Sorry about the wait for this chapter. Having a sick baby that wants you to hold them constantly and then being sick yourself isn't really conducive to getting any writing done.

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Chapter 3

EPOV

I don't think I have ever been as lucky answering questions as I was after the football game. Not one person questioned how I tossed a guy like he was a ragdoll, about how fast I move, hell no one even asked where Bella disappeared to so quickly. I'm going to take this as a sign that the conversation Bella and I are going to have goes well. I have thought about her all day long. Her chest, my jersey over said chest, fire shooting from each of our eyes, my name prominently displayed on her back, and now her getting full on tackled and not being hurt are just a few of the things that have been running through my head all day long. It would probably have been ideal to go tell my parents what happened today, but I really wanted to try to figure this situation out on my own.

Going to the Homecoming Dance just seems incredibly insignificant in the grand scheme of things. If Bella is the same as me then that's a hell of a lot more important. Of course, she could just be meteor infected and somehow copied my powers. That would really blow! Holy shit! I must be the most moody, brooding, pessimistic fucker on the planet. I can't seem to ever find the positive side of things and even when I do I turn it into a negative. Fuck my life! Maybe I need happy pills, if only that would work.

I went into the locker room after the game intending to shower, change into my street clothes, and then race home; but shit rarely goes as I plan. Hell, I could have everything perfectly planned to let's say get married and with my luck a fucking planet would be hurtling towards Earth. It's just how my life goes most of the time.

Just as I was about to head to the showers I heard the most awful screeching sound. It is like a high-pitched, whirring, and screaming in my head. I grab my head in both hands and double over. My teammates are all freaking the fuck out think I'm dying or some shit. I know that sound. I have heard it before when I was Kal-El and again when something was going on at home. I didn't have time to come up with a better excuse than I all of a sudden got a killer migraine. A shower would have to wait until later. I dress as quickly as I can get away with and walk out of the locker room and the school. As soon as I know there is no one around I speed off towards the farm.

On my way home I can't help but think that my fucking biological father would pick tonight of all nights to start interfering in my life. Upon arriving in the barn, where the source of the horrible ringing in my head is coming from, I'm shocked to see Bella standing there clutching a small crystal in her hand. I put my hand up and the crystal flies to me. As soon as I'm holding it the horrible screeching noise is gone. I look up at Bella and the most amazing smile is gracing her face. What the hell is she smiling about?

Before I can even blink she has closed the minute distance between us and she is in my arms, knocking us both through the heavy, wooden, barn door. She sits up so that she is straddling my thighs and I don't think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than Bella Swan with the moon shining brightly behind her. I can't really concentrate on anything other than the way she looks at the moment and the fact that she is straddling me.

"It is you! I have been searching for years hoping and praying to find you, Kal-El!" She gushes. Smiling and laughing and just so damn happy about the fact that she found me. She has known me forever. What is wrong with her? Wait a second; did she just say Kal-El?

"Bella, how do you know that name? Where did you get this crystal? What the hell is going on?" My voice kept steadily rising with each question. Jor-El never once mentioned that there might be another Kryptonian on Earth.

She slowly stood up off of me and looked down at me in confusion. I am sure my expression was mirroring hers at this moment. "You really don't know do you." She stated more than asked. "Well, this could be a more difficult conversation than I originally thought. Do you have some place that we could go and talk?"

"Umm…uhhh…yeah. We can talk in my loft, in the barn if you want." As soon as the words were out of my mouth she was gone. I looked up and saw her standing in the window looking down and smiling at me. I quickly stood, crouched down, and jumped up and in through the window. Bella had moved over to my couch and was patting the spot beside her, indicating I should probably take a seat for our little chat.

"I don't know I'm not sure where to begin. There are so many questions running through my head right now. Maybe, you should just start at the beginning and tell me your whole story and what you know, because it seems that you know more than I do at this point." I really hope she agrees because right now I don't think that I can actually concentrate enough to tell her my history. It's a miracle I was able to get that many words out.

"Okay, but really, after what happened in the locker room this morning you didn't think that maybe, just maybe, I was like you? I mean what were you thinking about all day if not that?" Bella was looking at me like I was stupid, which I have to admit I can totally see her reasoning on why she would think that. I don't really want to answer her question. It is going to make me sound incredibly juvenile and like a horn dog. I don't really see a way around it unless I like and I really hate lying all the time.

I glanced up at her and smirked, may as well go all out with my disclosure. "Actually, the main thing I was concentrating on all day was how hot you looked in the shower and what a great rack you have! You wearing my jersey with my name on your back marking you for everyone to see and trying not to think about either of those things so that I didn't burn the school down, that is what I was thinking about today." I replied as nonchalantly as possible.

I half expected her to try and hit me or burn the shit out of me, but she had to go and be different and surprise me; which isn't a bad thing.

"You don't have a great rack, but your chest and back are unbelievably sexy!" Bella said with a wink. A wink? She fucking winked at me? She likes the way I look! Score! I almost fist-pumped the air, but I kept my composure, somewhat. I was just about to start singing that stupid little song from the movie 'Miss Congeniality', "you want to hug me, you want to kiss me,…". I had to stop there; I knew that she wouldn't want to love me.

"Okay! Well, this isn't how I pictured this conversation going and I think we may want to get back on topic before one of us does something stupid; like for example, burning your barn down. I don't know about you but my parents would be pissed if that happened." Wow! Bella being assertive was hot.

As much as I hate to admit it, she is right though. For some reason I have a feeling that she is going to be right about a lot of things. I also don't think that I will be able to make her stay out of the line of fire that I so frequently find myself in; because like I said she will probably have the comeback that she is just like me and can take care of herself, blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, maybe I should get back to the matter at hand before she starts thinking that I really am an idiot.

"Where did you get the crystal?" I have to know. I already have one and I was supposed to be searching for the other two.

"How about I just start at the beginning and we will get to that? I came to Earth at the same time you did during the meteor shower. Charlie and Renee Swan found me wandering around in a corn field. I don't really remember a lot from my younger years, just that I was really fast and really strong.

When I was a Freshman I was tired of not fitting in and wanted to play sports. I knew I could control my abilities, but my parents were reluctant to agree. I'm sure you know that feeling well. I was so mad that day. Didn't they have any faith in me whatsoever? I mean it's not like I would be playing football and actually having to control the strength of my tackles. We had a huge fight about it. I knew that if I stuck around any longer I was going to explode and more than likely say something that I didn't meant to, so I ran.

I went out to one of the many fields around here and just lay down amongst all the weeds. It wasn't like anyone could find me if I didn't want them to, I could hear them coming from miles away.

It wasn't long after that someone was hauling ass across the field in a jacked up Jeep. I didn't know who it was at the time because I had never seen the vehicle around Smallville before. I saw the Jeep heading straight for me and I was to mesmerized I guess watching what they were doing to worry about the fact I was about to be road kill.

The Jeep hit me and then it just rolled and rolled and rolled. Finally, I snapped out of my haze and ran over to see if the person inside needed help. When I got there, without thinking, I ripped the truck door off and pulled the driver out. Thankfully, the driver was unconscious. I didn't really want to explain how me a 5'7", 125 pound girl could do so much damage. From that day forward I have had a stalker/friend; it was none other than Lana Luthor."

"Holy shit! I remember that. Lex said he sent the person that helped her a new pickup for saving her life. I just never realized that it was you. I actually saved Lex when he lost control of his Porsche and drove it off of the Loeb Bridge. Of course, he hit me at 60mph and then we both went off the bridge together. It's kind of crazy how similar our lives have been and that we have basically grown up around each other and we still didn't realize that we are the same." I said in awe.

"Let me guess, Lex bought you a new pickup and you couldn't keep it either?" Bella questioned.

"Yeah, my dad doesn't really like the Luthors all that much. Something happened either before they found me or right after. I vaguely recall my dad saying something about Lionel Luthor doing a favor for him and in return he wanted dad to convince some of the other farmers around here to go along with a business deal." She was nodding while I talked. "I take it your dad's story is the same on why he doesn't like them either?"

"Uh huh, my folks can't understand how I can be friends with Lana, they are afraid of what could happen if my secret was discovered by them. Thankfully, you and my parents are the only people that know the truth about me. What about you? Does anyone besides the obvious know about you?" She seemed uncertain asking me, like she really doesn't want to know the truth.

"My best friend, Alice Brandon knows," I replied. I hope that doesn't bother her, I mean why should it? We both just now found out about the other. If she had someone that she trusted explicitly I would expect them to know as well.

"Are you insane? Do you really think that you can trust her? I mean she is the editor of the school newspaper not to mention one of the nosiest people I have ever met!" Flabbergasted actually looks appealing on Bella Swan. Who knew?

"We have been friends for a long time and I didn't just come right out and say 'hey Alice, I'm an alien from another planet, just giving you heads up'. She kind of found my ship one day." I mumbled out, embarrassment lacing my tone. "But in my defense I was blind at the time and wasn't thinking clearly."

"Let me get this straight. She kind of found it? How does someone kind of find something? Is that like being kind of pregnant?" Sarcasm even looks good on her. Not to mention that she was full on laughing at this point and that just made her all the more gorgeous.

"While I was blind for a little while I wasn't thinking clearly when I asked her to go get some sort of vegetable out of the cellar for my mom." I admitted sheepishly. Bella was laughing so hard now that there were actually tears streaming down her face and she was doubled over holding her sides.

"Laugh it up! I was having a pity-party for myself at the time and didn't care about much besides trying to adapt my sudden blindness." My voice had been escalating louder and louder and to be honest it was really pissing me off that she was still laughing even after I told her was blind for a while. Who does that?

"Calm the fuck down! I'm not laughing at your blindness, which totally sucks by the way. I'm laughing at the irony of it all. Think about it, besides your parents, the nosiest person in the world, second only to the Luthors, who also happens to be a reporter, knows your secret; and has kept it. Honestly, I'm more amazed than anything else and also a tad bit jealous." She ended softly, looking down at the floor.

I wasn't sure what to say to her. She was right of course. I knew how strange it sounded for me to allow a reporter to know my business. In the end though she was still just Alice to me. An extremely hyper, over caffeinated, pixie-like girl and my best friend.

"You don't have anyone that you can confide in? Surely you have a close friend or two, right?" I hesitantly asked.

"No."

No? That's all she said. She didn't elaborate or go into any details. Bella Swan, one of the nicest people I had ever met, didn't have a single close friend. Sure she had Lana, but I knew that wasn't really friendship. It was more like an acquaintance.

"I'm sorry Bella. You know you have a friend in me now too and someone that understands what you are going through."

"Thank you Edward. I honestly haven't felt so light or happy since…I honestly can't remember when. You will probably get sick of me being around so much," she smiled shyly up at me.

"I wouldn't be so sure of that. I love having you around and besides I'm sure that we can think of all sorts of fun things to do together that no one else in the world could ever do. First, though, would you please tell me where you got the crystal?"

"Aww..yes. Back to the conversation. After my run in with Lana my parents finally decided it was time for me to know the truth about being an alien. Of course, I didn't believe them. They had to make me go down to our basement and see my ship for myself. It was information overload for me. I just stood there in shock for the longest time, until I had an epiphany.

I realized that I had these special abilities and that maybe whoever sent me from wherever sent me here to help people. I decided that I should embrace it head on. It also gave me a little comfort to know that I wasn't really a freak, I was special. My dad, a couple days later, gave me this octagonal disc that he found next to the ship. I knew it was a key to the ship, somehow.

It took me a few more days to actually get the courage to go down there and see what would happen, but I finally did. My ship lit up like the sun and this amazing voice came from it. I was scared at first, I had no clue what was about to happen. I finally assumed that if this ship brought me all the way to Earth and kept me protected that it wouldn't hurt me now either.

He told me amazing things. The most important was that there was someone else like me on Earth and in time we would meet and… umm… anyways that he would need the crystal that was in my ship. It would be his destiny to combine the fragments and it would be my job to help. That's pretty much everything." She finished with a huff and a smile.

"Wow! So you know that my name on Krypton was Kal-El, what was your name? If you don't want to tell me that's fine, I just would like to know everything about you is all."

"It's alright Edward. According to the voice in the ship, who happens to be my biological father, they name me Khera. I am from the House of Ur. My father's name was Dax-Ur and I do not know my mother's name.

So, are you going to tell me why you destroyed your ship? At least that's what I'm guessing since it's nowhere to be found on the farm. Do you hate what you are that much that you really would rather be normal?"

It must be pretty obvious that I have wanted to be normal my whole life, especially for someone I have barely spent any time with to notice.

"I didn't want to be alone."

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