"

Clark walked up to Tess for a moment and was nervous about what to say. He meant to talk to her about this earlier but training lots and lots of training. "Tess can I talk to you in private?"

Tess just nodded and followed him up to the loft to get away from the crowd. "So how is being a big brother treating you?"

"Great" Clark answered. "Aside from learning to sleep during sunny days."

"She'll get used to sleeping at night." Tess assured him.

Clark just nodded. "I know and I don't mind it I don't really need to sleep which is something I'm sure my parents are grateful for."

Tess just smiled Clark is always calm and helpful about everything. "How's training going?"

Clark just shrugged not really having an answer. "Good and bad."

Can you clarify that for me?" Tess asked.

Clark just smiled. "Yeah sure it's good because I'm learning a lot about who I am. It's bad because the science career isn't going to work out."

Tess just frowned. "Why you wanted to be that I could see it in your eyes."

Clark just sighed yes he wanted that but he knows too much now. "You see the tractor. I can make something that size that will power a continent. But if the wrong guy shows up with something as simple as a screwdriver I'll make nuclear bomb with a 60 mile blast radius. I know too much but that doesn't mean I can't use what I learned elsewhere on smaller things."

Tess just nodded seeing the point. "I think I should have known. I mean the knowledge of 28 galaxies gives you an unfair advantage and makes it an unfair playing field."

Clark just shrugged. "Well I'll figure something out. It's not like I'm running out of time."

Tess smiled. "So is this what you wanted to talk about?"

Clark shakes his head no. "Actually I wanted to talk to you about the meteor shower. And what we did right before it."

Tess caught on and was just lost not knowing what to say. "Oh right when we… Clark that was three months ago what the hell took so long to bring this up."

Clark just shrugged he definitely knows this was waiting too long now. "I was going to talk about it after the meteor shower. But... with everything that happened afterwards I didn't really know how to bring it up."

Tess was rubbing her head. "Clark word of advice three months is way too long. I thought there was like some unspoken oath where we never speak of it again."

Clark stood there dejected. "Is that what you want?"

Tess just frowned she came back too early. If she had come a few years later it wouldn't have been a problem however Tina and Kyla would be dead. "No, god no, it's just I want you but you're not exactly up there yet."

"You mean like your Clark?" Clark asked feeling rejected.

Tess just took him by the hand and pulled him to her. "You are my Clark."

Clark just smiled as the two got closer together. "Two years it's not that long."

"You really want to wait two years?" Tess asked.

"No" Clark answered.

Tess just smiled. "Yeah me neither."

Tess just pulled Clark closer to her. The two just look at each other getting closer until they kiss. Tess doesn't know if she has a full grip on the situation but she knows she wants this. Hell she was going to settle for Clark Luthor in the original timeline. Clark just grabbed by the back of her shoulder pulling her close to him. Tess just stepped away breathless.

"So how does this work?" Tess asked.

Clark just shrugged. "You're asking me I have no idea. I just know I want to do that again."

"Well for starters you're not doing anything wrong."

Tess and Clark broke apart and turned around and saw Lex well this can't get any worse for Tess as her face turns red. "Lex, what are you doing here?"

"Saw the baby I think Mr. Kent is planning to shoot me for it. I decided to find my little sister. Think I found too much."

Tess just stared at him. "Yeah well it wasn't what it looked like. What do you mean nothing is wrong anyway?"

Lex just sighed "The age of consent is 16 Tess you can't get married but you two can date I wouldn't recommend letting the Kents find out though."

Tess just stood with Clark watching her brother leave. "Do you think we should tell our parents about us?"

Clark just frown thinking on it. "I don't know about my mom but you and my dad don't exactly get along. We'll figure it out."

Tess just smiled she can wait two years easy. "For now lets keep this between us."

A week later Lex came down stairs according to Tess Lionel had come out of his catatonic state. He comes downstairs wondering what's going to happen now. But before he gets out the door he sees a statuesque woman sitting at his table.

"I don't know who you are but I'm currently not seeing anyone." Lex said heading for the front door.

"It's a matter of national security Mr. Luthor." The woman insisted.

"Then make an appointment." Lex said.

The woman just nodded. "I will but if I do your sister will be arrested within the hour."

Lex just closed the door. "Who are you?"

"My name is Amanda Waller."

"So why is he waking up now?" Clark asked watching Lionel Luthor.

Tess just looked at her father and wonders what he'll be like. "Jor El is finally done with him. Originally he woke up a lot sooner with an incomplete download causing Lionel to forget and remember at random. Now the knowledge is in there completely." Tess looks over and sees Clark in thought. "Hey are you OK?"

Clark just nodded. "It's just creepy to think that Lionel Luthor of all people knows my secret."

Tess just took his hand for support. "Hey I very much doubt me or your… other father would let Lionel expose your secret."

"Well I'm going to have to tell the team about who I am soon aren't I?" Clark asked.

Tess just nodded. That is one thing they kept going for too long. "If you're ready"

"I've been working with them for a year I trust them and I should have told them a long time ago."

"What about Andrea?" Tess asked. "She's new to the group she might not understand."

Clark just shrugged. "She had multiple people lying to her and with Darkseid she knows about aliens so better to find out from me then someone else."

Tess just nodded in agreement tomorrow should be interesting. As Lionel walks out of the room.

"Clark, Tess" Lionel announced his presence. "I think we need to talk."

Clark sat at Watchtower the next day waiting as everyone came in. Maybe he shouldn't have but he can't keep lying to the others like this especially if they keep risking their lives for each other they deserve to know the truth about him. These people they've become a second family to him. They deserve to know the truth about him.

Pete just sat there with Clark wondering what this meant for them. "Clark are you sure you want to do this?"

Clark just nodded. "Pete I fought with them… I probably would have bled with them if I could. They deserve to know."

Pete just shrugged seeing Clark has already made up his mind. "It's a big risk and a lot to take in."

"I know." Clark finished. "But I trust them."

"I hope you're right man you're taking a big risk." Pete finished.

Carolyn entered the room and looked at the boys. "Who's taking a big risk?"

Tess just kept her eyes on watchtower making sure nothing is happening. "Clark thinks he is I don't think Oliver and the girls will give him too much trouble."

They all go in and see everyone gathered on the couches waiting for Clark to speak his piece.

Clark was nervous but started. "I take it you've all noticed just how much more powerful I am then…"

"Everyone" Tina finished getting knocked on her ass by Clark more times than she'd like to count.

Clark just nodded. "The meteor shower there was a reason that me and Tess sent everyone out of town."

Chloe caught on. "And I take it that it had more to do then running from the latest round of rocks."

"Yes, two other people came down in that meteor shower. They had all the same powers I did."

"That's not possible." Tina answered. As far as she knows it is not possible. She tried shape shifting into Kyla's hybrid from and wolf form but no such luck she can only do other people. "No two people have the same power."

"Unless they were infected at the same time or by the same source but I have a feeling that's not it." Chloe added.

Carolyn caught on easy enough. "You're not meteor infected are you Clark?"

Clark shakes his head. "No, when I said I'm not from around here. I meant... well I'm not from this planet I was born on a planet called Krypton."

Ted, Carter, and Carolyn roll their eyes as each JSA member gives Kent $20. Tess just stared at the others. "You do realize he probably used the helmet to find out."

"I wouldn't let Dr. Fate out for something so trivial." Kent assured them.

Clark stood impressed Kent seemed to do better against the madness with more people he knew back then. "You knew I was an alien."

"You were too powerful to be one of the meteor infected. Or a metahuman for that matter. The only person in this whole group that might be able to stop you if you stray is Dr. Fate."

Chloe was trying to wrap her head around it. "So that was the big secret Clark Kent alien. Chloe was quiet for a moment before adding on. "Well that explains all the plaid."

All the girls get a laugh out of that.

"Yeah well if skirts over jeans are good clothes human fashion sense scares and confuses me." Clark quipped.

"It will come back in style." Chloe insisted before she turned to Pete. "You knew didn't you?"

"He's my brother… just from another planet." Pete replied.

Clark got through the questions with relative ease except it took some time to convince Kyla that he is not a god. Tess smiled watching everyone just accept who Clark is and was more upset with Clark lying to them then having anything to do with being an alien. Luckily Clark agreed to spar with everyone today to let them get their hands on him and get it out of their systems.

Tess smiled watching them all move on pretty quick but she's pretty sure that Andrea might have given him a concussion but that will heal up as soon as Clark gets the rock off his wrist.

"Feeling better?" Clark asks from the floor.

Andrea just nodded. "After Kalibak I needed something to take my anger out on. Now I just wish I could get a piece of him again. I was so powerful Granny sicked him on me to hold me down while she destroyed my memories."

Clark just got up and took the blue kryptonite bracelet off. "No offense but I hope not. Leave him in the zone where he belongs."

Clark smiled as his wounds healed up and his face went into shock. Clark looked in to the eyes of Lex whom just had a cold look in his eyes. Lex just turned around and walked away. Tess was frozen in fear she kept this place so well hidden she did not think that Lex would find it. She should have known better then to underestimate Lex Luthor now she needs to see what exactly Lex knows.

Clark grabs her by the arm. "I don't want you to go."

"Clark I have to." Tess insisted. "We don't know what he's going to do."

Clark just frowned. "But you know what he did."

Tess just looked at him with cross eyes. She didn't tell Clark about Lex's darkness outside of Conner.

Clark let her go and frowned before confessing. "You talked in your sleep right before the meteor shower."

Tess frowned she didn't want Clark to know what kind of person her brother became. "He's my brother and he's not that man yet. I'm coming back. I promise."

Tess walked into her and Lex's place and saw Lex taking a drink of scotch. "Hey sis so is there any other big secrets you're hiding from me."

"It's not like that." Tess replies. "I'm just protecting my friends."

Lex just looked at her. "You looked me straight in the face and lied to me about Clark you said he was completely normal and then you had me tear apart that room."

Tess just looked at him unmoving. "You were never Clark's friend. You were always looking for more from him. Are you honestly not surprised I wouldn't tell you."

"You didn't trust me! Either of you, with everything Clark had with everything he could do I could have helped you, I could have helped him."

"Would you have?" Tess asked. "I believe you want to be his friend I do but you just asked everything you could do with him to use him, to exploit him."

Lex just looked at her. "It's not like that and you've been lying to me for two years Tess."

"It's always been like that." Tess shouted. "You've always been like this. Right back to Dunc…"

"Duncan Allenmeyer" Lex finished. That was a name from his past he'd rather leave forgotten. "That was Oliver and his friends not me."

"That was all four of you!" Tess corrected him trying to get him to see it.

"Oliver did that." Lex shouted

Tess just glared at him. "Oliver didn't beat him. Duncan didn't walk into the street to avoid him it was partly on you too. But you don't have to be that person Lex."

Lex just looked at her sister. "What person?"

"Lionel's son. The person that throws his bloody hands around to splash it on everyone else and hide it with money desperate to say it's not his fault."

Lex just looked at his sister. "And you have clean hands."

"Not even close." Tess replied. "Eva, Leslie, and a whole lot more I didn't have a good life but I'm scrubbing the blood off my hands drop by drop."

Lex just frowned and thought back to that vision. He still wants that life and it explains how Clark got a doctor from Metropolis so fast to save Lana in the dream maybe he already knew in the vision. "I violated your privacy."

"Yeah" Tess answered.

Lex laughed wryly into his drink. "I'm sorry it's just ever since I was born, I was raised in an environment of suspicion and distrust. My father taught me to regard everyone as an adversary no matter who they are."

"I'm really sorry you had to grow up like that Lex, I am." Tess answered.

"When my mother died, I began to build a wall around my heart. Every year that wall grew taller and more fortified until eventually it became impenetrable. I want to tear the wall down, Tess, I do. I just… I don't have the slightest clue how to do it."

Tess just hugged him. "Speaking from experience taking it down one day at a time and becoming a better person and a more trustworthy friend helps."

They talked for another hour occasionally shouting at each other until Tess asked the question. "So how did you know where I was anyway?"

"I followed your car. Now I know why lojack couldn't find it." Lex quipped.

"So who put you on my trail anyway Lex?" Tess asked.

"Amanda Waller she seems to think you're hiding something." Lex answered with a smile. "Don't worry I'm not wired but she seems to have it out for you."

Tess just took the bottle off Lex and had herself a drink. "So how long until you check in?" Tess asked.

"3 days"

Tess just smiled. "Perfect, so are you going to rat us out out or go after my friends."

Lex just shakes his head no. "In a lot of ways Clark has been like a little brother to me. Add to that you're my little sister and I won't turn my back on family. With the two of you around. I haven't been this happy since Julian was alive. So how do we lose Waller?"

Lex walked into the Talon 3 days later and saw Waller at the table. Lex sat down next to her and saw the look in her eyes.

"So Mr. Luthor did you find out anything interesting?"

Lex just smiled. "Yes I learned my little sister has… opened up quite the little dojo for herself."

"What?" Waller asked.

Lex just took out pictures of every one in martial arts clothing. "My sister was concerned about bizarre instances in Smallville she wanted to make sure her friends could take care of themselves. She hired a Carolyn Lance to train everyone and let her hire the additional teachers from there."

Amanda just looked at the pictures. "Well and here I was thinking she was a terrorist. Most of these... teachers have records."

"She did her homework Ms Waller. None of them were convicted of the charges against them. Now I'd like to stay but I have a previous meeting"

Amanda watched Lex leave and she went out to her car ordering the driver to take her to the airport.

"So is the JSA getting back together?" The driver asked.

Waller just nodded. "Seems that way and soon they'll all be working for us we need a new suicide squad."

"I very much doubt that Ms. Waller." The driver replied as his eyes took a very Martian red glow.

Waller saw the eyes through a rear view mirror and tried to get out as J'onn shot a beam of light out of his hands taking the knowledge and destroying it as Kal El and Tess had requested of him as Lionel and Lex work together to shut checkmate down using his government connections.

Author notes

Thanks for all the reviews they are appreciated.

Warning ahead of time with Lionel as a good guy and the fortress built already Seasons 3 and 4 will not be focused on heavily and likely breeze by.

Up next: Tess and Clark risk life and limb to get to the next recruit before someone else does.