Chapter Three
Lois took a deep breath, before she ascended up the steps to the loft.
"Smallville, are you up there?"
There was no answer. Just the thumping sound of something being bounced against the wall. Lois sighed. This was going to be harder than she thought. She hoped she did not let the Kents down.
"Clark," she said, as she approached him. "You need to eat. I brought you some snacks."
Clark did not say a word. He just kept bouncing his baseball against the wall. Lois did not even know if he actually realized she was even there.
"Clark, it wasn't your fault. Tim Westcott had everyone thinking Alicia was the one behind the attacks. He fixed it, so everyone would suspect her. Even you. No one had any way of knowing the girl was telling the truth."
Lois' heart began to break, as she watched the tears flow down Clark's face. It was common knowledge that Lois and Clark did not usually get along, but now, seeing the young man in so much anguish in front of her, Lois could not help, but to grab his hand and squeeze it. She tried to think of something else she could do, to help the farm boy see that the tragedy was not his fault.
"Clark, please talk to me," she begged.
"I don't know what to say anymore. Everytime I get close to someone, they get ripped away from me. The really screwed up thing is, someday, everyone, and I mean everyone I love and care about, will be gone. I will be left alone. I get it now. Clark Kent is not meant to have anyone love him, because in the end I will be completely and utterly alone."
"Oh, Clark. You do not mean that. You can't mean that!"
"Lois, believe me when I say, I am not like everyone else. I am as different as anyone can be. There are things about me that I cannot even tell you."
"Clark, you can tell me anything. You and I may not be…well, actually come to think about it, you are my best friend, Clark. Have you not realized that it is you that I come to when I need someone to talk to? I do not go to Chloe as I used to. Ever since I met you, there has been something that has drawn me to you. I know I can trust you, with anything. Now, please let me be the one you trust. I swear that whatever is spoken here, stays between the two of us. I will never tell another soul, unless you give me the okay to do so, and even then, I probably will not."
Clark looked into Lois' eyes at that moment. He knew then, that he could trust this woman with his life.
"Lois, when you look up into the sky, what do you see?"
"Um, stars, I guess."
"You know what I see?"
"What?"
"I see home."
Lois looked at him confused.
"What do you mean?"
"Before I tell you that, let me ask you this. Do you believe in life on other planets, in other galaxies?"
"You mean, like, E.T.?"
Clark chuckled.
"I guess."
"Sure. I mean scientists tell us every day that they are discovering that other planets are almost like Earth."
"Lois, what I am about to tell you can go no further than us. My parents, Chloe, Pete, and Alicia know. Well, Alicia knew. Otherwise, this has to be a complete secret, okay. Can you handle that?"
"Yeah."
"Okay." Clark took a breath. "You know how some people get infected by the meteor rocks, and they get abilities?"
"Yes. Wait a minute. Are you saying you were meteor infected?"
"No, Lois. I am not meteor infected. Actually, I am not even from this galaxy. I am from a planet called Krypton."
"Wow."
"Like the meteor infected people, I have powers. Unlike them, however, I was born with my abilities."
"How did you get here?"
"My parents, my birth-parents that is, put me on a ship and sent me to Earth. I know you have heard Chloe talk about that meteor shower that happened about fifteen to twenty years ago."
"Yeah."
"I was part of that meteor shower. As was fragments of my home planet. The fragments are Kryptonite. The green can make me extremely weak. Too much exposure to it, and I can die. The red makes me lose my inhibitions and makes me do things that I do not want to do. The black literally splits my personalities. The silver makes me paranoid, and the blue makes me lose my abilities."
"What kind of abilities do you have?"
"Superspeed, superstrength, x-ray vision, heat vision, superhearing, superbreath, freezebreath, and according to Jor-El, I should be learning how to fly sometime in the future."
"Who is Jor-El?"
"That is my biological father's name. There is an artificial intelligence thing in the arctic. I have an ice fortress there. My birth name is Kal-El. My mother's name was Lara. When I am on red Kryptonite, I go by the name of Kal. When my personalities are split, part of me is me (Clark Kent), and the other part is Kal-El. If I should ever tell you to call me Kal or tell you that, my name is Kal-El, run as fast as you can in the other direction. Kal or Kal-El is nothing but trouble."
"I always knew there was another side to you, Clark Kent."
"Ha ha, very funny."
"No, I am serious, but what ever happened to Krypton?"
"Well, my parents had placed me in my spaceship, literally minutes before Krypton exploded."
"So, there are no others like you?"
"Not as far as I know. According to the I.A. of my father, I am known as the Last Son of Krypton. I have a great destiny. Do not ask what that destiny is, I have no clue, what the Hell it is."
"Oooohhh, Clark Kent just cursed. You naughty boy. Your mom would be so shocked!"
"If you tell her, I will tell her about how you looked at me when you first found me in the corn field."
Lois' mouth dropped.
"You wouldn't!"
Clark just grinned.
"Wait a minute! I thought you had no memory of that night."
"Lois, another ability I have is photographic memory. I remember everything that has happened since I met you."
"Even Valentine's Day?"
"Yes, even Valentine's Day. You are going to really hate me, if I tell you about it, though."
"Just tell me that we did not have sex, and I will be happy."
"Would it have so terrible if we had?"
"No, but if we did, I do not remember it, and if we ever had that good of a relationship, Smallville, I would want to remember it!"
Clark chuckled.
"Well, Lois, you will be pleased to learn that, no, we did not have sex that night. Although, if I had not been hell-bent on trying to teach Lana and Lex a lesson, it is hard to tell what would have happened."
"What do you mean?"
Clark swallowed. He figured that since he was being honest with her, he had better tell her everything. That way, if she did decide to hate him, then at least she would have all the details.
"Why don't I start at the beginning?"
"Okay."
"Well, it started, when you kissed me. The lipstick you were wearing was laced with love potion and red kryptonite. As I said, red Kryptonite takes away my inhibitions, and after you kissed me, I could not get enough of you. I took you to Oliver's penthouse, because I knew he would not be there. I also knew that if Oliver should ever find out what happened that night, that I wanted him to be jealous of the fact that you were with me that night.
"We were making out pretty heavily. I had my shirt off, and my pants undone. You were only in a skirt that was hiked up to your waist. We were kissing, when all of a sudden I spotted a piece of paper in your purse that had Lex's name typed on it. I grabbed it, and realized that it was an invitation to their engagement party. I had not been invited, because Lex and I are no longer friends, and Lana is my ex.
"I decided that you and I would crash the party. When we got there, I trash talked pretty much everyone. I told Lana how much of a cheap whore she was, if she wanted to be with a Luthor. I told Chloe that as much as she liked me, there was no way in Hell that she and I could ever be. I blasted my mom out for even being in the vicinity. Then, I decided to kidnap Lana.
"As Lana and I were walking out, you stopped me saying how Lana was my past and you were my future. I just grinned and walked past you. By the time mom was able to get me back to myself, Chloe and Jimmy had helped you. Now, here we are, reminiscing about that horrible day."
Lois did not know what to say. She knew it had been bad, but she did not think Valentine's Day had been that bad.
"The only thing I remember, was thinking that I had kissed you somewhere before. All I could think about was how familiar your kiss was. How was that even possible? Had we kissed before then?"
"Actually, Lois, we had. You just did not know it was me. I guess since you know all about Ollie now, it won't hurt to tell you about that either."
"What do you mean?"
"Do you remember when you were trying to unmask the Green Arrow?"
"Yeah."
"Do you remember kissing the Green Arrow?"
"Yeah."
Suddenly, it dawned on Lois, where this was going.
"It was you. You were the Green Arrow that night."
"Yeah. Ollie asked me to cover for him. He did not want you to know that it was him that was ordinarily under the mask. Therefore, he asked me to put on the suit, and go in his place. I was okay with it, right up until you kissed me. As soon as I was able to get away, I went down the next alley, and pulled off the hood. I could not believe how one kiss was able to affect me so much."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Do you remember saying that the Green Arrow could not have been Ollie, because the Green Arrow was a way better kisser than Oliver had ever been?"
Lois blushed. "Yes."
"Well, I can honestly say I had never been kissed like that until that night. It blew me away."
"Answer me this, then. Have you been kissed like that since then?"
Clark looked Lois in the eye.
"No, Lois. No one has ever kissed me like you do. It may sound stupid, but when you kiss me, I feel as if I am ten feet above the clouds."
All of a sudden, Lois had an idea.
"Clark, you said that one of your abilities was supposed to be flying, didn't you?"
"Yes, why?"
"Is there somewhere we can go that no one would see us? I want to do a little experiment. I don't want anyone to know, but us for now."
Clark thought for a moment. Then it hit him.
"We can go to my Fortress. You will have to wear something warmer, but it should be okay."
"Okay. First, you need to go in, and let your parents know that you are okay. After you talk to them, we will take our little trip."
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