The Smallville Movie!

~Smallville~

THE MOVIE!

The RE-UNION: The Johnathan Kent Years!

Once upon a time in a Castle Far, Far, away, was a young boy growing up to be a man whose world would be changed by the love and life of 2 very important people to him, THIS is that story!

Kent England was beautiful country, rolling hills, green, green grass; showered with glorious architecture everywhere! Our story begins in the castle known as LEEDS! Young master Kent was growing up well, he had everything life in a castle has to offer, the finest clothes, the finest food, and staff to pamper his every request! On this day his father had arranged plans to take his son for a drive into the big City to teach his son about his world of business, for it was his hope and dream that his young son Johnathan would grow up to one day follow in his footsteps and take his place at the head of his father’s work.

Johnathan’s father

“The car is waiting for us outside son, are you ready? Today is a big day for us as father & son are you excited to see what I do that affords us the privileged life we have?”

Johnathan

“Yes sir, I guess so sir!” Johnathan sort of shrugs his shoulders as he walks in his father’s direction, who is now holding the door open for the 2 of them to leave, he did have to admit he does like those drives through the country side and into different villages, the young boy then scurried quickly to the car where the door was opened for him to climb into the back. His father climbed in seconds after that, and the door was closed behind them as they settled into their seats! Looking over at his son he says…

Johnathan’s father

“I am taking you somewhere you’ve never been today to show you another side of life that you are now old enough to see, 10 years old is quite an impressionable age and as your father I want you to be given the right impressions of what life when you’re and adult in the fast paced, ever changing world that surrounds us is like!”

Johnathan

“Ok but I have been into the city before father.”

Johnathan’s father

“Well, you’ve never been where we are going today! We’re settled in driver anytime you’re ready Baxter we can go.”

Baxter

“Right then sir, here we go!” Baxter starts the car and pulls away from Leeds Castle and drives around the fountain in the driveway and out and down a very-long road ahead of them. It was indeed a breath-taking site Baxter appreciated the ability to drive in and out of on a regular basis as part of his life’s working routine! Who wouldn’t like his job? Johnathan settled in for the drive into London, which was more than an hour away, he quickly started looking out the window to study the vast, rich, but yet very mundane countryside! It was the same things every day, the rituals of life at Leeds Castle were always the same, everything was so predictable.

There might be some convenience to having access to anything you want and being waited on hand and foot, but Johnathan understood it to be unwieldly or cumbersome rather, life for him anyway wasn’t so productive. He always had these dreams to one day break away to be free of his family’s way of life and etch out a life and adventures of his own. This is where the young boy’s depression would kick in understanding he has many, many years to go before he will reach such a day of freedom and life! Unlike the life he is aware his father wants him to live, that he doesn’t dare try and talk to his father about his different visions and viewpoints of! But Johnathan understood that one day he would be old enough to make his own choices in life. Till then all he can do is bide his time and follow his parent’s instructions.

The car finally stopped outside this big building with beautiful beams and lots of steps to climb, Johnathan turned to his father and said,

Johnathan

“What is this place father?”

Johnathan’s father

“This is a Bank my boy, it holds money for a lot of people this is just one of our stops for the day!” The door opened and his father climbed out and turned back and jested for his son to follow. Once outside the car and standing on the sidewalk the young boy Johnathan Kent immediately noticed something, very sad and rather out of place considering this was a bank they were standing at. There was this man very wrinkly looking from the thinness of his body, his clothes were very old and raggedy he had some bags that were sitting beside him on the steps and a really scruffy looking dirty dog, with the cutest face Johnathan ever seen (considering he didn’t get to see dogs close up all that often) his mother was allergic to everything so dogs and cats were not animals allowed at any of the family castles. There was this smell coming from the man & the dog that was unfamiliar to Johnathan and rather unpleasant too, not something he wished to not encounter too often in his life. He looks up at his father and say’s…

Johnathan

“Who’s that father?”

Johnathan’s father turned to look at what his son was looking at and turned back to his son and said, “Oh that’s just a bum my son, vagabond as it were.”

Johnathan

“What’s that? A Vega-bond, a bum? Johnathan never in his entire life had seen the likes of a person or a pet so out of sorts and bad off in his life, he was confused and very saddened by what he saw, and another thing he started to feel for this man and his dog was, sympathy and compassion. He could see they needed love and a hand up in the world and he looked back up at his father and said…

Johnathan

“Why don’t we help him father? He clearly needs new shoes and some clothes and a jacket since the cooler weather will be rolling in very shortly and they could both probably use some food I can’t imagine how hungry they are? I’ve never had to go without food!”

Johnathan’s father

“And you never will my son, come on lets’ go, we haven’t the time to spare to talk about this man and his circumstances anymore. I can’t be responsible for all the poor people in the world son, I’m sure he will be alright, London offers lots of resources for those kinds of people, and I’m sure he knows where every single one of them is!” He grabbed Johnathan by the hand and began to walk up the stairs toward the BIG COLD LOOKING BANK DOORS!

Johnathan was confused by his father’s reaction, he was rather disappointed and couldn’t help but continue to look back at the poor man and his dog, as they were walking away, he wanted so desperately to help the 2 of them. Right then and there a life changing experience happened, young Johnathan knew that he didn’t want to grow up to be his father or any of his fathers, rich, friends and business associates who were self-absorbed and obnoxious money-making people!

It was then that Johnathan remembered something, earlier that day while getting ready for the trip to London he went to his piggy bank and took some money out for shopping while in the city for the day, wasting no further time as his father pulled them further and further away from the poor man, he took his free hand and reached into his right pocket and shuffled through the big British coins that were in his pocket; with his hand gripped tight on what he was sure was the right one he pulled it out of his pocket and looked at it.

Smiling at the shiny big 2 dollar coin in his hand he rubbed his thumb over it quickly and then turned to look over his left shoulder to see how far away the man and his dog were, once analyzing the distance and the strength of the throw he’d need he wound his arm up and around like a man giving a pitch in a baseball game, 1,2,3 with his arm straight up and hand in the right direction he let the coin go with a great toss and held his breath while he watched it fly away. About 15 seconds later or so he could see it land and hear a light PING sound of the coin landing on the ground just a few feet away from the 2 on the steps behind him, the dog barked as though he understood and was saying thank-you! Johnathan thought to himself, but dogs don’t speak human? He shook his head clear and then came a 2nd bark as the poor man got up with a smile on his face after hearing the coin land and looking in the direction of the sound! Once he picked up the coin, he looked at the boy and smiled while waving at him and said the words Thank-you, as the poor man’s dog stood up next to his owner and started wagging his tail and barked for a 3rd time! 

Johnathan’s father to busy focusing on the climb up all those big stairs, turned to look at his son with a jerk and said,

Johnathan’s father

“What was that? What did you just do?” Johnathan was quick to turn to his dad and say…

Johnathan

“Nothing!”

By the time Johnathan’s dad turned around to look at the poor man with the dog, the man and his dog were walking away! Inside Johnathan’s head was a boy convinced that there must be a God or some other life out there in outer space somewhere that caused the dog to bark as though he understood what money and Johnathan’s gesture meant, the feeling of pride and joy that swelled up inside Johnathan as his father continued to drag him forward inside this big British bank was so elating and wonderful he actually felt for a moment like he was walking on clouds.

THIS feeling he thought to himself with a release of a deep satisfied breath and smile on his face is one that he’s decided he wants to know for the rest of his life, and so on that day he made the vow that he would do what he has to, to find the place in his life as he grows that will allow him to feel these kinds of moments of joy again and again, making him the man he was too young still to understand that he longed to be but was sure one day he’d grow to be!

That is the journey which now leads us to the 21st century and a beautiful Country Farm home in a small town simply known as Smallville!

End Scene!

~The Stranger~

Finding that cigarette butt is like a needle in a haystack… as he drives to the plant answering the call to investigate whether or not what’s brought him there is an accident or Arson?

Music in the background: Gowan playing (A Criminal mind) as the episode begins.

A Camaro is driving into town leaving dusty tracks behind it. She ‘The Stranger’ drives with one hand on the wheel going to fast down the dirt road; without thought her left knee takes the wheel and starts to steer as the flask of whiskey in her right hand raises to her mouth; before reaching her lips, her left hand pulls out the dangling cigarette and throws it out the window.

The cigarette butt hits the ditch on the other side of the road, the ash still hot picks up some of the brittle dry straw and it starts to crack, leaving lipstick on the filter as the only source of evidence that can later be used to I.D. ‘The Stranger’ She continues driving for some time down the road, Right - through town without a care about the car driving her way in the opposite direction; driving drunk, chaotic, and crazy ‘they’ whiz by one another at 180kms/hr.

For finding speed attractive, the Camaro raised his eyebrow. No time to turn around now as he glanced out of his mirror to try and land her plate number. With no success he focused his eyes back on driving...

“Always under cover” she says to herself out of breath, slamming on the breaks landing on a dead-end road in Smallville!

The fire spread quickly, much of the field around the surrounding area was lost in burnt umber, for what was left of the value never sold. It was too late to change the damage done; all he could do was walk amongst the debris when it was over after the firefighters managed to get it under control and finally put it out.

A farmer’s gold is his garden; his crop is what defines him. Though this field was never a farmer’s he (Lex) still felt the quiet loss of what losing a farmer’s dream feels like.

* * * * *

Awhile later after that fateful day!

Lex is in his office on the phone still….

Lex

“What do you mean the investigators believe there is no foul play? Then how might they explain this happened? There hasn’t been a forest fire or field fire like this since I was a kid so don’t tell me it was the sun and the course of nature that did it!”

Person on other end of phone….

“Actually, Lex they did find something that explains it but they were afraid to tell you for themselves for fear of your reaction.”

Lex

“Well, what is it, don’t leave me hanging what did they find?”

Person on other end of the phone…

“They found a cigarette butt Lex and it has a woman’s lipstick on it so whoever was smoking it was a girl they know that much! But they do not suspect foul play! That is all sir!

Lex

“What do you mean that is all, what am I supposed to do with this burnt field? Do cigarette fires fall under my insurance policy as something they cover? I had better get to work figuring that out! And you find out who that cigarette belonged to…

Person on other end

“Well, that might be slightly expensive Lex are you sure that’s what you want?”

Lex

“Yes of course I’m sure why would you ask a Luthor such a ridiculous question? Spare no expense I have a few words in mind I would like to exchange with this mysterious lady about her careless smoking and I mean to have this conversation with her!”

Person on phone

“Ok Lex whatever you say, I’ll be in touch with you as soon as I know more!”

Lex slammed down the phone and screamed at the top of his lungs while sitting there alone in his office….

Lex

“A CIGARETTE BUTT!!!!!” That said he took a couple shots of very expensive rye in an attempt to lower his blood pressure, while holding his glass he noticed something flashing on the computer screen in front of him. He leaned forward and looked carefully at what was flashing, it was an ad about Benson corn mazes, the largest corn maze in the world… he clicked on the ad which led to a website where he saw picture after picture of corn mazes, the one for the restaurant McDonald’s was the biggest one he had ever seen. He whistled at the thought of what it took to make it, and then immediately wondered how much it would cost to have something like that grown and produced with his field?

In this way he could then call himself a farmer and know what it feels like to produce something fun and edible. No harm could come from him being a corn farmer for one summer of his life he gathered!

Lex

“Yes, I think this would be fun, Smallville is going to need something to do around Halloween next year anyway, which would just add to the time of the year the fair is on to make that time a little more fun with an extra attraction for people to do! Yes, Lex like the thought of this indeed.

“This might just be the answer to all my problems!”

Lex sat back with his glass and took another shot, maybe the field burning down isn’t such a bad thing after all, there is something good that may yet still come of it!

End Scene!

The Re-Union Begins!

Clark

“Yes, Mother I PROMISE I will be there for 5 O’clock, right on time for dinner. You know how much I love your cooking, and I sure wouldn’t want it to get cold on me. I’m looking forward to seeing you and the farm, it has been too long!

Clark’s Mother!

Yes, Clark it certainly has been too long, but I guess that’s what Re-Unions are for to help us stop what we’re doing, slow down and think about what is real to us, who, where and what we’re missing and to find the time, to be made to TAKE the time to go slow and deal with what is important, like helping your Mother on the farm during the harvest season!  O.k. you should get back to concentrating on the road, I wouldn’t want there to be an accident and you sure don’t want a ticket, they fine people a lot of money now these days for doing this!”

Clark

“Yes, that’s true the government sure does know where to stick it to people. Ok I will see you soon, I love you Mom!”

Clark’s Mother

“I love you too son, I will keep on the look-out for you, take care and drive safe!”

Clark

“I will Mother, don’t worry I’m a very good driver!” They both laughed at that and then ended their call to each other.

Shortly after his arrival….

Once settled into his old room which had been left the way it was when he left for the city some years ago, in finding himself in the family room while his Mother was cooking he was casually rummaging through the paperwork of his legal adoption to them, and smiling over the first pictures of him with his Parents taken on Polaroid. He dug a little deeper into the box, not expecting there to be anything out of the ordinary, as he laid the pictures and papers out on the table, he found a newspaper clipping with a picture and small article clipped to it. The article talked about a female child found in Norfolk Virginia, it was stated that it just looked like she had anonymously been abandoned. In closing the investigation done to try to discover a trace on her parents never resulted in any success.

She was handed over to the child and family services department, who later put her in an orphanage. In the background of the picture where she was found you could see in the distance something that looked like a hole or crater in the ground. Not big enough to be the story, but big enough for Clark to understand that it wouldn't be in that box of paper without a reason! So, he asked his Mother, if she remembered the article and what the reason behind it might be as to why it would be in the box. His Mother looked at it, for a long hard moment but could not recall anything. Shrugging her shoulder’s she said,

Clark’s Mother

“No sorry I haven't got a clue, your father is the one likely behind that, and unfortunately he's not here to ask.” Then in silence handed it back to him and continued on with what she was doing. As Clark went to put the article back amongst everything from the box, out of the corner of his eye he spotted the date the article was written on. With that sudden shock being brought to his attention, he carefully put the aged paper in his wallet, without saying anything to his mother; he continued on with the rest of their visit.

When there visit was done, he left and went to his room to put what he found in a place that was safe until he could take the time to look into the matter deeper and then he re-joined his Mother but all he could think about was that article and wanting to find out more about the eerie coincidence the date had to the arrival of when he landed here on earth in the family’s farm field in Smallville all those years ago? Thanksgiving in the Clark household is such an awkward time now, Clark almost doesn’t know what to say to his mother, and she feels much the same way.

Clark

“Mom” he says, “Maybe we should look at doing something a little bit different next year for Thanks-Giving? I mean it’s not that I don’t like coming home to visit you and spend time with you his voice trails off and she cuts in…

His Mother says,

“Of course, not son, I know you love me, you don’t have to finish what you’re saying I understand,” the two of them sitting here together alone these last couple of years has been well sort of BORING and difficult ... (she say’s instead of the obvious sad word with Johnathan not there)

Clark says,

“It’s just that a change of scenery or environment might do us both a world of good.”

His Mother says,

“Agreed, son. But what is to stop us from finding something different to do this year, right now Today in fact? There has got to be something we could do, someplace we could go for a few hours?”

Clark

“Ah Mom?”

She says,

Clark’s Mother

“Yes son?”

Clark replies…

“What about the turkey?” (You can hear his stomach growl as he takes a wiff of the beautiful smell in the air as its cooking away in the oven.)

She says,

“Oh right, yeah that, I guess that is a problem would put a bit of a kink in our plans if we we’re to just leave the house now, wouldn’t it? Well, we could always just turn it off, and finish cooking it when we come back!” Clark… (Stomach growling loudly)

She says, “Never-mind…”

with the expression on her face that says it all, for not being able to miss the sound of his stomach demanding food!

Clark

“You see I don’t like going hungry, there is this little thing called food, and well Mom I really like it, and I especially like coming here to eat yours. It is the one day of the year I go all day without food (with the exception of a small breakfast of course.) So, I can look forward to your cooking and eating to my heart’s content. Yet on the other hand I do have an idea of something we could do together that would be fun and is open today, last walk through is 7:30pm!”

Martha…

She says,

“Oh, What’s that son?”

Clark says,

“Well, if I told you that then it wouldn’t be a surprise anymore now would it?”

Martha…

She says,

“Well, no I guess it wouldn’t be then would it? But what are we going to do about the turkey and YOUR stomach son? Because from where I am standing, if you were to do too much physical activity you look like you just might faint dead away from the lack of food and your current state of hunger.” (They both laugh)

On that note the two of them share in a big laugh, and it suddenly occurs to them both at the same time in one word what their answer for the current adventure is going to have to be.

“A Picnic!”

They both say it at the same time. Something they have not been on together for years, not since before Johnathan died!

Clark says,

“I’ll grab the picnic basket and blanket and double check that all the stuff we need is in there and fill up or replace what is needed.”

She says, “Good idea son, I will find us stuff to put in the basket, I have a big kitchen I am sure I can find things in here we could eat to hold us over and enjoy eating at the same time as not to take away from the Turkey with all the trimmings we will have to eat when we return from wherever you want to take your Mother today!”

Meanwhile, Clark was already in the other room while his mother was still talking, though he could hear every word! Opening the closet door, he looked up and the basket sat on the shelf un-used squeezed tightly into place, till it suddenly it gave way and fell off the shelf and right into his arms when he reached out to stop it from falling to the floor!

End Scene!

Day’s End…

It was after midnight before Clark's head hit the pillow, he had never been so hungry in his life, it was well after 9:30pm by the time his mother and him had got to finally sit down to dinner and eat the turkey with all the trimmings; his stomach looked like a pitcher's mound from eating so much. They had a good first day together… he thought, as he drifted off to sleep with the pleasant feelings of his stomach now finally stuffed full after this long day finally coming to an end!

Tomorrow would be a new day it has been a while since he has had to step foot inside the high school, as his thoughts were hoping for the best… sleep took him to dreamland!

End Scene!

Day 2! High School!

The Next Day!

Before heading out the door to face those haunting grounds of his high school and all those memories of those busy days and young love and a young superman he once was, Clark thought this would be a good time and opportunity for himself to take a few minutes to take in the quiet, somber lovely scenery and richness of the childhood farm he grew up on!

So, Clark went outside and walks ahead until he’s standing just steps away from the farm field. He acknowledged the unsuccessful, naked baron-ness of the field without his father there to keep it active and full of richness, beauty, and life!

Clark thought ‘there must be a way, there just must be a way that I can help Mom with the farm, there must be a way that we can bring this place back to life, put it back together again’ (including the section Johnathan sold) some while back, but what the total answer is to it for the projected future when he leaves the farm and leaves his Mother here to live alone on it, well that answer still evades him? But hopefully, hopefully soon that answer will come to him soon? He knows his mother has an idea, but it is still just that an idea, and how much of the land could she turn into sunflowers, and manage to maintain while fighting the wildlife around, especially birds? So, in the meantime he knew to keep thinking and searching for other answers and possibilities, what else is there, could there be in case Mom’s plan doesn’t work?

And while standing there thinking about it all as he looked out over the farm the wind suddenly picked up, and Clark took in a DEEP, healthy breath, gasp of wonderful, good Country air, something (he especially) considering his abilities, in which he definitely missed about living on a farm, compared to his current City Newspaper life he missed doing. And in seconds he smelled something different, something NEW, and it infused his nose, his nostrils, like never before and they flared out and he almost gave a snort like some kind of beastly bull.... it tickled those hairs just so, never in his life had he ever reacted in such away.

It was the smell of a person, a female person to be exact! But who was she and how long has she been here in Smallville, and why hadn’t he noticed her before, or met her yet? Around this time his Mother was now outside puttering around and noticed her son’s odd behavior and unusual (in a funny kind) of expression on his face and that made her walk over to where he was standing to see if she could see what he was seeing, but she didn’t see anything. So, she turned to him with a puzzled look on her face and asked him....

Martha

“Clark what is it, what has you looking so dazed and confused?”

Clark

“I can smell something, something unusual, something new, rather SOMEONE, I can SMELL ALL OF HER, every layer of every little thing she does to take care of herself and so on. (with a loving almost romantic tone he goes on to say) I’vvveee… never smelled anyone so beautiful in my life, so why don’t I know her, why now am I smelling this, her?” “Who is the NEW GIRL in town Mother?”

Martha (Now Smiling and laughing at her son)

“OH, MY WORD My dear Son.... TMI, that is too much information for my mother ears to be hearing coming from my son! Looks like you have yourself a mission, you’d better go find her or this will drive you crazy (seeing as how you are Superman aka a Superhuman) and so this effect will be constant for you if you don’t figure it out!” “Who is new in town?” she asked herself out loud as she started thinking about an answer and then said... “Well, there really isn’t anyone NEW per say that I can think of, except well maybe, Janet? She is a life coach, she is a professional instructor/leader... she teaches all sorts of courses, And First Aid at the High School is one of them. But she has been here for well over 6 yrs now, so the town folk don’t exactly consider her new anymore! As for why you’ve never met her, well that’s easy.

First of all, you haven’t stepped foot inside your high school or on those high school grounds in over a decade, so you wouldn’t know she’s in there. And 2ndly your new fast paced City life has changed you, changed your observations, and attention, care, and detail on things, that are going on around here in Smallville!

Since your father’s death, you’ve always behaved like coming here to visit me for thanksgiving is like a chore, 1 you wish you could stop obligating yourself too, because you are so uncomfortable, unhappy, sad still that my beloved husband and your beloved earth father is gone. So, you STOPPED slowing down to smell the roses around here some time ago.

I don’t even remember the last time you yourself went into town during the visits you’ve returned to have with me? Mostly you just come for your 4 nights and spend that time here with me and then you get into your city car and quickly leave as fast as you came.

So, an opportunity for me to talk about Janet just really wasn’t something you ever gave me, you’re little old, slowing down earth Mother, a chance to mention as part of any news or changes going on around these here parts of your childhood home! So, you only have yourself to blame for that one son!”

She pats him on the back of his shoulder as she turns and walks away from the man he now is, and the son of hers he once was and as she was walking away, she say’s these final words asking this final question before going back inside her house and away from the rest of the day that now stood ahead of him!

Martha

“Everything? You can smell EVERYTHING about her?” While laughing and shaking her head, he answer’s....

Clark

“EVERYTHING!”

Martha

“Oh My, I mean it’s true every man knows his own, it’s part of how they know they’ve found their wife, the absolute RIGHT one for them, where do you think all those jokes from men talking about how good or horrible their wives Quiche or any Quiche is for that matter comes from? Or that song called THAT SMELL by the band Leonard Skynard (they both laugh hard now) even your father knew that smell, my smell, was the right one for him, he knew on that very first smell test pass day that he was going to make me his wife. And we certainly didn’t rush into marriage, somehow once he got all that animal senses and food stuff out of the way he no longer felt concerned, worried or threatened about time and the risk of losing me and having someone pull me away, because he KNEW that (my pheromones) and he said it out loud to himself.... “That’s MINE!”

I don’t think he ever stopped smiling from that day forward until the day we both lost him!

And you’ve been through a few relationships that have all promptly failed, so maybe all those stories and words of wisdom from men’s past and still now talked about and shared today, has more truth and common sense and actual reality to it all after all?

This could be that sign for you son, NOW, FINALLY, it is the classic Omen... and the one sign and omen might I suggest that you don’t ignore, that maybe you will this time rather take the time to slow down to dig deeper into and look for more answers and understanding of? Get the answer’s your heart, mind, body and soul need before forgetting about it, shutting it out, and dismissing it and going back to your single City life my son! What do you think your Kryptonian Parent’s would say about this, and about it happening NOW? That is lots to think about right there and so I will now leave you to it, to do so, think all about it and decide what that means and where that should and is supposed to take you and your life now?”

Clark (Shaking his head, repeating words his mother say’s thinking about it all)

“Quiche... (Yuck, can’t stand the stuff, no woman has ever been able to cook that in a way good enough so that I CAN eat it) So you’re saying that QUICHE IS the REASON for WHY ALL MY relationships have Failed? An Omen? So, like there is this thing about ageing or manhood or the right time and place, a passage of time that becomes when that experience, that SMELL takes place in each man’s life? And if you’re lucky, you’re young when it happens, (so most men are lucky then) but I’m not so lucky, I’ve had to wait till I reached my 40’s to experience the right and passage and stage that takes place for all men? So I must have been doing something wrong somewhere in my earlier years, if my Super human sensitivities and qualities never ran into this experience before prior to now?

Great now that does not make me feel good, like you said, I guess I truly do need to slow down and smell the roses as it were! Thanks for the talk Mom, it might just have worked, and I may just now suddenly realize I have A LOT TO THINK ABOUT, not just about you and this farm and life without Dad, but about me and about my life too NOW, apparently starting right about NOW! I’ll keep you posted on how my adventures and searching goes, (myself/soul searching too!) hopefully it can and will lead to a good place, perhaps quite seriously much BETTER than where I NOW am and have been for these past number of years from death and love loss?”

“Luv you Mom.”

The spring door to the house shut behind Martha just after Clark managed to say those last 3 words. He then returned to looking out at the family’s farm field in front of him and studied it with one last good stare of the task that lay ahead and while these last thoughts in this last moment took place, he also decided to take advantage of the mildly gusty weather and used his Super abilities to help create a stronger wind creating a bigger channel of flowing air... and he mustered up all his inhaling powers that be after he stopped blowing and took in the largest breath of that wonderful air he could to get one last gulp of gratification of the smell of the beautiful woman he has yet to meet!

He sighed a Woo... under his breath about her when he was done and shook his head to try and shake it off, of him and get the hairs that were standing up all over his body to go down, for that fateful and inevitable day was now upon him and he must refocus his thoughts and energy on that task at hand. It was time to bite the bullet and go to visit his High School and step foot inside the building again for the first time as his mother had already pointed out, in well over a decade! He just hoped he could handle all the emotions of what will pass through him as he’s walking through the hallways and looking at all the pictures on the walls and trophies kept in good care safely in their place for so long!

One way or another he thought to himself as he headed towards his car… he knew that he was (AND MUST) find a way to go to and get through attending of course, participate joyfully and get through… the awkward and the obvious High School Re-union ahead of him, he owed it to Lana and he owed it to himself and there might be a few other person’s not mentioned in name in his mind as of yet that he also probably owes this visit too, for as well!

Once reaching his car he put his hand out for the handle and opened the door. ‘There is no going back from here, there is only going forward,’ the final words he said in re-assurance to himself as he got settled in the driver’s seat, started up his car and drove away from his mother and the farm determined to get it right, determined to get this one visit and full Smallville Re-Union just right…

and then his car disappeared into the distance!

* * * * *

Walking through the halls for the first time in over a decade Clark took note of what was different and what was not. One of the things that was different he spotted in the gymnasium. There was a new lady in town, and all over the floor was a bunch of first aid supplies and dummies so evidently, she was connected to some sort of first aid class. While observing quietly at the door Lana’s ghost sneaks up behind him quietly and whispers in his ear…

FOR TOM TO READ, background foot note to make decisions about as the story moves on!!!

(Note to reader and self, it is up in the air still being debated whether Lana has died forever. If she has then these parts for her character are just her ghost her apparition to Clark being his first love helping him find the closure he needs and the approval to let himself finally get lost in Love FOR REAL for the first time in his adult life over failed relationship after failed relationship for never quite being able to give her up and let her go and move on and tortured with the conflict on whether he deserves to be happy and have true love, or whether his being Superman can have a family and life with a mortal woman of if he must focus on his place and purpose down here on earth as his father Jor-El instructed him over what his earthly mission and purpose was at his first visit to the Fortress of Solitude).

(Considering her last episode appearance was in Season 8 I’m going to act like and presume she is gone forever and all Clark is experiencing during his return and 1 of the reasons why he stayed away from the High School for so long that all these events and moments of Lana’s force and energy visiting him are just moments of her ghost and spirit talking to only him, no one else can see or hear her, that’s she’s helping him to learn how to let go for good, HEAL and Really Move on! Having Lana’s blessing is the next best thing to having his birth parent’s approval and acceptance of his choice of love and partner, so he must settle for what it is he can get at this time!)

Lana

“Come to think of it Clark I don’t think you yourself have ever taken a first aid course. A little ironic don’t ya think? How much of a real Superman can you be without it?”

Clark

“I’ve managed so far in life to get along without it haven’t I? But yes, I do see your point! Maybe while I am in town I might sign up for the class, should be interesting to see how well I’d do? I mean how hard can it be?”

Lana

“You’d be surprised Clark, you’d be surprised!”

She pats him on the shoulder and walks away smiling (and her ghost) disappears.

Clark decides to go introduce himself to this new face in the High School he once attended.

He walks over to where she is and stands in front of her and smiles as he puts his hand out to shake hers saying….

(fumbling his words as his nose and Super self and hormones becomes drastically and immediately aware that his Mother was indeed right, this is the lady he was smelling when standing outside the house looking out over the family farm field! And so, it begins his inability to get things quite right whenever he’s around this new face and wonderful force of life (as he quickly discovers) as the story over time will tell!

The intensity of the effect she had on him as he now stood so close to her, he was barely able to contain his thoughts and not blurt out what he was thinking about her wonderful self-care all his senses were so keenly aware of!

Clark

“H i i i, ahhhh I’m, I’m Clark” (the words he finally stumbled out of his mouth) “

I’m a former student of the high school! I would just like to introduce myself, since I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting you before!”

First Aid teacher (Janet) (Smiling back) puts the dummy in her hand down and reaches out to shake his hand back.

“Hi, my name is Janet, I’m glad to make your acquaintance Clark you’re famous in the hallways of this school. I’ve seen pictures of you everywhere!”

Clark

“Ohhhh those pictures are still hanging around in the School, are they? How embarrassing! Don’t worry I’m not really that special in regard to high school life significance really, I just worked for the school paper and loved my Football, it’s nothing more than that” (He manages to say without a stutter!)

Janet

“Are you interested in taking first aid?”

Clark (caught off guard by her question and wanting to continue to desperately keep on giving her a good first impression, he found that he was stuck on this matter and there looked to be no way out of this matter other than to answer with the obvious right response, that she was looking for!)

“Yes, yes I think I might just be. Where do I sign up?”

Janet

“Right over there on the desk, there is a sign-up sheet for the different dates of when the new classes begin, pick one, I would love to see you in one of my classes. I have a feeling you will be chalk full of entertainment!”

Clark

“I’ll take that as a compliment, and I will except the challenge of being full of entertainment and so I will see you in class!” He walks over to the sign-up sheet and flips thru the dates picks the right one for him and signs it!

Clark

“You been teaching here long?” (Pretending he had not had that conversation with his Mother before leaving the house, not knowing what else to say to present small talk with her?) He asked, while quickly filling out the sign-up sheet and putting the clipboard back down.

Janet

“Well that all depends on what’s classified as a long time? But I’ve been here about 6 yrs now... well after you left these halls and classrooms. I was contacted by the school guidance counselor and asked if I would participate in helping to teach the students here how to save lives, it’s part of some kind of new school initiative which wasn’t a priority or interest back when we were in school, but times have changed and we’ve learned through mistakes and the school of hard knocks just how important first aid is and the ability to save a life, or just to keep someone safe and immobilized or calm until paramedics arrive to the rest of the job of saving the person’s life.

And of course I’d be crazy to turn down that kind of new initiative since I’ve been fighting for schools to look at this option as part of High School curriculum and credits for years myself now, I guess you can say I’ve always been a bit of a forward thinker, I’ve always been just a bit ahead of my time, I’m used to it and I guess I kind of like it that way, I like being different and this is a good kind of being different! I after all, at the end of the day am all about keeping people safe and saving lives!”

Clark

“How are you liking it here in Smallville and working at the High School so far?”

Janet

“The students here are pretty pleasant and been a joy to work with, as I hope the same will be when it comes time to teach you Clark!”

Clark

“Well I will do my best to try and not disappoint you! It was a pleasure talking with you Janet I am glad I brought myself into town to visit the school and see what and who is New around here these days? As you can predict in small towns the community doesn’t change much, it pretty much stays the same faces for decades at a time, so we locals can’t help but get excited and curious when a new person moves to town. My Mother just told me about you just today, as I asked her about what is new… not sure why she never mentioned the New program and instructor for First aid at the high school sooner? But I’d have to guess that my visits have been pretty strict and confined to just visiting her since I moved to the big City for my Newspaper Journalism career and the loss of my father and her husband, I guess you can say it means I haven’t really been myself or rather we both haven’t been quite our usual selves for a time now, so that’s probably how you’ve managed to get overlooked and missed by me, and I don’t say that lightly since I have Super Keen observation and other instincts of built in factors, like, smell senses and skin and taste as well as keen eyes, and ears, like a dog you can say for sure, so you getting by under my radar this long regards to my Super Self is no easy task. LOL

So I must have been falling short somewhere, so I apologize for taking this long to make your acquaintance, but I’m sure glad you’ve managed to stick it out and settle in here in Smallville and managed to find a way to make this place your home, I hope the time you are here teaching the students and residents who live here, how to live safer and better lives and how to help save lives for whatever abundant amount of life coach training you may have… that it proves to be rewarding and successful till the end for whatever amount of time living in Smallville and working here it all amounts to be!

I’m sure I will be seeing you around a lot more now that we’ve met, I have a much more activity community plan this year coming home to visit with my mother, and one of these days maybe we can sit down to a longer visit together and discuss these plans/things more with each other over coffee or something? Anyway, if I do not see you again before class, then I will most certainly see you again in your First Aid class!”

Janet

“Yes Clark, sounds like a good possible plan, see you around, but most definitely I will see you in class, you’d better be ready to learn and do well, and participate in all the important things you’re going to learn there?” She smiled, one large, beautiful glowing grin, Clark couldn’t help himself but notice, she was quite a stunning person as a whole and glad he brought himself to look for her, and thought to himself, (Well now what a site for sore eyes for me, I think maybe, just maybe my luck might just finally be changing for the better!) He was now excited to find out if he was right? :-)

Clark waved good-bye and left the gym and continued on with his Smallville High School Re-Union Mission! Clark only has a very short time to find someone to take to the dance & High School Re-union, he didn’t return to Smallville with anyone in mind, he was here more for his mother then he was about the school reunion, but he knew there was no need to be a wet blanket about the situation and at the very least he should try and not show up to the dance alone!

End Scene!

Kent England!

Clark

“Hey Mom, can I ask you something? Where are you?”

Clark’s Mother,

“I’m upstairs dear, I will be right down.”

Clark

“Ok I’m in the study room, there is something you need to see!”

There was only silence after that for the next couple of minutes until his mother walked into the room and said,

Clark’s Mother

“What is it dear?”

Clark

“Have you seen or know anything about this?”

He showed his mother what he had been looking through, paperwork including a small stack of newspaper articles and pictures of Castles. Clark had never seen any of this before and wondered why his father would not have shared any information about it with him?

Clark’s Mother (reaches out and takes the Newspaper article from Clarks’ hand and turns it around to look at it, and the second she saw Leeds castle her face went white as a ghost and she gasped and sat down before speaking…..

Clark’s Mother

“Leeds Castle, Oh… my word, where did you find this?”

Clark

“I have been going through my adoption box of papers and other stuff Dad had put in here and I didn’t know what to make of what I’ve just discovered, all these articles talk about a place called Kent, there are pictures and stories about different Castles there!”

Clark’s Mother

“Well, I never knew your father was collecting this stuff either, but you are right you have the right to ask, your father and I should have sat you down a long time ago and told you about this. Kent is in England it is where your Dad comes from, his family is English and a very well to do family. When your father left home, he decided he wanted to make it in the world on his own instead of taking trust fund money to live.

He was sick of the life his family attempted to instill on his soul, he wanted nothing to do with what most of his family is like. It was a tough choice he had to make but he clearly thinks he made the right choice, because look at what he got to show for it? This farm and US!”  She smiled at Clark.

Clark

“You mean to tell me Dad’s RICH, that his family has lots of money? And that I could have had a pair of $300 sneakers every once in awhile and that Cashmere sweater I always wanted? He smiled and laughed waiting for his mother’s reply!

Clark’s Mother

“Yes, I suppose you have the right to poke fun at that a little, because your dad could have asked for his money anytime and treated us both to some of the finer things in life once in a while! I can agree that something Cashmere would have been quite nice indeed for both of us!”

Clark

“Wait a minute, this also means that Dad didn’t need to sell the quarter section of the land he could have just called his parents and asked for his trust fund money! Well, I might love my father but I’m not afraid to say that that might not have been one of his better decisions!”

Clark’s Mother

“You are right Clark as usual; you are right, I suppose it was just as easy as that for him to fix the financial problems around here, but we have to look at how old he was and how set in his ways he also happened to be! Is that it, can I go finish what I was doing upstairs?”

Clark

“Yes, I suppose for the moment you’re free to go, but I’m not letting you off the hook that easy we will talk about this some more later, after all you are an accomplice in keeping this from me you could have told me too!”

Clark’s Mother

“Yes, I could have but I only went there with your father a few times when we were dating, so I feel much the same way your father did, estranged and uncomfortable when I think about those people and their Castles!”

Clark

“Alright Mom thanks for co-operating with me, you can tell me more another time when you have more time! Right now, I have to get ready for the town fair, I can’t figure out what I want to do, I thought to volunteer to be in the dunk tank but when I asked about it I was told someone has already been chosen for it, so I’m not sure what I can do to do my part, hopefully I find something fun though to throw myself into?”

Clark’s Mother

“Ever thought about just going for the good time for yourself Clark? that doesn’t make you a bad person you know, besides I’d enjoy the company of having you around my table too, but if I’m going be ready for this then I too should get back to work. Oh and one more thing Clark, whenever I tried to bring the whole childhood thing in England up, he always said the same thing” … :/

Johnathan

“It rained a lot!”

Clark’s Mother

I have no idea what that is supposed to mean but that is all I can tell you, if something else relevant comes to my mind I will let you know!

Clark

“How about your memories of when you were just dating Dad, you must have met some of his family and he had to have said some things to you, that’s the stuff I’d like us to find the time to talk about, but not today! As for today I would love to go to the fair with you, Moms are great people to hang out with for such fun…” His Mother cut him off…

Clark’s Mother

“When you haven’t a date or a table of your own to run…. She laughed it’s alright son I get it that is what Moms are for.”

She got up from her seat and went over to him and gave him a hug and then left the room with him staring at the box of secret papers that Johnathan never revealed to anyone on time!

After his mother left the room Clark decided to e-mail Lex to hear back from him about the terrible news of the fire that burned down the field owned by the Luthor’s, the story goes that there was no one to be seen in the vicinity at the time he arrived at the site when fire trucks were trying to put it out!

Moments later when sitting in front of the computer he started to write…

Hey Lex,

It’s Clark here I got into town just a few days ago, enjoyed thanksgiving with my mom and of course have also visited the school where I heard about your ordeal, I just thought I would drop you a line to see how you’re doing and ask whether any arrests have yet to be made or at least do you know who might be a suspect? If you want to meet somewhere to chat, just let me know.

Take Care,

Clark!

Not even 5 minutes passed when Lex replied, Clark guessed that Lex was sitting at his desk when his e-mail arrived.

Hey Clark,

Thanks for your concern about the field you are not going to believe what the investigation found! They said they found a CIGARETTE BUTT, and that this was the culprit, imagine that someone’s careless smoking burned down the field! With the kind of dry hot weather we get in the summers here it’s not to be a surprise that something so small could cause something so big to happen in the fall, specifically an uncultivated field not used for anything, anyway the investigations conclusion was that they don’t suspect any foul play! But I am going to pay to see if I can find out whose DNA is on the that cigarette butt so I can confront them with the harm their smoking has caused my life! I am sure we will see each other soon Clark, I think I will find the time to make an appearance at the fair, so maybe I will see you there?

Take Care,

Lex Luthor!

Kent Holiday’s!

Clark’s Mother was in the sitting room when he walked in and said,

Clark

So is this a good time for us to talk about the things Dad did tell you about his life?

Clark’s Mother

“I suppose it is, there is only one way to deal with this and that’s just by telling you what I know!” She smiled and patted the couch seat next to her! Clark took a seat!

Clark’s Mother

“Your Father told me of him memories of holidays in the home, how grand the events were… And how staunchy everyone in his family was and how those guests of theirs were staunchy too”…

(Moving to Johnathan’s mind as that young boy) Looking through the window watching guests come in hoping no one could see where he was hiding away from the crowds. He felt this big gaping wound of feeling lost, and loneliness. He just did not fit into his family’s world no matter what he did. He couldn’t put his finger on just one thing that he didn’t like but he just didn’t like all these yearly customs and all the money they spent on the holiday’s so lavish, he hid in his room as much as possible except where he was needed to make an appearance a time or two!

Halloween was so outrageous, all the crazy costumes but as a young boy that was what he would admit to coming downstairs to look at, what everyone coming in was wearing, he also had to admit the chocolate & treats were divine, he would eat so much some years he’d give himself teeth aches and stomach aches too. What else was he to do locked up in that world and at such a young defenseless age? The event would go on until the wee hours of the morning, last guests would leave around 2 am and all the excitement always kept Johnathan awake, he could never bring himself to fall asleep until the guests were all gone and all the music and sounds that wafted loudly through the halls of the house were done playing! And then there was Xmas!

Johnathan’s Mother calling up to her son….

Rose

“Johnathan please come downstairs and join the family, it is x-mas eve and time to exchange gifts with everyone.”

Johnathan loved X-mas best it was the one time of year that he was excited about the prospect of what new things he might like from his family that sat so beautifully wrapped under the tree!

Johnathan

“O.k. Mother I’m on my way.” But Johnathan did not so much like hanging with his huge family of aristocrats, he was not much like them at all!

In the large dining area where everyone was sitting around the table still munching away on x-mas delights he took his seat! In front of everyone on the table there were gifts for each person to open!

This year Johnathan had a fairly large box standing upright so as to fit on the table with everyone else’s gifts and the treats they were all eating. He thought it was a miracle that the large box didn’t fall over with the way it was standing!

Johnathan’s father

“Glad you could finally join us my son, it has been unanimously decided that since you are the youngest at the table everyone agrees that you should open your gift first!”

Johnathan

“Yes father, thank-you everyone, I’m so grateful for the family I have” he said! (not sure under his breath how much he meant that part). He carefully lifted the big box down on to the floor and got comfortable for himself first and then began unwrapping it!

Johnathan

“Ohh my goodness, ohh my goodness, however did any of you know? I swear I never peeped a word to anyone.”

(Actually there was a conversation about train sets that took place between his older brother and himself once earlier in the year, but nothing was said that he could have ever thought would have ended in a result like this, he didn’t say ‘I WANT A TRAIN SET FOR X-MAS’, so there was no reason for him to think or believe that it would happen!)

He quickly tore into the rest of the wrapping paper after the initial tare gave away that he had been given a train set! This would be his favorite childhood memory for x-mases in his life he was certain.

(Never again did a childhood Xmas for Johnathan compare to this one) It was only when he was a man, a husband to a wonderful, well-educated woman and father to a young Superman did he enjoy holiday’s with HIS immediate family that was equal to or compared to that 1 X-Mas when he was given that kick Ass Train set that he had never told anyone that he wanted! Only Clark and Martha themselves could fill his heart and soul and life with a joy equal to that year and day so many Xmas’s ago!)

Johnathan (looking at his older brother) said,

“You told someone didn’t you, I told you and you told Mom or Dad or someone, why I, I, I, could just HUG YOU TO DEATH for this! Because I truly wasn’t expecting this!” When he was done with the wrapping paper, he did just that, he went around the room and cordially hugged his family members for the best gift ever! After seeing this fine train set young master Johnathan didn’t care much what else was under the tree, he got the one thing he was wanting all year and didn’t ever expect would happen, he like to pride himself on being simple and easy to be made happy! But he had to admit he was excited about tomorrow morning especially if this is how the night before just went! 

Rose (opened hers)

“Oh, my honey you shouldn’t have, it’s delightful, another diamond necklace. I will wear it tomorrow of course.”

Roses’ husband

“Yes, that was the idea of why I gave it to you tonight my dear, but this necklace is more beautiful than the others isn’t it? Look at that stone that sits in the middle, why as soon as I laid my eyes on it, I knew it was for you, and that you must have it for this x-mas my dear!

Johnathan (thinking to himself that his dad probably had the butler buy it for her because he was too busy. A guilt relief gift sort of thing for his father!) well He chuckled a little under his breath before saying….

Johnathan

“Why Mother please do put it on, let everyone in the room see how perfect it is on you!”

Rose (smiled)

“Oh, alright but just for a moment, as I said I am looking forward to wearing it with my x-mas outfit tomorrow when everyone can really see how it stands out!” She took the necklace she had in her hand and asked her husband do it up once she placed it right around her neck. She wore it for but a moment and everyone went EWWW, AHHHH, and gasped, it was stunning.

Johnathan however was used to his mother dawning all kinds of shiny, sparkly items from all over her body, her fingers, her wrist’s, her ears, and neck. Johnathan swears his first memory as a baby was DIAMONDS on his mother! LOL

One by one everyone got to take their turn and soon everyone’s gifts were all open, and that’s when Johnathan started yawning, with all the aunts, and uncles, and cousins, and his grandparents and siblings it must have been well after midnight before the day was finally done!

Johnathan

“Can I go to my room now, I’m very tired and wish to go to bed straight away! I want to be rested for the morning.”

Everyone in the room hugged young Master Johnathan one by one goodnight, and his mother waved him off to bed when she was done. He grabbed his train set box and ran carefully and quickly to the stairs and up to the top of them where he yelled back down to them all...

Johnathan

“Goodnight everyone!” They all said goodnight back and straight off to his room he went!

He was too tired to try and set any of it up tonight, but he was certain it would be the only thing he would want to play with all day tomorrow! He knew he was in for a good night of wonderful dreams ahead and looking forward to waking up in the morning on THIS ONE PARTICULAR X-MAS more so than any other!

Back to the Living room with Martha & Clark and Martha continued with….

Clark’s Mother

“And there you have it, that is what he told me about living in a castle full of rich people.”

Clark

“So, he told you this when you guys were dating?”

Clark’s Mother

“Yes, years before I ever knew I was certain to become his wife and your mother! He might not have been completely contented with his life as a young boy, but he was certain to share the good times with me! Well, it is getting late, and I think it is time for your Mother to hit the hay! I hope this helped a little Clark?”

Clark

“Yes, Mom it did, and I hope you can tell me another story on another day, I’d like to hear more about your life with Dad before I came along!”

Clark’s Mother

“Well that my son can certainly be arranged, stay tuned for more adventures of your parents dating years in the times ahead!” Smiling she kissed him on the forehead got up from the couch and went to bed!

Clark sat there on the couch a little longer thinking about how much more he did not know and how he was feeling about learning all this now with his father gone! With that said he shook his head, and went up to his room, he really missed Johnathan, the house just does not feel right anymore without him in it!

End Scene!

A Time not mentioned:

The Secret Double life and travels of Johnathan Kent!

(Proof reading to be continued from here!)

In the early days of his relationship with Martha, Johnathan did inform her of things he knew and believed she needed to know, this of course included young love, and crushes... aka First Love.... he knew everyone of course always has a first one. And that the first love is the deepest or usually cuts the deepest anyway, as he understood it and felt it! So, his story was slightly different, marred by scars by a deeper and worse story then most people’s first love experience. Although he knew in real life, he wasn’t alone, there were others like him through the course of time who have also lost someone important who was part of your life deeply, but yet he can’t help but feel alone in his suffering and loss, one seems to still feel like they are alone no matter what proof or reinforcement there is that proves these thoughts and feelings and experiences to be untrue!

That said Johnathan understood that everyone healing from loss and pain must heal on their own terms, in their own time, in their own way, and so in that, one can then say we are alone and singled out on our own individual path and way one comes to terms with the matter and finally find’s their way to recovery; and in Johnathan’s case that healing and recovery of course took place and lead to a permanent hold on recovery for him and his young love experience and memories when he finally met and fell in love with Martha!

And so, he knew he must tell her about it, and let her feel her way through how she too resolves to deal with the matter of this part of Johnathan’s past and where she wishes to put herself in his life for the long-term foreseeable future, which we all know led to a perfect long-lasting marriage and wonderful life together! She showed him the compassion and understanding he needed and let him do what it is he needed to do for himself and for the promise he made to this one little 10 yr old girl from his past named Jesse, whom he lost at such a young age, and who meant so much to him and whom he spent so many years growing and living with her so close to his heart, there was never a need to bring her and the stories of those times with her up with Martha again and again, she was so loving and understanding, so Clark never knew a thing about it or the special arrangement and agreed to plan and purpose of John’s yearly trips alone to another part of the world and another time of his life alone!

And eventually Johnathan did grow to become happy and busy with his present life as a farmer, husband and father that those yearly visits stopped, until the day something caught his attention on the TV and in the Newspapers where the story and announcement of the crisis and the name of one individual little girl that rang through his heart, mind, body and soul from head to toe.... “JESSE!” And that is when it all came flooding and rushing back to him and after hearing the news announcements that Johnathan only had one thought, one sentence one remark to say, that needed to be said, that said it all about the whole thing for him, summed up in just the few following words....

“I HATE CANCER!”

after hearing himself say those words out loud to himself, he became further angry and upset with the crisis and loss of not just any people dying from cancer, but the worst possible scenario, a root and level deeper then anything else, the question to which plagued him then and still does now.... children with and dying from cancer.... and his always thinking and saying and asking the universe and powers that be, just that 1 little question... “WHY?”

Suddenly thinking about Jesse, reminded of his youth and those times he spent with her when she was alive, and where he went to visit her when she wasn’t, and he recognized her call and understood what that significance and moment of time and day meant for him... that it was time for him to take a trip to somewhere special and important, where he hasn’t been in quite some time, for realizing in that moment that he had indeed broken his promise to her alive and in mind, body and spirit after she died, because he had stopped going! He shook himself out of the daze of the terrible news on the TV and knew where he needed to go and what to do; upstairs to his bedroom to start packing his bags for a long overdue trip to a very important place in England many miles, and Oceans away!

And he knew he’d better not waste his time… clearly, he understood it was her needing him there, with an obvious special message for him, which he only ever receives from her when he’s there! “Amen, God rest your soul Jesse, hang in there I’m coming!” he said, and then vanished from the living room and quickly climbed those stairs! Martha noticed quickly how her husband suddenly lost his focus on what he was doing, what his plans were for the immediate present of the work ahead on the farm for him, to suddenly stopping dead in his tracks and drop everything he was doing, including what was in his hands by putting it down! She was quick to follow after her husband, by way of seeing the TV on and the news airing, she saw a caption on the screen and couldn’t connect his response, so shrugging her shoulder’s she chased after him up the stairs she clearly heard him escape too!

Once standing at the doorway of their bedroom, she stopped to observe him, ripping through their bedroom, like a hurricane, he was in the closet pulling out suitcases and carry luggage, and taking things down that were hanging on the clothing rods, and opening drawers in the dresser, and taking stuff off of the top of the dresser, and scurrying to and from their bathroom and putting everything on their bed. As she watched this all she found the words she was looking for and quickly said….

Martha

“What in God’s name are you doing Johnathan? What’s the matter with you, we were just talking together 1 minute as you were traveling from 1 room to the other, about our plans and work ahead for the day on the farm, and then poof it all just exploded and now you’re here in the room making a mess of everything. Please tell me what you saw and heard on the TV that’s made you this way so instantaneously?”

Johnathan

“Jesse”

“The news was airing a story on the crisis of our children’s hospital’s not just here in the U.S. but around the world, overflowing with CHILDREN who have Cancer and are fighting their best fight and or dying from it! And that led to them sharing the story of this one little girl who DIED from her battle with cancer, and they mentioned her name and age…. And it was like being slapped in the face, punched in the heart, hit on the head… the little girls name was JESSE, and she was 10 yrs old too at the time of her death!” “I realized in that time how many years it’s been, how long I’ve gone without visiting her grave, and leaving something on her head stone! I could feel her spirit using this story to get my attention, to call to me, to reach my heart and soul! I made her a promise back when we were those young kids that I would continue to visit her yearly, no matter where I was in the world, in my life or how old I was! And I’ve broken that promise with her Martha.

Now I understand to be reasonable as adult’s life changes, priorities, and family life changes, and sometimes it makes some promises from our younger life not so possible to uphold! But I knew what I was guilty of as soon as I finished hearing the story…. That I’ve been away TOO LONG… that the length of time I’ve taken away from visiting her has been unfair, not right for my duties of love, and respect and honor and memory of her life and our relationship! She’s trying to tell me something Martha, she’s got an update to give me. But I never ever receive those updates, I never finish receiving or hearing and understanding those full messages unless I’M THERE IN PERSON visiting with her!

So, I MUST GO, I HAVE TO GO, I have to finish answering the call she’s made to me today, through the airing of the story of children with cancer crisis! I might be much older and living well but the matter of fact of it all, is that children with cancer hasn’t stopped, the battle has never ended since I was a young boy, finding his first love, and girlfriend who was one of those kids battling this dreaded disease, and to now after such a time away from thinking about it and being pressed about it, to hear the news tell me that WE AS PEOPLE, that life on this earth, that Dr’s and medicine and the children with cancer still today are LOSING THE BATTLE, we are losing the fight against it! And maybe my being happy, with a life and family of my own, separating myself from her and those promised and cherished visits plays some indirect cause, part and consequence of the failing fight over our times now regarding children with cancer and which that lead to this news story being aired on T.V. that I just watched downstairs a few moments ago? That I could have and maybe really should have done more! I need to find out more about the rest of the message and purpose for what I just saw and heard downstairs, and what it’s all about?”

Martha

“What do I tell Clark?”

Johnathan

“Oh, yah about that, you have to call him and ask him to come spend a few days with you here to help you out on the farm. I know what you’re thinking Martha, he doesn’t know anything about Jesse or that time of my life. There is lots we’ve never told him, so instead of creating more stress and confusion the better way to go would be to say as little as possible as little as you can. Just tell him I’ve had to go on a short trip regarding urgent financial and land matters or something!” Martha cuts him off….

Martha

“Johnathan that would be LYING to our son, honestly you’re a full-grown man I thought you knew better then that by now! You’re right we haven’t talked to him about Jesse because you stopped taking your yearly trips to England to visit her grave shortly after we brought Clark home and began to raise him! There is much he doesn’t know, and I’ve gone along with the silence through all these years because I love you and I’m your wife and I’m trying to find a way to support you. But he’s an adult a full-grown man now, and still he doesn’t know these vital parts and times of your past, now put yourself in his shoes how would you feel about growing up being left out in the cold, left in the dark about these matters? Almost a betrayal, like he isn’t your son, or our child, like he isn’t really part of YOUR FAMILY, your life and the one we’ve built together! You need to do something more about it, you have to rectify the time past and the silence of it all we’ve lived in around him about it!”

Johnathan

“I will, I will Martha, I promise I will, but just not now, not today. I am too busy today, right now, I have too pack for this trip and arrange my travel plans! So please just go with the flow for me at this moment and just find something relevant that YOU CAN tell our son that isn’t telling him a lie! Right now, I have to go find a way to make this time gone and lost between Jesse and me and that promise I made up to her right, and find out what it is she wants me, or rather needs me to know? But I will find the time to deal with it, I will make it all right when I get back, I promise!”

Martha

(Sigh’s frustrated with the time and her position in all of this, regarding Johnathan’s life before her and the farm and his inability to find a way to cope with it all and do what is right somewhere along the way. She hopes THIS TIME he really means what he’s said!)

“O.K. Johnathan you go ahead and do what you think you need to do, do what you think is best for yourself now. And I will find something to tell our son, (that isn’t lying she emphasizes) but I’m going to hold you to it, I’m going to hold you to your words this time, to your promise to tell YOUR SON EVERYTHING…. What you should have sat him down and told him all about years ago!”

Johnathan

“Yes, yes, Fine Martha Agreed, now I have to get back to what I’m doing if I’m going to get out of here while the sun is still up!”

Martha walked over to him and made him stop, long enough to give her husband a loving and supportive hug and whisper to him….

Martha

“Good-luck! I hope this trip proves eventful and that the results and closure you’re clearly still needing and looking for happens for you this time! Keep in touch with me by phone on how everything is going!”

Johnathan smiles lovingly and gratefully to his wife for her kindness, understanding patience and support with him and this life-long battle she’s had to endure him living through and with, standing by his side, that he’s so grateful she came into his life. He knew God was wisest of all for knowing which single woman in the world would be able to manage a life and cope with a man so full of issues and not question his love or loyalty to her!

Johnathan

“You’re my Queen Martha always remember that you are the best thing to ever come into my life leaving that earlier part and time of my life behind. You and Clark both! I would be nothing without you, I cannot imagine what would have happened with my life? I will make it up to both of you when I return!” He hugged her dearly and kissed her deeply and then let her go and returned to packing the stuff he had covered the bed with! Martha turned and left the room and returned to the Kitchen and the work she was doing there before this storm in her husband took place! She also knew what kind of perfect care package to make for him to send him on his way with. Something he’ll appreciate on the plane and after he’s landed and settled in from his trip! She did agree that it has been far to long since he’s been and realized maybe just maybe he was right … That the story on the News that was aired today was indeed all about reminding him of this and getting him there to appeal to his first childhood love for her understanding forgiveness and love? And whatever message she may have for him?

(I PROMISE) as it turned out, were to be the LAST WORDS Johnathan ever spoke about this matter of Jesse and his family and life in England growing up as a boy. For that fatal turn of events that brought Johnathan’s life to an end to meet his Jesse at the grave took place a time after he returned from this one last trip home to see his Jesse! So, he never did get to keep his promise and it turned out that still small voice of a very young girl past was smarter than him after all, for his time of hating cancer and watching children battle it and his own effort in battling it he didn’t fare so well in either. So, needing to see her before his time she knew of course from her place was a dire and vital thing that must take place, so he too would be able to rest in peace in the same place she was in that he would shortly be joining her in!

And so Martha would be all that remains with the details and stories and information she knew to one day share with Clark, which turned out to take place by way of his own digging and curiosity and need for closure in his loss of Johnathan his own way caused him to happen upon all the material that left him full of questions that needed answering about a man and life of his about him to which he did not know? Which brings us back to the present day where Martha is doing the best she can in coping with and managing Clark and all his questions!

Johnathan Kent’s last trip to Kent and Jesse’s Grave!

At the airport finally, Johnathan felt he could relax a little for by being there he was aware he would make it onto a plane that very same day! He attempted to purchase his plane ticket while in the UBER ride he took to get there, but he’s never been so good and up to speed on all that technology stuff if it didn’t have anything to do with farming; so he was unsure if he did successfully achieve the said ticket purchase, he could not tell by the confirmation email that read more like a riddle and showed a black square with squiggles and dots and lines, making him think of it as some kind of modern day Rorschach inkblot designed item of sorts. When did getting on a bus, train, and plane become so difficult? What was wrong with the old-fashioned traditional method of a person being given a paper ticket, whether you picked it up in person, or if it was delivered to you? Technology is not 100 percent reliable nothing is fail proof, so why would they make it more awkward and unsure, by coming up with some kind of design that allows a person to do everything from their phone, tablets or computers?

Walking through the great hall of the Airport on the main floor he was trying to find the right Airline and booth he thought his phone was telling him he needed to go to, so he can check his bags and confirm his flight? 5 minutes of walking later and asking a few airline attendants in booths of the same airline, he finally managed to find the right booth for him, of course as he looked back at where he was from the time he started, it would just have to be that for his first time of getting on a plane to England for a great many years, he would find that he had to walk to the very end, to the other side of the airport to find where he needed to be to catch the right flight and check his bags in the right place! He just shook his head and turned to the airline ticket lady and started to talk to her pulling up his phone….

Johnathan

“Excuse me my dear, but I’m a little old and slightly outdated and a little behind on all this internet online stuff, never mind what the capabilities of cell phones also happens to be. Anyway I tried purchasing my ticket on the way here to the airport and after they happily took my money and I confirmed the money was gone from my account all I got in response was this funny looking black box like thing, that looks like a modern day inkblot sort of thing, but when I touch it with my finger, (on my new touch screen) it doesn’t do anything, it doesn’t say anywhere on the page in my email I opened it in what it’s for or what it means? So, I’m wondering now where’s my ticket? Do you have it on your system and are able to print it out for me or something?

Airline ticket attendant, without thinking anything of her job and her day and age, and not showing any humor or consideration of Johnathan Kent’s plight or disposition, said with a straight tone and no smile on her face….

Airline Attendant

“Sir, sir, if you would please now let me reply…. THAT black square IS YOUR TICKET, it’s in computer code, so that my scanner and computer system will be able to read it, albeit it isn’t very artistic or something pretty or interesting to look at, it does at the end of the day, do the job it was made for! Now if you just hold your phone still and let me scan it with my scanner it will then give my computer all the information I need, and we can move you along with the next phase of checking your bags and finding your flight and time of boarding!”

Johnathan (thought her personality was a little drab, she was rather dry, and he wondered how she got into a people person job, but then looking at the black square on his screen saw the fleeting connection in the bond to the new age plane ticket on the go and the new age ticket attendants to match that era, and could see how the 2 fit so nicely together!) So he just smiled as polite a smile as he could and held his phone out for her. The ticket agent lady then took her funny looking scanner item thing and waived it up and down over his phone, while pushing a button with her finger on the handle she held the contraption with, and a RED LASER BEAM light scanned across his phone screen from one side of the black block on his screen to the other! And somewhere in the middle of that her machine BEEPED, something went off, and she then SMILED at Johnathan, because now that his purchase was confirmed he could be considered a person, he was guessing, someone of importance or matter to her job, because now he had been confirmed as a PAID Customer!

“What was that? That sound that beep your hand machine thing just did?” Johnathan thought it’s been way to long since he’s been on an airplane and now standing there that day was wishing he had traveled more places with his family as he’s clearly given away to everyone around him, he hasn’t done much of, well at least not recently in technology’s current times! So, he just looked at her keeping his thoughts to himself and waited for her answer!

Airline ticket attendant

“Oh, that sir was your ticket confirming to my scanner that everything is alright, that you did indeed pay for your ticket and your purchase went through successfully, and it then gave my scanner all the information I need so I can see who you are and where you’re going and everything else that can make it possible for me to help you and do my job! Oh, there it is right now coming up on my screen, Welcome to British Airlines Mr. Kent, your flight leaves in 90 minutes and it says here you purchased a window seat in First Class! And I see you have 2 bags to be checked and 1 carry on, now if you could put the 2 bags to be checked 1 at a time on the scale right over here sir, I can give you the appropriate baggage tickets as soon as the scale confirms you are within the free baggage limit amount!”

As it turned out of course, being that he was a man, he of course didn’t have to worry about going overweight with his bags, so he knew he wouldn’t have to pay anything extra. Now if Martha was traveling with him that might be a different story! Anyway, the flight attendant gave him the right baggage tickets that she printed off for him from her computer. Now Johnathan thought that was a neat, a baggage ticket that he didn’t actually have to write his name on in pen, and watch it get smudged and be unreadable by the time you get to your final destination! He liked knowing that that today there was less chances of losing your luggage. But it sure still doesn’t do anything about stealing! He didn’t want to seem rich or snobby or something, so he just had to add a few last words after she said that First Class information out loud.

Johnathan

“It was urgent that I got on a flight today, I had to get out of Kansas as quickly as possible and no matter which airline going to the U.K. I looked at there were no regular seats available, and then I finally found your airline had a First-Class ticket leaving tonight so I took it, just so you understand that!”

Airline attendant looked at him again expressionless, she absolutely didn’t care one way or the other whether he was flying in coach or First class and didn’t need to be given any explanation on his purchase, all that mattered to her and her job, was that he could afford it, and did it, and is now therefore a customer she has to put through and get on his way to catching his flight so he arrives at his final destination on time!

Flight Attendant

“By the way Mr. Kent please be aware that little black box on your cell phone in your email will be needed again, so don’t lose that page or the link from your email. They will need to scan it again when they are informed that it’s time to load the passengers!”

Johnathan (already walking in the direction the instructions given to him by her), still thinking this ticket booth attendant had the personality of a computer; so to acknowledge that he heard what she said he just waived his right arm with his back hand as all that she could see and kept moving in the direction of where he could finally sit for a few minutes catch his breath and his thoughts of the whirlwind of a day he’s having!

Once he was sitting down in the waiting area that was the right loading area for his flight to the U.K. he pulled out his new touch screen cell phone, still can’t believe these kinds of phone contraptions exist and actually work, shook his head as he swiped the screen and punched in his code, (something he was very proud of himself for learning how to do) and called Martha. He told her he would try and not be gone that long and that everything can be explained and worked out more when he got back, they wished each other good health and safety of course and then ended their call.

Once he looked up from his cell phone and had a moment to look around all he could see were a bunch of flat screen TV’s which was something else he’s had to get used to… and on every single screen there was no actual TV show airing. One was playing information about the New York Stock Exchange, another one about politics, stuff about Obama of course. And another about the news and of course wouldn’t you know all of them had the sound off. He shook his head wondering what the point of having them there was then? I mean everyone can find the same information on their tablets, cell phones and computers anyway!

So, he turned his attention to his carry-on bag and decided to peak through it to see what kind of goodies Martha packed in there for him! As soon as he saw her short bread cookies his mouth instantly watered, and he figured since she wasn’t there to tell him what to do, since she wasn’t there to lecture him about eating a real meal first before dessert, that this would be his chance, 1 and only time to get away with eating dessert first. So, he smiled and went in after them with his left hand!

Johnathan ate every single one of the short bread cookies over the time he was sitting there. And of course, wouldn’t you know it that just a minute or 2 later they finally announced that the travelers could load onto the plane, and they reminded all passengers to be sure to have their ticket code box out and ready for scanning for quicker easy boarding! They first called the elderly and handicapped, then the pregnant women and those traveling with children, and after that they finally called FIRST CLASS, (he thought how interesting that First Class doesn’t afford you first class boarding privileges anymore, my how times have changed) he wasn’t bothered by the elderly or handicapped or pregnant women and those with children getting on first really, maybe this was kinder times in some way and well they’re certainly isn’t anything wrong with that!

At the end of the day, he still had the same reserved seat that he purchased with his ticket, he wasn’t on standby so he was grateful enough just for that since he had been worried that stand-by might have been the only way and that he wouldn’t have gotten out of Kansas today! So, there is no complaining about those small blessings in disguise as far as he’s concerned.

He pulled his cell phone out of his jacket pocket again and this time he had a much quicker and easier time in finding that black scan box ticket thing in his email and when it was his turn the attendant scanned it easily and quickly and directed him to board the plane!

Once he was finally settled into his first-class window seat and he put his carry-on bag under his seat he was happy to have his headphones on hand and a window in which he can stare out of when he wanted too during the times, he would be awake over the next 12-hour nonstop flight overseas. Looking out at the sky and the night stars from above the ground is never a disappointing thing! He muttered to himself a little God shot prayer, “Stay with me now God, that I make it to England on a safe flight!”

He started to relax and started to look around at how nice first class was on this British Airline, he only saw planes with this much room and comfort and space in the movies he’s watched, so different to be here sitting in it for himself again after all these years! If he remembered correctly the last time, he flew in First Class was on his flight over to America for the first time, when he was choosing to pursue his farming and agricultural education at institutions, he thought were better in the U.S. then where he was from. And a lot has changed on airplane since then, that’s all he thought to himself!

He fumbled with the TV in front of him that was built into the seat in front of him, to figure out how to turn it on, and how to operate it, and where to plug his headphones in? And then he tried to figure out the dinner tray and in a little 2 second thought he realized how he must look, and how it felt to him, like he was in a Mr. Bean skit and realized how awkward and funny he must look to the people who are all used to this technology and level of comfort in a First-class site such as this! So he stopped fidgeting and found a stiller more quiet thing to do once he got the TV on and his headphones in place, he picked out the menu from the pocket with the garbage/barf bags and air flight instructions in it and started to read what they had available complimentary with the First Class flight, and the prices for the things that we’re not covered, which was mostly alcohol like whole bottles of expensive wines.

Well, he certainly wouldn’t be ordering himself a whole bottle of any of that stuff, so he moved back to what he’s allowed to have free throughout the duration of his trip and thought now that’s better and knew he would be quite happy to stick with that list of options for the duration of his flight! He did of course also have what Martha gave him! But he wanted to save that stuff for when he was in England and booked into a nice hotel room, so he could have her there with him in that one small way!

And then it happened, the NEWS CAME ON, and when he looked up at the screen from the menu all he could see were cameras and reporters who were going from hospital-to-hospital walking through the children’s cancer wings and reporting on the overcrowding how they had children in hospital beds who were all lined outside of the Full bedrooms in the halls of the hospital cancer wings. And when they were done reporting on the crisis with young children and youth cancer they had to of course move to adults with cancers, from mid-life all the way up to old age. It was horrific for Johnathan to hear, he couldn’t believe it, that what started his day off to end up on this plane to England is exactly what they were trying to end his NIGHT OFF with on the very same day. Only this was worse, because he wound up seeing and hearing more of the news now then what he reacted over this morning on the news that got him way up here in the sky leaving Kansas again going to England Alone again for the first time in too many years this he confessed, this he knew was true, yup his Jesse is mad at him of this he was certain!

He couldn’t stand it anymore, so he tried turning the channel but station after station it was the news, and they were all hell bent on doing a special series and running reports on all of the stations about the crisis with cancer. So, he found the radio and switched to music, and then he looked up and over at other passengers and all of them too were watching and listening to the News, and the dreadful stories about how world’s fight with Cancer and how it is that we are clearly LOSING THE BATTLE! Everybody watching it was too much for him. So, he turned off his overhead lights and turned his head toward the window and leaned his seat back and looked out into the evening sky watching the sun disappear as their flight took off and finally settled into place way up in the sky for a smooth and long flight ahead.

He hoped when he next opened his eyes that he would be feeling a trite better, less anxious and upset over the current state of emergency at least in America regarding cancer as he was heading to visit the grave of someone he knew from his childhood long ago who died from childhood cancer back in a day when they knew less and had far less to offer her and help her to fight and live longer by way of putting the cancer into remission like they do today. Oh, how the memory of his first girlfriend, and first young love did sting his heart, soul, and mind still today! Thinking and feeling about her he took a deep heavy breath and muttered only these last few words before falling asleep, leaving this unsettling day behind.

Johnathan

“I HATE CANCER!”

End Scene!

JESSE!

Jesse Wright an oh so fitting name Johnathan always thought then and still does now, for a little girl who was always right, which was one of the very things that Young Master Kent as he was known back then did indeed always love about her! He could ask her anything and talk with her about anything, and if there was anything he ever needed to know or learn he knew he could go to her, and she would tell him like it is almost always. Without the internet on hand to research all the answers between visits he did always wonder how she was always ready and prepared for him at his next visit with the answers or more information about the things they talked about the time before?

He later learned, that one of Jesse’s favorite things to do was read through her set of encyclopedias, her body might have been betraying her, but her mind was her best friend and her greatest tool and asset, her mind worked well, beyond the normal range and intelligence of 10 yr. old girls of her day and age! So, she liked to make a game out of her time with her boyfriend Johnathan and their visits together and always keep his questions coming and keep his mind sharp, by keeping him on his toes and constantly learning new stuff!

She had good reason for this, wanting to instill the best of times the two of them had together at the worst of times for the 2 of them to know each other! And he shook his head standing there on this day looking down at her head stone for the first time in too long and said….

Johnathan

“It worked!” “What you instilled in me Jesse when we were both children, stayed with me and it became a lifelong pursuit of knowledge, this led me to a different Country and a different education and a different life, and a wonderful wife who was educated in LAW from a family of lawyer’s, and a wonderful son living on a large farm in the state of Kansas in a small town called Smallville!” I’m sorry you never got to see America or take a First-Class Airplane ride anywhere and I’m really sorry Jesse that I’ve stayed away this long.

I didn’t mean too, but things change when one grows up, the older you get, the more responsibilities you have, and when you marry and have children to raise of your own, and a large farm like the one I bought to run, your priorities change, things become harder to do, like maintaining and holding onto the obligation of coming to England once a year to visit you! I just figured that some part of you would understand and care and be O.K. that I grew up to get married and become a father and that a promise I made as a young boy to a young girl all those years ago was one that I really couldn’t keep or be expected too. LIFE GET’S IN THE WAY! And I had to find a way to live mine so that your death didn’t kill us both completely!”

“But I’m here now Jesse I got your message from the News they’ve been playing all over the world about the Cancer epidemic and the fight we are losing as a world, so what is it that you wanted to tell me Jesse, what was the urgent news?” I’m going to sit right here all day with you, I’m not going anywhere, I’ll wait for your answer!” And that’s when Johnathan laid a big, beautiful bouquet of RED ROSES on the grass that grew over where her coffin was buried, as he read the head stone…

Jesse Wright,

Born September 13th, 1954, Died December 30th, 1964

A Wonderful little person,

Great Daughter and sister and grandchild who will never be forgotten! And the Best First Girlfriend one young boy was ever so lucky to have! Let your Spirit Sore amongst all of us until the day you’re resurrected to live in Paradise Forever Free of Sickness & Disease. We will all Love you Forever & Ever! Amen from your Wright family and The Kent family too!

And then Johnathan keeping good on his word pulled out a comfortable folding chair, preparing to settle in for a long day of filling Jesse in on all the things that have taken place in his life since he was last there to visit her! That was a whole heap of stuff, he knew he would be talking for hours so he knew to be sure to come prepared for comfort, food, and drink etc.… and this time he had his wonderful magical New Touch Screen cell phone, so he could take pictures and make videos that he can actually return to Smallville with and share with his wife Martha and their son Clark! And that’s when it hit him on the head like an anvil that’s when he knew he had found the answer, well at least part of it! Technology, Jesse wanted him to be able to share her life and their times together in a way he could share it with them, since he never once found it in himself to bring them here with him. Some part of Johnathan and that young master Kent just never found a way to get over the life and times separate from what he built with Marth and Clark that allowed him to find a way to let them into this part of his world, his life past and his childhood.

There was just part of him that didn’t want to open that up to others, there was this side of him that just wanted to keep his life and times with Jesse Wright and his childhood as that rich little boy born to a successful businessman and well to do family with any part of his current life! He worked so hard to build this nice new life, and change the verdict, the outcome of who his father and uncles and grandparents were all so certain he’d grow up to be. That he’d follow in the family’s business blueprint business side of The Kent Family Legacy! He worked so hard to get an education to take him as far away from all that staunchy rich British privilege and traveled so far away to get there, to that new place and new life and new person he chose to become instead of what his family wanted! To which he knew he owed that wonderful new life he did find and build for himself (a big fat thank-you) to for Jesse coming into his life and being a part of it as long as she did!

And of course, his time with Jesse was just that it was HIS TIME with Jesse, that Young Master Kent finding a most wonderful girl to love and make his first girlfriend, and the wonderful person and better man her life and influence and intelligence helped to create him to become. Well, he just didn’t want to share it he didn’t want to let anyone into that place or time of his life. And he also thought he couldn’t bare the pain of it, having to talk about things and let others try and care about him, and understand him and those times. Which if you were not there, he also told himself and (rationalized) if they were not there, they could never really be able to do! So, he always found ways to excuse himself out of having to tell Martha and Clark everything about his life. He just found he liked it better if he could just keep some part this part of his life separate away from and not a part of his life with them! But he does understand that he can put himself in Martha’s shoes and Clark’s shoes and realize how they would be disappointed and hurt by him and his actions and the times and places and parts of his life they would like to be accepted into and be a part of. He does know that if and when they both do come to terms with all of what he’s kept silent about how they will feel and react and he’s sorry that he couldn’t do anything about it, sorry that he couldn’t find a way, he couldn’t change that about himself, couldn’t figure out a way on how to share all parts of his life and times and the people and memories and events in those times with both Martha & Clark.

And so, he just hoped that one day they may find it in their hearts, find it in their own time and way to forgive him for his short comings and just look to the good things and the good times, and the good love he did give them in all the rest of his life and things that they did take part in and share in together! He’s spent all these years still plagued by that one thing, that one question about his life and that was what would his life be like today if Jesse had lived, had fought the cancer she had and won and beat it? Where would their lives be together today? Would he have stayed in England, or would he have taken Jesse with him to America where he went to school, would he have married her, and would they have had children? And I guess that was it really, the biggest reason he could never share her or that time of his life with her with anyone else, because of his being so convinced he would have never fallen in love and married Martha and become the adopted father of Superman, so he always thought because of all those unanswered questions, all those what if’s that he had to respect those two different times and places of his life and the different person’s he was in both by keeping them separate from one another understanding that 1 life would have indeed changed and altered the outcome of the other!

So now there he sat for the long day ahead of talking with Jesse when it hit him like an anvil on his head…. And he reached into his pocket and pulled out his brand-new touch screen cell phone and looked at it realizing he found the answer, well at least 1 of the answers as to why he’s there right now, what Jesse was saying he can do NOW, for all the time he spent away and the technology that’s changed since his last visit! He could this time take pictures and make videos of his visit and time with Jesse and take it home and share THAT with Marth and Clark and hope this would create an acceptable peace between them all!

Johnathan

“Well, I hope you’re right about this Jesse, that sure is a long way you made me have to come to take these pictures and record videos of my time visiting with you and talking to you and filling you in on my life in all the time I’ve been gone! I hope I can take this stuff home to my wife and son and hope they can understand and respect my decision and what I chose to do in keeping you and our relationship and time of life apart from them!” “But I know I sure do like being able to take these pictures and videos home just for myself knowing you are now with me all the time, and in everything I do and everywhere I go and I only have to pull out my phone to look at you, at your name and head stone and the writing on it, and the flowers I lay here every day that I come to visit during my stay here, and play the videos back and just sit back or lie back and listen to our conversations with each other! If only I could have done this years ago, if only this option and opportunity could have presented itself so many decades ago. I can only imagine the difference that would have made for all of us, you, me, my wife, and my son! But you know how the saying goes, you know what they say… Better Late Than Never!”

So, Johnathan took pictures and spent that day and the next couple of following days adding flowers to the grave and decorating it with a bit of artistic landscaping touch, or so he at least hoped it was and would look like to others and recording important parts of his story in updating Jesse on everything he was decades behind on telling her! And after 5 day’s he was finally done talking and told her that it was her turn to share with him what she had to say, what her thoughts on it all were. And he took a sleeping bag he had with him and laid it across her grave got in it and put the travel pillow he had with him under his head and began to do some deep breathing and meditate and fall into a peaceful calm state and sleep to which he hoped would invite her voice and mind, and thoughts and feelings, and pictures of her young sweet face into his heart, mind and soul and hopefully render the closing message from her that she needed him there to share.

So, he could return home knowing he had fulfilled the mission and quest of his being asked to come and visit her now after all this time. This was the first thing he could feel was wrong from her, that she was indeed hurt and upset, that he left her grave baron and empty of visits from him and all those years of flowers and cards and gifts, he never came to lay and deliver to her! Something she needed and missed, like many who lay so peacefully in cemeteries who long for the time and attention from those they love and who love them!

It is so much harder to do as life goes on, it becomes a much harder and most difficult task to keep finding the time to visit and lay those cards and flowers down. As the living grow older and gain strength to move on with their lives, especially when that strength and growth you bare causes you to live on another continent with Oceans of water between the 2 sides and the 2 different worlds and lives both sides or all parties are in! The rest of what he needed to hear her tell him, that he needed to be there with her to hear did come through, it did work, he woke from his peaceful slumber and state of quiet mind and meditation with the rest of her message and the answers he was there to receive all resting upon his heart and the words to go with those feelings so clearly etched into his mind!

He looked at the time and did realize indeed that he had slept the night out laying over her grave with her. Interesting he thought, maybe that was it, maybe that was the final key, the final missing peace to the puzzle of what it was she needed from him and with him to find that peace between them for all the years he had spent gone, leaving the top of her grave and headstone empty from his gifts and visits with her, that she needed him to sleep it off with her, stay the night out there and in that way let her know how sorry he was but that he did indeed still love her and miss her and that she does matter and will always matter to him. But he knew that he also needed her to understand that life back when he used to come every year would never return, that his life had gone on, that he had grown up and found a life and family and new place and way of living for himself that would just make visiting her every year impossible now at this late of the game and day and age of his life! That she will just have to settle for random visits when he can find the time to travel that far throughout the remaining time of his life!

So, he got up off the ground packed away all his things and said….

Johnathan

“Well Jesse this was a very good visit, I’m glad I listened to your call and didn’t waste a moment’s time and came to visit you right away! And in these 5 days together I think we’ve done well to clear the air with each other, and I have a lot to take home with me now that I can share with my current family and the current life I live. And that will be enough to appease to you and your soul and a final sense of understanding and forgiveness for never bringing them here to meet you and for you to meet them and everyone in my life who is important to me, who matters most to me will be settled and finally find my terms of amendments with all of you in the best way I know how and can, will be enough for all of you!” “Now I must return to that life I’ve built for myself on a farm in Kansas in a Small Country town, far, far away from here! And I promise you Jesse I will return, and I will make sure it more often than the decades I’ve just spent away, I won’t do that ever again. Thank-You for calling me here so we could spend this time together working all these things out. Please be at peace now even when I’m away, because if you are I will feel that, and that will help me, that will help make it be O.K. for me too!”

Amen!

He prayed one last little prayer of thoughts to the same God he believed in at the beginning of this trip on the plane here for a safe flight which he got, that all will be well and as it should be from here on in for her and for him as he returns to normal life with Marth & Clark and what he finally finds a way to show and share with them too and that it will be enough for them as well! His final words as he began leaving Jesse’s grave once more and his trek back to Smallville were simple and to the point as they’ve always been when he’s said them….

“I HATE CANCER!”

RIP JESSE!

End Scene!

~ Superwoman’s Pod? ~

Somewhere in Virginia a long time a go, a mysterious object landed near the edge of a vagrant piece of land. No one saw the landing but the sound of it hitting the earth got the attention of several motor vehicles that had already past the area on a nearby road. The first car stopped, and the driver got out

of his car and started walking towards the back of it. This brought all the traffic to a sudden stop.

Driver 1

"Did ya hear that?" The first motorist said to the second as the second one got out of his car.

2nd Motorist

"Where are you going?" The second motorist said to the first, as the first one walked past the second car.

2nd Motorist

"You’re holding up the traffic for everyone would you please get back in your car."

3rd Motorist

"Darn right I heard that too" someone else said jumping out of his truck and following in the first motorists’ direction.

3rd Motorist

"I thought I was going crazy for a minute thinking I was hearing things, thought maybe it was my car, turned off my radio but there was nothing."

One vehicle took off driving down the road the wrong way as fast as possible, "Guess they ain't too concerned with whatever it was we all heard!" The other two vehicles started honking their horns, before following suit with the vehicle that already took off, one of the honking car motorists rolled down his window and yelled at the top of his lungs, to be sure he was heard.

4th Car

"Your never gonna see nuthin out there now, not at this time of day, it's too dark Mr, it's not worth the risk come back tomorrow during day light and try again then." Then he rolled his window back up and followed the van that had already left, and the car behind him followed suit. The first motorist stopped at the edge of the road a few cars up from them all, mumbling in agreement about how dark it was, already to late to see anything at this time of day if there was something out there. But he was also thinking that if indeed there was something, if he waits until tomorrow whatever it is could be gone or moved? At which point he thought if that's the case then it's probably nothing to worry about. As he turned around the rest of the crowd now outside their cars all hollered the same thing as he started walking back with one of the fellows with him, "Did you see anything? Did ya?"

1st Motorist

"Not a blessed thing and I am not willing to break an ankle walking around in ditches at this time of the day, won't do any good if I get hurt." "Alright everyone I am sorry, I will be back in my car in a minute, everyone is probably best to just go home, and call in what we all heard (said with emphasis) at least reporting it to someone will be better then doing nothing at all."

2nd Motorist

"HAHAHA but we all know what 911 is like around these here parts... I wouldn't be surprised if they don't get out here till sometime next week to investigate our calls." The second motorist said to everyone following the man back in the direction of his car. Slowly everyone got comfortable behind the wheel of their cars and turned their engines back on and one by one they headed in the direction of their final destinations driving once again down the road.

The Newspaper article said a little girl was found wandering around the side of the road, she was a little un-kept but otherwise in good health. But due to her young age she was not able to help authorities with answering their questions! This led to the child being taken to the local orphanage while police tried to find out if anything else suspicious could be found! The strange looking Pod thing found near where she was found, was taken in by authorities! It would be years before that little girl would see that pod again when they would finally release it to her!

Johnathan put the newspaper stories safely away knowing not to rock the boat with his wife and new found son for the time being, instead he decided that it would be best to wait for the perfect time! But as time has already told us that perfect time never came! Johnathan managed to keep track of the little girls story long enough to learn that she lived in the orphanage where she had been taken for 1 ½ yrs before the Captain of the navy, one S.H.R. Doyle who was recently widowed decided to adopt her to fill his empty nest syndrome since his wife’s passing away! It would be years before Johnathan would do anything more, and unfortunately again he thought it better to not tell his wife and now grown son!

Johnathan

“I sure hope they forgive me when they finally find out! But I have to believe that if they came from the same place separately that the people up there who sent them are far superior to us intellectually and therefore knew why they did it this way, and I shouldn’t be the one to get in the way of that natural story of her separate life by getting in the way?” Maybe he was right? Maybe he was wrong? But time certainly would tell a story of its own in Smallville one day many years from the day Johnathan saved that first newspaper clipping that ran this little girls story!

Captain S.H.R. Doyle

The captain has a wife who passes away, and he starts driving his boys on the base a bit crazy.

All he does is sit there and talk to his stuffed cat, (which he calls Ugly Bat boy) and throws his ball against the wall, so one day one of his crew members politely suggests that he think about adopting a child. He sits on the idea for awhile and eventually goes to the local orphanage where he sees a young girl building an apt complex with decks of cards. This piqued his interest, and he asked to see her. Once in the visiting room, she

(Superwoman as a young girl) looks him up and down, as he too looks her over… At which point she says with a smile.

Young Superwoman

"It's about time you got here, I've been sitting here waiting for a year and a half now. I’ll just go and get my stuff; it won't take me long to pack I don't have much."

Captain Doyle, chuckles uncontrollably and turns to the lady running the orphanage and says,

Captain Doyle

"I'll take her!" and Virginia (Superwoman’s soon to be established name) turns around and looks at both of the adults in the room before directing her focus back on the captain and says in quite a matter of fact like way… with her hands on her hips "I just said that, no sense in repeating ourselves twice now is there? "Then off she went with a huge smile on her face to pack her belongings.

Once arriving on base her little buggie on wheels starts moving, she’s pulling it

along and saying;

Young Superwoman

“Ok so which one is it?” The captain laughs and says,

Captain Doyle

“That one!” Pointing his finger to a house with a whole bunch of do hickies everywhere. Pin

wheels sticking out of where flowers should be and cricket stick frames out on the front lawn. At the same time they both say a similar thought in sentence,

Captain

“I think I’m gonna like her here.”

Virginia

“I think I’m gonna like it here… Where are the keys?” She says once standing in front of the door.

Captain

“What? Do you think you own the place already my dear little one?” As his grin hands her the key that unlocks the door!

One day some time down the road, after Virginia had made herself at home quite nicely on the Navy base, she’s sitting down in front of the T.V. when on a commercial break she turns around and looks

at her new Dad and says,

Virginia

“Captain, Captain, watch me ... I just had an epiphany

watching comedy on TV; what am I doing?”

Captain Doyle

Slowly… folding the corner of the newspaper away from in front of his face, one of his

eyes peeks out from over the edge of the paper, as he says. “Quick now, before

you lose my attention” watching Virginia finish putting herself into place.

Captain Doyle

“Is this something like Pictionary darling? “She smiles at him funny with her head

tilted sideways ...

Captain Doyle

“Ok. O.k. you got me sweetheart, what are you doing?

Virginia says,

“Why its stand- up comedy, divorcing Beethoven’s stool of course Captain.” And with a self-satisfying look of glee on her face, she climbs down from where she was standing and returns to watching the television.

End Scene!

First Day of First Aid Class!

The following writing is what’s written on the chalk board by the time Clark walked in…

Check: Scene

Call: For Help

Care: For victim

Unsafe Conditions!

1st Spilled Chemicals

2nd Poisonous gas & steam, smoke, or fire

3rd Downed electrical lines

4th Confined Spaces

5th Traffic

If these or other dangerous situations exist Stay a safe distance away leave Dangerous situations to professionals! Call 911 or workplace emergency number! And wait for help to arrive

If all of the above is clear get or ask for the first aid kit and continue helping victim.

When calling for help, give…

1st The telephone number

2nd Exact location

3rd Caller’s name

4th What happened

5th Number and condition of victims

6th What help is being given

Clark walks in class is already in session… the new lady (to him) in town teaching looks over at him with a smile and say’s…

First aid Teacher

“Nice of you to join us, Clark!”

Clark

“Sorry I’m late, my mistake I thought the class was being taught in the gym!”

First aid teacher

“No, they are setting up in there preparing for the High School Re-Union! Please take a seat!”

Clark

Certainly, did I miss much?” He asked smiling.

First Aid teacher

“A little, please write down what is on the chalk board. O.K. class we are now going to move on to checking a conscious victim. The first day of class is learning all about the things you will get to know firsthand over the next few days!”

Clark was thinking to himself how the teacher had nice lips (kissable) was the exact word that came to mind, but he also knew a shot at that sure wasn’t going to be today, so he re-focused his attention on what he was there too actually learn, First Aid!

First Aid instructor

“O.k. can anyone here show me what a triangular arm sling looks like, you can help yourself to the bandages in the box right there on the floor in front of all of you.”

The teacher went around the room a few minutes later to see if anyone had it figured out, seeing that the students she had in her class were all new to first aid she realized she would need to teach them about dealing with a conscious but injured person, and show them everything they needed to know before going home from their first day of class!

Clark

“How did I do; did I get it right?” He proudly shows his injured arm securely in place with only one step missing. The teacher smiled and walked over and pinched the end (above the elbow) twisted it and tucked it inside the sling next to the injured arm.

First aid teacher

“There, Perfect! Not bad for your first time, but don’t you worry you’ll be an expert by the time I’m done teaching the class!

Clark

“Great I look forward to joining the world of first aider’s and proudly dawn the red cross symbol in my wallet!”

At the end of the first day after the other students were done asking their questions Clark walked toward her and asked her….

Clark

“So, after you’re done teaching this class when or where do you think I might find the chance to see you again?”

First Aid Teacher

“If you really want to know… I volunteered to be in the fall fair at the dunk tank… the winners come back later that night and hand in their winning tickets for a kiss from me at the evening Kissing booth.”

Clark

“Well, what a coincidence (I’ve also volunteered for the dunk tank, I guess it can be said great minds think alike!) Anyway, I will be there helping my mother maybe if I can find the time, I will come try my luck at the dunk dank, to make things fair I will tell you now I don’t play baseball!”

First Aid Teacher

“It’s all for charity anyway so go ahead and give it your best shot you never know Clark, you might find yourself to be a winner!” She smiled at him as she finished her paperwork and moved to clean up the day’s mess on the floor with the dummies and bandages.

Clark’s last words before he left her were….

“A guy can only hope!” His eyes shined back at her there was just something about this lady that he found intriguing and desired to know her more. He was looking forward to the challenge that lay before him!

Next day in class…

First Aid teacher

“Well, we have lots of work to do today and unfortunately we are one student shy so I will have to work with some of you, I hope that won’t make any of you uncomfortable?” Seeing that the teacher was fairly pretty none of the guys seemed to have a problem with it.

First Aid Teacher

“The first thing we are going to do today is learn how to deal with a choking victim does everyone already have their partners chosen?”

Clark put up his hand,

“Looks like I don’t have one, mine was the guy that is missing from class today, you don’t mind if I’m the first one you work with, do you?” The teacher was starting to wonder if Clark set her up for this? However, there was no time to point any fingers over the matter, she had first aid to teach!

First Aid Teacher

“O.k. I will play the choking victim and you show me what you’ve learned from the homework you’ve read through last night to prepare you for today!”

Clark

“O.k. the book says if a person appears to be choking, we are to encourage them to keep coughing. So I would say… Keep coughing, keep coughing… can I help you? I know first aid!”

First aid teacher

“You forgot a step.”

Clark thinking…. Hmmmm

“Oh, uhm yes right, telling someone to go call 911, “Hey you could you go call 911 we have a choking victim here unable to speak!” (She pointed out he forgot to ask for the first aid kit as well).

First Aid teacher now with her hands around her neck pretending to gag without speech trying to get air into her lungs… telling Clark he is on his own from here.

Clark (Happy about this next part, he knew it was time to move in physically and get close to the victim.) He remembered the steps and said them out loud.

“Put your foot in between choking victim and put your arms around them like so, nice and close he slowly moved his arms around her, “Then look for the belly button and take one fist and put it above the belly button find the 2-finger marker and bring them both (fists) together and give the Heimlich maneuver like so!” He was careful to be just right about this experience with this obviously wonderful strong, but yet delicate lady now helpless between his arms!

Once the unconscious victim was on the floor, he knew this is where the work begins…

Clark now with the first aid kit in hand went by memory and opened the box and grabbed the gloves and put them on, he then put his head near the victim to feel and look for breathing for about 5 seconds. He then proceeded to do his first ever head tilt, chin lift… how on earth he thought did he not take this training long before today? He looked, listened, and felt for breathing again, in this particular victim 's case victim was choking on something so breathing has stopped and heart now slowing down. He looked into the victim’s mouth but couldn’t see the obstruction, “the book then said….

Clark

“Uh It say’s to use a breathing barrier, or if you feel comfortable you can go ahead and give mouth to mouth… I don’t see a breathing barrier in this kit so here it goes…. (He was smiling at the guys who were now paying attention to him and this next part with the teacher) Clark was definitely getting fresh with the boss.  All the first aid kids there had breathing barriers!

Clark

“O.k. first 2 rescue breaths… and he leaned down and softly but firmly laid his lips against hers and the first thing he could taste was strawberries. How nice he thought, he imitated breathing twice... after one cycle of checking for breathing and a pulse and another 2 breaths… the teacher stopped him, because she could feel what he did and what he was thinking and that all eyes were on the 2 of them instead of their own first aiding!

First Aid teacher

“O.k. Clark you’ve had your fun, you just couldn’t wait till the fair and be challenged by the dunk tank could ya? (Clark was quick to add in front of the whole class) “Early bird gets the worm!” “Now go find a partner with one of them and I will take the extra student.” Getting up off the ground she picked up the first aid kit and found the breathing apparatus from that kit and said…

“Oh, and by the way Clark THIS is the breathing barrier and what it looks like,” she took it out of it’s red bag and opened it for him and everyone in the class to see. To be sure that none of the others try to pull that stunt on her like he just did!  Fun is over everyone get back to what you were doing, you all want to pass don’t you?” She looks at Clark muttering to herself as she re-grouped to work with one of the GIRLS in the class this time… “I’m not a worm for a bird to pick!” The girl standing by her laughed at hearing her say that!

The whole class ....

“Yes teacher!”

Clark started to wonder if maybe he was a bad influence for this part, because now all the guys wanted a chance to work with the teacher! At any rate he thought to himself it will be his first aider’s first time to remember!” 

End Scene!

Back at the house….

On the table you could see a little white and red card, Clark’s mother walked into the room and saw this on the table, she saw the red cross and that’s when Clark walked into the room.

Clark

“You proud of me Mom I have now joined the world league of lifesavers!”

Clark’s Mother

“Yes, I’m impressed, now you make me look bad for not having mine!”

Clark

“Don’t feel bad Mother, you have me to save you if anything bad should happen!”

Clark’s Mother

“I know I do!”

Clark

“Listen I’ve been thinking about Dad, and the open-ended issues that lay before us, I tried rummaging through more of the legal documents around my adoption but couldn’t find anything about his family that would give me direct contact, so that leaves you. Didn’t he give you all that information at some point I mean you wouldn’t marry a man without having that kind of important information would you?”

Clark’s Mother sighed…

“You’re right he did give me his family’s contact info, but I haven’t been in touch with them in years apart from what happened to him when the lawyers informed his family. Why are you asking?”

Clark

“Because I think we need to go to England, I mean Mother if Dad’s inheritance is yours to have then you have the right to collect it. Dad’s been gone long enough now that you should be strong enough to deal with it!”

Clark’s Mother

“Go to England!!!!”

Clark

“Yes, I would like to meet the family member’s I didn’t know about that the 2 of you failed to talk about with me when I was growing up, I’m feeling cheated, like I only know part of who I am (Superman stuff aside) he said!

Clark’s Mother

“That kind of trip will be expensive, I’m not sure if right now is the best time to go? But I will track down the contact information, you are welcome to write to them, they do have a few pictures of you that your father sent to them through the years, so they know about you!”

Clark

“If not now then WHEN Mother, when will it be a good time?” He understood she was still hurting over missing her husband, but that money would mean his mother could live comfortably for the rest of the days of her life! And he liked the idea of being able to own at least one cashmere sweater in his life!

Clark’s Mother a little snappy

“NEVER Clark it will NEVER be the right time to go see them without your father around!” She started crying!

Clark walked over to his mother and gave her a big hug!

Clark

“Well then just let me start with contacting them for myself, because this is something I need to do in order too deal with losing dad my own way! You’ll be O.K. Mom everything will be O.K. you’ll see!

Clark’s Mother

“Yes O.K. Clark I understand that we are both dealing with the grief in our own way and needing to know his family is your way of dealing with it! After dinner I will track the information down and you can do what you want with it, I won’t stand in your way! But just don’t pressure me anymore today about going to England I need time to think!” She pulled tissue from her sweater pocket and started wiping away falling tears as she left Clark standing there and exited the room they were in together!

Clark

“O.K. Mother that sounds like a deal!”

A short time later she called him to the dining room, she was feeling much better by then; they both sat down while dinner finished cooking and talked more about Johnathan’s childhood his mother told him the good things she could remember! She realized her son was right they should have spoken with him together years ago, but it’s better late then never for Clark to learn what he needs to know to deal with his father being gone in the way that works best for him! And if going to England was the answer his mother thought to herself then maybe just maybe that is what they will have to do?

End Scene!

Next segment of the completed works is titled as follows

~ Fair Day finally arrived…~

First Draft, still in Proof Reading and editing mode! Thank-You for your understanding! 