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Kent Farm, Smallville
They had been in the lab all afternoon. Martha asked Clark if he wanted to help with dinner, giving him a look that told him that dinner wasn't the only thing she wanted him for. Angela had asked if she could help. Martha politely refused, giving her an excuse involving family recipes and what-not. Angela took it in stride and went back to her computers. Brennan decided that she wanted time with the little evidence they had and handed Clark the x-rays they had taken so he could look them over while helping his mother.
"I was thinking," Martha started, "These people seem very genuine. In the pursuit of truth and justice. I think we can trust them." Clark looks confused. His mother may have been thinking the same thing he was. But he wasn't sure, "Trust them with what?" Martha smiles at her son, "Lois and I have been talking, along with Chloe. They seem to have built themselves a surrogate family there in the lab. They look out for each other. It's obvious that they will do anything to save Agent Booth. They care about one another like siblings. I think it may be safe to tell them about you." Clark was right, he and his mother have been debating the same thing without knowing it. Clark chuckles a bit to himself.
Martha is perplexed, this isn't the reaction she was expecting, "What's so funny Clark?" Clark walks over to his mother as she finishes cleaning the vegetables, "You know what they say? 'Great minds think alike!'." His mother gets a smile on her face. She decides to crack a joke at her son, "And, hey! So do ours!" Clark laughs at the simple joke, "Guess I walked right into that one." He takes a knife and starts slicing the chicken for his mother's Chicken Dumpling soup. "I've been thinking the same thing. These people are intelligent and resourceful. If anything happened to me, I can't just go to a regular doctor." He pauses a moment, "I'm getting sick of having to steal medical records for the few times I have had to get medical attention." His mother's glad she doesn't have to try to convince him. He seems to already be on the same train of thought, "Well Clark do you feel comfortable telling them?" Clark has thought about this quite a bit since Hodgins walked in on him and Lois. "I think the problem is whether they will believe me or not. Explaining all this to Hodgins was easy. He already believed in NTI's, but from the way he talks about it, the others think he's crazy for it." His mother looks at him blankly, "NTI's?" Clark realizes that he has just recently started using that term, ever since Hodgins brought it up that first night. Clark liked the term better than alien or ET. "Hodgins used that term the other night. It means 'Non-terrestrial Intelligence' I think I'll just stick to 'Intergalactic Traveler' when I bring it up though." He smiles at his mom, "It sounds more... sophisticated." His mother, who playfully slaps him in the face with a towel, replies, "Okay Mr. 'I've traveled farther than anyone on the planet', when do you want to do this?" Clark thinks about it for a minute, "I don't know I still have dad's voice going through my head, 'They'll take you to a lab, cut you open and dissect you like a frog!'." He laughs a bit and points out the window, "And the lab is right there." Both he and his mother share a laugh.
Angela walks into the house, "I was just gonna see if I could get more of your delicious orange juice and prep some bottles for the babies, being dragged all over town and all the excitement at the police station they're all tuckered out." She sees the two laughing, "Okay so what's the joke?" Clark and Martha compose themselves. "My mother and I were just reminiscing about my dad." Angela just gives them a smile, "I like that. You can still talk about your father after he's gone. I just hope that if anything were to happen to me, that Jack would focus on the good times we had together, like you two do." Martha glances at Clark, then smiles at Angela, "I don't think you have anything to worry about."
Clark looks over to Angela, "Did Hodgins find anything?" Angela was pulling the pitcher of juice out of the fridge, "He found more stuff that points to an air-field, some bee's wax and a couple traces of jet engine lubricants."Clark looks confused, "Bee's wax?" Angela smiles, "Don't worry sweetie we all had that same look when he told us," She pours a glass for herself and holds the pitcher up to offer to pour some for the other two. They politely nod in refusal. She shrugs, putting the pitcher back in the fridge as she continues, "Apparently they use it on F-15's and 16's as a sealant for part of the fuel ignition system." Clark absorbs the information, "Well at least that narrows it down... We know what kind of jets to look for." Angela goes to the sink to rinse out a couple of bottles for the kids. She didn't want to clean them in the lab, it just seemed too creepy.
Martha and Clark both give each other looks, being mother and son for so long, they have had lots of practice at silent communication. Angela looks at them both with massive confusion on her face. She knows what's going on, Jack and Zach used to get that same look when they got an idea for an experiment, "Okay, you two, spill." They break the look, Clark decides to speak up, "After dinner, I have an announcement for the team," he looks at his mother. Lois has been listening in this whole time, she know what's about to happen. Her and Martha had been discussing it since they got back from town. She walks up to him, placing a reassuring hand on his shoulder. She turns to Angela, "Trust me you are gonna want a good meal in your stomach for this." Angela, who loves surprises but hates waiting, replies, "Oh, come on, I won't tell anyone. I promise." Lois just ushers her out the door, "That is just what we want to hear. Now go. The babies're probably hungry!" Angela looks defeated as she gets rushed out the door. 'What's so big, that it has to wait till after dinner?', she asks herself.
Mobile Lab, Kent Farm
Brennan has been going over the bones they had initially found. After years of working with her, they know to leave her be until she finds something. Jack has been watching the kids in the one office that's inside. He is just waiting for Ange to come back with the bottles. He had just finished changing both diapers. Cam's going over the few files they were able to retrieve from the police station. Angela walks into the back office. She hands the bottles to Hodgins, "Well that was weird..." Jack looks up at his wife, "What's weird?" Angela takes a seat next to her husband and with a confused look she replies, "I was inside prepping the bottles and getting some OJ, when Clark and Martha told me they had something to tell us." Jack gets a curious look on his face, he thinks he knows what's going on. He promised the new guy he wouldn't say anything so he continues with his line of questioning, "Really? What do you think it is?" Angela leans back in her chair, "I don't know. Clark said it'll have to wait till after dinner." She takes a drink from her glass, "And his wife said we'll need a full stomach for this announcement."
Jack just smiles, "Well if dinner is anything like breakfast was this morning. They could tell us the world is ending tonight and I could die a happy man!" Angela can see the devilish style that the grin as taken on, "You know what it is? Don't you?" Jack, realizing he may have been caught, sticks to his promise. After all it isn't his place to tell them, "Hey..." He leans over and kisses his wife, "I know just as much as you do." She gives him a coy look. Jack immediately switches to "puppy dog" face. Angela hates when he does that. She finds it way too cute to stay mad at him. He starts walking out of the office when Angela adds one more statement, one she knows will get his attention, "Alright, mister, but if this turns out to be bad you can sleep by yourself for the rest of the trip." He just smiles back at her, "Then you wanna go for a tussle in the barn before dinner?" He pauses a second, "You know? Just in case?" She picks up one of the diapers from the bag and throws it at her husband, "What!?" He replies, "How many chances are we gonna get to literally go for a roll in the hay?"
Brennan has been combing over the bones for some time now. She found that the arrow had been shot at the victim postmortem. Hemorrhagic staining on the bone suggests that the slit throat was ante-mortem. But that could have been caused by the draining process. She notes this in the file she has open on the table near the body. The back of the skull is showing signs of abuse. Multiple blows that look relatively fresh, most likely caused by the body being dragged up the stairs. There also seems to be micro-fractures between the C5 and C6 vertebra, neither show signs of remodeling. 'Possible neck injury shortly before death, or possibly when the body was being dragged, maybe made when the head was bouncing off the stairs. She starts looking at the limbs seeing if she can find any occupational markers that could help identify the victim. 'I hope we find Booth...' she thinks to herself.
At that moment, Angela walks in the door to the tiny space that Brennan has been working in, "Hey sweetie! How you holdin up?" Brennan looks up from the bones on the table in front of her, "I'm feeling torn. I want to find Booth. But I know we can't get to him on a military base..." Angela interrupts, "But you figure if you sit here staring at these bones it will take your mind off of it?" Temperance replies, "Yes, but I find that it's not providing the necessary distraction to do so." Angela walks up to her best friend, placing her hands on her shoulders, looking her in the eye, "It's okay Temperance... We all love Booth. He's always been like the 'big brother' in our little 'family' here." She pauses a second, "We all want to find him, but the best thing for us to do right now is try to work on what we have until we have enough evidence to get a warrant to get access to the military base." She really wishes she had more to say but she's feeling the loss just as much as the rest of the group. She doesn't know if she's trying to console her best friend or herself as well. Booth has always looked out for them. He has been the big brother/guard dog/father figure in this group. Part of Angela feels like a daughter trying to console her mother after a loss. That's when it hits her, "Maybe you should go talk to Martha, she has some experience in this area." Bones looks at Ange, "I already did she tried to comfort me, but was unsuccessful." Ange gets a defeated look on her face, 'So much for that idea...' she tells herself. "Well Martha and Clark said they have a big announcement after dinner tonight." She pats Bones on the shoulder, "Maybe that'll take your mind off of what's going on." Brennan gives Angela a weak smile, she knows her best friend is trying to cheer her up, "Thanks Ange..." she places her hand on top of Angela's as they smile at each other, both taking comfort in knowing that the other is there for support.
Farm House, Kent Farm
It's been an hour and a half since Clark told Angela about the announcement. They've been sitting at the dinner table in a rather uncomfortable silence for the last 20 minutes. By this point the whole team knows that there's a surprise of some kind and are waiting eagerly for it. The tension in the room is thick enough that a chainsaw may not even cut it. "This meal is fantastic!" Hodgins states with a mouthful. Martha laughs, she loves it when she gets to cook for other people. When she's in Washington she has a tendency to order out a lot. Brennan has been enjoying the homemade macaroni and cheese Martha made especially for her. Hodgins tried to dig into it but got his hand slapped with a wooden spoon from Martha. Angela takes her cue from Hodgins, "This is great, Martha! I'm going to have to get the recipe from you before we go." Martha smiles at Ange, "We'll see..." The rest of dinner was mostly small talk, a mixture of uneasy and anticipatory exchange of words.
Once they had finished eating dinner, Martha plated them some pumpkin pie and led them all to the back yard. Hodgins had brought out a case of beer in case anyone would need it. God knows he did... Once they were all gathered, Clark walked up out to the middle of the yard with one of Jonathan's old rifles. He's feeling a little nervous, the group could tell something was up. He motions for Jack to come down. He figures the only way to do this is to just come right out and get this over with.
Hodgins is noticeably excited, he knows what's about to happen and can't wait to see the reaction on his team's faces. So far the only one he really notices is the one on Angela's face. The one that tells him he's going to be in trouble for not telling her. But, for him, this is going to prove that he has not been crazy. Cam is thinking this may be another experiment or demonstration of possible events. Angela is just hoping this isn't some macho thing Hodgins is trying to do for show. Brennan is just confused.
For Lois, Chloe and Martha, there was a whole other feeling of anticipation. The three of them all have the same questions racing through their minds: How are they going to react? Will they want to do what Jonathan had talked about all those years? Are they going to accept him? And most of all: When they find out, will they keep it a secret? The only thing that's going through Clark's mind at this moment is: How mad will they be when they find out that I can do all these things and haven't just found Booth and pulled him out of whatever situation he is in?
Chloe and Lois both come down near Clark. Each one is carrying a small lead container. Lois is also brandishing a kitchen knife. Martha comes out and places a baseball and bat on the ground near the Kryptonian. Clark hands the rifle to Hodgins. He whispers something in Jack's ear and the demonstration is ready to begin. He waves his hands at the girls, motioning for them to scoot back. They move off to the side at a safe distance. Chloe hopes something doesn't go wrong and she has to reveal herself.
Clark looks at the Jeffersonian team, "What I'm about to tell you will fly in the face of what you already consider to be the truth. What I need to know from you is: Can I trust you to keep a secret." He allows a moment to let that last statement sink in. "Don't answer too quickly. This secret is one that can destroy everyone I hold dear to me," He looks over at his mother, "my family," he looks at Chloe, "my friends," He walks over to Lois, placing is arm around her waist, "and my wife. These are the people I love and would protect even if it meant my own life to do so." He takes a moment to allow this to sink in, "I know we have known each other for a very short time. But in that time I've seen how dedicated you are to those you care about. As well as your pursuit of justice and the truth. I am as well. I just have more at my disposal to be able to accomplish these things." He waits patiently for a reaction from the team. Brennan is the first to speak up, "Are you involved in anything illegal, because if that's the case we cannot continue your employment at the Jeffersonian." Clark releases Lois and walks over to Bones, "I promise you I am not involved in any illegal activities." The group can see how serious he is about this. Angela responds first, "I can keep a secret." she looks over at Hodgins, "It seems my husband can too..." He can tell by the look on her face that he may be in trouble. Clark looks over at Angela, "Thank you Angela, please don't be mad at Jack. He's just keeping a promise he made to me." She nods in acceptance. Cam speaks up next, "If it isn't illegal, my lips are sealed." Brennan speaks up again, "I am excellent at keeping secrets!"
Clark readies himself, "I am not from around here." Brennan speaks up, "We know, you were adopted. Your parents were killed by the meteor shower." Clark nodded to Bones, "That... is about 95% true." He walks over to his mother, "My mother and father found me in a smoking crater," he pauses for a moment, taking a deep breath, "In a space craft. During the first meteor shower." Immediately, Cam looks at him and Hodgins, "Is this some kind of joke?" Clark steps forward, "I assure you this is not a joke." He points to his wife and best friend, "These two have witnessed many of the things that I can do, and they still accept me for it," he pauses a moment, "I just want to live a normal life, or at least as normal as I can. But I still want to do as much good as I can, so please don't treat me any different than you would anyone else."
The group can see the sincerity in his eyes and hear it in his voice. Angela chimes in, "I'm sorry... but the suspense is killing me." She points to all the stuff in the yard, "What is all this for?" Clark looks at the group, "It's for this," He immediately removes his shirt, which really got Ange and Cam's attention, "As you can see I am not wearing any body armor." He nods to Hodgins. Hodgins nods back pulls up the rifle and takes aim. Angela screams, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?" Before anyone could get up, Hodgins had already fired the rifle. Cam and Angela had tucked their heads under their arms, not wanting to see Clark's dead body. Bones is simply amazed, She gets up and walks over to the ground in front of Clark and picks up the bullet, tossing it back and forth between each hand, as it is still hot, "You could have dropped this and had Hodgins fire a blank." He motions for Jack to come over with the rifle, Jack hands it to Brennan. Clark realizes that this is a skeptical crowd, "If you want you, can inspect the chamber and the bullet. Then fire again yourself?" The other two women look up upon hearing Clark's voice. Brennan takes the rifle, ejects the shell from the first barrel and inspects the slug in the other barrel. She holds it up, "This one's real!" Jack retreats back to the porch next to Angela, Temperance picks up the rifle, takes aim at the middle of his chest and fires. Again the same result. She looks perplexed, "How did you do that?" Clark smiles, "I'm practically indestructible."
Clark then moves on to the baseball and bat that Martha had placed near him. He can see that they are absorbing what is going on but are still in shock, "Okay, maybe I should have started out a little simpler." He figures if he handles this a little differently than it would ease the tension a bit. So he mentally shifts gears, "For my next feat: I'm going to literally knock this ball into the stratosphere!" He picks the baseball up and tosses it in the air. He takes a single swing and the group watches as the ball is launched miles over their heads. And without warning Clark was gone the only sound they heard was a sonic boom as what looked like a shooting star following the path of the baseball. The Jeffersonian women are confused, Angela decides to be the one to ask, "Where the hell is Clark?" Just then they hear a voice over head, "Right here." they look up and watch as Clark floats down with the baseball in hand. He tosses it to Cam. "Okay.. Now, Dr. Saroyan can you do me the honors?" He motions with his hand for her to toss it in the air. She shrugs and complies. As the ball reaches it's apex the team notices, as streams of fire shoot from Clark's eyes, that the ball has burst into flames. It lands on the ground near the house where Clark blows on it, putting out the fire and freezing it. Cam just looks at the ball that she held just a few moments ago that is now frozen ash. The only word she can get out is, "Okay..." as she sits back down.
"I also have, what is best described as, x-ray vision. I can see through anything but lead." At this the three women do what all women do that have discovered this power, they cover up. "Don't worry, my mother raised me to respect women," he says with a smile. He then zips into the house and back with a glass of OJ in his hands, "Sorry... Thirsty..." Angela grins, "Okay, now you're just showing off." Clark smiles, "Now the big reason that I'm revealing this to you is simple." he pauses motioning for Lois and Chloe to come forward with their pieces. "If anything happens to me, and I need medical attention, I need a medical team that I can trust." Cam speaks up, "I thought you said you were indestructible?" Clark corrects her, "Practically indestructible."
Clark pulls Chloe up first, she opens the lead box. He pulls out the blue stone inside, "This is called Kryptonite, it comes in a few varieties, all of them affect me immediately, and in different ways. The one she is holding is blue, all it does is strip me of my abilities." He grabs the knife that was brought out. He hands it to Bones who examines it to make sure that it is a real knife. Angela grins, she just had a thought she decides to speak aloud, "This feels like a magic show!" They all enjoy the tension breaker. With everything that's been going on they need something to relieve the stress,a distraction, or an escape, if you will. Clark then takes the knife back. Bones is satisfied that it is a real knife. He slices his hand open. Everyone, including Lois, Chloe and Martha, wince. But Clark is determined. He shows everyone the slice in his hand and it's bleeding pretty badly. Once the scientists are satisfied with the fact that the injury is real, he continues with the demonstration. Placing the stone back in the container he states, "Chloe you can close the box now." As soon as she does, the team sees the wound heal almost instantly, "WOW!" was the only thing heard from everyone on the team, Hodgins didn't even get to see this part. Clark uses the blade to scrape the blood off, "Can someone hold this for me?" Cam gets up, walks over to Clark and holds the knife. In a burst of wind, he was gone and back. He had a vial in his hand from the lab. He drips some of his blood into the vial, Handing it to Cam as he takes back the knife.
"Okay now I want you to know that this part could kill me, but I need you to see this so you know how serious it is." He looks over at Lois, she nods and walks over to Cam. She's still holding the vial out. Clark backs away a few feet as Lois brings the box up to the vial. everyone is focused on the blood inside as she opens the lead container. As soon as it opens they can see the blood starting to boil. Instantly Martha notices her son on the ground. He's gone fetal with pain. Martha shouts, "Lois! Close the box!" They all turn to see what's happening. Lois immediately closes the lead container. As the group runs over to Clark, they can see he's in obvious pain. Brennan looks down at Clark as Hodgins is trying to help him up, "Why did you do that if you knew what it was going to do?" Hodgins motions for the others to help him lift Clark to his feet, "You know... You're a lot heavier than you look." Clark, still weak from exposure, replies, "Dense molecular structure," he turns to his new boss trying to laugh, "I thought I was far enough away." He begins to regain his composure, "The other two varieties I don't have here because of what they can do to me." The look on the teams face suggests they all have the same question. Dr. Brennan is the first one to ask, "Well these two can potentially kill you, what could be worse?" Clark begins to explain, "There is a black version that has the ability to literally divide me into two separate people. Essentially one good and one bad." Clark hangs his head a bit, "And there is a red version. I don't like to talk about it. But for your benefit, you need to know."
He takes a seat and explains what happened with the class rings in high school. How he ran away, became Kal and did pretty much whatever he wanted. Hurt his loved ones, and was faced with having to kill Jonathan or return home. "I am not proud of any of that. But if it does happen again," He takes the two lead containers and hands them to Dr. Brennan, "Please don't hesitate to use these to subdue me."
Cam turns to Clark, "This is showing an awful lot of trust in us, Mr. Kent." She looks at the rest of her team, they all nod in unison, "On behalf of the team, I would like to thank you for trusting us, and and officially welcome you to the team." Clark just nods back, "No, thank you." He brings his hands together, very much like Booth, "So... Any questions?" Angela raises her hand, for some reason she feels like she is back in a classroom, "So, What's up with probing?" Clark just grins, sighing as his head drops, "I assure you that was not my people doing that. I have no idea what that's all about." The group laughs at the reaction. Then the question he knew was coming finally is asked, "If you can do all this, why haven't you gone off to find Booth?" Clark looked to the source of the question, it was Bones. "Dr, Brennan I've wanted to but didn't want to expose myself. I want to find him just as much as you do. But I do have limitations. Where he has been held must be lead lined, because I can't seem to find him. And with it being a military base there are laws in place that we can't break, even to suit our own needs and wants." He pauses for a moment, "But believe me, If we do find out exactly where he is, I will not hesitate to get him back. But I will not kill anyone to do it, I have to be able to get in and out with Booth safely and no casualties." Cam was amazed, "You have all this power and yet you choose to obey the law when it would be no problem for you to simply disregard them." She walks over to him and pats him on the shoulder, "I respect that." Angela has a moment of realization, "Does anyone else notice that we have another Booth on our team?"
There it is! The team has been let in on the secret, I never liked the whole Star Labs thing with the "S-Man". It always seemed shady to me. They were always known for shady government work and cover-ups. This seemed like a less likely place for him to be discovered by outside sources. Since he works there. I figured this would be a great way to eliminate STAR Labs from the equation.
Now... how is this going to factor in the search for Booth? Will Booth ever find out? And will anyone on the team gain access to the knowledge of 28 known galaxies? Find out in the upcoming "episodes". Same Bones time, Same Bones Channel! Up next... What is Gen. Lane's role in this whole thing?
Update: Although the comment was written rather rudely (I am sorry but I believe that criticism should be written in a more constructive manner.) I did find that this last paragraph should have been separated a bit, so I made the adjustment. I would like to request that any suggestions made (which only one has been made in this manner on mine so far) be done in a more constructive manner, not just on my story but on anyone's stories. We are all people that just want to tell a story if you have coarse words please use a PM not the review section of the story to do so. Let's keep things professional but fun!