Aftermath
Chapter Three
Family
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Martha's eyebrows shot up in surprise, her mouth opened wide when she saw the young woman in Clark's arms. She stepped outside the doorway and held the door screen in place to allow Clark to enter the house.
Clark placed his hand on the back of the woman's head, to prevent her head being bumped, he then carefully brought the young woman into the house.
Clark then took the woman into the guest room and placed her on a bed. She lied still on the bed.
Clark then left the room and entered the kitchen, his mother was there awaiting news from Clark about the woman's condition.
"How is she?" Martha asked him.
"She's still unconscious." Clark replied. Martha nodded, saddened that their guest was unwell.
Noticing this, Clark asked his mother gently to do something for him, to keep her mind off things. "Ma, can you please make some tea for us?"
"Of course." Martha smiled and went to get some tea bags from the cupboard. Clark then took a clean piece of cloth and rinsed it with water from the tap in the kitchen sink. He wrung the cloth to squeeze excess liquid from it and then took it with him to the guest room.
Beside the bed the woman was occupying, resided a wooden table and a chair. Clark pulled the chair from under the table and placed it closer to the bed.
He sat down on the chair and wiped some blood off the woman's face with the damp cloth.
"Ouch!" The young woman frowned and exclaimed in pain as the moist cloth stung her skin.
"I'm sorry." Clark apologized. His sharp features softening into a kind expression.
Who is this man? And what am I doing here? The woman wondered, she observed Clark's face carefully, trying to determine his intentions.
"Who are you anyway?" The woman asked cautiously, the man wore a familiar garment to the ones she had seen on Kypton, but he was a stranger to her. Did her know her? She wondered.
"My name is Kal-El." Clark answered with a small smile.
He seems friendly enough. The woman thought.
"I'm Kara Zor-El." The woman introduced herself.
Kara frowned and rose suddenly as she realised that the excitement of meeting another Kryptonian, had almost made her overlook a very important fact.
"Wait! You're from the house of El? Do you have any news about my parents?" Kara's face broke into a smile, at the thought that the man was part of her family and could tell her news of her beloved parents, she had left such a long time ago.
"I'm sorry Kara, they're gone and so is Krypton. It was destroyed years ago. You and I are the only ones left." Clark looked down, struggling to face her and gravely informed her of the bad news.
It had been bad enough for Clark when he had discovered that his planet had been destroyed and it pained him to have to be the bearer of such bad news to another.
Kara's smile faltered, her expression turning into a perplexed frown. "But I only left a short while ago! How is that possible?!"
"You've been gone a long time Kara, thousands of years even. I found you frozen in the Arctic." Clark explained to her.
"The Arctic? Kal... what planet are we on anyway? And why is it so hard to breathe here?" Kara asked with bewilderment, the alien air and the many questions running through her mind, no doubt the cause of it.
"We're on a planet called Earth, it has a different environmental composition to Krypton." Clark informed her.
"I just can't believe it... our home... destroyed. I'll never see my family again."
A single tear slid down Kara's cheek.
"I know it's hard for you Kara, but there's still hope. You can be part of our family." Clark reassured her.
"Our family?" Kara said in a tone that invited an explanation.
"Oh that's right! There's someone I'd like you to meet. I'll be right back, please excuse me." Clark excused himself.
After Clark left the room, Kara smiled to herself. He's so polite, it's cute.
A few moments later and the door to the guest room opened and Clark accompanied by Martha entered the room.
"Kara, this is my mom, Martha." Clark introduced his mother. His face looking the most joyful that Kara had ever seen it.
"Hello Kara, I'm pleased to meet you." Martha greeted Kara warmly.
"Likewise!" Kara replied in a similar tone, happy to have a motherly presence in the house, as well as meeting another member on what she would grow to accept as her family.
Suddenly the family dog, Dusty rushed into the room wagging his tail and trying to climb up the bed, eager to give the stranger his affections.
"Dusty! No! Sit down!" Martha scolded him.
"It's OK, I don't mind." Kara got up from the bed and bent down to allow Dusty to sniff and lick her hand.
"Kal! What kind of animal is this?" Kara asked as she ruffled Dusty's fur.
"He's a dog. We keep them as pets on earth." Clark told her.
"You'll have lots of time to find out more about earth but I'll go fetch the tea now, if you'll excuse me." Clark left the room and went into the kitchen, leaving Kara with Martha to talk together.
I was really tempted to put a Krypto reference in there, but I would rather not have Kryptonians be familiar with canines in this universe.