Resistant • Jonathan Kent

i. The Two Month Mark

"Okay... This is getting absolutely ridiculous!" Lois lamented as she was walking past Clark and Jon. "By now, she hasn't been seen in over two months!" She reminded them and Jon sighed, shaking his head a little bit.

"Trust me Lois, I am completely aware of the passing time." Clark said quickly and he shook his head. "I have been trying to find her, she hasn't been speaking to anybody as far as I can tell." Clark sighed.

"Maybe she just needs time, after her brother." Jon added and Clark glanced over at him, tilting his head at his son's apparent lack of concern. "What is that look for?" He asked and Clark sighed.

"Well... The last time she went missing for only a couple of days, you flipped your lid and demanded that we find her." Clark stated and Jon sighed, rolling his eyes at the words. "Jonathan, I just want to make sure that you're okay--"

"She ghosted me, Dad." Jon countered sharply and Clark lifted his eyebrows. "She left for the DOD and never came home. I am done waiting for her to show up on the doorstep again, saying that she got kicked out of her apartment for not paying her rent on time, or, something." He shrugged. "If she really wanted to see us, then she already would have been here by now." Jon said coolly and Clark sighed, before Jon quickly walked up the stairs.

"Do you think he's right?" Clark asked quietly and Lois glanced at him. "Do you think that Tiana could just be taking some time away from everything, to try and just process her grief?" He wondered.

"Clark... You know Tiana better than most people. You know better than any of us and even more than Jonathan... That she would never put off being a hero." Lois scoffed. "If she was grieving, she would only throw herself further into it." She reminded him and Clark sighed.

"Yeah, good point." Clark stated and he sighed heavily. "I'm going back out to look for her, again." He said and Lois nodded, as she went back to her desk and Clark was taking off, out of the back door.

Clark flew up into the upper atmosphere again, meeting up with Cameron and now, the other Kryptonian had his eyes closed.

"Uncle Kal." Cameron greeted his uncle rather simply, without even opening his eyes to acknowledge him.

"Kam-Rho." Clark replied and Cameron opened his eyes as he was looking at him. "I would ask what the look was for, but I will take it as a clue, that you heard Jonathan's words from before?"

"Tiana would never abandon us." Cameron spoke up immediately, his eyes glowing with lasers briefly, just before he got his anger back under control again. "And Jonathan of all people, he should really know that better than anybody else." Cameron said and he sighed. "She would never leave, without saying goodbye." He reminded Clark, who nodded.

"I know that and now, so do Lois and Jordan." Clark stated. "But something tells me that Jonathan is using her disappearance as an excuse." He said and at the disapproval filled words, Cameron raised his eyebrows.

"In what manner?" Cameron wondered as he was consistently less interested and less concerned in the matters of the two Kent teenagers, ever since Tiana's absolutely much too sudden, definitely unexplained disappearance.

"Jonathan has been dating another girl for a while now." Cameron's eyes flashed, and the lasers briefly returned, as he looked over at Clark with a flash of irritation in his eyes and Clark sighed. "Yeah. Jonathan has been dating her, ever since she disappeared." He said and Cameron was seething with rage at the words.

"He didn't wait, at all?" Cameron was struggling with his words, he was seething and his eyes were glowing. He clamped his eyes shut and he was covering his eyes with his hands.