Chapter Fifteen

"You know, for a criminal mastermind you are pretty stupid." Cassie spat at Luther. She was sitting in a metal chair with her hands and ankles handcuffed to the legs and arms of the chairs.

Luther turned and faced her with an intrigued look on his face, "Oh really, how do you figure?"

"Well after all the things you have tried to defeat Superman I would have thought anyone in their right mind would just give up and bow out gracefully, instead of clinging pathetically to the dream that one day they will succeed." It looked like the vein in Luther's head was going to pop.

He suddenly charged the chair Cassie was sitting in. He put his hands on each other the arm rests. Cassie threw her self against the back of the chair trying with all her might not to touch the foul man. He put his face very close to hers.

"Say what you will, but I wasn't the one who walked into a trap." He stood up and surveyed her again, "Who are you anyway?"

"None of your damn business," She spat at him her voice dripping with contempt. There was a loud bang and the building shuddered. "Oh no," Cassie whispered to herself, she knew what the sound meant.

"Oh yes," Luther said gleefully. "Max, get the guns," The brute that had dismantled the elevator doors walked swiftly over to the crates. "You help him Dr. Von Baron," Cassie watched the man with the wild hair go over to the crates and help remove semi automatic rifles.

"Guns?" Cassie laughed thoroughly amused, "That is your big plan, guns?"

She was distracted when the doors of the elevator were forced open. Superman walked into the room. He surveyed the room with a cool confidence that Cassie had never known in Clark, for some unexplainable reason it made her sad.

"Hello Lex, aren't you supposed to be on a hellish island somewhere?" Superman asked smiling slightly. Lex looked at Superman for once his confidence faltering.

"Ah ha, ha, ha, and a comedian, is there anything you don't do?" The last part of the statement he snarled. Cassie jumped at his voice. Superman's eyes fell on her.

"Now Lex, I don't know what you are angling at by kidnapping this lovely young woman for no apparent reason…" He shook his head sadly.

Lex looked furious. He stood in front of Cassie staring at Superman. "Bruno, the 9 millimetre,"

Superman smiled slightly, "I would have thought you would have learned by now Lex,"

Lex lifted the gun and aimed it at Superman's chest, "Oh don't worry I have." The gunshot echoed around the room, Cassie jumped at the sound, she looked back at Superman not worried but the look on his face changed her feelings quickly.

He looked…surprised. "No," Cassie whispered she looked at Luther, he was smiling calmly.

"You know, it took me a while to figure this out you know, I tried killing you normally, heck I tried enlisting the help of other people from outer space, I even created an island made of kryptonite substance and none of that seemed to affect you all that much. But then I thought of the time when I stabbed you, remember, with the kryptonite."

Cassie looked back at Superman. He was staggering slightly. Luther continued to talk, "I remember the fear in your face, the satisfaction of you suffering, so I thought why not just go bigger."

Luther kicked a smaller wooden box that was by his feet. Bullets littered the floor. Cassie looked at them and was shocked to see that they were green. It all came to her; she started struggled against her bonds.

"No!" She screamed. Cassie looked back at Superman he was pale and positively swaying on the spot. "No,"

"Oh yes, I may not know who you are but you are bright, I will grant you that much." Luther said laughing. He walked over to one of the crates and picked up a big rifle, he loaded it and pointed it at the staggering Superman.

"I won't let you hurt him!" Cassie screamed tears filling her eyes. She looked at Superman.

"Oh yeah? Watch me!" Luther said crazily starting to laugh. He fired the gun three times, each time the bullet penetrated Clark's chest with a small spurt of blood. He started to scream, it was the worse sound Cassie had ever heard.

Clark fell to his knee's blood staining the front of his suit grotesquely.

"NO! STOP!" Cassie screamed.

"Oh…or what? You gonna cry me to death…..ahahahahahahahaha! Sorry no dice!" Luther spouted grabbing a machine gun out of the hands of one of his men's hands.

Cassie was shaking uncontrollably. A pain had been throbbing in her temple all night and it was steadily getting worse but she barely noticed it all she could see was Clark, kneeling there, suffering because of her. She couldn't let him die. She could hear the thunder outside and see the lightning in the skylgith.

"Good bye Superman!" Luther roared.

"No more…" Cassie whispered, her voice was quiet, she was looking at Clark, he looked her in the eye, his eyes were filled with tears. It was like some uncontrollable force was pulling at her body, trying to make her understand, she couldn't fight it any longer.

"What was that dear?" Luther asked laughing not taking his eyes off Superman.

Cassie gave Clark a small smile and gave into the force, she would save him…

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