Reviving the Past
By Test of Faith
Chapter 1: Somnium Locus
Rating: PG-13 (a nice cursing sentence, kinda lets out all the curse words running through my head for the next week)
Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville or it's people. I do own Kat, Tess, and anyone having to do with the Assembly, I don't own Sirius or anything having to do with Harry Potter, those rights go to J. K. Rowling, Scholastic book company, and a bunch of other people I don't know.
Spoilers: Obscura
A/N: hey. The title is in Latin, it translates to "Dream Place" in case you wanted to know. Also there's something else in there that's in Latin, I'll put the translations at the end. Um, I'm just translating these from a little Latin/English dictionary I have, so the sentences aren't exactly like they would be if they were translated right (for those of you that speak it)
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Clark tossed and turned in bed never able to find a comfortable position. Quickly he glanced at the clock, 3 am, he'd been awake for the last three hours trying to sleep, but every time he closed his eyes a strange image appeared in his mind that seemed like something he didn't want to go to sleep to.
~*~
"Why do you keep coming?" Clark asked Kat as he quickly glanced around the field.
"Because you keep calling me, and as long as you call me I will come," Kat answered catching Clark off guard for a second with her English accent.
"I didn't call you, though," Clark tried to explain.
"But you did. I wouldn't be here otherwise, and against popular belief from fledglings and elders alike, I do actually need sleep," Kat said glaring. "Who are you?"
"First who are you?" Clark asked not sure about the girl was talking about.
"I asked first," Kat answered making a quick motion with her hand before a bolt of lightning hit the ground feet from Clark.
"This is my dream!" Clark yelled losing his normal control over his anger, surprising himself.
"You're trespassing on Assembly property, you're breaking over fourteen rules, and I'm breaking about five by not taking you in right now, I should take you in to Rena she will not be happy, especially since I'm supposed to be in Metropolis right now. I'm supposed to get rested up before going to stay with these people in probably one of the smallest towns in the world, lucky for me it's appropriately named so I don't have to go remembering names of stupid little towns, where I must evade attacks and all other kinds of unhappy things," Kat ranted loudly as a large stone appeared behind her and she sat down. Then, suddenly she looked up at him quizzically, "Did you say that this is your dream?"
"Yeah, and I don't happen to like that you keep pulling me back to this place," Clark said voicing his thoughts with a sigh.
"Whatever, I don't happen to have fun breaking rules, so I wouldn't be calling you here, it's instinct for fledglings to call people to the fields, seems safer than in the castle, but it's not," Kat said her head now in her hands. "The darkness is closing in, next time you call me, find someway of meeting inside, where He can't hear us!"
"Ah, sweet beauty you have found me out," an ominous voice said out of nowhere.
"Sweet mother fuck in hell, you're creepy!" Kat, surprised, yelled at the voice.
"You flatter me too sweetly dear," the voice answered in a voice that could raise the dead then kill it again.
"That's the evil I'm talking about, lucky for me he's not full fledging," Kat told Clark. "Just stay away from him and you'll be more than safe."
"I'd stay away from anyone with that voice any day," Clark whispered.
"Take my hand, we'll get someplace safer," Kat said standing up and holding out her hand.
Clark took her hand, wanting more than anything to get away from the voice and the dizzifying feeling that came with it. Instantly he felt like he were being jerked away from Kat, but she held tight and the feeling went away as they appeared in a medieval style sitting room. As soon as she let go of his hand, Kat walked across the room to a large cabinet. Opening it up revealed a large collection of weapons.
"Choose one, I need to find out your skill level," she said stepping out of the way so that he could see inside.
"What?" Clark asked not totally understanding what she had gone onto.
"Choose one, you'll attack me, and I'll be able to see how far you are in training," Kat said motioning for him to come closer.
"What, I'm not going to attack you," Clark said as if she were crazy.
"Then fine, I won't train you to control your powers, and you won't ever reach the maximum of you strength, speed, or agility," Kat said taking a large jeweled dagger out of the cabinet. "Cur intr pron accipĕre ille novusa unusum?"
Quickly, she aimed and threw it at Clark, making him jump to the floor so as not to be hit. Hitting the floor, he looked up at her like she was even more insane than he had thought.
"See, if I were training you, you'd be able to get out of the way of the flying dagger without hitting the floor," Kat scolded. Then, motioning to the dagger that had lodged itself into the wall, she said, "Pervenire retrogradi pugio."
Clark flattened himself out and the dagger flew back into her hand.
"You haven't gotten it yet, have you?" Kat asked holding out her hand, which he willing took.
"Gotten what?" Clark asked dusting invisible dust off his jacket.
"That your not normal, that you have unlimited powers if you just use them right," Kat said.
"No, I know I'm not normal," Clark corrected.
"Oh, so you have discovered your powers?" Kat asked unbelievingly. "Your extra speed, your extra strength, the x-ray vision?"
"How'd you-?" Clark started to ask.
"I have them too, everyone here does," Kat answered as she raised a hand slowly, palm up, in the air. As she did this her dagger, that she had somewhere in the last few moments up down on the floor, started to rise slowly. "You should be able to do this also, if you have proper training. But the x-ray vision, that goes away after your first real transformation. You do have the powers right? You're not just lying to me?"
"No," Clark said almost fearlessly.
"Then why did you duck when I threw my dagger at you?" Kat asked pensively.
"I don't know, human nature I guess," Clark answered not sure of what this was leading up to.
"Hmm, the human race, yes, that does make perfect sense. How good it would be to be human again, though," Kat said wistfully.
"Hey, what's happening?" Clark asked suddenly breaking Kat out of her thoughts as he slowly became transparent.
"Time for you to go," Kat said assuring-ly.
"One question, though," Clark said as his hand disappeared.
"Yes?" Kat answered waiting for him to ask whatever he wanted to ask.
"Are you real?" Clark asked making sure that this wasn't just some dream that had no meaning but to confuse and annoy him.
"As real as you are," Kat said before he vanished. Then, whispering to herself, "As real as you are."
~*~
"Clark," Martha called as she knocked on Clark's bedroom door. "Clark, time to get up."
Glancing at the alarm clock, Clark saw that it was 10:39 already.
"Ugh," he groaned before getting up and getting ready for the day at top speed.
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Tranlations:
Cur intr pron accipĕre ille novusa unusum à why must I get the new ones
Pervenire retrogradi pugio à come back dagger
