A/N: Well since you all said please (people actually did ask me to please continue) I present the long and overdue (understatement much) update for Alternate Season 2. Sorry it isn't long, but I wanted to give you guys something.
Margaret paces back and forth in front of Pierce's cell. Pierce just sits against the wall watching her.
"What are you still doing her Maggie? Don't you have that reported shooting to check out?" He asks with a yawn.
"Out of my jurisdiction, remember? Besides, I'm not leaving you out of my sight till you're safely locked away in Metropolis. And if you have anything to do with tonight's shooting…"
"Please. What could I possibly have done IN JAIL?" He groans at his rival.
"You'd be surprised at how far some people's influence can reach Pierce," she answers.
You have no idea, Pierce gloats in his mind. She of course knows nothing about his 'assistant' still on the outside.
Lana's heart beat was slow, but steady. She was still unconscious on the hospital bed. Her blood soaked spring formal dress lying across Chloe's lap. She had been sitting next to Lana for who knows how long. She kept rubbing her hands over and over again; Lana getting shot replaying in her mind. Chloe wasn't sure what shocked her more; the gun shot or how she somehow healed Lana.
"Irony sucks," she mumbles. Her life's goal was to expose any and all meteor freaks…freaks.
I can't call them that anymore; now that I'm one of them. Sure it's hypocritical, but I don't care. All this time that I try to uncover the identity of the mysterious meteor fr-infected student and I turn out to be one…again, irony freaking sucks! I don't even know how I became infected. I wasn't even born in this town, Chloe angrily thinks.
The door to Lana's room flies open making Chloe jump out of her chair. Clark, Tess, Jimmy, and Pete step inside the room and Chloe tosses aside Lana's dress. She runs forward and almost tackles Clark and Tess down in a hug.
"Where were you two! ? I thought you might've died! ?" Chloe yelled at them, but also sounding relieved.
"And why are you dressed differently?" She adds while also noticing how Clark looks slightly tired. She hadn't seen anything like that since the time Eric briefly had super powers.
"Rudy. He set the fire and nearly drowned me. Tess dived into the pool and managed to save me," Clark partially lied. Tess gave Clark a knowing look, but didn't call him out on Whitney being the one that tried to drown him.
"Rudy?" Pete asks in disbelief. "Why would he have any reason to burn down the school?"
"Having power can corrupt a person's judgement," Tess says cracking her knuckles.
"Yeah. All the meteor freaks are a prime example of that," Jimmy says. Chloe looks away from Jimmy at his words. She looks towards Lana, however, to avoid seeming suspicious.
"How did he even get the way he is? It can't be meteor exposure can it?" Pete asks.
"Why not?" Jimmy questions him.
"Did you see how disfigured he was when he first ran out of the hospital? I've seen the meteors do a lot of bad things to people, but nothing like that before," Pete answers him.
"It might've had something to do with Luthorcorp. Back during the incident with Eric, I heard that there had been an explosion there," Tess says.
"What at Luthorcorp. could've caused such a transformation?" Chloe asks.
"There are a lot of secrets stored in that building that Lionel doesn't want people to know about. I doubt even Lex knows about the most secretive of projects conducted in that building," Tess says sitting down.
"We can worry about how Rudy got this way later. How's Lana?" Clark asks turning in her direction. Chloe swallows thickly and opens her mouth to respond.
"She's stable for right now. The doctors can't explain it in the least. A few of them said that it's as if the bullet just suddenly stopped. It's gonna be touch and go and she's not out of the woods yet, but still, it's nothing short of a miracle," she finishes.
"It's a miracle no one died in that fire," Jimmy remarks.
"But nobody's safe till we find Rudy," Clark says and moves towards the door. Tess instinctively grabs his arm.
"You can't seriously be thinking of going after him. He nearly killed you."
"Nearly being the word Tess. He doesn't want to really kill anybody," Clark says.
"And how exactly do you know that C.K.?" Jimmy questions him.
"Because he told me," Clark states matter of fact like.
"It doesn't mean he won't hurt you," Chloe says.
"He was weak when I first saw him at my barn. He has to continually charge himself or else he'll be normal like us," Clark says.
Well, except for me… Clark silently adds in his mind not knowing that Tess and Chloe are thinking the exact same thing.
"Rudy is far from normal Clark. Even if you do catch him at a weakened state, good luck managing to restrain him," Jimmy says.
"I have a way," Tess speaks up. "After I got kidnapped during the Nicodemus incident, Lionel gave me a taser. It's back at the mansion if you think it will help."
"It might," Clark says and steps towards the exit.
"C.K.? You aren't going anywhere, unless you plan on walking to the Luther Mansion. Did you forget we all came here in an ambulance?" Jimmy reminds him making Clark freeze with his hand on the door.
I forgot about that, Clark berates himself knowing that he can't just rush off now.
"All we have to do is call Lex and he'll be here in no time. Problem solved," Tess says. Clark nods in agreement when the lights to the room suddenly shut off. Clark opens the door and quickly steps out into the hallways and runs into a nurse.
"What just happened?" He asked worriedly.
"We-we just lost power to the building," she stutters. The gang worriedly all looks back at the still critically injured Lana.
Down in the basement, Rudy watches Clark using his stolen X-Ray vision.
"Time to play the hero, Kent," he says then forms a twisted smile.
A/N: So the quicker I finish this part of the story, the sooner I can get to the better things I have planned out for season 2. I actually have several events outlined, but the trouble is actually executing them. That's why I haven't updated among other things (loss of inspiration being another). Hope you liked this chapter and will bear with me till I get to the good parts.