Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville nor do I own Sailor Moon, and I'm not affiliated with either.

Thanks to everyone for waiting so long. As life goes on, sometimes things get neglected, and this was one of those things. I won't bore you with long explanations though. This isn't the last chapter. I think I will do one or two more. But I wanted to get this chapter out now as it's been quite long since I last updated. Again, thanks to those who stayed with me and to those who are new. I hope you enjoy this chapter, and I hope to have a new one out perhaps by next week!

Chapter 14

Clark was sitting in the waiting room of the hospital. After he had arrived at the Smallville Medical Center, they had admitted Mamoru immediately, and he was now undergoing surgery to get the many needed stitches on his back. As far as he knew, the sword had luckily missed Mamoru's spine, but he had no other information. The doctors continued to prod him to find out what could cause such an injury, but Clark was used to constant prodding for information, and held his tongue. On top of that, he was dying to know how Usagi was faring. Guilt had been eating away at him for leaving her at such a crucial moment, even though his brain told him that it was out of necessity.

Suddenly, Usagi walked inside, looking around. Clark waved to her and she sat down. She was surprisingly composed, and frighteningly so.

"Usagi, are you ok?" he asked, concerned.

She nodded. "How is Mamo-chan?" she inquired.

"I haven't been told a lot, but they said that he's lucky because the weapon didn't sever anything important. He's in surgery now. They're stitching up his back."

Usagi looked down. Some of the sadness returned to her eyes. Clark examined them closer and realized there was redness completely under. She had been crying on the way to the hospital. Clark put his arm on her shoulder, and she fell into him, crying and sniffling, and letting out everything she had been suffering. She slumped even more into Clark's chest and held him tight, and Clark decided she must have let return everyone's power, and was feeling weaker than ever. The change surprised him. She had been so strong only moments ago.

A nurse walked out, informing them that Mamoru was out of surgery and was resting, and told them to follow her to his room. Of course, they followed. Usagi reluctantly walked in the room, but the sight of the battered and bruised Mamoru was too much for her and she ran directly into Clark, who caught her before she fell.

"Usagi, it's ok. He's going to get better now."

Usagi wanted to believe Clark, but she couldn't will herself to. Mamoru was her soul mate and much more. If he died, her soul, her existence, went with him.

Suddenly a soft voice was heard and Usagi turned.

"Usako…" Mamoru said, with a weak smile.

"Mamo-chan!" she exclaimed and ran over to embrace him, quickly stopping herself as she registered in her mind that he was sore. Instead she grabbed his hand and gave it a little squeeze.

"I knew you could do it, Usako. You always could." He said warmly as he cupped her face with his hand.

Clark, feeling a little uncomfortable, shifted out the doorway, and made note to come back later. He knew Usagi would be the best medicine for Mamoru right now.

"No, wait!" Usagi yelled out. "Don't leave!"

Clark turned around with a puzzled look on his face.

"Can…I mean, would you mind…doing something for me?" she asked.

"Sure."

"Please, inform everyone why I left, and tell them to come here. They're at Lex's. And especially get Chloe." Her last sentence was pleading, almost desperate. He knew why she wanted Chloe, but he wondered if Chloe was strong enough for such a task. Nonetheless, he agreed, and saying goodbyes he exited the hospital and ran to Lex's mansion.

"I wonder where Usagi left for in such a hurry." Mako pondered.

"I would say it has a lot to do with Mamoru-kun." said Rei.

"We should just leave them, for now. Usagi will return to us when she's ready." Ami added.

"Well, they say love is the best medicine!" Mina exclaimed, followed by a sigh from everyone.

"That's what I said," responded a voice from the hallway.

Haruka sprang to her feet, perhaps a little on edge, yet ready to stop another youma if one came around. She was pulled back to her seat by Michiru, who explained that it was only Clark, just as Clark walked into the room.

"Usagi is at the hospital with Mamoru. She wanted me to come and get you." Clark said.

"Surely she doesn't mean all of us." Keiko asked.

"Well, she said to come and get everyone and tell them where she was so I guess she does mean everyone." Clark replied.

"I think it'd be a good idea if we went a small group at a time." Chloe said. "Smallville Medical Centre isn't exactly a giant of a hospital."

"Well that's fine either way, but she especially wanted Chloe to go." Clark said.

"But…" Chloe began.

"I'm pretty sure she's given you all of your powers back already."

"I'll come and do what I can." Chloe said, grabbing her coat from the couch, and standing up. "Is anyone else going this time?"

Hotaru stood up. "I want to go."

Then Rei followed suit. "I'll go too."

"Who's going where?" asked Lex as he walked into the large living room.

"Usagi-chan is in the hospital with Mamoru-kun and we're going to see her." Rei answered.

Lex wanted his answers, but he knew that this was far more important so he took a deep breath and told himself that he'd wait a bit longer.

He turned to Clark. "I didn't hurt you or anything when I was…not myself, did I?"

Clark experienced a slight conflict on whether to tell Lex the truth about what he did or not.

"No, not really," he decided to answer. "You can't remember anything?"

"No. After Usagi did whatever she did, I drew a complete blank. I have no idea what happened from the time I saw that girl in the caves to the time I saw everyone standing around inside." Lex informed Clark. "The girls told me that they would explain what happened when Usagi returns."

"Oh." Clark said, noticing the glint in Lex's eye, and wondering if that meant that they were going to tell his secret. "Um, we have to get back to the hospital. I'll have to talk later, Lex."

"No problem. I'll see you in a while."

Clark, Chloe, Hotaru and Rei headed to the Smallville Medical Centre, with everyone except Clark dreading finding out the injuries Mamoru had. Clark continuously assured them that it was not as bad as it could've been.

When they reached Mamoru's room, they found Usagi asleep in the chair and Mamoru lying silently on the hospital bed.

Rei slightly shook Usagi on the shoulder and she woke up.

"Hhmmrrrmm." She mumbled, sitting up and rubbing her eyes. Before she could completely wake up though, Rei had her half squeezed to death in a tight embrace.

"You're ok! Thank god you're ok." Rei said.

"Rei-chan…" Usagi said.

Finally Rei let go and Usagi stood and walked over to Mamoru. He opened his eyes, somehow aware that she was next to him.

"Why are only some of you here?" Usagi inquired.

"We thought it'd be more practical this way." Chloe responded.

"A, so desu ka. I see." Usagi said. She looked urgently at Chloe. "Can you…?"

"Not at present, I'm afraid. I may only heal him slightly each day, as I'm weak from lending my power during the battle." Chloe responded.

Clark looked at Chloe. "Was that Chloe Sullivan talking, because it didn't sound like her?"

Chloe blushed, and then her smirk returned. "Well at least I'm not Wall of Weird material."

"Now that's below the belt." Clark said, wounded by her comment. "And I'll have you know that technically I'm not either."

"Yeah yeah…" Chloe said, laughing.

Everyone laughed and a bit of tension was lifted.

After their giggle, Chloe sat next to Mamoru and brushed his bangs out of his eyes. "Hiya loser," she joked.

"Hey squirt," he replied.

"You have to stop doing that." Chloe said.

"Doing what?" Mamoru answered.

"Almost getting yourself killed. I might be forced to worry about you." Chloe joked.

"Sorry." He joked back meekly.

"It's ok." She smiled and put her hands over him, concentrating. She sat still for a few minutes like it, and then sank back in her chair. "That's about my limit for today, I think. How do you feel Mamoru?"

"A little better. I can breathe without feeling like I've got a thousand pins in me now." He said.

Mamoru turned a bit so Chloe could look at his back. She found it was healed a little more than before.

Usagi observed too and look delighted.

"I'm glad." Hotaru said.

At that time a nurse walked in and was surprised to notice the number of visitors. She laid a tray of food on the table and checked Mamoru's vitals. She then looked at his stitches, and the look on her face turned to that of surprise. "Wow, the surgeon really did a great job on his back!" she exclaimed. "Hours ago, we weren't even sure we could stitch it."

She propped the pillow and bed up for Mamoru and he sat up to eat.

"When will he be released?" Usagi asked.

"I'd give him a couple of days at least. His surgery wasn't incredibly major, but we like to keep an eye on our patients for a couple of days afterwards. Are you all his relatives?"

"No we're his friends. Chloe is his sister." Clark replied.

The nurse looked at Usagi. "You must be his girlfriend."

"Hai, I mean yes, I am."

The nurse smiled. "I'll be back to get the tray a little later."

"I just thought of something." Clark said aloud.

Everyone looked at him.

"Who's paying for Mamoru's bill?"

The nurse turned around quickly and said, "You didn't know? Lex Luthor is covering the entire bill." Then she walked away, as everyone remained dumbfounded at Lex's grand gesture.

The small group stayed a while longer and then left Mamoru to get some rest. Chloe promised to come back and heal him a little more each day, as much as she could. It was a tiring day, and although Chloe, Clark and Usagi wanted nothing more than to go home, they couldn't. Lex would want answers. So off they headed to Lex's mansion.

"Usagi!" Minako exclaimed, as she saw a tuft of blonde hair in the doorway.

"Minako-chan." Usagi said in a tired voice.

"You did it Usagi!" she said, grabbing her and hugging her while Usagi weakly smiled and nodded. "How's Mamoru-kun?"

"He's doing better. He'll be out in a few days." Usagi said.

Minako led the five tired teens to the living room and happily told the others that Mamoru was going to be ok.

Clark looked up and saw Lex in one of his fancier chairs, sitting down with a glass of scotch.

"I heard that you…" Clark began, but he was cut off by Usagi, who ran over to Lex embracing him as much as she could, thanking him dearly for paying for Mamoru's hospital bill.

"It was the least I could do." Lex said modestly.

After all of the hellos and thank yous were out of the way, everyone sat in silence.

Breaking the ice, Minako said, "So who wants to start?"

"Perhaps I should." Usagi said. "After all, it all started when I came here."

"I was sitting in the park with Mamoru when I noticed a large portal open up. It was my friend and senshi Sailor Pluto, who showed me another portal, which she couldn't close. Very simply, I was sucked in and I ended up here. I walked down the road to find Clark's house. I told him what happened and he took me in.

Later Mamoru came to look for me, and upon investigating Chloe found his ID and his picture of me. By then I had figured out that something in the caves could be responsible for my presence here and was on my way to visit. Mamoru found me and we met after mine and Clark's visit to the caves."

"Wait a minute. You say that something – or someone – in the caves is responsible for you being here?" Lex interrupted.

"Yes."

Clark looked incredibly nervous.

"So there's actually something in there?" Lex asked.

"Yes. We learned he was my father, and he was possessed by an evil being."

"But if you're from another universe, why would your father be here?" Lex asked.

"It's a really long story, and one I'd rather leave for another time, as I'm quite tired tonight. May I continue?"

"Of course."

"Not too long after the senshi came and found me. That was the point where we had to ask for your assistance for a place to stay, since there are so many of us.

We learned that Chaos, a being of complete evil and hatred from our universe, had ventured over here and taken over not only the cave's inhabitant but a young girl who was believed to have died here years ago."

Usagi looked at Chloe for permission to continue. Chloe nodded.

"This girl Chloe met on the day of the meteor shower. Chloe was here because of unknown circumstances which we will explain later, but when the girl died, Chloe forgot who she was and the girls parents took Chloe in since she and their daughter looked so much alike.

That girl that you saw in the caves was Carmen, the girl that I'm talking about."

"I have a couple of things to ask. First of all, what's a senshi? And second, how is Keiko involved with this?"

"Hoo boy, this is gonna be a long night." Usagi said. "First of all, everyone here except Clark (obviously) is a senshi. We used to live on the planets a long time ago, but we were reborn on earth, and now we have certain powers because of it. They are my protectors and friends in the battle against evil, however cheesy that may sound."

Lex looked at Usagi confused. "Are you serious?"

"I wouldn't lie to you. Keiko and I started off badly because, well, she killed my friends not too long ago. Again, my friends were reborn. I know it takes some getting used to but believe me that is exactly what happened. Now Keiko has redeemed herself and is actually a Sailor Senshi. When I arrived, she was already searching for Chaos.

The rest is somewhat more difficult to explain. I was possessed somewhat, by a piece of your red meteor rock, later by Chaos. It would take too much time to explain how exactly we won the battle, so trust me when I say that I am very powerful and with the combined power of my friends I managed to reconcile myself into one and defeat Chaos."

"And what about Chloe?" Lex asked, now more curious than he had been before.

"I learned that I'm actually Princess Aurora of Earth, Prince Endymion's (that's Mamoru) sister. I can heal people. To make a long story short, Usagi's father was an inventor and one of his inventions, I turned it on, (it was a portal machine), and I ended up here during the meteor shower." Chloe explained.

"There's just one thing I'm confused about." Lex said. "I do remember 'Carmen' saying that someone owns the caves and when I asked her who she told me to ask Clark."

Clark felt a bead of sweat roll down his face.

"I think we've explained ourselves fairly well." Usagi said quickly, to defend Clark.

"Clark? Are you going to answer my question?" Lex asked.

"Lex…I…" Clark began.

"It's ok. Nothing I'm not used to." Lex said sarcastically.

Clark was surprised at Lex's bitter tone. It wasn't often that Lex showed any anger or resentment for anything. He wouldn't have minded being open with Lex, but the image of Lex holding on to the kryptonite and dragging him into the cave still haunted him.

"Well, can you at least fill me in about the hours of my life I can't remember?" Lex spat.

"I…can't…really." Clark said meekly.

"You lured Chloe into the cave and dragged her inside and later tried to drag Clark inside, but were stopped by Haruka. After that you were frozen until I set you back to normal." Usagi said.

"Why does the red meteor rock possess you?" Lex inquired.

"I think that's enough for tonight." Usagi said.

"I know you're purposely covering for Clark, Usagi. You don't have to pretend like you're not. I have to say I'm shocked and dumbfounded by what you have told me, and also a little skeptical, but it's the only explanation I have. I don't respect any of you any less because of it, and why Clark would expect me to I haven't the slightest idea why." Lex said, while looking at Clark.

"I don't have to stand here and listen to this!" Clark exclaimed.

"Clark, calm down." Usagi said. "He's proved himself no danger as of yet, and I believe he genuinely accepts us, so why would he not do the same for you?"

"He doesn't know you as closely. There's a difference." Clark stated.

"What are you afraid of Clark?"

Those eyes kept peering at him, analyzing him, and the words kept echoing through Clark's head.

"Lex, I'm…not from Kansas," Clark started.

Lex laughed. "Is that an explanation?"

"I'm not from Earth." Clark spat, glaring at Lex.

Lex spit out his scotch. "What!?" he exclaimed. He looked around and noticed he was the only one surprised. "Wait! You all knew about this?"

"Afraid so." Chloe said.

Clark waited for Lex to calm down before he continued. "My father lives in the caves."

"But didn't Usagi say…"

"Yeah, it's her father too. She and I are siblings. My father is in the caves because my planet blew up. That was the day of the meteor shower, the day that I came." Clark said.

Lex sat in his chair, blown away by the news. Clark had never once seen Lex surprised or caught off guard but he was this time. It was a bigger secret than Lex could've ever imagined.

Soon Lex regained a little control and began the inquisition.

"So what exactly can you do?" he asked curiously.

"Don't you mean what exactly can we do?" Clark said, while smirking and looking at Usagi, who was doing the same thing. "We both have the same parents."

"Yes…of course….that's what I meant." Lex said, catching himself.

"I'll show you some other time." Clark said.

Lex just nodded.

"There's much more to be explained yet." Usagi said. "But I think we all need some rest first, so I think we should call it a night."

Clark nodded, and so did Chloe, and the three left to go home, leaving an astonished Lex to ponder and the exhausted senshi to retire to bed.