Bad News

Disclaimer: Just something I started thinking about and I kinda think Clark would react like this if it had happened on the show. AU in the sense that Lex and Helen are a very happy couple with a kid and set around season 6 and both are aware of Clark's secret. Lana never left Paris and wasn't possessed.

Summary: Some bad news hits where a figure from the past is concerned.


"Thank you, I appreciate letting me know a great deal." Lex said to the person on the other side of the phone with a heavy frown on his face.

Something Helen noticed as she came into his work office at the mansion and immediately grew concerned. "Lex, what's the matter?"

She watched as he hung up his phone and put it down with a sigh and looked towards his wife. "It appears tha-" A loud crash outside of the mansion kept him from continuing and he sighed again.

"Damn, he knows."

"Who knows what?" Helen asked as they rushed out to where the crash had been heard in the front yard of the mansion. The cause of the crash being a big piece of the Kent Farm Barn.

"Clark's just found out that Timothy Westcott escaped from Belle Reve." Informed Lex grimly in a knowing manner, much to his wife's immense shock and horror.

"You, you can't be serious."

"I am, unfortunately. I just hope he's not stupid enough to come back here."

Granted, that probably wouldn't stop Clark from going in search of Westcott as that kid is one of the few things in life that can get under Clark's skin in a really bad way. "I certainly hope not…" Helen murmured.

All too easily remembering those days after Alicia's murder and Tim's arrest and incarceration after he'd been found and stopped by Clark. And in the aftermath of it all... Clark's guilt and dark depression. To this day, the bonds between Clark and his parents were still a little on the frayed side and contact between himself and Chloe was pretty much still non-existent much to Lois' dismay.

Elsewhere at the Kent Farm

A shocked Oliver Queen and Bart Allen could only stare in shocked silence at the state of the Kent Farm Barn after Clark's angry rampage before he sped off. Neither having ever seen him do that and being damned worried because of it. The only clue either had was someone named 'Tim Westcott' but why he would invoke such a reaction from Clark was beyond them. "Uhh… What should we do, dude?"

"Talk to the Kents, see what they have to say. Maybe even Lois." Oliver replied with a frown.

Whatever or whoever this Tim Westcott is, needed to be nipped in the bud real quick before Clark's anger causes him to make a mistake.


Author's Notes: Oh yeah, definitely needs to be nipped in the bud!