Smallville
The Evil Legend
Book Two: Imprisonment
Chapter six – Evident
To Readers: Thanks so much for the reviews… I know I haven't updated in a while… On the idea of cloning and adding Star Wars into the story line… I've decided not to do that. Only because I have way too many characters as it is right now, and I need to keep them straight… Without going totally over board… But thanks for the idea… J
The cool night air drifted into the manor as Helen jerks awake. Her body shaking violently as if she had a cold, Marsh stirred besides her as she gets out of bed. She could see something in her mind and didn't know what it was. She didn't want to think of what she was seeing. As she left the room it slowly began to leave, but when she reentered it, she saw it again. Her eyes went wide knowing that it was Marsh's thoughts, and dreams she was seeing; "Oh God." She said softly. She ran down the hall to the other room. Slamming the door behind her, she went to the bathroom. She did not want to see anything. Marsh's head was too overwhelming.
Looking inside the mirror she breathed heavily from what just happened; "This can't be happening, this can't be happening;" She said in a whispering nature. Thinking of Lex she looked in the mirror in front of her. She still had thoughts that he was alive, and Bruce was telling her a lie. As she continued this thought the mirror started to smoke over as an image appeared inside the mirror. She fell to the floor startled by the image she was seeing. Grabbing a hold of the sink she lifted herself up to see into the mirror. Sure enough the image was still there, moving. Lex sat quietly reading in a bedroom of some house. Helen had no doubt in her mind that it was Bruce's home; "Lex;" She said as she touched the mirror. She watched Lex lift his head as if he heard her.
The door to the bathroom opened; "You okay Helen?" Marsh asked her.
"Oh God;" She shouted loudly. Marsh's eyes widened as he saw the image in the mirror in front of him.
"Sorry that I scared you." Marsh apologized as he wrapped his arms around her. Helen leaned into him feeling his warm skin on hers.
"Come back to bed." Marsh said in her ear making it tingle.
"I'll be there in a minute." Helen promised and kissed him on the cheek; "What's that?" He asked her seeing the image.
"You can see that?" Helen asked him.
"Yes;" He answered.
"I don't know how it happened, it just did." Helen stopped for a moment; "Lex is alive." She finished as the image slowly faded from the mirror.
"Should I contact Mystique for you?" Marsh asked as he opened the door for her.
"Not now. I'll deal with it in the morning." Helen assured him as she took his hand and went back to bed.
Lucas stood at the doors of the Luthor manor. He had hoped at least a phone call from Lex on this matter, but it seemed as though Lex again had dropped off of the face of the Earth, seeing that there wasn't any messages from him on his cell. Feeling like he was taking the world on his shoulders he walked inside the manor. The manor felt cool that morning seeing that forecast said a chance of rain in Smallville. Not seeing anyone around he started to snoop through the halls. He didn't want to wake anyone or disturbed anything just yet. Sunlight cascaded through the home allowing a homey feeling flow over him. Walking into the living room on the main floor he saw that the fireplace was still going from the other night. Walking over to it he saw a newspaper resting on the edge of the coffee table and a half cup of coffee.
"Looking for something?" A voice chimed in from behind him; startled by an unusual voice he turned to face the person.
"I was looking for Helen Bryce." Lucas announced to the young man in front of him. The boy couldn't be more than sixteen or so. His hair was disheveled from his night sleep, or not having enough sleep. He stood about 5'8" or so; "Is she here?" Lucas asked him. Ian laughed a little; "Yes, hold on one second." Ian replied as he headed up the stairs.
Lana sat at the kitchen counter, looking through the newspaper. She hadn't heard from Chloe since her disappearance with Peter Parker. She wanted to help out in whatever they were searching for, seeing Clark was not found yet. Henry looked over his shoulder while talking on the phone with Mr. Teague. They worked at the same law firm for a while and he could tell Lana was having trouble pretending she was board to the bone without her friends.
"Hey, Mr. Teague;" He paused and walked into the other room to form a plan. Hearing Henry hang up she saw him reenter the room with a smile on his face for the first time since she could remember; "What's up?" Lana asked him. Henry laughed slightly as he sat down near his cold coffee.
"I just got off the phone with Mr. Teague. A good associate from the law firm, they are having a party this weekend, and I thought since you've looked so down lately we could venture out there and see if we can have a good time." Henry paused; "He also has a son in college." He pointed out. Lana sighed; "Well I don't have much going on here now do I." She stated dryly still wishing Chloe would call her that very minute instead of being invited to a stupid party.
"Mr. and Mrs. Teague said your Aunt Nell will be there." Henry added.
"Sounds great; what type of party is it?" Lana asked somewhat excited, "Undeterminable Liver Disease Foundation Party." Henry answered.
"Good, I'll call them back and let them know were coming." Henry told her and headed back into the den.
Bruce walks into his office with Lex and picks up the phone; "What are you doing?" Lex asks him.
"I set up another appointment with Miss Sullivan today, but she didn't show, so I'm going to find out what's happening." Bruce fills him in as Lex makes himself comfortable in the chair in front of the desk.
"You know about this whole issue about making me visible to my father and wife, I thought about your cloning projects." Lex said in an advisory ton.
"We'll discuss that in a minute." Bruce said a little perturbed about Chloe missing out on their meeting. Lex saw his behavior and new all too well the feeling about being around that woman; "You like her?" Lex asked feeling a little bit jealous.
"Lex, I'm in the middle of the call." Bruce announced loudly startling Alfred as he came in with some coffee; "May I offer you in some coffee Mr. Luthor?" He offered. Lex smiled and rubbed his chin; "You may call me Lex Alfred."
He knew the man well, but always hated it when he referred to him as a Luthor instead of a friend.
Bruce listened on the other end of the phone line. The other number he did have earlier was already disconnected; "Is it like Chloe to disconnect her phone line to her cell within twenty four hours?" Bruce asked Lex. Lex looked up at him from his coffee; "Not that I recall, why?" Lex asked wondering himself now.
"Because I'm not getting anything;" Bruce told him honestly.
"Huh, try this number." Lex wrote out Chloe's number on a piece of paper and handed it to Bruce; "That's odd, that wasn't the number she called me on." Bruce told him.
"She called from another phone maybe." Lex said dishing out ideas.
"Yeah but even other phone's outside of the city and within the city you can trace." Bruce pointed out.
"Call this one." Lex said. Bruce did, and heard the phone ringing.
"It is quit evident that she's been avoiding me." Bruce added while the picked up the phone again and dialed the numbers.
Bridgette Crosby entered the school for the gifted later that day, and saw the students make their way through the halls. Quickening her steps to reach the room they had Dr. Swann in she saw Ororo at the end of the hallway. She had only met the woman once before when Charles was visiting Dr. Swann about the problems they were having on the municipality and globe with mutants. The woman was very extraordinary with the powers she carried inside her. Her white hair seemed to glow within the left over sunlight of the building as she stopped just a few inches in front of her.
"They are waiting for you." Ororo said with a pause; "Follow me." She ordered kindheartedly.
They made their way up about two flights of the stairs before Bridgette Crosby saw some students sleeping on the couches in the middle of the hallway, as a few doctors came out of the room.
"What's wrong?" Bridgette asked worried. Ororo held out her hand to stop her from going in just yet.
"We have three kids that we found the night that Magneto used his machine on Clark. They have been receiving tattoos on their necks in some type of weird symbols, and on top of that the doctors are baffled about Dr. Swann's conditions." Ororo told her.
"How is he?" Bridgette asked as soon as she laid eyes on Charles. He rolled over to her; "He's stable for right now, but the doctors aren't sure how much longer he'll hold out." Charles could barely get the words out. Bridgette sighed heavily.
"You can go in now. The other's are in there as well." Ororo told her.
"Maybe you can give us some insight on what's going on?" Logan blurted out as he appeared at the end of the hallway with Marie and Bobby.
"Marie!" Ororo said surprised.
"Hi." She said shyly.
Bridgette entered the room and slowly approached Swann before the others. She knew about Kyptonian language after Dr. Swann had figured out the patter it made with their language. His face was whiter than it normally was, and his body motionless. She saw him breathing slightly under the covers so she knew he was still there listening and holding on. Slowly she sat down on the side of the bed and grabbed his hand; "I know you probably can't hear me, but I want you to know I'll do whatever I can to find out what's going on with Kal-El and the others." She said in a whisper, she felt tears break through her tired eyes of undying love for the man.
"And that I love you." Bridgette added and got up slowly from the bed and turned. A girl within her early twenties stood there. Her blondish brunette hair brushed against her face with a worried look upon her face. Slowly without saying a word to Bridgette, she lifted her hair from her neck and turned around for her to see. Bridgette's eyes widened at the sight of the symbol she knew so well.
"When did you get this?" She asked the girl as she walked up to touch it. It felt warm to her touch as the girl shuddered from her hand on her skin.
"I got a while ago." She paused; "My name is Ash, and my friend Parish just got hers, and my boyfriend Tiren is starting to get his. He's sick from the burning sensation it gives you before it appears." She informed her.
"You get a cold before you get it?" Bridgette asked confused. Ash nodded her head. Bridgette moved over to where Tiren was sitting and rolled him over on his back to see the tattoo.
"Oh my God;" Bridgette said loud enough for everyone to hear, as Logan and the others entered the room.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"These symbol are Kal-El's language, and stones that are placed somewhere around the world. They are probably marked on their necks to help him find the stones." Bridgette told them.
"What are these stones?" Logan asked.
"There the stone of Knowledge, the legend says that whoever possesses the stones will have great power. Kal-El was put on this earth to stop whoever got the stones and restore them to their rightful place." Bridgette answered.
"And what place is that?" he asked again.
"A place I don't know of myself." Bridgette replied and turned to look at Dr. Swann.
Magneto sat quietly in his prison as he watch the doctors and scientists work around him. Hearing his cell open he saw the man standing there. A man he also hated. Clearing his throat he slowly got out of his chair; "What brings you to these parts of my kismet Mr. Luthor?" Magneto asked him.
"I came only because I've been studying up on you and your researches of making humans contain power like yourself." Luthor answered.
"So far I haven't seen anything really happen within that project." Magneto pointed out.
"Ah, well; maybe you and I can find out the answer and with it your freedom." Lionel poked a plain within Magneto's gut.
"Why are you so interested in finding this unknown power?" Magneto asked him wondering why the man was suddenly interested in mutants of any kind.
"I find other limited rescores dwindling from my fingers, and you seem to have the only other option I have at this very time." Lionel told him.
"And what would that be?" Magneto asked looking the man square in the eye.
"To find a cure of a liver disease I have found my body has unheeded so suddenly." Lionel said honestly; "And where you might know where Clark maybe." Lionel added the other question.
"As of right now, Clark could be anywhere, and for your other answer; to gain power could only be the downfall of your most powerful empire of all." Magneto said.
"What is that?" Lionel asked.
"Your heart;" Magneto answered.
End of Chapter Six
Authors Notes:
Sorry so late in updating. More chapters on the way… Hope you enjoy… J
Thanks for the ones keep me on top with writing this story…
Kara
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