There's something falling from the sky, and Clark, Kon, and Kara are all off planet. Martha prepares as best as she can.
Because it looks like it's making a beeline for her fields.
She has no idea what makes her fields such a magnet for this, but she's certain it's not an asteroid. She couldn't say how she knows, just that she does.
It looks like a ship of some sort, with blinking lights and reflective surfaces.
She's debating on whether or not to sound the alarm and call one of Clark's friends, since she doesn't know if this alien will be friendly or not, when she notices something.
That ship isn't coming in smooth.
It is, in fact, tearing itself apart the lower it gets.
Then, with a final, ear piercing boom, it completely shatters.
Martha's eye is drawn to a rather round piece that broke off and shot towards the very edge of her property.
She doesn't call one of Clark's friends.
She gets the first aid kit and gets in the truck.
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Dan is flying the Specter Speeder through the Infinite Realms, an unconscious Danny on the floor of it behind him.
The twerp's injured.
He can't treat him.
He has to outrun the GIW and their own Speeders.
In desperation, he does a hard turn right into a temporary portal. The kind that blinks out of existence almost as soon as they get made.
He appears in the exosphere of another Earth.
No GIW Speeder follows him, but he's got a new problem; this thing isn't meant for the force re-entering Earth's atmosphere will put on it.
He puts it on autopilot, ordering it to find an empty area with good Ley Lines, and turns to start arranging both himself and Danny into the escape pod.
He can't activate it, or it'll also be subjected to the forces currently tearing the Speeder apart.
He'll have to stay in the pod, shielding his clone/twin as best as he can, while they hurtle towards Earth.
The last thing he remembers is the pod breaking away from the Speeder and hitting the ground.
The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a farmhouse, covered in bandages.
The twins were a wary pair, though Martha could hardly blame them. Finding themselves injured and alone on an alien planet, entirely reliant on the kindness of a stranger had to be very stressful. Dan had woken up snarling at the sight of her bent over his unconscious brother, unaware she was just trying to take his temperature. Martha was immensely glad for the lack of language barrier, as she was able to quickly explain the situation and calm him down.
Dan was the pricklier of the pair, taciturn and seemingly only concerned with his brother's condition and that no one else know they were there. Once he woke up, Danny was definitely the more approachable one, though even he seemed surprised by Martha's hospitality and general nonchalance towards their non-human nature. Between Dan's defensiveness and Danny's wariness, Martha was able to paint an unsettling picture of how they might have been treated before and might have been running from.
Despite his prickliness, Dan seemed to warm up to her in his own way after a while. Once Danny woke up and got annoyed at his brother's hovering, Dan took to following Martha around and helping her out on the farm, insisting he owed her for her help. Nothing she said could disabuse him of the notion, and she had to admit, it was nice having the help. It also meant she could finally get the remains of their ship off the back of the truck and stored somewhere they could repair it away from prying eyes.
"There's a spaceship under your barn."
"Yes. And once we're done hauling this, there'll be two spaceships under my barn."
When she didn't elaborate further, Dan seemed to decide it wasn't his business and got back to work. Of course, Martha should have expected he'd tell his brother.
"Mrs Martha, are you an alien?" she was asked by a starry-eyed Danny that night at dinner.
"I'm as human as they come, I'm afraid." She chuckled at Danny's obvious disappointment; she couldn't wait to introduce him to Clark.
"Then why do you have a spaceship in your barn?"
"Two spaceships. And well, it seems the stars are determined to send me children in need of a safe haven."
Danny was healing quickly, and almost as soon as he could walk again he was down under the barn working on their ship. For some reason that put Dan in a foul mood, and Martha would catch him glaring at the barn when he knew Danny was in there. After Martha had to scold him for snapping at her, he finally opened up.
"He doesn't remember," Dan admitted, more talking at the chickens they were feeding than her, "I think he blocked it out as like a trauma response or something, or maybe they did something to his head before I got him out. He keeps talking about going home. He doesn't remember we don't have a home to go back to."
Dan was the prickly one, and Martha had always been mindful to give him his space, but in that moment she saw a grieving boy trying desperately to hold himself together for the sake of the only family he had left. Instincts overrode sense and she pulled him into a hug. To her surprise, instead of pulling back, after a long moment's hesitation, he clung to her.
"I can't tell him," he confessed into her shoulder, the cracks in his voice and the shake in his frame breaking her heart, "I lost everyone before and it broke me until he brought me back. He's all I've got now, I can't... I can't tell him, I can't break him again, I can't!"
Martha felt tears soaking her shirt while her own trailed silently down her face as she held him.
"I'm here, I've got you both," was all she could say, anything else would be a platitude or a lie. She couldn't promise things would be okay; Danny and Dan had lost their home and everyone they ever knew, twice by the sounds of it. She couldn't promise Dan wouldn't have to hurt his brother further with the truth, because once the ship was repaired, there'd be no avoiding it.
Martha was an old woman living a simple life. All she had to offer was a safe home and a mother's love. It seemed that, once again, the stars had sent her children who needed just that.
