(A/n: Clark works at the Daily Planet as an intern, he is basically coffee boy, runs errands and help when needed. After college, he will get a small position the Planet while Lana will be top reported. They have 1 semester left. Clearing some things up)

Chapter 12: System of things.

He sat up, and looked her into her eyes. "Right now it doesn't matter. Let's just deal with one issue at a time, and that's to protect you from Jason."

Lana nodded and let the topic of his secrets rest…for now. Lana knew that if they planned to commit into a long-term relationship then, she would have to know. She would demand to know How bad could it be? She said to herself respecting Clark's subliminal message to drop it. "I can't believe you sat there and watched almost 4 lifetime movies!"

Clark shrugged and blushed a bit. "Well…" He said.

"At least you won't have Jeff and Kerry to rag you on it, because they were watching them too." Lana giggled. "Who would of thought Mr. Macho man Kerry and Player the Playboy Jeff would be watching Lifetime original movies." Lana continued to laugh and Clark joined in briefly, then stopped to yawn. Lana looked at him curiously. "Tired babe?"

He looked wearily at her. "Yeah. I think all that Lifetime wore me out."

"Aww. Television for women to much for you, huh?"

"Umm hmm. Never again I swear." He said and nodded childishly. She smiled and began to play with his hair. "How about we change into some night clothes and snuggle up?" She suggested and Clark smiled brightly. "Ok."

He quick hopped out of bed and allowed his back to face her, then Clark shed his clothes and remained in his boxers alone. With a sheepish grin and jumped into bed. He looked up to her. "Aren't you gonna change?"

Lana was dazed. "Huh…Oh, yeah, yeah I am. I just kind of zoned out for a second." And when straight into Clarkland. She said to herself, as his back faced her she couldn't help but notice his strong and powerful back. When he turned towards her, his chest and abs were amazingly defined and sexy, rippling before her. She was in Clarkland all right, seeing him like that made her wonder about other things she couldn't see, things that could not be shared in a PG-13 story.

Lana got up and went to her bags in the corner next to his computer desk. She rampaged through it until she found something to wear.

"You know if you want, I can clear out a draw and some space in my closet for you to put your things." He said as he concealed himself with the blanket.

"Can you? That would be great, I could barely find underwear this morning." She chuckled. "Close your eyes."

"What?"

"Close your eyes so that I can't changed."

"Oh." He closed his eyes but kept his head in her direction.

"Are you peaking?"

"No."

"Cover your eyes." She ordered, still not trusting his word. Lana didn't know why she was making such a big deal out of it, but at the moment she didn't feel so beautiful. Her hair was probably a mess and her face probably had tear residue from her episode earlier on. He obeyed and covered his eyes with both of his hands. "Is this better."

"Much." She turned her back towards him and began to change her clothes.

Moments passed. "Can I look now?"

"Yep." He uncovered his eyes and looked up to see her standing in front of hi. She wore a light pink nightie with the pink power ranger from Mighty Morphing on the front. He chuckled. "Is that what you sleep in?"

"Yeah, it is. Why, you don't like it?" She asked, feeling a little offending by him laughing.

"No, no it's cute." He quickly pulled her in with him.

"Ahh. Clark!" She wined and landing half way on top of him.

"So you never really answered my question, are you ready for school tomorrow?"

"No, but I'm glad you will be with me for Journalism, and Computer tech. It's only for this semester, so…"

"Everything will work out fine." He kissed on her forehead and took lamp next to him. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight." She snuggled up to him and soon they both fell asleep.

Morning came and everyone in the apartment got up bright and early being as how they all had morning classes. They all took showers and prepared themselves for school.

Clark was in the kitchen leaned up against the small counter eating cereal. Kerry walked into the kitchen and fixed himself a bowl.

"Ready for school? I bet you are, you are some type of genius or something."

Clark shrugged. "Are you?" he asked between bites.

"Hell no! I still want party, I had hella fun this spring bring. Definitely tops last year!"

Clark nodded then silence struck them briefly. "Why was Lana so freaked last night? It was only a movie." Kerry asked in a low tone, afraid of Lana hearing him.

Clark looked at him, not sure if he should tell her.

Kerry could not tell whether his expression was positive or negative so he laughed. "Chicks. They cry over everything." Clark smiled weakly.

"So how long is she stay here, it's been like 2 days now. Can't leave you alone can she?"

Clark disregarded his last comment. "She got kicked out of her dorm. She doesn't have a place to stay, so she is staying with me."

"WHAT! Why didn't you tell me? I am your ROOMMATE!"

"Sorry Kerry, I guess I forgot to mention it. She has been going under a lot of stress lately so, I didn't have time to tell you. Plus I was showing her all around Campus yesterday, so…"

"Clark, you could have mentioned it yesterday when we were watching TV. You could have said 'Pizza's great, by the way Lana's moved in.'"

Clark nodded, for the first time Kerry was right. "Sorry man, but honestly I didn't think you would care."

"I don't…but she gets in the way of us guys hanging out. Now with her living here, we will never hang out. Jeff and I miss you as it is." Kerry said honestly with almost a twinge of sorrow in his eyes.

"We still hang out, and we still will. It's just sometimes it will be the guys and Lana."

"Exactly. Ever since we introduced her to you, Jeff and I took a backseat."

He turned and put his now empty bowl in the sink. "I'm sorry. We will hang out sometime, just the three of us."

Kerry smiled. "Cool!"

Lana appeared out of the bedroom fully dressed, in a pair of blue Levi jeans and a black blouse. Her hair was down and her make up was lightly applied though her make up was a prominent red. "Good Morning guys." She gave them her official good morning, earlier it was just a nod and a groan.

"Morning Lana. I'm out." Kerry quickly slurped up the rest of his cereal and bolted out the door.

"Morning, sweetheart. You look quite happy considering the circumstances." She walked up to him and wrapped her arms around his waist.

"I decided to make the best of this, not to dwell."

"That's good to hear. You look very beautiful today, beautiful everyday but more so today."

"Thanks, I really want to make a good first impression."

"Yeah, that's always the best thing to do. You're likely to get away with stuff."

She nodded. "Are you working today?"

"Yeah, I actually work from like 3 to 9 today. Tomorrow I work from 7 am to 1."

"What I'm I gonna do when you are not here?"

"Well, you could go to the library, the café, or just chill right here. Maybe you could call Chloe over…she has to bring your car anyway?"

"Yeah, I guess so. But Mitch is gonna be on my ass."

"Hey, only I get to be on your ass." Clark said matter-of-factly but eventually laughed along with Lana.

"Come on, let's go. I'll pick you up some breakfast on the way." Clark picked up his book bag and opened the door for her.

"Ok, Mr. On my ass." Lana said sarcastically before gather her books and walking out the door Clark held for her.

"Morning." Said Mitch who was standing right next to the door. Lana jumped by the sudden voice and she grabbed her chest. "You almost gave me a heart attack! Good morning!" Damn

Clark looked over at Lana to see if she was ok then spoke. "Good morning. We are just going to class."

"I know, I have your schedule." Mitch turned to Lana. "Meet me outside of your Computer Tech. Class. I will be there to escort you for the rest of the day."

Lana gave him a small nodded and walked down the hallway.

"Take care of her." Mitch said demandingly. Clark nodded and hurried after her.

(A/n: Jason went back to Paris)

It was 11: 00 at night, the only travel agency in Paris that closed at 11:30. A young woman no older than 32, sat at her desk bored stiff. At times she would find herself dosing off but since it was close to closing time she managed to keep herself awake. She sighed. "I hate this job." She said to herself in French. She looked over at the clock and saw she only had 15 minutes to go before she could close up and punch out.

Jason walked up to the agency and was immediately sent into 2 stages below rage when he saw a wanted picture of himself. Although he could take the form of anyone, it still peeved him to be on a wanted poster.

He quickly snatched the sign off of the wall and walked into the travel agency.

Oh great She said to herself before putting a phony smile. "Just in time, how can I help you officer?" (Everything is in French)

Jason smiled at her; she was attractive but never as beautiful as Lana in his eyes, no one was. "You have a wonderful smile."

The young lady quickly became uncomfortable, she knew he was a officer of the law but something about him rubbed her the wrong way. "Thank you, officer."

"Please call me Tim." He smiled again and licked his lips slowly causing her to shiver.

She took a deep breath. "How can I help you?"

"I need to find out if a Lana Lang left the country? Can you do that?"

"Umm. Yeah I guess so. I can put her name in the database and see what pops up."

"Good."

"Why, are you on a case or something?" She asked curiously.

"Yeah, a big case some wacko named Jason is after her." he kept a serious face. "She needs some protection from this guy, to do that we have to find her."

"Oh yes, there is a wanted picture of him outside."

"I saw." He took a seat across from her desk and stared at her. "Aren't you gonna check?"

"Oh." She turned to her computer and opened up the search system, then typed in Lana Lang. The loading bar came up. "Just a few seconds."

He nodded. Yes! Almost there.

"Got it! It says Lana Lang: Departure from Paris at 8:35 am Arrival in Kansas airport at 5: 45 pm. That's it!"

She gave him the are-you-satisfied-look and he smirked.

"Merci, Mademoiselle."

She nodded. "Why don't you just get American police to hand it?"

"Well he is French escaper."

"But I'm sure if he does any damage in the US it would be their responsibility. Right?"

"Wrong! Goodbye."

She shrugged. Whatever, now get out so that I can leave

With a pleased smile he did just that. Too easy he said to himself as he walked out of the agency. "Next stop, Kansas."

After Lana got her bagel and cappuccino from the campus café. Clark and Lana walked hand in hand to their first Class Journalism. Suddenly nerves began to over take her as she got closer and closer to the large classroom. Clark looked down her and realized her nervousness off the bat, she was very quiet and her gaze looked distant. "Are you ok?"

Lana heard his voice echo through her ear and she snapped out of her thoughts. "Huh? I'm sorry I was kind of out of it." He nodded. "I can see that. It's ok, I'm sure this class is no different than the one you had."

"I know." She sighed. "I don't know why I'm so nervous. I guess I'm not the one for change." She turned away from Clark and tried to go back to her last thought. They finally got into the classroom and about 5 people were already seated.

"We are early." Clark announced. He released her hand and walked up to the professor with Lana not too far behind. "Dr. Kinrich, you have a new student." He tapped the older man on the shoulder and he turned to face them. He had blue eyes, grayish blond hair and he was a lot shorter than Clark was.

"Yes, I got the note." He eyed Lana up and down. "Are you Stephanie Hudson?"

"Ummm. Yes sir." He smiled and extended his hand towards her and she shook it. "I read some of your articles, your transfer paper had some of your best work. I must say that I'm a fan, I'm not sure if I can teach you any more than you already know…unlike young Clark here, who has a lot to learn." Kinrich smiled at them.

"Thank you sir, I'm sure that there is abundance of things that you can teach me."

Kinrich nodded. "Great, why don't you two take a seat. Class will start in a few minutes."

They turned to face the class and Clark pointed out two seats a few rows back adjacent to each other. "How about there?" Lana nodded and they took a seat.

"He is nice." She whispered.

"Yeah, but he works the hell out of us though." Clark whispered back…minutes passed and the classroom began to fill with students. Lana couldn't help but feel the stare of others upon her, she looked to her left and saw a guy staring directly at her. The guy winked and blew a kiss at her, in disgust Lana quickly turned away. "What's the matter?" Clark asked in a low tone.

"That guy is creeping me out."

Clark looked over and saw him still staring at her. "Because he is staring."

"Yes and because he blew a kiss at me." She cringed as a cold shiver ran down her back. Eww!

Clark clenched his jaw and stared coldly at the brown hair creep who sat seats away from them. Clark wanted to jump out of his hair and punch his lights out, instead he glared at him coldly sending him the message. The creepy guy quickly looked away, not daring to look at Clark or Lana any longer. Clark smiled and possessively wrapped his arm around her.

"Ok, Clark. Now that's Spring Breaks over we can get back to work!" Dr. Kinrich announced happily. "We have biographies to read, people to interview, papers to write and of course what you all have been waiting for the Final!"

Everyone groaned loudly. "Don't sound so enthusiastic." Dr. Kinrich said sarcastically.

"So what did you think about class?" Clark asked Lana as they exited the classroom and began to walk down the crowded halls.

"It was great! Dr. Kinrich is a great professor, a lot better than my other one."

"See everything went well and you were worried." He smiled. Lana attempted to reply to Clark's comment but a very plastic girl approached them.

"Candy. (The girl from the Clark's b-day party.) What are you doing here?" Clark asked.

"Seeing you sweetheart." She smiled and ran her free hand down his chest. "Want to come over to my place?"

Clark smiled uncomfortably, while Lana stood back to see how he was going to handle her. "Umm. My GIRLFRIEND, who I LOVE very much and I have to get to class. Sorry."

Ha, what now bitch? Lana waved her goodbye, Candy pouted and strutted way, making sure to expose her cleavage even more as she passed by Clark. Though, Clark did spare her a quick glance.

"Sorry about that, she is kind of weird."

"It's ok, but does girls always come up to you like that."

Clark shrugged. "Not that much, only sometimes. But my freshman and sophomore year they wouldn't leave me alone." He shook his head. Annoying

"Clark Kent the stud." She teased but in her mind she knew it was no joke. Clark was a stud, he just didn't know it. Clark was great catch and she was glad she was the one who caught him.

"Our Computer Tech class starts in 4 minutes. Let's go."

They got to the next class and everything was pretty much the same except with computers. Clark introduced her to the teacher and they found a seat next to seat other. Another guy was give Lana looks and Clark once again had to ward him off. Eventually class was over and Clark found a place for them to sit under a tree.

"What time is your next class?" Clark asked.

"12 o'clock. I got 20 minutes left before I head back to the Tech room." She leaned back against him.

"I leave for work at 3 so, I will be able to see you before I leave, right?"

"Yeah, we will have about 1 hour and 30 minutes together." She smiled happily. "I'm gonna miss you."

"I'm gonna miss you too princess." He lowered his head and kissed her on top of hers. Lana watched as the crowds of people walked by her, some on foot, skateboards, blades and even bikes passing by. She tried to take in as much of them as she could so that she could get familiar with their faces.

"Lana?"

"Yeah."

"Can I kiss you?" Clark said softly almost afraid to speak. She smiled and readjusted herself so that she could face him. "You can be so shy sometimes." Lana sat sideways on his lap and looked up at him. "Sure you can kiss me, you should never have to ask." Clark lowered his head to her and met her lips with a soft kiss. He kissed and sucked her lips but eventually he wanted the feel of her pink wet tongue. Slowly she allowed him into her mouth to ravish and massive everything inside. She moaned from the passion he was give her and grabbed on his head. Clark picked her up and allowed her to straddle him, he moved to her neck and continued to kiss her as she panted and moaned from his tongue's touch. "Clark, that's my spot." She whispered. He moaned to show his acknowledgement and kissed and sucked her spot harder.

Lana moaned louder and began to nibble and suck on his ear.

A couple of girls walked by them. "Get a room." One said, but they were too busy to hear. Clark heard but chose to ignore her.

"Isn't that Clark Kent?" One of the girls pointed out.

"Oh My Gosh, it is! I guess he is not gay after all."

One of the girls smiled. "Unless she is really a guy."

"Come on, no guy looks that hot." They all giggled and walked away.

Chapter 12: System of things part 2

Clark and Lana continued to kiss minutes on end. With each kiss Clark grew hungrier for more while Lana tried her hardest to appease that hunger. At the back of her mind, Lana was shocked that the campus police didn't stop them, luckily they didn't so she continued on with their hefty make out session. The time flew by quickly and Lana managed to get a glimpse of her watch. She groaned time to go she said to herself.

Before she could speak Clark went back to her neck and hit her spot once more causing her to lose her train of thought. "Mmm, Clark that's so…" Why I'm I doing? She scolded herself. "Clark I got to…" He slowly trailed back up to her lips and kissed her mouth.

"You got to what?" he whispered as their lips touched.

"Go." Clark stopped kissing her and looked up; his beautiful green eyes met her sandy brown ones. From the look he gave her, Lana knew that he was let down by the fact that she had to leave. Before she knew it Lana felt Clark pick her up and place sideways on his lap. He sighed. "What time is it?"

"Time for me to go."

He nodded and reflected on what happened between them a few minutes ago. Never in his life did he share passion for anyone like that before, especially in public. Clark looked up and saw people walking by, he quickly turned shades of red.

"What?" Lana asked.

"I can't believe we just did that in public."

Lana shrugged. "Yeah, what I can't believe is that we didn't get caught."

"Good thing, otherwise that would have been embarrassing." He chuckled lightly then paused. "Maybe, after class we can continue at the dorm. It's definitely more private." Lana tried her hardest to contain her smile and answered nonchalantly. "What ever you want big boy."

Clark smiled and held her tightly before standing them both up. "I'll take you back to the tech room."

Airport:

Jason stood in the men's bathroom patiently waiting for any American tourist to appear. He looked at each person as they walked by and finally he spotted someone that looked like an average American male. Blue eyes, blond hair, business suit, brief case and a very American swagger about him. Jason still in the form of Policeman approached him. "Hello."

"Hello officer."

"Are you heading to America?" Jason asked as he walked over to the door and locked it.

"Yes I am, I was here on a busi…Hey, what are you doing!"

"Taking your identity." Jason pulled out his club and began to strike him with it.

"STOP, HELP somebody." He cried out but Jason didn't stop. The American tourist was defenseless; Jason laughed cynically and continued to beat him until he was unconscious. "Bastard! Your skull hurt my hand." He kicked the now unconscious kick in sternum. Jason picked him up and shoved him a stall, next he took his brief case, wallet and not to mention his identity and walked out of the bathroom like of nothing happened.

He walked over to a sitting area and opened up the briefcase in search for a ticket to America and it was found in a pocket inside of the case. Jason smiled flight 606 boarding 6:45 am He looked at his watch, about 45 more minutes until his plane took off.

"You are late, Ms. Lang. I was getting worried." Mitch said in a sharp tone of voice.

"Sorry I held her up." Clark smiled flirtatiously at her and Mitch rolled his eyes naturally. "My class starts in 10 minutes, Architecture 004."

"Impressive." Lana got on her tippy toes and gave him quick kiss. "More later." She whispered but not low enough, Mitch rolled his eyes again. Clark became very excited with anticipation to see what later was going to have in store for him.

"Can't wait. I will probably be out after you, since your class starts earlier than mine so meet me at the dorm." He kissed her one last time and glanced at Mitch before walking off.

"Ok let's go. I will wait outside of the classroom until class is over. No trying to sneak away, got it?"

Lana sighed. "I got it." Lana adjusted her book bag on her shoulder and they began to walk. "So Mitch, do you have a wife?"

"Yes I do and also a little girl." He smiled brightly for the first time.

"How old is she?" Lana asked curiously.

"Three years old today." Lana frowned, he couldn't even be with a daughter on her birthday all because he had to protect her.

"I'm sorry that you couldn't be there."

He nodded and smiled to cover up his feels. "It's ok, this is my job, God's willing she will have more birthdays but if Jason finds you, you may not." Mitch looked over to her, to see her facial expression turn to fear.