Sing, Canary, Sing
Chapter 9: Epilog.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: If I said I owned them, I lied.
Dinah sat in the kitchen of her Smallville farmhouse, sipping on a hot cup of coffee.
"Are you sure you're going to be alright by yourself?" Larry asked, trying to get his work things together.
"Dad, I told you, I'll be fine. Something tells me I have a watch dog hanging out out there."
She motioned to the back door, and Larry some what nodded. He wasn't liking the idea of leaving Dinah alone. But, then again, it had been almost a week since Dinah had been returned to his care.
Her mother, Diana, had come spiraling into town the second Dinah had been located and had finally left the night before. Dinah had practically had to push her out the door and onto her plane.
"Well, don't hesitate to call the office if you need anything. Anything at all." Larry told her, picking up his brief case.
"I'm sure I'll be fine. But if i need anything, I'll call."
Larry nodded, then headed out the back door and out to his car.
Dinah put down her cup of coffee once she heard his car drive away and went to the back door herself. She opened it and stepped out onto the back porch.
"You don't have to sit out here, you know. You can actually come in."
Clark slowly came out from around the corner of the house.
"How'd you know I was there?" He asked, stepping up onto the back porch.
"Please, everyone's been watching me like a hawk ever since I got back. It only made sense that you would make your way over here once my dad went back to work."
Clark was silent. Dinah went over to the two rocking chairs and sat down.
"You know," She said, signaling for Clark to join her, "I am capable of taking care of myself every once and a while."
"Dinah, no offense, you were kidnapped." HE told her, sitting down in the rocking chair next to her. She nodded, knowing that everybody had a right to watch her every move.
"So, I haven't seen you since you, well, rescued me." She said, almost sadly.
"I figured I'd give you time with your family. I heard your mom was coming and everything-"
"You were hiding from me." She said, not really wanting to hear his other reasons. He smiled and laughed a little. HE knew that she was right.
"I never should have let you leave the way you did."
"What were you going to do, Clark, walk me home?"
He shook his head and stood up. "You know what I mean."
"Well," DInah said after a few moments of silence, "Maybe if you hadn't been hiding from me when I got to the barn, things would have turned out differently."
She was right.
"Listen," She stood up and walked to him, "You need to learn that things just happen. My mom explained it to me. Luthor used to know her, was suspicious of her right from the start. The things she did, worked with. His 'freak radar' went on the second I got to town. It was inevitable."
"But maybe... maybe if I just would have been..."
"Scared." She stated it as opposed to asking it. "Hey, it's cool. I'm a strange person. People tell me all the time that I'm too intimidating."
"It's not that," He said, turning around. "It's just that I'm not used to people like you. Fierce, fearless, intense. You're all the things that I'm just... not."
"Is that seriously it? God, it's always me, isn't it?" She walked away from him.
"What do you mean?" He asked, keeping his distance.
"The entire reason I'm in the god-forsaken town, Clark, is because... is because it's a hiding place. I was running from Craig. He was the guy I was seeing before I even came here. HE found out about the reason's behind my powers and was completely freaked. He broke up with me, and I just couldn't take Gotham anymore. And now you're telling me that I'm just too aggressive-"
"That's not it at all. I'm not scared of you." Clark admitted.
"I'm scared of me."
And thats when she kissed him.
When she pulled away from him, he looked at her, surprised.
"Don't be scared of yourself, Clark. You hold incredible power." She told him.
And she was right.
She was also going to be the person to help him realize his full potential.
And sooner then they both thought.
Fin.
A/N: ok, that's the end of that one. I admit, it could have been better. Next one coming sooner then ever, and it includes the stones, but also an old friend of Dinahs:
Bruce Wayne.