I look around feeling completely panicked. Got to get out! I shift into an otter, since I can hold my breath longer in Otter form. So scared I can't speak. At least I haven't started to hyperventilate yet. Have to get out! Pa! Where are you? I need you! I'm scared! Get me out of here!
I don't know where to go but I'll be safer upstairs. Completely and utterly terrified, I run up them. Pa! I need you! I'm really scared! I can smell something wrong. My tail. It's burning! I run to the bathroom. Given my fear, I don't know how I manage to shift back into a girl. I turn on the water. I manage to put my tail out but it hurts really bad. I take off my cape. It's too hot. I try again and again to get out. I can't. Pa! Where are you? Get me out of here! Please! I'm really scared!
I'm so scared that I'm finding it hard to concentrate on taking care of my wounds. Then again, I can't exactly do that as an otter. I try to shift back into a girl but, for the first time, I realize that I can't. Pa! Get me out of here! I need you to get me out!
Clark's P.O.V
I'm inside. I don't think I'll need backup. I just need to find Nori A.S.A.P. She needs help. It feels like an eternity but I finally find her, in Otter form, unconscious.
She's burned pretty bad. I cool her cape off, then wrap her in it. I fly out carrying her in my arms. Breathe Nori. Please. I get an air mask from one of the medics outside. Breathe!
It takes a while but I finally hear Nori draw a shallow breath. She's inhaled a good deal of smoke. Her eyes slowly focus on mine. She twitches her tail then winces. Looks like her tail took the most of the damage. Her voice is so weak only I can hear it.
"[Pa?]"
I fight fear from my voice.
"Are you O.K, Ottergirl?"
I can tell she's trying to shift back to give an answer. Oh No. She can't. One of the medics, Brynne, looks at me.
"She's burned pretty bad, Big Guy. You take her where you need to. I feel like she means a lot to you. So you guys go off somewhere private, O.K?"
I nod. Then, taking Nori in my arms as carefully as I can, I head to the best place I know of to have her wounds tended. Smallville.