Chapter 28
"Lana, get up! You're gonna be late for school," Martha called up stairs to her daughter.
Lana slowly pulled herself out of bed. She shuffled over to her dresser to check her hair in the mirror and see how bad it was. On the way over her foot bumped into something. She looked down to see Clark lying on the floor of her room. Lana was torn with two options. One was to scream about how Clark was spying on her. However, Lana kind of liked the idea that Clark was spying on her besides, it was fair since she often spied on him. The other option was to wake Clark up and find out what he was doing as quietly as possible. This may be a problem since it seemed that Clark was a heavy sleeper.
Lana went into the bathroom and got a small glass of water and poured it on Clark's face; that was enough to wake him up.
"Lana?" Clark asked in state of shock. "What are you doing here? Is this my room? Is this some kind of joke?"
"This is my room," Lana said. "Clark what were you doing last night."
"I went to bed like I usually do," Clark replied. "Why?"
Lana opened the window. The rain had stopped and it looked like it would be a partly cloudy day. She looked down and saw the ladder on the ground.
"Explain that," Lana said pointing to the ladder.
Clark looked down at the ladder. "I dunno. My dad must have left it there," he replied with a shrug.
"Your dad?" Lana asked. "Clark your dad's been dead for thirteen years."
"Are you talking about my biological father?" Clark responded with his own question. "Because I'm pretty sure that my adopted father Jonathon Kent is still quite alive and healthy. He was last night."
"Are you sure you're alright?" Lana placed a hand on Clark's forehead. "You don't have a fever, but you're delusional."
"Would you please tell me just what is going on here Lana?" Clark insisted. "If this is some kind of a joke, I don't get it."
"Lana, honey," Martha called as she came up the stairs. "What's taking you… so… long?"
She stopped at the door way stunned to see Clark standing there.
"Mom," Lana and Clark said in unison. "I can explain."
They both looked at each other, "Your mother? She's my mother." They said in unison once again.
"Okay, I'm sure this is just some strange joke that you've managed to trick Clark into participating in Lana. But it's not funny. Now hurry up, your dad needs your help with the tractor before you go to school." Martha said.
"Mo… Mrs. Kent," Clark said. "This isn't a joke. I don't know what's going on but when I went to bed last night I was the adopted son of Jonathon and Martha Kent, an alien from some unknown planet."
"Wait, you thought you were me?" Lana asked.
"No," Clark replied. "I didn't think it. I was."
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Clark told his perspective of his life story over breakfast. Lana was so interested to hear it that she didn't even touch her food. Both Jonathon and Martha were equally intrigued. Clark's story about how he had been found was way too detailed and exact to the condition under which they had found Lana to be a coincidence.
"What can I do to prove I'm not lying?" Clark asked after he finished his tale.
"Well it's actually quite simple," Lana said. "If you've really got all the same abilities that I do then you can go help my dad with the tractor."
Lana looked to her father seeking approval. "That's a pretty easy one," Jonathon agreed. "Come on Clark, show me your stuff."
The two of them got up and trudge across the field to the tractor which had broken down once again. Lana stood in the doorway watching and day dreaming.
"I know what you're thinking," Martha said. "I just don't want you getting your hopes ups. We're going to have to try to get him back to where he came from."
"What if he doesn't want to go?" Lana asked.
"We'll take it as we go I guess," Martha replied. "I mean we don't even know if this is some weird mind affecting thing that he's suffering from…"
Suddenly the tractor came flying through the air towards the house. Lana quickly ran outside and caught it. A second later Clark came flying up at super speed.
"Sorry," Clark said with a smile. "I guess I don't know my own strength sometimes."
"I know the feeling," Lana sympathized with a grin of her own.
Lana glanced back over her shoulder at her mother. Now her mother had no choice but to believe her.
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Clark and Lana arrived at school together, Lana was little worried about what Chloe would think. She knew that Chloe still had feelings for Clark, however the first person that they ran into was fortunately not Chloe; it was Pete.
"Hey guys what's up?" Pete asked; then he added more to himself. "Man, Chloe is not gonna like this."
"Pete I know I can trust you to keep a secret," Lana said. "And believe me this on is a whopper."
"What's a whopper?" Chloe asked as she emerged from behind a crowd of people.
Lana could tell instantly what the first thing Chloe had guessed at was, and even though it was incorrect Lana couldn't tell her the truth. Lana tried to avert her eyes from Chloe's accusing glare. Beside her Clark stood completely befuddled he probably had no idea about the weird love triangle that was going on.
"It's nothing you need to worry yourself about," Pete replied jumping to Lana's rescue. "Kind of something between me and her."
"How come you were going to say it in front of Clark?" Chloe asked suspiciously.
"Uh, well I kind of found out by accident already," Clark answered giving a distorted half truth.
"Why are you keeping this a secret from me?" Chloe asked. "I thought we were friends."
"It's a guy thing," Lana said. "Believe me the last thing Pete and Clark want is for you to know."
"Yeah it's kind of annoying that Lana knows." Clark added.
"Oh, is this about, ah, oh." Pete faked knowing what they were talking about. "Yeah, you're right. Chloe would not want to know about it."
"All you guys are doing is making me more curious to find out," Chloe said. "If you don't want to tell me just say so."
"We don't want to tell you Chloe," Clark said flatly.
Chloe was hurt that Clark said that. But yet as she walked away with hurt feelings she still managed to glare daggers at Lana. Lana felt completely awful but her double life made it impossible for her to explain it to Chloe. Pete, Clark and Lana all had a free period so they decided to go to the Torch office. Chloe was not there since she had a class.
"You told Clark you secret?" Pete whispered to Lana trying to keep Clark from overhearing.
"No," Lana replied. "Clark told me his."
"What secret?" Pete asked.
Lana pulled a pencil out of her backpack and motioned for Clark to present his hand. He placed his hand on the desk. Lana stabbed the pencil down on Clark's hand with immense force. Pete's winced anticipating the sight of a pencil driven threw Clark's hand. That didn't happen. The pencil shattered all over the place as it smashed up against Clark's hand.
"Wait a minute," Pete said. "I thought you were the alien, Lana."
"Something happened last night," Lana said. "I don't know what."
"It's like some alternate universe or something," Clark continued. "And in it, I'm the alien."
"So there might be a reality out there where I'm the alien?" Pete asked excitedly.
"Maybe," Lana replied. "Look I don't know if we'll be able to send Clark back."
"Hey what happened to your ring Clark?" Pete asked changing the subject.
Clark looked at the ring on his hand. The stone was missing.
"I don't know," Clark replied. "It's a good thing I'm not wearing it. Wait a minute, I've got a theory. Now apparently the Clark from here was trying to climb a ladder into your room during a thunderstorm."
Lana nodded, "Yeah but what does that have to do with anything."
"Green meteor rocks, with enough electrical current and contact is able to transfer my powers to someone else," Clark said. "So maybe red meteor rock makes me shift realities."
"That's pretty far fetched," Pete said.
"Yeah but we don't really know anything about this stuff. I it causes a lot of weird stuff, for all we know that could be true." Lana argued.
"It's just a theory but it's the best I've got right now," Clark said.
"Even so, how will we be able to generate enough electricity to send you back? And even then how do we know you'll head to the right reality? I mean there could be thousands out there." Lana said.
"Do you really want to risk it?" Pete asked. "You don't have it so bad here."
"It would really dangerous too," Lana said. "We'd have to expose you to the red rocks and that might not go over well with an altered personality."
"Beside, it may be that the Clark on the otherside needs to find his way back here, and you're stuck here until he does," Pete suggested.
Clark sighed, "I don't know. I guess I'm just worried about my parents."
"Hey at least you still have the same friends," Pete said.
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Yep, definitely not a meteor freak. Now the question is, just how long will the 'real' Clark stick around here. Will he ever find his way back? Or will there be a continuation of the Kryptonian race? And what about Chloe, what will happen with her relationship with Lana? Will this new development destroy it, or will Lana be able to hold on to her best friend? So many question, so much more to write and then have read. Next update will probably be after Christmas though, but it should be a big one.
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