Clark stormed out of the mansion. Of course he didn't trust Lex! How could he possibly, after seeing that room? And after all the times he'd saved Lex's ass.
On the other hand, if he hadn't saved Lex's ass so many times, the room wouldn't exist. But what was he supposed to do, let Lex get killed? And it wasn't his fault Lex was in mortal danger every week or so.
Well, it sort of was. Most of the problems in Smallville were caused by the meteor rocks that had arrived with him. But he hadn't been the one that programmed the spaceship to go to Earth, and the person who had programmed it most likely had no way of knowing what effect Krypton's debris would have on humans.
Clark took a moment to wonder whether livestock and crops had also been affected, and if not, why not? It would certainly explain those strange looks their oldest cow, Bessie, had given him. It might also explain why Bessie had lived so long … no, better not to follow that train of thought.
Besides, Lex needed rescuing from his own father more often than from meteor freaks. Or from one of Lex's own wives. And Lex might already be dead if it weren't for the meteors – Didn't Chloe say she thought that his inhumanly high white blood cell count was due to the meteors?
Wait … didn't a high WBC count mean someone was really sick?
Nah, Lex wasn't sick. In fact, he'd had asthma before the meteors, and hadn't been ill a day in his life since then. And if he was sick, well, Clark still hadn't been the one to aim the meteors at Earth.
And it wasn't as if he had any choice about lying to Lex. Hadn't Lex just today shown how untrustworthy he was? So what if he had killed Nixon to protect Clark; he'd still gone on with his own investigation.
No, there was definitely no way that anything that had happened in Smallville had been Clark's fault. His father was always telling him so, wasn't he?
But … he probably shouldn't have visited Lionel in prison. Or asked for his help in preventing Lex from recovering his memories. Which, come to think of it, had resulted in Lex having to rescue Clark. Yeah, talking to Lionel was generally a mistake. Okay, chalk that one up to experience. No more talking to Lionel. But since he had just severed his friendship with Lex, that wasn't likely to be an issue.
… Except that Lionel would still have people researching Clark, and Lex was probably the only one who could stop that. But he wasn't going to stay friends with Lex just because he needed his help. He couldn't trust Lex, and that was that. Dad has always said so, and Dad would know, after his trouble with Lionel. He had been right to refuse to let Lex bail out the farm all those times he'd offered. No matter how many times Clark and Lex had saved each other's lives, he'd just have to …
Oh, fuck.
Clark turned around and headed back to the mansion.