Resistant • Jonathan Kent

vi. Are You Insane?

"Are you insane?!" Tiana shouted at Cameron, when she was storming after him into her own apartment. "You can't just give up."

"I am trying to revive Superman. How is that not a valid reason?" Cameron asked and she stared at him, her entire body vibrating with anger and he was shaking his head. "I'm doing what I can do, T. If my death and my heart goes to Clark and he comes back, then I will be happy for it." Cameron stated and Tiana looked over at him, before she was shaking her head.

"Are you planning on telling your father about this?" Tiana asked and her tone of voice was calm, too calm. Considering that she had been shouting at him, just only a few minutes before. "That you are absolutely willing and planning to die. I don't know what I would tell either of my parents if I was trying to do something like this."

"Can I ask you a question?" Cameron asked and she stared at him. "Are you angry at me because you are worried about me? Or are you angry because you think that I'm doing this to avoid dealing with you ever again?"

"Do you want my honest answer?" Tiana asked and Cameron shrugged. "I am sorry that I didn't come when you pressed the button and yes, I'm worried about you. But if you are going to make this decision, then at least I know where you are going to be. I don't have to worry about you being across the world or, on a completely different one."

"It's both, Cameron." Tiana was hardly breathing in between her words and right now, she was apparently learning how to super-speak. "But what I want to know, is why the hell you seem so dead-set on hiding your real reason for this. Because I can see it in your eyes that it is not the same reason you went to Bizarro World for, you don't want to die just because you are sick of having powers and being seen as a villain. So for my peace of mind, I'm begging you Cameron, to tell me what the fucking hell is going through your head right now!" Tiana finally finished, breathing heavily as she stared up at him and Cameron blinked.

"When I talked to Jonathan, after you had rushed off to see Liliana... He told me, that I should have been the one lying dead in the street." Tiana flinched at the words as her eyes were stunned. "Jonathan Kent told me in no uncertain terms, that he would rather me be dead."

"Cameron, he is a grieving sixteen year old boy..." Tiana said and Cameron looked at her before she was shaking her head. "You can't listen to somebody talking from a place of pain..."

"I listened to you." Cameron murmured quietly and then Tiana was swiftly closing her hands into fists, before she was cracking them. "I listened to you, because you kept me from feeling like I was completely alone and at some point, you probably felt that way too. Unfortunately for us, it ruined both of our relationships with Jonathan Kent. I am trying to make up for it, in the only way that I know how." Cameron said quietly.

"By giving Clark your heart, because one of his sons told you that you should've died, in his place?" Tiana's voice cracked with pain at the words and she was shaking her head in disbelief. "A-are you hearing yourself right now?"

"I'm going to go and see Mateo, so he can connect me with my dad." Cameron replied quickly, before he disappeared out of the room and she stared after him with disbelief in her eyes.

After she got out of the shower, she was walking into her room and she sat on the edge of the bed. Tiana was looking around her room, looking at the few pictures and the stacks of sketchbooks, sketching supplies and books that she had everywhere and she was pulling up the blankets around her, before she was putting something into the VHS player.

By the time Cameron got back to the apartment, Tiana was watching the TV screen as he was closing the door quietly behind him.

It was a video of her, Jon and Jordan and they were on a beach somewhere, while it was Lois holding the camera and in the background of the video, Cameron saw that him and Jon were throwing a football.

Cameron remembered it, the time that they had a rare moment of peace in between the chaos that ripped through their lives and constantly upended it.

Cameron sat down on the bed next to her and then Tiana paused the video on the TV screen, before she looked at him. "Did you tell him?" Her voice was hoarse and now that he could look her in the face, he could see that she had been crying.

"No." Cameron said quietly and Tiana looked surprised, before she was pulling the blankets tighter around her. "Because... I'm not going to do it." He stated and Tiana's eyes nearly popped out of her head. "Are you cold?" He asked.

"No," Tiana's voice was gushing with sarcasm. "No, Cameron. I'm not cold at all, I am just buried in blankets for the hell of it!"

"Holy shit, mood swings." Cameron stated and Tiana looked at him, before she had just disappeared into the bathroom and she was retching loudly. "Oh, seriously?" He asked.

"Fuck." Came the reply and Cameron was staring at the bathroom door, before Tiana was walking out of it. "Can you see it, yet?"

Cameron blinked quickly, before he was looking at her stomach and he was swiftly allowing his x-ray vision to filter in and to help him see the fetus. Yes, Cameron could indeed see the baby and he was looking up at her.

"If I had to take a guess, I would say that you're about three or four months along now." Cameron shrugged. "I sadly couldn't tell the gender of it, I'm not that precise..."

"I have to tell Jon." Tiana mumbled and Cameron was looking at her. "Damn it. He has just lost his father and now, I have another kid on the way." She mumbled quietly and Cameron nodded slowly.

"Well, there could be another option--"

"We can't let this kid be adopted!" Tiana said.

"I wasn't actually referring to the option of adoption, Tiana." Cameron murmured and a moment later, her jaw was dropping at the thought.

"It is definitely an option for me to consider." Tiana mumbled quietly and she was shutting off the TV, before she was burying herself in blankets even more than before and he was looking at her, before he shut off the lights.