Chapter 2: Obstruction

Clark's Loft

The same night…

Clark sits in his on the couch planning his break out, after only a few moments he realizes that he needs to actually see Belle Reeve to plan. He stands and heads out of the barn, and speeds off into the direction of Belle Reeve.

After only a few minutes Clark arrived at the front gates of Belle Reeve mental institution. One looked at the place had Clark knowing that Alicia did not belong here.

I'll get you out of there Alicia, don't you worry.

He studies the outside of the building, before X-Raying it to get a better view at the structure and how it was built. He studies the basic layout of the place for a while, and then searched for Alicia. He comes to a small room that he can't see through.

That must be where she is, who else would they keep locked up in a lead room? Now to just find the quickest route out… wait, Alicia can teleport, she's the quickest way out. This'll be easier than I first thought.

He turns and speeds off, back to his house. But he stops before going back in and heads out to his loft.

I'll sleep out here tonight…if I sleep in there, they'll only try and talk me out of it as soon as I wake up.

He lies down on the couch and falls asleep into a deep sleep, filled with dreams.

Clark's Dream

Clark is standing in a small room, with white padded walls. He tries to X-Ray out to see anything, but he can't. "It must be lined with lead." He walks around a bit, but stops suddenly at the bed. In it lays Alicia, her hair is a mess, and it looks like she hasn't been taken care of. She seems scared, even when asleep.

Clark looks around again, trying to find anything, anyway to get her out, but he can't. She's stuck in this small room, in this hell hole of a place, where they do god knows what to her. Clark looked down at her again, looking at her beautiful face; he kisses her softly on her forehead, and then makes his way over to one of the walls, before he starts pounding on it with all his might. But the wall doesn't budge or even dent… even with all his powers she is stuck in here… Clark drops down to his knees and starts to cry… "It's all… my fault… I put her in here…" A tear runs down his cheek, "All she wanted was my love…" He looks back over to her, and his eyes become suddenly angry. "I'll get you out here… I promise." He starts banging the wall again, using all his strength, but to no avail.

A voice echoes down from around him, "Clark?" He looks around searching for the voice… "Clark, wake up."

Back in the loft…

Clark's eyes pop open and he looks around to see Chloe kneeling down near him. "Chloe?" He attempts to wipe the sleep from his eyes.

She looks at him and smiles. "Yeah, it's me."

He looks at her, "What time is it?" He looks around, "And why are you here?"

She smiles, "It's 4:30, and I'm here because you missed school and I thought something was wrong. But when I came by, your parents said they hadn't seen you all day, so I came up here. And there you were, lying on the couch trashing about, and yelling." She looks at him concerned. "What were you dreaming about?"

He yawns, "Nothing… WAIT! What time is it?"

She looks at him surprised. "3:30"

He jumps off the couch, "Crap! Visiting hours end at 7…" He rushes around trying to find his jacket.

"Visiting hours, for what?"

He looks at her briefly, "Belle Reeve… I'm going to visit Alicia."

"Clark! She tried to kill you and Lana. She's insane, just let it go."

Clark stiffens up when she says insane. He turns his head slowly to her, and glares at her, then walked down the loft stairs. He walks outside, and gets in the red pickup and pulls out of the driveway. His parents run out of the house to see what's going on.

Chloe runs over to them, "What's with him? I woke him up and he started raving about Alicia, and how he was going to visit her at Belle Reeve."

His parents look at each other, then back to Chloe. "We need to talk"

"Uh… ok… what about?"

"Clark… come, let's go inside." The three of them go inside the house.

The Torch

30 minutes later…

Chloe digs through all the papers searching for something, when Pete and Lana walk in. Pete looks around then speaks, "Chloe, what's up? Why'd you call us here?"

Chloe stops for a moment, and then looks at them. "It's Clark." They both look concerned, Lana speaks first. "What about Clark? Is he alright?"

Chloe looks at her. "Physically yes, mentally… I'm not so sure."

They both look at Chloe inquisitively; they both speak at the same time. "What do you mean?"

"Well… for starters Clark is headed to Belle Reeve as we speak to visit Alicia…"

Lana's eyes widen, "Why's he doing that!"

"I don't know, but I talked to his parents, and they said that last night he decided he's going to break her out."

"He can't do that!" Lana looks panicked… "Can he?"

Pete looks at her, "I wouldn't bet against it… but there has to be a way to talk him out of it.

Chloe looks around, "Yeah, he should be back tonight. I don't think he'll try to break her out tonight…" She pauses, "Then again I could be wrong…"

Belle Reeve, Visiting Area.

That evening…

Alicia stands up surprised to see Clark. "Clark! What are you doing here?"

He smiles at her, then motions to a seat. "Please sit… and I came here to visit you."

She sits down, but looks at him questioningly.

He takes her hands in his and softly caresses her hands with his thumbs. "How are you holding up?"

She shrugs, "Okay, I guess. I mean it could be worse."

He smiles at her, "Well, it's only going to get better." He pauses, "You'll be out of here soon."

She raises an eyebrow at him, "What do you mean?"

He laughs softly, "Nothing, just take care of yourself…" With that he stands up, "Well I better get going." He kisses her on her forehead.

She smiles, "Ok, bye."

"Bye." He walks out of the visitor's area.

Belle Reeve, Alicia's Room

Shortly after…

She sits on her bed trying to figure out what Clark had meant by, "you'll be out of here soon." It's late, and she's tired so she stops and lies down. "I'll just have to trust Clark." She smiles and drifts off into a peaceful sleep.

Clark's Loft

A few hours later…

Clark begins to ascend the stairs when he realizes other people are up there, he figures it's his parents, so he slowly goes up the last remaining stairs to find 5 pairs of eyes looking at him. 3 had concern in them, 1 had anger, and the other had "why am I here?"

He walks towards them and before they can say anything he asks, "Why are you here? And why are you all staring at me?"

They all just keep looking at him. He begins to open his mouth but Lana cuts him off. "We know about your little plan to break Alicia out of Belle Reeve." Clark's dad finishes, "And we're here to stop you."

A slight smirk finds its way onto Clark's face. "Right and how exactly do you plan on doing that? Nothing short of killing me, or tying me up is going to stop me." He lets out a chuckle and turns back to head down the stairs.

"Then that's what we'll do." Clark turns around to glare at his father, who was walking towards him along with Pete. Clark just shakes his head and smiles.

Clark's father reached out to grab hold of him, but Clark slapped his hand away, and lifts him up by his shirt. He does the same to Pete. "Now, I don't want to hurt either of you, so why don't you just leave me alone?"

The girls just looked on in horror, as Clark lifts both Jonathan and Pete into the air easily. Clark begins to stagger as a wave of pain hit him. He drops Pete and his father, and begins to trip backwards. He looks to see his dad holding a piece of kryptonite, and he looks at his father in the eyes.

"Dad…" He asks in a pleading tone.

"I'm sorry son, but we can't let you ruin your life to save some insane girl who tried to kill both you and Lana…"

Clark's blood boils when he hears the word insane. He began to stand back up, replacing all the pain with anger. "She's… Not… INSANE!" He lets loose a primal yell and swats the kryptonite away from his father, who just looks on in fear. He grabs is father and throws him towards the girls, landing on the couch, he then just glares at Pete, who put his hands up defensively and backs away.

Clark smirks, "Now that that's over, don't try to stop me." He looks back at them one more time, a strange glint in his eyes. Before he makes it down the stairs, Lana comes running after him.

"Clark! Wait!" He stops and turns around.

"What?" He's obviously angry.

"You can't do it… please…" She begins to cry.

He sighs, "Well you see, I can do it… and I'm going to do it." He turns and walks off.

Lana just stands there and cries, as Clark's father walks downstairs to comfort her.