Waking Up For The First Time [Locked to anotherbwayne]

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Clark awoke with a jerk, arms hitting the sides of...something. Blearily, he opened his eyes. Water? Glass. A tank? What in the world? How had he gotten here? He heard a voice, and felt something over his mouth. A mask? It was forcing oxygen into his lungs.

Alright, he really wants to know what's going on. Only there's no way he can rightly ask.

He was left alone for a moment, but then hands heaved him out of the tank and lay him on something hard and cold. There was a flurry of movement; pokes and prods and a sharp pain on his stomach. But then something warm covered him and something soft was put under his head. He was left in quiet and darkness.

Shivering, he slowly moves to sit up, a ringing in his head. He was never this cold. He'd always been warm, if not overly so. Just part of his design. He still had no idea what was going on, but one thing was running through his head. A question actually.

Where was Brenda?

So with that single question in mind, he managed to get himself outside and into the light of day.

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Brenda sighed, aware even in her sleep of the sounds of her house all around her. Will was running in the hall somewhere, and Alfred was dusting... she could hear him humming. She'd been getting stronger, but still had yet to say a word or move on her own.

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She closed her eyes. "Someone screwed up."

-And I can't reward them for it,- she added to herself bitterly, feeling the tears run down her cheeks.

Clark had never seen her cry.

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She just lay and breathed for a few moments more, then opened her eyes again. "Move... where I can see you."

If he hadn't realized before he'd know now that she was totally parylized.

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"I am." Her voice was so soft that a human would have missed it. Some of the ice was gone from it.