TITLE: Double, Double, Love & Trouble? – Chapter 27

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: I swear. This thing just won't END! Oh well… I guess you guys are just going to have to continue on the ride with me. ;)

She could hear her name being called, but she struggled against it. She wanted to stay with her dream. Her dream was nice and happy. Reality was not. "Lana." It came again, and once more. "Lana… wake up."

She groaned, "What?" she finally asked and opened her eyes. Her head slowly rose from the firm chest under her, to meet the eyes of Chloe.

"You need to get out of here." She saw her friend about to object and continued with a wave of her hand, "Just for a little bit. Get something to eat. Stretch your legs."

She looked at Jason, and then back to Chloe, "What if he wakes up?"

She pulled Lana out of the chair. "They know where you will be, they'll find you. He'll understand. But you need to take care of yourself too. He would want you too. You've been here all night."

Lana sighed, as she was being dragged out of the room, "But he can't be alone."

"Don't worry Miss Lang, he won't be." Came the reply at the door.

Lana looked up, "Lionel? What are you doing here?"

Chloe looked from him back to her friend, "Lionel's been in the waiting room all night. He actually volunteered to wait with Jason while we get something nutritional into you."

"Oh kay…" Lana said and left through the door with a few backwards glances at the room. She watched the older man walk inside and take a seat by the bed. His mouth moving as if talking to the still form laying there. She turned back to Chloe, "Now that… that is strange."

Chloe nodded, "Tell me about it." They started to walk towards the cafeteria. "Lex was here as well. On the pay phone for most of the night. Talking to people. Having the cave checked out. Looking for Clark." She paused.

Lana stopped, and turned to her in the middle of the hallway. "Clark? He hasn't shown up yet?" Chloe shook her head. Lana was in shock. He usually turned up after something happened, relatively soon. She realized she hadn't even thought of Clark until just that second. "I'm sorry… I've been…"

Chloe patted her shoulder, "Lana, you've been preoccupied, don't feel bad. Lois is looking into it, trying to help Lex find him. Find out what happened down there." They continued walking and entered the dining hall. They each took a tray, and in a daze Lana seemed to get some food and drink and make her way to a table. The blonde sat down across from her. "Do you remember anything that happened down there? Anything after Lex and Lionel got knocked out?"

Her brain tried to remember, but it was all so hazy. "Yes. No. I'm not sure." She admitted as she took a bite of her scrambled eggs. She looked up at her, "What do you know?"

"Lex and Lionel told me and Lois what they knew. And they told the police what they needed to know for Genevieve." Lana looked down at that name. She wondered how that would affect Jason once he woke up. She wasn't entirely sure if he knew his mother was dead or not. An image of her shooting a gun at the two of them flashed through her mind and she jumped. Chloe immediately reached out her hand for hers, "Are you okay?"

"Flashback," she replied, "I keep getting them."

"Understandable."

"She's gone you know."

"Who is? Genevieve?"

Lana shook her head, "No. Well, yes. But… I meant… Isobel. She's gone."

Chloe nodded, "We know. Lex told us. I'm very glad to hear that." She watched the other girl poke at her food with her fork. "Let me guess. You're not hungry."

"You guess right. My brain… It can only think about two things. Jason, and what the hell happened down there."

"Well, until Clark either comes back, or Jason wakes up. All we are going to have is questions."

She sighed, "And that is if they can even answer them." But she wondered if they could, would they?

The two girls returned to the room to only catch the tail end of the conversation that was totally one sided. "A father would be very proud of what you did."

"I'm sure he will be," Lana said as she walked into the room.

Lionel stood up immediately, "Miss Lang. Miss Sullivan. You weren't gone that long."

"Wasn't that hungry." She admitted, and he nodded in understanding. "How is he?" she motioned at Jason as she walked over to him, and Lionel moved out of her way. She took his hand back into hers.

"Same."

She sat down, and let out a small sigh. "Did the doctors or nurses…"

"They haven't been in yet. Rounds will be soon." She nodded at his response. "I'll be out with Lex." He said and walked out of the room.

Chloe watched him go, and then turned back to Lana, "Very strange."

"You know… we should probably contact Jason's father. But I'm not sure how. I only know he's some big time lawyer in a Metropolis law firm."

"I'm on it." Chloe said and turned on her heal and headed out the door.

Lana gave a soft smile to the fleeting girl and then turned her attention back to the man lying in the bed. "Now what are we going to do with you?" she asked, not really expecting an answer, and was not surprised when she didn't get one.

Chloe looked at the phone in her hand in absolute shock. "You have to be kidding me." She said to no one in particular.

"What?" asked Lois walking over to her at the pay phone in the waiting area.

"He's not coming." She blinked and looked up at the other woman.

"Who's not coming?" Lex asked walking over as well.

All three of them turned around at the voice sitting on the other side of the room. "William Henry Teague."

"How did you know?"

Lionel leaned back in his chair and answered the girl, "Quite easy Miss Sullivan. Bill Teague could care less about Jason or his mother for that matter."

"But… Jason is his son." Lois stated.

"Jason stopped being his son when he cut him off. Cut them both off from the family a couple years ago."

Lex gave his father a hard look, "Why did he cut them off?"

"Genevieve was the culprit. Exactly why was never confirmed."

Chloe shook her head, it didn't make much sense. "But, why cut off his son? From what I know, Jason and his mother didn't get along."

Lionel sat up and rested his elbows on his knees, "Oh, they don't. Or they didn't, now that she's dead. She was always trying to control his life."

"You seem to know a lot about Jason, Mr. Luthor," Lois pointed out.

He sat up straight, "The rich and powerful are a very close, tight knit, back stabbing bunch. Gossip is very easy to come by Miss Lane."

Chloe sighed and she looked to Lois, "What are we going to tell Lana? Jason's basically an orphan. I doubt his student insurance is going to pay for all this. And unless his mother left him everything in her will…"

"There will be no worries. I'm sure Lex and I will arrange the finances, given everything that occurred."

"Mr. Luthor. Not that they won't be grateful, or that we aren't. But why are you… why are you…" Lois wasn't sure what to ask.

"Why are you so concerned about Jason Teague?" Lex finished for her. "What is this preoccupation you have with him? Have had with him. You gave him that map. You helped him go to China…" He walked over to the older man, "What is going on?"

Lionel looked up at his son, and then through the doorway towards the other room that housed his other one. He closed his eyes, "It's not something I'm very proud of Lex. Even though I am proud of the outcome."

Lex followed the eyes of his father, and then back… "Dad…"

"There is a very good reason that Bill Teague cut Jason and Genevieve off from the family. The very reason he won't visit Jason. He doesn't need to." He closed his eyes, "Jason's father is already here."

"Why didn't you tell me," Lex ground out at the realization.

"No one was supposed to know. That's how she wanted it."

"Then how did he find out?" Chloe asked, her reporter's skills coming into play.

"Seems Jason got hurt playing football awhile ago, and while in the hospital… Let's just say, the blood work just didn't match."

"So Jason knows…"

Lionel shook his head, "No. Jason has no clue."

Lois shook her head, "Oh boy is he going to have a lot to go through when and if he wakes up."

"When, Miss Lane. When." He stood up, "Luthor men do not give up without a fight."

"I have to get out of here," Lex said and quickly exited the room.

"Lex! Wait!" Lionel shouted after him, but let him go. He turned to the two girls, "Genevieve kept me from being a father to Jason for a long time. Now that she is gone. I'll be there for him. Just like I will be for Lex. That is, if either of them can come to terms with it."

The girls were at a loss for words. The only thing that Chloe could think of right the was what Lana would think when she found out that she was in love with a Luthor.

To be continued.

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