(Originally written for the Wednesday100 topic "Change in Smallville")

"I'm tired of that unadorned marquee!" Lana declared, nodding emphatically.

"You want to change the lettering?" Chloe asked.

"I have a better idea!" Lana chirped, tilting her head and wrinkling her nose cutely.


After a long morning's farming, Clark liked to spend some time sitting in the Talon, drinking cocoa and gazing at Lana. Today, as he approached, he was shocked to see her on a tall ladder, duct-taping sparkly green meteor rocks to the building. He watched, horrified, as her foot slipped.

"Lana!" Clark cried, but he couldn't get within fifty feet. Lana plummeted to her doom.

Darn.