Chapter 5
Jeremy Creek arrived at Smallville High, he had a plan to use the school's sprinkler system to get back at everyone who was in there. He had pried open the box to the school's fire sprinkler system and was about to turn it on.
"Jeremy," someone called to him.
Jeremy turned around to see who it was. He was somewhat surprised to see the girl who had just been tied up out in the field as this year's scarecrow standing there, now dressed and looking perfectly fine.
"You need to stop this," Lana said.
"I don't know how you got here," Jeremy said with slight confusion on his face. "But you should have stayed away."
"I won't let you hurt my friends," Lana said defiantly.
"Those people are not your friends," Jeremy said. "The sprinkler system will get them nice and wet, I'll handle the rest."
"They never did anything to you," Lana retorted angrily.
"I'm not doing this for me," Jeremy explained. "I'm doing this for you and for all the others like us."
Lana didn't understand Jeremy's twisted logic.
"What happened to you was my fault." Lana said. "I can understand your pain."
"My pain?" Jeremy asked. "I have a gift, and a purpose and a destiny."
He turned around to go back to the sprinkler system but Lana was standing right in front of him.
"So do I," Lana said.
Jeremy grabbed Lana and began pulsing electricity through her body, but Lana just grabbed him and flung him onto the hood of a nearby truck. Jeremy rolled off and fell to the ground roughly.
"Give it up Jeremy," Lana warned.
Jeremy paid no heed to Lana's warning and instead used his control over electricity to hotwire the truck. He jumped in and began driving the truck straight at Lana. Lana braced herself and tried to stop the truck but she had not footing. The truck began pushing her along as she was sprawled slightly across the hood. Jeremy drove the front of the truck with Lana on it straight into a wall. The wall collapsed sending debris down everywhere. A water pipe burst and water began leaking into the truck where Jeremy was.
From in front of the truck Lana reached up and used the slightly crumpled hood to pull herself to her feet. Inside the truck Jeremy was recovering from the rough jolt he had experienced when the truck had smashed through the wall. Suddenly Jeremy's electrical powers went crazy from all the water. He tried to get out of the truck but the door was jammed against the wall. The truck became charged with electricity sending Lana flying back. Jeremy quickly passed out from all the electricity that was shocking him.
Lana quickly scrambled to her feet and pulled the truck till she could open the door. She ripped the door off and water began pouring out onto the ground. Jeremy lay passed out, his head rest up against the steering wheel. Suddenly the electricity just died out. Lana reached forward to check on Jeremy.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"Who are you?" Jeremy asked.
Lana felt more relief than confusion. She was glad her secret wasn't known.
"Where am I?" Jeremy asked.
"I'm Lana Kent," Lana replied. "And you're in Smallville."
Jeremy took this information in with slight confusion, "I wanna go home," he said.
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Inside Lana found herself standing in the area on the second floor that overlooked the gym. She saw Chloe and Pete having a good time. Clark and Whitney were dancing with their dates and having a great time as well. Then Lana saw Clark and his date kiss. Depressed Lana left the dance. As Lana left the dance she passed three trucks that looked familiar. Lana recognized them as belonging to the guys that had tied her up as a scarecrow out in the field. Suddenly she had great idea.
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As everyone was filing out a crowd began to gather. Whitney, Clark and their dates pushed through the crowd to see what it was. Three trucks were stacked up on top each other. Whitney recognized the truck on the bottom as his.
"Who did this to my truck?" Whitney demanded angrily but nobody was stepping forward to accept responsibility.
Everyone else was having a good laugh including Clark.
"It's not funny Clark," Whitney said angrily.
Clark thought he noticed somebody walking away from well behind the trucks but he wasn't really sure.
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Lana was up in the loft stargazing. It seemed to be her favourite activity of late.
"Your grandfather gave me that telescope when I was about your age," Jonathon said as he came up the stairs into the loft.
"I came down stairs for breakfast one morning and there it was." He reminisced. "Are you okay?"
Lana sat down on the desk beside the telescope. She looked up at her father, "Can I answer that in about five years?" she asked.
Jonathon Kent chuckled, "Yeah." He replied and then went back down the stairs.
"Dad," Lana called from the top of the stairs. "I glad you and mom were the ones that found me."
"We didn't find you Lana," Jonathon said with a smile. "You found us."
Lana turned on her radio and went back to her stargazing.
"I didn't see you tonight Lana," a voice said from behind her.
Lana looked up with a start to see Clark standing there still dressed in his tuxedo.
"Clark, what are you doing here?" Lana stammered.
"I saved you that dance," Clark replied.
He put his arms around Chloe and she reciprocated. They both began to slowly dance to the music from Lana's radio.
"Everything okay Lana?" Clark asked her.
"It's perfect," Lana replied with a smile.
Lana suddenly snapped out of her day dream to the sound of a horn honking. Several cars drove by with excited high school students celebrating the football team's victory earlier that day. But Lana's view went past that to the house across the way; Clark's Aunt Nell's house. Standing alone out front waving to the passing cars was Clark. Lana watched as Clark went up the steps onto the porch.
"Thanks for the dance Clark," she whispered into the night.
Clark suddenly turned around and Lana thought that Clark had heard her. But then Clark turned and went into the house. Lana kept staring off into the night even after Clark had long since disappeared from her sight.
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