Chapter 8
"So let me get this straight," Chloe said. "Tina Greer can take the form of anybody she wants and she can mimic them perfectly?"
"Yeah," Lana replied.
"And remind me again why she was trying to kill me?" Chloe asked.
"She wanted to take over your life." Lana answered. "She's just really lonely. A bit insane and a murderer as well, but the point is she's lonely."
"I know," Chloe said. "I mean until today I didn't even know who she was and I usually make it a habit of mine to know everybody."
"She was going to be turned in for experimentation by her mother. Can you imagine how that must feel?" Lana asked. "I don't think my mother would ever do that to me."
"Well just think about who would want to utilize her powers," Chloe said. "I mean she'd be a perfect spy for the CIA or any of those other agencies. If she brainwashed by terrorist or a foreign country she could be an excellent assassin."
"Chloe you not helping," Lana said. "We can't worry about who might want Tina Greer later. We need to stop her secret from ever getting out and we need to stop her. She may not be trying to kill us again but who knows who she'll go after next."
"You're right," Chloe agreed. "We've got to try and find her. But uh, where do we start?"
"I don't know," Lana said. "But I've got an idea."
"Okay," Chloe said picking herself up and sitting her chair, "I'll just see if there's anything I can find about her past that might give us a…"
But Lana was already gone. Chloe didn't recall seeing her leave but she just shrugged and went about trying to hack into Tina Greer's school records.
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Lana was trying to follow Tina Greer's path as she saw her run away from the school. Lana figured that she was running back to her home. She decided to take a short cut across the football field. Just in case Tina was hiding on her, since Tina did know about Lana's powers. As she walked across the field she noticed that Clark Kent was still there, getting in a little extra practice. He noticed her walking across the field.
"Hey Lana!" He called.
Lana waved at him brief and continued on her way. Suddenly she heard the sound of someone falling to the ground. She spun around and saw Tina standing over top of Clark holding a baseball bat. Clark lay on the ground unconscious. Lana sped over to Tina.
"You leave him alone," Lana threatened.
"Or what?" Tina asked pulling her meteor rock from her pocket.
Lana felt her knees buckle and she fell to the ground.
"I am sick and tired of you interfere with me," Tina said. "I'm going to finish you off and then deal with your friend here."
Tina stuck the Kryptonite in Lana's hand and then shoved Lana down the nearby embankment and then walked out of Lana's site. Lana dropped the Kryptonite and it got stuck halfway up the embankment. Lana began crawling out of the small ditch at the bottom and found herself on the sidewalk alongside the school. Suddenly she heard the roaring of a car engine. Lana looked up to see a truck, Whitney's truck if she wasn't mistaken, roaring at her with Tina behind the wheel. Lana felt herself recovering but she wasn't able to get out of the way. She ducked and hoped that the truck wouldn't kill her.
The truck hit Lana square in the back with its bumper. The bumper rode up Lana's back and sent the truck up into the air over top of Lana. It did a half barrel roll and landed on its roof. Lana stood up and checked on Tina. Tina was unconscious in there. Lana quickly dragged Tina out. Just then Chloe and Clark came running up.
"What happened?" Chloe asked.
"She flipped Whitney's truck," Lana said. "What does it look like?"
"Is she gonna be okay?" Clark questioned.
"I dunno," Lana said. "I just don't know."
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Paramedics arrived at the scene pretty quickly and took Tina to the hospital. Whitney showed up and went completely nuts about his truck threatening to press charges and what not. Lana and Chloe went to regroup in the Torch office.
"What do you think is going to happen to Tina now?" Chloe asked. "I mean the paramedics said she would be okay. She just needs to be in the hospital for a few days."
"I don't know," Lana replied. "She's in a lot of trouble now. They found out she killed her mother and Whitney is pressing charges against her for the truck. I'm worried that she might get desperate."
Chloe nodded. "You're right. And we know she's willing to kill to get what she wants."
"I'm gonna go over to the hospital to check up on her." Lana said.
"Lana I don't think you should…" Chloe said.
But Lana had already left. Chloe left standing there wondering if her friend would be alright.
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Lana arrived at the hospital.
"Hi," Lana said to the receptionist, "I'm here to see Tina Greer."
"She's in a private room," the receptionist told her. "It's up on the second floor."
"Thank you," Lana replied.
Lana walked up the stairs to the room. As she got there a nurse was leaving the room, closing the door behind her.
"How is she doing?" Lana asked.
"She's fine," the nurse replied. "She's just sleeping right now."
Lana nodded but she had a feeling in her gut that the nurse wasn't telling the truth. Lana opened the door a crack. The nurse was lying on the ground in her underwear. Lana knew immediately that Tina had stolen her uniform and escaped. Lana checked that the nurse was at least alive, which she was. She then went to her X-Ray vision. She hoped that she'd be able to pick out Tina's skeleton which had glowed an odd green the first time she'd used it. It took Lana a while to pick it out in the crowded hospital but she eventually did. Tina was leaving the hospital. Lana was about to super speed after her when another nurse came into the room.
"What happened here?" the nurse demanded.
"She got away," Lana said. "She attacked me and the nurse here. You watch her I'm going to try and catch her."
"I think that's a matter for the cops," the nurse said.
"She'll listen to me," Lana lied. "I'm her friend."
Lana had to run at normal speed out of the hospital and by then she had lost Tina, but Lana had an idea on where she might be.
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Lana burst through the front door of Tina's house. Unlike last time there was no meteor rock to make her feel ill.
"Don't try and stop me," Tina said.
Lana looked up. At the top of the stairs looking down at her stood Tina. A rope was tied to her neck and the top banister.
"Tina don't do it," Lana protested. "You can get help."
"Nobody can help me now," Tina said. "I'm a killer. I overheard them talking about sending me away to someone who was interested in my 'condition'."
Lana didn't know what to say she tried to stammer out a reply.
"Goodbye Lana," Tina said. "And thank you. I'll never forget that you tried to help me."
Before Lana could react Tina stepped off the edge of the stairs and began to plummet down. She jerked to a halt about a foot and half from the ground, her neck bent at an awkward angle. Lana was frozen where she was unsure what to do.
"Freeze," someone shouted from behind. "You're trespassing on a crime…"
The police officer stopped in mid sentence. "Holy crap," he muttered. "What happened here? We just got word that she escaped from the hospital."
"She couldn't live with it," Lana replied still standing where she was having not moved. "She jumped…"
"Are you a close friend?" the officer asked.
"I was the closest thing she ever had to a friend," Lana said.
"Are you going to be alright?"
"I think I'll be fine," Lana said. "I just need to be alone."
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Lana was up in the loft sitting beside her telescope. Somehow even the stars which were normally her only comfort in life couldn't remove the feelings of guilt, sadness, anger and confusion she was feeling.
"Lana are you alright?" Jonathon asked as he came up the stairs of the loft. "You didn't eat dinner tonight."
"I'm fine Dad," Lana replied. "At least I am physically. Why did she do it?"
Jonathon sat down beside her and put his arm around her, "Some people just don't know how to deal with their problem or they think that their problems are unmanageable. So they try and solve them the only way they think possible."
"I guess that makes sense," Lana said. "I mean I'd hate to think what may have happened to her. Maybe she had some idea of what that was and she didn't want to face."
"That's usually the reason people do it," Jonathon said.
"Promise me that you'll never do that to me Dad," Lana as she hugged her father.
Jonathon Kent smiled and pulled his daughter close, "Honey you will never have to worry about that happening to me."
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Please Read This:
Well that was a sappy ending to that chapter. Oh well. Just another reminder if you wanna talk to me about the story or Smallville in general. Don't complain about the sappiness. 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