A/N: Thanks for the reviews! I didn't think I'd get any, so I'm glad to know I did get some. Here's the next chapter! I'm sorry for taking so long to update, but I was updating other stories and it's really hectic with all the craziness of disgruntled readers wanting different stories updated. Crazy, lol. Hey, I had a weird epiphany. The WB uses a lot of the same names in things. There's a Dean in GG, and in Supernatural, Jared (Dean) is Sam, but his brother is Dean who is Jensen Ackles from Smallville who played Jason in Smallville and there is a Jason in season 4 of GG! And there's a Lucas on One Tree Hill and a Luke on GG (you know that). I was watching Supernatural (the first eppie I think) and Sam's girlfriends name was Jessica, and I was cracking up when Sam (Dean) was calling her Jess for short! Hah! It was funny! Ha, ha! Ha...ok, yeah, my sister didn't get it either. Freaky…
Hey, maybe it's just me, but don't Lana and Rory have very similar personalities?
Disclaimer: I don't own Smallville or Gilmore Girls. What are the chances of me owning both of them anyways?
Chapter 2: Familiarity of Things
Rory PoV
Rory Gilmore didn't like change. Why? Because most change was bad. But having a new guy in town wasn't that bad. Of course, she remembered, she always seemed to fall for the new guy. Dean, Jess, now Clark. She shook her head. Wait a minute, she was falling for Clark? God, she knew the guy for 2 days and already she liked him!
BEEP!
Paris's alarm went off and Rory groaned.
"GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!" Paris shouted as she sat up. Rory gave a sideways glance to the clock and realized she had been awake all night, and now she had less than 3 hours to sleep.
"Paris, SHUT UP!" Rory growled crankily as she covered her head with a pillow. Sleep is very necessary for a Gilmore not to commit homicide.
Clark PoV
There was a loud buzzing sound as Clark's alarm clock went off, and without thinking, he reached out and smashed to snooze button…and clock, to pieces. He sat up and slapped his forehead, rubbing his face as he realized that was the second time he'd broken his alarm clock in 2 days. His past nights had been sleepless with thoughts of Smallville and Stars Hollow, and Lana and Rory.
"Clark, get up! It's your first day of school and you don't want to be late!" Martha Kent's voice called to him from possibly the kitchen.
Sleepily, Clark showered and changed as he went into the small kitchen. He almost bumped into a wall on his way there, and the results could have been messy…
His Dad stood at the counter, getting a glass as his Mom set out a plate of food. Jonathan turned to them both. "Did anyone else hear the piano and screeching cat last night?" He asked. Clark shook his head, but Martha nodded. "It kept me up all night…" Martha admitted.
After a quick breakfast, Clark went out the door, happy he lived closer to his new school. People were walking around the town as teens filed into the school.
After getting his schedule, Clark headed down the empty hallways towards, hopefully, the right room. He looked from his schedule to the room and opened the door. Quietly handing the schedule to the teacher, the teacher nodded and Clark quickly sat down in the back of the classroom, looking around a little nervously.
He felt a poke in his shoulder and he turned around. A blonde kid with a smirk plastered on his face greeted him.
"Hey…you new here?" The boy asked.
"Yeah…" Clark mumbled.
"Where you from?" The blonde asked another question.
"Um… Kansas…" Clark quickly muttered, turning back around and feeling a bit uncomfortable.
The boy continued to talk though. "I'm Chuck. Chuck Presby. Who're you?" He asked.
"Clark… Clark Kent," he responded.
Walking down the street of Stars Hollow, Clark saw Lorelai. he went up to ask her about Rory.
"Oh, Clark, hi." Lorelai smiled.
"Hi Lorelai...hey, when does Rory come home...?"
"For the weekend usually. Depends." Lorelai replied with a devious grin, which Clark didn't recognize because he didn't know her that well. "I'm heading to Luke's Diner for something to eat. Want to come?"
Clark nodded. "Sure." He answered following her to the small diner across the street. Seconds later, Lorelai froze. "Oh my god..." she laughed.
"What?" Clark was confused at her strange behavior, his eyebrows furrowing together. Lorelai laughed harder and clutched her stomach because she was getting a stomach ache from laughing so hard. Clark stared at her in confusion.
Finally, she pulled herself together and took ragged breathes, chuckling every now and then. She glanced towards the diner and let out a breathy laugh.
"Is...everything ok?" Maybe he was dealing with a madwoman here, Clark thought. She nodded. "Never mind...just...you'll see in a second." Clark gave her a funny look and continued to follow her to the diner. Lorelai opened the door and led Clark to the counter.
Luke came out of the kitchen and froze, looking at Clark.
Both wore eerily similar plaid blue flannel shirts. Lorelai burst into laughter again, and Lane walked by and dropped a mug, also laughing. Lorelai collapsed onto the stool, and took another breath, trying to stifle her laughes.
"Luke..." she finally said, collecting herself again. "This is Clark. Clark just moved here from Kansas." She laughed again but clapped her hand over her mouth to prevent more giggles.
Luke hesitantly reached out a hand, which Clark politely shook. "Luke Danes," Luke introduced. "Clark Kent." Clark replied, nodding his head quickly. Lane jumped up from the floor, the pieces of broken porcelain in her hands. She also covered her mouth, allowing only muffled laughes to escape.
"Hi..." she said, calming down. "I'm Lane Kim." She introduced herself. "How do you know Lorelai?" She asked.
"We just moved into the house behind hers." Clark responded.
"Where Dwane lived." Lorelai added.
"Who?" Luke asked, ruffling his eyebrows togther in confusion.
"The lawn guy." Lorelai remarked. "Oh..." Luke nodded slightly, remembering a little.
Lorelai shifted on her stool. "Coffee peas..."
"How many cups have you had today?" Luke grunted.
"None! I swear! Sookie had off to take care of Davie and the construction crew stole the rest, and Michel wouldn't make me any but I didn't have any at home!" Lorelai babbled.
Luke narrowed his eyes at her and rolled his eyes. "How many?" He asked again.
"2..." she surrendered, sinking down into her seat. Luke poured her a cup. "Here's your death juice." He mumbled.
"Angel!" Lorelai cried out, downing her drink.
Clark turned to Lane, who was coming back from delivering plates.
"Are they-"
"No."
"Do they do this everyday?"
"Basically." She replied quickly as Luke asked Clark what he wanted to order.
"Um...I think I'll have a coffee too..." Clark replied. Lorelai smiled at him. "Welcome to the club." She grinned. "A cheeseburger to go with this Luke!" She cried out to Luke, who was in the back.
Clark went home, but came back to the diner after the rush. It was practically empty, except for Lane, Luke, and Kirk. Lane was gathering her stuff to go back to her apartment.
"When does the diner close?" Clark asked her. He liked to sit in the diner and have a quiet calm place to sit. As quiet as it can get with Kirk around, whom he'd learned earlier was not a normal person.
"Don't worry, in a long time. I go when it's just Luke and Kirk left, but I guess you can stay."
Moans came from Kirk. They both snapped their heads towards him, as he put his cup of coffee down, groaning.
"Are- you ok?" Clark hesitantly asked Kirk.
Kirk looked at Clark in surprise. "Me? Oh, I'm fine." He said, taking another sip of his coffee and groaning in pain again.
Lane leaned forward slightly. "Coffee makes his lungs hurt." She said in a low voice. Clark blinked and didn't bother to ask why Kirk drank it then.
Clark continued to sip his 4th cup of coffee. The coffee reminded him of the coffee from the Talon. It reminded him of home.
About half an hour later, Luke came back down, telling them they were closing.
"Thanks for the coffee," Clark said, pulling out money to pay. "First time customers are on the house..." Luke said, putting his hand up. Kirk still sat there, staring at his empty plate as if he was contemplating something. As Clark left, he turned back to see Luke ordering Kirk out, and finally giving in and letting Kirk tell him his problems.
Clark continued to walk around the town, and found himself on the border of the highway. He took a glance at his watch, and saw it was late.
"Man..." he muttered. He looked around quickly and sped back to his home.
A soft rustling of grass woke Clark up, and he sat up quickly, looking around. He froze at seeing the familiar farmhouse his parents used to own, and saw the old tractor sitting there, the FOR SALE sign still up.
I'm dreaming. Aren't I? He briefly wondered. He got up quickly and not knowing what else to do, ran into the barn. He climbed the steps to the loft and stared out at the field. The sun was only halfway to the sky, and suddenly he heard the doors of the barn open and footsteps. He jumped at the sound and knocked over a box of packaged tools, causing a familiar voice to call out.
"Hello?" Lana's voice rang out, echoing in the nearly empty barn. Before he knew what he was doing, Clark sped out of there at his super rate of a speeding bullet, and Lana jumped up the steps, three at a time. She jumped up to the loft and looked around sadly.
Clark zoomed into his house, appearing quickly into the kitchen. Martha Kent hung up the phone.
"Clark, where were you? We were so worried." His mom said. Clark blinked a couple of times.
"I-...I woke up in the field by our house." He replied, looking very confused.
Jonathan Kent stepped forward. "What?"
Clark's face grew more thoughtful. "I woke up there. And I have no idea how I got there." Clark replied to his father's unasked question.
Martha stepped forward, hugging her son. "Oh, honey, you must be sleepwalking again. You miss home, don't you?" She asked, pulling back.
"Yeah..." Clark admitted.
"You have to be careful Clark. Someone from Smallville could see you, and there'd be no way of explaining how or why you're there." Jonathan warned.
Clark nodded. "In the-...Lana...Lana was in the barn..." he told them. "She didn't see me," he quickly added at his parents worried faces. "She was just...she came in and I ran out..." he added.
"Clark..." Jonathan let out a sigh. "We know this must be hard on you. It's hard on all of us." His father put his hand on Clark's shoulder. "We have to try and adapt."
The kryptonian nodded. "Yeah..." He replied.
Clark was late to school most of the week, having to rush back from Kansas, because his sleepwalking didn't stop. He had to explain several times (to the class's joy) why he was late when he lived less than half a mile from the school.
But he was adjusting.
The end of the week, Clark was walking back after another walk around the town, when he spotted a car pull into the driveway of the Gilmore house, and a familiar brunette climbed out of the car.
Rory PoV
Rory got out of the car and ran up the steps to her house, knocking on the door because she forgot her key.
Lorelai swiftly opened the door, a frown on her face. "You...dead...will be..." She grunted angrily.
"Hey, you're the one who wanted some Rory time today, and you know I couldn't get out of this tonight..Friday Night Dinner was the only time." Rory snapped back.
"Nice face you got on there kid." Lorelai retorted.
Rory sighed, exasperated. "I've had an exhausting week." Rory groaned, climbing into the jeep. She had Clark on the mind a lot of the time.
They started off to the Gilmore house. "BOGO on the brain?"
"Huh?" Rory turned to her mother with a confused look.
"Instead of BOGO on the brain, you got Farm Boy on the Brain." Lorelai laughed.
The younger Gilmore rolled her eyes. "You're funny," she sarcastically joked.
"Of course..." Lorelai remarked with a smile.
"Need...coffee..." Lorelai moaned after the horrible Friday Night Dinner experience. Rory agreed and they both climbed out of the car and crossed the street to the diner. It was almost empty except for Kirk, Luke, and the now usual Clark.
The bells at the top of the door rang as they quickly hurried in, and Lorelai shouted, "Coffee, coffee, COFFEE!"
Luke rolled his eyes. "Hold on a minute..." He barked back.
"Hey Clark." "Hi." The Gilmores greeted their new neighbor.
"Hi Rory, Lorelai." He greeted them back. He turned back to his salad, poking it with his fork. The girls sat at the counter as Luke pulled out two coffee mugs and poured them each a cup. He refilled Clark's coffee cup as well.
"You like coffee?" Rory asked him.
Clark nodded. "It reminds me of this coffee place back home..." he explained.
"He's in the club!" Lorelai remarked to Rory with a laugh.
"Oh good, so he knows about the special benefit discount," Rory continued the joke.
Luke could see Clark didn't get the joke, so as he walked to the kitchen, he muttered, "Don't bother to try and understand them."
Offened, Lorelai scoffed. "Hey!" She whined, slapping Luke's arm playfully as he passed into the kitchen. "Ow! Geez!" Luke said.
Lorelai rolled her eyes this time. "Baby..." she teased.
"You come here often now...?" Rory asked Clark while her mother and Luke flirtatiously argued.
He nodded. "It's quiet and I can think...normally..." he joked. Rory smiled at him and laughed. "I know a place that's better." Kirk coughed as he choked on his food, then swallowed it. "I'm OK!" He told the uncaring people.
"Without Kirk." She added. Clark grinned. "Come on, I'll show you..." Rory motioned to the door, grabbing her purse and getting up off the stool. "Sure..." Clark agreed. He put down the money he owed and grabbed his jacket.
"Mom." Rory called her mother to stop her and Luke's banter.
"Huh?" Lorelai said, turning around to face her daughter.
"I'm going for a walk with Clark." She said, and Lorelai smiled diabolically, about to say something when Rory threw her a warning glare.
"Have fun!" She called out as they walked out the door.
Walking silently to the bridge, Clark smiled at the sight of it.
"Wow!" He said, finding it peaceful. A swan swam down at the emd of the lake.
"You probably didn't find it before, it's kind of hidden out behind the corners. Most people don't go around here, and it's really quiet. I'd be careful of the swan though, my mom says it's vicious." Rory babbled quickly. She smiled shyly, blushing at her childness of her rant.
"It's nice. I like it here." Clark answered her unasked question. "How'd you find it?" He asked as they both sat, dangling their feet over the water.
"I've known about it forever, but I didn't really come here until 2 years ago. My boyfriend-" She froze at her words, realizing what she was mentioning. "Ex-boyfriend actually..." she mumbled.
"Oh, I'm sorry...?" Clark was unsure of how to react to this news.
"It's fine..." Rory shook her head. "I haven't seen him in a while anyways..." she mumbled. More like 2 months actually, with his very surprising statement. (4.13, people if you couldn't tell!)
"Oh..." Clark said slowly, nodding.
They sat in silence, thinking, until it got late.
A/N: What did you think? I hope it wasn't too short or choppy, that was what I was afraid of. I know it's choppy, but how bad is it, scale of1 to 10. Review please people! I hope you liked it, sorry I took so long to update. I myself think Clark and Rory make a cute couple when you picture it in your head. If you don't know much about the Smallville stuff, review and leave an email, I'll explain the important stuff to know for the story. Again,press the little purple-blue button below! Get clicking people!
PS: Just a small note, if you own the Smallville dvd's, or watch them often, you know that each episode is one word to describe it all, and that GG is a funny proverb or quote or thing that happens in a sentence. That's what I'm trying to do! The chapter name is one word, but the chapter name I've written in the actual chapter is longer! Maybe you noticed, maybe not.