Resistant • Jonathan Kent

vi. The Topic Called Forgiveness

Tiana was silently standing outside of the Kent House as she stared at the barn, remembering all of the events and everything leading up to this.

Doomsday, crashing through the walls of the barn and his mouth erupting with bright orange flames of terror, when he nearly burned the whole structure down to the ground.

Tiana lunging forward to protect Jon and Jordan from the falling pipes, she wasn't fast enough to grab both so she didn't. She dove over top of them and she was waiting for the pipes to fall, to have been crushed underneath them and then... she found herself being squashed underneath the boys and they heard the pipes hitting the ground all around them.

The boys were cheering as for the high school senior skip day, Tiana had paid for a whole bunch of liquor and kegs. They were in the barn and Tiana was doing a keg-stand, while the others were cheering for her and filming it as she was drinking an entire keg herself and the football team cheered loudly at the sight.

Tiana faced off with the oppositional speedster as Jordan fought with Jon-El in the skies above her head and she was yelling, throwing lightning at the alternate version of Jon and both of them fell out of the sky.

Tiana laughed as Cameron and Mateo were making funny faces at her, trying to just get a smile out of her and eventually, Tiana had obliged with a laugh and a bright smile at the sight of their funny faces.

Even being a part of Sarah's quinceanera court was running through her mind, including how to walk in high heels and dancing with Sophie until the whole event exploded with the revelation of Kyle cheating on his wife.

Most of her life in Smallville was running through her mind as she stood on the porch, fiddling with the watch that Tal had given back to her ages ago and she was turning around quickly when she was hearing someone walking out of the door.

"It really does go by fast, doesn't it?" Tal spoke up and Tiana glanced over at him. "You look almost old enough to be my sister."

"I don't look that old." Tiana muttered stubbornly and Tal chuckled. "But yes, it does go by that fast and coming from a speedster--" Tiana inhaled sharply. "It should be pretty clear that I mean it." She mumbled and he nodded.

"You were a child when I met you first." Tal recalled their unfortunate first meeting, when he killed her brother. "But I cannot say the same for you now. You have saved many lives, including my own. I hope that one day, Kam-Rho will forgive me for my transgressions."

"Something tells me that when you die," Tal narrowed his eyes. "Which will happen to you now one day Tal-Rho, despite your best attempts to avoid it... I believe that he will show forgiveness to you once he sees you again."

"Well... If you can forgive me for what I have done... Then perhaps, my son will be able to." Tal murmured and Tiana nodded, before she held out a box to her and Tal lifted his eyebrows.

"It was made for me, but I don't need it anymore. Take it." Tal took the box and he hesitantly opened it, having half-expected it to be filled with glitter and he was stunned by the sight of a faintly glowing sunstone.

"He made this?" He asked and Tiana's eyes flashed, before she nodded.

"Before you two left for Bizarro World. He left it to me along with the watch, a note and the Desert Fortress." Tiana sighed. "I don't go back there anymore, not since he died. But it is your home, not mine. Your heritage and your people... Not mine."

"I won't forget this." Tal murmured and Tiana was shaking her head at him.

"I know." Tiana said with a faint smirk on your face. "You're a Kryptonian, you have a perfect memory. Why would I have to worry about you forgetting?" She wondered and he sighed with a nod of recollection, before he was disappearing into the sky.

"You know, that was nice what you said to him." Jordan said as he walked out of the doors before he stood next to her. "Well, up until the very end of the words anyways." He remarked and Tiana scoffed, before she nodded in agreement.

"Yeah well, I'm not really ever known for my kindness am I?" Tiana wondered out loud and Jordan looked out over the fields. "Is Clark okay?" She asked quietly and he was looking at her, before he lifted his shoulders. "Let me rephrase... Is he still alive?"

"For now." Jordan murmured and Tiana offered him a reluctant hug, before he was accepting it and she closed her eyes briefly. "How did you deal with it? When your parents died?" Jordan asked and Tiana shook her head.

"I ran." Tiana admitted as both of them were sitting down together. "I took off and I ran... Jordan, I didn't go back to Central City for a very long time. In fact, no long after I reintroduced myself to the both of you... I went back for the first time."

"But you were also just a little kid, when your parents died in front of you." Jordan was pointing out and Tiana blinked briefly, surprised that he had remembered the information and she nodded.

"Yeah, but it was still old enough to hurt." She mumbled quietly and she was leaning back against the chair that she was sitting on. "You know, you guys are probably going to be here long after I'm gone." Tiana said and Jordan turned to look at her.

"Okay, that is a little morbid. Why are you suddenly talking like this?" Jordan asked.

"Because... I want to write a book about our lives and you are really the only person that I haven't had the proper chance to ask yet." Tiana didn't even skip a beat as Jordan looked at her quickly, before he nodded.

"All right, go ahead. What are you going to call it?" Jordan asked.

"You know what... I'm not actually sure yet." Tiana informed him with a shrug, before she was walking into the house silently to be alone briefly with her own thoughts.

"What will I call it?"