"Lana, you know how evil Clark said that you were the reason Lois was miserable? Well it wasn't entirely fiction."
"What do you mean?"
"Remember how you told Clark that you loved him a last night?"
"Yah, so?"
"Lois saw you kiss Clark. She doesn't know how Clark feels about her. She just realized that she's in love with him. That's an amazing feat in itself. Lois barely lets anyone get close to her."
"Oh. I didn't know that kissing Clark would have such devastating consequences. Had I known I would have never kissed him."
"It's not your fault Lana. It was just bad timing. No one knew that Lois would arrive in the barn just as you kissed him."
"I still feel bad."
"Don't." The sound came from outside the door they had been standing next to.
"Clark is that you?" Martha asked anxiously. "What's the password?"
"Conspiracy." Martha opened the door to find Chloe and Clark.
"How did you guys get here?"
"Clark ran us." Chloe told the woman not realizing Lana was right there.
"What do you mean Clark ran you?" Lana asked.
Chloe turned towards Lana. "Oops."
"Lois?" Bruce entered the room cautiously. "We need to talk." He saw Lois on the bed. He sat down on the edge.
"Bruce I can't go to dinner with you."
"Well I was going to suggest that but we need to talk about Clark."
"Why?"
"Well let's start at the beginning. What did he do to you in the nightmare?"
"He told me that he loved me, I told him that I loved him then Lana came over and told Clark that she loved him. He left me for Lana."
"And you're afraid the in real life he'll do the same?"
"No he already did. He kissed Lana."
"Lois think back to the conversation what exactly was said.?"
Lois tried to remember. Lana had said, "I love you." The Clark had walked to the railing and said "Lana I-" and she had kissed him. It wasn't what it had looked like. Everyone was right.
"Oh god, now I feel guilty for jumping to conclusions."
"Lois, you need to talk to him." Bruce paused. "I think he's downstairs now. Why don't I go get him? Somehow I don't think you want to have this conversation in front of everyone." Lois blushed as Bruce left the room.
Lex was glaring at Klarc. "Clark I told you that I'm busy."
Klarc got up to leave. On his way he said, "Alright I guess you don't want to find your father's listening device and tape?"
"Wait! Did you just say that you know who has then evidence?"
Klarc walked back to sit down. "Well Lex, let's talk business. Shall we?"
"Lana, we need to talk later, but first I have to tell Lois how I feel."
"Go. I can't wait. Besides, I think I'm piecing together some things."
"All right. I'll talk to you this evening."
Bruce came down the stairs. "She's ready for you." He gestured to the door. "I've gotta go get my suit."
"Looking for this?" Bruce turned to see Bart with his suit.
"How did you get that? I have tons of security on that suit. And how are you?"
"I'm Bart but you can call me Flash. And I have superspeed. I'm faster than Clark."
Clark saw Bruce's face and laughed as he made his way upstairs.
"Who has the recording?"
"I do."
"What!" Lex exclaimed. He paused for a moment before pulling out a gun. "Give it to me."
"Why so you can kill me too?"
Lex was shocked. "Give me the tape Clark. Even if you are my friend, I need that tape."
"To find one of the stones?"
Lex gave him one final warning. "Clark, I'm serious. Give me that recording."
Klarc smirked. "I don't think you can kill me. I dare you to pull the trigger."
A gunshot was heard throughout the whole mansion.
Lois was nervous. 'What if he doesn't love me?' She shook her head. It didn't matter. She owed it to Clark and herself to be honest.
Clark was worried. 'What if she doesn't accept me?' 'Then she isn't the woman that I love.' He told himself. Clark deserved better than to be treated like a freak.
Clark opened the door, entered the room, and shut the door behind him. He and Lois took deep breaths. 'This isn't going to be a walk in the park.' They thought simultaneously.
Lex was stunned. Klarc took the bullet and showed it to him. It was all crumpled. "The meteor shower gave me special powers."
"I'll say. I guess I won't be getting the tape huh?"
Klarc shrugged. "I don't have the tape. The other me has it."
"What do you mean the other you?"
"The explosion Sunday created two Clarks. Or I should say created me. I'm evil."
Lex liked the idea of an evil Clark. Especially an evil Clark with all of these powers. Lex suspected that Clark was also really strong and really fast. "What did you have in mind?"
"I thought we might take over the world."
Lex nodded "With my resources and your powers we'll rule easily." Lex got them some wine. "Partners?"
"One condition."
"Yes?"
"When I tell you to leave someone alone, you do."
"Deal."
They clanked their glasses. "To power, control, and a partnership." They both downed their glasses.
Lois began. "Listen I don't let people in, on fear of getting hurt. I pushed my father away, I pushed my sister away, but something about this town got to me. I let Chloe in, as you already know, I let your parents in, I let-"
Clark couldn't take it anymore. He shut her up, by kissing her. Suddenly her hands were around his neck and his hands were around her waist. A mutual feeling passed through their bodies. They both knew that they would spend their lives together and that the other knew it too.
When they broke the kiss, Lois continued. "I let you in and fell in love with you." She said quietly.
Clark chuckled. "Don't you ever stop talking Ms. Lane?" She playfully smacked him and leaned forward to kiss him again. "For the record I love you too." Clark told her when the came up for air.
Clark separated from Lois' embrace. "Lois I need to tell you something."
"Clark, what is it?" He looked into her eyes. He knew that she was more powerful than any Kryptonite could ever be.
"I'm afraid that if I tell you that you'll leave and never come back."
"Clark, I would never do that to you."
"Lois, I-" Before he could say anything more, he heard the bracelet calling to him. "Lois wait there for a minute." He ran down the stairs and then supersped out the door. Martha looked after him wondering what he was doing. Lana looked at where he had been moments ago triumphantly. Jonathon smiled knowing where he was going.
Clark grabbed the bracelet, the stone, the key and the tape. He knew that they weren't safe out here. Then he supersped back into the house. Martha saw that he was holding the bracelet and asked, "Don't you think that you're moving a little fast?"
"No the bracelet was calling to me. Mom, she's the one." Martha nodded and her son ran up the stairs.
Lana was confused but just as she was about to ask Martha what the deal with the bracelet was, the stone of power in her pocket glowed. She suddenly knew all about Clark and his secret. The stone that Clark had left on the counter also glowed and as Martha picked it up she knew her son and Lois were going to be happy together.
The third stone glowed in the Cave and Jor-El's computer program suddenly knew that the Kryptonian race wouldn't die out. As the stones stopped glowing Clark was upstairs putting the bracelet on Lois.
Klarc and Lex had been discussing how to take over the world when Klarc knew what had taken place. 'How dare he. Lois is mine. And she accepted him.'
Lex was startled. One moment he and Klarc had been engrossed in a conversation. The next Klarc was standing screaming "No!"
"Clark? What's wrong?"
"He took her. That bastard took her. And she accepted him. Oh they'll both pay!"
"Who? Ho took who?"
Klarc uttered one word before he supersped to the Kent farm. "Clark."
The moment the bracelet slipped on her wrist Lois knew all that Clark knew about himself. She knew that he was an alien, that Segeeth would betray him, what the bracelet meant. Tears ran down her cheeks. He wanted to be with her forever.
Clark thought she was crying because she hated him. He turned, tears scalding his own cheeks. He thought that she couldn't deal with the fact that he wasn't human.
Lois knew that he was crying. That he believed that she didn't love him. She knew at that moment that they were psychically connected. They could read each other's minds when the other was under tons of stress or their emotions were raging.
She walked over to him and slowly kissed him. They fell to the bed kissing each other. Neither of them ever wanted to let go. They were in each other's minds making the whole ordeal much more intimate. They finally fell asleep in each other's arms.
The whole house was asleep. The intruder walked into the house silently. He saw Chloe and Bart sleeping on the couch, Lana and Pete sleeping on the floor, Bruce sleeping in the hallway.
He went upstairs and found Martha and Jonathon asleep in their room. He quietly looked in on the other sleeping couple. Had it not been for the stones downstairs and the item on the stairs, the whole house full of people would be dead.
As he left the house the octagonal disk that had been left on the top stair stopped glowing.