Legacy by Nehebka

Part II

-a week later-

Clark walked into Lex office in Metropolis. He had received a call from Lionel Luthor telling him his son has recovered and could visit him whenever he wanted. As Clark entered in the room, Lex who was sitting in front of his desk checking some documents stood up and stepped closer to his friend.

"Clark!" said Clark happily.

"Lex, how are you feeling?" asked Clark as he hugged his friend not believing he was really there.

"Great, actually" said Lex calmly "Never better". Clark looked at Lex silently for a long moment.

"Did your dad tell you why he had you committed?" asked Clark.

"He said I had a psychotic break. They think my island trauma precipitated it. I'm-- I'm just grateful my father recognized it in time".

"Well, what are you going to do now?" asked Clark to change the topic. He made him feel sick how Lionel had manipulated his son, Lex was even grateful to his father!

"Now I should prove my worth, I need to put the insinuations that I'm crazy behind me. And the way to do is here in LuthorCorp. My father's offered me my position back".

"Lex, do you think that job offer's for real?" said Clark not hiding his mistrust by Lionel's offer.

"Why, Clark? You know something I don't?"

Clark shook his head. "Just be careful Lex"

Lex took a deep breath and nodded slightly. Suddenly Lex's head jerked and he touched his temple.

"Lex? What's wrong?" asked Clark as he stepped beside him and when Lex fell unconscious, Clark caught him before he hit the floor, and lied him on the coach. Two minutes later Lex woke up.

"Hey, back with us Lex?" said Clark, his concern about his friend was evident in his voice. Lex sat a moment in silence.

"Clark, wh-what's just happened?" asked confused.

"I don't know. We were talking when you all of sudden froze and then dropped. Lex? Are you all right?" said Clark as he squeezed his arm to get his attention.

"My father wants to kill me. I found out something that could sentence him to prison" mumbled Lex.

"Wh-What are you talking about?!" asked Clark alarmed.

"I-I don't know. I had a flashback or something. I was in your porch in the middle of the night, your father was there and I said these words-"Lex grimaces in pain, rubbing his neck.

"We need to get you to the hospital" said Clark.

"No, no hospitals. I just need time to think...." he didn't finish the sentence because the door of his office was opened abruptly.

Lionel entered in his son's office at LuthorCorp and saw Lex seated at the couch. He was still grimacing in pain, head.

"Lex? You don't look well. Are you all right?"said Lionel with concern as he sat next to him.

Lex stood up, turned away and walked toward the wall, gasping quietly. "I-I'm fine. Just... tired I guess" lied Lex.

"You should go home and get some rest. I'll call my helicopter to..."

"I appreciate the gesture, Dad, but I still can take care of myself"

"Don't take that cavalier attitude with me son" said Lionel.

"Really, you shouldn'tworry about me, Dad. I'm sure you have more important things to care about. Anyway, Clark will help me to arrive home safe and sound, won't you, Clark?".

"Indeed Mr Luthor, I'll take Lex to home" said Clark.

Lionel studied Lex for a moment and then nodded. Clark and Lex left the room. As they walked away, the expression on Lionel's face became tense.

The ride back Luthor's mansion was quick and silent.

"Thanks Clark. I'll call you later. I'm truly tired" mumbled Lex.

"Are you sure everything's ok?" asked Clark worried.

Lex nodded and smiled and then turned around and went to his bedroom where he promptly collapsed.

While young Luthor was sleeping he had another flashback: he was reaching under one of the shelves when he pressed a switch, causing the shelf to flip up and revealing a hidden safe. Lex entered the combination, opening the safe. Lex placed the videocamera and some papers inside the safe.

Lex sat on his bed, he was trembling and in a cold sweat. There were something in these flashbacks that scared him. 'Were they really true?' there was just one way to know it. Lex got up and went to his office, and walked over to the bookshelf. He pressed the switch and the shelf flipped up. He sticked the key that he found inside of the books beside Lex gave him into the lock, and then pressed the combination he had seen in his dreams. The safe was opened and he found a videocamera and some papers inside.

-two hours later, the same night-

Lex poured a glass of orange juice in his study. He took a drink of it and Lionel came in.

"I'm sorry, son, I'm afraid I don't have much time. I have to be back in Metropolis within the hour, I have lot to do. What did you want to talk to me about?"

"Oh don't worry, I won't waste too much of your precious time. I'll get to the point: I have evidence linking you and Morgan Edge to a crime that can get them both the death penalty. That evidence will be delivered to the US Attorney".

Lex started to walk away, but Lionel reached out and grabbed his arm, roughly swinging him back around so that he and Lex are face to face.

"Lex listen to me. Someone is trying to drive a wedge between us. You are my son Lex, the same blood runs in our veins, our bond is stronger than these stupid lies. Who is this source of yours?"

"The only thing we share is mutual enmity. This entire father-son bound is just a smokescreen to control me and stab me in case you couldn't control me" Lex breath heavily and there was a long moment of silent "Who cares who is the source?! The important thing is that I have real evidence and I won't hesitate to publicize it, so you'll get the punishment you deserve father".

Lex pull his arm away from his father, looked at him for a moment, and left the room as Lionel stared after him.

When Lex got into his car, it was raining. He looked at the sky, a storm was coming, but he did not have to lose. The rain made difficult to drive, he couldn't almost see two meters ahead. The road was almost dark. Suddenly a black car appeared in the middle of the road. Lex swerved to the right to avoid the car and went crash into a tree. After few minutes, Lex regain consciousness and got out of the car. He suffled slightly off balance, moving away from the car. Unable to do one more step, Lex sat up. His face bloodied from a cut above his eye. He looked around disoriented. He took the phone he had inside a pocket of his coat and dial Clark's number.

"Hello" said Clark when he took the phone.

"Clark...Help...me!" said Lex, each word between labored breaths. "I...had..a car..accident.... I-I'm-" his voice started to fade and coughed. 'I probably had some cracked ribs', thought as his left hand grasped his left side. Sweat broke out on his face, he felt how the strength was leaving his body. He didn't have the strength to hold the cellular which dragged along the grass next to the car.

"Lex! Lex answer me!" yelled desperatly.

Clark super speeded along the road looking for his friend. From time to time he stopped to think which way take. One of the times he stopped he looked into the distance Lex's black porche crashed into a tree. He super speeded over to it and saw his friend lying on the ground unconscious.

"Come on Lex. Don't you give up on me now! Hang on!" cried Clark, he carried him and super speeded to a hospital.

Few seconds later, Clark opened the emergency door of the Smallville medical center, carrying an unconscious Lex.

"I need help! I need a doctor here!" yelled Clark as he put Lex on an empty gurney.

Clark and their parents stood outside a room, looking through the window at Lex, who lied on a bed inside. He was still unconscious and hooked to various machines, including a respirator. Lionel approached and stood next to Clark, also looking in on Lex.

"I think the cruelest fate that a parent can suffer is to lose his son" mumbled Lionel.

Before Clark could argue the doctor that had been checking Lex, exit the room where the young Luthor lied and approached to them with a serious face.

"How is he?" asked a worried Martha.

"Are you relatives of Lex Luthor?" asked the doctor looking at them.

"Yes" said Lionel. "He's my son".

"Well, he has a couple of cracked ribs and has a coagulated mass in his brain probably due to a hard knock that affect his memory. I'm afraid he'll probably won't have any short-term memory".

Lionel sighed sadly while he shook his head. Clark looked at him unbelief. "Do you have any idea how difficult this is for me?" replied Lionel when he saw Clark's look.

"You don't give a damn about Lex" hissed Clark angrily.

"Young man, Lex is my son and I love him"

"Yeah right. Even if you do, he doesn't think you do" Clark glared angrily up at Lionel Luthor. "Always criticizing him and stabbing him in the back everytime your interests were threatened". Before anyone could react, Clark had Lionel up against the window, his arm pinned across his throat.

Jonathan put a hand on Clark's shoulder. "Leave him son" as so Clark did. He walked toward Lionel until he was standing face to face with him. "We should leave Mr. Luthor alone to think about it".

They stared at each other for a moment, before Jonathan turned he glanced at Clark. "Let's go to the restaurant, you should it something" and then the Kent's family left Lionel alone.

Lionel put a hand up on the mirror, a few tears welling up in his eyes as he looked at Lex lying in the hospital bed.

-in the restaurant-

"Once again Lionel manage to get away with murder" said Clark furiously. Jonathan put his hand on Clark's shoulder to comfort him, but Clark shook him off and crossed the room. "Someone's gonna make Lionel pay for his crime".

Jonathan crossed the room and put his hands on Clark's shoulders, turning him to face Jonathan. Clark reluctantly brought his eyes up to meet Jonathan's.

"Someday, somebody is gonna make Lionel pay for his crime, but that day is not today, Clark. Now, I know this is very difficult for you, but you have to realize that there are people out there who are more powerful than you are" said Jonathan. Clark took a deep breath and looked away painfully.

Meanwhile Lionel was leaning over his desk in his office at LuthorCorp looking at a computer screen. On the screen is a surveillance video and he is rewinding it over and over, watching the same few seconds of video again and again.

"I blow up the building. Lionel gets rid of his bastard father and his gin soaked mother. The slumlord splits the insurance payment with us. Lionel uses his cut for his first start-up, and the rest is history" confessed Morgan Edge on the camera.

"What have you done son?" mumbled to himself with tears in his eyes. "you almost get killed, I-I'm so sorry but you left me no other choice" muttered.

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