Chapter 7
"Chloe," Lana said rushing into the Torch office. "We need to talk."
"What's up Lana?" Chloe asked.
"I was just in the bathroom when some girl attacked me," Lana said.
"What?" Chloe said in slight disbelief.
Lana pulled out the broken knife and dropped it on Chloe's desk. "She attacked me with a knife Chloe. She was trying to kill me."
"Lana this knife is made of carbon steel." Chloe said. "How did it break?"
"I don't know," Lana said trying to deflect attention from the broken knife, knowing full well how it broke. "I guess I just got lucky that the knife was flawed. Look we need to find out who this girl is."
"Well what did she look like?" Chloe asked.
"That's the really creepy part," Lana answered. "At first she looked exactly like me."
"What?" Chloe was completely confused.
"She looked exactly like me," Lana said. "Well she did at first. But then when the knife broke, she suddenly turned into some other girl I don't recall seeing before. I thought your 'Wall of Weird' might have something about this."
"I don't have anything about a Doppelganger in my wall of weird," Chloe replied. "But if we can identify this girl we might be able to figure out what's up. So what did this girl look like?"
Chloe pulled up a list of all the students in the school on her computer. There was a picture of every student beside every entry. After just a few entries they reached a picture which Lana instantly recognized.
"That's her," Lana exclaimed. "That's the girl that attacked me."
"Alright," Chloe said. "Her name is Tina Greer. I'll see what I can pull up."
"I think I'm going to pay visit to her," Lana declared.
"Lana, she just tried to kill you," Chloe said.
"Well as long as she doesn't pull a gun on me I think I'll be okay," Lana said.
Chloe turned to check on something her internet search had just pulled up, "Lana you might not want to…"
Chloe stopped her sentence there because Lana was gone. Chloe shrugged and began reading the article she had just discovered.
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Lana reached the address she'd seen on Chloe's computer and knocked on the door. However nobody answered the door.
"Doesn't look like she's here," Lana muttered to herself.
She was about to force the door open when she felt a tap on her shoulder. Lana spun around to find herself looking at Whitney.
"Looking for me?" he said.
He punched Lana in the face. Lana faked getting hurt and went down with the punch. Whitney morphed back into Tina. She stood over Lana and pressed her foot against Lana's throat.
"Now why don't you just be a good girl and die?" she asked.
Lana easily grabbed Tina's leg and dropped her to the ground.
"Not today," Lana said.
Tina picked herself up off the ground and ran at Lana screaming. She slammed Lana into the door, the force of them hitting the door caused it to open up making them both tumble inside. Lana immediately began feeling ill, she looked around the room. Her eyes quickly came to rest on a green rock sitting on a table near the door. The rock was glowing oddly.
Tina immediately noticed Lana's condition.
"There's something different about you Lana Kent," Tina said with a smirk. "Something that you hide from everybody."
"Whatever," Lana said struggling for breath.
"The knife I stabbed you with was brand new," Tina said. "There was no way it should have broken."
"Maybe you just bought a flawed knife," Lana mumbled.
"No," Tina said. "Now, I don't think I can kill you."
Her eyes flashed to the green glowing rock. "But I'm sure I can keep you out of the way long enough for me to deal with your friend Chloe."
"Why?" Lana asked, "What did Chloe ever do to you? What did I ever do to you?"
"Nothing," Tina replied. "But both of you have perfect lives. You both have loving families. You both have friends. You both have everything that I've never had why do I deserve to live life like an outcast. It's not fair. So if I can't have a life like that I'll do the next best thing."
"You're going to steal it," Lana muttered.
"Yeah and there's nothing you can do to stop me," Tina said.
She picked up the rock and set it down next to Lana. Lana groaned in agony as the rock sapped her strength. Tina morphed back into the body of Whitney, "Now if you'll excuse me," she said. "I've got somewhere to be."
She then left the house slamming the door shut behind her.
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Chloe Sullivan had just finished reading one of the most fascinating articles she'd ever come across. She'd learned about how Tina Greer was born with a strange and rare bone condition. Apparently exposure to X-ray's projected through a piece of meteor rock was able to help cure the condition. Perhaps the exposure had the side effect of turning Tina Greer into a natural doppelganger, Chloe theorized. She picked up her phone and began to dial Lana's cell phone; she had to let Lana know what was going on.
"Hey Chloe," someone said from the door.
Chloe looked up from the phone to see Whitney. "Uh hi Whitney," she said. "Is there something I can help you with?"
"Actually there is," Whitney replied coming across the room to Chloe's desk.
"I hope it's not your homework," Chloe said.
"No," Whitney explained. "I was just wondering if you could do a favour for me."
"What's that?" Chloe inquired.
"Die," Whitney said as he began strangling Chloe.
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Lana pitifully was trying to crawl away from glowing meteor rock. She'd tried to stand up several times but was unable to. Instead she was slowly inching her way away in the hopes that when she got far enough away she'd be able to get out of there and hopefully still be in time to save Chloe.
She dragged herself through the door frame out of the front hall into the living room. As she got there she was able to get up on to her knees and crawl further away. Gasping for breath Lana wondered why Tina had a meteor rock on display in her front hallway. But then she realized there wasn't time for that. She quickly took off at super speed to the high school where she hoped she'd find Chloe still alive.
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"Whitney what's wrong with you?" Chloe managed to choke out.
"Tina, let Chloe go." Lana called from the door way.
Tina roughly tossed Chloe aside. Chloe banged her head off a filing cabinet and fell to the floor unconscious. Tina shifted back to her normal form.
"Why do you have to ruin my plans to have a normal life?" Tina said.
"Your life can't be that bad," Lana said.
"You have no idea," Tina said. "You don't know what it's like to have no friends. No parents. You don't know what it's like."
"No parents?" Lana said. "Don't you live with your mother?"
"I killed my mother," Tina said coldly.
"What? Why?" Lana asked.
"She discovered about my, ability. She wanted to send me to be researched on." Tina said. "I don't want to be a medical experiment again."
"I can't say I blame you on that one," Lana said. "But that doesn't give you the right to harm me or my friend. Or anyone else for that matter."
Tina stepped towards the open window.
"Tina don't. We can get you help. You can't keep running away from your problems." Lana said.
"Goodbye Lana Kent," Tina said as jumped out the window.
Lana ran to the window. Tina morphed into someone Lana didn't immediately recognize and took off at sprinting speed. Lana wanted to chase after her but then she remembered Chloe. Lana went to help her unconscious friend.
"Ugh, what happened?" Chloe said, "One minute I was talking the next minute Whitney started attacking me."
"That wasn't Whitney," Lana said. "That was Tina Greer."
"Huh?" Chloe said.
"I'll try and explain."
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