Resistant • Jonathan Kent

xi. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

Tiana was looking at Liliana, who was already reaching up and grabbing at her arm. At three months old, the little girl was already looking more like a toddler and Tiana was shaking her head with a faint smile on her face.

Tiana vibrated her hand and Liliana let out a giggle at the sight. When Tiana stopped the movement, Liliana began to wail loudly and Tiana winced.

"What? What is going on with her?" Jon asked, running into the room in a panic and Tiana shook her head, before she vibrated her hand again and the wailing stopped. It was replaced by giggling, while Jon smiled at the sight. "She's okay though, right?" He asked and she nodded.

"Yeah, she's great." Tiana murmured softly as she was very carefully picking up Liliana with her other hand, while keeping one of them free to distract the baby. "Come on, go now. Jon, you still need breakfast before your shift." She said as she nudged him and Jon was walking down the stairs with her on his heels.

"Oh, that's all you're gonna eat?" Clark asked Jon, who was eating a bagel quickly after Tiana had toasted it quickly in her hand with a blast of electricity.

Meanwhile, Tiana had Liliana carefully strapped into a high chair and Jordan was staring at the baby. "Tiana, is she supposed to be that big already?" Jordan asked and Tiana glared at him, before she zapped him and Jordan yelped. "Hey! Ow, I'm just asking! Hey, ow!"

"Leave my 3 month old daughter out of your nonsense, Jordan Kent." Tiana muttered and she looked at Liliana, who was watching her with wide eyes. "I don't know." She quietly mumbled under her breath.

"I'll grab a bite at the station. Mr. Cushing wants me to show up a little early for my shift." Jon replied to Clark, who had been waiting for an answer from him this whole time, while watching Tiana and Jordan interacting with amusement in his eyes.

"Your shift?" Jordan asked incredulously and Tiana glanced at him. "Dude, you're a trainee, not a firefighter... Ow!" Jordan said after Tiana had zapped him again, harder this time. "Stop, ow, zapping, ow... Me!" He said and Tiana glared at him.

"Whatever, man." Jon said as he kissed Liliana on the forehead and gave Tiana a hug, before he was headed out to the station.

"Speaking of training, I'm not sure I can make it to the fortress today." Clark said as Tiana was giving a bottle to Liliana, who promptly threw it across the room and before it could crash into the wall, Clark caught it. "Uh... I think that's a negative."

"Oh, really?" Tiana's tone of voice was completely deadpanned and sarcastic, while she snatched the bottle out of his hand quickly. "How'd you figure that?" She asked.

"That's okay; I actually had a plan to hang out with Sarah later, anyway." Jordan was interrupting quickly.

"Oh, just you and Sarah?" Clark clarified that particular fact, while Tiana lifted her eyebrows at the words.

"As friends." Tiana looked skeptical at the words from Jordan. "It can be done. I mean, look at you and Ms. Lang." That was a good example of it, Tiana had to admit the fact of that.

"Yeah." Clark agreed quietly, while Jordan was taking off and Tiana was looking over at Liliana.

"Do you think that she's progressing faster than her average age... So she is trying to say that she's ready for solid foods?" Tiana wondered out loud and Clark glanced at her.

"Momma." Both of them jumped as Tiana turned around to look at Liliana, whipping her head around so fast that if she hadn't been a speedster, she probably would have successfully given herself whiplash.

"Did she, just--" Tiana couldn't truly bring herself to say it. But luckily, she didn't have to.

"Momma!" It was louder and clearer this time as Tiana swiftly was shaking her head in astonishment, stunned at the first word.

"Clark... Please remind me when babies usually speak their first word? Around what age is it again?" Tiana asked, wondering if she was hallucinating the fact that her daughter seemed to be speaking and not just babbling nonsense like most babies her age.

"Usually around a year." Clark stated and Tiana looked at him, before she looked back at the young baby. "But she is unusually fast growing, eating and talking. Were you like this as a baby, it could be hereditary from your side of the family?" Clark wondered and Tiana silently stared at him, waiting for him to make the connection. "Right, yeah, you wouldn't know anything about that." Clark said, immediately wincing at his own words once he had finally made the connection to what he had said and the pained, almost irritated look on her face.

"Yeah, and it isn't like my parents are around to answer your questions about it either." Tiana mumbled and her watch beeped. "Great, it's Mateo. God only knows what he has gotten himself into now." She said as she was disappearing into the distance, leaving Liliana alone with Clark.

Tiana burst through the apartment door to see that Mateo was holding out an envelope and Tiana stared at him. "Please tell me that you didn't just use the emergency button, to summon me for handing in your overdue rent payment." There was a clear warning in her voice, but Mateo just looked cheerful as he handed her the envelope and Tiana stared down at it. "You used the emergency button for rent, Mateo Cortez? Are you insane?!" She snapped at him and Mateo sighed.

"You weren't answering your phone." Mateo stated and Tiana groaned at the words, until her phone rang out.

"I'm busy, what is it?" Tiana asked sharply into the phone before she sighed. "Yeah. On it." She said and disappeared in a flash of lightning, changing into her suit along the way.

Tiana raced through the entire building only to see that Jordan was already there and that he had gotten into the burning building through a window. Jordan grabbed the missing worker and he dropped him off next to Jon, before disappearing again.

Tiana was racing out of the fire and she didn't even think to check on Jon, she knew that she had to get out of there now, before anybody else saw the Flash in Smallville yet again.

Tiana was running into the middle of the arguing brothers, after Sarah had swiftly hit the button to alert her.

"I've been training for this."

"Yeah, I have been training too." Jon countered sharply.

"That's not the same thing at all!" Jordan snapped.

"Boys, stop it!" Tiana said.

"Oh, why not?" Jon asked.

"Because I've got heat vision and you're taking coffee orders!" Jordan screamed in his brother's face and Tiana stopped dead as she stared at Jordan, her eyes wide.

"Right. You're right." Jon nodded with a quiet scoff. "Guess, uh, you're the only one that gets to be a real hero."

"Jon." Tiana said as Jon stormed out of the house and Tiana was shaking her head over at Jordan, who stared at her. "You're a real asshole sometimes. You know that, Jordan?"

Tiana walked after Jon quickly and then instead of running home, she was sitting in the truck with Jon. "Hey, hold up." She said as he was looking at her. "You know that it doesn't make a difference to me, whether you have powers or not. Right?" She said quietly and then, Jon looked over at her.

"I mean it, Jonathan. It doesn't matter, it really never has." Tiana murmured quietly and he was looking at her, before he walked forward and gave her a hug. Tiana moved her arms around him in return, before she rested her head on his shoulder. "You don't need powers to be a hero, Jon. I promise, I will be there for you always, whether you have powers or not. I promise." She quietly murmured and Jon sighed.

Tiana was holding Liliana, who was watching her dad as he paced around the room on the phone. "Dadda?" Liliana asked and Tiana smiled.

"Yeah, that's right." Tiana murmured and after Jon had hung up the phone, he sat on the bed next to the two of them and then now, all three of them were hugging.

"I love you both." Jon murmured quietly as Tiana was leaning her forehead against his, while they sat down together in silence.