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, infidelity, and some prayer.

A/N: Thank you to everyone whom has favorited, followed, reviewed, and/or Private Messaged me about CMK. I hope I haven't lost any readers with the turn the last chapter took.

I apologize once more for the lateness of chapters. I should never hope for my life to get less hectic; because, apparently, all that does is make my life even more hectic. However, I do have two chapters to post for today. I know, I know, I'm at least three weeks behind; but, hopefully two chapters today will make up for some of that. I'll do my best to get a third chapter up this weekend but no promises due to how my life has been the past few weeks.

Again I greatly apologize for the inconvenience of delayed chapters when I had such a set schedule at the beginning.

If anyone has any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer them and I'll also do my best to not let my answers build up like I did in the past.

So far, I've been responding with Private Messages to anyone with an account; but, if Guests have questions, I'll answer them here; unless like in the past, the questions overlap then I'll just respond here.

As for the Guest Lauren's question, as to what's happening with Lana being a scorned woman and poisoning Claire; and, Lex protecting Claire even though he's rather creepy.

My answer is this, there is more going behind the scenes than what I and the characters have shown this far. However, later on, you will see some of those very scenes in flashbacks, dialogue, and/or thoughts.

Thank you to you all for your patience and for your wonderful feedback.

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 Fourteen

The Creditor

The jet landed at Metropolis airport. Once outside of the airport, Claire spun in a circle with her arms out stretched. Oliver smiled for Claire looked so happy to be standing out in the sun. She had been cooped up while at Pete's; unable to leave the house due to Lex and Lana not letting Claire have a moment a lone and Jasmine keeping a jealous eye on Claire if she so much as tried to go play basketball with Pete.

Bart too noticed how relaxed Claire seemed in the sun; he also noticed that though Oliver had a small smile on his face and that he appeared somewhat relaxed, the muscle in Oliver's shoulders gave away the fact that he was also tense.

Bart shook his head to clear his thoughts; he needed to focus on the problem at hand and worry about his sister's relationship at another time. Her farm was the thing that mattered at that moment.

As if reading Bart's thoughts, Oliver said, "We should get going."

Bart frowned as did Victor and AC. While the three men understood that things should be taken care of sooner rather than later, they were happy to let Claire have a few moments of peace before facing off with whomever held the debt on her farm. As it stood they even believed that it might help her gather her thoughts and give her an edge over whomever was trying to take it from her.

Oliver moved over towards Claire whom was just standing in the sun now; with her eyes closed and smiling. Oliver spoke so quietly to her the other three couldn't hear what was being said; but they watched as Claire nodded and began to walk; Oliver called them to follow and then as if in after thought, said, "By the way, I'm going to be giving you punishment; I'm not sure yet what you'll be doing but, I'll think of something."

AC, Bart, and Victor froze as none of them were thrilled by the revelation of having punishment duty after being scolded so thoroughly. They were also concerned that Oliver had ulterior motives for giving them that extra duty as it would make it harder for the three of them to keep a close eye on the relationship that appeared to be developing between Claire and Oliver.

AC and Victor met each other's eyes and came to an agreement, they would let this conversation go, for now; but they would bring it up again, after the situation with the Kent Farm was dealt with.

When they arrived at the farm, Kara was distraught. Claire and Kara went up to the loft to speak privately about what they were going to do about losing the farm. Meanwhile, Oliver was in the upstairs of the house in Claire's room talking on his cellphone. One of his contacts had come through for him and had learned a lot; "Mr. Queen, I'm sorry to inform you, but the debt is very real though it has switched hands since it first came about."

"Explain."

"According to a contract signed by Jonathon Kent and the Smallville Bank, there was a substantial amount of money taken out during his campaign. That debt was paid off by Lionel Luthor, he and Jonathon had come to some sort of agreement; but now that debt has been handed over to Lex Luthor as practice for when he is in charge of Lionel's financial business which he is to inherit along with his father's empire. Lex is the one whom is ordering the debt to be paid. Otherwise, he will take the farm and sell it for all the money he can get.

"Thank you;" and with that the conversation was ended.

Outside in the barn, Claire's cellphone rang and she answered it even though she didn't recognize the number; "Hello."

"Hello, Claire. Sorry that I changed my number; though right now I'm glad I did, or you'd never have picked up; I'm sure."

Claire swallowed hard at the voice. Her own voice shook as she asked, "What do you want, Lex?"

Kara instantly super-sped to the house to get Oliver, she had to tell him that Lex Luthor was on the phone with Claire. She never imagined that the conversation would go the way it did; for she had yet to find out that Lex was the one whom was calling in the debt collectors.

"I'm in Smallville. As soon as I heard you left, I knew I couldn't stay any longer. You see, Claire, I want you to do me a favor."

"Why would I do you any favors?"

"Because, I'm the one who set the debt collectors on your trail; I figured that you'd want to pay it off to me directly rather than go through a middle man."

"And just what is it you want me to do, Lex?"

"Think, Claire, Think real hard. I'll call back in an hour; you can give me your answer then." Lex hung up and left Claire to think it over.

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