Love always

Changes

Katherine walked around the farm working on a few things while she waited for Clark to return, it had been two weeks since she had seen him.
She walked into the house and figured she would make herself something to eat and wait for yet another call from Chloe about hearing from Clark.
She made a quick sandwich and grabbed a glass of milk and sat down at the table. She looked up as Clark walked in.
"Clark oh my god where have you been?"
"I am sorry to have worried you."
"I always worry, did you find Kara?" Katherine asked.
"No, I looked everywhere. She is gone."
'She will show up again." 
"I hope so. What are you doing?"
I just finished up some things around the farm and decided I was hungry before returning to what I was doing." 
'I should have been here, you shouldn't have to run the farm alone."
"I knew you would come home sooner or later. Chloe on the other hand wasn't so sure, she has been freaking out and has been calling all the time. Both my phone and yours. Why didn't you at least answer her calls?" 
"I guess there was no service at the fortress. I am sorry for worrying you all." 
"I am just happy to have you home."  Katherine said kissing him. He held her close to him, he lifted her into his arms and climbed the stairs. 
"We can't." She said touching his arm. 
"Why?"
"Clark I still don't have enough control to keep from destroying things. And I think maybe just having you home is great."  Katherine said hugging him, he wrapped his arms around her and smiled. He held her close as they lay on the bed, she was his and nothing was going to change that. 

Clark met her downstairs two weeks later with a cup of coffee 
"Don't drink coffee, gives me the jitters and you know that. I switched to tea, less caffeine and easier for me to drink. Plus it comes in more flavors." She told him walking around him to grab the tea pot she needed to make the tea, filling it with water she placed it on the stove and it set it to bring it to a boil. She turned around and faced him.
"Anyway what are you going to do today?"
"I am going to go talk to Chloe about something." 
"Alright, try not to be gone all day, I am going to be do some work around here and then maybe work on something here in the house. How about I make us a nice dinner."
"I have been back two weeks and all you have done is make dinner for me. "
"Its good to have you home, and I like cooking and you seem to enjoy eating it."
"You're a good cook. And I am happy your happy. Alright, but think about something while I am gone."
"What is that?"
"Maybe we should move away from here, find us a quieter place where you can find a way to calm your powers."
"Clark this is a quiet place, I just need to lessen the stress. Especially since you were gone for three weeks. So go talk to Chloe, I will be here. I love you." She said to him kissing him. He smiled and touched her face.
"I love you too."

Katherine sat down and finished up looking up paperwork she had been working on when Chloe came in.
"Has Clark been acting strangely?" 
"No more than normal, I mean he is a little strange since he got back from the fortress but I figured it was because he had been gone." 
"I mean seriously something is wrong with him, he came to me and asked about a Kryptionian Shield he already has."
"That is odd." Katherine answered. They both looked at the door and saw Clark come in, he kissed her cheek and looked at Chloe.
"Did you tell her?"
"tell me what?"
"We are thinking after we get things settled here of moving out of Smallville."
"Really?" Chloe asked looking at Katherine.
"Nothing is set in stone yet." Katherine answered. Chloe still looked surprised and hurried from the house. 
"What did she want?"
"She said you were looking for a shield you already have."
"I just forgot where I put it."
"Maybe you put it at the fortress."
"Yes the fortress" He said kissing her. He turned and left. Katherine felt that was odd but shook her head and went back to gathering the ingredients for the dinner she was about to make. She was working on the meal when she stepped from the room.
"Kat, Kat where are you?"
"I'm right here. What's wrong?" She asked looking at him. 
"Oh thank god your OK."
"What do you mean?"
"Kat I have been trapped in the fortress for the last month."
"Well that explains the attitude change. And the fact you tried to give me coffee."
"But he didn't hurt you did he?"
"No, he didn't." Katherine said hugging him. 
"i need to find a safe place for you."
"I am not leaving this farm. Let him come, I am tired of this."
"Kat."
"Don't Kat me. Go check on Chloe he scared the hell out of her." 
"You sure you're going to be alright?" 
"I'll be fine. go."  Katherine said, She stopped what she was doing, no point in cooking if she wasn't sure how long he was going to be gone. Katherine looked up a moment later to see him come back into the house, but she saw he wasn't the right one.
"Get out."
"You said you loved me."
"You said you were Clark." She countered. She raised her hands tossing him out of the house and into the yard. Katherine stepped out into the yard, he stood and looked at her.
"What you said you had his memories, forgot that one?" Katherine spat, her hand moving throwing him against the barn wall. He superspeeded in front of her and she raised her hand to toss him again, he grabbed her arm and spun her around so her arms were pinned behind her back.
"Let go of me, your not Clark I can't love you."
"I can treat you better than he can, I wouldn't leave you alone." 
"He rarely leaves me alone." 
"He left you alone enough for me to return to you now."
"He went looking for you. Now let go of me." Katherine said, her power growing, her eyes glowing, he finally tapped her head knocking her out. He lifted her now unconscious form into his arms. He took to the air and left the farm, Clark came back to the farm and saw the damage to the door and to the barn.
"Kat? KAT!" He called out running into the house. He knew he had to find her, he wasn't sure if the phantom would hurt her but he didn't want to take any chances.

Katherine groaned as she slowly opened her eyes, only to find she couldn't see, there was a cloth covering her eyes, and she couldn't move her arms either. 
"What the hell?"
"Oh I see my love is awake."
"Love? Why am I tied up and blindfolded?"
"Well it seems your own powers come from your eyes, can't have you tossing me across the yard again and well your arms well just a safety reason, I didn't want you hurting yourself."
"Or you." She growled at him. Phantom Clark moved up to her, he gently touched her face, she pulled away from him. He reached around and untied her arms, but when she reached up she couldn't get the blindfold off.
"That stays put. And I made sure that it would." 
"So now I can move my hands and rest of my body but I can't see anything." 
"Yes. You will love me just as you did when you thought I was him."
"But your not him,  you never were.  You were a failed experiment that needed his blood to become whole. Plus if I recall our first encounter you nearly killed me."
"I didn't realize how you really meant to him to either of us until I saw you in the barn after you were hurt."
Katherine listened carefully, she listened to the sound of his voice, the sound of his movements. Finally when she figured she knew where he was she lashed out and tossed him away from her, she heard him crash through a window so that told her they were in a house of some sort. She stumbled forward and reached around trying to find her way out, she found the door and opened it, she listened again and could hear his breathing and reacted again sending him flying.  
"CLARK!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, Phantom Clark came up behind her and clamped his hand over her mouth while holding her close to his body. 
"Stop struggling I don't want to hurt you." He said to her in her ear. 
"Let her go." Clark said from beside them. 
"I can love her better than you ever could."
"Yeah your doing such a bang up job of that now. Let her go." Clark said, he knew he couldn't help her with the blue stone in his hand, but he had to make him think he could. Katherine concentrated and pushed outward with her powers throwing Phantom Clark off of her. Katherine dropped to her knees gasping for breath, she felt a touch on her arm, she started to react, when the cloth covering her eyes moved.
"you OK?"
"Where is he?"
"Right here." He said moving back toward them. Katherine noticed the stone Clark was holding. 
"Will that kill him?"
"Yes but I don't have any powers around it." Clark said to her. Katherine didn't even say anything she took it from him and cleared the space between her and the Phantom Clark, who seemed to think she had chosen him, so he held his hand out to her, she slammed the stone into it. 

Clark held her as they superspeeded into the yard of the farm.
"Bonus we never did anything."
"Nothing?"
"Nope, nothing. Still don't have allot of control and was afraid of blowing things up especially since you had been gone for a while." 
"I am just happy he didn't hurt you." 
"Just sore wrists and a nice headache but I am fine. I am just glad you're back." She said kissing him. Clark looked down and saw how red her wrists were and kissed them.