Resistant • Jonathan Kent

v. A World Without

They both ended up at the Desert Fortress eventually.

Where Cameron swiftly took the sunstone that he had made of himself, quickly out of the indentation and he was putting it into the corner, resting it onto the stone.

"I really missed this place." Cameron admitted as Tiana was sitting down on the boulder. "Oh, look." Cameron was looking at the wall, an old scorch mark was there.

"That was from heat vision?" Tiana guessed as Cameron's nod was clear. "How old?" She asked and Cameron smiled faintly.

"I was seven years old, when I did this." He pointed at the wall. "I was just a kid and my grandfather, he wanted me dead. Even after I showed him what I could do, he called me an abomination." Cameron admitted.

"When did you first develop it?" Tiana asked.

"Take a guess." Cameron replied evenly as Tiana's eyes narrowed, thinking about it.

"Five?" Tiana asked and Cameron was nodding at the words. "I had no clue, I just took a guess." She said and he nodded.

"I got both my heat vision and my super strength at the same time." Cameron scoffed at the words. "My dad must have had a handful with me, but he... He never had a problem with it. My mother was the one who acted like I was an abomination, she agreed with Zheta-Rho." He said and she narrowed her eyes.

"Your... Your mother?" Tiana asked with uncertainty in her gaze.

"Leslie Larr." Cameron replied evenly as Tiana blinked. "My super hearing came in when I was 12. Now that was hell."

"How did you cope?" Tiana asked.

"Whenever I felt my control beginning to slip, I looked for familiar heartbeats." His eyes briefly flashed, before he lasered the wall and left another mark on it. "My father... He was the only one whose heart I was accustomed to listening for, at first. And then it was Trevor, then it was Mateo and now... You and Mateo. When I feel myself slipping, I'm listening to either of you."

"Can I ask you a question?" Tiana asked as Cameron glanced at her, before he shrugged his shoulders. "Am I going insane, or does your heart beat more than a human's?" She asked and Cameron laughed at the words.

"Human hearts beat twice. Jordan and Jon's hearts beat twice, because they are humans and Kryptonian." Cameron was shaking his head. "Clark, my father and I... All of our hearts, beat three times. So I can assure you that no. No, you are not going insane."

"Thank god. I was getting really worried there for a second." Tiana admitted as he laughed at her, before he was looking around at the Fortress. "Are you missing your dad?" She asked.

"There really isn't a day that has gone by since I left that Earth, when I don't." He was shaking his head. "He saved my life, he put me in that machine and if he hadn't... Then I wouldn't be here."

"He did it for you, Cameron. If we reached out to his mind, you could talk with him in that way." Tiana pointed out and Cameron glanced at her, his eyes brightening slightly at the words. "The only thing... Or rather, the only person that we'd need is Mateo."

Cameron snapped his head around to face away from her, his eyes narrowing sharply into slits as he was listening.

"Cameron?" She asked quietly.

"Lois is ripping into Jordan." Cameron muttered quietly and Tiana reached over and she was grabbing his hand in hers. "I am supposed to protect all of you. But how can I help him, if he doesn't want me to?"