Resistant • Jonathan Kent

xi. Lies That Bind

Tiana was flashing back inside with him and quickly now, she was dropping him only just as quickly and safely as she could into the desk chair. "Stay here." She said and he nodded quickly in acknowledgment, before she was disappearing back outside when she saw lightning appearing outside.

Tiana thought about it as she was fighting off the alternate speedster, before her eyes were suddenly lighting up with an idea. "Cameron, keep them busy!" She shouted and Cameron was staring at her. "Just do it!" She called out and he was blasting his heat vision at the speedster, who jumped away from her to avoid it and Tiana disappeared into the barn.

She rushed up to the loft and began to rifle through her drawers and her clothes, frantically throwing things around like a woman possessed and even kicking the couch to the side, until she found the box that she needed. She opened it and filled a syringe up to the top with the liquid in the bottle until it couldn't hold anymore and she was racing back outside.

Cameron saw what she was holding and his eyes widened, when he was daring to hope and then she was rushing forward, stabbing it into the speedster and pressing the plunger down on the syringe.

The speedster collapsed, his entire body shaking until it stopped moving and Tiana stepped back as she dropped the syringe. Bizarro Lana looked at them with rage in her eyes, before she grabbed the body and disappeared in a blur. "Cameron... Please tell me, that there was still a heartbeat." She whispered, recalling the enraged look and Cameron was slowly shaking his head at her. "Oh my god... Oh my god, I just... I-I..."

"You did what you had to do." Cameron interrupted and Tiana was quaking, her entire body trembling. "Hey, Tiana. Tiana, look at me." He said and she was quivering, looking up at him with fear in her eyes. "You did what you had to do." Cameron repeated and Tiana briefly stared at him, before he was giving her a hug and she was quickly returning it with a cry.

Clark walked forward after he was landing behind quickly with an almost numb sort of look on his face and she wasn't even looking at him, since Cameron was still hugging her and she used it as a way to hide her face from the world. "I told Lana." Clark said in English, very simply to the question that was lingering in Cameron's eyes and Cameron nodded in simple understanding.

"She killed her Bizarro brother just now, Uncle." Cameron spoke in Kryptonian, but judging by Tiana's grip that tightened after he spoke, she had guessed what he was saying and Cameron sighed. "She is worried that you are angry, with her."

"You did it to protect my son." Clark spoke in English and Tiana turned around to look at him with tears on her face. "I will never be angry with you for that." Clark reassured her as Tiana's nod was slight. So slight that it was almost nonexistent, when she was walking into the house and she was going up the stairs quietly.

Tiana knocked on the door and Jon opened it, before he was opening it wider to let her in and she walked into the room and Jon shut the door behind her.

It was the next morning as they were making lunches, which was turning into a full-on interrogation with Jordan quickly trying to get all of the details from his father about telling Lana, his secret.

"You guys are not telling us the full story. All right, there's no way that you told Mrs. Cushing that you're Superman, and then she just drove away... that's insane." Jordan insisted.

"Jordan, I was right there. That is exactly what happened." Tiana said as she grabbed a mug and began pouring coffee into it and before she could dump the entire pot of the burning hot coffee into it, Lois snatched the pot away. "Hey!" Tiana protested.

"That's what she did." Clark added after Tiana had finished defending his words.

"We knew she would be hurt." Lois remarked.