Chapter 6

Get Your Rocks Off

They heard Chloe before they even got to her room. Her screams filled the hospital corridor and the sight that Clark and Lois saw before them as they there was genuinely terrifying. Chloe's arms and legs were shackled to the bed and she was writhing and fighting against them viciously. Her eyes were tinged with a blood red colour and her face could only be described as truly demonic. Martha Kent and a nurse were stood at her bedside trying desperately to calm her down.

"Oh my god, how long has she been like this?" Lois asked the nurse.

"Ever since she woke up about an hour ago," she replied. "The doctor even gave her a sedative but it's had no effect."

"Let me out!" Chloe screamed. "AHHHHHH!" Mrs. Kent tried frantically to get Chloe to calm down with no success.

"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!" she yelled at Mrs Kent. Only just noticing Clark and Lois had entered the room; she quietened down and turned her attention to Clark. "Come on Clark," she said silkily, eyeing him lustfully. "Just rip these restraints off me. I shouldn't be here, I'm fine. You could have me outside in seconds."

Martha looked at Clark worryingly but fortunately Lois's attention was firmly fixed on her currently crazy cousin. She turned and looked at Clark in disbelief. "This isn't right; it's got to be something to do with her meteor power." She stated. "We have to do something Clark, and quick, or god knows what will happen to her if she's like this for a long period of time."

"Come on Clark," Chloe interrupted, again with the silky voice. "Break me out of here. What's the point in having all those powers if you never use them? It's not like anyone could hurt you."

Oh crap Clark thought. Seeing Lois raise her eyebrows at her cousin's statement was an obvious indicator that she picked up on that. If she didn't already have any suspicions about Clark, she would now. Doing the best he could to try and salvage the already inescapable situation he turned his attention to Chloe. "Look Chloe, you're sick and we need to find out what's wrong with you. You're not yourself right now." Chloe's face darkened again and she replied by starting to scream and shouting out profanities, making Mrs Kent look on in horror.

Think Clark think, he told himself. "I've got it!" he said triumphantly over Chloe's screaming. "Lois, if it was the meteor rocks that gave her the abilities in the first place then maybe a meteor rock can do something to calm her down."

"Like giving a crazy, detoxing junkie their drugs? It's so crazy it might just work!" Lois smiled. "And I know just where to get one." Before Clark could ask where she said, "Come on, I'll tell you on the way." He hoped Lois knew what she was doing. He wasn't going to tell her about the rock at the Kent farm unless he really had to.

"O.k. but I'm driving." This got Clark a snort from Lois.

"No offence Smallville but I've seen you drive. What we need now is speed, not 15 miles an hour under the speed limit listening to Country FM."

Ignoring her comment he turned to his mom. "Are you going to be ok?" he asked. She looked slightly worried but she nodded. Without hesitating he and Lois turned and ran to Lois's car. It wasn't until they were safely buckled in that Clark asked where they were headed.

"Luthor mansion." she said simply, shifting the gear stick into reverse and pulling out of the parking bay before putting her foot down.

"Why there?" Clark asked quizzically.

"Because baldy's vault is chock full of meteor rocks. All different colours, sizes and everything."

Clark had a very bad feeling about this, why would Lex have a collection of meteor rocks? He knew it couldn't be for something good. This caused Clark to wonder when his ex-friend had become so evil. Then he realised that there wasn't one specific point, if only it were that simple. There had always been a darkness in Lex but Clark had thought that he could somehow turn Lex into a better person and encourage him to turn his back on that darkness. But with every little choice Lex made, to satisfy his greed and curiosity, he had slowly veered from the good path and succumbed to his inner demons. It saddened Clark to think about it. He had honestly believed things would have turned out differently, but here they were and they needed something from Lex, something a friend would have given willingly.

"He isn't going to simply let us have a meteor rock you know," Clark said to Lois. "So how do you plan on getting it?"

Lois pulled out her cell phone and held it up. "With this." She punched in 911 and put the phone to her ear. "Hello? Yes. There's a bomb at the Luthor mansion which will explode in 5 minutes. Tick tock." She hung up the phone. And saw an opened mouthed Clark staring at her.

"I can't believe you just did that!" he yelled.

"Oh relax boy-scout, I just made our job ten times easier." And she had. As they pulled up at the gates to the Luthor mansion 5 minutes later they saw several police cars and a bomb squad located outside the main doors and everyone had been evacuated. Clark couldn't help but admit her plan had been effective.

"Nice plan lane." He complemented giving her a smile which she returned looking very smug.

"It's not over yet Smallville, we still need to sneak around the back and get in so don't blow our cover." They silently tiptoed around to the back of the house and, distracting Lois, Clark forced open one of the backdoors. She eyed him suspiciously but entered in silence. The place seemed completely deserted, Lois was one step ahead of Clark but he heard their voices first. Before Lois could round the corner he grabbed her by the waist and pulled her into the wall so she was face to face with him, their noses literally an inch apart.. Eyes locked and too scared to move in case they made a sound, they waited until the footsteps of the men from the bomb squad faded away and Clark released Lois.

"If your hands had gone any lower I would have had to break them," she said smiling slyly. Getting used to Lois's smart comments Clark retorted, "More physical contact, you'd like that wouldn't you?"

"Touché Smallville, touché." Putting their banter on hold they headed to Lex's now empty study and Lois hit the switch under his desk to reveal the vault. Entering the code she almost hit herself when it didn't work.

"Of course!" she shouted clearly frustrated. "Obviously he changed it after last time! Stupid Lois! Stupid Lois!" While she was busy berating herself Clark, using his superspeed, attempted to enter all the possible combinations. Within seconds he got it and the vault door began to slowly open. Lois turned round at the noise incredibly shocked. She eyed Clark more suspiciously than ever and then her look changed to one that made Clark feel incredibly uncomfortable. Every little suspicion she had about Clark Kent came to the foreront of her mind. All the times he had been there just in time to save the day, what had gone on in the caves, Chloe's comments and Clark's obvious discomfort at them.

"You know Clark," she said moving closer to him. "I've got a theory I want to test." The vault door was open and it revealed all the kryptonite Lois had been talking about. The green kryptonite was at the front and Clark felt its effects straight away.

"Just get the rock and let's go," Clark said to her gradually feeling weaker. But she ignored his request.

"I'm going to hit you Smallville and I don't think it will hurt you."

"What?" he asked incredulously. "Look Lois I don't know why you think that but honestly, I bruise like a peach." Before he could do anything to stop her she swung and hit him square in the jaw. He staggered back holding his mouth. Lois's face was stunned as she saw Clark look down at his hand that now had blood on it from his lip.

"What the hell Lois?! Why on earth did you do that?"

She felt incredibly stupid. "I-er-I- Oh god I'm so sorry Clark!" she said running over to him. I just thought- My god I'm such an idiot." Knowing there wasn't much time before the bomb squad would be done and Lex would be back Clark looked at Lois. "Just get the rock Lois we need to get going, now." Nodding she ran into the vault took the first green meteor rock she saw and closed the vault.

"O.k, time to go."

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