I would give my life for you - 4
The doctor came out of the room. He said that she was too bad, that the first twenty-four hours were really important to know if she would be able to survive or not, he said that just one person could visit her.
"You should go first, Jonathan" said Lionel "She's your wife"
Jonathan went into the room. He couldn't face that, he wasn't able to see her dying for his fault. That bullet was for him, not for her.
"I'm sorry, Martha" said crying and holding her hand "I should be on this bed, not you" He breath hard "If I had stopped this when you advised me that would never happened."
When Jonathan went out of the room, they listened Clark's voice throw the corridor.
"Dad!" shouted.
"Clark!"
"Are you ok? I listened that someone tried to shoot you at the party and I thought that you were…"
"The bullet was for me… but it hurt your mother…" told Jonathan to his son with a sadly voice.
"What?! What was she doing there?!" asked Clark.
"I took her with me" answered Lionel from Clark's back. He hadn't seen him yet.
"Lionel!" exclaimed Clark, and he resisted to ask him what was his mother doing with him. "Where's her now? How's she?"
"She's in there… but we can't enter… She's really bad, Clark… and it's all fault." Said Jonathan.
"No, it isn't. I took her to that party, it's my fault, not yours" said Lionel.
"The bullet was for me, not for her!" repeated Jonathan again.
"Stop it! It's nobodies fault, ok? We have to wish her recover, not try to find a culprit" shouted Clark, and everybody shut up.
"I'm sorry for what happened before the shoot at the party… But seeing Martha with another man was really hard for me" apologized Jonathan to Lionel when Clark left to buy something to eat.
"Don't worry… I understand. Martha was scared too. When she saw you I felt on her eyes that she didn't want you to see her with me…" said Lionel "Jonathan, I didn't search her… I found her working in a hotel's bar as a waitress and we met some more times… but I just wanted her to not feel alone in the city… All this come up without our knowledge, trust me when I say that she hadn't prepared herself to fall in love again…" he took his look down "And I'm not really sure that she's in love with me… I would swear that she still feeling something really strong for you"
"Thanks Lionel. But I have hurt her too much. Now I understand why she left me… she didn't do it because she didn't want me to become a Senator; she did it because she knew that compete against Lex would be a dangerous fight, and she couldn't suffer more. She stood enough when I was in coma, and she got really worried after the doctors told us about my heart's problem… How could I ask her to stand more? Why didn't I see it?"
"Because she always tries to seem enough strong to stand everything… but it's a lie, because she loves too much, and love is the worst debility we can have… She loved you as much that she couldn't stop thinking about the day she was going to lose you, because you were all her life. She left you because she needed to show herself that she could have a live without you, not because she really wanted to leave you" answered Lionel.
"But you went together to the party"
"Feelings can confuse us. We have built a nice friendship between us, we have spent together a lot of time these last months, her feelings were confused, and, instead it really hurts me, she still in love with you, Jonathan Kent."
At that moment Clark arrived.
"It's too late, so that stupid woman of the hospital's bar said me that she couldn't do more food because she was going to close the kitchen. So I could just take two sandwiches. Is there anybody without hungry?"
"Don't worry son" said Jonathan taking one of the sandwiches "We'll share one" and he cut the sandwich on twice and give one part to Lionel.
TO BE CONTINUED…