TITLE: Double, Double, Love & Trouble? – Chapter 24

WRITTEN BY: Heather Ferguson (fergus80)

RATING: PG-13 (NC-17 where applicable will be separate)

SUMMARY: Rewrite from the end of the episode 'Unsafe.'

SPOILERS: Everything!

DISCLAIMER: All Smallville character belong to their respective whatever, the WB, etc. etc.

FEEDBACK: Always makes me smile:)

DEDICATION: To all the fellow Nuns, writers, reviewers, and readers at NWP, and of course Jensen!

RANT: Another short chapter. But can you say… a lot going on? ;)

His wrists, legs and neck were killing him. His head drooped forward, and his body pulled on the ropes that kept him in the chair. His eyes flew open at the sound of the door slamming. His eyes locked with hers, "What have you done?"

"Nothing yet." She walked over to the man, "I haven't found him yet."

Lionel gave a soft smile, "What, he's not returning your calls?"

Genevieve slapped him hard across his face. "Don't mock me. You do remember that you are tied up, and at my will?"

"If I remember right, that is how you liked it before."

Her hand stopped right before she hit him again, and she turned away. "I don't have time for your games. You are just trying to anger me."

He sighed, "You do realize that Jason does not have the stone." She looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "He might have had it, but he came after me and Lex, accusing us of stealing it from Lana. So, he doesn't have it. We don't have it. So either someone else took it, or…"

Her eyes widened, "She still has it."

Her hand reached out and touched the cold, hard surface. She felt like she had been there before, but couldn't remember how or why. Well, Lana had been there many times, but she felt like SHE had been there.

"Are you okay?"

She jumped at the question behind her, and gripped her purse more closely to her side. "Yeah… fine… just… I'm getting a weird feeling of déjà vu. Like… I've been here…" She stopped at realizing what she was saying, and from the strange look on his face. "I mean… I know I have been here, many times. But, it's like I've been here, and seen something, done something, that I can't remember."

He nodded, "Well of course. When you were possessed by Isobel. You don't remember what she did when she was controlling you. You ended up in these caves."

She nodded, her mind remembering that. And that was the problem, she didn't remember what happened in those caves as Isobel, as herself. But she knew, she could feel, that whatever happened was important. "Right," she agreed with him, and touched the wall again, her arm gripping her purse even tighter.

He pulled up to the barn, but he already knew the answer. Clark's truck was nowhere in sight. But he parked anyway, when he saw Lex walk out of the barn. Jason got out of the car, "So, I guess I'm not the only one looking for farm boy."

Lex walked over, "No, you're not. But can I ask why?"

"Lana's possessed again."

His eyes widened, "What? How do you know?"

"Let's just say, she is displaying very UN-Lana like qualities." He didn't go into it. Lex was on a need to know basis, and he didn't need to know everything. "And right now, she is with him. Or, should I say Isobel is with him."

"So both Clark and Lana are in danger now." Jason just nodded at Lex's statement. "Where would they go…" He started to ask, then both men said it together, "The caves."

They started back to their cars, "When we find them…" Jason started, "We can't let her know, that we know."

"Agreed." Lex got into his car.

Jason's cell phone rang as he got into his. He picked it up without thinking, "Yes?" He settled into the seat, and put the key in the ignition.

"Darling, why haven't you returned my calls?"

He rolled his eyes at the sound of his mother on the other end. "I've been busy." He ground out, as he started up the car, following Lex out of the farm.

"Too busy to talk to your own mother?"

"What do you want?"

"I want you safe."

"Safe?" He almost laughed.

"I don't trust her son. Lana…"

This had to end. It all had to end once and for all. "Fine. Stop. You want your precious stones?" He could hear the intake of breath over the phone. "Then come get them."

"What?"

"The Kawatche caves. You'll find them there. Now leave me alone." He said and hung up the phone. He threw the cell into the passenger seat, as his car got onto the main road. His mind raced as he gunned the engine trying to keep up with Lex. Everything was going to end now. He just hoped he could keep some control over the situation.

Her fingers tips traveled along the wall, and her eyes meet the same symbol that was on her back. Her eyes closed, and pictures seemed to snap behind her lids. A stone table. A hole in the cave wall. Her and two others around the… stone. Her eyes opened wide. It was here. The first stone was here. She clutched her purse tighter, she knew were two of them were. She just needed the last one.

"Lana…" He reached out for her shoulder, "ARE you okay?"

"I'm doing much better," she smiled at him.

She looked at her phone, still in shock over what she had been told. She calmly turned off her phone and walked over to the bookcase. Removing a few books.

Lionel watched her, "What did he say?"

She turned the knob around and around, stopping at the numbers here and there. She then opened the safe. Her hand reached in and brought out the third stone. She walked back over to her purse, placed it securely inside. She looked over at Lionel with a smile. "We have somewhere to go."

"We?"

She nodded with a wicked smile then screamed for her henchman, "Henry!" She looked back over at Lionel, "You're my insurance." Even though Jason was her son, she didn't trust him as much as he didn't trust her. But the possibility that he was telling the truth was just too much to pass up.

To be continued.

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