3 weeks later

"I can't believe it's snowing already!" Lana pouted, "I'm not ready for winter!" "Already?" Clark laughed, "It's mid January, we're lucky we haven't had it earlier."
"I know, I know! But I don't like snow!" Lana whined, as she looked out of the car, at the 3 inches of snow on the ground, as it kept snowing.
"It's not that bad." Clark said, stopping in front of the mansion gates, and punching in the security code.
"Ya, not for you! You can't even feel the cold." Lana pointed out. "It can be fun." Clark said as they both got out of his car.
"What are smiling about?" Lana laughed, then she saw the snowball in his hand, "Clark no! Don't you dare throw that at me!" Lana ducked behind the car, "I'm serious."
Clark started laughing, "Come on, you aren't seriously afraid of a little snow are you?" He tossed the snowball at her, and it barely tapped her.
"Clark!" Lana gasped as she brushed the cold snow off her neck. "You are so dead!" Clark was laughing when Lana tackled him to the ground, and started white washing him.
"Apologized!" Lana laughed, as she was on top of Clark pinning him down.
"Alright. I'm sorry." Clark said, "I give up." Lana smiled with satisfaction, "Good" She said as she got off of him.
Lana and Clark walked towards the mansion's front door, and as they walked under a tree, a giant clump of snow fell on them.
"Cold! Cold! Cold!" Lana shrieked brushing the snow off. "Stop laughing Clark!" Lana elbowed Clark, silencing his laughter.
"Sorry... but you REALLY don't like snow, do you?" Clark teased. "No!" Lana said stomping her shoes outside the door, before going in. "I'm so cold."
Clark hugged Lana from behind, "I'll warm you up." He teased, "There is a fireplace upstairs." Clark lead her to the huge fireplace, it was so big they could have both walked in it.
"Wow..." Lana was impressed, she had been at Clark's house at least a hundred times, and briefly glanced at it before, but now that is was lit, it was so beautiful.
Clark dumped his wet coat, and shirt in front of it, leaving him in jeans and a wife beater.
Lana followed his action, and placed her coat and sweater down. Her tank top was also wet, but she wasn't going to take it off, and sat down, hoping it would dry quickly.
"I'm going to go find something to eat." Clark sped off, returning 15 minutes later with a pizza box.
"Ya!" A now dry Lana said, as Clark handed it to her. "Smells good."
"You like mushrooms, right?" Clark said, sitting down next to her, by the fire. "Ya." Lana said taking a bite out of pizza.
Clark pulled her into his embrace, as she sat between his spread out legs, her back resting against his chest, "What do you want to do this weekend?"
"I don't care." Lana said, enjoying the feel of Clark's arms around her, and the warmth of the fire and his body against hers.
"Since it's snowing... we could go skiing or something." Clark suggested.

"I've never been skiing, besides Smallville doesn't have any good mountains." Lana said.
"My dad owns cabins everywhere, we could go wherever, and I could teach you, I've been skiing since I was 5." Clark informed her.
"Alright, but I doubt my parents would let me go." Lana pointed out. "Why not?" Clark asked.
"Um... hello!" Lana teased, "You think they would let me go away with your for a weekend, in a cabin by ourselves?"
"Right..." Clark laughed at himself, "What do they think we are going to do?" Clark smiled.
"gee, I wonder." Lana said before Clark started kissing her. Clark slipped his tongue into her mouth, as he pushed her hair behind her shoulder, giving him access to her neck, and moved down, kissing her jaw line. Clark returned to her mouth, as he placed one hand on her thigh, gently rubbing it. Clark kissed her neck, long enough to leave a red mark before he wrapped an arm around Lana's back, as he rolled over, gently placing her against the floor, positioning his upper body on top of hers. Clark moaned into her mouth as one of his hands played with the bottom of her tank top, and the other moved to her hip. Clark kissed down her neck, lower and lower, until he started kissing down the small valley between her breasts, while one hand slipped under her tank top, caressing her stomach, before sliding up high enough to cup her right breast though her bra. He moved so he was almost completely on top of her, and started moving his hips against hers.
"Clark." Lana whispered, and when Clark continued, a little louder, "Clark." "Alright, I'm stopping." He removed his hand from under her shirt, simultaneously as his cell phone rang. Clark reluctantly moved off Lana and reached into his pocket, grabbing his phone and answering it, "Hello?"
Lana was thankful for the distraction, and she pulled her tank top back down all the way, and sat up. "Ya, I was kind of busy." Clark sounded annoyed. "Ya, so what... it doesn't even matter! Since when do you care? Ah..." Clark groaned, as Lana listened to the one sided conversation, "Are you serious? I've always done- no! That is so fucked up! I'll say whatever I want... you're not even here! How would you ground me? No! Don't come here! Whatever! I'm not going to... screw you!" Clark hung up the phone.
"What was that?" Lana asked. "My dad. He is all pissed off because I haven't been going to school." Clark said, "He is actually trying to ground me, and come here to make sure I don't go out."
Lana was a little surprised, for as long as she had known Clark, he could do whatever he wanted, as long as it wasn't a public scandal. She didn't know if he would be into drugs and alcohol, if it had any affect on him. Lionel never even seemed to be in Smallville, not lately. She could understand Lionel's point of view though, Clark had not been attending half his classes lately, and sometimes didn't come at all, but Clark had never been grounded before.
"He acts like it is such a big deal! Who cares! We both know I'm going to pass the grade no matter what. He is pissing me off so much." Clark complained.
Lana hated when Clark got like this, he got in these angry moods, usually set off when Lionel denied him something or enforced something Clark didn't like, and he acted as spoiled as he was.
"Clark, you are just grounded, it's not that big of a deal." Lana told him. "I don't care if he is just grounding me, it's stupid!" Clark said, pissed off.
Lana was glad to see Lionel actually setting some bounds for Clark, "Clark, this is exactly what I was talking about. You get really mad over little things, and you have to stop it." Lana said softly, rubbing his arm.
Clark sighed, "I know... I just..." Lana was glad he calmed down. This was happening more frequently, "Why does this bug you so much? Clark... I'm not trying to make you mad or take sides, but you know you keep skipping class." Lana wanted to see if he got angry before she said anymore.
"I don't know." Clark said frustrated. His elbows rested on his knees, and his hands were pulling his hair, "It's not how it is with us..."
Lana didn't think she would ever understand Clark and Lionel's relationship, not completely. It seemed to her like Lionel let Clark do whatever, as long as Clark opened up to him, confided in him. Lana didn't like Lionel, but she couldn't deny how much he loved Clark, "How are things with you guys?" Lana jumped at the opportunity for Clark to open up about his family relationships.
"I donno... he never gets mad at me... not for stuff I do in school or anything like that." Clark said, feeling stupid.
"Clark, it's normal." Lana smiled. "Not for us." Clark looked her straight in the eyes, "That's how he is with Lex." Lana thought she was beginning to see, "Clark, he isn't going to treat you like Lex." Even she could tell how horrible Lionel and Lex's relationship was.
"I don't know why he hates him so much... they never say anything, but I swear something happened... and he stopped loving him." Clark confessed his suspicions. "Clark, I'm sure your dad loves Lex-" "No, Lana. I seriously think he doesn't... my mom knew, too." Clark said almost to himself.
Lana was thrown off track a little bit. Clark had never, since the day she met him, said anything about his mother. All she knew was his Mother had died of cancer when Clark was 11, and she had never sensed it was a painful subject for him, so she never said anything, "Your mom knew what?"
"Nothing. I'm being stupid. Sorry I got pissed, Lana." Clark stood up. "No, Clark. It's not stupid... you need to talk about these things." Lana ushered him to sit back down.
"Lana, I don't need to talk about anything." Clark rolled his eyes. Lana sighed, he was obviously not going to open up.
"What's wrong?" Clark's eyes grew softer. Lana didn't know why, but she wanted Clark to trust her, open up to her about his past, which she knew so little about, "Why don't you ever talk about your mother?"
Lana saw pain flash in Clark's eyes and quickly fade, "She's dead. What's there to say?"
"Clark... you know what I mean... you must miss her." Lana took his hand in hers. Clark hesitated before answering, "Only for Lex."
"Huh?" Lana didn't understand. "Lex needs her, needs her to love him. I used to miss her. But now I don't miss her, not really." Clark confessed, realizing how cold hearted he must sound.
"Why not?" Lana couldn't help but ask. "She never loved me, she pretended to, so I wouldn't feel bad, but I always knew. I heard my share of my parents' fights. She thought I stood in the way of his relationship with Lex... and I guess it's true, but there was still something more. Well I can't blame her, not really. She never wanted me, not another child, especially a freak like me. But I loved her, because she treated me like her own son, even if she didn't love me that way." Clark finally let it out; to the one person he trusted most.
"Clark..." Lana never knew; she felt so bad for him. She instinctively hugged him, "I'm sorry."

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"Lana, where were you?" Jonathan asked.
"Clark's house." Lana said. "Lana, you are over there all the time, I don't like it." Jonathan hated the fact that she was now dating a Luther; he was doing everything in his power to fight the urge to forbid it. "Okay," Lana didn't know what else to say. "I'm serious; you need to cool it down. Stop spending everyday with him." Jonathan said.
"Okay." Lana said just to make her dad happy.

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"Ah! You came!" Lana teased Clark. "Miracles do happen." "You're so funny." Clark rolled his eyes, "My dad came back, so I was forced to come to school." Clark wrapped his arm around her waist as they walked down the hallway.
"I thought you'd be happy he came home." Lana thought of how much they fought while they were in different states.
"It has its ups and downs." Clark smiled, he was happy even with the circumstances he came home for.
"Are you still grounded?" Lana asked. "Nope. We made a deal, I can go where ever I want as long as I go to school, I'm grounded the first class I skip... And I feel like spending some time with my girlfriend." Clark smiled, as he leaned down and kissed her. Lana felt herself blushed as people stared at them. Of course, people were always staring at Clark but still...
"What'd you have in mind?" Lana smiled. Clark always had to be doing something. "We haven't been to a movie in a while, or we could go dancing." Clark said as they walked into the first class of the day, they had the same English class.
"Oh, I want to go dancing!" Lana found herself excited at his suggestion. "Alright then." Clark found her excitement infectious.
Clark and Lana took a seat next to each other in the back. Clark started kissing her neck, "Clark stop. Not in class."
"Class hasn't started yet." Clark chuckled. "Clark." Lana gave him a glare, and he stopped.

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"Have you found out were she went?" Lana asked Clark as they walked past
the torch, on the way to lunch. "Not yet. But I'll find her." Clark said. "I still can't believe her and her dad just left Smallville and didn't say anything to anyone." Lana said.
"Ya." Clark said coldly. Lana knew Clark didn't like talking about Chloe. He felt ashamed, like it made him weak, because he had trusted her and not right in doing so. Lana decided to change the subject,
"My dad told me to stop spending so much time with you." Lana relayed. "Doesn't surprise me; I thought he got over hating me though." Clark said with a tone Lana didn't like.
"And I thought you did too." Lana said. "I don't hate your dad... I just... you know what he did." Clark said.
"Clark, that isn't what happened. Lionel made that up." Lana defended her father. "My dad doesn't lie to me." Clark said defensively.
"Clark, I thought we agreed to drop this subject 2 weeks ago." Lana knew this was going no where except a fight.
"You're right." Clark said, kissing Lana on the cheek, "So I was thinking I could pick you up around 8 tonight."
"Okay, but I have to be home by curfew, my dad is just looking for a reason to ground me from seeing you." Lana said, putting her arm around Clark's waist, in the back, as she leaned on him, while they continued walking.

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"This is crazy; there must be 2 inches of ice on the road." Clark said, as she struggled to keep his Ferrari in the right lane.
"Clark, I think we should just go back. It's too dangerous." Lana said as Clark started to slide around the road.
"I think you're right." Clark said trying to pull off the road onto the shoulder, so he could turn around.
"Clark!" Lana said as the car began slipping towards the edge of road, dangerously close to the fence, the only thing between them and a 200 foot drop. It had been raining all day, with a little bit of thunder and lightning flaring up in the past 20 minutes.
"It's okay, I got it." Clark said getting the car under control. "It's so foggy... what is with this weather."
"I don't know. But be careful turning around." Lana was tensed up. "Don't worry, I'd save you Lana." Clark got a chuckle out of Lana, as she began to relax.
"Clark, look in front of us about 50 feet." Lana said. "Oh shit!" Clark said opening his door and getting out, once he spotted a car which had driven through the fence, the tip of it hanging over the ledge. Clark was sure the car was secure, but he had to see if anyone was hurt inside.
Lana got out of the car too, into the chilly air. "Clark what's wrong?" Lana asked looked over at Clark.
"There are meteor rocks around here." Clark could mildly feel their effects. "Clark, I think that is Todd's car!" Lana realized.
Todd was their only meteor infected friend. They had known him about 6 months, first meeting him through Chloe who had discovered his unique ability to see a person's future, if they continued on that same path, but it changed often. Todd could also see into the past. He was forced to reveal his abilities to Chloe as he brushed past her one day, his ability showed him Chloe was going to be caught up in a fire, and he had to warn her. Clark's heart sunk as he too realized it was his friend.
"I have to help him, Lana." Clark continued towards the car. "Clark, what about the meteor rocks?" Lana said concerned. "It's okay, I can stand them, long enough to get him out." Clark said 10 feet from Todd's car.
"Clark, I'll help you." Lana said. "No, look at that." Clark pointed to a gasoline leak.
"Clark..." Lana was so worried. "Stay away from the car, Lana. I don't want you near it incase it explodes." Clark said forcefully slowly stepping nearer to the car, the meteors' affect was stronger with each step.
"Clark." Lana stepped towards him, as she saw how weak he looked. "Get away from the car!" Clark yelled, and Lana stepped back, watching him, as he opened Todd's smashed in door. Todd fell out, with a deep gash above his head, unconscious.
Between the meteor rocks, the ice, and how suddenly Todd fell into him, Clark lost his balance, and Todd's lower body was hanging off the ledge. Clark felt so weak, and the smell of gasoline was increasing quickly. He knew he had to get himself and Todd out of there quick, but his body was so weak
Clark pulled Todd up by his arms, but weakness overtook him and Todd slipped back down the ledge another 2 feet, so only his arms and head were on ground. Clark was using all his strength just keeping Todd from falling, he didn't know how he was going to lift him up, and he was only getting weaker, and he found himself slipping on the ice, as he heard Lana scream out his name, "Stay back Lana!" He yelled as loud as he could.
Lana watched as Clark regained his balance. The thunder was so loud, Lana could barely hear him. It all happened so quick, Lana barely had time to register what happened.
A bolt of lighting struck Clark, as he cried out in pain, and hit part of the car, igniting the spilled gasoline, as the car exploded.
"CLARK!" Lana screamed.

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