Claire Martha Kent Part II

By Arica, Princess of Rivendell

Summary: AU. What if Clark had never been born? What if the Els had given birth to a daughter instead? This is the life and times of Kaila El or Claire Martha Kent. NOT SLASH! NEVER INTENDED TO BE TAKEN AS SLASH!

Disclaimer: I own NEITHER "Smallville," NOR "Lois and Clark the New Adventures of Superman." I do NOT own any of the D.C. Comic Books or their characters. I do NOT own Peter Parker or Mary Jane Watson. I do NOT own any of the Marvel Comic Books or their characters. All of the characters mentioned belong to each of their own creators.

Warnings: Later on, there will be some torture, domestic abuse, some child abuse, and infidelity. In this chapter there is a small prayer spoken by one of the characters; and, other prayers will appear in even later chapters.

A/N: Thank you to everyone whom has favorited, followed, reviewed, and/or Private Messaged me about CMK. I had some more time to edit another chapter so here's the next one as I still haven't completely caught up to how many chapters should be up since my computer crashed a while back.

Pairings:

Hints/mentions of past Claire/Lex

Will at some point have Claire/Oliver

Will have Kara/Jimmy

Will have Bruce/Chloe

Will have Dinah Lance/AC

Will have Victor Stone/Diana Prince

Bart Allen/Linda Park (Thank you, Kairan1979.)

Also Lana/Lex will be present at different intervals

Casting:

Claire Kent—Michelle Trachtenberg

Oliver Queen—Justin Hartley

Lex Luthor— Michael Rosenbaum

Lana Lang—Kristin Kreuk

Chloe Sullivan—Alison Mack

Bruce Wayne—Christian Bale

Kara Kent—Laura Vandervoot

Jimmy Olson—Aaron Ashmore

Dinah Lance—Alaina Kalanj

Arthur Curry—Alan Ritchson

Victor Stone—Lee Thompson Young

Diana Prince—Tia Mowry

Lois Lane—Erica Durance (But a mixture of Smallville Lois and the Lois from L&C: NAS personalities).

Bart Allen—Kyle Gallner

Linda Park—Linda Park (was in Jurassic Park III)

Cat Grant—Tracy Scoggins

Perry White—Lane Smith


Chapter Six

The Calvary

Once, twice, three times more Lana snuck into liquid Kryptonite into Claire's drink during breakfast.

The morning after the fourth poisoning, Claire forced herself out of the bed and almost fell to the floor. She would have done so, except that upon feeling dizzy she had sat back down on the edge of the bed. She folded her hands, bowed her head, and whispered a prayer; "Lord, please rescue me. Please, help make this stop; I don't know how much longer I can last against the Kryptonite I feel flowing through me; in Jesus' name I pray, Amen."

Claire stepped out of her bedroom doorway and turned to the right; she continued going straight and stumbled slightly when she got to the stairs. She was still clad in her red flannel pajamas with blue moons and yellow stars on them as she had had no energy to change.

She barely got down the stairs by holding onto the railing. She was so weak from the liquid Kryptonite that she couldn't have broken the thin railing even if she tried.

She stepped down from the last step onto the floor and was thankful that the bookcases were a foot away from the railing, she stepped in front of the railing and she placed her left hand on the railing before she let go to reach out to the first bookcase with her right hand. She then began to walk and she was glad that the bookcases were against the wall as tightly as they could be. She got to the end of the third bookcase and saw that the couch was the closest thing she dared touch and it was two feet from her; she forced herself to walk forward and she prayed that she wouldn't fall. She reached the couch just in time. She kept her hand on the couch for support and saw that there was about ten feet between the couch and the doorway to the entrance hall, which broke off into the kitchen.

Claire neared the doorway and heard voices; she was surprised at first that she had not heard them as soon as she'd touched the landing; but then she realized that the Kryptonite she knew to be in her system must have messed with all of her powers especially since she was feeling as weak as a new born kitten. She touched the doorframe and there in the entrance hall stood Chloe Sullivan and Bruce Wayne.

Claire smiled when she saw the man whom played the part of her eldest brother and the woman whom played the part of her closest confidant and both were two of her best friends.

Lana was standing there talking to Chloe; Jasmine was already there and frowning because she was now worried that Pete would leave her for the blonde woman whom was apparently smarter than Jasmine had first given her credit for, since the blonde claimed that she was madly in love with her boyfriend, Bruce Wayne.

Suddenly Chloe whipped her head to the left and a huge smile lit her face while a different sparkle entered her eyes; "Claire!" Chloe exclaimed and moved towards her friend.

"Hey, Chlo;" Claire smiled and gave a little wave; Chloe's eyes picked up the sheen of sweat that covered Claire's forehead, Claire's eyes were glazed, and Chloe could see that Claire was leaning against the doorframe more for support than for relaxation. Claire caught the worry that entered her friend's eyes and said, "I'm fine, Chloe."

Bruce who'd smiled and had looked over at Claire when she first entered now took a closer look and narrowed his eyes as he moved forward; "Claire, are you alright?"

"I said I was fine, Bruce; didn't I?"

"Claire," Chloe said drawing her friend's attention back to her and she reached out to touch Claire but another person's hand, one that was delicate and manicured to perfection, grabbed Chloe's hand before she could reach Claire. "I wouldn't do that Chloe; Claire's been feeling off for a few days, and I'd hate for you to get sick."

"As, I was telling Chloe and Bruce, Lana, I'm fine."

Lana gave Claire her gentlest and with a tone that suggested she was only humoring Claire as she said, "Of course; I'm just concerned because I know I've heard you throwing up in the middle of the night."

While Lana was trying to put on an air of concern, Bruce looked over at Lex and became surprised at the look he saw in his fellow billionaire's eyes.

Lex's blue eyes looked sad and almost tender as they stared at Claire and as if sensing Bruce's gaze on him, they turned to him. In that moment, Lex's eyes became guarded and a smug sneer fell into place where a frown had once been.

It happened so fast that Bruce was almost certain he'd imagined it; but, a part of him refused to completely dismiss what he'd seen.

As Bruce continued to scrutinize Lex, the bald billionaire mulled over what he knew was wrong with Claire. However, he had little choice but to play the part he'd been forced into so long ago. Therefore, as he noticed Bruce scowl, with the smuggest tone he could manage, he said, "Lighten up, Bruce. How about we ask Pete if there's any champagne—"

"It's a little early to drink alcohol, Lex." Lana said coolly. Her eyes had become daggers pointed in his direction for she too knew that appearances must be kept.

Lex then said, "Of course I was just thinking it would give Bruce and I something to do while you took Jasmine and Chloe shopping as you were planning on doing."

Chloe interrupted and demanded, "And, what about Claire?"

Lex made absolutely certain to keep the smug tone as he spoke of his real concern; "She's sick. Has been for a few days; she should stay here and rest up."

Claire spoke up and said, "I'm fine, Lex. Chloe," Claire gave her friend a very pointed look, "It's my allergies that are bothering me."

Chloe said, "Lana, take your hand off me. I plan on staying here and looking after my friend. Besides, if I do any shopping," she said with a smirk and a smug look on her own face as she moved her right hand to take off the black leather glove from her left hand, which was the hand Lana had grabbed.

Once the black leather glove was off, it revealed a diamond ring on the ring finger of her left hand and she continued to speak, "It will be when both my maids of honor are in attendance helping me pick out my wedding dress."

Lana let go of Chloe in shock while Claire squealed and flung her arms around Chloe in the strongest hug she could manage which was ten thousand times weaker than her previously weakest hug. Chloe recognized the hug for what it was and whispered, "You weren't lying about allergies were you?"

"No."

Chloe nodded her head, pulled Claire closer, and noticed the way Lex seemed to deflate with what appeared to be defeat; but was in all actuality relief. Especially when Bruce had taken on a protective stance at Chloe's announcement.

Excitedly, Chloe said, "Come on, Claire why don't we go to your room, hang out, call Lois and put her on speaker, all while we look through bridal magazines.

Claire smiled and said, "Girls Day In I take it."

"You got it in one; Girls Day In."

"Alright; I'm in."

"Good. That way you can rest and get better; Lois can be happy because she can complain about how weddings are just so horribly expensive, and I get to be happy by spending the day talking to two of my best friends and having Girls Day In."

Claire smiled and Chloe linked her left arm with Claire's right arm so that Claire could use her left hand to hold on to the railing as they went upstairs to the guestroom Claire was staying. As soon as they were in the room Chloe closed and locked the door; she then said, "Tell me everything."


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