As he stood alone in his loft, he listened to Karen's car drive away. By the time he could hear her car no more, he started hearing a loud ringing noise in his ear. Then the pain started and he reached for his right hear with his right hand. He started hearing voices.
"Where's Clark?" Martha Kent asked her husband.
"He's out in the loft."
He looked around and couldn't find his parents anywhere in sight. He went to the door of the loft and looked out towards his house and could see his parents in the kitchen. What? He didn't know what to think. How could he hear his parents when they were inside the house? A new power? I mean after x-ray vision what could he expect? He headed towards the house and up the porch stairs and into the house. He saw his parents sitting at the kitchen table.
"Something just happened when I was out in the loft." He said sitting down in a chair next to his Mom.
"What happened?" Martha asked.
"Well…I heard you guys talking in here. I heard you asking where I was and Dad saying I was in the loft." He told them.
"Wait son, you heard all that when you were in the loft?" His Dad asked.
"Yeah, I was thinking it might be another power. You know like x-ray vision and my speed. It was just like before I got my x-ray vision, I started feeling pain in my ear right before it happened."
"You'll probably have to learn to control it just like your x-ray vision." Martha said.
"Yeah." he said letting his voice trail.
"Is something else bothering you Clark?" His Dad asked putting his hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah, that reporter that did a story on Lex a couple months ago came by the loft this morning. She uh…knows about me. She caught me using my powers on tape at Lex's house the other day."
"I'm going to Lex's, maybe he can figure out a way to make her not run that story." Clark said getting up from his chair and heading out the door before his parents could say a word.
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Karen Castle pulled into the parking lot of the motel she was staying at. She carried the video camera with her at all times because she didn't want something like that to be laying around in her motel room for someone to find. She headed inside her room and pulled her lab top off the floor and set it in her lap. She opened up Word and grinned as she typed in bold "Teenage Superhero." The phone interrupted her incredible soon to be story and she immediately picked it up.
"Karen Castle." She said.
"Karen, it's John, what's the update with the Luthor story?" Her boss asked her sounding irritated.
"Well, something came up and I've found a better story."
"What?! So what you just thought you'd dump the Luthor story and move on to something you claim is better?"
"You'll see John."
"It better be good or your ass is gonna be in a lot of trouble." And with that he hung up.
"Oh don't worry John, it will be." She said long after he hung up and smiled to herself.
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As Clark was driving to Lex's the sharp pain began again but soon turned into a ringing noise and he suddenly heard everyone's conversation as he drove down the street of Smallville.
"Yeah I was just thinking we should throw a party for her." He heard a woman tell her husband.
"I want a divorce." He heard a young woman say.
"Stop calling me that, my name is John, not Johnny." A teenager said sounding irritated. Stop. Clark said repeatedly to himself.
"I'm gonna get that little bitch. She's gonna pay." Clark heard a man sounding like he was in his thirties say quietly and angrily to himself. He turned his head and looked on each side of the street for the source of the voice but couldn't find the man. Clark realized there was nothing he could do at the moment, so he continued on to Lex's thinking to himself about what the man said.