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(2nd to last day of school)
Crystal walks into the kitchen early the next morning hoping not to run into her father.
"You can't avoid him forever" Martha says walking into the kitchen
"And he's not trying to avoid me?" Crystal replies gathering her books. "I'll see you later mom" Crystal waves and leaves
"Want a ride?" Lex pulls up next to her on the road
Crystal ponders it for a second then smiles "Sure." She climbs in
"I haven't seen you much lately." Lex says pulling away from the side of the road.
"Things have been weird lately, I'm sorry to of left you in the cold."
"It's all right, I wish you had let me know what was going on though" Lex glances at her "Anything you want to talk about?"
"Lana and I got into a fight" Crystal replies "A couple of days ago and then I lied to her and I've never done that before aside from the thing about……. Clark."
"What happened?"
Crystal closes her eyes picturing the event.
"Crystal I need to talk to you" Lana pulls Crystal aside during lunch. Lana looks around first "I'm not going"
Crystal glances at her confused "Going where?" She asks smiling
"On the trip, I can't leave not now."
Crystal stops and stares at Lana "What do you mean you're not going we had this planned out."
"I can't do that to Clark, we just got together and we got through all these obstacles it wouldn't be fair to just pick up and leave like that."
"You have things to work out, you wanted to get away though" Crystal replies
"No. You've been having problems with your father, and you've been confused about how you feel towards Clark. And I don't think you know whether or not you should of trusted Lex, your going in this big circle. You need to stay here and work it-"
"I'm not staying" Crystal says firmly
"You need to stay here and work it out, leaving wont help." Lana repeats herself
"You know what? You stay I don't need you to tag along, you'd slow me down anyway." Crystal bites her lip regretting the words immediately
"You don't mean that." Lana says softly "Why don't you just stay with me a few days."
"I wouldn't want to stay where I wasn't welcomed"
"Crys you're overreacting about this."
"Of course I am." Crystal replies sarcastically, she stands up "I'll see you in a few weeks then."
"Crys don't do this."
"Why not? I have no reason to stay in Smallville."
"It's your home."
"Smallville." Crystal pauses "Smallville is home to the unnatural, the impossible, unbelievable. I don't belong in there. Clark does, Tom did, you do."
Lana's faces clouds over. "What?"
"I didn't really expect you to leave. You would never move on from this place it's the first and last place you have of your parents. I wouldn't ever dare to expect you to move on with life." Crystal says coldly
Lana stands up and stalks away angrily. Crystal walks away without looking back.
"Crystal?" Lex interrupts her thoughts
"What? Oh it's no big deal." Crystal brushes it off
"You sure?" Lex asks concerned
"Are you working today?" Crystal asks suddenly
"No, I don't have anything really imperative at hand to take care of right now, why?"
"Want to do something?"
"What about school?"
"I only have today and tomorrow, I wont be missing anything."
"Sure." Lex changes direction and goes in the direction of his house.
They pull into his driveway a few minutes later. Crystal gets out and walks to his front door. Lex walks up next to her and lets her in.
"You want anything?" Lex offers
"No, I'm not hungry."
"You look slightly pale are you sick?"
"No." Crystal shakes her head and sits down.
"I've been talking to Clark lately more than I've talked to you." Lex says casually
"I'm sorry about that."
"No worries, he says you've been preoccupied, between finals and your father. Clark said it seemed like you were having an identity crisis."
"Clark's wrong." Crystal says abruptly
"I hate to contradict your word but I'm worried about you." Lex admits
"I wish you weren't"
"I'm aware of that I know. Clark said that you've been more introverted lately."
"Has he been looking through my walls of something?" Crystal asks sarcastically
"Only once, upon my request" Lex says jokingly, Crystal glances at him and smiles.
"You're hilarious Lex." Crystal smiles as Lex sits down next to her.
"Anything to make you smile" He strokes her hair and she leans her head back against his chest. "Promise me something" Lex says
"What's that?"
"That you wont keep something from me like you had again, that you'll talk to me and we'll work it out. That's what I'm here for. I'm on your side."
"Promise" Crystal answers softly giving him a kiss.
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Crystal walks into her house that evening shortly after dinner, Clark is in the living room where he can hear everything.
"Talk to her Jonathan" Martha nudges him
"Crystal where were you today? Your school called you never came in." Jonathan tells her
"That was smooth dad, I don't think that's what mom was aiming for." Crystal says to him
"Answer me Crystal." Jonathan says firmly
"Nice to see you care so much" Crystal smiles "I was with Lex."
"You were with Lex? Lex Luthor?"
"I don't know of any other Lex's do you?" Crystal asks innocently
"Crystal I'm not joking around here" Jonathan raises his voice
"I'm not either, I wanted to spend the day with Lex, so I did."
"But you had us worried, we had no idea where you were." Martha jumps in.
"Besides the fact I don't particularly like the idea of you spending time with Lex, along no less."
"Why? One more smudge on my list? No big deal." Crystal says nonchalantly "Dad, I'm a big girl I can hang out with whomever I like whenever I like."
"Not under my roof you can't, you're to oblige to my word."
"All hail the mighty king" Crystal quips
"Go to your room."
"What?"
"Go to your room and don't leave until school tomorrow, you are grounded you cannot see Lex or go out until I say you may. Do you understand?"
"I understand that you dislike my boyfriend as much as I love him." Crystal gets up. "But whatever."
"Jonathan stop" Martha takes hold of his arm "You've said enough, keep hold of your temper."
Crystal runs up to her room and lays down on her bed. She falls asleep shortly after with a slight smile playing on her lips.
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"Did Crystal leave for school yet?" Martha asks Clark the next morning
"I think so I heard her in the bathroom before." Clark shrugs "Where's dad?"
"He started on his chores already." Martha frowns "The two of them are so unbelievably stubborn, I can hardly take it."
"Dad was hard on her though, saying she can't see Lex."
"I know, but it's hard to put the past behind you sometimes."
"It's Lex's father dad has a problem with not Lex." Clark reminds her "I'll see you later mom"
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"Hey Lana" Clark greets her at school.
Lana looks around nervously "Have you seen Crystal?"
"No why? You two make up?"
"No, but did she come to school?"
"She was gone by the time I had left." Clark answers
"For school?"
"That'd be my guess, why what's wrong?"
"Are you sure she came to school? I haven't seen her, neither has Chloe or Peter."
"Why are you getting people to look for her?" Clark asks suspiciously "She's probably hiding out somewhere she got into a fight with my father again yesterday cause she spent all of yesterday with Lex."
"She what?" Lana asks "Clark she did that on purpose."
"Did what?"
"Insinuate a fight with your father."
"How do you know that? You haven't been talking to her lately." Clark says narrowing his eyes
"We were going to leave today, get out of here for a while. But I didn't want to leave you so I told her I wasn't going to go and we got into a fight and she said she was going to go anyway." Lana tells him
"So she'd be where right now?"
"You're guess is as good as mine." Lana shrugs
"Was she going to go with Lex?"
Lana shakes her head "She took money out of her account- a lot of money."
"Damn" Clark looks away "Come on we've got to find her."
"Clark maybe we should let her go." Lana tells him
"No." Clark answers firmly
"You can't protect her forever. And you don't know where she's going so you couldn't even find her." Lana reasons
"One person will know where to find her." Clark replies
"Who?"
"Lex. Come on let's go." Clark runs out of school and Lana hurries to catch up with him.
Crystal looks up as the bus pulls in front of the station and grabs her bag and climbs on. She finds a seat and leans her head against the window waiting for the bus to start.
To be continued…… next chapter is going to be like Clark to the rescue kind of thing if anyone has anything they want to happen tell me and I'll try to work it in.
(2nd to last day of school)
Crystal walks into the kitchen early the next morning hoping not to run into her father.
"You can't avoid him forever" Martha says walking into the kitchen
"And he's not trying to avoid me?" Crystal replies gathering her books. "I'll see you later mom" Crystal waves and leaves
"Want a ride?" Lex pulls up next to her on the road
Crystal ponders it for a second then smiles "Sure." She climbs in
"I haven't seen you much lately." Lex says pulling away from the side of the road.
"Things have been weird lately, I'm sorry to of left you in the cold."
"It's all right, I wish you had let me know what was going on though" Lex glances at her "Anything you want to talk about?"
"Lana and I got into a fight" Crystal replies "A couple of days ago and then I lied to her and I've never done that before aside from the thing about……. Clark."
"What happened?"
Crystal closes her eyes picturing the event.
"Crystal I need to talk to you" Lana pulls Crystal aside during lunch. Lana looks around first "I'm not going"
Crystal glances at her confused "Going where?" She asks smiling
"On the trip, I can't leave not now."
Crystal stops and stares at Lana "What do you mean you're not going we had this planned out."
"I can't do that to Clark, we just got together and we got through all these obstacles it wouldn't be fair to just pick up and leave like that."
"You have things to work out, you wanted to get away though" Crystal replies
"No. You've been having problems with your father, and you've been confused about how you feel towards Clark. And I don't think you know whether or not you should of trusted Lex, your going in this big circle. You need to stay here and work it-"
"I'm not staying" Crystal says firmly
"You need to stay here and work it out, leaving wont help." Lana repeats herself
"You know what? You stay I don't need you to tag along, you'd slow me down anyway." Crystal bites her lip regretting the words immediately
"You don't mean that." Lana says softly "Why don't you just stay with me a few days."
"I wouldn't want to stay where I wasn't welcomed"
"Crys you're overreacting about this."
"Of course I am." Crystal replies sarcastically, she stands up "I'll see you in a few weeks then."
"Crys don't do this."
"Why not? I have no reason to stay in Smallville."
"It's your home."
"Smallville." Crystal pauses "Smallville is home to the unnatural, the impossible, unbelievable. I don't belong in there. Clark does, Tom did, you do."
Lana's faces clouds over. "What?"
"I didn't really expect you to leave. You would never move on from this place it's the first and last place you have of your parents. I wouldn't ever dare to expect you to move on with life." Crystal says coldly
Lana stands up and stalks away angrily. Crystal walks away without looking back.
"Crystal?" Lex interrupts her thoughts
"What? Oh it's no big deal." Crystal brushes it off
"You sure?" Lex asks concerned
"Are you working today?" Crystal asks suddenly
"No, I don't have anything really imperative at hand to take care of right now, why?"
"Want to do something?"
"What about school?"
"I only have today and tomorrow, I wont be missing anything."
"Sure." Lex changes direction and goes in the direction of his house.
They pull into his driveway a few minutes later. Crystal gets out and walks to his front door. Lex walks up next to her and lets her in.
"You want anything?" Lex offers
"No, I'm not hungry."
"You look slightly pale are you sick?"
"No." Crystal shakes her head and sits down.
"I've been talking to Clark lately more than I've talked to you." Lex says casually
"I'm sorry about that."
"No worries, he says you've been preoccupied, between finals and your father. Clark said it seemed like you were having an identity crisis."
"Clark's wrong." Crystal says abruptly
"I hate to contradict your word but I'm worried about you." Lex admits
"I wish you weren't"
"I'm aware of that I know. Clark said that you've been more introverted lately."
"Has he been looking through my walls of something?" Crystal asks sarcastically
"Only once, upon my request" Lex says jokingly, Crystal glances at him and smiles.
"You're hilarious Lex." Crystal smiles as Lex sits down next to her.
"Anything to make you smile" He strokes her hair and she leans her head back against his chest. "Promise me something" Lex says
"What's that?"
"That you wont keep something from me like you had again, that you'll talk to me and we'll work it out. That's what I'm here for. I'm on your side."
"Promise" Crystal answers softly giving him a kiss.
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Crystal walks into her house that evening shortly after dinner, Clark is in the living room where he can hear everything.
"Talk to her Jonathan" Martha nudges him
"Crystal where were you today? Your school called you never came in." Jonathan tells her
"That was smooth dad, I don't think that's what mom was aiming for." Crystal says to him
"Answer me Crystal." Jonathan says firmly
"Nice to see you care so much" Crystal smiles "I was with Lex."
"You were with Lex? Lex Luthor?"
"I don't know of any other Lex's do you?" Crystal asks innocently
"Crystal I'm not joking around here" Jonathan raises his voice
"I'm not either, I wanted to spend the day with Lex, so I did."
"But you had us worried, we had no idea where you were." Martha jumps in.
"Besides the fact I don't particularly like the idea of you spending time with Lex, along no less."
"Why? One more smudge on my list? No big deal." Crystal says nonchalantly "Dad, I'm a big girl I can hang out with whomever I like whenever I like."
"Not under my roof you can't, you're to oblige to my word."
"All hail the mighty king" Crystal quips
"Go to your room."
"What?"
"Go to your room and don't leave until school tomorrow, you are grounded you cannot see Lex or go out until I say you may. Do you understand?"
"I understand that you dislike my boyfriend as much as I love him." Crystal gets up. "But whatever."
"Jonathan stop" Martha takes hold of his arm "You've said enough, keep hold of your temper."
Crystal runs up to her room and lays down on her bed. She falls asleep shortly after with a slight smile playing on her lips.
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"Did Crystal leave for school yet?" Martha asks Clark the next morning
"I think so I heard her in the bathroom before." Clark shrugs "Where's dad?"
"He started on his chores already." Martha frowns "The two of them are so unbelievably stubborn, I can hardly take it."
"Dad was hard on her though, saying she can't see Lex."
"I know, but it's hard to put the past behind you sometimes."
"It's Lex's father dad has a problem with not Lex." Clark reminds her "I'll see you later mom"
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"Hey Lana" Clark greets her at school.
Lana looks around nervously "Have you seen Crystal?"
"No why? You two make up?"
"No, but did she come to school?"
"She was gone by the time I had left." Clark answers
"For school?"
"That'd be my guess, why what's wrong?"
"Are you sure she came to school? I haven't seen her, neither has Chloe or Peter."
"Why are you getting people to look for her?" Clark asks suspiciously "She's probably hiding out somewhere she got into a fight with my father again yesterday cause she spent all of yesterday with Lex."
"She what?" Lana asks "Clark she did that on purpose."
"Did what?"
"Insinuate a fight with your father."
"How do you know that? You haven't been talking to her lately." Clark says narrowing his eyes
"We were going to leave today, get out of here for a while. But I didn't want to leave you so I told her I wasn't going to go and we got into a fight and she said she was going to go anyway." Lana tells him
"So she'd be where right now?"
"You're guess is as good as mine." Lana shrugs
"Was she going to go with Lex?"
Lana shakes her head "She took money out of her account- a lot of money."
"Damn" Clark looks away "Come on we've got to find her."
"Clark maybe we should let her go." Lana tells him
"No." Clark answers firmly
"You can't protect her forever. And you don't know where she's going so you couldn't even find her." Lana reasons
"One person will know where to find her." Clark replies
"Who?"
"Lex. Come on let's go." Clark runs out of school and Lana hurries to catch up with him.
Crystal looks up as the bus pulls in front of the station and grabs her bag and climbs on. She finds a seat and leans her head against the window waiting for the bus to start.
To be continued…… next chapter is going to be like Clark to the rescue kind of thing if anyone has anything they want to happen tell me and I'll try to work it in.