A/N: Here is the second to the last Chapter for this fic, well actually I split this chapter into another one since it was so long, so you get double the update today...Anyway, one more chap till the Sweet Sorrow (sheds a tear, lol ) end of this Fic...I really enjoyed having you guys review, amazing help and motivation you guys have been. It's literally been a long ride since next month will mark my one year anniversary for this story, lol. I hope you guys have really enjoyed the ride, and Thanks so much for sticking with this fic, especially to those who have been with it since the begining...Thanks to you all, and enjoy!
Chapter 29: Cruise (Day 4) Time is ticking...
Lana and Lucy creep down the hall, panting and sweating heavily, scared to death as they stop to rest. Leaning against the wall after the non-stop running they did to get away from Lex. They jump, their hearts pump faster as another round of gun shots go off in the far distance.
Lucy's head quickly snaps toward the sound, fear clenching her heart to a stop.
"Lois!" she yells, scared for her sister's safety.
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Lois turns her head quickly to the side, her eyes close in reaction as adrenaline pours through her body from the 3 shots Lex sets off in the wall next to her head. Lois snaps her head back to glare at him, her lips in a fearless sneer.
"If you're trying to scare me you're gonna have to do better then that." Lois smirks in a shaky voice.
"Then why are you sweating so hard?" Lex quirks evilly as he runs the tip of the barrel down her face trickling with beads of sweat.
"What can I say..." Lois shrugs her shoulders. "...your breath isn't exactly a bouquet of flowers."
Lex lets out a low laugh as he stares at the quick tongue girl, his eye giving her an admiring look that she couldn't help but feel her skin crawl.
"You liked it then...when I kissed you, admit it." Lex says in his smooth, sly voice as he leans in close to her face.
"Go to Hell!" Lois sneers as she stares definitely into his cold eyes.
Lex smiles an evil toothy grin. "After you, Miss Lane."
He grabs her arm, twisting it behind her back again as he pulls her from off the wall and leans her close to his chest and speaks close to her ear from behind her.
"We're going to your suite and you will show me where you hid my disk or your friends will pay...with their lives." he says pushing her ahead of him down the hall.
"Now get moving and no tricks, remember I'm the one with the gun." he says pulling it out more in front of him and points it toward her back.
Lois glances back at him over her shoulder. "Pretty big gun there, Lex, kinda makes you think...maybe you're compensating for something."
She laughs but suddenly stops, a serious expression crosses her face at the sound of Lex placing in a loaded cartridge in his gun.
"You have a big mouth there Lois...anyone ever tell you it's going to get you killed one day." Lex smirks, smiling evilly, insinuating that, that day has come.
Lois rolls her eyes getting his message clearly.
"Now shut up and keep walking!"
"So we dropped the formalities have we Lex?" Lois snarks, marching ahead of him.
"Well, I feel we've gotten to known each other better." Lex taunts, watching her carefully.
Lois rolls her eyes again, if ever there was a time she wanted to puke more. "Right, like you're a bald, delusional, daddy doesn't love me psycho, so I'll go and hit on helpless, defenseless girls just for kicks...Yup gotten to know you a whole lot better, practically see you in a new light." she smirks, sarcastically.
Lex jams the gun into her back and leans close to her ear. "Like you're a smart mouth, college dropout-Bitch, who's only dreaming if she thinks she'll ever become something."
He pushes the gun harder into her back. "Now...slowly hand me the Swiss Army blade you have clasped in your hand...you know, the one you're planning on stabbing me with."
Lois clenches her teeth, disappointed that she's been found out as she was taking out the knife from the top of her denim mid-rise jeans. She does what he says and slowly raises the Army blade to him.
"See I told you, I've gotten to know you quite better." Lex whispers in her ear.
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"Lucy wait!" Lana grabs her arm, stopping her as she tries to go back for Lois.
Lucy spins around, facing Lana and snatches her arm from Lana's grip in anger.
"It's because of you and your bald, asswhole boyfriend that we're here in this situation and my sister could be dead!" Lucy shouts, glaring bitterly at her.
"Tell me why I shouldn't kill you myself, right now...I swear if anything happen..."
"Lex won't hurt Lois, not when she knows where the disk is..." Lana replies and looks down regretfully. "...and I'm sorry Lucy, that this has happened...I never would have..."
"It's kinda too late for appologizes..." Lucy sneers as new tears sting her eyes.
"All I can do is say ow very sorry I am and make up for it as best as I can...and thats to get help...I know where to find Clark and Chloe, so please trust me."
Lucy sighs heavily, not really having a choice in the matter...Lana was the only person who can help her at the moment...and help Lois.
"Fine, but nothing has changed..." she says as Lana nods and walk over to a door leading to a stairwell.
Lana pushes on the door latch, Lucy standing behind her waits to follow, when she hears a strange noise coming from behind the door that Lana fails to pick up.
"Wait!" Lucy shouts, pushing Lana's hands away too late.
A wall of water breaks free through the cracked door, busting it open with great force and throws the girls down to the floor. Instantly the girls are swallowed up as they're pushed down the hall with the rushing flow of the water, catching a break one bobs to the surface, gasping for air.
"Lucy!" Lana gasps out, shouting for her who was no where to be seen.
"Lucy, where are you?" she shouts again, starting to panic as her eyes only comes in view of the speeding water that quickly rose up to her neck and moving fast.
She dives into the water to see if she could catch any sight of her, but doesn't stay down for long better. She breaks the surface breathing in heavily for air as her eyes darts around in search for her.
"Lucy!" she maneuvers around as best she could to look behind her frantically. "Lu-..."
"Lana, Help!"
Lana quickly turns and sees Lucy breaking to the surface, struggling to keep from going under again. She having a hard time staying above with her hands still cuffed together.
"Lucy, hold on I'm coming!" Lana shouts as she starts off swimming toward her.
"Hurry, Help!" Lucy shouts, wailing in the water as she tries to keep her head above the surface.
Lana reaches Lucy as she goes under again, Lana grabs Lucy's arm pulling her back up as Lucy gasps for a breath, but has difficulty keeping herself and Lucy above the water with Lucy being handcuffed.
"Somebody Help...Please, Help us!" Lana cries loudly, coughing on the water as she fights to keep surfaced.
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"Chloe where are you sending me...are you sure this is even right?" Clark asks into his ear piece, not that he needed it but it was easier then trying to focus on two different places at once, as he trudges through the waist high water, wondering how Bart and AC were doing, they already busy with their task.
"Clark..." Chloe sighs out sarcastically. "...I'm reading right from the blue prints, I'm pretty sure...Oops, umm...hold on,the chart is shown upside down on the screen." she says a bit embarrassed as she clears her throat and flips the image of the blue prints.
"Sooo...how is Bart doing?" Chloe asks making idle chit-chat from her embarrassing mistake, Clark knows this and smiles to himself.
"He's doing good...I think he's getting tired though, but his ego is too big for him to stop himself." Clark teases playfully, slushing through the water that was on a seesaw battle of rising and falling.
Chloe smiles widely to herself in thought of Bart, and shrugs. "Yea...well he's a special guy like that..."
"You guys are getting...close." Clark says in an amusing way as he kept himself from laughing.
Chloe rolls her eyes and cocks her head to the side. "I've also notice another two getting "close", care to elaborate Mr Kent?" she says sarcastically, teasing him.
"No, I know where my priorities lie with Lois..."
"...Finally!" Clark and Chloe both say at the same time and laugh lightly.
"She's the one and only one for me..."
"I'm glad to hear that, since Lois doesn't take break-ups too well...especically if it's the guy doing the dumping. One time she had this machete and..."
"...but we weren't talking about Me and Lois..." Clark cuts in her run of the mouth. "...we were talking about you and Bart, so?"
"Fine, it was a really good story though, but it probably would have scared you off...you being a guy and all."
"Chloe!"
Chloe laughs and shakes her head, she was going to have so much fun having Clark part of the family and Lois being his girl and her cousin only opened up a whole other can of torture for poor Clark.
"Clark, we're just friends...with benefits." Chloe smiles widely on the last part.
"Sounds like Lois and I might need to do our own little match making..." Clark teases and shrugs his shoulders. "...it's only fair, since all the hard work you did to get me and Lois together."
"God No, please don't do me any favors!"
Clark laughs and shakes his head. "I mean you two are a couple, right?"
"You're on the right track."
"Ok Chloe, there aren't really any more options pass being couples..." Clark says confused. "...unless, you two are married?"
"No, you're on the right path, just straight ahead and to your right...the discussion about me and Bart is so over." Chloe smirks sarcastically.
"I'll have enough to chat about with Lois..."
Clark's ears pick up a different sound as Chloe continues to yap. "Help!...Somebody, please Help!"
"...and believe me, going through it once with Lois is enou-..."
"Chloe, Hush...I hear something..."
"Is it Lois?" Chloe asks as her heart picked up a beat faster.
Clark focuses his hearing toward the sound, hearing it more clearly. "Somebody's calling for help...It's Lana!"
"Oh my God, Lana...Where has she been all this time?"
"I don't know, but she's close by..." he says and without waisting time he speeds off in the direction.
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Lana's head bobs from under the water, she sputters water from her mouth as she desperately tries to fill her lungs with some much needed air.
"Heeeeeelp!" she screams out loudly, her body growing tired from the struggle of keeping herself and Lucy afloat. Lucy starts to go under, too tired herself to try and fight any longer.
"Lucy!...Lucy!" Lana cries out, her body too weak to keep up as she starts to go under too.
Suddenly she's pulled up in a great force, her head breaking the surface as she gasps in loudly, chocking as she rids the water from her mouth. Lana turns her head quickly to surprisingly see Clark holding her up effortlessly. Clark realizing she's not alone, quickly reaches into the water next to her snatching up Lucy who coughs and chokes deeply as she's rescued from the water.
"Clark!" Lucy says in shock and relief as she throws her arms around his neck.
"Lucy?!" Clark says also in shock and relief to see her. "Hold on I'm going to get you out of here."
"I'm fine Clark, you don't need to help me, just take care of Lucy." Lana says as she gently pulls from his hands and follows him through the murky water as he leads them to a stair case going to the topside. He climbs onto the stairs, placing down Lucy onto the steps not yet covered by the water, they stopping for a moment to catch their breaths as Lana sat panting on the step ahead of them.
"Where's Lois?" Clark asks immediately as he wipes his wet locks from his face.
"Still with Lex..." Lucy raps out, trying to catch her breath as she holds her hand to her chest.
"She distracted him during the explosion...while we got away." Lana adds, hugging herself tightly as she shivers some, cold from being wet.
"Lana take Lucy and go to Chloe...I lost contact with her when my ear piece fell into the water...and get her out of there and to the nearest lifeboat."
"Wait, Clark what are you going to do?" Lana asks, halting him as she places her hand on his arm.
"I have to take care of something. " Clark says in his discreet voice, that Lana knew all too well when he would disappear off, doing whatever, but she had no right to asks any more from him, not now, now with what she has done.
Lucy raises to her feet, not understanding his choice of words. "I hope you mean rescuing my sister from that Loony Bastard."
No matter how much it hurts and how much every inch of his body wanted to do so, Clark just could rescue Lois right away. He stood there looking at her not knowing how to answer. The fact was if he didn't do something quick about the whole in the side of the ship, Lois could very well be good as dead as well as other innocent lives and as much as he hated the situation of not being able to get to Lois first, this was just the way it had to be done, for Lois and everyone else's sake.
Clark tries to walk past her without answering. "Lana, get Lucy and Chloe to those boats..."
Lucy grabs his arm, spinning him back around to face her. "No! My sister should be the first...should be the only thing you care about right now!"
Clark gently grabs Lucy by her shoulders as he looks seriously into her eyes. "You don't know how hard I'm fighting myself not to do that first...I love Lois, so much, it's killing me that I can't get to her first..." he takes a deep breath as he looks down and then back up into her eyes.
"...I would never let anything happen to her...but right now I have to believe, I have to believe in her...I have to trust her that she can take care of herself till I'm able to get to her...and believe me I will, I'm not leaving this ship until she's with me again."
Lana quietly walks up behind her and softly wraps her hand around Lucy's arm. "You have to trust him, Lucy..." she says in a hushed voice and looks up at Clark.
"...he has a way of getting things done, believe him."
Lucy looks back at Lana before her eyes return to his as she slowly nods her head and grabs his arm again before he leaves.
"Promise you'll bring her back...safe." Lucy says, her eyes and voice pleading to him.
"Count on it..." he smiles before diving back into the water and surfaces, shaking the water from his face.
"Go get Chloe and don't stop until you're about one of those life boats!"
Lana and Lucy nod before they rush up the stairs but Lucy comes back down and throws Clark a flashlight.
"I still have my doubts...with you being a farm boy and all..." Lucy smirks and shrugs. "...but my sister really trusts you...don't let her down."
Never..." Clark replies. "...and thanks for the light."
Lucy nods once again and heads back up the stairs to catch up with Lana. Clark turns around and strokes his arms out as she swims over to the door Lana opened, the water was slowly rising up now, almost to the ceiling. Bart musta been back on the job, and Clark hopes he can keep it up long enough till he can seal the hole up.
Clark takes in a deep breath before submerging under, kicking his legs hard to thrust himself forward and follows the stair case down to the lower levels, the last being where the whole is.
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"Nice and easy..." Lex says reaching out with his free hand to take the knife from Lois as his other kept the gun firmly placed in her back.
"Little girls shouldn't play with such things..." he mocks in a taunting voice. "...now hand it over."
They both pause in place as a loud roaring sound starts up and only grows fearfully louder. Soon a huge wave comes in view, heading fast, straight to them. Lois takes this advantage and spins around in one smooth move, slicing the knife across his cheek.
"Little girl this!" she smirks as she does so.
Lex grabs his face that bleed some from the small cut as the water crashes upon them, impacting their bodies, throwing and washing them down the hall in rapid speeds. Lois is first to surface, couching out the water from her mouth as she gets to her feet and tries to run away in the water that was already to her waist and slowing her down as she tries to get away.
Lex moments later surfaces too, he rubs his face from the water as his head darts around on search for her.
"Lois?!" Lex shouts as he stands and sees her running off as he turns around. "You Bitch, get back here!"
Lois turns her head back for a second to his shout but doesn't stop struggling to rush through the water, her heart pounding in fear as she tries to get away from him and sees as Lex gives chase after her.
"Get back here!" Lex shouts in a crazy voice as he runs after her, no longer having the gun after the flow of the water knocked it from his hand.
"No!" Lois screams as Lex advances on her and tackles her down into the water.
Lois quickly turns on her back and fights against Lex, she trying to bare her fist into his face but he grabs both her wrists and yanks her up to her feet.
"Get off of me!" she screams as he frags her up through the water.
"Game over Lois and my patience is all out to be anymore of a gentlemen."
"Like you ever were!" she smirks, breaking free one of her arms and rams it into his stomach as her right fist meets his jaw before she starts off in a sprint against the water.
Lex reaches out grabbing a handful of her wet hair before she gets far and pulls her back to him, punching his hand into her face, making her turn around and stumble into the wall. She hits her head hard, the force rendering her unconscious as she slumps into the dark water.
Lex comes and squats down in front of her, as he plays idly with a strand of her chestnut hair.
"I guess this is where you and I part way, Miss Lane...No help to find the disk, I'm sure one of the others have it, Chloe perhaps, yes...and like they say, Dead men tell no tales, but not to worry your friends will be joining you soon..."
He stands up and watches as the water level quickly rises, coming up to her neck as she sits there unconscious, before smiling evilly and trudges through the water leaving here there to the mercy of the waters.