After the Bus: Man of Steel

Death and Return

(Lana gradually lost touch with Clark over the next few years, they went from hanging out every day to calling once a week to barely texting...but then one day..aliens invaded..)

(Lana was living in Chicago at the time and saw everything on the news, hearing about this 'Kal-El' person who had apparently been living on Earth for many years...could it be..? She thought)

(Then about a year and a half after that...he died...Clark...and Superman...on the same night...)

(She was devastated, she went to the funeral, paid her respects to the sweet boy who had brought her so much joy over the years...and noticed his girlfriend standing with Mrs Kent..with a ring on her finger)

(Through all the sorrow, Lana felt a tiny smidge of jealousy...very stupid and utterly pointless..and yet it was there..)

(She always imagined marrying Clark Kent one day...which now was...completely impossible...but then a few months later...)

(Superman had returned...and Lana had a farm to visit)