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Evelyn had tried going to sleep, but she kept having horrible nightmares. When she would open her eyes, she'd realize that she was living in one. Evelyn felt cold again. She looked at Love. Love had unintentionally taken the entire jacket. She looked to Ms. Kidance and Clark. Clark was passed out and Ms. Kidance was wiping his forehead with a wet cloth along with applying pressure to his open wound.

Evelyn wished that she could talk with them, but that glass wouldn't let her hear anything. She breathed out heavily through her mouth. She could faintly see her breath. It was that cold. Evelyn thought a moment, then an idea came to her.

With a small smile on her face, she tapped on the window, hoping Ms. Kidance could hear that at least. Ms. Kidance's head perked up when she heard the tapping. Evelyn's smile grew slightly as she breathed onto the glass. Before the fogged area could fade away, she wrote a message with her finger. 'Is my daddy okay?'

Ms. Kidance was amazed by her brilliance, even though Evelyn's message was written backwards to her point of view. Ms. Kidance followed Evelyn's lead and she wrote back, making sure the message wouldn't appear backwards to Evelyn. 'He'll be fine. Don't worry about him.'

'What about Love?'

Ms. Kidance read the message five times. She knew and understood what it said, but what was she supposed to tell her? She had no idea if Love would be all right and it was killing her not being able to know. She wrote a replying message. 'I don't know.'

Evelyn wrote again. 'I'm scared.'

'It's okay to be scared. I'm scared too.'

Evelyn looked up at Ms. Kidance with wide little eyes. If she looked closely, she could see the same fear that she had inside. Despite the fact that Evelyn wanted to be strong for all of then, a single tear rolled down her cheek, leaving a wet trail down her face. Evelyn curled herself into a tight ball and sat next to Love. Maybe the nightmares in her sleep wouldn't be as bad as the nightmare in her reality.

Oliver looked at watch for the fifteenth time. He had called both of them nearly five minutes ago and neither of them had shown. He heard a sudden gust of wind behind him. He turned around. There was Bart, dressed in his Flash costume.

"What's the emergency?" Bart asked.

"I'll explain everything after he shows up." Oliver said, looking at his watch again.

"Who are we waiting on?"

"Batman." Oliver said it as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

It wasn't even a full minute before Evelyn opened her eyes again. Trying to go to sleep was just too hard. How could she sleep when Clark and Love were really sick. She looked through the glass. Clark's eyes were slightly opened, but it looked like he was in great pain. Ms. Kidance was talking to him and he just nodded at what she said. Evelyn tapped on the glass. Clark and Ms. Kidance both turned their heads. As Evelyn had done before she wrote on the glass. 'What's wrong Daddy?'

Lois read the simple message to Clark. Clark closed his eyes in hopes of blocking both the physical and emotional pain. It was futile. "Tell her I'm fine and that we're going to get out of here really soon." he said in his weak voice.

"You haven't explained to her about your abilities have you?" Lois asked after she finished writing.

"No," Clark replied. "I wanted to protect her."

Lois looked at Evelyn. She was so scared. It broke Lois' heart seeing her like that. "She's terrified, Clark."

Clark slowly turned his head to look at his bud. She was shivering without realizing it. He wanted nothing but to break that glass and wrap his arms around her, repeating to her that he was never going to let anything bad happen to her.

The door opened, letting light flood into the room. Lex stood at the doorway with two of his faithful lap dogs standing behind him. "Good. You're finally awake. Lana told me throwing Lois in here with you would wake you up." Lex said addressing Clark.

Clark made an effort to sit up against the wall, much to Lois' dismay. "Let them go, Lex. They have nothing to do with this."

"But that's where you're all wrong. Each one of them has a special part in my plan for revenge." Lex's lips curled into a disgusting smile.

Lois stood up in front of Clark, partially trying to protect him from Lex. "What do you want?"

Lex sighed. He walked closer towards them. With each step Lex took, Lois took an equal step backwards until she was against the wall. Lex stopped. He looked through the other side of the glass. Evelyn was staring at him with pure hatred. He could laugh at her if he felt like it. "Lois, Lois, Lois. If only you hadn't escaped that little prison that I created for you, we wouldn't be here right now."

Evelyn could see the adults talking and she really wanted to be a part of it. Not to talk with them, but to hit Lex as hard as she could.

"What is he talking about, Lois?" Clark asked.

Lois didn't know how to explain it to him because she didn't understand herself. "I don't know."

"Oh come on, Lois. You can't be that stupid! Who do you think put you in that room, the tape playing over and over again, making you wonder if Clark was still alive?"

Lois clenched her fists. "It was you! You son of a…"

"Be careful with your language Miss Lane. Wouldn't want one of the girls to hear you swear. I might have to make you put a dollar in the swear jar."

"Let us go." Lois said with a determination in her voice.

Lex smiled. "Okay." he pulled out a remote and pressed a button. The glass wall was lifted. Love had been leaning against it and when it was lifted up, she fell to the ground, giving her a rude awakening. Evelyn got up and immediately ran for her daddy's arms. Lois swooped in and picked up Love in her arms. She sat down next to Clark.

"Mommy?" Love asked, unsure if she was in her dream land still.

"It's me, Lovely. It's Mommy." Lois said as tear filled her eyes.

"It hurts Mommy." Love groaned out.

Lois choked on her tears.

Evelyn looked up at Clark. "Come on, Daddy. We've got to leave now." Evelyn said.

Clark gave her an empty smile. "Don't worry, bud. We'll leave soon enough."

"But don't you want to leave now? Isn't he going to let us go?"

If Clark wasn't in so much pain, he'd run out of that room with Evelyn, Lois, and Love. He just held Evelyn closer to him, never wanting to let go.

Lex watched them as they made sure their children were fine. He felt a slight tinge of envy. He could've had that if he hadn't drugged Lana into getting an abortion of his child. But he pushed those thoughts away. He did it for the greater good. Sometimes there were sacrifices that had to be made. "Looks like the picture of the perfect family." Lex said with hate.

"You're a big stupid baldy!" Evelyn yelled at him.

"Seems like you're the feisty one." Lex said as he bent down closer to her eye level.

"Leave her alone, Lex." Clark said. He would've stood up if he could.

Lex grinned like the Cheshire cat. "Don't worry, Clark. I'm not going to do anything to her. I'm going to have my men take her from you. Relieve your stress a little.

Clark tightened his grip on her more. "No."

Lex stood up straight and signaled for his men to move in. They started coming towards Clark. Lois intervened. "Stop! Don't you dare touch her!" she said. Lois had let go of Love and was now standing in front of the men.

"Thank you Lois for getting up. I was planning on having you join Evelyn. Keep the humans separated from the aliens."

Lois looked at Lex then back to the men. She realized her mistake with a sudden horror. The two men began advancing towards her. She fought them off as best as she could, but not even her self-defense training could help her fight away two men that were both twice her size.

"Lois!" Clark exclaimed. He set down Evelyn and he stood up. His body still felt the kryptonite, but his mind ignored it.

Lex saw him moving and he pulled out a nice chunk of the meteor rock. He threw it at Clark, hitting him square in the head. It left a cut on his forehead, allowing some pieces of the rock to chip off and embed themselves inside the cut. Clark yelled out as he dropped to the ground, fighting to keep consciousness.

Lois kicked against the strong arms that were wrapped around her. "Clark!" she yelled as the man began dragging her away.

Lex chuckled at Lois' valiant efforts. "Get the kid."

The other man bent down and easily lifted Evelyn into his arms. "Let me go! Let me go!" Evelyn yelled over and over again. She didn't like him holding her and she wanted to be set down at that moment.

Lex walked over to her. "You better behave yourself. You don't want your daddy or your friend to get hurt, do you?"

Evelyn looked at him, not sure if he mean what he was saying. Either way, though, she stopped fighting.

"That's a good girl. Maybe if you're still good, I might consider making you a Luthor."

Evelyn didn't understand what he meant by making her a Luthor, but Evelyn doubted that she would enjoy it. The man carried her out taking her to a new room that she would be stuck in with Lois.

Poor Love watched the events unfold, not knowing if she was dreaming or not. She saw Lex look at her once before he left the room, closing the door once again. She tried to keep her eyes open, but they were hurting so much. They finally closed and she was engulfed in a never-ending darkness.

Evelyn didn't know how long the man had been carrying her, but it was taking way too long for her liking. "Are we there yet?"

Ralph, the man holding her, looked at her as if she was crazy for asking that question. "Shut up." he said.

Evelyn frowned. "But that doesn't answer my question. Are we there yet?" she asked with more persistence.

"I said shut up." Ralph emphasized on the 'shut up' part.

"Answer my question!" Evelyn yelled

"No! Now shut up!" Ralph yelled back in the same volume.

"Not until you answer my question!"

"I said to shut up already!"

"AHHHH!!!" Evelyn yelled at the top of her lungs.

Ralph practically dropped her and was close to covering his ears. Instead, he covered her mouth with his hand, but she continued screaming. He walked up the steps of some stairs. "Please be quiet!"

Evelyn stopped yelling, appreciating the fact that he said please.

Ralph removed his hand and began continued up the stairs. "So…" Evelyn started. "Are we there yet?"

Ralph rolled his eyes. He really didn't want to start this again so he just answered her question. "Yes."

Evelyn tried thinking of something to make Ralph drop her. She turned her face to him and spat in it.

Ralph held his tongue as he was about to start cussing her out. He just calmly brought one hand up and wiped the spit off of his face. "Do not spit on me again!" he ordered.

Evelyn frowned, disappointed that her plan didn't work. She thought harder. She remembered that before Lana had picked her up from school, she took a large drink of water from the water fountain. As embarrassing as it was, Evelyn ignored her natural instinct to wait for a bathroom.

Ralph didn't quite realize what Evelyn had done until he felt something wet on his hand. He brought his hand up to his nose and sniffed it. A look of pure horror covered his face and he dropped Evelyn to the ground. Evelyn wasted no time in jumping on the banister and sliding all the way down to the bottom. Ralph was swearing under his breath while wiping his hands on his pants. He stopped and looked around. Evelyn was at the bottom of the stairs running down the hallway. "Hey! Come back here!" Ralph took off running after her.

Evelyn didn't take the time to look behind her to see how close Ralph was. She had learned that only wasted time. Evelyn just ran as fast as she could, knowing that Ralph would eventually slow down. All grown-ups did. She turned a corner and opened and slammed the first door, hopping that he would think she went in that room. Running a little softer, Evelyn turned into another hallway and quietly opened the second door. She stepped in the room and shut the door behind her, making sure that she didn't make any noise.

Evelyn had no idea what room she had just hid herself in. She turned on the light switch on the side of the wall and looked around. It was full of boxes filled with stuff. She supposed it was the storage room for whatever Lex had to store. She looked for a good hiding place, but the only thing that seemed available was hiding behind the boxes. Evelyn thought that would be a little too obvious so she started opening the boxes, looking for one that was empty. She found on that was in the far left corner of the room. It was on the floor and was big enough for her. She might have to curl her legs up a little, but it was worth it. She ran to the light switch and flicked it off and carefully maneuvered her way back to the box. She easily slipped inside of it and brought the top back down, leaving enough space for air to continue circulating. It was a tighter fit than she had supposed, but at least their was heating in this room.

Lois was unceremoniously dropped inside of some room that seemed completely random to her. The man that had been carrying her quickly exited, locking the door behind him. Lois began pounding on the door. "Hey! Let me out of here!" she yelled.

No one heard her pleas and if they did, they completely ignored them. Lois yelled, letting out her frustration as she sank to the floor. Crying wasn't going to get her anywhere. Throwing herself a pity party…well, that was Clark's area of expertise. Finding a way out of impossible situations without Clark's help, was something that she had become used to.

Lois stood up and began walking around the entire room, examining every little detail. It was a simple room painted a dark orange. There was black carpet, but nothing else. Absolutely no traces of furniture. She jiggled the door knob a little hoping against hope that maybe the lock had been broken. She had no such luck. Lois sat back down and leaned her head against the wall. She was beginning to worry about Evelyn. She had heard her screaming and then the man that had carried her had yelled also. Even though it seemed impossible, Lois hoped that Evelyn had somehow managed a way to escape.

A long sigh escaped her lips. The only thing that she could do now was wait.

Lex was walking down a hallway, ready to enter his study and watch his captives await their doom. Ralph started walking in the opposite direction as him. When Ralph saw Lex, he tensed up. He still hadn't found Evelyn yet. Lex noticed this. "Ralph, what's wrong?" Lex asked as he stood in his way.

Ralph looked at him, terrified of the consequences of his actions. "Uh, nothing Mr. Luthor. Just patrolling your halls."

Lex raised a suspicious brown. "You're supposed to be standing guard outside the room holding Lois and Evelyn."

"Uh…" Ralph began sweating terribly.

"Ralph, I need the truth. What did you do?"

Ralph looked away from Lex. "Evelyn managed to get away." he mumbled.

Lex didn't flare up in anger. He remained calm and composed. Ralph would've preferred it if he had yelled in his face. A calm Lex was much worse. "Have you found her yet?"

"No, but-"

"Then what are you doing just standing around! Find her before she ruins everything!" Lex exploded.

Ralph nodded and quickly left his presence. Lex rubbed his bald head out of habit. It always seemed to calm him down, even when he was a young kid. But right now, it wasn't helping relieve any of his stress. At least he knew for certain that Clark, Love, and Lois were still in his clutches. What damage could an average eight-year-old child do?

Love slowly opened her eyes, her whole body screaming against her doing so. She had no idea how long she had been asleep. She had the weirdest dream, though. But what was scary was how real it was. At least she knew that it wasn't real. Evelyn was still here with them and so was her mom. Love looked around the room but didn't see Evelyn or Lois. She only saw Clark with a deep cut on his head. "Clark?" she croaked out.

Clark didn't hear her. He was totally unaware of the world surrounding him.

"Clark." Love said with a little more force. Once again, Clark didn't respond. Love inched her way closer to him. She really needed human contact and it looked like Clark could partially offer it, even if he was unconscious. Love curled up into a ball and buried herself into Clark's chest. Love breathed deeply. She felt safe there, like nothing could touch her. It was a sensation that she had never felt. For the first time that night, she was able to fall asleep peacefully.

Without even realizing Love had cuddled herself against him, Clark wrapped an arm around her. It was almost as if he was trying to hide her from the danger that was up ahead.

Thirty minutes. They had been waiting for him to show up for thirty minutes and nothing. He hadn't shown his face! Oliver was pacing in the snow, ignoring the biting feeling his legs and feet had. Bart had sat laid down on the ground and was looking up at the stars. Bart had the right mind to provide some kind of insulation in his outfit for cold times like these. "Arrow, I am bored. What are we doing just waiting around? Can't we go on without him?"

"That would be impossible."

Oliver and Bart turned around and saw Bruce as Batman emerging from the shadows. Oliver crossed his arms, not impressed by his entrance. "What took you so long? Do you know how much time we've wasted waiting for you?" Oliver demanded.

"You wouldn't have had to have waited for me in the first place if you had stopped Lois from going to Lex." Bruce shot back.

"Oh, so now it's my fault?"

"Guys, guys, chill." Bart said stepping between them. "What's going on?"

Oliver looked at Bruce then to Bart. "Lex has Clark, Lois, Evelyn, and Love." Oliver said. He pulled out his GPS and looked at the blinking red dot. "This is where Lois is in the mansion and there's a pretty good chance that's where everyone else is."

Bruce looked at Oliver. "I have to say, I'm impressed."

"Thought of everything."

Bart rolled his eyes. "Come on, guys. Focus! What's the plan?"

"Okay, we're going to go in there through the back entrance, the entrance that's furthest away from Lois." Oliver said as he pointed to where he was talking about.

"But wouldn't we want to go in through the closest entrance?" Bart asked.

"Not in this case. Lex knows that there could be someone out looking for Clark and Lois. The least security that he would have would be at the back entrance. The entrance that he wouldn't expect anyone to take." Bruce explained.

"Bart, you're going to sped off and get rid of any guards that we really don't need. By that time, we'll already be at the room. Meet us there." Oliver said as he put away the GPS.

"That's it?" Bart asked confused at how simple it was.

"Yeah and from there, we'll just wing it."

Bart raised his brows in question, even though they couldn't tell. "If you say so."

"Let's do this." said Bruce as he got up and began lurking in the shadows, looking for the best place to get in through the back.

Beth watched the security tapes in the study while Lana was lounging on a couch reading a book. It made her so angry at how uncaring Lana was of the situation. She was supposed to be out there helping Lex. Lana didn't deserve Lex.

Beth looked over at Lana. The open book rested on her stomach as she slept calmly. Beth narrowed her eyes. She was sick of being a third-wheel. Even when Lex wasn't around Lana, he would pay no attention to her. If he wasn't going to pay any attention to her, then she was going to try and get that attention one way or another.

A tape of Evelyn running down the hallway and entering a room showed up. Beth pushed the rewind button and pushed play again. Beth knew which room Evelyn was hiding in. Beth was about to go into the room to get Evelyn, hoping to catch Lex's eye, but she thought of something better. She had the disc ejected and she snapped it in half, ruining the disc. She hid the ruined disc underneath the couch.

The door opened and Lex came in. Beth stood up immediately. "Lex. How's everything?"

Lex didn't look at her first. His eyes wandered to Lana. He smiled. Lex finally looked at Beth. "Have you checked the security tapes?" he asked. He walked over to the screens.

"Yes, nothing unusual has shown up."

Lex frowned. "Keep an eye out then. Evelyn managed to escape and she's out there roaming the halls right now."

Beth nodded and Lex left the room. Beth grabbed a gun out of the desk and she took a blanket off of the sofa. She walked out into the hallway to the room Evelyn was hiding in. This stunt was definitely going to get Lex's attention.

a/n: sorry about the wait guys. i kept finding little things that would need to be changed and then i'd end up re-writing the whole thing. i'm still thinking about the sequal thing, trying to get the right idea. don't know when the next chapter will be up, but it won't be too long of a wait. enjoy!