Smallville
Diverse
Induction
The school bells rings for Christopher's first day at High school, but where is Christopher? Being a Luthor goes to your head, the power makes you feel like you are above every body else and that the rules do not apply to you, in this case Christopher decided to sleep in that extra hour making him that hour late for school.
Lex's silver Porche pulls up out side the school gates, and Christopher jumps out of the passenger seat wearing his leather jacket his torn style jeans and his black buttoned up shirt.
"Cheers for the lift bro" he says to Lex as he jumps out,
"Next time get up on time, your lucky I didn't have any meetings this morning" Lex lectured him, "and I'm sure your teachers wont be too please with your tardiness"
"Lighten up bro, were Luthors we can do what we want" Christopher said putting a smile on his face before running through the school doors,
"Just 'cause we're Luthors doesn't mean we can… oh he's gone" he said turning the key in his ignition and driving away.
Christopher walked down the empty hall ways, he didn't know where to go, it was his first day here so he knew nothing about the school or where to go, maybe if he had gotten there earlier he would have gotten an escort to show him, but a Luthor doesn't need an escort, Luthors are independent. Christopher turned the corner and ran into a hall monitor, she was short with long straight flat hair that drooped down her cheeks and hung over her body as she slightly hunched her back, she wore glasses and had serious acne on her long stern looking face,
"Can I see your pass" she said, Christopher broke out a small snigger,
"You don't need to see my pass" he said tapping her on the shoulder and walking passed her,
"Every one who is out of class during class time needs to have a hall pass" she said with the up most authority, Christopher turned,
"I'm not every one" he said with his spoilt attitude, "tell you what, you tell me how to get to student services and I won't have your hall monitor's sash stripped from you"
"Excuse me? Can I have your name please? so I can fill in this detention slip" she said whipping out her slip book, Christopher walked up her and stood behind her, he leant in to her ear and said,
"Christopher Luthor" he whispered she began to write and then her eyes widened with a look of fear, "if you can't spell Luthor is L-U-T-H-O-R, that's O-R not E-R which is a common mistake" he said patronisingly,
"Student services is just down the hall, turn left" she said tearing the slip from her book and ripping it up,
"Thank you" Christopher said walking off.
At the Luthor mansion Lex was going over some paper work with a worried look on his face. Lionel walked in unexpectedly,
"What's the matter son?" he said without a hello,
"Dad, did you have something to do with this?" he asked,
"Did I have something to do with what?" Lionel said with an innocent tone,
"The test soil you provided for Fertiliser Plant No. 3 is not good enough to fertilise the crop" Lex said flashing the files in Lionel's face,
"Son I did not provide you with the soil you have, that came with the territory, it's up to the owner to upgrade any mishaps that could occur while he is in power"
"But you knew about this?" Lex accused
"Oh no, Lex, when I bought the Kent Farm I just had the buildings erected, all the inspections and fine tuning was your responsibility, a good businessman makes sure he ties up all the loose ends before he starts the work" Lionel walked over to the whisky table and poured a glass,
"So what am I supposed to do? If I replace all the soil its going to cost thousands and lets not mention the time its going to take to get it shipped over" Lex said dropping the paper work on his desk,
"Lex" Lionel drank the glass of whisky "I can't tell you what to do, you have to solve your own problems, and sooner or later we have to make sacrifices" he said walking towards the door, Lex thought as if he had realised something, Lionel smiled his self achieved and walked out of the door.
Christopher was waiting in the Student services until the end of classes because that's when he was told to wait until. When classes finished he could certainly tell; the halls began to fill with high school students and the noise of student talk, gossip, insults and jokes.
"Christopher Luthor" the student services assistant shouted, Christopher rose to his feet and walked to the desk,
"Yes" he said with a smile on his face,
"We have sorted you out with an escort for the day" she said introducing him to a short young girl with long brown hair that fell beautifully from the top of her head to the bottom of her shoulder blades, her eyes, brown and hypnotic with a sweet sense of innocence, she wore sensible school clothes and a distinctive green necklace around her neck, Christopher starred and smiled, all of a sudden he felt powerless, "Christopher this is Lana Lang" she said introducing them, Lana held out her hand,
"Hi" she said with a cheery tone,
"Hi" Christopher said with a high pitched tone as he shook her hand, he began to feel a little weird, it was like butterflies in his stomach, only these butter flies must have been having a wrestling match.
"Well we batter get to trig class, wouldn't wanna be late" Lana said
"Nope, never want to be late again" Christopher said straining his words, Lana walked ahead and Christopher followed, feeling a little better the further away she walked.
After trigonometry class the halls began to fill with students again, Lana and Christopher walked out of trig class,
"Chris, are you ok?" Lana asked him, "I can call you Chris right?"
"Yea you can, and I'll be fine, just feeling a little weak" Chris said leaning against the wall. Out of the crowds of students a tall young man with blonde curtained hair wearing a Smallville High jacket grabbed Lana by the hips from behind, Lana smiled and turned around,
"Whitney" she giggled, Whitney gave her a kiss on the cheek,
"Hey, you coming to watch the tryouts" Whitney asked her,
"I'll be there with my pom-poms" she smiled, "oh but I may be a little late, I'm showing Christopher around it's his first day" Whitney looked at Christopher and gave him a glare then held out his hand,
"I'm Whitney Fordman, captain of the football team, Lana's boy friend" he clearly stated, some body shouted Lana's name from across the hall and Lana waved and walked across to where the voice came from,
"One moment" she said before walking off, suddenly Christopher began to feel better; he stood up and shook Whitney's hand,
"Christopher Luthor" he spoke proud of his name,
"As in the Luthor-corp Luthors?" Whitney asked,
"The very same" Christopher boasted
"Hey your dad owns the metropolis sharks right?"
"Yea, they've been having a good season, I've been to every home game, and every after party" Christopher smiled a cocky smile. Whitney knew that if he developed a friendship with Christopher then he could have a better chance of gaining a scholarship for Met U,
"You coming to try out for the football team, watching all those Met. Sharks games must have given you a few pointers, what do you say" Whitney asked, Christopher thought for a second, he looked over at Lana who was just saying good bye to her friend so she would be back any second,
"Yea, sure why not" Christopher replied, then Lana returned,
"What I miss?" Lana asked on her return,
"I just persuaded, Christopher here to tryout for the football team" Whitney said, "however I gotta run, coach frowns upon tardiness, I'll see you later, hey Chris you feeling ok?" he said looking at Christopher who was back in weak mode,
"yea, I'll be fine" Christopher replied once again straining his words,
"Ok, well hope you feel better before tryouts" he gave Lana a kiss on the cheek, "I'll see you later".
"Yea we better get moving too we gotta get to gym class" Lana said walking forward, Christopher followed once again.
In gym class Christopher was set to go off by him self, Smallville high splits up the boys and the girls for gym, probably to discourage flirting and consistent wolf whistling while the guys run the field and the girls climb ropes. Christopher got changed into his Smallville high gym gear, and joined the other guys at the starting post for the track run.
"Ok!" the track teacher called, "for the first race I want Kessington, Jameson, Luthor, Ross and Fordman, get to your marks!" Christopher stood on his mark right between Whitney and Pete Ross, Whitney turned to Christopher
"Ok Chris lets see what you got" he said egging him on, Christopher rubbed his hands together accepting the challenge,
"OK! On your marks!" every one walked up to their marks, "Get set!" the racers got into there starting positions, "…….GO!" and they were off, Whitney was ahead from the beginning, being quarter back of the football team he had to be fast and fit, Whitney was closely followed by Kessington and Jameson, and behind them was Christopher with Pete Ross trying to keep on his tail. Coming round the first bend the race statistics were the same, but coming into the home straight things began to turn around, Christopher shot out from the fourth position and ran straight through third and second now he was in second place, with on a couple of yards to go, he quickly over took Whitney and shot past the finish line looking like he hadn't even broken out a sweat all the others were panting as they crossed the finish line, Whitney approached Christopher and put his hand on his shoulder using him as a leaning post,
"You got good pace I'll give you that" he said panting between his words. Pete, after running the race, met up with a girl on the side lines, she was medium height with short blonde hair, she had a big smile that went from cheek to cheek, she was holding a pad and paper and had a camera around her neck, obviously a reporter for the school newspaper,
"I'll tell you what Chloe I aint ever seen any one run that fast" Pete said out of breath,
"Me neither" she said taking pictures
"Think its worthy of the Wall of Weird?" Pete said with a suspicious mind,
"Nah, for all we know he could just have good pacing skills, but you could keep an eye out, in case any thing else strange happens I mean" Chloe said
"You got it" Pete agreed.
After gym Pete was the last in the lockers to get changed, or so he thought, he heard a noise come from in the showers, thinking he was the only one left in the locker rooms he went to investigate,
"Hello?" he called, But no one answered, he heard another noise how ever this time it came from behind him, the noise sounded like something shaking, Pete turned around to see Craig Kessington sat on the locker room bench soaking wet looking scared, "Craig? Hey man you ok?"
"Ross, you gotta help me, its getting out of control" he muttered, Pete didn't know what he was talking about,
"Craig what's going on?" he asked
"I, I don't know what's…" before he could finish his sentence his body began to vibrate and he seemed to disintegrate into a thousand pieces, Pete was shocked, he ran out of the locker room and shouted, "HELP!" but no one answered, he ran down the hall and bumped into Christopher, who grabbed him to slow him down
"Hey, Pete, right? What's wrong?" he asked him seeing the scared look on Pete's face,
"He just, he just disintegrated" Pete stuttered, Christopher was confused
"Who did?" he asked with a tone that made him sound like he didn't believe him
"Kessington!" he said, Christopher laughed, and let go of him,
"Your crazy" he laughed more, and walked away, on his way to the locker room to gear up for football try outs.