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Title: Leaving Home
Author: Margeaux Van Gogh
Fandom: Smallville
Pairing: Clark/Lex
Summary: Just a drabble.
Archive: If you want, it's okay with me.
Rating: G
Parts: 1
Status: Complete
Series/Sequel: none
Website: none
Disclaimer: Unfortunately their not mine, bummer.
Authors notes: I noticed that no one had written a clex mpreg where our favorite couple goes into hiding and this idea came to mind.

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Leaving Home

He looks beautiful lying there. The fading sun sent a dim light through the windows. He was lovely, the most beautiful man I had ever met. I dare not wake him. There are dark circles under his eyes noting the sleep he hasn't been able to get. He says it harder to get comfortable now that it is close to the babies birth. Twins, I just can't believe it. This whole situation has been unexpected and now we're having two babies. It took a while, but when the shock wore off we both began to feel excited about it all and there were plans to be made. In the end, we basically went into hiding from both our families. His father would have taken him away from me for sure and I would have never seen my children. That man hates me and he won't ever give me the benefit of the doubt now that I've gotten his only son pregnant. I'm just glad I was in the position I was in when my beloved came to me with the news.

Three months ago

"Hey."

"What's the matter?"

"I think I'm in trouble."

"Do you need money? To get out of town? A place to stay? Whatever it is, I'll help you. You know that." [Has someone threatened you ?]

I had only known about him for a short while at this time. He said he couldn't keep this secret any longer. He felt ashamed that he could have kept it for as long as he had. He said he always felt guilty after we had been together.

"I think there's something wrong with me."

"How do you know?"

"I've haven't felt quite right for a few months now, but I didn't want to say anything. I had been getting sick in the mornings, but in the afternoon I felt fine again. I was tired all the time and I had been eating a lot."

"You were sick. Why didn't you tell me?"

"There wasn't anything you could do about it. I didn't know why...and I was afraid."

I held him close to me, until he relaxed his body against mine and I waited for him to continue.

"I don't think anybody really noticed anything, at least I hope they didn't, but today I think I figured it out."

"You figured what out, honey?"

"It moved today."

"What moved?"

"Here." He took my hand in his and placed it on his stomach. I was confused at first until I felt movement.

"What the..." I took a step back from my lover. "How?"

"I don't know."

I had only felt that one time before. I remember my mother's round belly and the small pressure from the kicking fetus inside her. The babe that had at first brought happiness and then great sorrow, my brother, who died before we ever got to know him.

[My lover was pregnant.]

To say I felt panicked was an understatement. The possibilities of this happening were never supposed to apply to us. We were men, no way. Now that it had, I had to control as much of the situation that I could.

"We'll have to leave."

"Leave? How can I go? What about..."

"They can't know. Your father hates me. My father's too dangerous for us to stay here. We have to disappear."

I could tell he wasn't happy about my decision. He had lived here for all of his life. It was the only home he had known, with the only family he had ever had. I didn't know much familial allegiance, but I could see him with his parents. They would be shocked and surprised that he left, but after finding out about the child, I also knew that we would not be allowed to be together. They didn't know about our relationship and wouldn't except it. I was despised here and knew it. There would be no way to suddenly explain this new person and there would'nt be much time for us to plan. But I had been on limited time before and I could come up with some way for us to disappear. Maybe one day I could bring him back. Maybe one day his parents would forgive me for stealing him away.

It took some creativity on my part to hide us convincingly. He wanted to tell his parents he was leaving. I tried to convince him otherwise but my lover has a mind of his own. My father did not deserve the courtesy of a personal goodbye from me. This was my time to become who I was meant to be before the taint associated with his name and his teachings invaded my soul. Now was the time to free myself from his reach, my love had given me that strength. "Say your goodbyes, I'll be here taking care of some last minute details." "I will be back as soon as I can." He kissed me and left to face his parents. If he did not return within the hour, then I would go to him, damn the consequences. It's not like they won't figure out we left together when they realized I was gone as well. My concern was LexCorp at the moment, it was small but well managed and it didn't really need me all that much. Sure I owned most of it, but the parties involved in its daily operations had a piece of it too. I trusted them not to run their investment into the ground. There are contingencies that allow me to turn the deciding vote to a third party. Gabe Sullivan was a good man and he would take his responsibilities seriously. I would continue to receive a profit from my shares into an account that I was sure my father thought of as my main source of income. I had other investments and business, under different names all over the world, some large and others just starting out. I loved having secrets from him and controlling my life in a way he couldn't touch. Now all I had left to do was create who we will become.

He looked down at the wallet in his hands. "I don't even want to know how you managed this in such a short amount of time."

"Money makes things happen."

"If you continue to flash it around like that, how are we going to remain unnoticed?"

"Don't worry I can be inconspicuous when I want to be. My only liability can be easily covered. And as famous as my name is, in a larger city even I can be just one of the masses. There are people richer than me you know."

His lover laughed at his antics. He was glad to see the smile return to his face.

"I have some old friends, that can help us. Unlike Toby he's still a practicing doctor and he won't say anything. Did you bury the pod?"

It was the one thing we needed but couldn't take with us. There was no easy way to conceal it in case we needed to leave urgently and there wouldn't be anytime to try to discover what secrets it was hiding.

I never asked him what he told his parents about his leaving everything he'd known behind and it wasn't necessary. I took the most dependable and less flashy of my vehicles and dismissed the servants; happy I only had a few and not a whole household.

My lover stood behind me as I looked one last time at the mortar and stone of one man's arrogance in the middle of America's heartland.

"You'll miss it, won't you?"

"No. It really wasn't a home, just a show of strength between enemies. I know where my true power lies now."

He folded his arms around me and I turned to lean into him, while his arms held us close. Rubbing my hand across the small rise of his torso, our child growing inside him, our love. These are my reasons for living and growing, not the teachings of wealth and possessions. His love taught me how to become a new person and together our family will grow. We will not be bound by the past. We would forge our own destiny.

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