Clark, Pete and Peter walked into the house.

"Hi! Mom!"

"Hi, Mrs. Kent," Pete said spying a plate of chocolate chip cookies. He picks one up and starts munching on it.

"Mom, this is Peter Parker. My friend from New York."

Peter extended his hand to Martha, "Nice to meet you."

"It is very nice to meet you, finally." Martha said and pointed to the plate of cookies. "Go ahead and get one before Pete eats all of them."

"Alright."

"Mrs. Kent, these cookies are excellent." Pete said with his mouth still full of food.
Everyone turned around as they heard footsteps coming down the stairs.

"Hey, dad," Clark said, "This is Peter Parker."

Jonathan eyed him suspiciously as he continued into the kitchen toward everyone.
Peter walked over to Jonathan and extended his hand, "It is very nice to meet you."

Jonathan didn't say anything, but looked down at his hand which now had chocolate chip cookie smudged on it.

Peter looked down and was instantly embarrassed, "Oh, I am so sorry."

Martha gave Jonathan a look telling him he'd had enough fun with the boy and he looked back at Peter and smiled.

"It's okay." Jonathan walked over and got a napkin and wiped his hand, "I want to thank you for helping bring my son home. You don't know how much that means to me."

"Thank you, sir."

"Just do two things for me, okay? "

"What is that, sir?"

"Call me Mr. Kent and make yourself at home, okay?" Jonathan said.

"Okay. I can do that," Peter responded smiling.

"I am going to take Peter to the Talon and then go to the Torch," Clark said.

"Alright sweetie," Martha replied.

Clark, Pete and Peter arrive at the Talon. Peter looked up at the billboard, "What exactly is this place?"

Pete answered, "It's a coffee house and place for everyone to hang out. Lana runs it." Pete grinned at Clark when as said the last part.

Peter decided to get in on the ribbing. "How is that going by the way?"

"We are just friends at the moment." Clark said.

They entered the Talon and walked up to the counter to place their order.

"Hi, Clark, Pete" Lana said. "Who is your new friend?"

"Hi, I'm Peter Parker, "he said extending his hand, "nice to meet you."

"Same here."

"So, you run this place?" Peter questioned, "It seems like a really cool place to hang out."

Lana smiled, "Thanks. So, what is everyone's order?"

Lana returned a few minutes later with everyone's order.

"Thanks, Lana." Clark said as they started to leave.
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Clark, Pete and Peter walked into the Torch seeing Chloe sitting behind one of the computers working on the latest edition of the torch.

"Chloe, we are on Fall Break now, " Pete said, "that means no school work."

"Pete, there is always work to be done here." Chloe retorted having yet to look up from the computer screen.

"Chloe, we have a new admirer of your Wall of Weird," Clark said.
This finally got her complete attention and looked up to see Pete and Clark had someone with them.
Clark saw Chloe looking at Peter, "Chloe, this is my friend Peter Parker."

"Hi. I was told I had to meet you and find out about your Wall of Weird." Peter extended his hand toward Chloe. She shook his hand and looked between Pete and Clark and saw they both had innocent grins on their face. She looked at Peter and had to admit he was kinda cute.

"I see that my reputation proceeds me," Chloe remarked. "So, Peter are you really Spiderman's personal photographer. I mean how does that work?"

"I see my reputation also proceeds me," Peter blushed, "Uh, I guess I am just lucky and I am in the right place at the right time."

"Um Hmmm."

"So, are you going to show me your Wall of Weird?" Peter asked trying to change the subject.

"Sure." She got up and walked over to her morphed scrapbook wall. "I started this after the meteor shower--that's when all the weirdness started."

Peter looked over the wall at the different news articles about two headed cows and different other mutations.

"You think that all of this" Peter paused as he waved his hand in front of him, "was caused by the meteors?"

"Yes, I do." Chloe answered, "There is no scientific evidence that supports my theory though. We had a local scientist that studied the meteors, but he was laughed out of the scientific community because of his ideas that the meteors could affect things."

"So, what about this article?" Peter said pointing to one entitled Superboy.

"Yeah, that is Eric Summers. He is one of the many meteor freaks that have some of up in the past." Chloe remarked.

"Meteor freaks?" Peter questioned.

"That is what we call the people who have been affected by the meteor shower," Chloe said. "But, this one was slightly different."

"How was it different?"

"He was struck by lightning," Chloe answered. "Then he just seemed to develop these abilities over night. He was really strong. At first, he seemed like a good guy. He even saved my purse from a robber."

Peter could since there was a 'but' coming. "Then what happened?"

"His parents freaked out and called the cops on him. He then trashed several police cars and his house. He somehow went back to normal and is now in Belle Reve for psychiatric help. If you want to know more about it you should ask Clark, he was there when the paramedics came to get Eric."

Peter noticed out of the corner of his eye that Clark was getting uncomfortable with the conversation. "Chloe, this is a really impressive display and you may be unto something here."

"You really think so?"

"Yeah." Peter answered. "How could this many different occurrences be a fluke?"

Chloe decided she would take a chance. She normally wouldn't do this especially with someone she had just met, but curiosity was winning out over her better judgment. "So, Peter, do you have someone special or you the admirer from afar type?" Chloe said as she glanced over at Clark sitting in a nearby chair talking with Pete.

Peter smiled brightly. "I have someone. I gave up the admiring from afar and decided to go for it."

"I am glad it worked out for you." Chloe replied. "Maybe you could give someone else some pointers."

"It didn't work out to start with," Peter stated, "I was afraid to let anybody get close."

Chloe was curious, "How did it work out?"

"She decided she wasn't going to let me go." Peter remarked.
Chloe stood there thinking about what Peter said as he turned back to Clark and Pete. Clark got up from the chair he was sitting in pushing on the armrest. "We're going to go, Chloe."

"Okay."

"Yeah, and don't work too hard this is Fall Break." Pete reminded.

"Alright, bye guys."

Chloe then walked back over to the computer to try and straighten things up. Chloe picked up a stack of papers she had been working with and walked across the room to the filing cabinet. Halfway there she dropped one of them and bent over to pick it up. As her head came back up her eyes fell upon the nearby chair arm. She didn't move for a moment and just stared at it. The end of the metal chair was bent down and it looked like there were finger shaped indentions on it.

The papers she was holding fell to the ground as she shakily extended a hand toward the chair. She rubbed her hand over the chair arm and there was definitely indentations there. She racked her brain to try and come up with a logical explanation for what she was seeing.

"Okay, Chloe. You know you are not hallucinating." She looked up at her unopened coffee cup. "You haven't had anything put in your drink." She covered her mouth with her hand as a thought occurred to her. Clark had been sitting there just a few minutes before.

Peter, Clark and Pete are walking down the hall out of the school. "Clark, you told me something one time and I feel I should return the favor."

"Oh, really."

"Yes," Peter retorted. "It's the only right thing to do."

"Well then by all means go ahead."

"Alright," Peter responded. "Clark, Chloe has feelings for you."

Clark seemed slightly exasperated. "Peter, Chloe and I are just friends."

"That may be the way you feel," Peter said. "But, that is not the way she feels."

"Yeah, Clark is usually oblivious to things right in front of his face."

"Pete!" Clark exclaimed.

"Hey, I'm jut stating the facts, man." Pete said putting his hand on Clark's shoulder.

As the guys reached the car, Clark looked back and his eyes locked with Chloe's
for a moment unaware of what she had just seen.