A/N: The time has finally come… The moment you've all been waiting for! Who's Eddie? He's the last "main" character to find out about. OK, so maybe it hasn't been keeping you awake at night, but now you'll get to find out anyway:D
And I would also like to say at this point that Eddie's song is very difficult rhythmically, so if it doesn't fit exactly, I hope you'll forgive me!
Chapter 8
The applause continued for quite awhile. Lionel's arms were thrown wide, accepting all accolades from his sycophants as his due. Clark was leaning weakly against a BowFlex®. Chloe thought they'd continue in just that way, letting Clark get weaker and weaker. Then she heard it. A beeping sounded like those made by deliver trucks when backing up. She looked around and noticed that the large metal plate on the console wall had a blinking light above it and the door was lowering. Everyone could only gape at the interruption and no attempt was made to stop whatever was happening. Chloe grabbed Pete and dragged him farther away and looked around. Everyone seemed to have identical expressions of horror on their faces with a few exceptions. Clark looked on with the same expression as Chloe and Pete… curiosity. It was Lana's face that drew her the most though. It was a curious mixture of anticipation and lust… or was that love? What in the world? Chloe wondered.
When the door finally slammed to the floor,the opening was covered in ice bricks. It looked very bizarre to Chloe and Pete. Who would want to brick up a walk-in freezer like that? It didn't look very stable… It was like a soft breeze could knock it down since it was teetering slightly. Suddenly, the ice came crashing outwards and a young man riding a cute little pink Vespa entered the room.
"Jason!" Lana screamed in ecstasy and flung her body into his arms.
Chloe looked him up and down curiously. He was making her very nervous with the whole blue-tinted skin that was too reminiscent of Sean Kelvin, who would have put her on perma-deep freeze had it not been for Clark. Come on, she shook her head. Focus on the present! Lana didn't seem to mind the cold as they shared a long kiss, but then Jason pulled away and the rock and roll music started up.
"Whatever happened to Paris at night when you dressed up sharp and I felt alright?" He stalked up to Clark and looked him up and down. A sneer crossed his face and it looked like he would have punched Clark if Lionel hadn't been standing in front of him. "It don't seem the same since Clarky's light came into my life and you thought he was divine." Lana tried to make him look at her while she shook her head and pulled him away. Chloe could only guess that she meant that she was totally over Clark and Jason had nothing to worry about.
Jason took Lana's hands and pulled her to his Vespa. "We used to go for a ride with a horse who'd go and listen to the music from the cool oboe. But then it's back to Smallville and Clark is now a foe. But then I just think back to when we really had good times!"
Chloe thought she was going to bust a rib trying not to laugh at Jason's apparent homage to Elvis and Lana's reactions to his every move. Chloe was surprised when the tramped out brunette jumped off the Vespa to attack the console board. But when the lights started going all disco, she understood and a bark of laughter escaped despite all her efforts. Everyone started dancing around and it was chaos. Even Lex and Lana got into it together… which rather disturbed Chloe.
Jason was loving that he was the center of attention… Chloe could see it in his eyes. He swung Lana about. "Hot lil' cutie, with my soul I really love how you're so droll."
But apparently everyone knew all the words and the tune so they sang, "Hot lil' cutie, with my soul I really love how you're so droll. Hot lil' cutie, with my soul I really love how you're so droll. Hot lil' cutie, with my soul I really love how you're so droll."
Jason played some air sax and you could tell by Lionel's exponentially reddening face that he was getting really mad at the young man. Chloe could almost read his thoughts from his eyes. She knew that he had intended this party to concentrate solely on his "discovery" of Clark's "powers" and here Jason was singing to Lana. Well, that was enough to make anyone mad…
She looked briefly at Clark and could tell he was just about to pass out. She couldn't tell from what, and there was no way for her to get to him. Between Lex and Lois doing a swing step in the middle of the floor, Jason and Lana practically having sex on a Vespa… a VESPA!... and Lionel standing in the center of the floor with his hands on his hips, she couldn't get to him unobtrusively.
Jason lifted his head for a breath and the music took him again. "My head used to swim from the perfume you wore. My friends kind of wondered why I loved such a bore. You'd wear your baby pink lipstick, expecting I'd melt. You'd never whisper in my ear tonight you really were mine." Jason pushed her away, and strode away. "We went to the crypt, then you were alone and, after you passed out, didn't pick up the phone." He rushed back to her and swept her up in his arms. "With my arms around you, girl, I thought I should atone. I felt like some crap, whoo. Not a very good ti-i-ime. Hot lil' cutie, with my soul I really love how you're so droll."
Where at first it had just been the Smallvillians that had done the back up singing, it now seemed to be the three Ls (Lex, Lois, Lana)as well. "Hot lil' cutie, with my soul I really love how you're so droll. Hot lil' cutie, with my soul I really love how you're so droll. Hot lil' cutie, with my soul I really love how you're so droll."
Chloe watched as Lionel edged toward the freezer. She thought about investigating further, but Pete was starting to join in the dancing and to keep him out of the general fray and any possible danger from these obviously deranged people, she made him dance with her in the corner. Thankfully he didn't know too much about swing dancing so she didn't have to worry about being flung up into the rafters.
The finale of the number was the Smallvillians singing "Hot lil' cutie, with my soul I really love how you're so droll," about 7 more times and Jason singing "Hot lil' cutie! Bless my soul! Hot lil' cutie! I love how you're so droll!" until they'd finished the repeat. It was enough for Chloe to want the song over and over now… even though the beat was totally bumping. Finally it was over and the crowd was in their final poses. That's when she noticed Lionel creeping up on Jason, his hand tucked demurely behind him. She tried to pull her hands out of Pete's and rush over to stop him from doing something evil, but Pete held her too tightly. Then she noticed Lex's murderous glare focused her way and wondered if she'd have to try and save Jason at riskto her own life.
But, in the end, she never had to make that decision because there wasn't enough time. Lionel raised an ice pick and plunged it into Jason's shoulder. Jason's high pitched scream made Chloe shudder all over. Gasps and shrieks of disbelief were heard around the room. Jason couldn't seem to find any escape and so ran into the freezer system. Lana's sobs resounded over all when a trickle of red flowed out of the room. Steam fogged up the freezer so no one could actually see inside.
Lionel teetered out of the freezer and hit the button that closed the door. "One from the vaults…" he purred. When he received no response whatsoever from his sycophants, he shouted, "Come on! That was funny!"
Lionel sashayed his way back over to Clark who shrank from the prancing pansy. Lionel smirked at him… feeling that he understood Clark's reaction. "Oh no, my little extraterrestrial. You're much too unique and valuable to be destroyed in such a way. Oh, sure. He got Lana out of your hair, but he couldn't hold a candle to you in my eyes."
"Of course not," Chloe muttered. "He's not some sort of 'alien', right?"
"Chloe, do you really want to provoke him at this point? Look what he did to Jason!" Pete was looking pretty green and Chloe rolled her eyes.
"I saw what he did to Jason," she hissed, "but if I disappear again, he'll have the Feds all over him again and at this point he totally can't afford that." That's when she heard it. A reprieve of Lionel's last song… "Oh, the humanity!"
"With your deltoids and your biceps; a spaceship and a weakness... makes me - ooh – quake." The way he was fawning over Clark and caressing his body made Chloe want to hurl. "Makes me want to take Carl Sagan by the ha-and. In just seven days - Oh baby - I will prove you're an alien! I don't want no dissension. Just keep up your tension."
Chloe could feel the song take her and no matter what she did, she couldn't help but sing, "I'm an X-Files fan!" She groaned after her part was done and she could tell Pete was shocked by her little contribution, considering what had just happened. She couldn't believe it herself.
But it wasn't stopping Lionel and his back-up Smallvillettes. "In just seven days, I will prove you're an alien. Dig it if you can! In just seven days, I will prove you're an alien!"
The curtain opened up behind the podium and Chloe could see a more modern laboratory featured there. The straps and needles and obvious torture equipment made her want to beg them to let Clark go, but Pete put his hand straight over her mouth and whispered, "Chloe, we can't do anything for him here. If we try anything right now, they'll just kill us." Chloe grunted under his hand and he sighed. "Listen, this isn't just me being a chicken. But what help will we be to Clark if we're dead?" He could feel her surrender in her shoulders and quickly let go of her mouth before Lionel's helpers noticed their conversation.
In the meantime, Lionel was dragging Clark into the new room and, with the help of Lex, Lois and a still teary Lana, he strapped Clark to the available exam table. When the three left, the curtain fell, signaling the show was over for now.
A/N: Enhancing the storyline seems to be working for some people. For those of you that it didn't work for in that one chapter… Well, give me a minute, will ya? Twists will come easier and more believably further into the story…
Bored and highly dangerous: Never fear. I'm keeping with this until the bitter end. My only problem has been modifying the songs, which seems to take awhile… But I will persevere! I know the format of the songs have been really weird, but it has been suggested that I put the songs in a way that you could listen to the music and read along, but that'll be after it's all done. I've actually spent some time with my "Rocky" CD and my lyrics go with it pretty well… which makes me happy. :D But I think I didn't to too bad with the "Chloe" rhymes. I just didn't want it seeming like Pete was asking for a blow job… :O
Lenore Raven: Your waiting is over… Are you satisfied with my choice? I think Jason was the perfect patsy… especially since I'd made Lana into Columbia. Thank you so much for the kind words. I probably would have just gone on putting Smallville characters directly into Rocky, but the feedback kinda' complained about that… and I'm glad now. It's more fun than just tweaking it a little… :D