Lionel signaled his guards to wait outside the door, which struck Clark as
odd. Was he actually trying to prevent them from knowing what they were
about to discuss? Clark didn't think he could ever understand Lionel's
mind. Lionel slid a key card threw a slot in the wall, which was covered by
a bookshelf. Clark would have laughed at that, except he was so scared of
what was going to happen to him, he felt like he was truly trapped for the
first time in his life.
A door opened and Lionel entered a code and another door opened into a room bigger than the apartment itself. It was mostly steel floors, and walls. It brought up unwanted memories of hospitals. Clark shuddered, he just wanted to turn and leave. But he knew Lionel would make him pay threw his parents, Lana, Chloe, Pete, all his friends. A thought of hope popped into Clark's head. Maybe Lex would notice, or discover what his father was up to... just maybe, it was a long shot though. Wasn't Lionel scared I would do something to him? He knows how strong I am... and who knows what else he knows I'm capable of, but yet, he goes in alone, without his guards.
Lionel gestured for Clark to sit down on a couch against the wall, and he sat opposite of him.
"What are we doing?" Clark asked.
"Clark, tell me what happened the day I was attacked. You said the man who shot me missed, but I had a team all over this place and they found nothing. But I found something..." Lionel pulled out 3 smashed bullets. Clark recognized them. While he was under the influence of red kryptonite for the first time, he had shot himself in the hand 3 times, to scare a man into telling him who he was and what he wanted.
"He missed..." Clark knew he agreed to this, but he could not just tell Lionel.
"Clark! We had an agreement, I know you know what really happened! Tell me now!" Lionel burst into a rage so quickly, it frightened Clark, who Lionel could never hurt.
"I..." Clark was debating weather to tell him or not... what was he going to do with this information? So far he hadn't told anyone... but he already so much. "I shot myself in the hand."
"And you were unharmed?" Lionel asked with great interest in his eyes.
"Yes." Clark looked down, he could stand looking at those eyes.
"What else can you do?"
"Nothing... I'm just strong... Lionel, I'm not what you think... I'm not..." Clark was so uncomfortable under Lionel's piercing eyes.
"You are bullet proof, extremely strong... what else?" Lionel asked.
"Nothing. That is all I can do." Clark said.
"You are not willing to cooperate, and until you do, you will have to face the consequences." Lionel yelled and got up.
"What is that supposed to mean." Clark asked getting angry at the threat.
"I will not keep my end of the deal, if you don't keep yours." Lionel said as he opened the door that led back into the apartment, "Stay out of here."
Clark returned back to the apartment and Lionel left, but before he did he said, "If you want to tell me anything, you can call this number." And he handed him a cell phone with a number already stored in memory, and left.
Clark was relieved and scared. What would Lionel do? But Lionel laws gone... for now.
* * * * *School on Monday * * * * *
"Clark!" Lana said dropping her books as she saw Clark sitting at a computer in the torch. Clark stood up to meet her in a hug. "I was so scared... I didn't know what happened to you, you parents said you went to a foster home, but you would have told me... and then your parents weren't aloud to have the number and-"
"Lana, it's alright. I'm fine." Clark said trying to convince her. "I'm sorry, I'm just... not really allowed to call anyone..." Clark lied.
"Why not?" Lana asked.
"Well... because... the family I'm staying with knows that there is a lot of... well they just don't want a lot of trouble." Clark mentally kicked himself for sounding so unsure of himself.
"Clark, what's going on? What aren't you telling me?" Lana said breaking their hug.
"Nothing! I'm just a little upset right now." Clark said, and it was true, but it still felt like a lie, and it broke his heart to lie to Lana again, it was like taking 12 huge steps backwards in their relationship.
"I'm sorry Clark... I didn't mean to..." Lana felt so guilty about accusing him of being dishonest.
"No... don't be sorry." Clark said as he leaned down and kissed her, really kissed her, leaving her breathless. "I've missed you."
"It felt like a lot more than 2 days." Lana said feeling better, "So are you alright? Do you want me to come over-"
"NO!" Clark said immediately regretting it, as he saw the hurt look on Lana's face, "I mean ... like I said before, the people I'm staying with don't want any trouble."
"oh." Was all Lana could say. The bell broke the awkward silence between them.
"I have to get to 6th." Clark said making an excuse. He kissed Lana on the cheek and then left the torch, leaving a confused Lana behind. But Clark felt so guilty and he ditched 6th and 7th period and just started running and running. He wished he could erase himself, because everyone one he knew, was going to get hurt because of it. Clark found himself back at the apartment, as much as he hated it, he had no where else to go. He missed his parents, and he wanted to tell Lana the truth, when she obviously knew he was hiding something from her, He had barely spoke two words to Pete since the whole thing happened to protect him, things were awkward between Lex and him seeing as it was his father, and Lex felt guilty he couldn't do anything to stop it, and Chloe had been avoiding him, just as well, Clark thought, she would only get hurt.
Clark turned on the local news and caught a glimpse of his father, which quickly caught his attention. The story was about a rapist, but as the camera scrolled the prison, he saw his father.
Clark shut off the TV and began to look for the cell phone Lionel had gave him. HE found it under the couch and entered the number and Lionel himself picked up. "You lied to me! You promised you would keep my father out of jail!"
"Clark, are you forgetting that I would keep him out of jail on the condition that you cooperated." Lionel said, and Clark could hear him smirk through the phone.
"Get and keep him out of jail, and I'll tell you what I want to know." Clark hung up the phone and punched a hole in the wall.
* * * * * * * * *
"... and that is all of it." Clark said feeling horrible. He had just told Lionel everything he was capable of. His, X-ray, heat vision, super speed, everything.
"Clark, how do you have all these.... These abilities?" Lionel asked.
"I... I guess I'm just different. I've been strong and fast since I was a toddler, and the other abilities came separate, one at a time." Clark said.
"How did Jonathan get you?" Lionel inquired.
"Get me?" Clark didn't understand what he was asking.
"I faked your adoption papers, so there was no real adoption and you certainly aren't their real son." Lionel explained.
"Um... they found me the day of the meteor shower." Clark answered.
* * * * * * * * *
The weeks went on, and Lionel met with Clark once or twice a week and asked him a million questions, and Clark always told him the real answers. Lionel knew practically everything, but Clark never mentioned Jor-El, or the spaceship. He didn't know why he felt like he couldn't, but he learned to trust his instincts. Lionel assumed Lana already knew all this, and once he asked "Who else, besides Lana and your parents know about you?" Clark lied and said no one, he would never tell him that Pete knew. He was already scared for Lana.
Lana had been really supportive and even though she knew he was keeping things from her, she never yelled or got angry with him, and it mad it all the harder, seeing how good of a person she really was. Clark went over to Lana's house a few times, but he never went anywhere else. He was nervous about visiting Lex because he might slip up, or Lionel would get angry and think he had told Lex. Clark missed his parents so much.
* * * * * * * *
Clark stuck the key into his apartment door and walked in, and was shocked to find Lana sitting on one of his couches.
"Lana, you have to leave, it's not safe... how... it doesn't matter, he will go after you and-" Clark freaked out.
"Clark... Lionel sent me here. He told me the truth of where you have been staying and why." Lana wiped a tear from her face.
"Why would he do that?" Clark wondered. After all he was the one who had forbid him to tell anyone, including Lana, about what was really going on
A door opened and Lionel entered a code and another door opened into a room bigger than the apartment itself. It was mostly steel floors, and walls. It brought up unwanted memories of hospitals. Clark shuddered, he just wanted to turn and leave. But he knew Lionel would make him pay threw his parents, Lana, Chloe, Pete, all his friends. A thought of hope popped into Clark's head. Maybe Lex would notice, or discover what his father was up to... just maybe, it was a long shot though. Wasn't Lionel scared I would do something to him? He knows how strong I am... and who knows what else he knows I'm capable of, but yet, he goes in alone, without his guards.
Lionel gestured for Clark to sit down on a couch against the wall, and he sat opposite of him.
"What are we doing?" Clark asked.
"Clark, tell me what happened the day I was attacked. You said the man who shot me missed, but I had a team all over this place and they found nothing. But I found something..." Lionel pulled out 3 smashed bullets. Clark recognized them. While he was under the influence of red kryptonite for the first time, he had shot himself in the hand 3 times, to scare a man into telling him who he was and what he wanted.
"He missed..." Clark knew he agreed to this, but he could not just tell Lionel.
"Clark! We had an agreement, I know you know what really happened! Tell me now!" Lionel burst into a rage so quickly, it frightened Clark, who Lionel could never hurt.
"I..." Clark was debating weather to tell him or not... what was he going to do with this information? So far he hadn't told anyone... but he already so much. "I shot myself in the hand."
"And you were unharmed?" Lionel asked with great interest in his eyes.
"Yes." Clark looked down, he could stand looking at those eyes.
"What else can you do?"
"Nothing... I'm just strong... Lionel, I'm not what you think... I'm not..." Clark was so uncomfortable under Lionel's piercing eyes.
"You are bullet proof, extremely strong... what else?" Lionel asked.
"Nothing. That is all I can do." Clark said.
"You are not willing to cooperate, and until you do, you will have to face the consequences." Lionel yelled and got up.
"What is that supposed to mean." Clark asked getting angry at the threat.
"I will not keep my end of the deal, if you don't keep yours." Lionel said as he opened the door that led back into the apartment, "Stay out of here."
Clark returned back to the apartment and Lionel left, but before he did he said, "If you want to tell me anything, you can call this number." And he handed him a cell phone with a number already stored in memory, and left.
Clark was relieved and scared. What would Lionel do? But Lionel laws gone... for now.
* * * * *School on Monday * * * * *
"Clark!" Lana said dropping her books as she saw Clark sitting at a computer in the torch. Clark stood up to meet her in a hug. "I was so scared... I didn't know what happened to you, you parents said you went to a foster home, but you would have told me... and then your parents weren't aloud to have the number and-"
"Lana, it's alright. I'm fine." Clark said trying to convince her. "I'm sorry, I'm just... not really allowed to call anyone..." Clark lied.
"Why not?" Lana asked.
"Well... because... the family I'm staying with knows that there is a lot of... well they just don't want a lot of trouble." Clark mentally kicked himself for sounding so unsure of himself.
"Clark, what's going on? What aren't you telling me?" Lana said breaking their hug.
"Nothing! I'm just a little upset right now." Clark said, and it was true, but it still felt like a lie, and it broke his heart to lie to Lana again, it was like taking 12 huge steps backwards in their relationship.
"I'm sorry Clark... I didn't mean to..." Lana felt so guilty about accusing him of being dishonest.
"No... don't be sorry." Clark said as he leaned down and kissed her, really kissed her, leaving her breathless. "I've missed you."
"It felt like a lot more than 2 days." Lana said feeling better, "So are you alright? Do you want me to come over-"
"NO!" Clark said immediately regretting it, as he saw the hurt look on Lana's face, "I mean ... like I said before, the people I'm staying with don't want any trouble."
"oh." Was all Lana could say. The bell broke the awkward silence between them.
"I have to get to 6th." Clark said making an excuse. He kissed Lana on the cheek and then left the torch, leaving a confused Lana behind. But Clark felt so guilty and he ditched 6th and 7th period and just started running and running. He wished he could erase himself, because everyone one he knew, was going to get hurt because of it. Clark found himself back at the apartment, as much as he hated it, he had no where else to go. He missed his parents, and he wanted to tell Lana the truth, when she obviously knew he was hiding something from her, He had barely spoke two words to Pete since the whole thing happened to protect him, things were awkward between Lex and him seeing as it was his father, and Lex felt guilty he couldn't do anything to stop it, and Chloe had been avoiding him, just as well, Clark thought, she would only get hurt.
Clark turned on the local news and caught a glimpse of his father, which quickly caught his attention. The story was about a rapist, but as the camera scrolled the prison, he saw his father.
Clark shut off the TV and began to look for the cell phone Lionel had gave him. HE found it under the couch and entered the number and Lionel himself picked up. "You lied to me! You promised you would keep my father out of jail!"
"Clark, are you forgetting that I would keep him out of jail on the condition that you cooperated." Lionel said, and Clark could hear him smirk through the phone.
"Get and keep him out of jail, and I'll tell you what I want to know." Clark hung up the phone and punched a hole in the wall.
* * * * * * * * *
"... and that is all of it." Clark said feeling horrible. He had just told Lionel everything he was capable of. His, X-ray, heat vision, super speed, everything.
"Clark, how do you have all these.... These abilities?" Lionel asked.
"I... I guess I'm just different. I've been strong and fast since I was a toddler, and the other abilities came separate, one at a time." Clark said.
"How did Jonathan get you?" Lionel inquired.
"Get me?" Clark didn't understand what he was asking.
"I faked your adoption papers, so there was no real adoption and you certainly aren't their real son." Lionel explained.
"Um... they found me the day of the meteor shower." Clark answered.
* * * * * * * * *
The weeks went on, and Lionel met with Clark once or twice a week and asked him a million questions, and Clark always told him the real answers. Lionel knew practically everything, but Clark never mentioned Jor-El, or the spaceship. He didn't know why he felt like he couldn't, but he learned to trust his instincts. Lionel assumed Lana already knew all this, and once he asked "Who else, besides Lana and your parents know about you?" Clark lied and said no one, he would never tell him that Pete knew. He was already scared for Lana.
Lana had been really supportive and even though she knew he was keeping things from her, she never yelled or got angry with him, and it mad it all the harder, seeing how good of a person she really was. Clark went over to Lana's house a few times, but he never went anywhere else. He was nervous about visiting Lex because he might slip up, or Lionel would get angry and think he had told Lex. Clark missed his parents so much.
* * * * * * * *
Clark stuck the key into his apartment door and walked in, and was shocked to find Lana sitting on one of his couches.
"Lana, you have to leave, it's not safe... how... it doesn't matter, he will go after you and-" Clark freaked out.
"Clark... Lionel sent me here. He told me the truth of where you have been staying and why." Lana wiped a tear from her face.
"Why would he do that?" Clark wondered. After all he was the one who had forbid him to tell anyone, including Lana, about what was really going on