Chapter Thirteen: Lives Merged Together

Chloe followed Martha through the crowded city of Metropolis. They had to make it to the base by 9:30 pm to make sure they were in place in time. As they got closer to their destination, they turned off the headlights and slowed both vehicles.

Martha slowed to a stop just behind the building and began to wait. Time seemed to be standing still; every time she thought five minutes had passed, she looked and it had not even been two. Suddenly the silence was interrupted by the beep of the intercom they had in the two separate cars.

"Mrs. Kent, do you think something has happened to them, that something has gone wrong?" She could hear the same panic in Chloe's voice that she was feeling. Her eyes moved to the small clock…10:17pm. She tried to control her voice, maybe then she could convince herself.

"Try not to worry about it too much, we got here earlier than we needed to. Just try and…Chloe! Here they come, and they've got Clark with them!"

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Martha watched as three figures made their way toward the cars; a smaller following behind them. As they got closer, she could tell that the one following behind must be Lois, and had now passed the others and had almost reached the door. It was then that her attention was shifted to the three people following. The outside two seemed to be carrying the figure in the middle. Lois quickly climbed in Martha's car, "Mr. Kent said that I should get in with you and Mr. Kent is going to drive with everyone else in the other car. He said we should wait and follow them so if they follow us, they will stop us instead of the car with Clark."

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Martha stayed silent as she watched the vehicle I front of her drive away; then slowly began to follow.

Martha's nerves were near breaking point already, but the thought of having to wait even longer to see her son was killing her. She turned to Lois, sitting in the passenger seat. Lois had been silent since she had entered the car and they had started to follow Chloe's car.

"Are you okay, Lois?" Martha asked. Lois stayed silent a moment longer. "Yeah, I am, Mrs. Kent." Martha waited, and then continued. "Lois, …how was he?" Her voice shook as she asked, fearing the worst. She knew Clark was alive, she had seen his figure being held up, as Pete and her husband helped him into the other car, but that had not helped her nerves any. Lois kept looking straight ahead of the car as she answered. "He was pretty bad, Mrs. Kent. It scared me to see him like that." Lois paused, "I'm sorry." The remaining time spent together was silent.

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Even before the doors had all shut, Mr. Kent and Pete were both shouting for Chloe to get going. She immediately sped off, and didn't even get the chance to turn around and see if Clark was all right.

After a few minutes of driving, she could no longer stand it. "Mr. Kent, how is he? Is all of you okay?" All Chloe could hear in the back seat was breathing, and moaning that she had assumed was Clark. "I think he'll be all right now, now that we've got him away from them, and away from all of that Kryptonite." Mr. Kent answered, as though trying to convince himself. "Let's just get all of us to the safe house." Mr. Kent added.

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After parting ways with Lois, they had made their way back up to the main floor, but not before securing a moderately sized explosive. They made their way back up to the main floor and contacted the security office. "Hello! This is Lex Luthor, I need to speak to the security officer in charge." There was silence for a moment. "Yes, I wanted to let you know, that while me and my associate were in your security office looking at the surveillance, we noticed some suspicious people downstairs. I'm afraid that there has been a break-in. I want you and your men to go…" In the midst of talking with the guards, he made a signal to Jason; a few seconds later an explosion could be heard and the foundation of the building shook.

Lex hung up the phone and turned to Jason, "The line is dead."

Jason continued to look at Lex, "What happens now?" Lex finished gathering all of the papers and documents they had taken, "Tomorrow I will call Dr. Swann and withdraw my all of my funding and support, which if my previous understanding was correct, will leave them with only Dr. Swann's personal accounts to fund their projects. But with this explosion, hopefully everyone involved will realize that this explosion would have killed Clark, because he was powerless surrounded by all of the meteor rocks. So they won't be looking for Clark.