CHAPTER 16

Adam didn't stop running till he reached metropolis back streets and when he did he dropped to his knees and held his head and screamed out in pain.

His head ached with all the negative emotions that were streaming through him were making his head rive with agony.

Then from the edge of the alleyway he heard small clicking footsteps from a pair of high heels.

"I knew you would come back to me…" he heard the voice from the allyway.

He slowly looked up to the outline of leather laced high heels and a very petit black dress overlaid with a long trench coat.

But he looked to her face breathlessly and slowly spoke out her name.

"…Lana"

Lana crotched down beside him and smiled seductively as she took out a small flask.

"You don't look good Adam…take a sip it will make you feel much better."

He slowly took the flask and without hesitation he took a sip but feeling a familiar rush which he got not to long ago he ended up drinking the entire flask and roaring out in satisfaction as his eyes glowed red once more with satisfaction.

He looked at Lana as they both stood.

"Wow baby you sure know how to rev my engine!"

Adam clearly saw her figure in leather and softly growled as he closed the distance as she replied very seductively.

"Well Adam…I hope that goes both ways"

She made a quick squeak of pleasure as he grabbed her ass and hoisted her up and kissed her passionately and she returned the gesture by grabbing a handful of his hair.

Adam slowly broke from the kiss and saw the smear of lipstick across her face from the kiss.

"Satisfied?" he whispered into her ear.

"Not yet…" she whispered back into his lips, but Adam put a finger to her lips.

"Me neither…but are fun is only just beginning I think its time to play a game" he spoke as he slowly glided his finger across her lips which she could only smile at.

"I like games…" she paired as she slowly licked his finger and kissed the top of it which made Adam smile even more.

"Then let the games begin…and Lana"

After a few minutes had passed Clark was more concerned about Lois than chasing after Adam as he laid the unconscious brunette on the couch in the loft.

Chloe had followed Clark reluctantly; Martha had fell behind to help Lionel/Jor-El to his feet.

Clark just watched as a small bump had appeared on Lois's head he couldn't help but slowly brush a lock of her hair that had fell in-front of her face.

"Clark…" a voice came up from behind her he turned to see a very confused Chloe looking down to him.

"Chloe…I'm so sorry" he said and enveloped her into a tight hug which she accepted reluctantly in her confusion.

"What's happened to him?" she whispered quietly not attending the words to be spoken out loud but with Clark's super hearing he picked up the words clear as day.

"I don't Chloe, I've never seen Red-K affect a Kryptonian this badly before…even me, I knew the lines not to cross even under Red-K" he spoke trying to contemplate what had happened not 10 minutes before.

"That's because the lines have not been drawn for Tor-El"

Clark and Chloe ended there friendly embrace to see Lionel approaching up the stairs.

"Jor-El what do you mean?" Clark immediately asked.

In reply to the question he quickly raised his hand to correct him.
"No Clark it is 100% Lionel Luthor I'm afraid the effects of the Kryptonite weakened Jor-El's connection with me to the point the hold over me was lost…"

Lionel approached them slowly as he continued.

"…However Jor-El's impending memories still remain with me, it seems he was very concerned with Adam's Kryptonite infection."

"I think we all are Lionel…" Chloe said more annoyed to the obvious but Lionel then corrected her as Martha came to her son's side to hear what the old man had to say.

"No Miss Sullivan you don't realize the extent of the gravity of the situation here…" Lionel said with extreme worry in his tone.

"Lionel…" Martha then interjected.

"…What's happening to my son?"

Chloe and Clark found it weird for the first time Martha Kent had official addressed her as Adam's mother.

Lionel thought carefully to address this as the jumbled up memories of Jor-El were as much puzzled in with his own.

"…It all comes down to the fact that Adam has not lead a normal life…his life has been full of solitude and loneliness buried deep in the phantom zone…"

Clark felt guilty of those words as he could still never truly understand the implications of that as Lionel continued.

"…because of this Adam has never built any emotional walls or experienced these high tense emotions he is feeling now…"

He bowed his head knowing what he would say next would discomfort the listening three.

"Being exposed to Red kryptonite has activated emotions Adam has never experienced and because of that his fragile mind cannot take this amount of strain all at once."

It took a moment for the words to sink in that's when Clark was getting a bad feeling about those words.

"What are you saying Lionel?"

"I'm saying Clark…" Lionel hesitated "…If we don't find away to get Adam off Red-K…he will die."

"Die?" Chloe ached out towards Lionel, Clark continued the questioning right after her.

"He cant die he is indestructible…"

"His body maybe, but his mind is not" Lionel replied somberly.

"…In the barn he was holding his head as if he were in pain" Clark spoke remembering in the heated exchange when Adam spoke in anger.

"…Your right Clark…" Lionel nodded in agreement.

"…his mind was slowly building the walls around him at a steady pace and he would soon be able to take these emotions more comfortably…but the Kryptonite has sped up that process ten fold and his mind cant take the pace."

Martha hand over her mouth with the thought of loosing Adam that way is not anoption.

"What can we do?" she said with so much concern for her new son's life.

Clark then took a step forward and declared.

"I'm going to find him…"

"NO Clark we are going to find him…" Chloe then interjected with annoyance that Clark would not include her in his declaration.

"No Chloe it's too dangerous…"

Chloe was about to vent her own built up frustration when an unlikely source spoke up for her.

"No Clark she is right…" Lionel said as he turned to the small blond.

"You have a powerful connection with Adam, Jor-El saw that very clearly and he knows that you could be the key to bring Adam back"

"Me…" she said more dismisivly.
"He's right Chloe…" Clark spoke turning on his previous statement as she turned to Clark for confirmation of his blunt 180.

"Just after he k…" he hesitated turning to Lois seeing her still sleeping and remembered the kiss between Adam and Lois and shook his head metaphorically and continued.

"…well you know, but when he looked into your eyes Chloe you could see just for a moment Adam was there and it was like he was fighting it just to look at you…"

While Chloe took in his words Martha decided to put her thoughts back into the conversation.

"But this Red Kryptonite is different from the ones we have encountered with Clark…"

"Except it's the girls who become infatuated with him from a simple kiss and not the other way round."

"It has got to be something in his system" Martha then concluded which they all agreed except Clark who picked up something through his super hearing.

"Someone's coming down the drive…I will try and get rid of it is and we will figure out the plan." Clark then quickly walked down to the stairs but only to see the last person he expected to see also quickly entering the barn.

"Lex?" Clark said surprised that the younger luthor had not set foot in the barn for months since his marriage to Lana.

"Hello Clark…" Clark noticed Lex was looking around the barn from his vision he had not seen the group sat quietly on the floor above.

However Lex noticed the Lambrogini lay were the broken barn door once laid in the entrance south to were he entered.

"…I didn't know you had excellent taste in cars" Lex quickly remarked towards the sports car.

"I don't…It is not mine its…." Clark began when Lex interrupted his sentence.

"…Adams?"

Clark was taken aback from Lex's blunt statement but felt very uncomfortable for the fact for his former friend to immediately bring up his brother into this.

"You can try and stand there and defend your new found companion…" Lex said now circling round Clark like he was being interrogated.

"…but he has a side of him I think you only have become accustom to, isn't it" he concluded as Clark noticed the very rigid features.

"Is there a reason why you have come here Lex?" Clark said knowing that the time was for the essence.

That is when Lex demeanor changed and showed his built up anger and rage vent out.

"This is why!" Lex brought some photographs out of his jacket and thrusted them into Clark's chest and as he plucked them out of Lex's grip he look at what the pictures showed which made his eyes widen with disbelief as the young Luthor then spoke out in annoyance.

"Would you care to explain why your good friend Adam is kissing my wife?"