"Connor? Where are we going? The old safehouse was back there." Chloe said.
"We're not going there." Connor said quietly, deep in thought. How did he even begin this conversation? How did he persuade Chloe not to freak out? Would she still have any feelings for him at all, once she knew everything?
"Okay....so where are we going?"
"To the airstrip."
"Huh?"
Connor continued driving. "Angel, my father, is a vampire."
"Well, yeah, Connor, I know that. I mean I knew it when he called you son earlier night, when he attacked my class, remember?"
"Yeah, when he attacked your class." Connor echoed. "Anyway, he was not himself."
"So you've said. So Clark said too. Would you mind being more specific? And why are we going to the airstrip?"
"Most vampires have no souls." Connor said, instead of answering her.
"Yeah, well most demons don't."
"Well my father does. Thanks to a gypsy curse."
Chloe still didn't understand.
"Gypsies cursed your father?"
Connor nodded.
"Yes. So now he has to live with memory of all of the people he has killed and harmed. He's been doing it now for almost three hundred years."
"Your father has been alive for three hundred years? Wait a minute, Connor! Wait a minute! Your father is a vampire, so essentially, he's dead. How did he father a child?"
"I don't know. My mother was a vampire as well. She staked herself when I was born."
"Oh my God! I'm sorry....I guess. Connor, this airstrip thing...."
"I'm leaving, Chloe."
Chloe reached out and grabbed the steering wheel! Connor struggled to maintain his direction, until he finally went off to the side of the road.
"Chloe, that was really dangerous!"
"So is your leaving me! What is this all about?"
"The Army is hunting my father, and myself. Angel thinks that everything will be alright now, but I know it won't."
Chloe put a hand up!
"Connor, you are making no sense! None! Now you still haven't explained your origins completely. I know that both of your parents were vampires, and that your mother staked herself and your father is usually nice, save for what we saw earlier this evening. Now we get from that, to the Army being after your father and you.....you're leaving out a hell of a lot!"
Connor reached for her hand.
"Your Uncle, General Sam Lane, wants Angel and me. He made a deal with Lex. The two of us for some formula he has, and Lois's hand in marriage."
"What?! That doesn't sound like Uncle Sam! And Lois and Lex? Lois is too independent to be married to anyone, much less someone like Lex!"
"Chloe, I don't really have the time to convince you that I'm telling you the truth. Lex admitted all of this to us. Lois overheard everything. I think she was hurt over what her father tried to pull."
"I'm not saying I don't believe you. I just want you to skip to the chase. What does any of this have to do with the you're leaving? Now that Lois and I know the plan, my uncle wouldn't dare do anything."
"Chloe, it won't be just your uncle next time. Lex and your Uncle, knowing who I really am, much less Angel's identity, makes Smallville a dangerous place for me. Those people back at the Kent farm are going to be looking for Angel and me. When they can't find us, they're going to look to you. I don't want your hometown to be unlivable for you."
"Then take me with you."
"Chloe...."
"I'll call my father later from wherever! But you are not just skipping town without me! We're in, whatever this is, together."
"Do you really mean that?" Connor asked carefully. "I mean, I don't know if you could ever get used to the strange things that are probably going to occur, from just being in my life."
"This is Smallville, Connor. I used to have this wall full of newspaper clippings, of all the strange things that have happened in this town, ever since that meteor shower, over twenty years ago. I'm used to weird things."
"That was the meteor rock that was affecting my father?"
"Yeah. Believe me, it affects humans in different ways too. Look, forget all of that. We'll face what we have to face together. Just know that you're life is my life now."
Connor kissed Chloe then, having decided to go with his instincts. He then let go of her.
"There's a jet waiting. Let's go."
Angel, who had already boarded, was not surprised to see Lilah emerge from a compartment.
"Lilah. Tell me why I shouldn't just kill you right now?"
"Well, I think your son would be upset if you did that."
Angel, who had been sitting, jumped up and grabbed Lilah by the throat!
"Whatever plans you have for Connor, you can just forget them! When we made that deal, years ago, Connor was supposed to live a normal existence. He was never supposed to know where he really came from."
Lilah didn't even flinch.
"Well, as you well know, there were some glitches in that spell. Glitches and unforeseen circumstances. And he is leading a semi-normal life now."
Angel threw her away from him, and she collapsed onto a couch.
"What's going on? What have you done now?"
Lilah rubbed her throat. Take a look for yourself." she said, standing up. Angel went and looked out of one of the plane windows.
Connor and Chloe were just pulling up. Angel shrugged and turned back to Lilah.
"So what? I see my son came to his senses and is going to be with the woman he loves."
"She's not coming."
Angel peered at her.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Just as I said. You see, Connor called me on my cell and we came to an agreement. In fact, in my estimation, we probably sealed this deal, right before he picked up Ms. Sullivan there."
Angel turned and opened the door, lowering the steps. He hurried down them. Chloe stepped back behind Connor. Angel looked at her.
"Hello....you must be Chloe."
Chloe nodded, unable to get the image of the murderous fiend she had dealt with earlier, out of her mind. She certainly hoped that having family dinners with Angel, wasn't going to be a part of her life with Connor. That and, by rights, Angel really should pay for his crimes. God knows how many vampires that he made, were still running around Smallville now!
Connor looked up past Angel, at Lilah, who was standing in the plane doorway. Angel looked back up at her, then back at Connor.
It was then that he knew. It was then that he knew what this 'agreement' was, that Connor had made with Wolfram & Hart.
Before Angel could say a word, the sky suddenly turned black! Wind began to rush in at a vicious level, and Chloe had to hang on to Connor just to right herself!
"Are we going to even be able to fly?!" Chloe shouted through the wind. Connor looked at her.
"Don't worry! Everything will be fine!" was all Connor said. He looked at Angel, who mouthed the word, 'no', to him.
No one would ever know, that the vicious storm that was engulfing Smallville, had begun the minute Clark Kent put himself inside a mortal woman, Lois Lane.
Lois, who was on top, could not think of anything else but the growing pleasure Clark was giving her, as he seemed to grow bigger and bigger, stretching her passage. Hadn't he said he was a virgin or something? Or had someone told her that? This was wrong! Clark had to have misunderstood Lana....they should stop. Yes, they should stop.
But Lois could not seem to make herself stop the sensual movements of her hips, nor did Clark do anything to stop the pushing up movement, he was doing to meet her thrusts.
His hands, which were firmly positioned on her waist, felt like fire on her skin. Lois's eyes closed, as she shut out out the pain in her foot, this strange storm that had begun and....
And Clark's babbling!
"This is lust, Lois! Pure and simple, lust! No one ever has to know! No one ever has to..."
Lois reached out, picked up a clump of hay and shoved it into his mouth! He began to spit it out! His eyes, like his mouth, were smiling.
"Forget the sweet nothings, okay? Harder and faster. Those are the only things you need to be concentrating on, Smallville. Harder and faster!" she ordered him, closing her eyes again and leaning back.
Clark, who liked her dominate role, began to move his hands upward. And that was when he noticed something.
As soon as his hands moved from her waist, a white flash went off, and he could see that his handprints were burned there! Smiling at the pattern, Clark began to move his hands all over her body, leaving his prints burned onto Lois's skin!
Lois, who was still lost in her own pleasure, and had her eyes closed, noticed none of this, but just felt a pleasurable tingling on her skin. Clark's red ring began to glow, as he forced himself upward into a half seated position. With one arm around her waist, and the other reaching out for one of her breasts, Clark took it into his mouth, and unwittingly, left lip prints, burned onto her breast as well.
Their bodies continued to move rhythmically, until Lois thought she would lose her mind! He was so big and hard within her, and his mouth was hot against her sensitive nipple....neither of them noticed that soon, they were both bathed in red light. Neither could know that this storm, and a now strange glow of all of the symbols in the caves, were all due to this illicit union. The storm began to sound much worse, as Clark Kent and Lois Lane continued their frenzied lovemaking, until Lois felt the room spinning, and then blackness......
Lex decided to find Lois and apologize. He didn't know why he was even bothering, except that there was something in him, that did not want to leave things with her unfinished in this way. He wanted her to know that he hadn't just been using her. He did genuinely care for her, a little.
Lex knew she was staying at the Kent farm, and sped up to get there, ignoring the slick roads. He glanced up at the sky while driving. Where the hell did this storm suddenly come from?
It was when he took his eyes off of the road, that his care skidded out of control, and much to his horror, he found himself crashing off of the same bridge that he had hit Clark on, some years ago. Only this time, Clark was not there, just him, and his car, crashing into the river....
Chloe sat on a couch on the plane, looking out of the window at the storm, as Angel plead with Connor, and Lilah listened. She too thought the storm was a bit odd as well.
"Connor, listen to me. Don't do this! Chloe looks like a strong young woman that wants to be with you. Give her this chance. Don't make a decision, that the both of you should have input in, for her. She'll hate you later."
"There won't be a later, because she won't remember, will she?" Connor asked Lilah. Lilah nodded.
"Come on, Angel. Even if you could fly away from here, no one in this town is going to forget you. They may put out APB's. Chloe will be dragged into this. Hell, her being on this plane has already put her in this mess. Connor's way, will alter reality so that no one will remember that there were vampires here. The vamps that you made, that others made, will disappear and...."
"So will Chloe's love for me." Connor answered, his voice cracking. Angel put a hand on his shoulder.
"And what do you get in return?" Angel asked bitterly.
Lilah smiled.
"We'll let young Connor know, when the time is right."
Angel turned back to Connor.
"I can see you don't want to do this. Hell, the two of you can take this plane and leave! I will turn myself in now! I'd do anything so that you can have the life you want, son."
"You have work to do, people to save. Chloe will be fine. She won't remember me, she won't be heartbroken. Do it." he said, indicating Lilah. Angel just shook his head and looked down, as Connor walked over to Chloe, pulled her up from the couch and kissed her. The room began to spin until there was nothing but white light.....
Of course, the 'spell' did not forget things that could not be forgotten.
And there were a few glitches.
Lois awoke in her dorm room and spit out hay! What the hell?!
She sat up, and listened to the sounds of Chloe vomiting! Lois's eyes widened.
"Are you throwing up on the floor over there?" she asked, looking at her cousin.
"I couldn't make it to the bathroom in time." Chloe responded weakly. "You know, I would think I was pregnant, from the way I've been feeling these days. But that can't be, since I would've had to have slept with someone to get this way. Or at least be in a relationship." Chloe said wistfully, sitting back down on her bed.
Lois felt kind of lousy herself, although she could not think why. She really felt hungover. She looked at Chloe.
"I see you've still been unable to pry one Clark Kent away from Lana, hey?" Lois asked jokingly, willing herself to get up. She was wearing a bathrobe.
Chloe stood up as well.
"I know Clark doesn't see me as the 'girlfriend type'. I guess I just wish I could find someone, who could make me forget him."
"You will, I swear it. God, look at the time! Isn't Lex Luthor coming to speak in one of your classes today?"
Chloe nodded.
"Yeah, the first section. Did you see him on the news last night? Full of himself as usual. I'd better get a move on and...."
Chloe suddenly ran to the door, opened it, and hurried down the hall to the Women's Room. Lois shook her head. Chloe ate too much of the crap on campus. That was what was probably making her sick.
Lois grabbed a towel and some personals, before following after her cousin. When she arrived at the Women's Room, she heard Chloe wretching in a stall. Lois padded over to the showers and turned on one of the knobs. She then set her stuff down on a sink, before removing her robe, and house shoes.
As the water hit her skin, Lois grabbed some soap and began to rub it over herself. It was as she looked down, that she dropped the soap.
Her body was covered with some kind of rash. There were red shapes on her waist, breasts, stomach....Lois turned around and saw the same shapes on her ass! And on her back!
Lois slipped into a dead faint in the shower, never feeling the water beating down on her. Chloe emerged from a stall, saw her, and her skin, and screamed!
"Lois! Oh my God, Lois!" Chloe yelled, pulling her out of the shower. Lana walked in, dressed in pajamas, and hurried over as well.
"Oh my God! What happened? And what is that on her skin?"
Chloe stared hard at Lois's skin.
"The patterns look like....like...."
"Handprints." Lana finished, revolted, yet equally as fascinated. "That one there....it looks like someone's lips."
"Okay, well what is this thing on her stomach. That isn't anyone's bodypart." Chloe said. Lana had to agree. It looked more like an 'S' inside somekind of emblem or something. What or who had done this to Lois?
Meanwhile, Clark Kent awoke in his own dorm room, with a start. He too spit out hay. The last glitch in the spell Connor had requested of Wolfram & Hart, was that it did not work on Clark's kind.
Clark awoke and looked at his hand. It was bare. The ring was gone. And yes, unlike everyone else in Smallville, he remembered everything. He turned his head to gaze at a picture of Lana and himself. Clark then rubbed his hands over his face, shaking his head.
THE END
The continuation of Darkness Falls will probably be put up this weekend sometime. It will be titled 'Darkness Lifts'.