Emergency generators had been brought in over at the camp and the scared people were calmed down. Martha was finally bandaged up and her forearm was put into a cast. She was up and moving around when she saw the familiar red pickup truck, with the windshield smashed out, pull up. She ran towards the truck as Clark and her husband got out. She gave Clark a big hug. "Clark oh honey I'm so glad you're safe!" Jonathan smiled, glad to see his wife was well enough to walk around. "Oh, Jonathan, before I forget I need to tell you that Lois decided to stay and help clean up the farm instead of going to Europe and that she's planning on re-applying to some colleges in the area, maybe Central Kansas since Met U is out of the question."
"Fine by me." Jonathan said. I'm gonna walk around and see how everybody is doing and then we'll find Lois and Shelby and head back to the farm. The barn awaits."
"Let me come with you. I spent all afternoon asleep" Martha said. Jonathan patted Clark on the back and then grabbed Martha's hand and they walked off. Clark leaned up against the truck, shut his eyes and rubbed the sides of his head. So Lois was staying. Clark wasn't sure how he felt about that, he knew that early this morning in the kitchen when she came down in her pajamas and bunny slippers and she said she was leaving something inside him said that he didn't want her to go. It wasn't that he liked the girl, just that he had grown used to her, at least that's what he tried to tell himself in his mind. Hot water wasting, bedroom stealing Lois.
"Bark Bark!" Shelby ran up and practically tackled Clark.
"Hey there Shelby!" Clark said. He was very happy to see his dog and bent down low to pet the dog.
"Whoah, Smallville. What the hell happened to you?" Lois walked up to see none other than Clark Kent who had been MIA all day standing next to his parents truck in a badly torn, slightly burned and muddy flannel shirt. Clark looked up. If he had doubts about whether or not he wanted Lois to leave, when he saw her he realized that he didn't know for what reasons but he definitely was glad she was staying. Clark wasn't sure he wanted to dig any deeper into those reasons yet.
"Weird day huh?" he smiled.
"Yeah... What did you take a direct hit?"
"Yeah it really hurt but I got better." he teased.
"Sarcasm Clarkie? Well that's new."
"Only for you Lois." Clark said, at least subconsciously aware that he was flirting. Lois just flashed a smile at Clark. Unbeknownst to the two of the Lana was watching their exchange with some degree of concern. They had always a ton of chemistry and now Lois was staying. Lana was worried because she had done her best to push Clark away most of the year and then the murder and the meteor shower freaked her into telling him she loved him but when she told him he seemed to be in a major hurry, without time to think things over like he normally would. Now Lois was laughing, one of her hands resting on Clark's chest. Lana had enough.
"Clark!" she shouted as she crutched her way over, shooting a look at Lois on her way. Lois caught the look but Clark didn't.
"Um ok Smallville, well, just don't get hit by another meteor ok? I'll see you later I'm gonna go see if Chloe is back yet." Lois said as she gave Lana some space to lead the farmboy on some more.
"Ok bye Lois. I'll find you when we're ready to head back to a farm." Clark turned to Lana. "Lana. Are you ok?"
"Yeah its not as bad a break as the last one..." A flash of remorse went across Clark's face. "...the doctors say it will heal pretty fast. It was a clean break. I was in one of Lex's helicopters. It got hit by a meteor and crashed." Concern flooded Clark's face.
"I should have been there Lana."
"Clark, you always do this! There would have been nothing you could do right? I mean its not like you can catch a helicopter?"
"No of course not..." Lana looked at Clark suspiciously like she did whenever she thought he was lying to her about something.
"Anything you want to tell me Clark."
"Uh no! I'm just glad you're safe."
"Right." Lana said with a disappointed tone. "Listen I think we need to talk about what happened at the barn." Right after she said this Clark's parents and Lois walked up.
"Clark its time we get going son. We've got a long couple of days ahead of us." said his dad.
"Ok dad. Lana we'll talk later?"
"Yeah ok Clark." She nodded. She stood and watched as Jonathan and Martha climbed into the cab with Shelby and Lois and Clark sat in the bed of the truck. Lois saw her watching and decided to mess with her for the look she shot her earlier. 'I mean we were just talking. Sure Smallville is good looking but like I'd ever wanna hook up with him?' As they drove away Lois sat down next to Clark and leaned her head on his shoulder. 'Damn, even covered with mud he smells good.' she thought. 'Ok Lane, where the hell did that come from.'
An: Thats all for now. I'm helping my brother move 3,000 miles from here and its gonna be about a 5 day trip. I hope you all enjoy! More will come I promise! Please be kind in your reviews! This is my first fic.