Chapter Eleven

Rivals Of No Affection

Clark followed alongside his blonde cousin, both carrying at least three bales of hay each, as they were finishing up a few chores that needed to be done around the Kent Farm. The task that had been given them at the moment was rather simple, for the two super powered teens anyways, and loading up the back of the family's pickup truck with a full load of hay to be sent out to feed the cattle. The bales they were carrying were the last that needed to be loaded in before taking the truck out. At the extended tail gate, Clark stopped and tossed in the two bales he had been carrying and then stepped off to the side so that way Kara could toss in her own load as well. Kara had been carrying three bales, two upon her shoulder with an arm holding them stable and the third bale being held in her free hand, the one in her hand she tossed in first before starting to set down the other two bales from off her shoulder.

"That's all of them." Clark announced, and none to soon as his hearing picked the sounds of gravel crunching under rolling tires that were headed up the driveway. Snapping his head round to see who it was that was coming up the drive, his blue eyes became rather wide as he watched a silver Caviler coming up the drive in plain sight of the pickup truck and the impossible feat being performed by his cousin. Looking over at Kara, Clark acted quickly, pushing the bales of her shoulder with one hand so that way they could get rid of any evidence before Chloe pulled up all the way.

The sudden push on the bales caused them to topple into the bed of the truck, but it also caused Kara to momentarily loose her sense of balance, and Kara fumbled forward and hit the open tail gate almost face down. Before she hit, Kara had put her hands out in tie to catch herself while the hay bales rocked around before her face. Pushing herself up off the tailgate, Kara scowled over at her cousin, as she couldn't understand what in Sam-hell caused him to push her like that. "Clark, what the hel…" Kara trailed off as Clark pointed over at the now parked Caviler, the realization now of why Clark had done what he had done dawned on her as she meekly raised a hand and waved at her short haired friend who was getting out of the said car. "Hello Chloe." She greeted while then jabbing Clark in the ribs with her elbow before muttering out of the corner of her mouth. "You could have said something."

"Sorry, it was all I could think of." Clark replied while giving Kara a sideways apologetic look, to which he just received a small grin and roll of the eyes from her in return. However, the rather chipper voice of Chloe Sullivan caused Clark to look back over at his friend as she approached the two of them with a broad smile on her face. "Hey Chloe." He greeted with a smile in his tone of voice as one was starting form upon his face.

"Hey guys. No shortage of work to be done around here I see." Chloe mused while grinning at the two Kent teens after coming to a stop just before them.

Kara shook her head while grinning in reply to Chloe's teasing remark. "Nope, never." She returned while relaxing into an easy stance that took her tall stature down a bit so as not to overshadow her friend. "So how are you feeling?" Kara asked, in reference of course to the fact that it had been about a week since the car accident that ran Chloe off the road. Car accidents just weren't something you walked away from unharmed and feeling fine and dandy about afterwards, and Kara knew this fact to a certain extent from just hearing her cousin's wife tell her about a car accident she had been in one time.

"I'm fine, doctor said that there might be some pain in the neck for a while but that's common in most car accidents anyways." Chloe replied while waving off her friend's concern, though she knew they were of course worried about her. "Anyways, I came by because I wanted to drop this off for Kara." Chloe stated while pulling out from her side bag a copy of a newspaper, and not just any newspaper but the next edition of The Torch. "I figured you'd like to have the first copy since you helped me out with the new heading for our front page article." She explained as Kara took the newspaper from her and unfolded it to star at the front page.

Clark leaned in towards his cousin's side to see the article as well, his brows rising a bit in surprise to see the emblazoned full colored S-shield at the side of the main article with heading – The S-Shield of Smallville. Reading over it, more than likely about as fast as Kara was reading the article, Clark glanced over at his cousin with a hidden look of shock underlying the amused appearance he was currently forcing for the sake of keeping Chloe from jumping him with a million questions. Still half looking at his cousin, Clark glanced over at Chloe. "Wow, you wrote about Supergirl." He commented while at the same time wondered what it was his cousin was thinking at that moment as she still seemed to be reading the article, either that or she was just too completely dumbfounded to say anything at the moment.

Chloe nodded her head in reply to this, a bright smile upon her face. "Yep, what else is there to write about when all everyone talks about is this new superhero who can stop bullets with her bare hands, bring huge eighteen wheelers to a quick and sudden halt without hurting the driver, and save me and Kara from a fatal car accident? I mean, seriously Clark, her appearance has become a whole lot bigger than the meteor shower." Chloe stated while shooting a quick glance over at Kara. "So, Kara, what do you think of the layout?" she asked.

"It's great Chloe." Kara replied while finally looking up from the paper and giving Chloe a true smile, nothing was hidden behind that smile at all, and Kara meant what she said. Reading just a part of the article caused a sense of both pride in the fact that she had been able to do so much good in this part of time and yet there was a sense of homesickness that started to arise within Kara. "I don't think anybody else could have done a better job, well, save for the Daily Planet." She teased a bit while folding the paper up and grinning over at Chloe.

Chloe laughed a bit at this in response to Kara's remarks and comments and then pulled her keys out of her jacket pocket. "Well, I'm glad to hear it." She stated while picking out her car key. "Anyways, I just wanted to stop by and drop this off for you before I went off to get involved with my unending day of running various errands all over Smallville." Chloe explained while gesturing a bit to the paper that Kara now held.

Kara nodded her head in understanding to this while still smiling at her friend. "Yeah, same here for me and Cark, expect we're doing more of the chore thing than the running errands one." She joked while glancing over at her cousin. Clark only offered a somewhat sheepish grin of his own before nodding in agreement with what Kara had said.

This suddenly gave Chloe any idea that she quickly made verbal for both Clark and Kara to hear as well. "Hey, how about we meet up at the Talon later on today to take a break for a while and just hang out?" she suggested while looking between the two of them with a hopeful look upon her face.

Clark and Kara exchanged glances with one another and then after silently agreeing, they looked back to Chloe, Clark answering for them. "Yeah sure, that sounds like a good idea." He stated while Kara nodded her blonde head in accompaniment to this. "How about we meet at the Talon around three?"

"Sounds good." Chloe replied while taking her steps backwards toward her Caviler. "I'll see you guys at three." She restated while getting into her car and starting it up. Watching Chloe put her car into gear to turn about in the open crushed gravel driveway to head back down the long drive leading up to the house and away to the road.

After Chloe left, Clark looked over at his cousin who had tucked the folded newspaper under her arm s that way her hands were free to shut the tail gate of the pickup. "So I take it then that you knew Chloe wrote an article about you?" he asked while coming around to her left side and stood against the side of the truck. When Kara nodded then looked over at him, Clark had a bit of a perplexed look on his face for the moment. "And you're okay with that?"

"Don't worry Clark, I'm used to having things written about me in the papers, good or bad." Kara replied while turning to face Clark. "But then again, I guess a first impression in any paper is always the most important when it comes to your introduction as a superhero to the rest of the world." She stated while grinning a bit at him before winking afterwards.

Clark gave a small laugh that he kept trapped behind his lips for the moment and then nodded his head towards the cab of the truck. "Come on, we still need to get this hay out to cattle before we can head into town and meet up with Chloe." He reminded her while then walking off towards the driver side.

"Uh, just a thought here, why do you always get to drive?" Kara asked while walking over to the passenger side of the cab and shooting an unamused look while taking a hold of the door handle and waited for her cousin's reply, to which she only received a short laugh from him in return.

Seeing as how she seemed to be looking serious, Clark raised a brow while opening the door on his side. "Well, I don't believe you have a driver's license. Besides, can't you just fly wherever you want as well as run?" he teased while then getting into the cab, ending their conversation like in a way he knew would annoy her in a good way.

A small scowl crossed Kara's brow at this remark and she got into the pickup as well, and as soon as the door was closed Kara shot a look over at Clark. "That was just mean." She stated while crossing her arms over her chest and giving Clark her best look of hurt as well in accompaniment.

This only caused Clark to grin at his cousin's acting skills and replied to them by merely reaching over with a hand and tussled her corn silk blonde locks in a way that flipped most of her hair over her face like a curtain. Kara slowly pushed her hair back out of her face and just mock glared at her cousin as he laughed while starting up the pickup truck to drive them out to the cattle pasture. The drive took somewhere around five to ten minutes since all the cattle had moved farther out to the last feeding stile. Even though the pace was incredibly slower than what Kara was used to traveling at, it was rather enjoyable to have the window down and admiring the surreal and peaceful settings of heartland. While Kara stared out the passenger window with a content look on her face, her hearing started to pick up something far off in the distance. Something that sounded like a distressed cry of a young person, someone very young, a child even from what Kara was picking up with her super hearing. Concentrating further upon the sound, isolating it out from all others, Kara could feel her muscles tensing up as now knew that her responsibility as a superhero was needed right away.

Looking quickly over at Clark, Kara held a somewhat stern and worried look upon her face that caught his attention off the road before them. "Clark, I'll meet you at the cattle pasture." She stated while unlocking the door beside her.

"What? Where are you going?" Clark asked while slowing the pickup down and then came to a complete stop altogether.

Kara started to open the door, but stopped part way to look over at her cousin and answer his questions. "Someone's in trouble, I have to go." She answered quickly and then after giving Clark a quick smile that he returned in his own, Kara jumped out the truck cab and then after taking a few steps away from the truck itself, Kara looked around quickly to make sure that no one else was around to see her then take to the air and disappear as her rate of acceleration was incredible. While slicing through the air miles from the surface, Kara peeled off her civilian attire to reveal the uniform of Supergirl underneath. Swooping down so that her body hovered above the ground a few feet, Supergirl passed through a small woodland grove and dropped the bundle containing her jeans, shirt, jacket, and shoes off within the tallest perch of a tree as Supergirl shot back up into the air.

Soaring through the sky and following after the sounds of distressed cries, Supergirl rocketed near halfway across Smallville before she spotted pluming clouds of pitch-black smoke billowing off an inferno of a fire that consumed what appeared to be a farm house. Pulling her flight into a pause, Supergirl hovered within the arms of the sky and used her telescopic vision to quickly asses the situation before then turning her body down towards the earth and streaked down in a blur of red and blue. Down below, the farmhouse belonging to a family of four had caught on fire after the stove experienced an electrical problem after being turned on. Before the family knew it, their home was engulfed in flames. Luckily enough the mother who had been home with her two four-year-old twins had her cell phone on her and dialed 9-1-1, however things took a turn for the worse as one of the twins ran back into the house to retrieve the family cat.

"NO! MICHAEL!" The mother screamed while running towards the towering inferno her child had taken back into. Before she even got near the porch, an eruption of flames exploded and sent what glass there had remained within the windows to shatter out in a rain that drove the panicked mother backwards. The fear of loosing her son now to the fingers of intense heat that consumed the home they had loved in since before the twins were born, gripped her in a vice that shook her frame as she clutched the cell phone to her chest and wept. Her other son, the other twin named Sam, held on to her leg while burying his face there and cried.

As another explosion shot out from the house, it all seemed hopeless, that is until the sudden dive of something coming out of the sky shot down at an angle and entered the house from the outside of the second floor. Moments later the same object shot straight up and out of the roof of the farmhouse and held to it the small body of a four-year-old and a small furry ball of orange in a protective shield before coming down out of the sky to land near the shaken mother who watched in a state of unmovable awe as Supergirl touched down in front of her with her son and family cat cradled in her arms covered in a some black ash but unharmed to say the least. Supergirl walked towards the mother and held an assuring smile upon her face before handing over the young boy. Taking Michael in her arms, the mother hugged him close as a wave of over flowing joy washed over her. Looking to Supergirl, who was setting the orange tabby cat on the ground, the mother held a look of deep gratitude and thankfulness for what this young hero had done for her. "Thank you Supergirl, thank you."

Supergirl shook her blonde head lightly while still smiling. "You don't need to thank me. I was just doing my job." She replied while then turning about on her heel to face the still burning home. Taking in a deep breath, Supergirl then exhaled it in one mighty blow of ice cold air that swept across the burning home, the flames being extinguished all together from the gale force that drove through. In a moment the fire was out and most of the home was still standing with its insides charred completely for the most part. A sense of slight depression overcame Supergirl as she stared at the ruins of what had been this family's home. Her shoulders sagged as she thought upon what they were going to have to go through in order to remake their lives.

"My husband's great grandfather had to rebuild this house years ago when it caught fire during an electrical storm." The mother stated while coming to stand beside the heroine with her children. As Supergirl's blue-eyed gaze turned towards her, the mother smiled at her. "We'll rebuild like he did, and go on with our lives."

A brief smile passed over Supergirl's face at the words of the mother. It was times like these when brief words of encouragement to the superheroes from the ones they saved that made what they did all that more important. Seeing the look upon the mother's face, a look of determination and gratitude towards her, Supergirl knew that they would be fine. Glancing down at the two boys who were sticking close to their mother, she then knelt down a bit to come to their level and smile at them. Looking specifically at the one named Michael, she grinned a bit at him. "Next time if there's a fire, don't go back inside even for your cat. You really scared your mom there buddy." She stated while reaching out a white-gloved hand and ruffled the boy's hair lightly. "Alright?"

Michael nodded his head vigorously in response before looking up t his mom with an apologetic look on his face. Supergirl stood up on her feet and then before taking back to the sky she made sure that everyone was okay and then after giving a wave she was up and off headed back towards the Kent Farm to meet up with Clark.

At the cattle paddock, Clark had just about finished with the feeding of the cattle when out of the sky dropped down his cousin, redressed in her civilian attire.

"Everything okay?" Clark asked while jumping down out of the bed of the truck as Kara was touching down upon the earth.

"Somewhat. There was a fire a good ways from here and a kid ran back into the house after the cat." Kara explained while running a hand through her hair and fixing her mussed bangs so that way they swept off to the left instead of sitting over her eyes. "But everyone's okay and the fire's out." She stated while grinning at her cousin. "So, did you leave anything for me to do?" Kara asked while glancing into the back of the pickup truck. There were only to bales of hay left.

Clark laughed while coming to her side and gazed in at the two bales as well. "Maybe." He teased while reaching in grabbing one bale with his hand. "You can take the other one."

"Wow, thanks Clark." Kara joked while grabbing the left behind bale and followed Clark over to the hay stile where he showed her how to pull apart the leaves of the bale so that way they were separated equally before being tossed in between the bars of the stile. With the work done, the two cousins got back inside the truck to head back to the farm so they could wash up before heading off into town to meet up with Chloe at the Talon.


Chloe nearly burst in through the doors of the Talon with a look on her face that betrayed her of the fact that she had something really important to tell to whomever she caught sight of first. And the first person she saw inside the Talon was Lana Lang working behind the front counter. Making a beeline for Lana at the front counter, Chloe weaved in and out of the surrounding customers and within seconds that would make the speed in which Clark and Kara could move at seem slow. "Lana!" Chloe spoke the brunette's name as she set down her purse upon the counter top and literally caused the young woman to jump while putting away clean dishes.

"Chloe, hey, what's up?" Lana asked while trying to calm down the fast pace in which her heart was now racing at after being startled by Chloe's sudden appearance.

The shorthaired blonde no longer held back what news she had, and split it all out for Lana to hear. "The Peterson farm nearly burned down!" she exclaimed, her somewhat loud tone of voice catching the attention of a few who were nearby enough to hear it in the first place.

The look on Lana's face held a sense of deep concern, as she knew the Petersons through her aunt Nell. Setting aside what dishes she still hel din her hands, Lana then moved closer to the counter and set her arms across the top in a folded manner and then leaned towards Chloe to keep their conversation more private. "What happened?" Lana asked, as she knew more than likely Chloe would have all the information needed when it came to something like this.

"Apparently it was the stove caught fire and it just took the whole house. From what I heard, one of the twin boys, Michael I think, ran back into the house to save the family cat which was still inside." Chloe explained while catching the rather paled look that took over Lana's complexion as all color drained at the mention of the small child running back into a burning house. "However, just after Michael ran inside you'll never guess who showed up to save the day." Chloe stated while seemingly taking on a brighter look than before as this story of tragic lose and possible death was coming up on a decent happy ending. The quizzical look on Lana's face that first appeared suddenly disappeared as now figured out the happy ending. "The mom said that Supergirl just dived into the burning building straight from the sky and then came straight up out of the roof with both Michael and the family cat." Chloe grinned broadly while at the same time she wished she could have seen this feat performed for herself. "The fire was even put out before the fire trucks showed up."

This new piece of information had Lana giving Chloe a very confused look. Thus far the brunette knew of several of Supergirl's abilities like most of the people in Smallville – super-strength, the ability of flight, invulnerability, and super-speed. "How was the fire put out then?" Lana asked while trying to figure this little mystery out for herself, only to have Chloe answer it for her with a somewhat odd reply.

"That's the weird thing, Mrs. Peterson said that Supergirl blew it out like a candle." Chloe answered while then giving Lana a look that matched her own including the raised brow.

Both girls became rather silent as they tried to figure out how that was even possible in the first place. No human could just blow out a raging fire that was consuming a building, but then again no human could fly, catch bullets with their hands, stop huge trailers, and travel at speeds breaking Mach 5. There's just no way. Chloe mused as she mauled over the subject at hand. I have to get an interview with Supergirl and find out who she is and where she comes from. It's the only way we'll ever really know anything about her other than the fact that she's a superhero. Chloe started to absent-mindedly bite upon her bottom lip as she thought out a plan to get an interview with this new icon of crime fighting and day saving. Lana on the other hand was thinking near the same things, only she was trying to piece together another mystery all in its own that she was going to keep to herself for the time being until it was the right time to share it aloud.

It was when the doors of the Talon opened again that Lana looked up from her private musings and spotted the newest set of customers that had come in, a grin cutting across her attractive face, as she knew these faces. "Hey guys." She greeted cheerfully as the blonde and black haired cousins came up to the counter with Kara now of course leading the way.

Chloe looked back over her shoulder after Lana's face lit up with a smile to see who it was that caused the brunette girl to change her demeanor so suddenly. Now seeing that it was the two Kent teens who had come in, Chloe turned the rest of her body about as a smile came across her face as well upon seeing them. "Wow, you're actually on time Clark." She teased in mocking of his usual lateness that Clark Kent was best known for most of the time. This in turn received a slightly sheepish grin from Clark as he approached the counter with his cousin. "Maybe Kara should travel with you more often." Chloe stated while nodding at the blonde who had come to her side and now stood at the counter with her grinning a bit in response having been mentioned.

"Are you calling me Clark's watch now?" Kara asked while tilting her sideways a bit while still holding to her grin.

Lana gave a soft chuckle to this before turning about to set to work on the back counter with the usual drinks she knew her friends took every time they came into the Talon. "Is it still a White Chocolate Latte Kara?" she asked while looking over her shoulder at the blonde who had suddenly turned her attention towards her in response. The nod from Kara's head confirmed Lana's first assumption and the brunette set to work on the drink.

"So Clark, did you and Kara hear about what happened out at the Peterson Farm?" Chloe asked while now taking her big news to a fresh set of ears virgin to the passed event. Although the two cousins knew exactly what had happened out at that farm without having to hear the story, they gave Chloe questioning looks anyways for her to go on ahead and tell them. "They're house caught fire in the early afternoon." Chloe explained to them while still holding to the same vigor that she had before when telling Lana the news. "Mrs. Peterson said that Supergirl showed up and saved her son, who had run back in for the cat, and even extinguished the fire as well."

Kara gave Chloe an acted look of shock and disbelief that Clark seemed to mimic almost perfectly, but none to alike as it would then seem as though he was hiding something, and Chloe had a talent for spotting this before you even had a chance to say or do anything else. However it was Clark who spoke up first before anything suspicious was picked up. "Really? That's probably the smoke we saw in the sky then." Clark glanced over at Kara, who nodded in agreement to this. They were getting a whole lot better at making cover up stories for each other and mainly for Kara.

Chloe nodded her head vigorously to this, as she was sure that's what they had seen as well. "Anyways, I was just about to tell Lana before you guys showed up, that the only way we're ever going to get the full -scoop on Supergirl, who she, where she comes from, what her exact powers are, if I can get an interview with her and print it in The Torch." Chloe explained her idea to her friends, who all then gave her rather surprised looks, a shocked one coming from Kara.

"Well good luck trying to find her before The Daily Planet or anyone else does Chloe." Lana stated while bringing over a tray holding the drinks she had made up for them. Passing out each individual drink to them, Lana looked over at the front door as it had just opened again and raised a curious brow at the woman who had just walked in. She looked no older than maybe twenty at the most, long blonde hair that was darker than Kara's, big blue grey eyes framed in mascara and dark eye shadow for a smoky eye effect, painted lips, dark red fingernails, and dressed in a very expensive looking flowing pink skirt and matching spaghetti tank top bedazzled all over the front with shinny beads and sequins; and she was making a direct beeline war path for Kara in a pair of stiletto heels. "Uh, Kara, I think there's someone here to see you." Lana whispered while then gesturing with a slight flick of her head towards the approaching from behind her friend.

Kara's brow wrinkled a bit in response to this as she couldn't think of anyone who would come to the Talon looking for her, unless of course it was possibly Pete, Lex, Martha, Jonathan, Wally, or John. Still confused by what Lana had meant, Kara turned about and came almost face to face with the blonde woman who had walked in and now stood before her. Almost face-to-face meant, well; even with those stiletto heels this woman wasn't even eye level with the near six foot two Kara who almost gave Clark a challenge in height. Even with the height difference, the woman glared venom at Kara silently for a moment which just further confused the Kryptonian youth as she stared back with a n innocent and surprised look on her own face.

"Are you Kara Kent?" The woman asked slowly, her eyes narrowed dangerously upon the teen as she spoke.

"Uh, yeah." Kara answered and then was met with a smack across the face that caught her off guard enough to throw her into a look of shock and have her place a hand upon the cheek struck. It didn't even hurt at all, but just the fact this woman had the gully to just suddenly smack her for answering to her own name, Kara was thoroughly confused.

When the woman had smacked her, both Lana and Chloe drew in sharp breathes at first and then glared at the woman angrily for having struck their friend like that for no apparent reason. Clark just stared with a rather dumbfounded look on his face after the whole event occurred, partially wondering if that woman's hand was now hurting after having smacked someone who was like solid steel. After the whole shock of what happened passed though, Clark became rather aggravated that someone had hit his cousin like that. Stepping up to Kara's side, Clark gave the woman a rather disapproving look. "Why did you just slap my cousin?" he asked in a tone of voice that sounded still very shocked rather than angry for the moment.

The woman shifted her gaze momentarily to Clark and glared at him. "It's none of your business hick." She snapped and then turned her glare to the other two girls beside and behind Kara. "You two hens better do the same as well, and stay out of this."

Chloe looked ready to jump at the woman and tear into her had it not been for Kara stepping in her path of direction, her hand coming off her cheek. Her blue eyes stared back at the woman with an underlying intensity that promised no further toleration of insults thrown about at her family and friends. "Hey, if you have a problem with me, fine, but don't insult my friends and my family." Kara stated while struggling to keep herself from letting forth an outburst of anger. Cam down, Kara. Think about what Kal would do and how he would treat this type of a situation. "What do you want from me?"

The blonde woman continued to glare at Kara while then setting her hands upon her sharp hips. "I want you to stay away from Lex Luthor, that's what I want from you." She near snarled while sneering venomously.

This sudden statement caused all four teens to become thoroughly confused and shocked all at the same time as they stared at this woman. This was what the whole slapping thing and the insults were all about? Lana muttered something under her breath while looking off towards her right so that way the blonde haired woman wouldn't hear or see her saying something. Chloe on the other hand still looked like she wanted to tear this lady apart, even with Kara blocking her path to the woman. Shaking her head a moment to show just how confused she was by all this, Kara looked at the woman with a furrowed brow. "Look I have no idea what you're talking about." She stated bluntly to explain not just her own confusion over this, but everyone else's as well.

A sneer crossed the blonde woman's face at this and then that was when she tried to get up in Kara's face, although that proved rather difficult seeing as how Kara stood much taller than her. "Just stay away from Lex Luthor." She hissed before then giving everyone a last glare and then turned about on her heel to then storm out of the Talon and disappear from sight, leaving the four friends still in a silent state.

"Well, that was interesting." Kara stated in a sarcastic tone of voice that had Lana trying very hard not to burst into a fit of laughter how laid back Kara was being about this and joking. Looking over at Clark, Kara raised a brow. "What do you think that was all about?" she asked.

There was still a slightly annoyed look upon Clark's face that he was trying to get rid of after having watched someone just come up and lash out upon his cousin like that. The funny thing was, even though Clark and Kara had made up the cover story of her being his cousin, Clark felt as though that cover could be in fact very real seeing as how the two of them hail from a dead planet with the same name – Krypton, so to watch someone he considered part of a his family be treated like that made his blood boil a bit even though he knew Kara probably never felt any pain from the slap. Shrugging his shoulders in response to Kara's question, Clark did then give a rather odd look upon his face as though he were taking the shrug back as if he suddenly remembered something he had forgotten about. "Well, maybe it's new girlfriend of Lex's that took something small way too far." He suggested while also trying to solve this little mystery as well for the sake of satisfying his own sense of growing curiosity.

"I don't care what her problem is." Chloe started up, still looking rather pissed off by the actions of the woman who had come and gone. "She had no right coming in here like that to just slap Kara, insult the rest of us and then turn around and threaten Kara over something none of us are even wise about." The tone of voice Chloe held showed just how angry and frustrated she was with the whole situation though it had already passed.

Kara reached over and set a hand on Chloe's shoulder with a rather blank look upon her face. "Chloe, breath." She stated in such a monotone manner it had Lana now laughing into the back of her hand and Clark trying not to fall within the trap of laughter as well.

The look on Chloe's face broke and soon she too was grinning broadly at what had been said. "I'll try." Chloe replied and then took a drink from her now warm coffee that had been waiting for a while now to be consumed.