AN: Hi people! Thanks to all of u who reviewed. I really appreciate it! I
am soooooo tired from vacation. But, I did write a lot. (Unfortunately not
4 this story.) I wrote more for An Understanding w/ the Ultimate Price. But
since no one seems to be taking the time to review, ok one person, but it
wasn't a very good review. Not even 4 Switch. I decided, not to update
unless I get one, good review. So, if u want chapter 3, review! It only
takes a few seconds. And it really makes a difference. Anyway, any ideas
would be greatly appreciated. I'm not completely positive where I'm going
w/ this. Enjoy chapter 3! Oh, and just to let you know, this is set
somewhere in the middle of the fourth season, except, all the cliffhangers
didn't happen. (
It was an awkward walk home for everyone. Chloe, still hadn't taken in the fact that Clark, her best friend, was an alien. Clark, was still getting over the fact that he had a sister. He was going to kill Jor-El for not telling him. Laney, was still taking in all of Earth. She was running through her English Lara had been teaching her in her mind. She missed her mom. She had never met her dad. KAL-EL, aka Clark, didn't seem to like him very much.
"So... Laney, how do you know so much English?" Clark asked.
"Lara taught me."
"You've actually met her? I've only met Jor-El."
"You've never actually met her?"
"No, what's she like?"
"Oh she's wonderful! She is so sweet and kind, and she misses you very much. What is Jor-El like?"
"Why did you get the nice parent?" Clark complained.
"That bad?" Laney asked
"Worse."
"So, did each of you, like get a parent to watch over you?" Chloe asked. Wanting to get into the conversation.
"I guess." Laney said.
"If you call what Jor-El did watching over and taking care of me."
"What exactly did he do?" Chloe asked. Laney nodded as if she wanted to know too.
"Well, he kidnapped me, nearly killed my dad, made me try to conquer the Earth, killed my unborn sibling, put my mom in the hospital, took over some other girls body to try to make me come with him, and, sent the meteor shower to Smallville, which wouldn't be such a bad thing if one didn't blow up Lana's parents. Oh, and he never told me I had a sister." Clark took a deep breath. There was a lot of stuff. He was out of breath.
"Parent of the year." Chloe commented sarcastically. They were nearing the Kent's house. Clark stopped. "Clark what's wrong?"
"How are we supposed to tell them? And what about her staying with us? How can we adopt her? I mean, what are we supposed to tell the people, we find her out in the cornfield?" He paused. That all sounded familiar for some reason.
"Well, what did your parents do last time?" Chloe asked.
"I think Lionel Luthor helped, or bribed them actually, maybe they have another idea." Clark looked over at Laney. She hadn't said much. She looked like she was in deep thought "Uh... are you ok?" She looked up.
"Oh! Oh, yeah, I'm fine." Clark wasn't convinced but he shrugged it off, for the moment. They walked in the door. Clark could already see his parents' reactions. Are you sure, maybe it's someone trying to get to you... something along those lines.
"Hello Clark, Chloe. Who's this?"
"This is... she's..." Clark took a deep breath. He couldn't tell them. He decided to be straight forward with it. "Mom, Dad, this is my..."
"She's his sister." Chloe finished. Clark shot a glare over at Chloe. "Well you were taking too long."
"What do you mean your sister, I mean are you sure, and Chloe..." Martha started. Jonathon just kept looking at Clark and Laney. They did look a lot alike.
"Maybe we should explain a little more to you." Clark said. Him, his parents, Chloe, and Laney, went into the living room, while the three kids attempted to tell them about the situation. Laney started.
"Well shortly after my parents sent KAL-EL to Earth, my mom had me. We have children different on Krypton, so they were unaware that they were even going to have another child. It was too late to make another spaceship to save me. And I was too young, I wouldn't survive the journey. So, my parents found a way to sort of put me, or my cells rather, in hibernation. About six years earlier, they thawed me out. Lara has been teaching me these past years. A few days ago, my mom said it was time for me to go live with my brother, KAL-EL, here on Earth."
"I'll take it from here." Chloe said. Laney nodded and just kind of leaned on Clark. He put his arm around her. "Yesterday, after I was finished with the Torch, I began to walk home. The town seemed deserted. I had no idea the meteor shower was coming. And since no one even knew I was at the Torch working, no one warned me. As I was walking the meteor shower hit. I'm fine." She said answering the horrified looks on the Kent's faces. "Shortly after, I found Laney and her ship. She kept going on about how she needed to find her brother KAL-EL. So this morning I asked Clark to come over and help me with something. Since he usually helps me out with the weird stuff that happens here, and since Pete moved. I thought maybe he could help." She stopped. Everyone kept looking at her. "Clark, this is where you come in."
"Oh. I went over to Chloe's, and heard her talking to someone. And then one of them mentioned KAL-EL. That was a little uncomfortable. Anyway, I went inside and Laney took one look at me and began hugging me. Then, she convinced me to explain to Chloe what was going on. Plus it was the only way Chloe would let her stay with me. Then we, came here."
"Well, we have to let her stay here." Martha said, she looked over at Jonathon.
"Well, it worked out last time." He smiled up at his seventeen-year- old son. It seemed like only yesterday that they took him in. He then turned to Chloe. "You do realize what a big responsible knowing this secret is."
"That's my dad's way of saying welcome to the family." Clark said.
"Boy, you think you two could be a little more original." Martha laughed slightly. Clark looked down at his little sister. She had fallen asleep in his lap. She looked so cute and innocent. Martha took her upstairs to put her to bed, Clark could sleep on the couch.
"Dad, what are we going to do about adopting her?"
"Actually, my cousin, Lois, has an Aunt in Edge City that could work something out for you. Lois owes me anyway." Chloe mentioned.
"That would be great if you could look into that Chloe." Mr. Kent said. He thought of Lionel Luthor. Then he thought about how much he hated him. Chloe said goodnight, and that she'd be over in the morning. Martha came back downstairs. It took a while for everyone to settle down, they ended up going to bed much later than normal.
It seemed like Clark had just gone to sleep when his mom was waking him up. "Clark, I've already told you twice. Get up! You still have school today." Clark groaned. He rolled over. Laney, who had been up for a while already, jumped on top of her big brother.
"Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Come on KAL-EL, greet the day! Isn't day wonderful? I've never seen day before! Come on, don't waste it! Get up!" she continued to jump on him. Yesterday she seemed a nervous wreck. But now that she gotten used to this, which she did surprisingly quickly, she was going a mile a minute.
"Ok, I'm up." He picked up his little sister and put her down next to him. She giggled. Martha came back into the living room.
"Come on you two, breakfast is ready." Clark got up, slowly, and started to walk to the kitchen. Laney followed. Laney was really amazed by breakfast. She seemed to like it too. She had four pancakes, two eggs, and three glasses of milk. Jonathon came downstairs for breakfast. He noticed Laney's many empty plates.
"Whoa, slow down there."
"Mom are we going to enroll her in school?" Clark asked, just finishing his breakfast.
"Of course, why shouldn't we? But I believe we're going to wait until we've adopted her." There was a knock at the door. It was Chloe.
"Hi Chloe!" Laney said.
"Good morning Chloe." Clark said.
"Come on Clark, we still have school." Chloe said. "I thought we could walk, so maybe we can talk a little bit. I'm still a little clueless."
"Sure Chloe." Clark went upstairs to change for school.
"Did you talk to your cousin Chloe?" Jonathon asked.
"Oh, yes I did. She said, her Aunt said they could work something out, without having to know too much. They're coming to down tomorrow. Lois said she'd been meaning to come visit me anyway." Chloe smiled. Clark came back downstairs.
"Ok, Chloe, let's go." Clark and Chloe began to walk to school.
"So, how is she adapting?"
"She actually is doing really well. You should have seen what she had for breakfast."
"Why, what did she have? When I had her for the weekend, so was so shy. She didn't eat a thing."
"She had four pancakes, two eggs and three glasses of milk."
"Wow, she acts like she's never eaten before in her life."
"Uh, she hasn't."
"Oh."
"Chloe, what did you tell your dad and Lana about her?"
"Actually, something happened in Metropolis, the horse show thingy was postponed 'till Monday, they just got home this morning, they don't know a thing."
"That's good."
"So what else is different about you two?"
"Well we kind of have special...powers."
"What kind of powers."
"Well, I have super hearing, super strength, x-ray vision, heat vision, super speed, invulnerability. And I've flown a couple of times."
"Does Laney have these powers too?"
"No, she most likely has speed and strength, I always had that. But I never got the rest of my powers until just recently. But then again, girl kryptonians may develop differently then boys do." They approached the school. Clark and Chloe abruptly stopped talking, no one else could hear. They began to go on with their days as normally as possible.
Back at the house...
Jonathon had left for work and it was just Martha and Laney home alone. "What do we do now?" the little girl asked.
"Well, I have a few chores to do around the house. You could watch TV if you'd like. Then maybe afterwards I can take you shopping."
"Can I help you with your chores?" Laney looked up at Martha, with big, pleading eyes.
"If you want. I could sure use the help."
"Doesn't KAL-EL and Jonathon help you?" Martha laughed.
"I wish." Martha began showing Laney what she could do to help. She caught on rather quickly. Together they finished twice as fast. [12:00] Martha and Laney collapsed on the couch. "Would you like a sandwich Laney?"
"I would love a sandwich." Martha smiled down at the adorable little girl who had just entered their lives, and went to make her a sandwich.
Clark and Chloe came home from school and entered the Kent's kitchen. There was no one there. They set their backpacks down on the floor. "Mom! Laney! Anyone home?" Clark called.
"Hey Clark, look at this." There was a note on the refrigerator.
Clark,
Took Laney shopping, be home later.
Mom
"Well, I guess we should start on our homework. We can see if Laney has any abilities when they get home." Chloe suggested. Clark sighed, but nodded in agreement. There was nothing better to do anyway.
It took them about an hour to finally finish. They had gotten loaded with homework that day. They heard the front door close. Laney and Martha were back from the store. Laney was in a very hyper mood. She had loved shopping. She came running into the living room with a big bag in her hands and a bigger smile on her face. "Chloe, KAL-EL, look what I got!" The little girl eagerly showed off all her new clothes with a great deal of excitement. Chloe took her upstairs to help her put her clothes away. Clark turned to talk to his mom.
"So it looks like you two had fun."
"Yes, she seemed to really enjoy it."
"Mom, where is Laney going to start sleeping? I don't know if I can take another night on the sofa."
"I guess she can move into the spare room once we clean out all of the junk that's in it..." Clark stood in front of his mother with a huge pile of stuff in his arms. She couldn't even see her son's face behind it all.
"Where do you want all the junk?"
"In the attic I guess." Clark ran off and returned in a matter of milliseconds.
"Was the couch that uncomfortable?"
"It wasn't that bad, but it was nothing compared to a good old bed." Chloe and Laney came back downstairs. Chloe had a look of pure shock. "Did I scare you?"
"Well when the room goes from full of clutter, to perfectly clean in two seconds, wouldn't you expect me to be a little startled?" Clark began laughing. "It's not funny Clark! Weren't we going see if Laney had any abilities yet?"
"Sorry Chloe. Come on Laney." Chloe and Clark led her outside. "Ok, let's start with..."
"Super Strength." Laney finished her older brother's sentence.
"How did you know that?"
"I read your mind."
"You what?"
"I read your mind. All Kryptonian girls can do this."
"What else can Kryptonian girls do?"
"Most of the same things boys can, like speed, strength, which I have, x-ray vision, ice breath..."
"Ice breath?!?!?"
"Of course, don't you have yours yet?"
"Uh... no."
"What else can you do?" Chloe asked.
"Levitation, invisibility, and I can walk through things."
"Well if you start to experience any of these, you can always come to us. We can help."
"I know."
"How fast do girls get their powers?"
"About one year earlier than the boys do, but even though I was in hibernation, my powers continued to develop, so I will probably start getting them soon. I already got my mind reading." Martha Kent came outside and motioned them in for dinner. Clark and Laney said goodbye to Chloe.
"I'll come by after school with Lois and her Aunt."
"Ok Chloe, see you tomorrow." Clark put his arm around his little sister and they began to walk back towards the house, just as the sun set over the horizon.
AN: I hope you enjoyed this new installment. I had a lot of fun writing it. It's not as long as I hoped it to be. But what can I do? I just had a major writers block. Anyway, I'll be seeing you all later.
Anarra- Glad you liked it, thanks for the awesome review. It made me feel like I did a good job.
Clark Kent's Girl- Thanks for the review. Sorry if I confused you.
IloveClark2-Hey BFF, thanks for my first review on this story. Hope to you see u soon.
It was an awkward walk home for everyone. Chloe, still hadn't taken in the fact that Clark, her best friend, was an alien. Clark, was still getting over the fact that he had a sister. He was going to kill Jor-El for not telling him. Laney, was still taking in all of Earth. She was running through her English Lara had been teaching her in her mind. She missed her mom. She had never met her dad. KAL-EL, aka Clark, didn't seem to like him very much.
"So... Laney, how do you know so much English?" Clark asked.
"Lara taught me."
"You've actually met her? I've only met Jor-El."
"You've never actually met her?"
"No, what's she like?"
"Oh she's wonderful! She is so sweet and kind, and she misses you very much. What is Jor-El like?"
"Why did you get the nice parent?" Clark complained.
"That bad?" Laney asked
"Worse."
"So, did each of you, like get a parent to watch over you?" Chloe asked. Wanting to get into the conversation.
"I guess." Laney said.
"If you call what Jor-El did watching over and taking care of me."
"What exactly did he do?" Chloe asked. Laney nodded as if she wanted to know too.
"Well, he kidnapped me, nearly killed my dad, made me try to conquer the Earth, killed my unborn sibling, put my mom in the hospital, took over some other girls body to try to make me come with him, and, sent the meteor shower to Smallville, which wouldn't be such a bad thing if one didn't blow up Lana's parents. Oh, and he never told me I had a sister." Clark took a deep breath. There was a lot of stuff. He was out of breath.
"Parent of the year." Chloe commented sarcastically. They were nearing the Kent's house. Clark stopped. "Clark what's wrong?"
"How are we supposed to tell them? And what about her staying with us? How can we adopt her? I mean, what are we supposed to tell the people, we find her out in the cornfield?" He paused. That all sounded familiar for some reason.
"Well, what did your parents do last time?" Chloe asked.
"I think Lionel Luthor helped, or bribed them actually, maybe they have another idea." Clark looked over at Laney. She hadn't said much. She looked like she was in deep thought "Uh... are you ok?" She looked up.
"Oh! Oh, yeah, I'm fine." Clark wasn't convinced but he shrugged it off, for the moment. They walked in the door. Clark could already see his parents' reactions. Are you sure, maybe it's someone trying to get to you... something along those lines.
"Hello Clark, Chloe. Who's this?"
"This is... she's..." Clark took a deep breath. He couldn't tell them. He decided to be straight forward with it. "Mom, Dad, this is my..."
"She's his sister." Chloe finished. Clark shot a glare over at Chloe. "Well you were taking too long."
"What do you mean your sister, I mean are you sure, and Chloe..." Martha started. Jonathon just kept looking at Clark and Laney. They did look a lot alike.
"Maybe we should explain a little more to you." Clark said. Him, his parents, Chloe, and Laney, went into the living room, while the three kids attempted to tell them about the situation. Laney started.
"Well shortly after my parents sent KAL-EL to Earth, my mom had me. We have children different on Krypton, so they were unaware that they were even going to have another child. It was too late to make another spaceship to save me. And I was too young, I wouldn't survive the journey. So, my parents found a way to sort of put me, or my cells rather, in hibernation. About six years earlier, they thawed me out. Lara has been teaching me these past years. A few days ago, my mom said it was time for me to go live with my brother, KAL-EL, here on Earth."
"I'll take it from here." Chloe said. Laney nodded and just kind of leaned on Clark. He put his arm around her. "Yesterday, after I was finished with the Torch, I began to walk home. The town seemed deserted. I had no idea the meteor shower was coming. And since no one even knew I was at the Torch working, no one warned me. As I was walking the meteor shower hit. I'm fine." She said answering the horrified looks on the Kent's faces. "Shortly after, I found Laney and her ship. She kept going on about how she needed to find her brother KAL-EL. So this morning I asked Clark to come over and help me with something. Since he usually helps me out with the weird stuff that happens here, and since Pete moved. I thought maybe he could help." She stopped. Everyone kept looking at her. "Clark, this is where you come in."
"Oh. I went over to Chloe's, and heard her talking to someone. And then one of them mentioned KAL-EL. That was a little uncomfortable. Anyway, I went inside and Laney took one look at me and began hugging me. Then, she convinced me to explain to Chloe what was going on. Plus it was the only way Chloe would let her stay with me. Then we, came here."
"Well, we have to let her stay here." Martha said, she looked over at Jonathon.
"Well, it worked out last time." He smiled up at his seventeen-year- old son. It seemed like only yesterday that they took him in. He then turned to Chloe. "You do realize what a big responsible knowing this secret is."
"That's my dad's way of saying welcome to the family." Clark said.
"Boy, you think you two could be a little more original." Martha laughed slightly. Clark looked down at his little sister. She had fallen asleep in his lap. She looked so cute and innocent. Martha took her upstairs to put her to bed, Clark could sleep on the couch.
"Dad, what are we going to do about adopting her?"
"Actually, my cousin, Lois, has an Aunt in Edge City that could work something out for you. Lois owes me anyway." Chloe mentioned.
"That would be great if you could look into that Chloe." Mr. Kent said. He thought of Lionel Luthor. Then he thought about how much he hated him. Chloe said goodnight, and that she'd be over in the morning. Martha came back downstairs. It took a while for everyone to settle down, they ended up going to bed much later than normal.
It seemed like Clark had just gone to sleep when his mom was waking him up. "Clark, I've already told you twice. Get up! You still have school today." Clark groaned. He rolled over. Laney, who had been up for a while already, jumped on top of her big brother.
"Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Come on KAL-EL, greet the day! Isn't day wonderful? I've never seen day before! Come on, don't waste it! Get up!" she continued to jump on him. Yesterday she seemed a nervous wreck. But now that she gotten used to this, which she did surprisingly quickly, she was going a mile a minute.
"Ok, I'm up." He picked up his little sister and put her down next to him. She giggled. Martha came back into the living room.
"Come on you two, breakfast is ready." Clark got up, slowly, and started to walk to the kitchen. Laney followed. Laney was really amazed by breakfast. She seemed to like it too. She had four pancakes, two eggs, and three glasses of milk. Jonathon came downstairs for breakfast. He noticed Laney's many empty plates.
"Whoa, slow down there."
"Mom are we going to enroll her in school?" Clark asked, just finishing his breakfast.
"Of course, why shouldn't we? But I believe we're going to wait until we've adopted her." There was a knock at the door. It was Chloe.
"Hi Chloe!" Laney said.
"Good morning Chloe." Clark said.
"Come on Clark, we still have school." Chloe said. "I thought we could walk, so maybe we can talk a little bit. I'm still a little clueless."
"Sure Chloe." Clark went upstairs to change for school.
"Did you talk to your cousin Chloe?" Jonathon asked.
"Oh, yes I did. She said, her Aunt said they could work something out, without having to know too much. They're coming to down tomorrow. Lois said she'd been meaning to come visit me anyway." Chloe smiled. Clark came back downstairs.
"Ok, Chloe, let's go." Clark and Chloe began to walk to school.
"So, how is she adapting?"
"She actually is doing really well. You should have seen what she had for breakfast."
"Why, what did she have? When I had her for the weekend, so was so shy. She didn't eat a thing."
"She had four pancakes, two eggs and three glasses of milk."
"Wow, she acts like she's never eaten before in her life."
"Uh, she hasn't."
"Oh."
"Chloe, what did you tell your dad and Lana about her?"
"Actually, something happened in Metropolis, the horse show thingy was postponed 'till Monday, they just got home this morning, they don't know a thing."
"That's good."
"So what else is different about you two?"
"Well we kind of have special...powers."
"What kind of powers."
"Well, I have super hearing, super strength, x-ray vision, heat vision, super speed, invulnerability. And I've flown a couple of times."
"Does Laney have these powers too?"
"No, she most likely has speed and strength, I always had that. But I never got the rest of my powers until just recently. But then again, girl kryptonians may develop differently then boys do." They approached the school. Clark and Chloe abruptly stopped talking, no one else could hear. They began to go on with their days as normally as possible.
Back at the house...
Jonathon had left for work and it was just Martha and Laney home alone. "What do we do now?" the little girl asked.
"Well, I have a few chores to do around the house. You could watch TV if you'd like. Then maybe afterwards I can take you shopping."
"Can I help you with your chores?" Laney looked up at Martha, with big, pleading eyes.
"If you want. I could sure use the help."
"Doesn't KAL-EL and Jonathon help you?" Martha laughed.
"I wish." Martha began showing Laney what she could do to help. She caught on rather quickly. Together they finished twice as fast. [12:00] Martha and Laney collapsed on the couch. "Would you like a sandwich Laney?"
"I would love a sandwich." Martha smiled down at the adorable little girl who had just entered their lives, and went to make her a sandwich.
Clark and Chloe came home from school and entered the Kent's kitchen. There was no one there. They set their backpacks down on the floor. "Mom! Laney! Anyone home?" Clark called.
"Hey Clark, look at this." There was a note on the refrigerator.
Clark,
Took Laney shopping, be home later.
Mom
"Well, I guess we should start on our homework. We can see if Laney has any abilities when they get home." Chloe suggested. Clark sighed, but nodded in agreement. There was nothing better to do anyway.
It took them about an hour to finally finish. They had gotten loaded with homework that day. They heard the front door close. Laney and Martha were back from the store. Laney was in a very hyper mood. She had loved shopping. She came running into the living room with a big bag in her hands and a bigger smile on her face. "Chloe, KAL-EL, look what I got!" The little girl eagerly showed off all her new clothes with a great deal of excitement. Chloe took her upstairs to help her put her clothes away. Clark turned to talk to his mom.
"So it looks like you two had fun."
"Yes, she seemed to really enjoy it."
"Mom, where is Laney going to start sleeping? I don't know if I can take another night on the sofa."
"I guess she can move into the spare room once we clean out all of the junk that's in it..." Clark stood in front of his mother with a huge pile of stuff in his arms. She couldn't even see her son's face behind it all.
"Where do you want all the junk?"
"In the attic I guess." Clark ran off and returned in a matter of milliseconds.
"Was the couch that uncomfortable?"
"It wasn't that bad, but it was nothing compared to a good old bed." Chloe and Laney came back downstairs. Chloe had a look of pure shock. "Did I scare you?"
"Well when the room goes from full of clutter, to perfectly clean in two seconds, wouldn't you expect me to be a little startled?" Clark began laughing. "It's not funny Clark! Weren't we going see if Laney had any abilities yet?"
"Sorry Chloe. Come on Laney." Chloe and Clark led her outside. "Ok, let's start with..."
"Super Strength." Laney finished her older brother's sentence.
"How did you know that?"
"I read your mind."
"You what?"
"I read your mind. All Kryptonian girls can do this."
"What else can Kryptonian girls do?"
"Most of the same things boys can, like speed, strength, which I have, x-ray vision, ice breath..."
"Ice breath?!?!?"
"Of course, don't you have yours yet?"
"Uh... no."
"What else can you do?" Chloe asked.
"Levitation, invisibility, and I can walk through things."
"Well if you start to experience any of these, you can always come to us. We can help."
"I know."
"How fast do girls get their powers?"
"About one year earlier than the boys do, but even though I was in hibernation, my powers continued to develop, so I will probably start getting them soon. I already got my mind reading." Martha Kent came outside and motioned them in for dinner. Clark and Laney said goodbye to Chloe.
"I'll come by after school with Lois and her Aunt."
"Ok Chloe, see you tomorrow." Clark put his arm around his little sister and they began to walk back towards the house, just as the sun set over the horizon.
AN: I hope you enjoyed this new installment. I had a lot of fun writing it. It's not as long as I hoped it to be. But what can I do? I just had a major writers block. Anyway, I'll be seeing you all later.
Anarra- Glad you liked it, thanks for the awesome review. It made me feel like I did a good job.
Clark Kent's Girl- Thanks for the review. Sorry if I confused you.
IloveClark2-Hey BFF, thanks for my first review on this story. Hope to you see u soon.