"A New Homecoming"

Chapter 2

Homecoming

"Come on Pete you can do it!" Chloe's voice rang out.

It was 2 months later and Pete was in physical therapy. The doctors called him their own modern day miracle. He had fallen 100 feet and had broken both his legs. When the he was found the doctors said he only had a 10 chance at survival but he had beaten those odds. One doctor said that he must have had something he wanted to accomplish before he died and they were rite. Now he needs to concentrate at the task at hand. Since he had broken both of his leg he had to learn how to walk again. Thankfully he had 2 great coaches on his side.

"Come on Pete you can do it." Lana said with encouragement in her voice, "If a diva like me could do this so can you."

Pete walked slowly to the end of the rail. The doctors said that his legs had fully healed and that he was ready to walk again but the pain shooting up his legs said otherwise.

" You made it!" Lana and Chloe said together as he finished." You've finally graduated form physical therapy."

Pete was glad that it was over and even more glad to get out of the hospital.

" So on your fist day as a fee man where do you want to go?" Lana asked.

"How about the Talon?" Pete suggested.

"Excellent choice" Chloe said I need to go by their anyway I think I'm about to go into caffeine withdrawal."

As they walked along the main street construction was going on everywhere almost every building had been hit but thankfully the Talon had escaped unscathed.

" I think you need to sue the hospital for malpractice to say you just finished physical therapy and your limping." Side a voice behind them, it was Lois.

In the very few e-mails that Clark and Pete had exchanged Clark had mentioned that Lois got on his nerves. Now that he had met her he could get under Clarks skin but he liked her.

"Well if you broke one for you legs in 3 places and the other on 2 I'm sure you would be limping too" Pete replied in a sarcastic tone.

"Well here we are." Chloe announced as they reached the door. When she opened it all you could here was "Surprise!"

" I know you did not just make me a surprise party." Pete said to Lana, Chloe and Lois.

" It's not a surprise party it's a welcome home party." Lana replied, " We invited al your old friends.

After the reunion with all his old friends Pete made his way to the people he wanted to see the most. Clark's parents. He hadn't seen them much sine they had been in Metropolis General almost as long as he had been in Smallville Medical Center. They had braved the meteor shower and had gotten beaten up pretty baldly but like him had survived.

"Oh, Pete it's so good to see you!" Martha said as she got up form her chair to give him a hug, "we've missed you so much."

"It's good to see you up and about Pete." Jonathan said giving him a handshake.

" I'm glad to be back," Pete replied," I just sad that Clark's not here,"

"So do we" Martha replied with sadness in her voice that you could also see in her eyes.

"Do you have any idea where he is?" Pete asked.

"No," Jonathan said in reply, " the last time we saw him he went off to try to stop the meteor shower, we haven't seen him since."

"I'm sorry, Pete said, " but what I can't understand is why would Clark think that the meteor shower was his fault?"

" Well he always blames himself when his biological father is the cause." Martha said.

"So it was Jor-El's, man I really wish that guy would just leave Clark alone." Pete said in a worried tone.

"So do we Pete, so do we", Jonathan replied