Chapter 5

As we were walking from my car to The Planet, I got an idea in my head that I had to ask him about. The parking lot was totally abandoned because it was already pretty late at night and the streetlights shone with yellow light.

"Clark, why haven't you ever gone power crazy?"

We were walking side by side but he was ahead of me a bit, longer legs and all that. "I have actually."

"I'm talking about when you didn't have a little red rock tucked away in your shirt."

"Oh…I don't know." His stride slowing to meet mine. He looked from the ground to me. "I guess because of my parents. The way they raised me, I mean. If I ever showed off my abilities, people would notice and I could be identified. They taught me to draw a line of how far I could go so I would always know not to cross it and do something I might regret."

"And whenever you got a new power, how'd you deal with that?"

"You were there when I developed super hearing, remember?" I did. "I usually freaked out, realized again that I was an alien, and then I came to terms with it. Then I had to harness the ability itself and learn to control it."

He looked at me oddly. "Why are you smiling?" I didn't even realize I was.

"I love being the power behind the man."

He laughed. "What?"

I reached up and patted his back. "Training starts now, coach."

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"You do both realize that you are crazy." She grabbed a file from her desk and walked past both of us to the filing cabinet, shuffling through its contents.

Inside The Planet basement, where Clark and I had come to see Chloe, we had just finished explaining the project to her. After she recovered from the mere shock of seeing Clark again and Clark and I together she finally listened to us. It was pretty clear that she was more than a little adverse to it.

"It's not such a crazy idea. Think about it, Chlo. It could work." Clark was not necessarily an advocate of the plan, but its not like we had so many options.

"Really, who's better to teach you how to control them than super-flannel king over here?" Clark scowled at me.

"I don't want to control them!" Her shouting took me aback. Lucky that no one else was around. "Sorry." She closed the cabinet slowly. "I just really want to put it behind me."

"But you can't. Its apart of who you are now." Clark approached her but she backed away. He tried again and she ran out of the office.

He looked at me confused for a moment and then we both followed after. Using his super-speed, he blocked her from the stairway as I came up from behind.

"I know it's hard, believe me. But if you keep going like this, like nothing changed you're going to make things worse for yourself. If we take it a little at a time you can gain full reign on all your abilities. Then one day you can live with them all the time without any surprises." Her eyes caught his and I could sense her warming to the prospect.

"Maybe you can even live normally. Although from what I've heard, its pretty over rated." He smiled and she laughed back, placing an appreciative hand on his shoulder.

It's hard to believe she went back to Jimmy after everything, after Clark's confession and the kiss that both of them refuse to tell me about. It didn't surprise me though, because Jimmy was her past and her only stability. Clark was a future she greatly feared, where she could fall for him and him for her. Where she could break him with her own fall that neither of them had any say over. She was willing to go it alone for him. That's just who she was.

For once, she was wrong. She did need to give them a shot. If they try, Clark might be able to keep going on. If they try, there might be a different outcome.

It was time to answer the question. Would Clark's love change anything?

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TBC...STAY TUNED