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lana lang ✭ smallville ✭ 4/15

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Chloe inhales a kryptonite gas that forces everyone around her to tell the truth, and Lana confesses that she feels that everyone judges her and thinks she's too driven and self-involved. She admits that she's applied to the Paris School of Arts so she can be somewhere that people don't judge her, and that she hasn't told Chloe because she doesn't trust her -- she says that Chloe is losing friends thanks to what she's putting in the Torch about people. It puts a strain on their friendship, but Chloe loses her ability to force people into the truth and they more or less sweep it under the rug.

Clark decides to tell Lana his secret when she tells him she's leaving for Paris, but he never gets the chance to because Pete gets tortured for knowing it and Clark quickly decides he doesn't want to put Lana in that kind of danger. He stands her up and disappoints her again and she disappears to Paris for the next several months. In Paris, she meets Jason Teague, and the two start a relationship that continues for several months while she goes to school in Paris. He takes her to an art museum where she does a rubbing of Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux and it causes her to black out, putting the Kryptonite symbol for water on her back in the form of a tattoo that, as one doctor describes, is more or less burned underneath her skin. Creeped out, she bails the hell out of Paris and returns to Smallville because she recognizes the marking from the Kawatche ruins. She has several dreams about Isobel's life while having the tattoo, including memories of being burned at the stake.

She begins renting out the apartment over the Talon and shortly after she arrives back in town, Jason follows her and professes that he wants to stay in Smallville with her. They decide to continue their relationship even after they meet up at Smallville High when Jason starts working there as the assistant football coach. Clark finds out about their relationship after Lionel, in his body, walks in on them and Lana corners him to tell him to keep it a secret and act like an adult about it. When Jason gets fired on the grounds of their relationship, Lana suspects Clark and shuns him from her life. She begins to research Countess Thoreaux and learns that she's from the same part of France that the Langs are from ancestrally. She orders Countess Thoreaux's spell book offline by maxing out her credit cards and, after touching the Kryptonian symbol for water inside the book, becomes possessed.

Isobel, in Lana's body, tortures Lex, got Lois and Chloe possessed, crashed Chloe's birthday party and turned it into some freaky Halloween thing. She then stripped Clark of his powers so she could go steal the Kryptonian stone of power from the Kawatche caves, but Clark went after her and got his powers back, destroying the spell book. Lana retained no memory of what Isobel did while in her body, but she did learn that it was Lex who got Jason fired and not Clark. Lionel tells Lana that Lex and Jason have been researching the stones of power together, and that one of Jason's ancestors was searching for them. She made a map that Isobel stole, which is the crime that got her burned at the stake. Lionel hooks Lana up with a plane to China to look into the stones with Lex and Jason, and Clark decides to accompany her.

In China, Lana and Clark headed to a temple where Lana was captured and Clark got cockblocked by kryptonite statues. Lana was taken to where Jason and Lex were already being held and their captors' torture brought Isobel back to the surface. Isobel busted out, got the stone of air and fought Clark for it. Clark knocked the Isobel out of Lana, who again retained no memories of her time as Isobel. Jason got his hands on the stone and brought it back to Smallville with them, hiding it from Clark and Lex but telling Lana. Lana stole it from him and hid it away, telling no one that she had it -- she even hid it away from Jason. As the secrets began to build in Lana's relationship with Jason, they distanced themselves from one another emotionally.