Chapter 6

"Clark!" Chelsea gasped as she woke up. Pete, hearing the noise ran out to the siblings. "Clark?" Chelsea moaned again.

"Im right here." He said. He picked her up and carried her into the house. Clark Carefully laid his little sister onto the coach while Pete got an ice pack.

"Are you hurt? What happened?" Pete asked

Chelsea coughed and regained her composure. "I don't know. I was just going inside and… Nick attacked me."

"Nick Nordan from school?" Clark asked.

"Yeah ." Chelsea nodded.

"Pete, call 911." Clark commanded.

The Police Station

After they were questioned, Clark and Chelsea sat in a small gray room waiting for the officer to return. Through the shades, Chelsea saw a Nick Nordan.

"He is SO lucky I don't snap him in half." Clark said, putting his arm around his sister. At that moment Martha and Jonathan rushed into the room and over to Chelsea.

"Sugar Plum." Jonathan said as he grabbed her into a hug.

"Daddy I'm fine." She said "But there's something I didn't tell the cops." They looked at her questioningly. "When Nick grabbed me, I-I couldn't move."

"Well you were assaulted so I can understand…" Martha said.

"That's not what I mean… I really couldn't move. I felt paralyzed. I felt it run through my body Mom."

They were interrupted by Sheriff Adams. "I'm sorry to keep you folks waiting. I have some bad news."

"Is Chelsea okay?" Martha said trying to stay calm.

"Oh yes. Chelsea, you're 100 percent healthy. We questioned Nick and he says he was at the bowling alley waiting for his brother. Now I checked with Lucile and she said she was working during the time of the alleged assault and sure enough Nick was there."

"So what are you saying Sheriff?" Chelsea asked.

"Well considering the fact that this attack was on the premises of a teenage party…"

"Party?" Jonathan asked "What party?"

"O I stand corrected" Sheriff Adams said "Considering the fact that this attack was on the premises of an unauthorized teenage party, maybe you might have had a bit too much to drink Miss Kent and…"

"I wasn't drinking Sheriff. I don't care if you believe me or not. I saw what I saw and I felt what I felt." Chelsea said.

"What precisely did you feel Miss Kent?"

"I-I.." Chelsea stumbled to find her words. She couldn't exactly tell the woman that she felt paralyzed by the touch of some boy. "I felt scared!" she blurted out "You would too if you were in my position. Now since you're not gonna listen to me, can I go home please." Sheriff Adams walked out without a word. Jonathan rapped his jacket around Chelsea and the Kents went home.

"Chelsea!" Clark whispered, shaking his sister awake the next morning. She dizzily opened her eyes.

"I'm up." She sighed.

"You were moaning and kinda shaking in your sleep. Are you okay?"

"I was having a nightmare. Nick attacked me again and I called out for help, but nobody came. Everyone was just walking around, pretending nothing was happening. Nobody would help me Clark."

"Well its okay. You're awake now and I'll always be there to help you. Come on lets get some breakfast. You haven't eaten in a while."

The two teens were welcomed into the kitchen by the smell of blueberry pancakes. They both sat down and were about to dig in when Martha interrupted them. "Before breakfast, your father and I would like to talk about last night."

Clark spoke first. "I'm really sorry" he said. "The whole party was my idea. Chels tried to talk me out of it, but I didn't listen. I mean you trusted me to take care of her and be responsible and I didn't to either. But there was no alcohol and Chelsea wasn't drinking. She only came into the barn for a minute to look for Tyler."

"We know Clark." Jonathan said. " We knew last night."

"How?" Chelsea asked.

"Because, believe it or not," Martha said "sometimes we're the ones with the super powers. We saw the honesty in your eyes."

"It really sucks that Nick is gonna get away with this." Chelsea sighed

"He's not getting away with anything." Jonathan said. "Do you really think I'd let some punk assault my daughter and get off? Now we're going to figure out what happened last night."

"You said he sent a numbing feeling through you?" Martha asked.

"Wait a minute. Martha didn't the Nordans used to own the field where we found Clark?" Jonathan asked.

"Yeah." She replied "I remember we helped the church raise money to get them their new house."

"Do you think he was affected by the meteor rocks?" Clark asked.

"Its worth a shot to try and figure it out." Chelsea said.

The Nordans house

"Hello?" Martha called out as she walked into the Nordan house with her family. The place was a mess. There were papers everywhere and the television was overturned.

"Where is everybody?" Chelsea asked.

Clark used his x-ray vision and scanned the room. He finally found what looked like for skeletons lying in the basement. The Kents went down into the basement and were shocked to find Nick Nordan, his brother and their parents bound to a post in the room.

"My Lord." Jonathan whispered as Martha knelt down beside Nick's mother.

"Kathleen?" she said. The woman groggily looked up and choked out "Martha. Thank God!"

After they had been untied and taken to the hospital, Nick's family was ready to explain what happened to them to the Kent's and to the authorities.

"On Friday night before dinner we heard a noise down in the basement." Nick began. "My dad and my brother Jake went down to check it out. They were down there for about a minute before me and my mom heard a scream."

"We called down," Kathleen said " and Jake yelled back up that it was nothing and we should come down also. So we did. When we got down there we saw… My husband an my son were bound and gagged and standing above them was… well, an indistinguishable duplicate of Jake. I mean if I didn't see it myself I wouldn't have believed it."

"She kept changing the way she looked. I know it sounds crazy but sometimes she looked like me and sometimes she looked like my dad." Jake said.

"She?" Clark asked.

"Well yeah," Jake continued "Most of the time she looked like this girl. I known I've seen her before but I just don't know where. She kept talking about you Clark. About 'finally settling the score' and 'hitting you where it would hurt the most.' She said you took away her true love."

Before Jake could finish what he was saying, an officer walked in. "I'm sorry to interrupt," he said "A body has been discovered in the house. Mr. Nordan, we need your family to identify if it's the person who held you hostage." He showed Mr. Nordan the picture and he nodded. As the cop was about to leave them, Jake showed the picture to Clark.

"It's Tina Grier!" Clark said. "She was trying to hurt me by hurting Chelsea. I'm sorry "

"Oh Lord it is." Martha said as she saw the picture of a dead Tina Grier and buried her face in Jonathan's chest.

The Loft the next day

Chelsea stayed home from school that day. Exactly seven minutes after the final bell Tyler rushed into the loft to meet her. "Clark told me about what happened. Oh baby are you alright?" he asked kissing her on the hand.

"I'm fine," She assured him. They sat down on the floor and he rapped his arms around her.

"Oh Chels. All day I've been freaking out. I mean just the thought of somebody hurting you. I couldn't take it. I love you so much Chelsea." He started to kiss her neck. She lowered herself so that she was lying down as they continued to kiss. She giggled as he blew on her neck.

"Ty my dad's almost done plowing the field. Both of our brothers are right in the house." Chelsea felt him unhook her bra strap. "We can't…"

"I know," Tyler said lowering his head "honey I understand that you're not ready."

"we can't" she repeated "do this here."

Tyler's eyes became gigantic. "Not here, but somewhere? You're ready? Like really ready?" he asked. Chelsea nodded. "Really Really?" he asked.

"Yes Yes." She laughed nervously.

They took a pillow and a blanket and walked through the woods behind the Kent farm. Chelsea remembered a fort Clark built with Jonathan one summer and they found it. Tyler put placed the pillow and blanket carefully on the dirt floor of the fort and Chelsea and Tyler slowly made their way to the ground. This was their moment.