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"This is your brother Eric" he said again into the phone

"Yeah, heard you the first time" said Jimmy shocked

"Is it really? Or is this some kind of joke" asked Jimmy taking a seat at the kitchen table

"Trust me, there is nothing funny about my life" said Eric

"How can I trust you? I don't even know you" Jimmy said looking out the window

"Well, that's true but how well do they really know you" asked Eric

"Not well at all" said Jimmy

"I know the feeling, but I think that we should meet" suggested Eric

"I don't know, you'll have to come here" said Jimmy

"Yeah, you don't want to come here" Eric said

"I will be there next weekend Saturday morning if that's okay, meet me at the bus station" said Eric quickly

"Sounds good" said Jimmy hanging up the phone

Summers House After the Call

Eric hung up the phone and looked out of the window and into the darkness from his bed, he couldn't believe that soon he would be meeting his brother, his real family for the first time. Noticing that it later than he realized, he got ready for bed but not before peeking his head out of his bedroom door to see where his parents were.

"I think its time that we introduce him to his brother" said Rebecca calmly

"ARE YOU SERIOUS!" screamed Roger

"Yes" Rebecca said

Eric went back into his room quickly before his parents knew that he was listening to them argue, Rebecca pleaded with her husband and after a few more tries he was sick of her, after finishing his third beer of the night Roger slapped his wife clear across the face before leaving the house and taking another beer with him. Rebecca who had been in this particular situation more times than she could remember grabbed a kitchen towel from the drawer put in under the sink and held it to her cheek.

"Mom, are you okay?" asked Eric from his bedroom door

"Eric, go to bed…this is not your concern" Rebecca yelled up at him

Eric did what his mother said and climbed into his bed, through the years it seemed that his father was always the bad person in the family but they both had something that wasn't quite right about them and Eric knew it.

Olsen House-Sunday Morning

Jimmy got up the next morning to a seemingly quiet house which surprised him until he got downstairs and realized that it was the day that his father was coming home from his business trip and that his mother was probably at the airport picking him up. As he fixed himself breakfast he noticed that eventually he would have to tell on of his parents that Eric was coming to visit. A few moments later the front door opened and in walked Kyle with a suitcase in each hand and Julie with his laptop bag.

"Hello son" said Kyle putting his bags down on the kitchen floor "how was your birthday?"

"Hi dad, it was fine" said Jimmy looking up from his cereal

"Well my business trip was fine, anything to make the Luthor's more money they are happy with" said Kyle

"That's great" said Jimmy continuing to eat

Kyle shook his head at his wife as he helped him with the suitcases, as he went upstairs to take a shower and then lay down Julie started on the laundry that he had brought home. As soon as Jimmy was sure that he heard the shower running, he got up from the table and went to the laundry room to talk to his mother

"Mom, can I tell you something?" asked Jimmy looking at her straight in the eye

"Yes Jimmy, anything" she said looking nervous

"Eric called me last night….and he's coming to visit next weekend" he said quickly

Instead of asking about a million questions to her son all she did was ask the one that was most important at the moment

"Why?" she asked looking at him

"What? Why not? He's my brother and I think that it's about time that I meet him before it's too late" said Jimmy

"To late for what?" she questioned him

"Nothing" he said as he started folding the laundry

The next week

The week went by painfully slow for Eric between homework, his parents constant arguing, and Chloe not leaving him alone for a hot news story he was happy when it was finally Friday afternoon. Eric couldn't wait to see a world that was outside of his sheltered life in Smallville, he often wondered what a big city like Metropolis would be like and if Jimmy's life would be anything like his…he hoped not for his brothers sake. After a quiet dinner, Eric went back up to his room to get ready for his trip the next morning. He packed few of his belongings into a ratted old duffel bag and got all of the money that he had saved up from the box underneath his bed and put it in his wallet. When he was finished Eric grabbed his book and started reading but not before long he had fallen asleep. Happy that his parents were deep sleepers Eric got ready to leave early the next morning, almost out the door he turned around one more time and decided to leave a note that just simply said

"Went to go find my real family….Thanks for the lies"

Without even signing the note, he left it on the counter top and went out the front door for what he wished was the last time. Getting to the bus station which was only a short walk from where he lived, Eric purchased a bus ticket for himself and settled on the bus for the short ride to Metropolis.

Metropolis

Jimmy paced back and forth at the bus station Saturday morning 10 or so minutes before Eric would be coming in, its not that he didn't want his brother to come and visit, it's just that he didn't want him to see the kind of family life that he had. Jimmy looked at the charred remains of the Queen Industries Building…he knew that not long after they had moved to Metropolis the building had mysteriously burst into flames, killing everyone inside.

"Hi Jimmy" said Eric noticing his brother right away

"Hi Eric" Jimmy said as he turned around and looked at the stranger...expect that it wasn't a stranger at all, it was his brother

After a few tense moments, the two were talking like old friends both talking excitedly at the same time asking each other questions that by the time they were back to Jimmy's house they were smiling like crazy. Eric received a warm welcome from Julie who was fixing breakfast in the kitchen, Jimmy was happy that his father was at the office…he wouldn't understand what needed to be done….

Summers House-That Afternoon

After finding the note from their son that morning Rebecca and Roger didn't give much thought to it until it was the afternoon and Eric still hadn't showed up…Roger knowing exactly who to call punched each number hard one by one

"You told him, didn't you?" screamed Roger into the phone

"Son…I" his mother Jessica started

"He didn't need to know!" he screamed back

"He did son, it's time that Eric knew that the family pictures were nothing more than a lie…he needs to have someone he can connect to" Jessica said

Roger hung up the phone and grabbed his car keys as Rebecca followed him out the front door that she shut and locked behind them. They reached Metropolis in record speed and found the house where the Olsen's lived; he was pounding on the front door screaming his son's name when Kyle opened it to see what everything was about. Eric who knew the screams all to well appeared in the kitchen; Roger grabbed his son around the neck and yanked him out the door, down the driveway and as they reached the car Roger took Eric and slammed in against the drivers side door….as blood gushed from his forehead Eric fell over unto the tarred driveway….

Note: You know the drill…Thanks so much!