Resistant • Jonathan Kent

ii. What Lies Beneath

"Boys, let's go!" Clark shouted as a familiar flash of lightning ripped past him and his papers went flying everywhere. "Hello Tiana." He said as she was standing in the center of the kitchen, looking guilty about the flying papers everywhere that she had stirred up by mistake.

"Sorry Clark." Tiana said as she rushed around, collecting the papers before they could hit the floor and neatly stacking them up. Only to sent Lois's papers flying everywhere with her attempt to clean up Clark's and between Clark and Lois, his wife looked much more annoyed by the sudden reappearance and now, near-constant presence of the speedster than he did. "Lois, I am so sorry-"

"Oh! Just stop it, would you?" Lois snapped at her sharply and Tiana flinched, stepping back from her immediately. Tiana blinked in confusion, before she looked over at Clark and he looked back at her apologetically.

It was Tiana's job to simply knock on the boys' bedroom doors repeatedly now, just until they got the message to get their asses downstairs and get into the truck. Tiana disappeared before Jon walked out of his room and Jon sighed, smelling the familiar ozone in the air where she had been.

"Lois, that wasn't fair to her." Tiana was standing around the corner quickly and then she listened to Clark and Lois, who weren't as quiet as they probably thought that they were being with their words.

"Clark, she completely screwed up my work..." Tiana winced at the words, wondering if she had really done that bad of a job by speeding into the house immediately coming out of her time to patrol.

"She is just trying to pay us back for helping her, Lois." Clark was swiftly reasoning. "I mean... She was helping us drag the boys out of bed and getting them to school on time, cleaning up the paperwork that she accidentally sent flying. She doesn't intentionally want to hurt us, she is just trying to help."

"I don't care. She's bugging us repeatedly and all that she's doing, is making all of this more difficult. I don't have a daughter on this earth and I sure as hell don't have time to babysit a speedster for a kid on this planet or any other!" Tiana flinched at the words and having heard enough, she stepped out from around the corner and both of the adults turned around to look at her. "I... Tiana, I didn't know that you were listening." Lois said and Tiana nodded.

"Yeah, your words made that abundantly clear." Tiana's vocal cords were vibrating to disguise her voice, a clear symptom of how upset she was. Because she only vibrated her voice if she was hiding her identity, or if she was seriously upset. "Clark, I think I'll just run to school today."

"Tiana..." Clark began but it was too late as she silently was shaking her head at the words, before she was grabbing her backpack off of the counter and she nearly ran into Jon, before she flashed out of the house to avoid him and he sighed.

Tiana was silently watching as the football team was practicing on the field, while she did her homework on the bleachers. "Hey Tiana." Just when she thought that her day couldn't get any more awkward, Candice was sitting next to her and Tiana was focusing on shading in the sketch of the Kent barn, that she had to do for tomorrow's class. "I was wondering if you were interested in finding another sport to do, I heard that there are some openings set up on the cheerleading squad." Candice offered.

"Candice, what makes you think that I want to talk to you?" Tiana asked as she looked at the other girl, closing her sketchbook with a snap and Candice sighed. "If I wanted to talk to you, I would have started the conversation originally. So, leave me alone." Tiana said coldly and Candice stared at her.

"If this is still about Jon, then..." Tiana put her sketchbook into her bag and then before Candice could even finish her sentence, Tiana was walking off of the bleachers and walking back towards the high school silently.