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Chapter 7

"Oh my God. Oh my God. This is not good." The girl was in shock. She didn't know what to do.

"Christina!" Lois exclaimed. "Where are we? What happened?" she demanded.

"Oh my God. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Oh my God."

"Christina?" Lois tenderly asked. She approached her. "Sweetie, calm down. Just tell us what happened and we promise not to yell or get mad."

Christina took a deep breath. "I used a crystal to take me back to before dad asked Jor-El to change time to save Lana. You obviously got stuck in the crystal's energy field. You got taken back with me." The words left her mouth in a rush.

"WHAT?" Clark yelled.

"You promised not to yell or get mad!" Christina whined to her mother.

"Clark!" Lois cupped his cheek and gave him a warning look.

"Okay, okay." He put his hands up in surrender and began to pace around. "Hey, wait a minute. Does this mean that if Lois and I go back to Smallville there will be another set of us there?"

"Technically, yeah," Christina answered timidly.

"How is that possible? When I went back to save Lana there was only one of me."

"When you went back Jor-El manipulated the time and its events. This crystal manipulated our bodies so that physically we could be brought to whatever time we wanted." And technically I'm not allowed to use it, but I don't need to tell you guys that . . . "I came back here to convince you not to ask for the time change. Because if you do then grandpa dies. And him dying changed everything."

"I know that . . . So what are you expecting us to do now? Go up to my past self and try to convince him . . . uh, me? . . . Whatever. Try to convince Past Me not to change time and just let Lana die?"

"Works for me," Christina scoffed.

"Christina!" Lois scolded.

"Sorry! But Blana is an awful awful person. She's horrible. She treated dad like crap when they were together. And when she left him for Lex Luthor, she made it seem as if it was all dad's fault. Then, when Lex broke her heart she blamed dad again. She's tried to break you two up more than a few times. She thinks she can have or do whatever she wants. She's mean. She just pretends to be nice. Which only makes her even meaner. I don't like her . . . I never will." Christina said walking over to put the crystal in the console so it would be safe.

Lois couldn't help but snicker at Christina's nickname for Lana. "So what happens now?" Lois asked as she walked over to her.

"Well now I go to Smallville and try to fix everything." Christina said as she turned around to face her parents. "And you two stay here."

"You can't seriously expect us to stay here without helping you," Clark said as he walked over and stood next to Lois.

"You have to. If you and your past selves meet up it could change everything."

"But isn't that what you are doing, trying to change everything?" Lois inquired smirking at her.

"Well, yeah. But if you meet up with your past selves . . . something . . . uh . . . bad will happen."

"Oh, really?" Clark asked.

"Okay, okay. I don't really know. But I'm sure the time space continuum will implode on itself if that happens. Or something to that effect. Look, travelling through time has a lot of consequences. You have to be careful with what you do. Or who you interact with. It could change everything. That's why I tried to avoid the two of you. You weren't even supposed to know about me." She watched their reaction and hoped that they understood. She embraced them both, kissed them on the cheek and super sped to Smallville.

Lois and Clark stood there wondering what to do. Should they follow Christina and help her? Or should they stay in the fortress like she asked them? Clark looked at Lois and saw that she was shivering. He wrapped his arms around her to keep her warm. "There, how's that?"

"It's a little better. But Clark I don't want to stay here. I'm cold and very worried about Christina . . . Please let's go help her." Lois jumped into his arms.

Clark looked at Lois in his arms, rolled his eyes, and super sped out to the farm. Secretly he also wanted to help his daughter.

Christina was standing in the field across the road watching her past dad. Just as he walked into the barn, Future Clark and Lois arrived. Christina wasn't really surprised to see them arrive. She knew what her mum was like, and knew her dad would cave. I have to get them out of here, and quickly.

"Mum, dad, why don't you two ever listen? Look we have to get out of here right now before we are seen." The three of them super sped across the road to the field.

When they got to the field they turned around in time to see Martha and Jonathan drive away from the farm in their red truck. Clark stood there watching them as they drove away. Lois knew that seeing them made him miss Jonathan even more, so she grasped his hand and held on to him. Clark leaned down and gave her a tender kiss on the lips and then held her in his arms. Christina walked over to them and they pulled her into the embrace.

A couple of minutes later Christina pulled out of the embrace and walked away from them, looking towards the barn thinking of how to approach Past Clark. I can't just walk over there and say "Hi I'm your daughter from the future." I can't reveal myself to him at all. I have to figure out how to stop him from proposing to her. I know . . . yes that's perfect! While Christina was lost in her thoughts her mum and dad had walked over to her.

"Christina . . . what's wrong?" Clark asked concern written all over his face.

"Nothing dad . . . I just thought of the best way of stopping past you from telling Lana anything or proposing to her." Christina said excitedly.

"What the hell! You proposed to Lana?" Lois asked angrily.

"Yeah," Clark admitted with defeat. "I did. I proposed to Lana and revealed everything to her. That's why she died. Because she knew about me. And Lex figured out that she knew all about me. Actually, no. She waited a full six hours before telling Lex about me, but that's not the point. She was driving to the Talon when her car was hit by a bus. So I went to Jor-El and asked for his help and we turned back the time." Clark explained to her gently.

"Did she accept your proposal?" Lois asked solemnly. Clark just nodded his head. Lois walked away from them, feeling lost. Clark walked over to her and held her close to him.

"Ahem . . . I'm sorry but I have to go and do something." She went to super speed off but walked back over to them and faced her dad. "Dad if you hear someone screaming for help, stay put. This is for the past you. It's the only thing I could think of to stop you and Lana from being together." Christina super sped off and headed toward Saunders Gorge. Lois and Clark wondered what she was up to, but trusted that she knew what she was doing.

Lana arrived at the Kent farm and walked towards the barn. Across the road Lois and Clark watched her. She was wearing a warm coat, gloves and a scarf. Future Clark explained to Future Lois why he asked Lana to dress like that. Future Clark and Lois wanted to hear what was going on so they super sped into the barn and hid under the steps.

Past Clark was sitting facing the window playing with a piece of coal in his hands when he heard footsteps.

"I brought gloves and a scarf like you said."

Past Clark stood up and faced her. "I was afraid you weren't gonna come."

"Well, to be honest I don't think that a mystery date's exactly what our relationship needs right now."

Past Clark was about to say something when he heard someone screaming for help. Should I go and see what's wrong?

"Clark is something wrong?" Lana asked concerned about him.

"No Lana . . . nothing is wrong. Can you excuse me for a minute?" he asked as he walked towards the steps.

"Clark . . . I can't take this anymore. You ask me to come here for a mystery date and now you need to run off."

"Lana please just wait and I'll be right back."

"No Clark . . . tell me the truth for once and I'll wait." Lana said annoyed.

"I can't Lana. Just please wait here?" he asked softly.

"Clark, as much as I love you I cant do this anymore," she said shaking her head sadly.

"Lana, please. You don't understand," Clark said urgently, wanting to find the person screaming for help.

Lana walked over to Clark and touched his arm. "I need a break." She began walking downstairs.

"From me?"

She shook her head. "No . . . from us." Lana headed to her car and drove off leaving Clark standing there alone in the loft. As soon as she had left Clark had super sped to see who was screaming for help.

Future Lois was stunned by what happened but when she turned to Clark she felt his pain. She held him to her.

"Clark, I'm sorry you had to go through that again," Lois said sincerely.

"I'm alright Lois. I've already lived it remember? It's him I feel sorry for. We've met our daughter from the future, so I know it all turns out great."

"Then why do you look worried?"

"I'm wondering what our daughter is up to. And considering you're her mother, it's probably something dangerous," he said smiling at her. Lois punched him playfully in the shoulder.

"Well do you know where she is?"

"Yeah . . . but she told us to stay here."

"Didn't listen to her last time, why should we now?" Lois said jumping into his arms once again. "Well, come on Smallville, let's go see what she's up to."

Christina was dangling over the side of the lookout by a rope screaming for help. Past Clark arrived moments before Future Clark and Lois. They hid behind a bush watching as their daughter hung over the side of the lookout. Lois held onto Clark to stop him from helping.

Past Clark looked over the side at the frightened young girl. "Hang on. I'll try and pull you up," he said as he reached for the end of the rope.

"Please . . . I don't want to die."

"Don't worry you won't, I . . . won't . . . let . . . you," Past Clark said pretending to be breathless as he pulled on the rope. He pulled the rope a few more times and leaned over and pulled the young girl over on to the ground.

"Oh my god! Thank you so much . . . I thought I was going to die." She stood up and hugged her saviour.

"You're welcome. Just be more careful next time. Listen my car is just down there do you want a lift back in to town?" he asked hoping she said no.

"No, I'll be fine. My mum and dad are picking me up, but thank you anyway."

"You're welcome. Bye," Clark said as he walked off. Once he was out of her sight he super sped back to the farm.

As soon as he was gone, Future Lois came out from behind the bush and hugged Christina tightly.

"Don't you ever do anything that dangerous again!"

Clark walked over to his girls chuckling, remembering how only moments ago Lois was physically holding him back to stop him from trying to save Christina.

"Wonderful performance, Christina. But please don't try to kill yourself in our presence again."

Christina laughed. "Cross my heart, daddy." She made a little 'x' over her heart. "Well that's part one taken care of. No more Blana in your life. And she doesn't know your secret, so Lex won't know it either," Christina said smiling proudly.

Christina leant on the railing and Lois and Clark stood next to her watching the sunset over the horizon.

"So . . . what's part two?" Lois asked.

Christina turned to them "Party time." She said chuckling as she super sped away, Lois and Clark hot on her trail.

TBC