About an hour passed. Clark was barely breathing, but he was hanging in there, thanks to Lana. Mr. Leo was still dumbly ignorant of it all. Lana and Clark told him that Clark has the flu, and Mr. Leo stupidly believed them.
They were slowly starting to loose hope. But then they saw a plane land close to where the three of them were waiting, holding on with only gray faith. They saw Richard White and Jason (Lana's son) get out of the plane.
(Richard's POV) Mr. Stewart had called and said he had to go to his daughter's concert, so he had to leave the perilous island. He had asked me to come to the island with my plane. I was more than happy to, because beautiful Lana was there. I didn't want my son to get hurt, though, so I had to be careful. But when I got out of the plane, my son started to look nauseous. I wondered if he was coming down with the flu or something. Yeah, that had to be it. "It'll be alright, honey," I reassured my son, "The pain will go away soon."
(Lana's POV) I see the plane land. Finally. We're actually going to get out of this.
(Clark's POV) The pain is getting worse with every second. But Richard and Jason came. No…..the kryptonite will hurt Jason, too. I don't want my son to be in pain…
"We have to go over to the plane. Do you think you can walk?" Lana asks. "I'll try," I say.
(Normal POV) Clark holds onto Lana's shoulder and with her help stumbles over to where the plane is. There is more kryptonite over there. But inside the plane there won't be any….
Richard sees Clark, Lana, and Mr. Leo. "What's wrong?" he asked, stunned to see Clark looking so weak. "We have to go," Lana says quickly and angrily. "Its this place…."
"What do you mean?" Richard asked, confused. "It doesn't matter. This place is killing Clark. Thank God you arrived before it was too late."
They all got into the plane. "What about the story?" Richard asked. "The story doesn't matter anymore," Lana said, "We'll tell Perry White that we couldn't find anything.
"What really happened?" Richard asked.
Meanwhile, Clark was still feeling the after-affects of being exposed to kryptonite for more than six hours in a row.
Nothing made sense to Richard. "What happened?" Richard demanded again. "Even if you don't tell me, eventually I'll put all of the puzzle pieces together," Richard said curtly.
The plane ride was long but soon they were back at Metropolis….
(A/N: These first two chapters were an introduction to get the story started. Sort of like a mini-story before the real story actually starts)
