Chapter Twelve: A Life Saved
Author's Note: Again, this chapter will be in the same format as the previous two, so I hope it is not too confusing.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Lex, Lois and Jason's point of view xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lex and Jason and Lois reluctantly followed Dr. Swann down the hall, looking back to watch the guards, including Pete and Mr. Kent carry Clark down another hallway.
They were led into another room, which was filled with more lab equipment and files and computers.
"The scientists usually work in this room, and the one next to it. Feel free to browse through old paperwork, and familiarize yourselves with our progress." Swann turned to Lex and Jason, "When you are both done here, just let security know. Mr. Luthor, you can just have someone from your office call me and we can set up another appointment to go over the rest of the details another day; my specialists and I have an important conference going over genetics tonight, but you all can stay and look over records after we have left." With that, Dr. Swann turned around and made his way back to the elevator that would take him to the upper levels of the compound.
Lex leaned into Lois slightly, slipping several small discs into her hand; "You know what to do." That was all he needed to say; before coming, they had planned to copy all the computer records that they could find, and then corrupt the hard drives so all the information would be lost. As for the written documents, Jason and Lex would look through and take anything they thought would be useful or dangerous, and leave everything else to be burned as they left and destroyed the entire building.
Lois wasted no time in coping all the computers hard drives, she quickly and quietly moved from computer to computer coping everything, then destroying it. When she was done, she moved back into the other room to help Lex and Jason work through all the filing cabinets.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Martha, Chloe and Lana xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Martha and Chloe spent the rest of the day gathering last minute items they thought they might need. They had decided that they would drop them off with Lana at the safe house; then go to the base from there.
"Mrs. Kent, what time do you think we should leave?" Chloe asked, looking at her watch; just trying to keep the conversation going, so she wouldn't have to think about anything else.
"Uh, they said they wouldn't need us there until 10pm, but we should probably be waiting close by at around 9:30 or so. So we'll leave the house at about 8:30." Mrs. Kent answered as they made their way up the stairs of the gated house that they would all be staying at.
When they reached the front door, Lana opened it to greet them.
She was relieved to finally have someone else there. She had said goodbye to Jason very early that morning; then had tried to keep herself busy by doing some unnecessary cleaning and exploring of the large house. During that time, her thoughts never left Clark; she tried to let him know that they were coming for him, but she didn't get anything back from him. It was like…and then she realized what must be wrong. She remembered Mr. and Mrs. Kent explaining to them about Kal-el; and it suddenly all made sense. It wasn't Clark that she was connected to…it was Kal-el. She could hardly wait to see him; maybe he would be able to answer all of the questions she could never find answers for. She almost dreaded it also; it would mean she would have to come clean with the rest of the group about her tattoo, and everything else. Jason and Mr. and Mrs. Kent were the only ones that she had felt comfortable confiding in. She wished she knew what her feelings for Kal-el/Clark meant; because she was supposed to be with Jason. She had avoided that whole situation; but this morning before leaving, Jason had surprisingly told her that no matter what happened between all of them; that he would understand.
"Chloe, Mrs. Kent! I am so happy to see you. I've been driving myself crazy today, trying to keep my mind off things; unfortunately nothing I tried seemed to work very well. Here let me help you with those." Lana grabbed on of the boxes Mrs. Kent had been carrying.
"We thought we might as well keep each other company, since Mrs. Kent and I don't have to leave for almost another hour. Oh, and we brought lots of pizza, figured we could warm the rest of it up later for everyone…after we all get back." Chloe's voice trailed off at the end.
"Well, we better get some of this stuff put away." Mrs. Kent said, trying to fill the silence.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mr. Kent and Pete xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
They paced the hallways, taking turns looking at their watches every 2 minutes. They were supposed to meet Lois at Clark's cell, or in this case his isolation room, and get him out; but they had planned to meet together at 9:40pm.
"Five more minutes, we better head over there; don't you think?" Pete asked.
Mr. Kent looked over to Pete, then at his watch, "Let's do this."
With that, they slowly made their way over to the room that they had left Clark in several hours ago.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Lois, Pete and Mr. Kent xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lois had long ago finished discreetly destroying all of their computers' hard drives, and had assisted Lex and Jason go over the rest of the paperwork. Now she dropped them off at the security office and went her way to where the guards had taken Clark.
She turned the corner and saw Mr. Kent and Pete. When she got to them, they all stole one last look at their watches; realizing that they had reached the point of no return.
Mr. Kent looked up to the security camera, and saw the power light switch off; signaling them that it was their turn. He looked to Pete, who opened the door, revealing Clark lying limply on the floor. He picked him up and quickly started for the exit.
