Resistant • Jonathan Kent

vi. Tried and True

Tiana woke up in the morning and when she rolled over, Jon was still soundly asleep next to her. Tiana smiled softly at the sight of him, before she was getting up and then, she was getting her clothes on again.

"Tiana." Tiana groaned quietly, when she saw that Clark was standing on the porch as she was wincing in pain. "Did you at least use..."

"You can ask Jonathan that." Tiana interrupted him, feeling like she was about to vomit after hearing just the beginning of the question and then, she was quickly disappearing past him in a flash of bright lightning.

Tiana was eagerly eating her food before she was rushing back out to the barn, since she forgot to grab her baseball gear and she grabbed her stuff quickly.

"Tiana, you can't keep avoiding me!" Clark called out and Tiana stared at him, before she was shaking her head.

"Watch me, old man!" She said and Clark looked affronted, before she disappeared in a flash of lightning and was running to school.

"She's got her powers back, I take it?" That was Cameron, reappearing out of nowhere just in time for food and retrieving his truck as Clark nodded.

"She called me "old." Clark mumbled with an absolutely offended tone in his voice. Cameron was laughing at the sight of just how offended his uncle looked, before he was shaking his head.

"Well I mean... Just compared to the rest of us, Uncle Clark. You are old." Cameron said with a grin on his face and Clark playfully threw a smack at his arm, which Cameron dodged easily as he was catching his truck keys that Jon threw to him from the barn. "Now... What were you doing sleeping in the barn, Jonathan?" Cameron asked with lifted eyebrows as Jon shrugged with a grin on his face. "Oh, I know that look."

"I need food." Jon said as he was walking into the house and Cameron looked at Clark with amusement, who didn't look too pleased about the talk that he was going to have to have with his more responsible son and Cameron laughed.

"Your face is priceless." Cameron said and Clark punched him in the arm. "Ow!" Cameron complained as he was going into the house to grab food.

"Give me a ride to school, Cameron, please." Jon said as Cameron walked by him and then Cameron quickly nodded at the door, before Jon was running out of it.

"Jonathan!" Clark called after him loudly but before they could be stopped, Cameron was starting the truck and then they were quickly just roaring out of the driveway.

"Is he gonna come after us?" Jon wondered and at the excellent question, Cameron was quickly looking quickly in the rearview mirror and not seeing Clark, Cameron just shrugged.

"Probably not. But he might corner you after school for the Talk, yet again, that every single young guy on Earth hates to have with their parents." Cameron reminded him and Jon quietly grumbled. "It's your own fault, especially considering you didn't even do it with your own girlfriend--"

"Okay, enough. Please stop it, Cam, I really don't need to hear how bad of a decision that was from you." Jon quietly pleaded and Cameron was laughing at the annoyed expression on Jon's face. "I don't need to hear it from you, especially since my mom and dad will both be on my ass about it later."

"Or, maybe right now. Instead." Cameron stated as suddenly, Clark was standing next to their parking spot and Cameron sighed. "Good luck." Cameron said as he was getting out of the truck and walking away.

Jon sighed as he got out of the truck and walked over to his father, dreading the Talk that he was about to be given. For the second time, in two months.

Tiana was watching the game as she was shaking her head, laughing quietly at the sight of the Crows winning and she cheered along with Jordan and Sarah.

All of them were clapping hands quickly and Tiana was grinning, before she looked down at Cameron on the sidelines, who was smiling and laughing at the sight of them having won.

"Oh, well, I guess Timmy just lost his starting spot." Jordan said with a grin on his face.

"Yeah, not 'cause of your brother." One of Sarah's friends spoke up, as then, Tiana was already down by the bench and clapping hands with the football team as they were cheering on Jonathan.

"I have gotta go." Cameron said suddenly and Tiana caught him by the arm.

"What's going on?" She asked, since she couldn't hear it and he was looking at her.

"The DOD is taking on Clark." Cameron murmured quietly and Tiana's eyes flashed with lightning and they were running around the backside of the building, before they were taking off running and flying now in their respective ways quickly.

Cameron's heat vision sliced a gun in half and Anderson was firing Kryptonite bullets at him, but Tiana was catching the bullets and putting them into a lead box that she had taken to carrying in her suit, simply to try and protect the two Kryptonians that consistently protected her without any thought to their own pain.

"Try it again, Anderson!" She shouted angrily and another one of the soldiers had a cold gun, which hit her after Cameron was trying to get to Clark to protect him.

Tiana screamed in pain and now, Anderson was quickly firing multiple bullets that were filled with Kryptonite at Clark and Cameron, who were already severely weakened by the red sun quickly.

"Run!" Clark shouted at her and Tiana looked at them both, before she disappeared in a flash of lightning and ran away from the DOD headquarters, with her own hot tears suddenly falling from her eyes.

Tiana stumbled into the Kent house again and she was pulling her mask off, as she was shaking. "Tiana?" Lois asked and Tiana was shaking her head.

"Cameron and Clark. They're... they were taken by the DOD..." She was stumbling and she was shaking her head.