Poltergeist by Electric Spyro
a.n. hey people and happy easter! wow, this story is gettin longer then i thought it would. hopefully it won't get too ridiculous. lol.
thanx so much to all my reviewers you people are great. this story wouldn't have gotten this far without u. thanx bunches. if i could, i would give you each a piece of my beloved easter candy.
but since i can't...*grabs a handful of Hersey kisses and shoves them into mouth and then gulps down another handful of jelly beans*
i just love easter! haha
ok. enjoy!
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The day was was slowing ticking by. Clark was one of the few who found the planetirium even remotely fascinating. Most of the students decided to waste their time flicking paper footballs at each other and lingering into the back of the group.
Afterwards, everyone was free to roam downtown as they did yesterday until it was time to head over to the carnival (or in Clark, Pete, and Lana's case, to head back to the mansion for the night).
"Look, there goes Chloe," Pete pointed out seeing his friend hurriedly rush into 'World 'O Stuff'.
Clark noticed Pete and Lance instantly follow Chloe. He scanned around to see where Lana was. He could've sworn he'd seen her not to long ago. He shrugged it off and chased after Pete. They'd tell her what they found out later.
As soon as he walked through the door Pete grabbed his arm and jerked him off to a corner. Chloe was just beginning to sit down in a booth across from Marshall and Simon.
"We can sneak into the booth behind them. Come on," Lance explained as they slyly crossed the room.
The three slid into the booth facing the other side of the room so their backs were against Chloe's on the other side.
"You won't believe what we found out," Simon said with pride.
"Oh really...what would this burst of good news be?" Chloe asked intrigued.
"We talked to Lex Luthor earlier today," Marshall began. "He told us the real story behind the disappearing kids."
There was a brief pause. Then Chloe retorted, "I'm listening."
"Well, turns out that his father, Lionel, did some research a while ago in Eerie. The project was called the 'CTWS' - Confidential Time Warp System. He was planning to create a device that would allow any living thing to move freely through time. Lex wasn't sure why, but he did remember his father asking him to help test it. When Lex turned him down, Lionel shut him out of the operation so he couldn't find out anymore about it.
"But, later on, Lex discovered that Lionel had found four kids willing to test it out. He took them into the woods where the test could work without any distractions. Lex isn't sure how it happened, but the test failed and the kids were lost in time. So, Lionel payed Howard Ford to write a phony story and gave him a promotion as a bribe. The story was covered and no one was hurt."
There was a brief silence after Marshall's story.
"So that's the mystery behind the story..." Chloe pondered this information slowly in her knowledgable mind. "That would explain the kids not aging in the pictures. I mean they could've moved in and out of those points in time within a few seconds. But it doesn't explain the attack on Pete or no one seeing these kids while they were taking the pictures...or the floating objects in my room last night."
After Chloe quickly explained to the boys what happened in her room the night before, the table became a circle of pregnant silence (not the literal meaning or pregnant...lol). Clark, Pete, and Lance were praying the three in the next booth over had not recognized them yet.
"I think we better hit the road. Sounds like they're finished," Lance whispered. The others knodded and got up to exit the building.
"Wait," Chloe said before getting up and stepping infront of her incognito friends. "Clark?"
Clark looked up feeling Chloe's stare stinging inside him heavily.
"What are doing?"
"We...we're just looking around, Chloe," Clark tried to explain. His guilt was shining through like a sore thumb.
"I can't believe you guys. I wouldn't talk to you so you decided to sneak around and spy on me." She shot a glare at Pete. "I suppose this was your idea."
"For your information, Ms. Know-It-All, it was Lance's idea."
"What're trying to drag me down for?" Lance snapped angrily at Pete.
"The point is," Chloe began loudly. "I had been planning on finding out all the facts and then sharing them with you guys and hoping to solve things between us, but obviously the plans have just been canceled."
"Yes - they - have." Pete practically shouted each word individually through clenched teeth. He began to walk towards the exit muttering to himself, "Share-the-information-with-us my foot. She was gonna keep it all to herself. Selfish little..."
Clark looked over at Lance who wore a large frown and quietly followed Pete. Clark then glanced over at Chloe who rolled her eyes and sat back down with Marshall and Simon. He sighed loudly realizing that a few bystanders were staring at him wondering what had just gone on. He smirked grimly at them and then quickly left himself.
'That could've gone better,' he told himself honestly.
*~*~*
Lana walked around the jewerly shop in awe as she examined the many cut crystals and sculpted diamonds. They all glittered and twinkled brightly and flowing rainbows danced on the walls behind them.
"It's beautiful isn't it?"
Lana whirled aorund to she Jason smiling down on her sweetly. His strange eyes swirled with the light of the diamonds reflecting them softly.
"Hey, Jason. Yeah, yeah it's amazing."
"My dad use to hang dozens of crystal prisms on the windows in his room. He always said it made him feel like he was in a little piece of heaven," Jason said warmly.
"Wow, I bet it was," Lana agreed moving on to another glass case of jewerly. She suddenly stopped. "Oh my God..."
She was looking at a beautiful ring. Embedded center was a glowing green jewel cut in the shape of a dolphin who was arching its back with pride. The band was obviously gold and had tiny diamonds covering it.
"You like it?" Jason wondered noticing her face.
"Yeah, it's gorgeous," Lana admited through a smile.
Jason grinned also and licked his lips to begin what he wanted to say. "Lana, I've been meaning to ask you..."
"What?" Lana wondered turning fully towards him curiously.
"I...uh...well, ever since I saw you outside of the mansion for the first time, I wanted to get to know you. You just seem so intelligent and nice and...and beautiful."
"Thanks," Lana stated finding herself smiling even more. He was really starting to act very sweet towards her. But why?
"So, anyways, uh... I-I heard about the dance - and n-not that I wanted to ask you to go as m-my date or anything - but, uh...maybe we could go together. Kind of as friends-getting-to-know-each-other?" Jason explained stuttering to the extreme and shifting his weight every few seconds.
"Oh, um..." Lana was obviously caught off guard by this. She had originally planned to get Clark to go with her. Besides, she didn't even know that much about Jason. But he did seem nice...and she didn't want to hurt his feelings...
"Y-you don't have to. I understand we just met and everything. But, maybe you could think it over? We could hang out some more and maybe by the end of the week you'll know me a bit better."
Lana was still having conflicting feelings inside her head, but knodded in agreement anyways.
"Great. Um, I'm gonna go and get something to eat. Would you like to join me?" Jason asked with a hopeful look.
"I-I don't think so. I better get back to my friends." She headed towards the door and turned around long enough to add, "See ya around."
Jason lifted his head and added, "Bye."
When she was out of sight, Jason looked back at the ring with the green dolphin. Then back towards Lana again.
*~*~*
"Clark! Wait up! I need to talk to you!"
Clark turned to she Lana rushing up next to him on the sidewalk.
"Hey," he stated glumly shoving his hands in his pockets.
"What's the matter?" she asked sensing his depressed greeting.
"Chloe just exploded at Pete again in the 'World 'O Stuff'. I don't know how we're all going to befriend each other again." he explained walking slowly along the pavement.
"Really? What happened?" Lana wondered interested.
"Well, she got mad because Pete, Lance, and I snuck into the place to listen in on her conversation with Marshall and Simon."
"You mean you actually went through with that?" Lana asked appauled.
"Yeah. I mean how else were we going to find out?" Clark retorted trying to forget what Chloe had said about sharing her information with them later.
"Chloe is a much better friend then you and Pete take her for. I know her. She wouldn't keep information about Pete's attacker away from you guys. Even if you were in a huge rift in your friendship."
"I know. But Lana you've got understand that what we did wasn't illegal or anything. I mean we had every right to walk into that place as Chloe did," Clark said innocently.
"No, Clark, it wasn't illegal. You just distrusted you friend and spied on her," Lana claimed truthfully.
Clark looked down at the ground sadly. Lana was right, Chloe was a great friend and he took advantage of her. He noticed Lana walking angrily away from him out of the corner of his eye.
"Wait, Lana!"
She turned to him.
"Wasn't there something you were going to tell me?"
She shook her head. "It doesn't matter anymore."
Clark let out another large sigh as she wisked away.
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i kno i kno! u clana shippers hate me! but pleez don't stop reading! it's not over yet! and it won't get finished unless u review! so - REVIEW! :o)
a.n. hey people and happy easter! wow, this story is gettin longer then i thought it would. hopefully it won't get too ridiculous. lol.
thanx so much to all my reviewers you people are great. this story wouldn't have gotten this far without u. thanx bunches. if i could, i would give you each a piece of my beloved easter candy.
but since i can't...*grabs a handful of Hersey kisses and shoves them into mouth and then gulps down another handful of jelly beans*
i just love easter! haha
ok. enjoy!
*~*~*
The day was was slowing ticking by. Clark was one of the few who found the planetirium even remotely fascinating. Most of the students decided to waste their time flicking paper footballs at each other and lingering into the back of the group.
Afterwards, everyone was free to roam downtown as they did yesterday until it was time to head over to the carnival (or in Clark, Pete, and Lana's case, to head back to the mansion for the night).
"Look, there goes Chloe," Pete pointed out seeing his friend hurriedly rush into 'World 'O Stuff'.
Clark noticed Pete and Lance instantly follow Chloe. He scanned around to see where Lana was. He could've sworn he'd seen her not to long ago. He shrugged it off and chased after Pete. They'd tell her what they found out later.
As soon as he walked through the door Pete grabbed his arm and jerked him off to a corner. Chloe was just beginning to sit down in a booth across from Marshall and Simon.
"We can sneak into the booth behind them. Come on," Lance explained as they slyly crossed the room.
The three slid into the booth facing the other side of the room so their backs were against Chloe's on the other side.
"You won't believe what we found out," Simon said with pride.
"Oh really...what would this burst of good news be?" Chloe asked intrigued.
"We talked to Lex Luthor earlier today," Marshall began. "He told us the real story behind the disappearing kids."
There was a brief pause. Then Chloe retorted, "I'm listening."
"Well, turns out that his father, Lionel, did some research a while ago in Eerie. The project was called the 'CTWS' - Confidential Time Warp System. He was planning to create a device that would allow any living thing to move freely through time. Lex wasn't sure why, but he did remember his father asking him to help test it. When Lex turned him down, Lionel shut him out of the operation so he couldn't find out anymore about it.
"But, later on, Lex discovered that Lionel had found four kids willing to test it out. He took them into the woods where the test could work without any distractions. Lex isn't sure how it happened, but the test failed and the kids were lost in time. So, Lionel payed Howard Ford to write a phony story and gave him a promotion as a bribe. The story was covered and no one was hurt."
There was a brief silence after Marshall's story.
"So that's the mystery behind the story..." Chloe pondered this information slowly in her knowledgable mind. "That would explain the kids not aging in the pictures. I mean they could've moved in and out of those points in time within a few seconds. But it doesn't explain the attack on Pete or no one seeing these kids while they were taking the pictures...or the floating objects in my room last night."
After Chloe quickly explained to the boys what happened in her room the night before, the table became a circle of pregnant silence (not the literal meaning or pregnant...lol). Clark, Pete, and Lance were praying the three in the next booth over had not recognized them yet.
"I think we better hit the road. Sounds like they're finished," Lance whispered. The others knodded and got up to exit the building.
"Wait," Chloe said before getting up and stepping infront of her incognito friends. "Clark?"
Clark looked up feeling Chloe's stare stinging inside him heavily.
"What are doing?"
"We...we're just looking around, Chloe," Clark tried to explain. His guilt was shining through like a sore thumb.
"I can't believe you guys. I wouldn't talk to you so you decided to sneak around and spy on me." She shot a glare at Pete. "I suppose this was your idea."
"For your information, Ms. Know-It-All, it was Lance's idea."
"What're trying to drag me down for?" Lance snapped angrily at Pete.
"The point is," Chloe began loudly. "I had been planning on finding out all the facts and then sharing them with you guys and hoping to solve things between us, but obviously the plans have just been canceled."
"Yes - they - have." Pete practically shouted each word individually through clenched teeth. He began to walk towards the exit muttering to himself, "Share-the-information-with-us my foot. She was gonna keep it all to herself. Selfish little..."
Clark looked over at Lance who wore a large frown and quietly followed Pete. Clark then glanced over at Chloe who rolled her eyes and sat back down with Marshall and Simon. He sighed loudly realizing that a few bystanders were staring at him wondering what had just gone on. He smirked grimly at them and then quickly left himself.
'That could've gone better,' he told himself honestly.
*~*~*
Lana walked around the jewerly shop in awe as she examined the many cut crystals and sculpted diamonds. They all glittered and twinkled brightly and flowing rainbows danced on the walls behind them.
"It's beautiful isn't it?"
Lana whirled aorund to she Jason smiling down on her sweetly. His strange eyes swirled with the light of the diamonds reflecting them softly.
"Hey, Jason. Yeah, yeah it's amazing."
"My dad use to hang dozens of crystal prisms on the windows in his room. He always said it made him feel like he was in a little piece of heaven," Jason said warmly.
"Wow, I bet it was," Lana agreed moving on to another glass case of jewerly. She suddenly stopped. "Oh my God..."
She was looking at a beautiful ring. Embedded center was a glowing green jewel cut in the shape of a dolphin who was arching its back with pride. The band was obviously gold and had tiny diamonds covering it.
"You like it?" Jason wondered noticing her face.
"Yeah, it's gorgeous," Lana admited through a smile.
Jason grinned also and licked his lips to begin what he wanted to say. "Lana, I've been meaning to ask you..."
"What?" Lana wondered turning fully towards him curiously.
"I...uh...well, ever since I saw you outside of the mansion for the first time, I wanted to get to know you. You just seem so intelligent and nice and...and beautiful."
"Thanks," Lana stated finding herself smiling even more. He was really starting to act very sweet towards her. But why?
"So, anyways, uh... I-I heard about the dance - and n-not that I wanted to ask you to go as m-my date or anything - but, uh...maybe we could go together. Kind of as friends-getting-to-know-each-other?" Jason explained stuttering to the extreme and shifting his weight every few seconds.
"Oh, um..." Lana was obviously caught off guard by this. She had originally planned to get Clark to go with her. Besides, she didn't even know that much about Jason. But he did seem nice...and she didn't want to hurt his feelings...
"Y-you don't have to. I understand we just met and everything. But, maybe you could think it over? We could hang out some more and maybe by the end of the week you'll know me a bit better."
Lana was still having conflicting feelings inside her head, but knodded in agreement anyways.
"Great. Um, I'm gonna go and get something to eat. Would you like to join me?" Jason asked with a hopeful look.
"I-I don't think so. I better get back to my friends." She headed towards the door and turned around long enough to add, "See ya around."
Jason lifted his head and added, "Bye."
When she was out of sight, Jason looked back at the ring with the green dolphin. Then back towards Lana again.
*~*~*
"Clark! Wait up! I need to talk to you!"
Clark turned to she Lana rushing up next to him on the sidewalk.
"Hey," he stated glumly shoving his hands in his pockets.
"What's the matter?" she asked sensing his depressed greeting.
"Chloe just exploded at Pete again in the 'World 'O Stuff'. I don't know how we're all going to befriend each other again." he explained walking slowly along the pavement.
"Really? What happened?" Lana wondered interested.
"Well, she got mad because Pete, Lance, and I snuck into the place to listen in on her conversation with Marshall and Simon."
"You mean you actually went through with that?" Lana asked appauled.
"Yeah. I mean how else were we going to find out?" Clark retorted trying to forget what Chloe had said about sharing her information with them later.
"Chloe is a much better friend then you and Pete take her for. I know her. She wouldn't keep information about Pete's attacker away from you guys. Even if you were in a huge rift in your friendship."
"I know. But Lana you've got understand that what we did wasn't illegal or anything. I mean we had every right to walk into that place as Chloe did," Clark said innocently.
"No, Clark, it wasn't illegal. You just distrusted you friend and spied on her," Lana claimed truthfully.
Clark looked down at the ground sadly. Lana was right, Chloe was a great friend and he took advantage of her. He noticed Lana walking angrily away from him out of the corner of his eye.
"Wait, Lana!"
She turned to him.
"Wasn't there something you were going to tell me?"
She shook her head. "It doesn't matter anymore."
Clark let out another large sigh as she wisked away.
*~*~*
i kno i kno! u clana shippers hate me! but pleez don't stop reading! it's not over yet! and it won't get finished unless u review! so - REVIEW! :o)