Resistant • Jonathan Kent

iii. The Ties That Bind

When Tiana walked into school the next day, she was completely exhausted from running around all night long but she was doing her best not to show it, as Jordan and Jon were walking down the hallway as well. "This is going to be a long day." She muttered as she went to her locker, only to hear a video playing.

"Whoa, look at them go!" Tiana was silently and quickly turning around and she was looking over one of the other student's shoulders quickly, before her eyes narrowed at the sight of what they were watching. The lightning blur was outside of the mines and Tiana winced, when she saw that she had stopped and they could see the emblem that was on the bright red suit. "So it's true, the Flash really is in Smallville!" The students were saying and Tiana gritted her teeth as she was turning away from the kids and she was shaking. Tiana looked down at her hand, which was beginning to vibrate and she was shaking.

"Tiana." Jordan had presumably caught her heartbeat with his hearing and now Tiana was shaking, trying to control her breathing as her hand continued to vibrate. "Hey, hey. You're going to be okay, you just have to think about something else."

"I..." Tiana closed her eyes tightly and Jordan backed up, when electricity crackled around her and the lights flickered. "I can't. I can't be here." She whispered and Jordan nodded, before all of the lights suddenly burst and the electricity surged out of Tiana.

The students were screaming as Tiana was holding her head in her hands. "Okay, okay." Jordan said as he was looking around. "Okay, just go home. We will figure out a story, just get out of here now." Jordan muttered urgently and Tiana disappeared in a flash of lightning and now, the power was out throughout the entire school.

"Tiana, what happened?" Lois asked, absolutely and completely thunderstruck now by the sight of Tiana running back home from school so soon, with her clothes full of holes and stinking like lightning and ozone. By the time that Tiana had gotten back to the Kent farm, she was hyperventilating and hardly able to speak at all.

"I-I can't..." Tiana was holding up her hands as her entire body was vibrating, hardly stopping at all and when Lois got closer, lightning crackled and Lois screamed. "I can't stop." Tiana said and she was looking at Lois, who backed up and she was looking around.

"Clark!" Lois shouted and Clark appeared at her side as he stared at Tiana, who was shaking in place. "She doesn't know how to stop it." She said urgently and then, Clark's eyes narrowed at the words, before he nodded quickly.

"I couldn't stay in the school." Tiana whispered and Clark nodded, before he was walking forward and Cameron was landing at the sound of the ELT as well. "They know, they know about the Flash being in town and--"

"It's okay, you're safe here with us." Clark reminded her patiently and when he got too close to her, electricity hit him and Clark winced. "Tiana, you are going to have to figure out a way to calm down." He said and Tiana gritted her teeth, squeezing her eyes shut as she was clenching her fists. "Either that, or you are going to have to run until you can't anymore." He pointed out what had worked before as Tiana was looking up at him, before she was nodding.

"How about that land race?" Tiana asked quietly, barely audible even to the Kryptonians and she looked at Cameron, who nodded. Clark used his heat vision to draw a line in the ground and they were taking off.

Cameron ran alongside her, before Tiana dug deeper and disappeared in a blur and then Cameron was barely able to see her. "Hey Clark? She is a whole lot faster than me on solid ground, but something tells me that you definitely already knew that." Cameron muttered as Clark flew over his head as Superman, flying to catch up to Tiana.