Thirteen

I stood pacing in my bedroom, I had gotten ready and it was now half 7 but there was no Clark. Something was wrong and I knew it he had never not turned up especially when it was us. I walked into the living room and checked the house phone, Kelly frowned, "what's up?" She asked. She hadn't really spoken to me since I had told her that she had to accept her magic.

"Clark was meant to pick me up at 7, he's never late," I said. "Something is wrong." She frowned, "I need to go and speak to Kara."

She grabbed my arm before I could do anything, "do you think maybe he's just late?" Kelly asked. I shook my head, "Liberty he is a man." I shook my head again and she grabbed my head. "Liberty men are late."

"Not Clark," I said. "Not him Kelly, he's never late. If anything he's usually early, he's always around." Liam was sat on the sofa looking at us, "Kelly, he's not late." I knocked her hands off me and grabbed the map and crystal from the cupboard, I placed it on the coffee table and walked into my room. I pulled out the jumper and walked back into the living room, I sat down on the floor and held the jumper, "he left this in my room when I was 17. He also never got it back." I picked up the crystal and began scrying. Kelly sat in front of me and tried to grab my hand. I glared at her. "Do not interfere with this."

"Liberty," she said. I looked at her, "you may be overreacting."

I slammed the crystal onto the table, "do not tell me I maybe overreacting," I snapped. "You are not part of my world, you refuse to accept anything to do with magic. So don't tell me that I am overreacting."

"That's unfair," she said.

"No, what is unfair is you wanting to give advice yet not want a thing to do with magic," I said. I stood up and reached for my phone and sent Kara a text. Not even 2 minutes later Kara was stood in the living room, in her supergirl outfit. I looked at Liam who was staring shocked. "Oh we know Supergirl and Superman."

"You can't reach him?" Kara asked.

"No, I can't even locate him with magic," I said. "Short of kryptonite there is nothing that can keep him down." Liam looked at me confused, "sorry Liam, Clark is superman." He nodded, "that's Kara, she's supergirl."

"He's not in the fortress," she said. "Or any other place, I'm worried, he doesn't just drop off the earth. Especially not when you two have a date tonight, he wouldn't shut up about it. Anyway he's not hold up fighting someone either, the DEO can't locate him, I figure if anyone can you might be able too."

"Me?"

"You orb," she said. I still looked at her clueless, "you don't know the exact location of the fortress, how did you get there?"

It clicked straight away, "I thought of him," I said with a smile. "I can think of him." I grabbed Kara's hand and closed my eyes and thought of Clark. A moment later I felt us orbing out, my feet hit the floor and my eyes fluttered open. "Where are we?"

Kara shrugged, we was in a bunch of caves, just from the outside I was feeling dread, we walked through the caves and pulled a potion out of my pocket she frowned slightly. "Where did that come from?"

"I always carry potions with me," I admitted sheepishly. I walked forward and I heard groans, I ran towards the noise and saw Clark I stopped in my tracks and grabbed Kara before she could go near him. "Don't."

"What?" She asked.

"It's a magical field, I've heard about them, never seen them," I said. "They manage to create your weakness and keep you immobile. You step into that field and you are crippled by your greatest fear."

"Shit," Kara said. "How do we get him out?"

"You don't," I said softly. I turned over and handed her the potion, "I have to."

"Why won't you be crippled by your greatest fear?" She asked.

"Yes, but the world can live without me," I said shrugging. "They can't live without their Superman." She went to grab me and I stared at her, "Don't try and stop me. I know what this is, it's The Black Witch." She shook her head and I nodded, "she's not in lock up I know that, this is why she grabbed him."

"So don't do it," she said.

I looked at Kara and smiled, "tell Clark, I love him ok?" She shook her head and I nodded, "tell him."

"How do we get you out of it?" Kara asked.

I bit my lip and stepped closer to it, "you can't," I said. I stepped forward into the field and I instantly felt myself unable to move, I fell to the floor and into blackness.

Clark's POV

All I felt was pain, my eyes opened and I looked to see Libby in the field, "fuck." I looked behind to see Kara. "Why didn't you stop her?!" I pressed my hand to the field and flinched as I got hit with a green lightening bolt, "kryptonite. We can't get to her."

"I know, she said it had to be her," Kara said. "We need to get this back to the DEO, how if we can't touch it?" I could kill Libby, I was ready to strangle her, why would she do that? I slammed my hand into the wall and it shook the cave. "That wasn't smart, you could bring this whole cave down!"

I glared at her, she was not helping right now. "How are we meant to move something we can't touch?" Kara shrugged and pulled out her phone, I walked towards it before I even got close I felt the kryptonite. "I thought J'onn give me all the kryptonite and I destroyed it, so how did she get this?"

"Not destroyed on every Earth though Clark," Kara said. "DEO are on their way."

"Earth 1," I said. "You don't think it was a mistake? She knew she needed to get there but couldn't get home."

"I'm going to earth 1," she said. She pulled the device out of her pocket and pressed it, "I'll be back soon. Clark, Liberty will be fine she's strong."

Kara stepped into the portal and she was gone a second later, I stared at the magical field, why would Libby step into the field? I sat in front of the field not knowing what to do, if anything else I could usually punch or fight or something, right now watching Libby in this field I felt helpless. "Libby."

"Kara? Clark?" I heard Alex's voice.

"In here," I yelled. They arrived a minute later and Alex stopped in her tracks as she stared at it, "Kara and I can't go near it, the magical field is covered in kryptonite." Alex stepped forward, she raised her hand and placed it on the field a moment later she removed it.

"I can't touch it, electricity," she said. "I think the Black Witch counted on us all." She shook her head, "what do we do? Did she say anything?"

"I don't know, I was in there," I said. "It can only occupy one at a time, I'm not sure how I got in there in the first place." The time bubble appeared again and Kara stepped out along with Barry, Caitlin and Cisco. "Does your planet still have kryptonite?"

"They do," Kara said. "I just destroyed it, do we have to travel through every world and destroy what destroys us? Can you move her?"

"No, electricity," Alex said. "Did she say anything before she stepped in?"

"Other than something to Clark not much," Kara shrugged. "I asked how we get her out and she said you don't."

"So who does?" Barry asked.

"This is magnificent," Cisco gasped. He stepped forward and went to touch it, I grabbed his arm and I shook my head, he nodded. He walked around and frowned, "I've never seen such a thing."

"You don't? That's odd right?" Caitlin asked. "It's like she knows who is meant to. Could this have something to do with that ultimate power?"

"The thing is, it doesn't exist right now," I said. "Kelly bound her powers and she refuses to even entertain the idea of unbinding them." Lila. "But there is someone who could help."

"Who?"

"LILA!" I called. I hoped she'd hear me, I had no idea how their magic worked but majority of the time, Libby could hear me calling. "LILA!" A moment later blue swirls appeared in front of me and Lila materialised in front of me.

"What? I was just in the middle of winning a triple word score?" She grunted. She looked around and frowned, "why are we in a cave?"

I pointed at Libby, "we have a big problem," I said.

She turned around and saw Libby, "well fuck," she muttered. "Do you have a safe place I can orb this too?"

"DEO," Alex said. "She'll be safe there. We can protect her."

A moment later Lila disappeared and a few seconds later she was back with Simon, his eyes narrowed at me, "my daughter is always hurt when it comes to you," he snapped.

"Simon," Lila warned. "Argue with him later. We need to move her out of the cave." They held hands, "I just hope we have enough magic to move it." They placed their hands on the magical field and I saw Lila flinch. "This is powerful magic."

They disappeared in blue swirls and I looked at Kara, a moment later they came back, "what happened? Why didn't it work?" I asked instantly.

"We don't have that kind of magic," she said. "The ultimate power that's what this was created for."

"Get Kelly here, make her accept her magic," Kara said with a frown.

"I can't do that to my daughter, but I can do something else," she said. "Remember that spell I casted years ago, where it brought my past and future self forward." Simon nodded. "I mean it'll be risky but having both of them should give us the power needed to replicate the ultimate power."

"Cast it," Alex said.

Lila looked at me, "Clark, although they will be Liberty, their memories will be different, especially the future her. You cannot ask questions that will reveal anything."

"I won't," I said. I hoped I could resist from asking her anything.

"I'm going to have to change it slightly," Lila said. A piece of paper and a pen appeared in her hand and she began to scribble it down, 5 minutes later she was back with us. "I hope this works."

"Do you have enough power to do this spell?" Simon asked.

"Yes," Lila said. I saw uncertainty in her eyes and she nodded, she grabbed a lighter and began to burn the page. "Her love is strong, her spirit weak, it's an answer we seek, the request burns within this fire, so we my hear her desire, take her powers blessed be, multiply her by three, past and future we bring forth." Lila cut into her hand and bled onto the paper as it burned. "Blessed be."

"Did it work?" Alex asked.

"Magic doesn't work instantly," Lila snapped. Their was a small bang and the paper disappeared a moment later white orbs appeared and I stared in surprise as I looked at a younger version of Libby, and then an older one.

"Mum?" Younger Libby said. "What's going on?"

"Clark," I heard the older one say. "It's you." She walked forward and placed a hand on my cheek. As I looked into her eyes I couldn't help but notice how dead they were, "I remember this." She turned around. "Why have you brought us?"

"We need to orb her out of here," Lila said. "Look you can get mad at me later and believe me I know my old self was furious when I cast this spell."

They all took hands and in a moment blue swirls appeared and they were gone, "they will be at the DEO," Kara said. "Did anyone notice how dead old Liberty looked? Her eyes showed pain and when she looked at you."

"I don't want to think, our priority is getting our Libby out of a magical field."