Chapter 2
Lana was sitting in the stands doing some homework and watching the football team and cheerleading squad practice, wishing that she could be a part of that. She lapsed into a daydream of herself and Clark.
"Lana!" Pete said.
Lana snapped out of the dream and found herself looking at Pete, who looked absolutely ridiculous in the football gear that he was wearing. The equipment was all way to big, especially the helmet.
"How do I look?" Pete asked as he tried to stop the helmet from sliding down over his eyes.
"Like a tackle dummy," Lana replied as she got up to leave. She didn't want to see Pete get murdered by the other players. "Good luck."
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Lana found herself standing on the bridge on the way home staring down at the flowing river beneath. She was complete immersed in thought largely unaware of what was going on around her. So when a truck passed by and dropped a roll of barbed wire fencing. However when a Porsche suddenly slammed on its breaks and then blew its tires as it ran over the barbed wire Lana snapped out of her train of thought and took notice. The car began to swerve as it lost control and ran straight at Lana. Lana was too startled to know what to do. The car hit her head on and plummeted down into the river taking Lana with it.
Underwater the driver of the car sat unconscious in his seat. Lana knew she had to hurry or he'd drown. She grabbed the edge of roof and began to peel it open like a pudding can with ease. She pulled him out and dragged him up onto shore. He wasn't breathing so she began to perform CPR, being careful to not push to hard.
"Come on," Lana muttered, "Don't die on me."
The man spat out water and became conscious once again.
"I could have sworn I hit you," the man said between gasps of breath.
"If you did," Lana said gasping for breath herself. "If you did, I'd be dead."
She turned around to look back up at the bridge. In her mind she was still unsure about what had just happened.
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EMT's and a recovery crew had already arrived by the time Jonathon Kent arrived to take his daughter home from the scene.
"Lana!" Jonathon yelled.
Lana was sitting on the bank of the river still wrapped in a red blanket to keep her warm. Jonathon ran over to check on her, "Are you alright?" He asked anxiously.
"Yeah, I'm okay," Lana replied to try and calm down her father.
"Who's the maniac that was driving that car?" Jonathon demanded from the police officer nearby.
"That would be me," the driver said. "Lex Luthor."
The young, but bald man offered his hand to Jonathon Kent, but Jonathon was anything but pleased to meet him. Jonathon took off his jacket and wrapped it around Lana.
"Jonathon Kent," Jonathon replied not accepting Lex's offer of friendship. "This is my daughter."
"Thanks for saving my life," Lex said to Lana.
"I'm sure you would have done the same thing," Lana replied modestly.
"You have quite an extraordinary girl their Mister Kent," Lex said. "If there's anyway I can repay you?"
"Drive slower," Jonathon said as he led his daughter up the embankment to their waiting truck.
Lex turned around to look at his car which was being lifted up out of the river. The roof seemed to be peeled back, but Lex didn't really know why. Still there was no way Lana did that.
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That night at the Clark farm Lana was stargazing, however the gaze of her telescope fell from the sky and instead came to focus on Clark Lang's Aunt's house. Lana watched with excitement as he sat out on the porch. Suddenly another person came into view. It was one of the girls on the cheerleading team. Lana's face fell but she kept watching. Whitney then showed up with another girl. They had a brief discussion. Clark then took his chain from around his neck and handed it to Whitney. Lana finally looked away from the telescope and sat dejectedly nearby.
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The next day as Lana was coming home from school she looked up to see a brand new Dodge Ram pickup truck sitting in the driveway with a blue ribbon tied on the front.
"Hey Mom, who's truck?" Lana called to her mother who was getting onto the tractor.
"Yours," Her mother replied. "It's a gift from Lex Luthor."
She reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out a card and handed it to Lana. Lana quickly opened the card and read it aloud, "Dear Lana. Always in your debt. Drive safely. Maniac in the Porsche. I don't believe it. Where are the keys?"
"Your father has them," Martha said.
Lana's face fell a bit. She knew that her father didn't like the Luthor's.
Jonathon Kent was operating a shredder. As he saw Lana approaching her shut the machine off to talk to his daughter.
"I know how much you want." Jonathon said, "But you can't keep it."
"Why not?" Lana asked, "I saved the guy's life."
"So you think you deserve a prize?" Jonathon asked.
"That's not what I meant," Lana said. "Look how 'bout you drive the new one and I'll drive the old one. Everybody wins."
"It's not about winning Lana," Jonathon said.
"It's not like the Luthor's can't afford it," Lana argued.
"Do you wanna know why that is?" Jonathon asked his daughter with a slightly exasperated tone. Do you remember Mister Bell? We used to go fishing on his property. How about Mister Guy? He used to send us pumpkins every Halloween. Well Lionel Luthor promised to cut them in on a deal. He sent them flashy gifts. Only once they'd sold him their property he went back on his word. He had them evicted."
"So you're judging Lex on what his father did?" Lana asked.
"No Lana, I'm not." Jonathon replied. "I just wanna make sure that you know where the money came from that bought that truck."
And angry Lana began to storm up into the loft.
"Lana," Jonathon called after her. "I know you're upset, but it's normal."
Lana threw her bag down and spun around angrily, "Normal?" she asked.
She went over the shredder and flipped it on, "How 'bout this?" she asked, "Is this normal?"
She plunged her hand down into the machine. The machine began struggling as Jonathon thought it was slicing into her hand. He ran forward to pull her arm out of the machine. As soon as he got it out he looked at it but her arm was completely fine.
"I didn't dive in after Lex's car," Lana said. "It hit me at sixty miles an hour. Does that sound normal to you? I'd give anything to be normal."
She walked up the steps into the loft leaving Jonathon Kent to contemplate what to do next.
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Lana was sitting unhappily in the loft beside her telescope. Her father came up the stairs.
"It's time Lana," he said.
"Time for what?" Lana asked miserably.
"The truth," Jonathon replied as he sat down. "I want you to take a look at something."
He unwrapped a cloth from a strange metal object with odd symbols on it.
"I think it's from your parents." Jonathon said. "Your real, parents."
Lana picked up the metal object and looked at it.
"What's it say?" Lana asked.
"I've been trying to decipher it for years." Jonathon said. "But it's not written in any language known to man."
"What do you mean?" Lana asked looking at her father curiously.
"Your real parents weren't exactly from around, here." Jonathon said slowly.
"Where're they from?" Lana asked.
Jonathon didn't know what to say. However he made the mistake of looking at Lana's telescope.
"What are you trying to tell me dad?" Lana asked somewhat amused. "That I'm from another planet?"
Jonathon looked back at his daughter warily.
"And I suppose that you stashed my spaceship in attic," Lana joked.
"Actually it's in the storm cellar," Jonathon replied.
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Down in the storm cellar Jonathon Kent pulled the cover off of something that Clark had always wondered what it was but curiosity never got the better of him. It was a smooth metallic pod that was definitely not of earthly origins.
"This is how you came into our world Lana," Jonathon said. "It was the day of the meteor shower."
"This is a joke right?" Lana asked.
However the look that her father gave her said that he was quite serious. Lana turned around not sure what to think. She was still upset with her father for not letting her have the truck.
"Why didn't you tell me about this before?" Lana demanded of her father angrily.
"We wanted to protect you," Jonathon answered.
"Protect me from what?" Lana inquired angrily.
Before Jonathon could reply Lana lashed out, "You should have told me."
Then she bolted out of the storm cellar at a speed that no human being could ever hope to achieve.
"Lana!" her father called after her to no avail.
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Okay, well that's the end of Chapter 2. Fun times await in Chapter 3. If you wish to talk about this story or just Smallville in general join my channel on the otherside IRC, network irc. (Port 7000) or irc. (Port 7000), channel #smallville. Hope to see some people there.