Chapter Two

New Kryptonite

"Jonathan, this in impossible; isn't it?" asked Martha handing the thermometer to her husband.

Jonathan looked at it then looked up again and said, "It seemed impossible, but now it's happening." Jonathan said putting the thermometer down and looking at Clark again.

"I'm sure I'll be fine, I'll get up," said Clark as he started to get out of bed.

"Oh no you don't, you are staying right were you are!" said Martha pushing him down again.

"Mom I've never been sick, so I've never missed a day of school. Don't you think it will be a little weird if I'm just all of a sudden getting sick and not going to school," Clark said as he tried to get up again which was not helping his head.

"Clark there is a first time for everything, now you are sick, you are staying home and you are staying in bed," Marta said firmly as she pushed Clark down once again.

"But..." Clark began but stopped when he got a very stern look from his father.

"Alright I'll stay in bed," Clark said and sneezed as he lay back down on his pillows.

"Good, I'll go and make you some soup, you stay put," said Martha pulling the blanket up to Clark's shoulders.

"Alright mom don't worry I won't move," said Clark as he fell asleep again.

"Maybe I should wait on the soup and just let him sleep for now," said Martha as she looked at Jonathan

"That's probable a good idea, I better get going the cows won't feed themselves, any chance I could get Clark's help just for a minute?" asked Jonathan with a fake pleading look.

"Jonathan Kent! I can't believe you just said that!" said Martha putting her hands on her hips and giving him a stare.

"What? It was just an innocent little question," said Jonathan with fake confusion.

"Oh you!" said Martha throwing a book on Clark's night stand at her husband. Jonathan dodged it and within seconds was heading down the stairs.

Martha turned back to the bed kissed her sleeping son on the forehead and said, "Sleep well sweetheart."

Later in the afternoon there was a knock on the front door, Martha put down the dishes she was washing and went to answer it.

"Pete, Chloe, Lana, hi what brings you out here?" asked Martha as she opened the screen door to let them in.

"You mean besides the school bus," asked Pete with a smile.

"We came to see Clark, he wasn't at school today and we came by to make sure he was alright," said Lana glaring at Pete.

"Oh, the school, I knew I forgot something, Clark is fine he just has a cold," said Martha looking at the three kids in front of her that had been her son's best friends since the day they met.

"A cold, are we talking about the same Clark?" Chloe Asked as she got her camera out. Clark Kent sick; this she had see.

Clark awoke to a knock downstairs then a few minutes later there was a knock on his door.

"Come in," Clark said looking at the door.

His mother popped her head in. "Clark you have some visitors are you up for it?" Martha asked

"Sure," Clark said as he sat up pulling his pillows up with him.

Martha turned around again and Clark heard her say, "Okay you can go in now."

Clark wasn't surprise at who it was. "Hi Chloe, Pete, Lana, it's good to see you," said Clark as his three friends walked into the room.

"It's good to see you too, and in one piece, when you didn't show up at school we really started to wonder," said Lana giving Clark a smile.

"Let me guess my mom forgot to call the school and people are starting to wonder if I disappeared," said Clark giving a half smile.

"I don't know about disappeared, but we were wondering were you where," said Pete.

"Well, I'll be alright, I should be back at school in a few days," said Clark giving them a half smile.

"That's good to hear, we were hoping it wasn't serious," said Lana with her Smallville high famous smile.

"Yes that is very good, smile and say cheese," said Chloe as she snapped the picture.

"Chloe, what are you doing?" asked Clark looking at her confused.

"What? This is just my proof that Clark Kent can get sick," said Chloe smiling at Clark.

"You're not going to use that for anything; are you?" asked Clark with a pleading look.

"No, it is just for me so I can always remember that you can get sick," said Chloe smiling.

This brought a laugh out of Pete and Lana.

"Alright, fine, that's very funny," said Clark, He joined the laughing until he had a coughing fit.

"Are you alright?" asked Lana.

"I'm fine," said Clark as his coughing finally stopped.

"By the way we found something out that we thought you would be interested in, we looked at the pictures I took of the meteor rock yesterday and I found out that we were learning about three different rocks yesterday.

"What do you mean,"asked Clark looking puzzled.

"All three are meteor rock but they are just different colors, the one we were learning about yesterday was a yellowish green color that's why we didn't think it was meteor rock when we first saw it. Since you seemed to have such an interest in the meteor rock yesterday, we thought you might want to know." Said Chloe holding out her camera, so Clark, Lana, and Pete could see the picture.

"It's different," Clark thought then Lana's voice brought him out of his trace.

"Clark?" Lana said looking at Clark, he looked like he was in a trace.

"Clark!" she said again this time a little louder.

"What!" Clark said as he snapped back.

"Are you alright? You've gone all pale," said Lana looking worried.

"I fine," said Clark his face still white as a sheet.

"Okay, we're going to go now, and we're going to send your mom up on our way out," said Chloe putting her camera away and started to drag Pete towards the door.

"I'll see you later Clark, get better," Pete managed to get out before Chloe had him out the door.

"I'll stop by later on Clark, you get some rest," said Lana as she left the room.

All Clark could do was wave, because he didn't know what to say. He now knew what it was that had made him normal and he didn't know how long it would last. All he knew was that it was a new kryptonite.

TBC

Does anyone know how the Episode, I can't remember what it's called or what season it's in. But Clark is temporary blinded, and then he develops super hearing, does anyone know how that ends. The last part I saw of it was when Clark and Pete are in school, Clark's first day at school being blind, then I had to go somewhere and I couldn't tape it because we didn't have a VCR. Well if someone could help me out I would appreciate it. Thanks. Happy reading. Frodo's Sweetheart.