A.N. I am so sorry this has taken me a while to get out. Unfortunately Smallville isn't exactly on my tv viewing any more so it's hard to get motivated. I haven't watched a single episode since mid-season 6, except for the end snippets before Supernatural starts.

Chapter 26 B

Valenti Household; 7:15 a.m.

Jim hung up the phone and paced around the kitchen. Kyle took off about a half hour ago and none of his friends had heard from him in those thirty minutes.

He wanted to follow Kyle the second he raced out the door, even got so far as a mile away from the house when he stopped. Following him would only upset him more. Once Kyle cooled down then they'd talk. Until then he called all of Kyle's friends, both teammates and non-teammates.

Now he leaned against the kitchen counter and listened to the silence. He couldn't stand there doing nothing, he had to do something. Khivar needed to be contacted. Information had to be relayed. He must start preparing the others for Khivar's arrival.

West Roswell High; 7:20 a.m.

Kyle sat on the bleachers facing the football field. He stared out onto the field not moving just letting the breeze brush over him and the sun beam down on him.

"Figured you be here." A familiar female voice called from behind him.

"What are you doing here?" He didn't take his gaze from the field.

Maria sat down next to Kyle on the bleachers and put her feet on the back of the seat in front her. "Your Dad called. He was worried about you."

"Then why didn't he come himself?"

"Probably because you would have bitten his head off." Maria quipped back. "Come on, talk to me. Tell Therapist Deluca all about it."

Kyle breathed in and out deeply. "Basically my Mom abandoned me to go watch over Clark. Not only that while she was playing protector to him she fell in love with someone else and is divorcing my Dad. She hasn't spoken to me in ten years—she doesn't give a crap about me or Dad and Dad just thinks I should accept it because it's the way it has to be."

Maria was quiet for a moment. "Ok, forgive me but I seem to out of the loop." Confusion was clear on her features. "Your Mom went to watch over Clark? Clark Kent? Umm, why?" She realized for sure that Clark was Kryptonian after finding him and Liz together at the mall but that didn't explain why Kyle's Mom went to watch over him. It wasn't like she had any connection to the planet.

"Oh that's right you don't know yet." Kyle turned and faced his friend. "Apparently Dad, Mom, and I am Kryptonian. We're Protectors for Clark and Liz." Kyle went on to explain the rest to Maria or at least as much as he knew.

"Oh my God. This is unreal. Is everyone in this town an alien? Am I going to be the next one to discover their alien status? Is Alex?" Maria commented in wonderment.

"Who knows? I sure as hell didn't expect to be Kryptonian. Let alone have this destiny thing." He still didn't like destiny it tended to screw things up or bring out information that he never wanted to know. "What should I do Maria?"

Maria ran both hands down her legs warming them up a little. Despite it being the middle of summer some mornings still had a little bit of coolness in the air. Since she was wearing shorts and a t-shirt she didn't have much to keep that bit of cold away.

"About your Mom?"

"Yea. Should I call her? I think Dad mentioned that he had her number…or at least knew how to contact her. Should I ignore her like she did me?" Kyle asked his friend.

Maria pushed back a strand of blonde hair that blew in front of her face. "Call her."

"Wow that was fast."

She shrugged. "It won't be easy. I know that. But my reason for saying that you should call her is my Dad."

"What about him?" He'd never met Maria's father so he didn't really understand what her father had to do with him calling his mother.

"If I had the opportunity to call my Dad up…knowing that he abandoned me, I'd get on the phone and call him. I'd want to talk to him. Even if it was to call him an asshole." Maria told him. "Mostly I'd want answers for why he left me and Mom."

"So I should take advantage of the opportunity while I have it."

"Hopefully she'll give you answers that your Dad might not be able to answer or doesn't want to answer." Maria shrugged and tilted her head a bit. "And if nothing else you can chew her ass out for never letting you know where she was. Either way something comes out of the phone call."

"Thanks Maria."

"You bet." She lightly patted him on the shoulder. "Ok, I better go if I'm going to make my shift."

"Mind giving me a lift there. I have a feeling I'm going to be needed at the Crashdown."

"I thought you had super speed?" She teased while they walked to her Mom's Jetta.

Kyle nodded. "I do but it's so new that I don't want to end up running and not being able to stop or stopping in the next town over."

"Ah, ok. You can feel Liz right?" She asked.

"Oh yea. Right now she's lying in bed with Clark. Their talking." He revealed.

"That must freaky." The two drive away from the football field and make their way to the Crashdown.

"You have no idea. It's like I have my thoughts and feelings and then there's a whole separate entity in my head…actually it's more like two entities." He realized.

"Two?"

"Liz and Livara. It's confusing, it's like a part of Liz that she doesn't acknowledge or access unless she's in a certain circumstance. Like when she's angry or when she's horny for Clark." He chuckled then shivered in disgust. "I will never get used to her thoughts about him."

"I'm going to try to talk to her today before my shift." Maria told him. "I want to see how she's doing, especially after yesterday." She still felt a little guilty, despite Alex's effort to make her forget her guilt, over leaving Liz alone with Clark thereby giving her virginity to him in an alien induced moment.

"Anything I should know about?" Kyle questioned.

"No. It's something between Liz and me. We're not mad at each other or anything I just have to talk to her." She pulled up behind the Crashdown in the parking lot.

"Why don't you go in through the break room, I feel that Liz and Clark are about to face her parents. See ya later." He turned to go but before he went up the side steps leading up to the apartment above he stopped Maria for a moment. "Thanks for today Maria."

"No problem Kyle. Now get up there help Liz and Clark deal with the parentals." She waved and headed into the break room while Kyle hurried, at regular speed, upstairs. She would hate to be in the room when Liz and Clark faced their parent's.

TBC