Cassie rammed her sore shoulder against the door again but it still held tight. "PAPA!!" she called out as she started to cry again.

"He's not coming Cassandra."

"YOU are lying to me now, Ashley! I know that Lex is coming for me! So is Clark! They care about me! Care enough not to use my fears against me! Not to kidnap me!!" she yelled at Ashley as the girl appeared before her.

"Why would I lie to you, Cassie? I love you and I'm only trying to protect you!"

"You're killing me Ashley!!"

"No I'm NOT!" the girl yelled at her sending the younger child into the wall hard. "I'm protecting you, Cassie. Whether you believe me or not, isn't my problem right now.." Ashley turned on her heel and left the room. Cassie ran to the window and looked out. She saw the remainders of her old school of the horizon. 'Whenever you need to talk to someone besides Ashley… just give me a howl. Then I can come and help you out…' Cassie grinned as she looked around and saw the house of her friend. The meteors had affected them both. Cassie could work with weather and he could talk to animals. And since he had a pet that was part wolf that was with him at the time of the shower, he could become a wolf himself. Cassandra loved to see him. And God did she need him now, so she let out a howl to bring him to her. And she waited by the small window that she couldn't even fit through.

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"Mr. Luthor, I'm sorry but we've check all around the town and even around Metropolis with the help of MPD… We've found no sign of Cassandra Sambora or her abductor," the sheriff said.

"She has to be somewhere!" Lex said. The multi-billionaire hadn't slept in a couple of days and had been drinking a bit.

"Lex… Don't worry, we're going to find her," Clark said as the sheriff took his leave.

"Why would her best friend do this to her?" Lex asked collapsing onto the couch.

"I don't know…" Clark answered.

"Clark? Lex?" Chloe asked as she and Pete were led into the library.

"Hey, how goes the search man?" Pete asked seeing Lex's ragged form.

"Not too well," Lex replied placing his head in his hands. "Some guardian I'm turning out to be…"

"It's not your fault Lex," Chloe said. "And I found something that might help out…" she said setting a folder down on the table in front of him.

"What's this?" Lex asked beginning to flip through it.

"Reports of attacks similar to that of Ashley's here," Chloe said taking a seat. "Apparently, the attacks are heading back towards the scho-"

"OF COURSE! The school! That's where Ashley's body is!" Lex said.

"Her body? Lex you're beginning to sound like me," Chloe said.

"No, they found some of Cassie's stuff recently in the rubble, as in the room she stayed in with Ashley. Ashley hasn't been found yet."

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"You've gotten umm a lot bigger Cass…" Josh said to her quietly so Ashley didn't get suspicious and come in.

"What do you mean?" asked the girl.

"Come stand next to me."

"Okay," Cassie said moving to stand next to him and found that she was staring in his eyes. "OHMYGOD!" she said in a silent rush.

"Cass, you got to get out of here NOW!" he said moving her to the window.

"But… Lex won't.."

"Just blast us out okay? Blast us out and we'll get a ride from Caleb."

"Lex won't recognize me!!!" she hissed to him.

"I can recognize you. And your eyes tell all… Come on. Let's get out of here." Cassie nodded and called lightning to strike the wall blasting it into rubble. A howl of frustration came from somewhere else in the building but Ashley got there too late, Cassie and Josh were long gone and Caleb was driving them towards Smallville.

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Cass and Josh sat singing in the back of Caleb's jeep. Caleb smiled and shook his head at the two. They were probably going to start dating now. Josh never made advances towards the small lady because she was younger than he was and thought that Lex would surely kill him. At the moment though they seemed not to notice that there were problems ahead of them… or that one may be following them. The two were just enjoying the company of each other.

"THERE IT IS!" Cass said suddenly.

"What?" Josh asked.

"That's Lex's house!" she said pointing out the castle to Caleb who pulled up to the gate where Cass made a small distraction and they got in and the three piled out of the car. Cass had changed into some of Josh's clothes so that they fit her. She was wearing jeans, sneakers, and an old jersey of his. She looked great, like a real teen that knew what she wanted to do and how to get it.

"Who are you?" asked Clark when he opened the door to find the trio. "And how did you get past the guards?"

"Knew the password," Caleb muttered to Josh.

"We're here to see Lex Clark. If you would let us in please," Cassandra said.

"Wait a minute… How did you know my name?"

"You know mine."

"No I don't.

"Yes you do."

"I think I'd remember."

"Hey, C don't lie," Caleb told Clark. 'She says she knows you, she knows you. She says you know her, you know her. It's not in her nature to lie."

"It's  me Clark… Cassandra.."