All Change
Disclaimer: I do not own the TV show Smallville or any of its characters; they belong to a combination of the WB and DC comics.
Spoilers: Only for rumours about the beginning of Season Three of Smallville and the end of Season Two if you haven't seen it yet.
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Lana had found him working 'Security' for Morgan Edge's Club Steel where he had mainly been doing the job of a bouncer, among other things. The club had been very busy as it often was in the late hours on a Friday so he took her out into the alleyway to talk, although as he was on red meteor rocks at the time he had something else on his mind.
"Clark, why do people keeping calling you Kal and why did you leave Smallville and why are you working here for Morgan Edge?" Lana asked desperately
"It's my secret identity, and now I've got a question for you Lana. Why are you here? Believe it or not, not everyone wants to live in Smallville for the rest of their lives, I'm just getting out early."
"Really, I thought you were running away from what happened at the farm."
"Look Lana, I really appreciate you coming out here to see me, I do, but why don't you just go back to Boringville and leave me the hell alone."
With that Clark walked off back towards the club's entrance. Lana sighed and decided maybe he would be more agreeable tomorrow when he was not working. As she reached the entrance to the alley a group of drunken frat guys grabbed her and before she could scream they covered her mouth then they manhandled her back to the far end of the alley.
While Clark had been in his red meteor affected state, he still did not want to see Lana hurt so once again thinking that Edge was going to dock his wages for this he ran after them.
"Hey there little girly, wanna have some fun." One of the frat guys said as he groped at her halter-top.
"Yo guys, leave her alone."
"Take a hike farmboy." The lead frat guy spat before turning back to Lana.
Clark started to laugh, "That ain't gonna happen, now I'm gonna ask you one more time."
"Marcus, deal with this piece of trash."
As the words had left the lead frat guy's mouth, one of them had broken off and started making his way towards Clark who then charged him at super- speed knocking the frat guy ten foot in the air and fifteen foot backwards where he landed against the alley's back wall with a crash. Clark then turned towards the remaining frat guys and with a smirk on his face asked.
"Come on then, who wants some?"
Three of the four remaining frat guys left Lana and strolled over to Clark picking up anything that could be used as a weapon as they went, bottles, pipes, wood slats. As the first one took a swing at him Clark grabbed the guys fist in mid-punch and used it to toss the guy over into a nearby dumpster. The other two frat guys took Clark on at the same time, while Marcus had recovered from his collusion with the wall and jumped Clark from behind.
Lana was watching all this unfold while trying to struggle out from the grasp of the remaining frat guy, in the end she relied on the old tried and tested method of kicking the guy square in the testicles causing him to lose his grip on her and enabling her to deliver a devastating roundhouse kick to his head.
As Lana turned to see how Clark was faring against Marcus and the other frat guys she saw a few things that she wasn't expecting. Firstly, she saw that the frat boy who had been thrown in the dumpster had also recovered and Clark was currently tackling four frat guys at the same time. Secondly, she saw that both Marcus and the dumpster frat boy's clothes were on fire with the real surprise being that the fire's source was Clark's eyes.
As Lana stood there gaping in shock at what was happening the other two frat guys took advantage of Clark being distracted and hit him with a 2X4 which knocked him against the alley wall and Lana noticed that the gemstone in Clark's class ring shattered.
With that the dangerous gleam left Clark's eyes and was replaced by confusion until the frat guys took another swing at him with what remained of the 2X4 and he was brought back to the situation he had caused through his ill thought actions. No longer taking pleasure in scuffling with the frat guys, Clark simply punched them all out and put out the flames on the other two frat guys. He then turned to see if Lana was okay and was ready to protect her from the last remaining frat guy, when he noticed that she was standing there gawping at him and the other frat guy was laying on the floor in the fetal position seemingly unable to decide whether to cradle his head or his testicles.
"Are you ok?" //Hopefully she didn't see anything.// Clark thought.
"What just happened?"
"What do you mean?" //Uh oh, play dumb Clark maybe she's just really impressed with your brawling//
"The flames coming out of your eyes Clark, that's what I mean!!!"
"What are you talking about Lana, there were no flames coming out of my eyes."
"Really Clark so how do you explain the fact that those two frat guys clothes were burning."
"Welllllll, you see one of the guys must have been a smoker and during the kafuffle must have accidentally spilt lighter fluid over their clothes and a match must have accidentally lit causing the lighter fluid to catch fire."
"Do you really expect me to believe that?" Lana said trying to keep the smile off her face at Clark's really bad lying.
"Yes" Clark said straight-faced.
They both then collapsed with laughter, eventually once they both had themselves under control Lana asked Clark the question he had been dreading.
"Clark, what are you?"
For a moment Clark struggled with the decision of whether to tell her the truth, remembering her reaction when he had asked her about her thoughts on aliens when Cyrus had been around and then he decided he had to do the right thing.
"Lana, I'm an alien."
Lana stood there speechless unable to process what Clark had just told her which was nothing like what she was expecting, she figured the meteor rocks had affected him in some way or that he had been experimented on by LuthorCorp as a child.
"Look Lana I don't think this is the best place to discuss this, look the apartment I've been staying in isn't that far from here we can talk about this there."
Lana still in a state of shock had simply nodded and said "Ok"
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Roughly half an hour later Clark and Lana were sitting in an apartment that Clark had been renting using the money he earned working for Morgan Edge plus some extra he had got knocking over some of Metropolis' banks in a series of superspeed robberies.
"So you're the last remaining member of a race whose planet exploded and you have superpowers including but not limited to" she quickly added "Invulnerability, Heat Vision, Superstrength, Superspeed and X-ray Vision. The green meteor rocks cause you intense physical pain and the red ones cause you to become that obnoxious asshole who rode off on a motorcycle after Lex's wedding."
"Yes" Clark replied with a hint of hope in his voice, it sounded like she might be okay with this.
"I can't believe you lied to me Clark, all this time I felt we were growing so close but now I find that there's this whole other side to you that you've kept from me."
This had been the kind of reaction Clark had been dreading "I kept it from you because I was afraid of your reaction if you found out if I wasn't like other guys."
"What you think I couldn't handle it?" Lana inquired with a hint of anger.
"Remember your reaction when I asked you how you'd feel if Cyrus had really been an alien?"
"I said it would freak me out, and it was a hypothetical situation I was thinking how I thought I'd react, anyway Cyrus is a completely different person and my feelings were completely different towards him." Lana replied angrily
"Look I'm sorry Lana, but I did what I thought was best."
"I know you did Clark, but you lied to me and that's worse than finding out if you're different."
"Lana."
"Come on Clark, your parents are worried about you lets get you packed and ready to go home."
"I don't think my mom and dad want me around any more."
"What are you talking about, Clark?"
Disclaimer: I do not own the TV show Smallville or any of its characters; they belong to a combination of the WB and DC comics.
Spoilers: Only for rumours about the beginning of Season Three of Smallville and the end of Season Two if you haven't seen it yet.
**********************************************************************
Lana had found him working 'Security' for Morgan Edge's Club Steel where he had mainly been doing the job of a bouncer, among other things. The club had been very busy as it often was in the late hours on a Friday so he took her out into the alleyway to talk, although as he was on red meteor rocks at the time he had something else on his mind.
"Clark, why do people keeping calling you Kal and why did you leave Smallville and why are you working here for Morgan Edge?" Lana asked desperately
"It's my secret identity, and now I've got a question for you Lana. Why are you here? Believe it or not, not everyone wants to live in Smallville for the rest of their lives, I'm just getting out early."
"Really, I thought you were running away from what happened at the farm."
"Look Lana, I really appreciate you coming out here to see me, I do, but why don't you just go back to Boringville and leave me the hell alone."
With that Clark walked off back towards the club's entrance. Lana sighed and decided maybe he would be more agreeable tomorrow when he was not working. As she reached the entrance to the alley a group of drunken frat guys grabbed her and before she could scream they covered her mouth then they manhandled her back to the far end of the alley.
While Clark had been in his red meteor affected state, he still did not want to see Lana hurt so once again thinking that Edge was going to dock his wages for this he ran after them.
"Hey there little girly, wanna have some fun." One of the frat guys said as he groped at her halter-top.
"Yo guys, leave her alone."
"Take a hike farmboy." The lead frat guy spat before turning back to Lana.
Clark started to laugh, "That ain't gonna happen, now I'm gonna ask you one more time."
"Marcus, deal with this piece of trash."
As the words had left the lead frat guy's mouth, one of them had broken off and started making his way towards Clark who then charged him at super- speed knocking the frat guy ten foot in the air and fifteen foot backwards where he landed against the alley's back wall with a crash. Clark then turned towards the remaining frat guys and with a smirk on his face asked.
"Come on then, who wants some?"
Three of the four remaining frat guys left Lana and strolled over to Clark picking up anything that could be used as a weapon as they went, bottles, pipes, wood slats. As the first one took a swing at him Clark grabbed the guys fist in mid-punch and used it to toss the guy over into a nearby dumpster. The other two frat guys took Clark on at the same time, while Marcus had recovered from his collusion with the wall and jumped Clark from behind.
Lana was watching all this unfold while trying to struggle out from the grasp of the remaining frat guy, in the end she relied on the old tried and tested method of kicking the guy square in the testicles causing him to lose his grip on her and enabling her to deliver a devastating roundhouse kick to his head.
As Lana turned to see how Clark was faring against Marcus and the other frat guys she saw a few things that she wasn't expecting. Firstly, she saw that the frat boy who had been thrown in the dumpster had also recovered and Clark was currently tackling four frat guys at the same time. Secondly, she saw that both Marcus and the dumpster frat boy's clothes were on fire with the real surprise being that the fire's source was Clark's eyes.
As Lana stood there gaping in shock at what was happening the other two frat guys took advantage of Clark being distracted and hit him with a 2X4 which knocked him against the alley wall and Lana noticed that the gemstone in Clark's class ring shattered.
With that the dangerous gleam left Clark's eyes and was replaced by confusion until the frat guys took another swing at him with what remained of the 2X4 and he was brought back to the situation he had caused through his ill thought actions. No longer taking pleasure in scuffling with the frat guys, Clark simply punched them all out and put out the flames on the other two frat guys. He then turned to see if Lana was okay and was ready to protect her from the last remaining frat guy, when he noticed that she was standing there gawping at him and the other frat guy was laying on the floor in the fetal position seemingly unable to decide whether to cradle his head or his testicles.
"Are you ok?" //Hopefully she didn't see anything.// Clark thought.
"What just happened?"
"What do you mean?" //Uh oh, play dumb Clark maybe she's just really impressed with your brawling//
"The flames coming out of your eyes Clark, that's what I mean!!!"
"What are you talking about Lana, there were no flames coming out of my eyes."
"Really Clark so how do you explain the fact that those two frat guys clothes were burning."
"Welllllll, you see one of the guys must have been a smoker and during the kafuffle must have accidentally spilt lighter fluid over their clothes and a match must have accidentally lit causing the lighter fluid to catch fire."
"Do you really expect me to believe that?" Lana said trying to keep the smile off her face at Clark's really bad lying.
"Yes" Clark said straight-faced.
They both then collapsed with laughter, eventually once they both had themselves under control Lana asked Clark the question he had been dreading.
"Clark, what are you?"
For a moment Clark struggled with the decision of whether to tell her the truth, remembering her reaction when he had asked her about her thoughts on aliens when Cyrus had been around and then he decided he had to do the right thing.
"Lana, I'm an alien."
Lana stood there speechless unable to process what Clark had just told her which was nothing like what she was expecting, she figured the meteor rocks had affected him in some way or that he had been experimented on by LuthorCorp as a child.
"Look Lana I don't think this is the best place to discuss this, look the apartment I've been staying in isn't that far from here we can talk about this there."
Lana still in a state of shock had simply nodded and said "Ok"
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Roughly half an hour later Clark and Lana were sitting in an apartment that Clark had been renting using the money he earned working for Morgan Edge plus some extra he had got knocking over some of Metropolis' banks in a series of superspeed robberies.
"So you're the last remaining member of a race whose planet exploded and you have superpowers including but not limited to" she quickly added "Invulnerability, Heat Vision, Superstrength, Superspeed and X-ray Vision. The green meteor rocks cause you intense physical pain and the red ones cause you to become that obnoxious asshole who rode off on a motorcycle after Lex's wedding."
"Yes" Clark replied with a hint of hope in his voice, it sounded like she might be okay with this.
"I can't believe you lied to me Clark, all this time I felt we were growing so close but now I find that there's this whole other side to you that you've kept from me."
This had been the kind of reaction Clark had been dreading "I kept it from you because I was afraid of your reaction if you found out if I wasn't like other guys."
"What you think I couldn't handle it?" Lana inquired with a hint of anger.
"Remember your reaction when I asked you how you'd feel if Cyrus had really been an alien?"
"I said it would freak me out, and it was a hypothetical situation I was thinking how I thought I'd react, anyway Cyrus is a completely different person and my feelings were completely different towards him." Lana replied angrily
"Look I'm sorry Lana, but I did what I thought was best."
"I know you did Clark, but you lied to me and that's worse than finding out if you're different."
"Lana."
"Come on Clark, your parents are worried about you lets get you packed and ready to go home."
"I don't think my mom and dad want me around any more."
"What are you talking about, Clark?"
