Three Years ago
Chloe was talking. Something about another meteor freak. Clark hated that word.
Freak.
Every time he heard the word he flinched. It always seemed that whoever said it was talking about him.
He really didn't want to deal with it. Didn't understand why it always had to be him that saved the day.
"I just don't get why people don't realize that the meteor freaks have powers. They must have to lie all the time. And what's going to happen when their friends and family find out? I mean if I found out that you or Lana had powers that you weren't telling me about I would be pretty damn pissed." Chloe's comment hit home. That little nigging feeling in the back of Clark's head finally broke through like a dam.
"Chloe I have to go, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Hey, wait, we have to figure out-" Chloe kept talking as he ran out of the house. It didn't really matter in the long run; Chloe would always forgive him. Lex was a different matter. And Lex was a whole lot more important than Chloe.
Clark didn't think much as he ran towards the mansion. He didn't want to. Didn't want to think that his friendship with Lex might be over in less than 30 minutes. Didn't want to think that he may doom himself to an eternity of lab tests. God he hoped that Lex wouldn't do that to him. Hoped that the years of friendship that they had shared would stop Lex from doing that.
Less than five minutes later he was there. Standing in front of Lex's door. Sometimes he wondered why Lex didn't have cameras set up there, watching, noticing that Clark always appeared out of nowhere.
Here goes nothing, Clark thought as he opened the door and walked, no super-speed today, down to Lex's office.
"Clark! What are you doing here? I thought you had something with Chloe today," Lex exclaimed as Clark entered the room.
This was a lot harder than he thought it would be. Lex looking at him, trusting him.
"You hit me with your car." There. It was out. He could see the wheels turning in Lex's head. Trying to make sense of an impossible situation.
"By hit you mean-"
"I mean you hit me and pushed me through the guard rail. I should've died but I didn't. I wanted to tell you it's just"
"How didn't you? I've suspected…is it the meteor rocks? Why didn't you say something before Clark? We're supposed to be friends and now I find out that you're some kind of superhuman!"
He was getting angry.
"Alien."
"What?"
"I'm an alien, my parents , my birth parents they sent me here. My planet was going to be destroyed. I came with the meteor shower, but Lex, I didn't even know until you hit me with your car, and you're the first person I've told!" Lex was facing away from him. Still not reacting.
"Lex, come on, say something."
"The meteor rocks hurt you, that's why I've seen you bleed."
"Yes, they take away my powers; make me sick. Lex? Are we going to be alright?" Clark was getting scared. Lex still wouldn't look at him. And then Lex exploded.
"How the hell can you say ask that Clark. Ten minutes ago I thought you and I were going to be the stuff of legends and now I find out that you're not even human? After all the times I've asked you about the times you've saved me and each and every time I swallowed your god damn lies? We are not going to be alright. You and I, we're finished. I could never be friends with the likes of you. All you are is a freak, a thing that came to take over the world. Get out of my house. Now."
Clark ran.
Thing.
Thing.
Thing.
The words wouldn't stop ringing in his ears. And then pain. Something had struck him. Meteor rocks. The revelation struck as he faded into unconsciousness.
Down the road at the mansion Lex stood at the table looking down at the paper without truly reading it. And then a word stood out. Superman. Red-blue blur. Clark. Clark was superman.