Heat – Thirteenth Chapter
Luthor Mansion
Lex stared at Jonathan, who stared back angrily. Jonathan cocked the shotgun and aimed it straight at his chest. Lex held his hands out in front of him and slowly began to back away as he said calmly, "I know you, Mr Kent. You're not a murderer."

Lex reached to pick his phone up off the desk and jumped back when it exploded under his hand. Sweat poured down his face as Jonathan yelled angrily, "I'm not letting you add Desiree's name to your list of victims!"

Lex repressed his panic as much as he could, but still let some show as he said desperately, "She's using you, Mr Kent. Whatever she told you, it's not true."

Instead of answering, Jonathan just recocked the gun and aimed it at Lex again.

Suddenly the doors to the study burst open and Rory and Clark ran in. They processed the situation at superspeed and Clark yelled, "Dad! Don't!"

He was too late though, as Jonathan pulled the trigger and Lex was frozen in fear. Everything slowed down for the twins as they reacted instantaneously. Rory ran to Lex, throwing him out of the way, as Clark used his new heat vision to melt the bullet when it went past him.

Lex and Rory crashed to the ground, neither of them hurt until Jonathan cocked the gun again and came over to where they were. He aimed the gun straight at Lex's head as Rory looked up at him. "Dad! No!" she yelled as he fired the gun. Once again, everything slowed down but she still didn't have much time. She grabbed Lex's arm and dragged him out of the way. Then she felt his whole body shudder as the bullet entered his body.

Clark was there already, grabbing the gun and yanking out of Jonathan's hands. "Clark!" Jonathan yelled at him as the two struggled for control of the gun. After a while of fighting like this, Clark managed to spin him around and shoved him back. Jonathan hit his head on the edge of one of the bookcases and slumped to the ground, unconscious.

Meanwhile, Rory stared at the blood pooling from the wound in Lex's arm. Well, I guess now is as good a time to experiment as any,she thought. She remembered an episode of a show called Roswell that she had seen once, where this alien guy healed this girl of a bullet wound. It's completely ridiculous but I have nothing else to go on so...

She pressed her hands to his arm and shut her eyes, picturing Lex healed and healthy.

It didn't work.

Rory sat back on her heels and instead tried to remember what she had been thinking the last time, when she'd healed her burn. I was thinking about... how much it hurt? But I don't know what a bullet feels like! She stared at his arm again and realized that she had to repeat exactly what she had done for her burn.

This time, instead of putting both of her hands on the wound, she put her fingers to it and thought about how much it must be hurting Lex. She shut her eyes and concentrated for a few seconds, then opened her eyes again and gasped as she saw the blue sparks running over his arm. Seconds later the bullet wound disappeared and Lex opened his eyes.

"What happened?" he asked as he sat up. Forgetting about Desiree, Rory smiled at him and replied, "When Dad – when Dad tried to shoot you the second time Clark pushed him out of the way. When I was trying to get you out, you hit your head on the desk and it knocked you out."

Lex stared at her, puzzled. "But – I could've sworn that the bullet hit me."

He looked down at his arm and saw that it wasn't hurt. There was no blood on his shirtsleeve either.

Rory remembered why they had come here and turned to see that Clark had taken care of Desiree by melting the door handle. She looked over at Jonathan and ran over to him when she saw he was unconscious.

"Dad? Dad, wake up," she said to him. As if on cue, his eyes opened and he asked roughly, "What happened?"

Rory hugged her father and said softly, "I'm glad you're okay."

A/N Basically just a filler and it's really short but I had to have Rory's power in there too. The next chapter will be longer I promise! Oh, and Roswell is this really awesome show which I don't own either. Poor me.
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