-1Chapter 9-The dead is not so dead.
Clark watched as Lana looked around wide eyed. He knew she saw him for sure this time. He needed to stay hidden for a little while longer. He followed Lana back to her apartment and made sure she got in safe. Once her door was locked he super sped back to the farm.
Chloe was waiting for him in the loft. "I was beginning to worry. With your speed I didn't think it would take that long." Chloe said.
"Sorry. I made sure she got in safely." Clark said making his way over to his beeping laptop.
"Oh, it started doing that a few minutes ago." Chloe said.
Clark opened the video message from Oliver. "Kal-el, this knowledge is troubling. Your orders remain the same, protect Lana Lang and gather what information you can on Lex. Stay safe, Arrow out." The screen died and Clark rubbed his face in frustration.
Lex was playing his cards and his goal was to kill Lana. He could let that happen no matter what. He'd only been in Smallville for two days and already master mind Lex Luthor was out to destroy the world.
"Do you think she'll stay in her apartment tonight?" Clark asked.
"I honestly don't know." Chloe said.
Chloe sat next to him on the couch and demanded to know everything that had happened to him in the last two and a half years.
Clark told her what he could without violating contract. Half an hour later he heard a car coming up the drive way. Clark x-rayed to see who it was and nearly dropped dead when he saw Lana in her jeep pulling up his driveway.
"Chloe it's Lana." Clark said.
"What are you going to do?" Chloe asked as Clark jumped to his feet.
"Avoid being seen for now." Clark grabbed his glasses and placed them in his pocket along with Lana's flash drive. He listened to Lana get out of her car and head up to the front door.
"Lana, it's quiet a surprise to see you." Jonathan said answering the door.
"Mind if I come in?" Lana asked.
Clark heard the door shut after his dad let her in. Clark looked out the loft window and floated up over the roof leaving a surprised Chloe on the couch. It was one thing to be told and another to see first hand.
Clark floated over his houses roof and x-rayed while listening in.
"It's always a pleasure to see you Lana." Martha said giving her a huge hug.
"As glad as we are to see you, is there a reason for you stopping by?" Jonathan asked.
"I know it's late and all but I think I've been seeing Clark. I know it sounds crazy but I though maybe I could get some closure by spending some time in his room." Lana said hoping the Kent's didn't think she'd gone crazy.
"We understand dear. At times I need to spend time in his room to re-grasp that he's gone." Martha said trying to not sound like she was lying too much.
"Thank you." Lana said making her way up to Clark's room. Luckily his mom had made the bed and Bart wasn't back yet.
Lana looked around the room fighting back tears. She saw how neat his bed was and remembered waking next to him that morning so long ago. She turned away from the bed and looked at his desk. She sat down in his chair and opened the drawers. Inside was a large, framed photo of her.
She rubbed the edge of the frame imagining Clark doing the same a thousand times. She placed it back in the drawer and closed it. She just sat there looking around at the posters on his wall, the picture of them together on the roof of his dresser.
Her phone rang causing her to jump in fright. "Hello?" She said answering. Lex was on the other end and Clark focused to hear what he was saying. He wanted Lana to meet him on the roof of Luthorcorp in thirty minutes. He wanted to make sure she was okay and he was to busy to leave work. Lana agreed to meet him and left Clarks room.
She bid the Kent's goodnight and got into her Jeep. She didn't notice Chloe's beetle parked over by the Kent's truck up by the edge of the barn.
Clark flew back into the loft and landed softly. "Chloe, Lana is meeting Lex on the roof of Luthorcorp. I have to go and make sure he doesn't hurt her." Clark said gathering his supplies and shutting down his laptop.
"Be careful. Lex is powerful and is capable of more than we give him credit." Chloe said.
"I know, thanks for the warning. Perhaps you should go home and get some sleep. I'll call you as soon as I get back." Clark said.
Chloe nodded as he rushed down the stairs and to his bike. If he could he'd keep Lex from knowing about his abilities for as long as he could. The bike just might be for nothing if he wasn't careful.
He sped off toward the direction of Luthorcorp.
Lana waited for Lex on the roof and gasped in shock as he landed from flying above.
"Are you okay?" Lex asked pulling her into a tight hug.
Lana nodded into his chest while looking down through the sunroof to the warehouse floor below. It was a good thirty foot drop and she stepped a few feet away when Lex let go of her.
"Let's go for a fly. It will help you relax." Lex said reaching out to her again.
"Lex, I have to tell you this before it goes too far." Lana said gathering the nerve to tell Lex her true feelings. After seeing Clark's room again she realized that Lex just wasn't what she neither needed nor wanted. She wasn't going to stay with him or his ego anymore.
"I don't feel safe with you anymore. I can't stay in your house without getting the feeling I'm being watched. I can't be with anymore Lex. I don't love you like you want me to." Lana said.
Lex's arms dropped to his side. His bald head became red from his anger as he simply boiled in anger.
"Don't say that." Lex said stepping forward slowly.
Lana stepped back keeping her distance from him. If he was going to hurt her he could do it without her being able to fight back. He was being to frighten her, "Lex, your beginning to scare me." Lana said.
Lex reached out and grabbed her before soaring of the roof and heading fifty feet in the air. "If that is how you feel Lana, than I shall truly scare you…to death." Lex said lifting her away from him.
"I loved you Lana. More than I loved anything in my life." He said. Her eyes were wide and her breathing shallow. She couldn't scream when he let go of her.
She dropped the distance and crashed right through the glass window. She quickly prayed before she hit bottom but the bottom never came. Strong arms caught her as glass rained down around her.
Clark sighed in relief as Lana landed safely in his arms. Slowly she looked up and saw him looking back at her. "Clark." She said. He could hear the disbelief in her voice.
He kneeled, lowering them closer to the ground. "Lana." he said. It was right that she was in his arms looking up at him with love in her eyes.
"How?" She asked shocked but believing. She felt his strong arms around her, his warm breath on her skin. She wasn't making this up or, "Am I in heaven?"
"No, you're alive. So am I." Clark said.
Lana's eyes rolled to the back of her head as she fainted in his arms.