Hey! Sorry I'm two days late. I had my prom to go to, so I didn't have time to write. Enjoy the next chapter!

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Chapter 2- Blast from the Past

"What do you mean we're in the past? How did we get here?" Lois asked frantically.

"The blue wall, it has to be that." Clark said.

"What are we going to do? How do we get back?" Lois asked.

"We'll have to take the car back to where the blue wall was and see if we can get back that way."

"Okay." Lois nodded, taking a deep breath.

"Come on Robin." Lois said to the wandering boy.

"We're going back home."

"Aww, already?" He asked, clearly disappointed. They entered the car. Clark drove this time, driving slowly to make sure he didn't miss the wall. They didn't see it, but Clark hoped that maybe they had went back to their time without knowing it. Once they arrived at the old Kent household, both Lois and Clark exited the car quickly and eagerly.

"Come on Robin." Lois said, taking the sleepy boy into her arms.

"I don't wanna go to sleep." He whined and then yawned. Lois chuckled.

"Sure you don't." Clark opened the door and immediately frowned. All his family's stuff was displayed all over the house. This was definitely not the present.

"Clark?" Lois asked worriedly, staring at the house.

"Okay, we're reporters. We can figure this out. Head back to where that blue wall was, look for anomalies in the area..." Lois kept rambling. Clark grabbed Robin and brought him up the stairs. He deposited the boy into his old bed. Lois looked around the room. It was clearly evident that it was her living in this room at the time.

"What do we do in the mean time?" Lois asked looking at Clark.

"One of the things I learned from the Legionnaires was that we can't change things in the past, there are always consequences."

"Like Lana." Lois said in a small voice, remembering the story her husband had told her about Lana's death and then the rewind in the past eniding in Johnathan's death. Clark nodded.

"We should act like ourselves... from the past." Clark added.

He took off his glasses and put them in the desk drawer. He super sped out of his work clothes and into his old flannel shirts and jeans. Lois bit down on her bottom lip. She looked at Clark and then took a step closer to him. She ran her hands through his hair and messed it up.

"There, better." She said smiling.

Lois went through the drawers and found a White Snake t-shirt. She took off her blouse and replaced it with the t-shirt and then took off her pencil skirt and replaced it with jeans. Clark smiled.

"Wow." He said. Lois looked at herself in the mirror.

"My hair!" She cried out. "It was blonde then."

"Oh." Clark said. Lois ran to the bathroom and went through the drawers.

"Bingo!" She said.

"Hair dye? I like your hair." He whined. Lois raised a brow. "Fine." An hour later, Lois was once again a bottle blonde.

"Perfect." She said kissing Clark then abruptly stopped.

"What about Robin?" She whispered.

"An orphaned child. We found him hiding in the loft. We decided to take him in until his real parents claim him."

"You're getting a little too good at this lying thing." Lois said, eyes narrowed.

"Clark!" Martha yelled out. Lois and Clark blanched.

"You go down, I'm in the barn working. Remember you don't know about me." Clark said and then sped away. Lois walked down the stairs.

"Hey Mrs. K." Lois greeted her. "Clark's working in the barn." She explained. Martha smiled at Lois.

"Could you help me with the groceries?" Martha asked.

"Sure thing. It's the least I can do for leaving here with a free room and food." After the groceries were unloaded, Lois started to talk about Robin.

"And we felt so bad for the poor kid that we couldn't just leave him out there." Lois finished. Martha nodded gravely.

"Yes, that's quite serious. Could I meet the boy?" She asked.

"He's asleep right now."

"Oh of course." Martha said. The sun was almost set.

"Did you already eat Lois?"

"Yeah, Smallville and I brought the little munchkin out for some pizza." Martha smiled.

"He must be such a sweet boy. I can't wait to meet him." Martha said making herself some soup.

"Johnathan should be home soon. He's gone out to get some fertilizer." She said smiling. Lois couldn't remember the last time that she had seen Martha smiling so much.

Clark sat in his loft listening to the conversation between Martha and Lois. Clark was nervous to see his father again. How should he act knowing that his father would die in a little over a year? Clark heard the silent roar of the truck down the road. He sighed. It was time to know if he could lie that well. Clark went down the steps to meet his father at the front of the barn. The truck came to a stop and Johnathan got out. Clark took a deep intake of breath. He grabbed two bags of fertilizer and brought them into the barn. Once they were done, Johnathan wiped his brow and said:

"Thanks son." It'd been so long since Clark had waited for his father to say this again. Johnathan stared at Clark expectantly.

"What are you looking at? Let's go inside and eat." Johnathan turned around and walked away. Clark jogged after him.

"Actually Lois and I already ate." Johnathan turned to look at Clark and smiled. He patted Clark's back.

"It's about time you took her out to super."

"Huh? Oh no, there was a little boy we found in the loft. He told us his parents abandoned him, so we took him out to super." Johnathan frowned.

"He's in my room sleeping." Clark finished. Johnathan nodded gravely.

"We should contact Child Services see if he has any grand-parents." Clark had a panicked look on his face.

"Uh, we already asked him that. He doesn't have any family." Johnathan looked at Clark sternly.

"We still need to contact them, Clark. We can't hide him here, you know what happened last time."

"Dad!" Clark protested.

"We'll talk about it tomorrow." Johnathan ended the conversation. Clark had to come up with a new plan and fast.

"Momma!" Lois heard Robin yell. She went up the stairs and went to Robin's side.

"Your mom's still not here yet, buddy."

"Oh." Robin said crestfallen. "Can you read me a story?" He asked. Lois smiled.

"Sure." She grabbed Clark's yearbook, the only book remaining in the room. She read the notes written by friends and the description next to the photos.

"I'm gonna go check on them." Clark said. "You know how Lois is with children." He said with fake exasperation.

Clark opened his bedroom door and was entranced by the image before him. Lois was reading his year book, by the sound of it, and Robin was fast asleep. Lois looked up and smiled at Clark.

"Hey." She said softly. Clark walked into the room and sat on the bed. He kissed Lois and then said: "I'll sleep on the couch." She didn't want him to, but knew she had to let him.

"Okay." She said softly. Clark went in his closet and took out some sheets.

"I'll see you in the morning." He said, kissing her forehead. Lois put her hands on his cheeks and brought his face to hers and kissed him. After a few minutes Clark said: "I'm going to go talk to Jor-El tomorrow. We'll be back home soon." Lois nodded.

Clark went down the stairs and set up the sheets on the bed. He laid down on the couch, his feet hung out at the end. He sighed frustrated.

"Now I remember why I don't like sleeping on this couch." He mumbled.

"Clark." He heard Johnathan say from behind him. Clark sat up.

"Dad?" He asked.

"I'm sorry that I was dismissive with you." Johnathan said sitting down next to Clark.

"I just don't want you getting hurt, like you did with Ryan. I know that was hard for you." Clark nodded, it had been hard on him.

"He's not special dad, he's normal. That sort of thing won't happen with him." Johnathan nodded pensively. Clark missed these talks with his dad.

"We can keep him here until someone claims him." Johnathan finally said. Clark hugged him.

"Thanks dad. I love you." He declared. Johnathan was taken aback it wasn't often that Clark would tell him that.

"I love you too son." Clark let him go reluctantly. Johnathan grabbed Clark by the shoulder.

"Night..." He stopped in mid-sentence, looking down at his son's hand. Clark mentally kicked himself. Both Lois and he forgot to take off their rings. Johnathan took Clark's hand roughly.

"Clark what is this?" Johnathan asked looking him in the eyes.

"We were doing a play in English class. I guess I forgot to take it off." Clark tugged the ring off his finger and tucked it into his pocket. Clark smiled reassuringly. Johnathan slapped him on the back and laughed.

"Don't scare me like that again, you almost gave me a heart attack. " He said, color coming back into his face. Clark paled slightly.

"Goodnight son." He said as he went up the stairs. Clark sighed, his heart hammering in his chest.

The phone rang, startling Clark awake. He ran for the phone and answered it.

"Hello?" He said.

"Clark, hey. I'm coming to get you. You won't believe what I just found out." He heard Chloe say.

"Coming to get me for what?" He asked.

"School!" She exclaimed.

"Alright, I'll be ready in ten." Chloe mumbled something and then hung up.

Clark ran up the stairs. When Clark opened the door Lois looked up at him, still half asleep.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"I have to go to school." Clark said. Lois gave him a strange look and then choked on her laughter.

"I never thought I'd hear you say that again."

"Ha ha. If the date's right, you were still going to school too." Lois rolled her eyes.

"It wasn't unusual for me to skip, so I'll pass." She said. "Anyway, I have to explain to Robin what's going on." She sighed. "Poor kid, he's really not going to like this."

Clark grabbed his red back pack and slung it over his right shoulder.

"You look cute." Lois said. The door bell rang.

"Love you." Clark said and ran down the stairs.

Chloe waited impatiently at the door. Clark opened it.

"Hi Chloe." Chloe looked up at him.

"I've got the scoop of the week, Boycoot the prom!" She declared.

"Dawn Stiles, the runner up for Prom Queen and her cohorts are going to have a surprise when they get to school." She said, smiling up at him. Clark's eyebrows shot up.

"Prom?" He aksed. Chloe gave him a look.

"I mean, wow. That's big."

"Clark, did you forget about prom?" She asked suspiciously.

"Uh, no." Clark said quickly. They got into her car. Chloe shook her head at her friend's lack of attentiveness. There was something up with Clark, and Chloe was going to do anything to figure it out.

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