Lex was quite angry. The police had already found his father's body. There were rumors of somebody witnessing his death. His father's tale of who had the stone was a dead end. Lex shrugged. He did not care that the dead end had cost two lives, three if you included his father.
It was vital though to find the person who had found his father. Lex had been informed that his father had had a recorder on. Whoever found the body had evidence.
Lex was determined to find this person. No matter what the cost.
When she woke up, Lois knew that she had to have three talks today. She sighed. None of them were going to be easy. She got dressed and went downstairs to find that Chloe had slept on the couch, and Clark was on the floor along with somebody she couldn't recognize.
She went into the kitchen to find Martha and Jonathon already up. 'Well here goes talk numero uno.' "Hey Martha, Mr. Kent."
"Jonathon." He told her absently.
"Good morning dear. How are you?"
Lois shrugged. "Better I guess. Listen I need to talk to you about something. Actually two things."
Both of the adults sat down at the table and motioned for Lois to join them. When she did Martha started. "So sweetie what do you need to discus with us?"
"I just need to know that I'm not a burden. And that I can come back to visit."
"Lois, if you want to visit we'd be glad to have you. And you're not a burden. What's this about?" Jonathon asked her.
Martha caught on as soon Lois didn't reply. "Oh, honey, we would never ask you to leave, it was just a nightmare."
"Alright. I guess I'm just shaken. The nightmare was really intense. I still need to talk to Chloe and Clark."
"Let me guess the other thing you wanted to talk to us about was Clark?" At Lois' questioning glance Martha continued. "We saw you too hugging last night after your nightmare."
"Yah," Lois stole a glance at the sleeping form of the man who she loved. "I think I love him."
Martha saw the way Lois looked at her son and agreed. Jonathon interrupted her thoughts. "We don't mind you too kissing or dating but there are rules in this house."
At that Lois blushed. "Oh, no. I just wanted to make sure that you were okay with what might happen between us."
"We couldn't be happier." Martha told her truthfully.
"Neither could I." Lois turned to see Chloe smiling at her. Lois was relieved; that only left talking to the farmboy himself.
The billionaire looked around he had had his butler drop him off here. This was where his friend was. He went to the door and knocked. He was answered by a kindly woman. "Yes?" Martha asked.
"Yes. I'm looking for my friend. She is staying here."
"Could you be more specific there are three people staying here at the moment."
"Yes, she is related to a general."
"Chloe or Lois?"
"Wait you have two young women related to general."
"One's the daughter, the other is the niece."
"Well yes, I'm looking for his daughter, Lois."
Martha invited him inside and went to get Lois. The man noticed a young man sleeping on the floor. Just as he noticed Clark, Clark woke up. Clark got up and noticed the visitor. He yawned then stuck out his hand. "Clark Kent."
The man shook his hand and before he could speak Lois ran down toward him. "Bruce!" She ran toward him and hugged him.
Clark raised his eyebrows. Lois wasn't one for public affection. Lois noticed his reaction and stepped back to properly introduce Bruce. "Clark this is one of my oldest friends, Bruce Wayne."
Lana was driving. She turned on the radio to calm her. Maroon 5's She Will Be Loved began to play. She had decided to talk to Clark. He probably felt the same way as she did. No he did. Lana was sure of it.
Realizing what she was listening to she thought that the song described their relationship perfectly. She chuckled. What were the odds that it would play when she needed it most?
Continuing to chuckle she kept driving to the Kent farm, believing that she and Clark would soon be together.
"Well, it's nice to meet you, Mr. Wayne." Clark said truthfully.
Bruce winced. "Clark, please call me Bruce. I only like to be called Mr. Wayne when I'm doing business."
"Ok, Bruce. What brings you to Smallville? I somehow doubt that a billionaire from Gotham would be interested in corn."
Bruce began to laugh. "Yes, you're right I came to see Lois. We haven't seen each other in over a year. I keep telling her to come to Gotham but she seems much more interested in a town called Smallville."
"Well, it's a much shorter trip, and I did almost lose my cousin a couple months ago." Lois told him as she came back with two mugs of steaming coffee. She gave one to Clark and the other to Bruce. They both raised their eyebrows.
"Lois, what's up?" Clark asked slowly.
"What do you mean?"
"Well you just handed us coffee without any for yourself." Bruce told her.
"What, can I not do a nice act without an ulterior motive?"
At the same time both Clark and Bruce responded. "No." they looked at each other and laughed. They both knew the same Lois Lane.
Lois sighed. "I just want two of my best friends to get along."
Clark was surprised. "Since when have I been one of your best friends? I didn't get the memo. Now the question is do I run for the hills?" Bruce sprayed the coffee he had begun to drink, and began to laugh uncontrollably.
Lois gave Clark a death stare and spoke. "Smallville, you are going to regret saying that." She turned to Bruce. "And you are going to get it worse, buddy, for laughing."
Clark gave Lois a puppy dog pout. "Won't you go easy on your two of your best friends?" Lois smiled and slapped his arm.
Chloe was researching what the truck had been carrying. She had already found out that it was hired by Luthor Corp. Now she had found out that it was being hired to carry the cargo to a research facility. She was about to call Lex when someone covered her eyes. "Bart, what are you doing here?"
Her eyes were released and she gazed upon her boyfriend. "I dunno I thought I would stop by and see my favorite girl."
"Me?"
"Nope, Lois." Chloe swatted him and pulled him in for a kiss.
"Well if you want to pursue Lois not only will you have to go through me, you'd have to go through Clark too."
"Really?" Chloe smiled at his surprise. "They couldn't stand each other last time I was here."
"I really don't know. I always knew that they would get together. But the way they fought, it was like they were never going to notice. I had a bet going with Mrs. Kent. She had said a month, I said three."
"So who won?"
"Neither of us. The bet was five months ago." Bart began to laugh. After a couple minutes he was silenced by Chloe.
"Ow! Only Clark is made of steel!" Chloe just laughed and turned to continue her search.
Clark had gone to do his chores, leaving Bruce alone with Lois. Clark was jealous of how comfortable Lois was with Bruce. 'I wish she could comfortable like that with me.' He sighed. He still needed to talk to Lois about his feelings for her.
Just as another wave of jealousy hit him his throat felt cold. As he breathed out the cows he had been facing all fell over. 'Oh great, another power. Just what I need. But what activated it?' He helped the cows up and continued hoping he wouldn't get another blast of 'superbreath'.
Again his thoughts turned to Bruce and Lois. "I bet he doesn't have to deal with having to save people." He muttered. Once again he felt jealousy overcome him. His throat felt icy cold this time. He turned toward the crops and exhaled the crops not only fell to the side they froze that way.
Clark realized that the power was activated by jealousy. After about half and hour he had mastered a new power. He was glad though that he hadn't frozen the cows when he first had the power activate.
He went in for lunch to fin that Bruce and Lois had gone into town to catch up. He really liked Bruce; it was just that she was so comfortable around him. Clark quickly finished his chores at superspeed and went to his loft to wait for Lois.
Lois was having fun with Bruce, but she really wanted to get back and tell Clark how she felt. As a result she was drifting in and out of the conversation. "Lois, Lois, LOIS!"
She jerked back to Bruce. "Sorry what were you saying?"
"Are you okay? You look a bit preoccupied."
"Yah, just a little tired." Bruce doubted that but let it go.
"So I was wondering…..."
"Yah?"
"Do you want to have dinner tomorrow night?"
Lois was surprised and disappointed. Had he asked last week she would have gladly accepted, but she was love with Clark. "I'm sorry Bruce, I can't. I'm in love with somebody already."
"Clark right?"
"My god! How does everyone do that? Before, nobody would believe that Clark and I had nothing going on. What do we, give off vibes saying: madly in love, or something?"
"And now?"
Lois looked away. "Yah, I fell in love with him over the past couple of visits. But I don't know how he feels about me. I haven't told him yet."
"Why? Lois lane isn't one to back down."
"I realized that I loved him last night." Bruce rolled his eyes. Typical Lois, running away from her feelings until the exploded in her face.
"Let me guess, you had the nightmare?"
She shook her head. "No I had a nightmare but it was different this time."
"Do you want to talk about it?" Lois smiled.
"No, I've already confronted three out of four people that hurt me in the nightmare. They all love me so I know that it was just a nightmare."
"Wanna head back to talk to Clark?" Bruce was jealous of Clark. He got Lois and he didn't have to have to deal with the responsibility. He inwardly sighed. It just showed that life was not fair at all.
"If you don't mind."
"Of course not. We'll always be friends. I just want you to be happy."
"Thanks, Bruce."
Clark was watching the sunset when he heard footsteps on the stairs. His first thought was that it was Lois but as he continued listen found his wishing to be false. "Clark, are you up here?" Lana asked.
"Over here." Clark tried not to sound too depressed.
"Listen Clark I need to tell you something."
"Hmm."
"I love you." Clark sighed. He had seen this coming. He decided to try to lay it on her easy.
He got up walked to the railing. "Lana, I-"
"He was cut off by Lana kissing him. He felt nothing as she kissed him. It was then that he knew that he had never truly been in love with Lana. He carefully broke the kiss.
Lana was confused. One minute she had been kissing Clark, the man she loved, the next she was kissing air.
Clark knew that he would have to break it to her hard. "Lana, remember when we were talking in the caves a couple of months ago?"
"Yah." She was still confused.
Clark sighed. He would just tell her. "I don't love you Lana."
At his comment she realized which conversation he was referring to. "I'm in love with Lois."
"Oh, I see. Maybe I should just go." She left for the Talon when Clark made no move to stop her.
Lois got out the car, said goodbye to Bruce promising to stay in touch, and ran to the loft. She saw Clark talking to Lana and then she began to run. Lois had seen Clark and Lana kiss. As in her dream she bumped into Martha, but this time the woman pulled Lois to her. "Lois Honey what's wrong?"
"Clark he- he- he-" She didn't get to finish before the tears came. She landed on the floor kneeling. Martha decided to call Chloe and before she hung up Bart had brought Chloe over.
Chloe helped her cousin up and led her to the couch. She decided to ask Lois why she was crying after she had stopped. Lois cried herself to sleep. It was an unanimous decision to leave her there.
Martha called Clark in after Lois was asleep. It was past dinner time. Chloe went up to Clark when he entered and bombarded him. "What did you do Clark? I thought you loved her!"
"I do. What happened?" Clark was concerned.
"She came in saying 'Clark he-'. Then began to sob uncontrollably." Martha told him.
"I haven't talked to her all day. What could she- wait a minute. Mom what direction did she run from?"
"The barn, why?"
"Oh god no! She must have seen Lana kiss me." At everyone's looks he continued, "Lana came by and told me that she was still in love with me. I tried to tell her no but she ended up kissing me. I broke it off told her I was in love with Lois and she left."
Clark looked at Lois. "If only she hadn't run out she would have known the truth."
Pete had spent the last couple of hours talking to his dad. When he entered the Talon he heard someone crying. He turned to find that it was Lana. He sat with her and put his hand on her shoulder.
"Who- Pete!" Lana said as she looked up. Her arms were around him in couple seconds. Pete was confused. One moment she was crying the next she was hugging him.
"Hey Lana. What's wrong?"
"I just spilled my heart out to Clark. He told me that he was in Love with someone else."
"Lois."
"How did you know?"
"I spent the night there last night."
"Oh."
Lana was very upset so Pete figured he would try to cheer her up. "Lana why don't we go see a movie or something. To get your mind off things."
"Alright."
Lois woke up at about ten. She saw had everyone had gone to sleep. She grabbed her cell phone and called Bruce. He was going to be in town for a week doing business here and there.
"Bruce, yah it's me Lois."
"No I was just wondering if we could have dinner tomorrow?"
"Good. I'll see you then." She hung up and tried to sleep. Instead tears began to fall. She cried all night without a wink of sleep.
Clark wasn't asleep. He was in his loft thinking about what had happened. 'Am I cursed or something?'
"More than you think." Clark turned to find himself face to face with himself.
"How did you do that?" Clark asked.
"Oh, we have the same Minds. If you had tried you could have read my mind." 'Or talked to me telepathically.'
"Why are you here?"
"Oh, well I wanted to spend some time with Lois."
"It was you who blew up the furnace."
Klarc gave him a death stare. "All I wanted to do was spend time with her. But between you, Bruce, and Chloe that's been impossible."
"What are you?"
"I'm the evil part of you." When Clark opened hi mouth to speak Klarc continued. "No not Kal, that's you without inhibitions. I'm you completely evil. I don't want what you want. I want to conquer. I want to rule. I want Lois. The only way I can get to her is through you so I'm going tot kill you."
As Klarc came close to Clark he faltered. He looked like he was being affected by Kryptonite. Clark looked in his pocket and retrieved to key Lionel had given him. It was glowing like Krpytonite did when Clark came I contact with it. Klarc Got out of range and supersped away.
Clark looked at the key thinking of the meeting that had just occurred and heard Klarc talking to him. 'This isn't over.'
No this wasn't over by a long-shot.