Nothing's Left Part 10
Setting: The next morning after the last chapter.
Lana woke up to see that the wind had blown the fire out and it was morning. It just occurred to her that they had stayed out all night. She scratched Clark's stomach and he started to stir.
"Good morning," Lana whispered. Clark kissed the top of her head. Lana sat up and helped him pull himself up. "Listen while we're here and we have some privacy I thought we could talk a little bit," Lana said uneasily. "Okay," Clark replied. "I wondered about what you remember about what happened. I didn't want to press or really even ask because I'm so glad you came back but, I really have to know," She rambled. He put his hand on hers to calm her down. "It's okay. I remember bits and pieces. Not everything though. It's kind of like a movie in my head. One point it just blacks out." Lana nodded, "How did you get to the school?" He stared softly at her. "Lana . . . I decided that I should leave Smallville at least for awhile and live on my own
. . .for a lot different reasons." Her eyes opened up in shock. "That's what Pete meant. Were you leaving because of what I did and the whole Lex thing?" Lana asked. "I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a contributing factor, but that wasn't all of it. What do you mean what Pete meant?" Clark said. "He dropped bread crumbs about you making a decision before the incident. I never found out."Clark nodded his head a little. "Well anyway, I went to the pool to think about what I was going to do and what I would giving up. Even, how I was going to say goodbye everyone. I was sitting with my feet in the water and I heard a sound. I got up went to check it out, it was Mike and his buddies."Clark hesitated as he saw a flashback in his mind. "Clark I know that over our relationship you've avoided certain stuff. Don't you think I deserve to know, after everything that's happened?" She asked hopeful that he'd finally answer.
Clark looked away from Lana and started to debate with himself. He kept staring off onto the lake. "Lana there is no easy way to hear or say what I'm about to tell you. I've never told you because I've been afraid that you would hate me and it would change things." Lana shook her head and got closer to him and pulled his head to her and kissed him. She pulled back and looked into his eyes. "I could never hate the man I love because he opened up with me. Never." Clark knew it was time she had to know or lose her forever. "I love you too, Lana." He was very scared and shaky, but he knew now was the time. "Lana, . . I have special abilities. I can do things other people can't. Things nobody could dream of doing." Her facial expression was still very light as if she already knew. "Tell me," She said confidently. "I'm bulletproof, I can run as fast as a bullet, I'm really strong, and I can start fires from my . . .eyes." He stopped to see if she would handle the easy stuff okay before he dived in with the whole alien thing. She looked at the ground. He just confirmed everything she ever suspected. She looked back at him and slightly smiled. "Did you already know?" Clark asked. She nodded, "Pretty much. Not all of your abilities, but I had an idea. I put a lot of piece together of things that have happened. I just always wanted you to feel like you could tell me and trust me."
"Look, the decision not to tell you wasn't just my own. My parents made it clear that they didn't support me telling anybody else. Not that we couldn't trust you, it's that as long as I tried to save people and still conceal my identity I'll always have enemies and their will always be danger. I couldn't live if you were hurt for my secrets." Lana now understood what he always meant, but she loved him anyway. "Clark, it's better in my mind to completely love someone and be hurt for it then not have it all, plus as long as I've got you I have a small chance of not being hurt. I don't care that the meteors affected you." Clark knew that what he just told was the easy part and now he had to do something that he dreaded.
"Lana, that was the easy part of my secret. When I told you I wasn't affected by the meteor rocks, I wasn't lying to you." Lana's face become visibly different, expressing her confusion. "Then how?" She asked. "Lana my parents found me in a field on the day of the meteor shower, next to . . .a ship, made out of metal not found on the earth. They took me in and hid the ship. Lionel Luthor owed us a favor and did my adoption no questions asked." Lana's mouth hung open, but no words could form.
"I never knew any of this until freshmen year. You remember the time you saw me wondering in the graveyard, crying. That was why. Look I found out my father's name was Jor-el and my mother's name was Laura. They sent me here because their planet, Krypton blew up. They wanted me to live. Last summer, right after we became a couple, my biological father started talking from the ship. He said everybody I loved including my parents and you would be hurt if I didn't leave Smallville. I blew the ship up during the wedding. What I didn't know was that my parents were on the farm and that's how my mom lost her baby. My dad looked at me a way I had never seen. I was so scared and that's why I left. I acted the way I did in Metropolis because the red meteor rock makes me do what I want and say what I want with no realization of what's right and wrong. I chose to put it on knowing what it does despite everything that would happen. I want you to know that I'd never hurt you and I do love you and hope that you can look past it." Clark said hopefully. Lana looked away from him.
In a cold tone she said, "Who else, other than your parents, knows about this?"
"Pete knows. He found my ship at the beginning of sophomore year and I had no choice but to tell him and he ended up being okay with it." Lana wondered what to do. This changes things. So many things she didn't know that he hid. He secrets were deeper than she ever could imagine. "Lana say something, anything. Please don't let this effect how you think of me. I'm still human." She knew that she needed to say something, but what. "Are you invincible?" Lana asked still not making eye contact. "No, the green meteor rock which is actually called Kryptonite makes me sick and it can kill me. That's why those jocks that tied me up at the pool had it wrapped around me chest and my legs. The prolonged exposure is why they are not working. It's like my ability to heal in my legs was paralyzed. If you and my dad hadn't got it off I would have died." Lana still shuddered at that thought and then in a still cold tone said, "Clark I think we better get back. Uh . . yeah . .you're parents . .um . .their probably worried. Yeah, let's get you into the chair." She pulled him into the chair and pushed him to the car.
Their drive back to the Kent farm was silent. When they arrived, she got him back inside and set him in the living room. "Well do you need anything?" Lana asked. Clark shook his head no. "Okay, well I'll see ya later." As he watched Lana leave, a single tear slid down his face. He wiped it off and tried to convince himself that he was strong. He yelled for his mom and dad. No one answered. He wheeled himself over to the counter and found a note.
It read:
Clark, Your father and I will be out for the day at the produce market. Take of yourself sweetheart.
Love,
Mom and Dad
He set down the note and wheeled himself to the couch. His worst fear came true. Lana now would look at him like an alien and treat him like an alien. He slid of the wheel chair and pulled himself onto the couch. He was laying in the direction with the door to his back. The screen door opened and footsteps came walking in the door. "Mom and dad? Is that you?" He heard a chuckle from a manly voice that wasn't his fathers. "Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the farm,"the cold voice replied.