Resistant • Jonathan Kent

vi. Broken Trust

After Jordan was attacked by Tag Harris who had managed to break out of the DOD by fluke, Tiana had been running all around the country to try and find him.

Tiana stumbled to a stop in the barn where she found Clark and the twins. From the constant running, she was collapsing to the floor from hunger and dehydration.

"Easy, T. We have got you." Clark said as her vision went black, before she had the sense that one of them was carrying her.

Tiana woke up on the couch in the living room, hooked up to yet another IV bag and she groaned. "How many is that for IVs?" She muttered and then she was grunting, immediately sitting up with a sudden stiffness setting into her back.

"That one is number 55." Clark stated as she groaned, shaking her head. "Take the rest of the day off for now, I will take over. We don't need you to be constantly running yourself ragged, paying for a DOD mistake. Get some rest." He said and she nodded grimly.

While Clark took off to follow the weak trails that Tag had left behind, Jon had a bunch of Chinese Takeout containers and quickly, he was putting them on the table.

"I've already eaten. Go for it." He said and she nodded at the words, before she was quickly digging into the food. Jon smiled at the sight of her digging into the food and she was slurping one of the four milkshakes that she had been bought as well.

Meanwhile, Jordan was carrying in a few cases of water for her and she was eagerly drinking water, eating all of the food in sight and the twins watched her as she did. "Are you coming to Metropolis for the game tomorrow?" Jordan asked and Tiana was glancing up at them, before she shrugged.

"I've got a baseball tournament in Central City. Starting tonight and ending tomorrow. If I can run back in time to make to your guys' football game, then I will." Tiana said and then, she was shaking her head. "Besides, I don't want to room with five other girls in a big suite anyways, I'd rather be in a smaller room on my own."

"Why?" Jordan asked and Tiana stared at him.

"Because I'll never get any sleep, if they talk all night long." Tiana said as if it was an obvious thing, causing Jon to chuckle and she went back to digging into her food. Tiana looked down at her phone, which was beeping with messages. "All right, I'm headed to Central City. I will see you guys at the game if I can, try not to lose control." She said, directing the last part of her words to Jordan as she was clapping him on the arm.

After a quick stop in the barn for her cooler and her baseball gear, plus her super suit that was buried at the bottom of her bag, she was very briefly racing off down the road through a bunch of corn with her headphones on. She could see Clark briefly overhead and she was powering forward to make it on time.

Luckily for her, she made it just as the anthem was beginning to play and she was already in uniform as she fell into line with the rest of the team. "You barely made it in time." One of her teammates mumbled, his tone of voice angry and annoyed as Tiana sighed.

"Yeah. My uncle's car broke down." Tiana muttered quietly under her breath, hating how accustomed she had become to lying right to everybody's faces.

After they were down by two runs in the final inning and Tiana was going up to bat again, she caught sight of somebody in the stands and she was grinning. Apparently, Mateo had gotten that car after all. Since he was standing there in the crowd with two of her old friends from Central City that he had convinced to come and watch the game with him.

Tiana grinned briefly, before she was focusing on the plate and she was watching for the pitch coming. "All right, everybody. The bases are loaded, we have two outs for the Smallville Crows and the hope of the game rests upon Tiana Lynnwood, who looks ready to rumble!" Tiana had experience with tuning out announcers, so she did that now.