Smallville: An End to a Beginning

Prologue "The End"

She was beautiful. He had never told her that. Not that he would ever tell her. They had a unique relationship Lois and Clark. Clark had known Lois for several years and in that time he had come to respect even love her. Clark was standing by his window looking out at the drive leading to the Kent farm. His loft in the old barn was drafty but he hardly noticed. He had called Lois a few hours ago; he desperately hoped that she would understand what he wanted to tell her. Fear was his biggest concern, it was fear that had lead Lex on his ridiculous manhunt that had lasted nearly five years. Five long years that Clark had to constantly look over his shoulder, for fear that Lex would launch some sort of mad scheme to out what Clark really was. Fortunately, Lex had never found out Clark's secret however, a wedge had slowly separated the two, there was nothing Clark could do for Lex now, and he hardly even acknowledged that Clark existed. Clark loved Lois a great deal but he was afraid of how she might think of him once she found out that he was an alien.

His thoughts broke when he saw Lois's car come up the drive. Deciding it was now or never Clark descended the stairs to his loft and meet Lois's car right out side the barn.

Lois climbed out of her car and looked wryly at Clark.

"What is this all about Smallville?" Clark had called her to say that he had something very important to tell her.

"I have to show you something Lois." Lois always seemed to have a commanding presence. She seemed intimidating even to a man invulnerable to anything on earth. "My parents found something in the meteor shower years ago." He was not sure how to say this with out sounding like a loon. "Here I'll show you."

"Come on don't tell me I drove all the way out here to see some space rock." She had come to think of Clark as a good friend someone that she could rely on. The sound of his voice on the phone had sounded frightened.

"Just follow me" he led her through the barn to a set of old storm doors that opened to a small basement. "Down here"

Lois followed Clark down a set of old wooden stairs. In the middle of the room was a large object covered by a brown tarp. "Come on Smallville you better have a good explanation for this." Clark had lit an old oil lamp hanging from the ceiling.

"There aren't very many people I've shown this too" Clark was having second thoughts.

"Let's get this over with ok." She was starting to mad, she had come here thinking he needed her to help him trough more Lana related trouble. However, this whole charade was getting out of hand.

"Ok but what ever you do don't freak out ok." Clark moved over to the tarp and quickly flung the fabric off his space ship.

What Lois saw in front of her was sick. She had never felt more made at Clark then she did right then, and it showed her face went red she had to clench her fists together to keep from screaming.

She had been in a state of complete emotional upheaval wondering how she was going to fix whatever part of Clarks heart Lana had broken this time. However, to have Clark drag her down to a cellar to pull some sort of prank on her was just too much.

Then something unexpected happened. Clark had pulled some sort of metal disk out of his pocket and fitted it into a slot on the would be spacecraft. However much to Lois's dismay the ship reacted to the disk and the egg shaped center of the craft changed, shifted, a hatch was revealed. Inside the ship was a soft cushion like that of a baby bed. All along the side of the odd looking crib where crystalline structures. However, this was not all, if it where Lois could have chalked it up to some sort of prop from a movie. However, once the hatch was open Clark reached inside and began lifting crystals from there place and sliding them down into small glass cylinders. After Clark had moved several crystals, a voice could be heard coming from the craft. After a second a holographic image appeared. The image was that of a gray haired man wearing strange white colored robes. Lois was beside herself, there was not an explanation for this. Then it finally hit her regardless of the fact that this all sounded absurd. The reporter in her could not help putting together the facts. Clark had said this had been in the meteor shower that had occurred nearly 15 years ago. Moreover, the Kent's had found it. The shower took place about same time that the Kent's had adopted Clark. The final piece of the puzzle came crashing down like a ton of bricks. The man in the image looked almost exactly like Clark.

She needed to sit down. With out saying a word Lois turned around and climbed the stairs back to the barn. She could here Clark say something to her but she did not want to talk to him. All she wanted to do was relax and let her mind rest so she could figure out a way to make sense of this.

Clark slowly walked up the steps. Lois had mad it over to the steps to his loft and was sitting down starring out into nothingness. He wanted to console her but he knew better. She needed time to think things through. Turning away Clark walked outside and started to bounce a baseball off the side of the barn.

Lois was lost. She could not make heads or tails of anything running through her head. A part of her wanted to say that she should not be surprised. With everything that seems to happen around Clark, she should have seen this coming. When it came down to the facts there are hundreds of people he has saved in this town. It dawned on Lois that Clark must have thought very deeply about her to expose himself like this. Every one of her reporters' instincts told her what the media would do if they found out about all of this. He would be a freak show and no matter what he deserved better. He needed her to be there for him, when all else failed she would be there, she cared for him to much to let him go it alone.

Clark was tossing a baseball in his hands when Lois stepped out of the barn. She looked deferent she was smiling but not the wry smile she usually had plastered on her face. Her smile was completely genuine. Her arms where half crossed behind her back as she slowly walk up to where Clark stood.

"How are you doing?" Clark said out of confusion

"I'm fine, I'll admit that you threw me for a real loop." She had stopped walking and was now standing about five feet from Clark. "But I am proud that you would be brave enough to tell me the truth. I'm also glad that you felt you could trust me."

"I'm tired of lying. Not necessarily about my secret, but you are too important to my life. I couldn't leave you in the dark any longer." Clark took a step forward and took a long look at Lois's face. She was perfect, more than perfect because she was not afraid.

In a moment of true love, they kissed. Neither knew why, there souls seemed to touch on a level only god could have seen.