Clark Kent and Jason Teague started as student and teacher, as Jason was Clark's football teacher, but later Teague began to show his dark side and the 2 became enemies.
Jason and Clark on the Football field
Season 4[]
When Jason followed Lana back to Smallville, he became the football coach. It just so happened that that was the year that Clark Kent became the high school quarter back. Jason coached Clark, and at 1st, didn't seem to mind him. Unaware that Jason was the one that Lana had been seeing during the summer, Clark nearly caught the pair of them kissing. Despite being frustrated by the lies that Clark told her during their relationship, Lana was now forced to lie to Clark to conceal her relationship with Jason and protect his job. Clark thought there was still hope for him and Lana when he saw her watching his first football game. Lana claimed to be there for him, although she was actually there for Jason. Lana confided in Jason that she had never been happier in their relationship. However, when Jason drank the Ceerleaders love potion, he became jealous of Clark and Lana’s obvious ongoing feelings for one another and attacked Clark in his loft warning him away from his girlfriend. After the potion wore off, Jason apologized to Clark and Clark understood that Jason wasn't himself and insisted that there were no hard feelings. Nevertheless, Clark remained curious as to who Jason's girlfriend was and, when asked, Jason claimed not to know. Clark eventually discovered their relationship after he switched bodies with Lionel Luthor. When the 2 were kissing, they were surprised by Lionel Luthor (who was in Clarks body), and Lionel awkwardly said that they are adults and have "needs", creeping both Lana and Jason. Clark was unaware of this when he regained control, and re-found out when Lana told him.
Clark confided in Lex Luthor about how difficult it was to see Lana with Jason, but insisted that he wanted Lana to be happy. Therefore, Clark maintained a friendly and professional relationship with Jason during the deciding game for the State championship. However, Jason became suspicious of Clark when he tripped an injured another player who outweighed him by 100 pounds. Realizing that getting on the wrong side of Clark could expose his relationship with Lana, Jason warned Clark that Coach Quigley suspected him of being on performance enhancing drugs and faked a clean test result. After telling Lana this, she ensured Jason that he didn't have to worry about her leaving him for Clark because she was committed to her new relationship.
It wasn't Clark who reported it, but rather Lex Luthor. Lana immediately suspected Clark, who was disappointed that she would think the worst of him. Despite the breakdown in his relationship with both Lana and Jason, Clark came to their rescue when Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux possessed Lana and risked Jason's life. This appeared to restore their trust in him, as Jason then returned the favor and rescued Clark after Isobel had depowered him and tied him up. After Lex told Lana that he was the one that had Jason fired, not Clark, Lana apologized to Clark and confided in him about the tatoo. Clark feigned ignorance to its meaning, which did not help their relationship.
Jason was clearly still uneasy about Lana and Clark's relationship as, when he became infected by a toxin that had leaked out from LuthorCorp, Jason hallucinated that Lana was cheating on him with Clark. As Jason's hallucination continued, he confronted Lana but Clark beat him up and Lana stabbed him. This coincided with Jason falling off the balcony at the Talon, as his hallucination effected his actions in real life. Lana was extremely concerned about Jason as he lay in a coma at Smallville Medical Center in a panic state. Lana put her trust in Clark to help discover what had happened to Jason but, once he was cured, Jason broke up with Lana. Suspecting that this was because he wanted a sexual relationship, Lana tried to seduce him in order to win him back. Jason admitted that this was not the reason that he ended the relationship and confided in her that he suspected his mother had orchestrated their meeting. Lex discovered this to be true, as Jason was initially more interested in acquiring the Stones of Power than his relationship with Lana. However, as Jason repeatedly claimed that he did not like what he was turning into, he relied on his relationship with Lana to make him the man he wanted to be.
Meanwhile, Clark embarked on a new relationship with Alicia Baker. Despite her previous Kryptonite psychosis and attempt on Lana's life, Clark saw the good in her and believed that she had changed. Nevertheless, Lana continued to distrust Alicia and snubbed both her and Clark, which added more strain to her rocky relationship with Clark. Jason supported Lana with this and confronted Clark saying how disgusted he was with Clark's decision to trust someone like Alicia. Matters were made worse when there was another attempt on Lana's life by a mysterious assailant. Jason rescued Lana from almost being strangled. As this happened in a locked room, Alicia was the main suspect. Clark fiercely defended his new girlfriend but, when Jason was also nearly strangled and found with Alicia's scarf around his neck, Clark took Lana and Jason's side, doubting Alicia's innocence. However, he regretted this when Lois discovered Tim's feelings about Lana and Jason's immoral relationship and confessed to framing and then murdering Alicia.
As Clark's relationship with Alicia came to a tragic end, Lana's relationship with Jason also hit a rocky patch, when Lex revealed the truth about her supposed chance meeting with Jason in Paris. As Jason's search for the stones intensified, they became less honest with each other, with Jason secretly going to China and Lana hiding the Crystal of Air from him. Conversely, at the same time, Lana's trust in Clark increased, as she enlisted his help in searching for one of the stones in China. She also danced with Clark at their senior prom after she decided it was a bad idea to take Jason seeing as he was fired from there because of their relationship. Nevertheless, Jason went to the dance and saw how close Lana and Clark were. Clearly jealous, Jason angrily left.
Distrust rose between Clark and Jason, and after Jason was badly injured by Lionel Luthor, he went to the Kent farm. Having realized that Clark is somehow connected to the stones, he took Jonathan and Martha Kent hostage, threatening them with a shotgun to try and force the stones' location from them. A Meteor then fell on the Kent house, and the debrie crushed Jason to death.
Notes[]
- Together with Whitney Fordman, Jason was one out of only two main characters to never find out Clark's secret.
- Jason and Clark both liked Lana; for details on there love triangle, click here: Clark, Lana and Jason