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Clark and Crystal still are standing there dumbfounded at Lana's presence.
"Guys I asked what's going on?" Lana repeats herself
"I…. I thought….. I thought you'd left already" Crystal sputters
"Well it looks like it's a good thing I didn't. What's so personal and horrible that you guys can't tell me? That is making you both speechless."
Clark looks at Crystal silently asking her what do to.
"Clark, Crystal someone start talking!" Lana demands getting frustrated
"What did you hear?" Crystal finally manages to get out
"Only that Clark is hiding something, and you don't want him to tell anyone. That this could affect your life greatly that you wouldn't even tell me or your future husband or kids." Lana tells her.
Crystal looks around her room for something to divert Lana's attention. While Clark tries to come up with something to say. Crystal spots a glass vase holding flowers that Lex had recently bought her. She nonchalantly walked over to them and started to fiddle with them.
"It's really no big deal Lana, really." Crystal says lightly
"So why are you completely avoiding the subject?" Lana points out
"Uh well it's kind of hard to explain." She says looking at Clark prodding him on.
"Yea it's complicated" Clark adds nervously
"Crap!" Crystal exclaims as they vase crashes onto the floor splattering into millions of pieces. She leans down to make it look like she is trying to clean it up and swipes a piece of glass over her wrist cutting it, and places a tissue over it as to conceal it.
"Here let me help." Clark offers not noticing what she had just done.
"Your not getting off this easy." Lana warns grabbing the waste basket and holding it out.
"There's nothing to it really." Crystal answers, pulling the tissue out from her sleeve and throwing it out.
"Did you just cut yourself when you dropped it?" Lana asks noticing the blood "Make sure theirs no glass in your hand still."
"Oh don't worry about it." Crystal assures her
"Let me see the cut." Lana instructs
"It's no big deal really." Crystal pulls her sleeve over her hand firmly letting the blood seep into her shirt.
"It's still bleeding" Lana protests pulling up Crystal's sleeve. "Oh Crystal tell me you didn't!" Lana gasps
"It's nothing." Crystal grunts, giving Clark a Look.
Clark gets the hint. "Yea, don't worry about her Lana, we'll deal with it." He says calmly
"How will you deal with it?" Lana asks her voice rising "What if she does again?"
"Hey! Don't talk about me as though I'm not standing right here." Crystal yells
"Lana I said don't worry about it, it's none of your concern anyway." Clark says hotly
"It is too my concern if my best friend is hurting herself and trying to keep it from me, and her brother and my boyfriend think it's a good idea to hide it. She needs help!" Lana shouts
"Hey, hey what's going on in here?" Jonathan says sternly walking in, followed close by Martha.
"You should ask Crystal." Lana tells him
"Crys? What's up?" Jonathan asks
"Nothing. I swear I don't know what she's talking about." Crystal says wide eyed
"She's right dad, nothing's wrong." Clark adds
Lana pulls up Crystal's sleeve and show them her arm. "Nothing's up right?" She asks angrily
Jonathan glances at Martha who's face is now pale. "Lana, you need to leave we need to talk to Crystal."
"I'll walk you out." Martha offers.
Crystal sits down on the bed leaning on her pillows. Clark sits in the chair next to her bed. Martha comes back a moment later. Her and Jonathan's expressions both serious.
"Crystal." Martha asks "Did you cut yourself?"
"Yes, but it's not like you think-"
"Quiet. Is this about Lex?" Jonathan asks gravely
"Dad, Mom listen to me. I had to do it." Crystal protests
"You didn't have to, you could of talked to us." Martha says
"No I coul-"
"Shh." Jonathan shushes her "Don't say anything."
"Lana heard Crystal and I talking about my secret so Crystal covered for me by acting like the secret was this." Clark says quickly before he got interrupted.
It takes a moment for it to register in Jonathan's and Martha's minds before they get it. "Oh….OH I'll go get…." Martha jumps up and hurries back with a Band-Aid and some peroxide. "Here let me see." She takes Crystal's arm in her hands
Crystal sat still listening as her father thanked her for her quick actions to save them. Clark thanked her as well as did her mother.
"Don't worry about it" She assured all of them. "I would do it again." She said as they left her room. Her mother lingered around a moment longer.
"Crystal, the state notified me today that you're to go over Tom's house tomorrow. He apparently left something there for you before he died."
"All right." Crystal nods
"Do you want me to come with you?"
"No. I can handle it."
"All right then, good night."
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"Crystal Kent." Crystal replies when asked her name
"Go on upstairs, in his room I believe." The lawyer informs her
"Thank you." She says as she gingerly walks through the house, she walked the familiar path to Tom's room and walked in. The once sports covered room was now trashed. 'we had to search for clues' a lawyer had informed her. She saw a box in the middle of the room labeled 'Crys' she walked over and opened it. She saw pictures of the two of them, smiling ear to ear in each one. Happy memories flooded through her. As she picked through the box. She found tickets to concerts they'd gone to. Her pom-pom he stole from her saying he needed something of hers in his room at all times. At the very bottom of the box she finds a teddy bear she gave him for his birthday, if had a secret compartment in it and she had hidden his real present in there- tickets a football game he had been dying to go too. She opened it up and found a tape inside. She quickly stuffed it in her pocket and left his house practically running home.
"Her Crys……I guess you finally found the tape huh? Well obviously if you're listening…and if you're not Crys….well you shouldn't be listening…." Crystal smiles at the sound of his voice
"I'm really sorry about the way things have been lately. That day when I blew the windows out of the car I was so freaked…..then I realized I could control it…. I accidentally blew up a bale of hay, then I did it again on purpose. I don't know how this happened either. Then I used it to scare the crap out of you that night at your house. You looked so scared, like I could break you or something. I never saw so much fear in your eyes. I was always your protector, and I had just instilled so much fear into you."
Crystal's eyes welled up with tears as she listened. Clark sat outside her door unknown to Crystal listening as well.
"I had known all along it wasn't Lex coming onto you….you were the one drifting I could see it coming for so long. But you were my first real love everything we shared together I couldn't lose that. I know you still loved me and I know you were starting to feel trapped maybe lost even." Tom's voice got quiet for a moment or so.
"I couldn't control it after a while, I was always angry." Tom's voice starts to break "I killed my own parents I wasn't even close to them when I did, I had to be 10 feet away. I was so mad about a fight we'd had and I followed them and I waited and I killed them. I will never forget my mother's screams that night. I hope that they are ok now. I can only hope for that. And last I wanted to say I want you to move on with your life….and don't picture me in years to come in the stories you tell your children about you first love as some crazy person. And if it's meant for you to be with Lex, then do just that. You'll always be in my heart Crystal Leigh Kent….. always." Then the tape went dead as Tom had become silent.
The words move on echoed in Crystal's mind. She realized she hadn't turned off the tape recorder and was just about to shut it off when she heard Tom's voice once more.
"Crys, tell Clark to be careful with his secret I mean….. even superman has his weaknesses. Maybe if we had all been honest with each other this could of been prevented…oh well what's done is done… Good-Bye." Crystal heard a click then shut off her own tape player.
Clark opens the door to her room. Crystal looks up. "Clark…" She starts
"I have too."
"I'm coming with you." Crystal jumps off the floor and follows him out.
*************
"Hey guys….. what's up?" Lana asks opening her door
"Is Nel home?" Crystal asks
"No… she went out. She'll be gone all day."
"Good." Crystal walks into Lana's house.
"We lied to you." Clark says before Lana could say anything.
"About Crystal cutting herself?"
"That was the lie. I made it up to protect Clark."
"Protect Clark?" Lana repeats
"I have a secret that no one knows, but my family." Clark says sitting on the edge of the couch.
"Like what?" Lana asks nervously
"I came here….. do you remember the meteor shower?" Clark asks
"Of course I do! What has this got to do with anything?" Lana exclaims
"That's when I came here."
"You mean that's when your parents adopted you." Lana supplies
"Lana be patient this isn't easy." Crystal says softly
"I came here, I don't know how to say this…..because of those meteors. My ship landed here, and I crawled out and there was my parents, Crystal was with our grandparents that day."
"Are you kidding? Your ship?" Lana asks standing up
"It's in our basement if you don't believe us." Crystal tells her
Lana stops, "Are you two really serious? Right. Next you're going to say you've got some magical power or something."
Clark side glances at Crystal.
"No way." Lana starts to pace "No freaking way. What are you-"
"You have $30 in your pocket a 20, a 5 and 5 singles." Clark says
Lana looks in her pocket and sure enough finds exactly what Clark said would be there. "How did you?"
"X-Ray vision, don't worry I can control it, I'm not looking through you like that right now."
"What else can you do?" Lana asks her voice softening.
"Lift heavy things, like cars or something like that. I'm really fast I can get to school in about 2 minutes maybe less. I can see through things…. I can't get hurt unless someone has a piece of the meteor. That's my only weakness." Clark says looking down
"You two are really serious." Lana says looking at their grave faces
"Very." Crystal says "So what are you thinking?"
Lana smiles "You mean Clark doesn't know?"
Clark smiles realizing she was taking it ok. "So then you're ok with this?"
"I'm a little weirded out, but yea I'm ok with this."
"You do know you can never tell anyone." Clark asks her.
"Clark I would never." Lana promises
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"Crystal?" Martha walks into her room carrying some of Crystal's laundry. She spots the tape recorder on the floor and picks it up, rewinds it a little and plays it back curious to what it was.
"Crys, tell Clark to be careful with his secret I mean….. even superman has his weaknesses. Maybe if we had all been honest with each other this could of been prevented…oh well what's done is done… Good-Bye."
Martha recognizes Tom's voice immediately and calls for Jonathan and plays it for him.
"Neither of them are here Jonathan." Martha says worried
"Get your coat." Jonathan says running out of the room and to the car.
"Do you think they told her?"
"It's not so much Lana that I'm worried about them telling, what if they decide to tell Lex?" Jonathan asks "He's not Lana, and wont take it the same way, he's supposed to be dead remember?"
Martha's eyes widened at the possibility of this as they rushed off to Lana's house.
To be continued……Lex will be back for the next chapter…. I don't know do you all think Lex should find out? LOL please R&R
Clark and Crystal still are standing there dumbfounded at Lana's presence.
"Guys I asked what's going on?" Lana repeats herself
"I…. I thought….. I thought you'd left already" Crystal sputters
"Well it looks like it's a good thing I didn't. What's so personal and horrible that you guys can't tell me? That is making you both speechless."
Clark looks at Crystal silently asking her what do to.
"Clark, Crystal someone start talking!" Lana demands getting frustrated
"What did you hear?" Crystal finally manages to get out
"Only that Clark is hiding something, and you don't want him to tell anyone. That this could affect your life greatly that you wouldn't even tell me or your future husband or kids." Lana tells her.
Crystal looks around her room for something to divert Lana's attention. While Clark tries to come up with something to say. Crystal spots a glass vase holding flowers that Lex had recently bought her. She nonchalantly walked over to them and started to fiddle with them.
"It's really no big deal Lana, really." Crystal says lightly
"So why are you completely avoiding the subject?" Lana points out
"Uh well it's kind of hard to explain." She says looking at Clark prodding him on.
"Yea it's complicated" Clark adds nervously
"Crap!" Crystal exclaims as they vase crashes onto the floor splattering into millions of pieces. She leans down to make it look like she is trying to clean it up and swipes a piece of glass over her wrist cutting it, and places a tissue over it as to conceal it.
"Here let me help." Clark offers not noticing what she had just done.
"Your not getting off this easy." Lana warns grabbing the waste basket and holding it out.
"There's nothing to it really." Crystal answers, pulling the tissue out from her sleeve and throwing it out.
"Did you just cut yourself when you dropped it?" Lana asks noticing the blood "Make sure theirs no glass in your hand still."
"Oh don't worry about it." Crystal assures her
"Let me see the cut." Lana instructs
"It's no big deal really." Crystal pulls her sleeve over her hand firmly letting the blood seep into her shirt.
"It's still bleeding" Lana protests pulling up Crystal's sleeve. "Oh Crystal tell me you didn't!" Lana gasps
"It's nothing." Crystal grunts, giving Clark a Look.
Clark gets the hint. "Yea, don't worry about her Lana, we'll deal with it." He says calmly
"How will you deal with it?" Lana asks her voice rising "What if she does again?"
"Hey! Don't talk about me as though I'm not standing right here." Crystal yells
"Lana I said don't worry about it, it's none of your concern anyway." Clark says hotly
"It is too my concern if my best friend is hurting herself and trying to keep it from me, and her brother and my boyfriend think it's a good idea to hide it. She needs help!" Lana shouts
"Hey, hey what's going on in here?" Jonathan says sternly walking in, followed close by Martha.
"You should ask Crystal." Lana tells him
"Crys? What's up?" Jonathan asks
"Nothing. I swear I don't know what she's talking about." Crystal says wide eyed
"She's right dad, nothing's wrong." Clark adds
Lana pulls up Crystal's sleeve and show them her arm. "Nothing's up right?" She asks angrily
Jonathan glances at Martha who's face is now pale. "Lana, you need to leave we need to talk to Crystal."
"I'll walk you out." Martha offers.
Crystal sits down on the bed leaning on her pillows. Clark sits in the chair next to her bed. Martha comes back a moment later. Her and Jonathan's expressions both serious.
"Crystal." Martha asks "Did you cut yourself?"
"Yes, but it's not like you think-"
"Quiet. Is this about Lex?" Jonathan asks gravely
"Dad, Mom listen to me. I had to do it." Crystal protests
"You didn't have to, you could of talked to us." Martha says
"No I coul-"
"Shh." Jonathan shushes her "Don't say anything."
"Lana heard Crystal and I talking about my secret so Crystal covered for me by acting like the secret was this." Clark says quickly before he got interrupted.
It takes a moment for it to register in Jonathan's and Martha's minds before they get it. "Oh….OH I'll go get…." Martha jumps up and hurries back with a Band-Aid and some peroxide. "Here let me see." She takes Crystal's arm in her hands
Crystal sat still listening as her father thanked her for her quick actions to save them. Clark thanked her as well as did her mother.
"Don't worry about it" She assured all of them. "I would do it again." She said as they left her room. Her mother lingered around a moment longer.
"Crystal, the state notified me today that you're to go over Tom's house tomorrow. He apparently left something there for you before he died."
"All right." Crystal nods
"Do you want me to come with you?"
"No. I can handle it."
"All right then, good night."
**********************
"Crystal Kent." Crystal replies when asked her name
"Go on upstairs, in his room I believe." The lawyer informs her
"Thank you." She says as she gingerly walks through the house, she walked the familiar path to Tom's room and walked in. The once sports covered room was now trashed. 'we had to search for clues' a lawyer had informed her. She saw a box in the middle of the room labeled 'Crys' she walked over and opened it. She saw pictures of the two of them, smiling ear to ear in each one. Happy memories flooded through her. As she picked through the box. She found tickets to concerts they'd gone to. Her pom-pom he stole from her saying he needed something of hers in his room at all times. At the very bottom of the box she finds a teddy bear she gave him for his birthday, if had a secret compartment in it and she had hidden his real present in there- tickets a football game he had been dying to go too. She opened it up and found a tape inside. She quickly stuffed it in her pocket and left his house practically running home.
"Her Crys……I guess you finally found the tape huh? Well obviously if you're listening…and if you're not Crys….well you shouldn't be listening…." Crystal smiles at the sound of his voice
"I'm really sorry about the way things have been lately. That day when I blew the windows out of the car I was so freaked…..then I realized I could control it…. I accidentally blew up a bale of hay, then I did it again on purpose. I don't know how this happened either. Then I used it to scare the crap out of you that night at your house. You looked so scared, like I could break you or something. I never saw so much fear in your eyes. I was always your protector, and I had just instilled so much fear into you."
Crystal's eyes welled up with tears as she listened. Clark sat outside her door unknown to Crystal listening as well.
"I had known all along it wasn't Lex coming onto you….you were the one drifting I could see it coming for so long. But you were my first real love everything we shared together I couldn't lose that. I know you still loved me and I know you were starting to feel trapped maybe lost even." Tom's voice got quiet for a moment or so.
"I couldn't control it after a while, I was always angry." Tom's voice starts to break "I killed my own parents I wasn't even close to them when I did, I had to be 10 feet away. I was so mad about a fight we'd had and I followed them and I waited and I killed them. I will never forget my mother's screams that night. I hope that they are ok now. I can only hope for that. And last I wanted to say I want you to move on with your life….and don't picture me in years to come in the stories you tell your children about you first love as some crazy person. And if it's meant for you to be with Lex, then do just that. You'll always be in my heart Crystal Leigh Kent….. always." Then the tape went dead as Tom had become silent.
The words move on echoed in Crystal's mind. She realized she hadn't turned off the tape recorder and was just about to shut it off when she heard Tom's voice once more.
"Crys, tell Clark to be careful with his secret I mean….. even superman has his weaknesses. Maybe if we had all been honest with each other this could of been prevented…oh well what's done is done… Good-Bye." Crystal heard a click then shut off her own tape player.
Clark opens the door to her room. Crystal looks up. "Clark…" She starts
"I have too."
"I'm coming with you." Crystal jumps off the floor and follows him out.
*************
"Hey guys….. what's up?" Lana asks opening her door
"Is Nel home?" Crystal asks
"No… she went out. She'll be gone all day."
"Good." Crystal walks into Lana's house.
"We lied to you." Clark says before Lana could say anything.
"About Crystal cutting herself?"
"That was the lie. I made it up to protect Clark."
"Protect Clark?" Lana repeats
"I have a secret that no one knows, but my family." Clark says sitting on the edge of the couch.
"Like what?" Lana asks nervously
"I came here….. do you remember the meteor shower?" Clark asks
"Of course I do! What has this got to do with anything?" Lana exclaims
"That's when I came here."
"You mean that's when your parents adopted you." Lana supplies
"Lana be patient this isn't easy." Crystal says softly
"I came here, I don't know how to say this…..because of those meteors. My ship landed here, and I crawled out and there was my parents, Crystal was with our grandparents that day."
"Are you kidding? Your ship?" Lana asks standing up
"It's in our basement if you don't believe us." Crystal tells her
Lana stops, "Are you two really serious? Right. Next you're going to say you've got some magical power or something."
Clark side glances at Crystal.
"No way." Lana starts to pace "No freaking way. What are you-"
"You have $30 in your pocket a 20, a 5 and 5 singles." Clark says
Lana looks in her pocket and sure enough finds exactly what Clark said would be there. "How did you?"
"X-Ray vision, don't worry I can control it, I'm not looking through you like that right now."
"What else can you do?" Lana asks her voice softening.
"Lift heavy things, like cars or something like that. I'm really fast I can get to school in about 2 minutes maybe less. I can see through things…. I can't get hurt unless someone has a piece of the meteor. That's my only weakness." Clark says looking down
"You two are really serious." Lana says looking at their grave faces
"Very." Crystal says "So what are you thinking?"
Lana smiles "You mean Clark doesn't know?"
Clark smiles realizing she was taking it ok. "So then you're ok with this?"
"I'm a little weirded out, but yea I'm ok with this."
"You do know you can never tell anyone." Clark asks her.
"Clark I would never." Lana promises
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"Crystal?" Martha walks into her room carrying some of Crystal's laundry. She spots the tape recorder on the floor and picks it up, rewinds it a little and plays it back curious to what it was.
"Crys, tell Clark to be careful with his secret I mean….. even superman has his weaknesses. Maybe if we had all been honest with each other this could of been prevented…oh well what's done is done… Good-Bye."
Martha recognizes Tom's voice immediately and calls for Jonathan and plays it for him.
"Neither of them are here Jonathan." Martha says worried
"Get your coat." Jonathan says running out of the room and to the car.
"Do you think they told her?"
"It's not so much Lana that I'm worried about them telling, what if they decide to tell Lex?" Jonathan asks "He's not Lana, and wont take it the same way, he's supposed to be dead remember?"
Martha's eyes widened at the possibility of this as they rushed off to Lana's house.
To be continued……Lex will be back for the next chapter…. I don't know do you all think Lex should find out? LOL please R&R