Chapter 10

"So Lana," Whitney said as they were driving to the high school. "Are the rumours I here about you true?"

Lana was a little surprised by this question. It didn't seem at all appropriate for a date. "What rumours?" she asked.

"Oh nothing," Whitney said sliding a hand along her thigh.

Lana grabbed his arm and twisted it roughly. Whitney stepped on the brake and stopped the truck. "Ow! What did you do to my shoulder?" he demanded in pain.

"I dislocated it," Lana replied. "I guess you didn't know I took martial arts as a kid."

"You're going to pay for that," Whitney as he reared back his other fist to strike her.

But before Whitney could even get his punch off, Lana slammed his head down into the steering wheel making it honk. She slammed it down a few more time for good measure, making sure not to use all of her strength.

"If you don't mind, I think I'll drive," Lana said to the now unconscious Whitney.

Rather than go to the dance, Lana instead drove to the hospital and dumped Whitney off there and left his truck. She then went to the dance alone.

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"Have you seen Lana?" Chloe asked Pete at the dance.

The dance was in full swing and just as Jonathon had predicted there were only a few people dancing and everyone else was just milling about talking. Guys and girls for the most part were separate. Pete and Chloe had gone with each other again just as they had for Homecoming.

"Nope," Pete replied. "Haven't seen Whitney either."

Just then Lana entered the gym.

"Oh hey Lana," Chloe called. "Where's Whitney."

"You were right," Lana said. "I shouldn't have trusted Whitney."

"Well where is he?" Chloe asked.

"He at the hospital," Lana replied.

"What happened to him?" Pete asked anxiously.

"I kind of dislocated his shoulder and then bashed his head against the steering wheel when he started making sexual advances on me." Lana replied.

Pete began hopping around trying to contain his laughter and excitement. Whitney tended to bully Pete whenever he got the chance. Even Chloe seemed rather impressed by the news. "Really?" Chloe asked.

Lana nodded, "I dunno I had a bad feeling ever since Clark asked me and I had to turn him down." Lana replied. "So as soon as he started I was just BAM! No, I wasn't gonna put up with it."

"Wait, you dislocated his shoulder?" Pete asked.

"Yeah," Lana replied.

"Ah man, the football team is undefeated so far. If you did that Whitney is probably out for the season." Pete groaned. "We won't win state."

"Well who's the back up?" Lana asked.

"Clark is," Chloe replied gesturing with a nod to Clark who was talking to a friend.

"Well, I think I should give him the good, or bad, new depending how you look at it." Lana said nervously.

"Good luck," Pete said.

Lana made her way over to Clark.

"Hey Lana," Clark greeted. "How are you? Where's Whitney?"

"I'm fine," Lana replied. "But uh Whitney couldn't make it."

"Oh, well what happened?" Clark inquired.

"He um, he dislocated his shoulder," Lana said.

"Really?" Clark asked sort of worried.

Lana nodded. "Yeah, it was kind of my fault."

"Well I'm sure that he probably deserved it," Clark said. "He's a great football mentor but I can't say he's a great friend. I find he's really trying to control my life, you know what I mean?"

"I think I do," Lana replied.

"So I guess he's going to be out for the rest of the season," Clark said grimly.

"That's pretty likely," Lana agreed. "But on the bright side you'll get some playing time. Who knows? Maybe you'll be good enough to take the team to state."

"I don't know about that," Clark said rather embarrassed. "I mean Whitney is a great quarterback. I'd be happy to be half as good as him."

"I'm sure you're twice as good as he is," Lana said.

"Thanks," Clark said. "You have no idea how much it means to me that you have confidence in me."

"So who did you come with?" Lana asked.

"In the end, nobody." Clark answered.

"Well, I don't have a date anymore either," Lana said.

"Are you asking me to ask you to dance?" Clark asked.

"I wasn't very subtle about it," Lana replied.

Clark grinned, "Lana would you care to dance?" he inquired in an overly polite tone.

"I would love to," Lana said.

They stepped out onto the dance floor just as a slow song was playing. It was Cindy Lauper's song Time After Time and Lana felt like the whole scene was taken from a movie she had seen recently but could not name.

"Don't they make a great couple?" Pete asked Chloe from their viewpoint of to the side as they watched Lana and Clark dance.

"I dunno," Chloe replied. "Clark seems a little tall for Lana don't you think?"

Pete looked at Chloe with an odd look on his face, "Nah," he replied. "Height doesn't matter. I think you're a little jealous Chloe."

Chloe became rather flustered, "What me jealous of Lana. No. No." she quickly retorted.

"Yeah I believe you Chloe," Pete said with a smirk on his face.

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After the dance Clark took Lana home.

"Thanks for taking me home Clark," Lana said. "I had a wonderful time."

"Me too," Clark replied. "I'll see you tomorrow then?"

"Definitely," Lana said as she went up the front porch. "Good night Clark."

"Good night Lana," Clark returned.

As soon as she got in the door she was accosted by both her parents.

"So what happened to Whitney Fordman?" Her father asked.

"Whitney got a little bit too, personal." Lana said.

"You didn't hurt him did you?" her mother asked. "He seemed like such a nice guy."

"Believe me mom he's a creep and a jerk. He deserved what he got." Lana said.

"Well what did you do?" Jonathon inquired.

"Well I dislocated his shoulder when he tried to touch me," Lana said.

"You dislocated his shoulder?" Martha questioned as worried look crossed her face.

"Don't worry mom," Lana said. "I was actually trying to do that. Just sort of jerk it out of the socket like in those action movies."

"Lana, you're going to make people suspicious," Jonathon warned.

"Would you rather me have been raped?" Lana retorted.

Jonathon sighed. "Fine," he said. "Just be more careful next time."

"Don't worry I will," Lana said.

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Little did Lana know however that her actions that night had already drawn attention towards her. A man by the name of Roger Nixon had overheard about what happened to Whitney while at the hospital. Nixon was considered a bit loony by some since he was obsessed with UFO's. He worked in the medical records department in Smallville and found that Lana Kent had no records until she would have been about 3 years old which was when the meteor shower had occurred. Nixon had a crazy theory that Lana Kent was actually an alien in disguise. He had no idea just how close to the truth he was.

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Please Read This:

Okay so it wasn't as action packed as I have made it out to be, but now Lana is likely to be exposed, at least slightly so everyone wanted the secret known, well you're getting your wish. 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.