Chapter 27

Pete discussed his plan with Jonathon. They then went on a search for Lana. With a tip from Chloe, who was still at the Torch, Pete and Jonathon were able to find out where Lana was. Apparently she had gone out to Flanders' field to make out with some random guy.

"What are you guys going to do?" Chloe asked. "I want to help her."

"Trust me," Pete said. "You don't want to be there when her dad gets to her. I don't want to be there but he needs back up."

"Why?" Chloe asked.

"Lana's a tough girl," Pete replied. "Remember what she did to Whitney? And then she was able to carry Clark all the way to the hospital from where she found him."

"Oh yeah," Chloe said. "Whoa, I never realized it. She comes across as so gentle."

"I know," Pete agreed. "Look, keep an eye out for her just in case she's already moved on from whatever she was doing out there in Flanders' field."

"Will do," Chloe agreed.

"Thanks Chloe," Pete said as he left the torch to meet up with Jonathon Kent again.

"Come on Pete," Jonathon said when Pete arrived. "We need to hurry."

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Pete asked Jonathon for about the umpteenth time.

Jonathon nodded. "She'll recover," Jonathon replied. "She a lot tougher than you'd think."

Pete wasn't talking about Lana's physical toughness though. He was talking about her mental toughness.

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Lana was out in Flanders' field making out with some random guy she had accidently bumped into in the hallway. She didn't know why, she didn't really care, she thought he'd looked cute. But now she was getting bored of this.

"You're no fun anymore," Lana said breaking away from the lip lock. "Get out of here before I start screaming rape."

Before the poor kid could protest, Pete came traipsing through the cornfields and almost stepped on them.

"Get out of here," Pete said to the kid trying to make himself look real tough.

The kid probably thought this was some kind of prank being pulled on him and he quickly took off without a second thought.

"Pete what are you doing here?" Lana demanded to know angrily.

"I'm trying to help you Lana," Pete explained. "Everybody is worried about you, especially your parents."

"They're not my real parents," Lana said.

Jonathon Kent stepped out from the endless rows of corn, "Lana I am your father and you are going to come home with me right now." He said.

"You're not my father," Lana said. "And you can't stop me."

"That where you're wrong," Jonathon said with a slight smirk. "Pete, do it."

Pete pulled something out of his pocket and held it towards Lana. Lana immediately felt weak and dropped to the ground. She looked up to see what Pete was holding. It was piece of meteor rock. She tried to crawl away but Jonathon pulled a piece of meteor rock out of his pocket. She was trapped and she was beginning to feel weaker each second.

"Now you just need to give me the ring," Jonathon said holding out his hand. "And all this will be over."

"Is that all this is about?" Lana asked faintly but still defiant. "You're not happy about me buying this ring."

"No, Lana, that ring is a piece of meteor rock," Pete said. "It's affecting your mind."

Jonathon nodded. "Now give me the ring Lana." He ordered her.

But Lana refused and clenched her fist. Jonathon reached out and pried her fingers apart. She was too weak to resist him now. He slid the ring off her finger and hurled it away into the field.

"Dad?" Lana said looking up at her father. "I'm sorry."

Jonathon realized that Lana was back to normal now. He quickly threw the chuck of meteor rock away and Pete did likewise. Lana was able to pull herself to a seated position.

"It's okay Lana," her dad said hugging her. "It's okay."

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Thankfully for Lana she hadn't done anything that she seriously regretted. Her parents had returned all the stuff she had bought in Metropolis on their credit card. Lana felt really uneasy though as she came downstairs to have dinner with her parents that night.

She waited for quite a while just outside the dining room.

"You know dad, the things that I did and I said; I really didn't mean them," Lana apologized to her father.

"Lana, the red meteor rock may have affected your personality but we gotta face it. Those feeling come from somewhere," Jonathon said. "Now I know that compared to Lex we don't really have a whole lot around here but up until now I never really thought that it bothered you."

"Maybe it does," Lana agreed. "Sometimes, but then I really remember what's important to me. Then none of that stuff matters. I realize that no matter how crazy I got you two stuck by me and that's something that all of the money in the world can't buy."

Lana took her seat at her usual place at the table.

"But still it was a very close call," Jonathon said.

"When I put that ring on I felt this sudden urge to tell the whole world my secret," Lana said.

"But you didn't Lana," her mother said.

"I know but those feelings are still there," Lana said. "It's like I have these two identities and I don't know which one is the real me."

"The real you is the one that came back to us," Martha said. "And we never had any doubt that you would."

They were interrupted by the distant sound of thunder.

"Wow, looks like it's going to rain tonight," Lana said looking out the window.

"Doesn't exactly set up the happy ending weather you'd expect for this little story does it?" Jonathon joked.

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Clark Lang was staring out of his bedroom window. He saw the final light go out in the Kent household. The light he had been waiting for, the light to Lana's room. He checked to see that his Aunt was asleep. He then put on his raincoat and trudged out into the rain.

He wasn't really sure why he was doing this. Maybe it's because he figured that after all the weird things that had gone on in her life recently that Lana needed a pick me up. He hoped she'd like his surprise.

He took an aluminium ladder from inside the Kent's barn and set it up outside Lana's window. There was a loud clap of thunder as lightning flashed from somewhere nearby.

Undaunted Clark began climbing the ladder, despite the perils that it presented. He got up to the top and tried to quietly lift Lana's window open, but it was stuck. He tugged harder and it suddenly flew open. The ladder beneath him began to wobble. Clark grabbed the window sill with his left hand, his right hand waved about in the air as he tried to steady himself.

A bolt of lightning came down from the clouds striking the ring on Clark's finger. It was one of the class rings. The red meteor rock shattered into tiny fragments. Clark fell into Lana's room the window falling shut behind him as the ladder toppled to the ground.

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