Disclaimer: Same as previous chapters.

Chapter 11

Andrew woke up and wondered if the last night was a dream, 'Clark kissed me,' he thought eagerly. He felt almost giddy; he wanted to see Clark instantly but he didn't want to scare Clark off.

As he was about to leave home he saw Lana making breakfast, she smiled at him and said, "Andrew, are you going to join us for breakfast?"

"I guess I could," Andrew said quietly, "But I wanted to talk to Clark about some things, he's been in such a mood."

Lana shrugged and said, "He's fine, probably still upset about Ryan."

Andrew nodded as he ate a small bit of eggs and bacon, he wondered if Clark wanted to hang out today or if he was busy or too freaked that they kissed last night.

He walked to a phone deciding to call Clark and Lana yelled, "Andrew, we're going on that trip so remember to use your gift card, it's going to be Chloe and me making sure you have good clothes."

"Umm," Andrew said, "I'm going to see if Clark wants to come along."

Lana nodded, "Sure thing, I guess if he wants to come he could."

Andrew ran to the phone and called Clark, he smiled as Clark eagerly agreed to come with him to Metropolis and he'd meet them at their place.

As Andrew got ready he liked the idea of going back to Metropolis, just not riding on a bus roof and nearly catching cold.

Chloe saw Lana getting ready and said, "Lana, you don't need to come, Andrew knows how to get some clothes."

"Yes but," Lana said, "He needs to know how to get some nice clothes as the ones he has are way too tight."

She saw Andrew walk out and said, "Yes, they are a bit tight, aren't they? But he can do alright with just me helping him."

Andrew shrugged and said, "Clark's coming too so I hope you don't mind?"

Chloe smiled, "I don't mind Andrew and I don't think Lana needs to come, we can handle his shopping."

"Oh, alright," Lana said, "But don't let him buy flannel or anything like that."

Andrew frowned and said, "I don't like flannel that much," but thought, 'Clark always looks nice in it.'

As they left Andrew saw Clark outside, waiting by Chloe's car and said, "I didn't even hear you drive up."

"Oh," Clark muttered, "My mother was coming this way and she dropped me by."

"Cool Clark," Andrew said as he jumped into Chloe's car and smiled, "Sit in the back with me?"

Clark turned a bit red and nodded, moving into the back seat. Chloe looked at her watch and said, "This is going to fun: my two favourite men and a shopping trip."

Andrew nodded as he looked at Clark, who nodded as Andrew moved closer to him and said, "So Clark, how'd you sleep last night?"

"Better than I have in a while," Clark said, "Thanks for asking Andrew."

Chloe smiled, "You do look a bit better now, don't you Clark?"

"Yeah, Ryan wouldn't want me mourning his death all the time," Clark said quietly, "But I'm never going to forget him."

Chloe nodded, "That's good."

Andrew nodded as he yawned and fell asleep, snoring softly. He was still kind of tired from last night; it was exhausting as he pushed himself a bit much last night.

Clark looked at Andrew sleeping and knew why he was so tired and sighed as Andrew fell over and rested his head on Clark's shoulder.

As they drove to Metropolis Clark talked to Chloe about random things and about J Jonah Jameson, she frowned at the mention of his name and said, "Yeah, he's persistent, I'm probably going to go to New York just to tell him off."

Clark laughed and said, "I almost pity him."

Chloe grinned at him and said, "Don't you know it."

"Hmm, New York?" Clark said quietly, "Sounds fun, when are you and Andrew going?"

"Well, Andrew and I were thinking end of the year," Chloe smiled, "He wants to surprise Peter and his family, I haven't been there in years since been before we moved to Smallville."

Andrew woke up a bit later and said, "Sorry, I didn't mean to sleep, I was just really active last night."

Clark turned pink as Andrew looked at him like he was the most important thing in the car, it felt nice to this wanted.

As they got to the Mall where they'd buy his new clothes Clark mumbled, "Why does he even need new clothes?"

"Because," Chloe sighed, "He needs new clothes and he needs clothes that don't look like they are too small for him."

Andrew grinned, he had put on some muscles since New York and he was kinda glad he could get some new clothes as he had been so busy the last few weeks.

As they walked into the mall towards the store Andrew sighed, 'Shopping, I always hated clothes shopping,' he vaguely remembered his mom taking him, when he was little, to the mall and forcing him to wear every little thing she found but hopefully it wouldn't be like that this time.

Chloe ran over and said, "Alright, let's get some new clothes for you."

Andrew looked shocked as Chloe helped him pick out several T-Shirts and jeans and said, "Go try them on."

"Alright," Andrew said as he tried them on and he smiled; they fit a lot better. He walked out of the changing room and said, "So, how does this look?"

"Good," Clark muttered, admiring how Andrew looked in his new clothes; he didn't look like red in the face anymore and he looked better.

Two hours later Andrew was walking out, the gift card gone and he had enough clothes for a year or so. Clark looked at Andrew and said, "You do look good in your new clothes."

Andrew sat down on a bench in the mall and looked at Clark, who was staring at him, and said, "So, about last night?"

"Yeah Clark?" Andrew said grinning, "Did you want to go swinging again tonight?"

Clark smiled and said, "About the swinging, I do hate heights, so maybe you could come as Andrew, not the Scarlet Spider?"

Andrew smiled, "That sounds good Clark, it really does. It would be nice to see you without swinging from a web."

"Umm," Clark muttered, "About last night? I have to ask; are you really interested in me?"

"Well," Andrew said, "I thought I made myself clear Clark; I do like you a lot, can't promise much but I promise you that I am interested in you."

As they sat back Andrew felt good, Clark moved closer to him and Andrew sat there thinking about his friends in Sunnydale; he missed Jonathon a lot, even with his new friends. He wasn't sure why Jonathon wasn't returning his emails but he was going to have to go to Sunnydale soon to look for Jonathon.

"So Clark," Andrew said, "I'm probably gonna help Chloe with her wall of weird thing, she's been hinting that they need a new photographer."

"That sounds good," Clark said, "I help her on the Torch so it'd be nice to have you helping out."

Andrew smiled and said, "I want to help out and besides, the Meteor mutants always attack Chloe or Lana so it helps to be near them."

Clark frowned a bit and said, "You will be careful, right? I mean you aren't invincible, right?"

"I'll be careful," Andrew said, "Besides, I've got reasons to want to keep living," and his hand grasped Clark's hand and he smiled at Clark.

Clark turned a bit red and said, "So your friends from Sunnydale; you get any news about them? I mean you've been worried, right?"

"My parents are doing fine," Andrew said, "I've got a message from them last week but nothing from Jonathon: he's like my best friend, we were picked on by the same bullies a lot so we kinda just started to hang around with each other. I haven't heard from him since I left and in Sunnydale: missing or no contact is a bad thing, a really bad thing."

"Well," Clark said, "Maybe Chloe could help you find out what happened."

Andrew nodded and said, "I still have a few friends or people we kinda knew together so maybe, if they're in, I can ask them to look in on Jonathon."

"Good," Clark said, "But maybe we can look for him too."

Andrew grinned and said, "Yeah, well I trust my friends to keep out of trouble in Sunnydale more than I would trust Chloe to not try and figure out the secrets of the town."

Clark wondered vaguely what kind of town was Sunnydale was but shook his head; he wanted to figure out more about Andrew.

Meanwhile in Sunnydale Warren was waiting, he was going to meet the Green Goblin soon and he was almost excited about the meeting. He had no idea what to expect when he saw Norman Osborn look at him and say, "Warren I take it?"

"Yes," Warren said, "You're the Green Goblin?"

"Indeed I am," Norman said, "Of course if you tell anyone I will kill you, but of course you know that?"

Warren shrugged and said, "You want to see the Hobgoblin?"

"Yes," Norman said as he followed Warren into the makeshift laboratory and saw Jonathon floating in tube of green liquid, he looked at Warren and said, "The boy must be in pain, correct?"

"Yeah, Jonathon's a screamer or at least he was when I started this a while ago. The chemical you sent is incredible."

"It is," Norman grinned as he tapped the window and whispered, "Hello?"

Jonathon's eyes flew open and he stared at the man in front of him, his face showing barely contained hatred and rage and he glared at Warren and the new person.

"So," Warren said, "You never told me how you found out that Andrew had these powers?"

"Oh," Norman said, "His cousin, Peter Parker, has the same powers and both the Scarlet Spider, Andrew's little identity, and Spiderman came into existence around the same time and the Spider only appeared in Smallville after Mr Wells came to live there."

Warren looked at Norman and said, "So, what do you want to do to Andrew anyways?"

Norman smiled, "Well Mister Mears, I'm going to kill him and his cousin but I like your Hobgoblin idea. Friends make the best enemies, don't you think?"

"Yeah," Warren said, "So, do you want to see the Glider I developed?" and took Norman out into the garage and showed him his version of the glider.

"Nice," Norman said quietly as he appraised the machine, "What's the difference between this and the glider I use?"

"Well, with the technology you gave me," Warren grinned, "I outfitted it with supersonic speeds and the armour, which Jonathon will use will be using, will shield him from it."

"About the armour," Norman said darkly, "Let me see it?"

Warren nodded and showed Norman the armour and it caused Norman to smile: it was yellow with touches of purple, he nodded his approval.

"So about your subject; how are you going to keep him in check? I trust you have a failsafe Warren?" Norman said, "A smart young man like you wouldn't give a man such power without controlling him?"

"You better believe it," Warren said, "First of all I was making sure Andrew's emails wouldn't get through to Jonathon, but I was doing it before you called me as an experiment to see how quickly he'd break."

Norman nodded as he listened to Warren, he found himself liking the kid as he was ruthless in a way Harry would never be and said, "So, you think you have power over him?"

"Yeah," Warren said, "Jonathon's easy to play with."

In Jonathon's tube his heartbeat slowed and Jonathon heard a voice say, 'Now, escape now!'

Warren and Norman heard the sound of glass shattering and rushed to the lab and saw Jonathon walking out, his face enraged. He snarled at them, "Where's Andrew? Tell me now!"

"You know where he is," Warren said he's in Smallville, away from you. He hasn't even tried to contact you Jonathon; he has new friends who've taken him from you."

"He abandoned me here with you?" Jonathon howled as he rushed past them, instinctively heading towards the armour and the glider. Warren went to stop him when Norman stopped him and shook his head.

"No, let him go," Norman growled, "Let him find his friend," and laughed.

Jonathon jumped out on the Glider, his face narrowed underneath the helmet as he burst out from the garage, screaming in rage.

In Smallville Andrew was sitting down at the Kent house eating dinner with the Kent's when his Spider Sense screamed, he groaned, 'What the hell? What the hell!'

Clark rushed over and looked at him worriedly.

"Are you alright?" Clark whispered quietly, "Do you need to lie down?"

Andrew got up as the buzzing faded and said, "Fine Clark, I'm fine." he looked outside and shook his head, 'No,' he thought, 'I feel fine now but what caused my collapse?'

TBC

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