Love always

Finding the calm in the storm

Clark barely left Katherine alone which made it hard to do what he needed to get the phantoms that had escaped when he did. If he did have to leave he would ask Chloe to come over. Katherine was feeling like a child in need of supervision. And as much as she didn't want to admit it drove her nuts.
"Hey Chloe."
"Hi Kat."
"Clark going to be busy again?"
"Yeah. But shouldn't be gone long this time. Are you sure you're alright with this?"
"Better than me blowing up the house. Plus I was working on baking."
"What are you making?"
"Cookies are about to come out and Mrs. Kent left me her recipe for muffins so I am making those too. I get easily bored."
"So I noticed." Chloe said to her. Katherine stood and grabbed an oven mit and pulled the cookies from the oven. She turned and put the first batch of muffins in the oven. She grabbed the mixing bowl and started her next batch of muffins. Pain shot through her head as she steadied herself against the counter.
"Kat are you alright?" Chloe asked coming over to her. Katherine was trying to calm her breathing and the pain.
"I'm fine."
"Kat, your not fine. You nearly fell. What's wrong?"
"Just pain. I'll be fine." She lied. She turned back to what she was doing as another wave of pain hit and the glass mixing bowl hit the floor as Katherine fell to her knees. Chloe dropped down next to her friend, she pulled her phone from her purse and dialed Clark's number.
"You're needed at home now. No she's not get here now." Chloe said. Within a few minutes Clark arrived at the house. He saw Katherine on the floor holding her head.
"Kat? What's wrong?"
"I don't know it hurts." She cried. Clark looked to Chloe for answers, she had none to give. He took his hand and smacked her head knocking her out.
"You sure that will help?"
"For now yes. This started after she was over at Lex's house. But I've been there millions of times no issues. Shes been there before."
"Maybe it has something to do with the phantom?"
"She was no where near her. Kat came out after all was done and found me soaking wet. She was confused."
"But you had been inside that thing Clark maybe there were pods or something on you."
"I don't know. Maybe it could be something that started from when Lex was Zod."
"That could be possible. You might want to take the muffins out of the oven before they burn."
"Huh?"
"She was baking there are muffins in the oven."
"Oh. That explains why the mixing bowl was out and now on the floor."
"Yeah. She was wanting to surprise you."
"She surprised me just not the way she wanted."
"I'll go do some research and I will call you if I find anything."
"Ok, I'm going to lay her on the couch and clean up. But we need to find something, it's like being in the center of a storm I cant find the end of. I don't want this to kill her."
"We will find an answer Clark."
Clark looked at Katherine as he lifted her into his arms. He held her close to him as he walked to the couch, Chloe waited a moment and then left. She needed to find an answer to what was happening, Katherine had been her friend since jr high and even she wasn't going to watch her friend die.
Clark quickly cleaned up the mess, set the muffins and cookies on the large tray in the center of the kitchen island, he looked over at Katherine as he put away the last of the dishes. He walked over and knelt down next to her, he moved her hair from her face as he watched her.
"Hey." He said as he watched her eyes slowly open.
"It doesn't hurt as bad."
"But it still hurts?"
"Yup. Where did Chloe go?"
"Research, we need to know what is happening. Kat you've never been this bad and its getting worse."
"Clark, no one has what I have and because of that no one will know how to fix."
"We will figure it out. I promise."
Katherine nodded and held his hand. He looked at her, he could almost see the pain in her eyes. He lifted her into his arms and went outside just as she screamed causing him to drop her and go flying.
"Damn it." He muttered standing up. This had been the second time she had tossed him across the yard. He got close to her and pulled her into his arms.
"Come on Kat calm down please." He whispered. He held on to her as he felt her power finally start to subside. He looked down to see her starting to cry.
"Hey don't cry. You didnt do anything wrong."
"Did I hurt you?"
"No, my pride maybe but physically no."

Clark hoped that maybe Chloe could find some form of answer. He needed to find another phantom he thought there was only one left and he needed to find it but he didn't want to leave her alone either.