Chapter 6
Lana Kent was sitting up in her loft, looking out at the expansive fields of nothing but cornstalks. She was imagining what life would have been like back on her home planet, where ever that was. She tried to image what her real parents were like but nothing came to her.
"What ya thinkin' about?" Jonathon Kent asked from behind her.
"Nothing," Lana lied, she didn't want to let make the man she considered her father to feel jealous.
"So are you planning on going to school today?" Jonathon asked.
Startled Lana looked down at her watch. The bus was supposed to be arriving in five minutes and she wasn't even ready yet.
"It's times like this that I'm glad I've got my powers," Lana said.
"Lana, you know that you can't keep using your powers when ever you're late. People will begin to get suspicious." Jonathon reprimanded his daughter.
"It's not like I'm going to run all the way to school," Lana said, "You're gonna drive me."
She then flew past her father faster than any normal person could to finish getting ready for school. Jonathon Kent sighed to himself, there was just no way he could say no to his daughter. He sighed and headed down stairs and grabbed his keys. By the time he got to the truck Lana was already there waiting, ready for school.
"I don't want this to become a common habit," her father said.
"Don't worry dad," Lana said as she munched on a Pop Tart™. "I won't."
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Jonathon Kent pulled up to the school just before the school bus arrived.
"Have a good day sweetheart," he said to Lana.
"I will Dad," Lana replied giving him a quick kiss on the cheek before getting out of the truck.
As she was getting out she bumped her head against the door frame.
"Are you okay?" Jonathon asked.
"Yeah I'm fine," Lana said shaking her head. "I dunno about the door frame."
Jonathon looked at the door frame. Where Lana's head had hit there was now a small dent.
"Don't worry about honey," Jonathon said. "I'll see you when you get home from school this afternoon."
"See you later dad," Lana said closing the passenger side door.
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"Hey Lana," Chloe greeted as Lana came into the Torch. "You missed the bus again this morning."
"Yeah," Lana admitted. "My dad was nice enough to give me a ride to school. So anything new with your Wall of Weird?"
"Nope," Chloe replied. "Anything new with you?"
Lana suddenly saw Chloe as just a mere skeleton, outlined faintly by her flesh and clothes. Lana shook her head and blink and suddenly everything was back to normal.
"Is everything alright Lana?" Chloe asked.
"Yeah it's fine," Lana replied. "I just, I banged my head getting out of the truck this morning and I've been having some uh, dizzy spells. That's all."
"Ah, I know what you mean," Chloe said turning back to her computer.
"Well look if there nothing going on I think I'm going to go home and lie down," Lana said. "Try and get over these dizzy spells."
"Sure go ahead," Chloe said. "It's not like you're forced to stay here."
"Well I'll see you tomorrow then," Lana said.
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"Hi honey," Martha Kent greeted her daughter as she came back home from school, "How was school."
"It was alright," Lana mumbled.
"What's wrong?" Martha asked, "Are you not feeling very well."
"I'm feeling fine," Lana said. "It's just I've been having these weird vision flashes, like I'm looking at things through an X-ray machine or something."
"What do you mean?" Martha asked.
"Exactly what I said," Lana replied dropping her backpack and grabbing a can of Dr Pepper™ from the fridge. "I've been having these weird flashes where I can see through things. It's weird."
Lana sat the can down and looked at her mother. Suddenly everything was like looking at an X-ray again. Lana blinked once more and it was gone.
"There it goes again," Lana said. "There's no way that I should know that you've got a quarter and a nickel in your jacket pocket."
Martha Kent gave her daughter a curious look and then reached into her jacket pocket. She pulled out the contents and sat them on the counter. A plastic comb, a few tissues, a quarter and a nickel.
"That's amazing…" Martha said.
"Yeah it's great and all," Lana agreed half-heartedly. "If only I could control it."
"Well maybe it's like your super speed," Martha said. "At first you weren't able to control that but you eventually learned."
"I hope so," Lana said. "I mean getting flashes like that could get really distracting."
"I'm almost certain that you'll be able to get over it." Martha assured her daughter.
"Thanks Mom," Lana said giving her mother a hug.
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Across town an unpopular girl named Tina Greer was standing in front of her mirror.
"He doesn't even notice you," Tina said the reflection. "You're not important to him at all. He'll never notice you. But that's okay. Because you can change. You can be somebody that he does care about."
The reflection in the mirror changed to look exactly like Lana Kent, "You can be somebody he cares about deeply." Tina said in Lana's voice.
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Lana was in the girls' bathroom standing in front of the sink. The flashes of X-ray vision were becoming more frequent and were beginning to drive her a little crazy. She splashed water on her face hoping it would help, but to know avail.
"You not feeling well?" some asked from behind Lana.
Lana looked up at the mirror to see who was behind her but she didn't believe what she saw. She turned around to come face to face with the person and found herself face to face with, herself.
"Who are you?" Lana asked.
"Don't worry Lana," the other Lana asked, "I'm here to ease your pain."
The other Lana pulled out a knife and rammed it against Lana's stomach. The knife black snapped as it hit Lana's skin. The other Lana looked at the broken knife, "Piece of garbage," she muttered. "Oh well, see you later."
Suddenly the other Lana changed shape into some girl that Lana didn't recall ever seeing before and ran out of the bathroom. Lana was left standing there dumbfounded the remains of a broken knife at her feet and thoughts in her head that were trying to figure out just what that girl wanted, and how she was able to change shapes. Lana tried to use her new X-ray vision to follow the girl. Lana found that she had finally gained control of her X-ray vision much to her relief. She quickly spotted the girl hurrying away from the bathroom. What struck Lana as odd however was how her skeleton seemed to glow a strange green compared to the white one everyone else's skeleton. Lana bent down and picked up the broken knife. This was something that she needed to talk to Chloe about.
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Just another reminder if you wanna talk to me about the story or Smallville in general. Go on IRC to the otherside servers, irc. (Port 7000) or irc. (Port 7000), channel #smallville. Hope to see some people there. If you're looking for an IRC client I would recommend X-Chat although there are many other options out there. Really, please go there to discuss any questions answers will be a lot more direct.