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“Oh God.” Is all Lois can say. All hope that Lara had been taken care of suddenly vanishes. She remembers how crazed Jason Trask had been when he was pursuing his insane conspiracy theories. To know that the organization that spawned him was behind Lara being taken from them is devastating. “I thought that they had disbanded after Trask died.”
Mom Lane is going to be that much more powerful than Mad Dog Lane ever was!
They hadn’t been watching for Mariah to be developing any superpowers, as Clark himself hadn’t developed any noticeable powers until he was nine. But what if she had been developing her telepathic abilities and was able to establish a connection with her older sister. Zara, in explaining how the telepathic powers worked, had stated that the connection is normally strongest among family. What if the mixing of genes of Earth and Krypton had caused the girls to develop a tighter bond? Could those night terrors have been Mariah experiencing some of what Bureau 39 had been doing to Lara? If only Clark had questioned Mariah more, could he have saved Lara from that pain? Could they have had Lara safe, at home, with them, years ago? The emotional pain caused by that thought is equal to a red-hot sword being plunged into his heart magnified the wounds that had been inflicted today. Clark idly wonders how many more emotional wounds he can endure. Surely, there had to be a limit to the number of emotional stabs to the heart one can receive before it proves deadly.
It is a pity Clark could not spend more time with the New Kryptonians in order to understand his native people. That knowledge might have been immeasurably helpful to them as a family.
But instead of the scrape, Clark’s attention is drawn to a scar on the inside of Lara’s wrist. At first glance, it could be dismissed as a burn scar; something that had happened when Lara accidently touched her wrist to a hot surface. But looking at it closer, Clark could see that it wasn’t something that had been done by accident. It had a deliberate pattern. In which he could make out the symbols: “B39”. Seeing that symbol, boldly branded on Lara's wrist solidified Clark's resolve. He will do whatever it took to make sure these monsters never hurt his family again.
Lara has been through a long traumatic experience. It will take love, hope and most of all understanding for her to grow into the person she was meant to be. Bureau 39 beware.
