iv. All That You Have

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"You put yourself in the middle and we are all suffering the consequences of the actions. Mostly, T... You are suffering from it." Mateo said as Tiana was eating three of the pizzas on her own, while Cameron was silently looking down quickly at all of the food. "Jon can't keep you away from your kid, he has no right." Mateo said and Tiana scoffed.

"You can try telling him that, yourself." She muttered as she was finishing her food and grabbing a big pitcher of water. "He won't listen to me. Hell, he won't even talk to me and I don't blame him for it." Tiana muttered.

"Why are you shaking so much?" Mateo asked and Tiana looked at him, narrowing her eyes. "You're trembling. I mean, it is almost like you're scared or something like that." Mateo gestured his hands at her and then, Tiana was now looking down at her own hands, which were indeed shaking.

"Your heartbeat is going three times faster than your normal heart rate." Cameron was looking at her. "And I can..." Tiana lifted her eyebrows as she looked at him, before Cameron sighed heavily. "Smell the fear on you."

"Mateo, do you remember me telling you about the most serious injuries that I have had?" Tiana asked and Mateo nodded.

"Multiple broken bones, multiple times where I have been near-paralyzed..." Tiana was counting off, while Cameron winced at the words. "I've already forgiven you for breaking my back, Cameron. You didn't have a choice and, you were just trying to protect me, I am over it." Tiana clarified and Cameron relaxed, while she was shaking her head.

"Then what is scaring you so badly?" At the words, Tiana disappeared into her room and she came out with a sketchbook and a bunch of pencils.

Tiana was speed-drawing and then when she was done, she flipped the sketchbook to show them.

Doomsday was staring at them, off of the page in black-and-white. Tiana looked at the two of them, waiting for their reactions. "If you and Clark hadn't gotten there in time, I would have been dead. For good, this time."

"Your spine was almost shattered, Tiana. A healing factor is the only way, that you have life in you at all. Let alone the fact that you can still move, or walk, or run, or talk." He shook his head. "Hey Mateo, give us a minute."

"Yeah." Mateo said quietly as he was walking out of the apartment and he was closing the door behind him.

"I close my eyes and I see it." Tiana was jamming her finger at the drawing of the monster. "I can't unsee it, it scares me." She mumbled quietly as Cameron nodded. "Not to mention that... Lex Luthor, knows who I am." She said and truly now, Cameron was staring at her with shock in his eyes.

"How?" He asked immediately.

"Lex Luthor was the one who had my parents killed, when I was a kid." Tiana scoffed quietly. "Go figure." She mumbled and Cameron pinched his nose between forefinger and thumb, wondering how they were meant to go about this. "Cameron, if I have to face this thing again..."

"You won't." Cameron stated and Tiana's eyes widened at the words, before she was turning to look at him. "Do you still have your ELT?" He asked quietly and Tiana was looking at him, before she reached into the pocket of her jacket and she brought the ELT out.

"Cameron, what if you don't make it next time?" Tiana asked as she was watching him mess with the ELT, so that he could change the frequency. "Cameron, I mean it." Tiana said as he was looking at her, before he held out the ELT.

"Go to the most remote place that you can think of and then hit that button." Cameron stated and she lifted her eyebrows at the words. "You can time me getting there, all right? You can see how long it takes me to get to where you are and if it's too long, we can work at it. I promise." Cameron said as Tiana nodded slightly at the words, before she was disappearing in a flash.

Tiana was in the middle of the Arctic Circle far up North as then she was hitting the ELT, seeing that her phone signal was gone.

It took Cameron ten seconds, coming from space and Tiana was shivering. "I-I should have just gone to the desert." She muttered through chattering teeth as Cameron shook his head.

"I know the desert too well..." Cameron looked up, hearing something else and his eyes flashed. "Damn it, Jordan."

"What? What's wrong?" Tiana asked and then in the span of a few seconds, she had forgotten about how cold she felt.

"You need to distract Lois and everybody else, while I try to get Jordan out of the terrible, impulsive situation that he has gotten himself into--" Cameron quietly was groaning at the words, starting to remember why he wished that it was Jonathan Kent with powers and not his impulsive twin who had them.

"I'm not distracting anyone, Kam-Rho." He glanced at her, surprised that his full name was being used more frequently now. "So. Where are we going?"

Tiana knocked Luthor's two henchmen into a wall and they crashed into the ground and she was wearing her suit, but when she turned around, she could see that Cameron was worried and why.

Jordan was backing away from Lex Luthor and when he disappeared, that was when Cameron knocked Luthor into the wall with a hard swing and the man crumpled like a sack of potatoes.

Everybody was turning around to look at him and Cameron glanced at Tiana, whose nod was clear and they both disappeared out of the diner and were following Jordan.

"How could you be so stupid?" Cameron asked sharply and he landed on the ground in front of Jordan, shaking the earth as he did. "In public? In front of that many people... Have your parents taught you nothing?" Cameron asked.

"I didn't need any of your help!" Jordan shot back as Tiana skidded to a stop next to Cameron, pulling off her mask as she stared at him. "From either of you!"

"I don't have a secret identity. My sole advantage lies in the fact, that this whole world believes Cameron Edge to be dead. I risked my safety to save your ass and this is what I get? You could have been killed, Jordan. What if they had Kryptonite?!"

"They didn't!" Jordan snapped.

"Yeah, but what if they did have it?" Tiana asked and both of them stopped, turning to look at her. "Jordan, I know how you feel."

"No. No, you don't--"

"Maybe not in this same scenario, but I do know what it's like to lose a parent." Tiana interrupted him and Jordan looked over at her. "I would do anything to get my parents back, if there was a way that I could. But I know my limits and even then... Never in a million years, would I ever have confronted an extremely dangerous billionaire in the middle of a public restaurant." Tiana shook her head quickly. "Especially, not on my own."

"You are really fast and you have electricity abilities, and that is all that you have." Jordan shook his head with anger flashing in his eyes. "I have every superpower that my father does and you are going to run in the other direction or you are going to freeze like you did last time, that monster showed up." Tiana was flinching at the words and she glanced over at Cameron, who sighed.

"We were trying to help you and, you know... We were trying to be nice about it for once. But you can't accept help from anybody." Cameron scoffed. "Come on, T."

Tiana disappeared off of the Kent Farm as Cameron was flying off after her.

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