Hey everyone! Did any of you see the last episode of Smallvile? I thought it was kinda comedic and cute. I laughed when Clark and Lois were talking about microvision and when he put the glasses on at the end, though it was kinda far fetched. Anyway enough about Smallville. Enjoy the next chap!
Disclaimer: I wish I owned it but I don't.
Chapter 7
Kara's blue eyes met Clark's. They stared at each other intently; Kara took the first step towards her cousin. Clark met her halfway.
"Kara?" he said, looking at her, unsure if it was really her. She smiled up at him and punched him in the shoulder actually making him flinch. He smiled back and brought his cousin in a bear hug.
"God, it's been so long. How are you?" Her smile turned into a serious expression.
"Things have been better. We have a problem to solve."
"What kind of problem?" he says apprehensively.
"The Brainiac kind of problem. Do you know who he is?" Clark nods.
"I found out yesterday when people from the future showed up." Kara looks up at him in surprise.
Lois and Jimmy walk up to Clark and the beautiful woman. Lois looked over suspiciously at the woman as Jimmy stared at her in awe. Clark turned around to look at them; Lois was looking at him expectantly.
"Kara, this is Lois Lane and James Olsen. Guys this is Kara, my cousin." Both Jimmy and Lois look at him in surprise.
"Nice to meet you Kara." She shakes her hand. Lois turns to Clark.
"Clark I didn't know you had any living relatives other than your mother." She says suspiciously. Subtle Lois, Clark thinks.
"Actually she's my biological cousin. We haven't seen each other since we were teenagers."
"Yeah he's sure changed since his flannel wearing days." She teases punching his shoulder.
"You wore flannel?" Jimmy asks in surprise. Clark nods, rolling his eyes.
"Why are you here Kara?" How did you get here?
Kara looks up at him in surprise, she hadn't used telepathy since she had lived on Krypton. He must have found out about it from his Fortress.
I'll explain it to you later, she answers in her preferred language.
"Is it a crime to come to Metropolis to visit my favourite cousin?" she says out loud.
"I'm your only cousin." He deadpans.
Jimmy couldn't get his eyes off the lovely woman who actually did look a lot like Clark. When he saw her walk away he felt deprived of her presence. He hadn't even known or heard the conversation end. Clark turns back around towards Jimmy.
"Jimmy about what you heard earlier-" Jimmy cuts him off.
"Don't worry CK I won't tell anyone. I just want to know... what happened between you two?" Lois gives Clark a nervous glance.
"It's complicated Jimmy. It's in the past now." Lois says.
"But why'd you leave CK?" he turns back to Clark.
"Like Lois said it's complicated. But if I had known that Lois was pregnant I never would have left." Jimmy knew this, he knew his friend, and he was a good man. Jimmy nods defeated, he couldn't get any more information out of them. Clark was about to leave to go with Lois and find Kara when the chief yelled out to them.
"Kent, Olsen, Lane, my office now!" He closes the glass door behind him and sits at his desk when the trio enter his office.
"Lane, do you have that article?"
"Yes chief." She says pulling out papers from her briefcase. She hands it to her boss.
Perry looks over the three of them, they seemed off, awkward.
"Is there anything I need to know?" The three adults look at each other nervously.
"No." They all say at the same time. Perry narrows his eyes at them.
"Yeah, whatever." He says frustrated. He'll find out later.
"Just keep your personal lives out of my office." They all nod quickly.
"Ch-chief did you uh call us in here for something?" Clark says pushing his glasses with his index up on his nose. Perry looks at them again and sighs, he takes out a cigar, ignoring the no smoking rule and lights it.
"Yes I wanted to talk to you about Superman."
"S-Superman?" Clark stutters. Perry nods.
"I want to know what he thinks about the new kids in town. See if he knows anything. Maybe he'll even pose for a picture with the new heroes in town." Clark and Lois look at each other knowingly.
"Well what are you still doing standing here?" Perry shoos them out of his office with a quick whoosh of his hands. They walk out hurriedly out of his office. Before they leave Perry yells out to them.
"And stop calling me chief."
"Uh, yes chief, I mean Perry, uh Mr. White." Jimmy stutters as he nervously makes his way out of his office.
"I need to go meet my cousin. I'll meet you guys later." Clark says.
"Actually Clark we'll come with you. We're not going to do the interview without you." Jimmy says.
"Uh..." Lois tries to think of an idea so that Jimmy doesn't go with Clark.
"Okay." Clark says, surprising her.
"Okay?" Lois says surprised. He nods.
Five minutes later they meet up with Kara in a restaurant across the Planet. Kara is sitting at a table, drinking a cup of coffee. She sees Clark.
"Hello Clark. This stuff is really good." She says staring at the warm liquid.
"It's coffee." He says. She nods. Jimmy looks strangely at Lois. She shrugs.
What do you know about Zod?
Lois and Jimmy talk about tactics to get the attention of Superman while Kara explains to Clark about what happened in the Phantom Zone.
Where did he go? He asks.
Probably somewhere on this Planet. We need to get to the Fortress before he does. Clark nods pensively.
Luthor took the crystals, a friend told me that we can regenerate them?
Luthor as in Lex Luthor? Clark nods sadly.
I'll explain it to you another time.
I know a way to regenerate them. We need to go soon. Kara urges him.
"Kara and I have some things we need to do. We'll meet up with you guys later." Now it's Lois' turn to shake her head.
"Jimmy, Kara, give us a sec." She grabs Clark's hand and brings him outside. Unknown to them Kara was listening to their conversation.
"Clark, what was that about?"
"What?" he asks. feigning innocence.
"It looked like you guys were having a conversation with your eyes." She looks at him in the eyes, looking for an answer in his blue orbs.
"It was telepathy." He says defeated.
"Telepathy? Since when do you have telepathy?" She looks accusingly at him.
"It's only with other kryptonians, people related to you by blood, and um" he looks at her nervously. "And uh their 'significant others'." He puts quotation marks around significant others. Just to make him squirm she says: "What were the quotation marks for?" He pushes his glasses up on his nose and fidgets slightly.
"Well, uh, we already talked about this."
"Oh, calm down Clark. Sheesh. You'd think that a grown man could talk about s.e.x." Clark's face drains of all color. She smiles satisfied that she could bother the Man of Steel like that. If only Metropolis could see him now. Then she turns serious.
"Can Jason do that?"
"I don't know. I never tried it." He says honestly. Kara steps out of the restaurant leaving Jimmy behind talking to a waitress about working at the Daily Planet.
"Who is this Jason?" Lois and Clark both look up in surprise.
"Uhh." Clark says nervously.
"He is your son." Kara states.
"How did you know?"
"You are not the only one with extraordinary hearing anymore." She turns to him looking angry.
"Why didn't you tell me? I thought we couldn't have children with this primitive race." She says to Clark in the Kryptonian language.
"I hadn't known either. I didn't even know until this year. I was gone for five years in search of Krypton." Her face lights up.
Lois watches them, her head going from one cousin to the other.
"Did you find anything?" He shakes his head. She frowns deeply and looks as if she is going to cry.
"I need to meet my nephew."
"Okay. That would be great." He answers in English.
Lois looks at them quizzically and decides there's no point in asking the Kryptonians what they were talking about. She sighs exasperated.
"New rule." She says crossing her arms. "When I'm around no telepathy and no whatever language that was. Only English. Got that?" She glares at the cousins.
"Yes, ma'am." They both say together. Kara bursts out laughing and Clark follows suit. Lois groans.
"I said no telepathy." Clark finishes laughing and says: "That wasn't telepathy, just predictability." She glares at him and goes back inside the restaurant.
When she comes out she's practically dragging Jimmy out the door.
"All of you, get your heads out of the gutter, we have a story to write." Lois says as they walk down the sidewalk to her car. Kara and Clark stop walking suddenly.
"I'll go." She whispers and runs out into an alley. A couple moments later a girl with blond hair clad with blue and red emerges from the alley.
"Whoa." Jimmy breathes as his camera clicks away.
"We've got a new story, let's follow it." Lois says. "Come on Clark. Chop chop." Clark looks at her trying to tell her with his eyes that he needs to leave.
"What Clark?" she says angrily, walking up to him.
"I need to go." He whispers. "Earth quake in China." Lois groans.
"Fine, go. Hurry up. Meet me on the roof top of the Daily Planet when you get back. We have an interview to write. Jimmy let's go." She says running to her car.
Clark disappears in an alley and then Superman heads to China.
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