Clark POV
The dark is pulsating all around me. Ready to swallow me. My pounding heart is echoing in my ears. All I can do is run. Run as fast as my feet will take me. Run until I can find someone to help me. Run until I could find…….salvation.
"Help! Please someone help me!" I feel myself scream at the top of my lungs. The fear made my voice quaver and I felt so helpless. So desolate . So……alone.
There. In the distance. Someone is standing there, calling to me. Their arms are beckoning to me. I run faster. Somehow I know that whoever this is will help. Faster until my legs burn. Faster until I can feel the sweat pour down my face.
Finally I reach this person. It's……me? I look at myself and mentally I'm confused but physically I'm still running and I run into my own arms. I feel my body relax. I feel my heart beat slow. Nothing will ever hurt me again. No one will ever leave me again.
I look up into my own eyes.
Salvation.
I woke up with a start, my eyes flip open and immediately I know where I am. I feel Lana's warm body pressed up against mine, her face on my chest. She's fast asleep and I see her eyes moving rapidly underneath the lids. She's dreaming.
Dreams……
Suddenly visions from a dream that I had been a part of and witnessed flashed in my mind.
Running…fear…..comfort….hope.
I looked down at Lana and realized the dream was not mine. It was Lana's dream and somehow, someway I had seen it and been a part of it. I saw everything through Lana's eyes and felt all the emotions Lana felt.
God, the loneliness had been oppressive.
Loneliness is something I'm more than a little familiar with but even when I felt at my worst, I always had my mom and my dad. My mom with her sweet, kind eyes and my dad with his rough exterior and soft as a teddy-bear interior.
But Lana's loneliness was different. It wasn't a loneliness built from feeling on the outside looking in like mine was. It was a loneliness stemming from being on the inside looking out and wishing with all your heart that you were out there because everything on the inside made you want to scream in anger, bitterness and pain because anything on the outside had to be better than what was on the inside.
In the dream the strength of all those emotions had hit me like a freight train. It had bogged me down while I was running from……..from what?
What was Lana running from?
As I asked myself these questions, I look down at her sweet profile and notice her eyes starting to flutter open. She rubbed at her eyes with her fingers and looked up at me.
"Hey." She said smiling up at me.
"Hey."
Lana sat up and stretched her arms. The blanket fell down and exposed her breasts. My body reacted immediately, despite my confusion over sharing Lana's dreams.
"What time is it?" Lana asked.
I reached for the jeans lying next to me and took out the cell phone in the back pocket. "10:00 AM."
Lana raised her eyebrows. "We only fell asleep for a half hour then. Good I'm glad."
Lana stood up letting the blanket drop. As I watched, she stepped over me and laid herself on top of me leaving only the blanket that was still lying on me between us.
"Why are you glad?"
She smiled at me and put her chin in her fists to prop her head up and look me in the eyes. "Because that means more time I get to spend with you."
I grinned at her and put my hand on her head letting my hand sift through the silky brown strands of her hair. "More time to spend with me or more time to sample my amazing talents in the bedroom?"
Lana smirked at me. "Don't you mean on the grass?"
"Same difference."
"Then I guess it's a little bit of both." With that Lana slid herself up my body until her lips were directly over mine. Her hair fell covering both our faces. She licked my bottom lip, then nibbled it gently. I felt my heartbeat start to speed up and I slid my fingers into her hair while pulling her head down kissing her breathless.
I stroked down her bare back and brought my hands to her firm ass and squeezed. I pressed her slightly against me and got an answering moan in response. God, I didn't ever want to let her go.
Lana raised her head and looked at me passion in her eyes. "I don't ever want to let you go either Clark."
Did I say it out loud?
No. No I didn't.
Gently, I sat up with Lana sitting in my lap.
Noticing the expression on my face, Lana asked, "Clark? Are you okay?"
Instead of answering I put my hands on either side of her head and brought her eyes to look directly into mine. "Lana, did you hear me say that I didn't want to let you go?"
Lana gave me a strange look. "Of course I heard you Clark. I was right on top of you when you said it."
I shook my head. "Lana, I didn't say it out loud, I thought it."
Lana shook her head in disbelief. "Nooo, Clark that's not possible."
I gave her an exasperated look. "Um, okay, I don't know if you've noticed Lana but having an orgasm just from my thinking it isn't normal either."
Lana stared hard at me for a second and abruptly shook her head again. "No Clark. I can't hear your thoughts. I just tried and I got nothing. Can you hear mine?"
I stared at Lana, trying to concentrate on her thoughts, unfortunately one of the many talents I had acquired from my birth parents was not mind reading. "Nothing. But it doesn't make any sense. I know I didn't say what I was thinking out loud."
Lana looked at me perplexed. I rubbed my hands up and down her arms gently. I happened to look down and noticed her bare breasts rising and falling with her breathing. Her nipples hardened when the warm breeze passed over us and I felt the familiar clenching in my groin. I had to bite my lips to keep them from sucking her breasts into my mouth. Licking her nipples until she screamed……….
"Clark stop it!" Lana breathed. I looked up to find Lana breathing heavily, her eyes glittering in unspent passion.
My hands stopped moving and I gave her a sheepish look. "Sorry." I gave Lana a curious look. "Describe to me what just happened. I want to see if it's anything like my reaction to you in the car earlier."
Lana gulped trying to get her bearings back. "All of sudden all these images came into my head. I saw you……doing things…to me." Lana wrapped her arms around my neck and pressed her breasts tight against my chest, her lips a half-inch away from mine. "And I find myself wanting you more and more with each passing second."
I shivered and with superhuman strength I pulled myself away from her. "Lana, wait. Okay. Earlier we determined that just with a hard thought we could, umm, make each other.."
Lana raised an eyebrow. "Come?"
I blushed. "I was going to say orgasm. But I guess that works too…..I mean geez, Lana, who was watching the porn me or you?"
Lana laughed and I loved watching her eyes light up. "I guess you and Pete weren't the only ones to go through puberty."
I smiled. "Yeah, I guess…..so…..wait a minute Lana."
Lana's smile faded at the urgency in my voice. "What's the matter?"
I felt my heart pounding slightly faster as an idea popped into my head. "Puberty. I thought I went through it, but what if my kind develops differently than everyone else?"
Lana's eyebrows knitted together in confusion. "What do you mean Clark? You think you haven't finished puberty yet?"
I nodded my head. "I mean…..I mean that there is so much I don't know Lana. What if at my age I'm supposed to, I don't know meld with someone."
Lana gave me a perplexed look and slowly slid off of my lap. "Meld?" She continued to give me a confused look and wrapped some of the blanket around herself. "Where the hell did that word come from?"
Where did it come from? The word just kinda slipped out of my mouth of it's own accord. "I-I don't know." I finally replied while running a hand through my hair. "It just kind of came out."
Lana just sat there looking at me. She looked like she was at a loss for words.
As was I.
My mind slid back to that day when I had put the key into the hole in the cave wall and I had basically been downloaded with information from my Kryptonian heritage. Were there some things that had been put into my head for later use? I just didn't know. But it seemed more and more like a high possibility.
"Lana, please don't be scared." I said hesitantly.
Lana bit her lip for a second then slid her body towards me again until she was sitting in my lap, leaning against my chest. "I'm not scared Clark. Nothing that concerns your secret will ever scare me again. I'm just confused for the both of us. We don't have any idea what's happening to us and….and I don't know. I guess I'm more afraid of possibly losing you than anything else." Her voice was coming out in practically a whisper and she clenched her hands together.
"Lana?"
"Yes?"
"Are you afraid of the lonliness?"
Lana's head slowly rose from my chest and she looked into my eyes. "What do you mean 'the lonliness'?"
I shifted uncomfortably. I didn't need to add fuel to the fire but I was done withholding things from Lana. "I kind of had a dream."
"You kind of had a dream?"
"Yeah. Your dream."
Lana stiffened in my lap. "My dream? Ho-how?"
"I'm not sure. But Lana do you remember your dream at all?"
Lana started to shake her head no at first but then stopped her eyes getting a faraway look. "Actually, I do remember running from…something and then I found you and everything was perfect."
"Lana, what were you running from?"
Lana's eyes continued to hold their glazed look. "I was so alone, so unhappy. It was like how I felt before. Like the life I was leading wasn't my own. It wasn't who I was meant to be." Her eyes lifted from some point over my shoulder back to mine. "I spent most of my life running from what I wanted to be, and trying to be someone everyone else expected me to become. But then…….then I found you. And suddenly I wasn't running away from myself anymore. Suddenly I was right where I belonged."
Lana's words touched me and amazed me at their reflection of my own feelings. Maybe we were meant to be together. Maybe we were supposed to fix the wrong done all those years ago when my father fell in love with Lana's aunt Louise and he lost her. Maybe this was in the cards all along.
Then again that was a lot of maybe's.
I pulled Lana closer to me and just held her for a couple of minutes letting my body warm hers.
"I'm right were I belong too Lana. There is nowhere I'd rather be."
Lana shifted in my arms and lightly kissed me on the lips. Soon the light kiss turned into a deep kiss, then that turned into absolute fire. Then Lana was straddling me rubbing herself against my erection, sucking on my neck while I rolled her nipples in between my fingers. All I could think about was laying her down on the blanket and sliding myself into her searing warmth.
God, if we don't stop right now I'm going to take her again.
Suddenly Lana raised her head from my neck and looked at me. "Did you just say that out loud?"
"Say what out loud?"
" 'God, if we don't stop right now I'm going to take her again.'"
"No. But I was thinking it."
"But I heard it."
"Here we go again."
Lana settled herself back onto the blanket not touching me. "Clark? Have you noticed we can read each other only when we're in the middle of, er, something sexual?"
I tried to think back to all the times I had seen Lana's images and I realized she was right. Except for one thing. "Well in your case anyway. I've only seen images. I haven't heard your thoughts."
"Umm, yes you have. When we were making love before you said 'you're just as beautiful. More in fact.' What made you say that?"
I thought back to that moment and felt myself get hard again. Lana had been lying down and I was about to…
"Clark!"
"Huh?" Lana's voice slapped me out of my thoughts. "Oh yeah. Ummmm, I thought you had said you thought I was beautiful."
Lana shook her head. "I didn't say it. I was thinking it. So there goes that. Looks like we both have the same symptoms. And it all leads back to sex. It seems like the only time it happens is when we're concentrating on each other's bodies." Lana's eyes glittered mischievously. "Makes for some amazing sex though. You always seem to know what I want."
I laughed slightly until another thought occurred to me. "But what about the dream Lana? How was I able to be a part of it? There are just so many unanswered questions. Just like everything else in my life." I said more than a little bitterly.
Lana brought her hand to mine and raised it to her mouth. She placed a small kiss in the center of the palm and placed the palm on her chest.
"If there is one thing that will never go unanswered is how I feel about you. Whether we figure this thing out or not, I'll be here. Always." Her hazel eyes stared right into me, right into my soul.
At Lana's relaxed expression, I felt a small surge of relief go through me. She wasn't afraid of me. She really was willing to stick it out with me even with as weird as it's gotten.
"Thank you Lana. I didn't realize I needed a little bit of reassurance."
Lana crinkled her nose at me in the way I love so much. "Everyone needs a little reassurance every now and then. Even a superhuman such as yourself."
I brought her in for one more kiss. Before pulling away. "Come on Lana. We should get to your house so you can get showered and changed into some of your own clothes."
Lana sighed slightly in what sounded like disappointment.
"What's the matter?"
"You mean no round 2?"
I half laughed half growled at her words. "Aren't I supposed to be the horny teenager here?"
Lana grinned and rose to her knees in front of me. "No." She said simply.
"In that case, ding, ding, ding. Let the round begin."
A gasp rang through the white ill-furnished room followed by a long-drawn out moan. The heavy sounds of sex filled the air as the shadow of a man moves on top of another figure.
The man throws his head back in ecstasy as he climaxes. Slowly the man rolls off the female below him, breathes heavily and minutes later is sound asleep.
Rising slowly, she grabs the ID badge and computerized key from around the orderly's neck and unclips it.
Well, that didn't take much did it?
Quickly and quietly she dons the orderly's uniform and makes sure to hide the heavy necklace beneath her undershirt and hair.
Her eyes burn in anger as she looks down at the disgusting vile man who would take up on a teenagers offer of sex.
Doesn't matter now. Nothing matters except finding that bitch Lana and forcing her to tell me what the hell makes this stupid necklace work.
And she will tell me. Regardless of what I have to do to get it out of her.
Slowly, Alexa creeped out of her room and quickly walked down the hall, melding with the other employees, reading their emotions, making sure to stay away from the more naturally suspicions ones. Quickly, inconspicuously. One destination in mind.
End of Chapter Twenty One
