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Chapter Thirteen Part One- Taken

Clark stared at the silver pointed stone in his hands that bore the familiar diamond shape \8/ that had been branded on his chest a year ago, "You wanna tell me why you haven't taken that thing to the caves yet." Lois walked through the door dressed in her jogging attire and headed towards the sink where she proceeded to drink straight from the faucet.

"You know we have water in the fridge." He states leaving the stone on the kitchen counter watching her shut off the faucet and wipe the water from her mouth before turning to face him, "That's almost as bad as drinking from the carton."

She just chuckled shaking her head, "Well what would you have me do Mr. Kent." She walks closer to him with a playful glint in her eyes, "It's awfully hot outside and we humans tend to need water after running 12 miles." She trails her hand up his arm towards his bicep, "But there are other ways of cooling off."

He looks tempted by the offer but shakes it off and rises up from his seat taking the stone along with him, "I think your right, I should get this to the alter before it disappears like the other one." He walks past her but stops to press his lips against hers, "Rain check?"

"I'll hold you to it."

Clark just smiles that same goofy smile she loved so much before rushing out in a red blur.

*BEEP* *BEEP*

Lois reached into her short's pockets to pull out her cell phone to see her cousin's name flashing, "I was just thinking of calling you." She says through the phone with a cheerful smile on her face.

"I take it that your plans with Clark didn't go so well." Chloe jokes on the other line with a matching smile, "My guy down in forensics finally got back to me about those prints you lifted."

She immediately perks up journalistic instincts kicking in, "And?"

"Whoever's doing this doesn't want to be found, even going to extremes by burning their prints off permanently with some type of acid." Chloe can already feel the disappointment coming on the other side and quickly cuts in before her older cousin could speak, "But I did manage to get a record of any missing cases of hydrochloric or sulfuric acid from local laboratories and guess what I found."

"Don't leave me hanging here Chlo."

Chloe just smile and with a few click on her computer she manages to pull up two identification pictures from the DMV database, "A student at Metropolis High by the name of William Kane mysteriously disappeared from campus a few months earlier along with a vial of acid and get this, he has a brother that was recently released from Belle Reeve."

"God your good." Lois remarks, "What else do you have?"

"Not much, apparently the older brother had some serious anger issues that landed him in and out of juvenile hall before switching up to the big house where several guards and inmates mysteriously died from heart attacks weeks after several of his outbursts."

"Okay so Billy gets dragged into helping his older brother, but why are they interested in the Luthors?"

Suicide Slums- Same Time

Billy looked up from his small worktable at the sound of someone throwing things around and a voice yelling rather loudly, "Joel?" he calls out only to duck when a large brick came hurling towards him, "What the hell!"

His older brother was red and clearly pissed off about something, "That bitch reporter hasn't done anything that we asked her to do!" he runs his hands through his black hair in frustration, "If we don't find Sebastian soon then he's as good as dead."

Billy looked down with signs of shame showing, "What are we suppose to do? Kidnap her?" the last question was meant to be a joke but the serious look that crossed Joel's face caused the younger Kane brother to immediately start shaking his head, "I am not doing that. I've already thrown away my life away by helping you and I'm not about to go to jail for doing that."

The burning sensation began again in his chest causing the young teen to fall to the ground in pain while his older more intimidating brother loomed over him, "Have you forgotten the reason why Sebastian is in that hellhole."

He bowed his head in shame unresponsive, "We're family and family sticks to together no matter what." Joel states walking past him towards the beat up old van, "If she wont do what we ask then we're gonna make her tell us where Level 3 is." He rises from his feet and follows after his brother who had slipped behind the driver seat, "Are you in or out?" Joel looks towards Billy with a ski mask extended towards him.

He struggles inside but flashes back to the night Sebastian was taken and grabs the mask, "That's my bro." Joel exclaims messing his hair before starting the engine while the young teen hopped into the back praying that nothing went wrong and that Lois Lane didn't get hurt in the process.

Lois walked down the familiar hallway of Smallville High which brought back old memories as she made her way towards the Torch.

A cold chill crept up her spine causing her to stop walking and looking around for the cause only to find nothing there, "You need to lay off the horror movies Lane." She says to herself and continues walking when another feeling sweeps over her only this time it felt like someone was grabbing her stomach and pulling her back, "Chloe!" she yells out to her cousin when suddenly she's pulled back until her back smashes into a nearby trophy case.

Cuts from the glass were scattered from her hands all the way up her arm but nothing hurt more than the ringing in her ears and the blood that trailed down her temple but before she could question the reason for the ghostly attack the feeling of someone crushing her lungs caused her to stay on her knees gasping for air.

Two separate pairs of shoes appear in front of her and when she looked up the last thing she saw was the sole of a military issue boot coming into her sights before complete darkness surrounded her.

"Get her in the van while I deal with the other one." Joel orders Billy as he turns around and heads towards the Torch when his little brother grabbed him suddenly preventing him from further movement, "What?"

"We only came for her." Billy signals to the knocked out reporter and shakes his head negatively, "Stick to the plan." He turns around trying to shake off the weak feeling he felt from the overuse of his power while he began to drag her down the halls towards a nearby service entrance with his brother following close behind unaware that something was left behind in the rubble.

After hearing the frantic phone message Clark raced back to the school to see the Sheriff taking with a few people while the county forensics team collected evidence, "What happened?" he asks Sheriff Adams concerned as to what had taken place and why Chloe seemed upset about something.

The sheriff looked from her deputies towards the young farmboy with a grave but serious look on her face, "I'm sorry to be the one that has to tell you this Mr. Kent but it appears that someone has abducted Ms. Lane."

He looks at her surprised but shakes his head in disbelief, "That can't be right. Lois was on the farm a couple hours ago with me and we were planning on catching up later this evening for a date."

"We've already determined that the blood we found belongs to Ms. Lane. Now I'm sorry to have to ask you this but where were you a few hours ago when this happened?"

Clark looked at her in disbelief, "You think I'm a suspect?" he's disgusted with the idea that he would ever hurt Lois but knew he couldn't tell the sheriff that he was in the Kawatche caves putting an alien stone onto an alter no one knew about cause it was hidden behind a cave wall.

"Just answer the question Mr. Kent."

He runs his hands through his hair taking in a long breath, "I was running an errand for my father."

She just nods jotting down something on her notepad, "Can anyone account for your whereabouts?"

"The longer you spend talking to me, you waste precious time searching for Lois and whoever has her."

"I can understand that your upset Mr. Kent but I'm doing the best I can with what little we have so far. Now, I'll give you time to relax but you better not run off like some kind of hero after the perpetrators that did this." She closes her notepad and turns around to walk towards the other law officials.

"Clark!" Chloe calls out rushing to his side with a dried tears evident on her cheeks, "I could've stopped them but I-I didn't get there in time." She looks grief stricken and regretful as she stares up at the towering kryptonian.

He places his hands on her arms preventing her from further hysterics, "What happened?"

"Lois was coming over to talk about a breakthrough on this story she's been working on."

"Story? What story?"

Chloe just shakes her head negatively, "I don't know. There was this guy supplying her with information on the Luthors and some underground dealings with Belle Reeve, I pulled his prints off a package she received." She reaches into her pocket to pull out a folded piece of paper which didn't have much information on it but from what he got from it was that Lois had gotten herself way over her head this time.

TBC

I was planning to just combine the entire thing but I figured it's easier to read for you guys cut up but I'll try to have part 2 to be a little longer than this.

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