Updated PartHello, well this is my first story in Smallville, so please be good with me. I have to say that I speak Spanish so my English is very elemental. I hope this story is good enough for you. I have a big obsession with the Clex and well Mpreg too.
Thanks to jessi for be my beta
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Story Title: Months For ever
Author's Name: ScorpionGal
Pairing: Clark/Lex
Summary: I really bad at that, sorry.
Disclamer : I don't own anything of Smallville, I just love The clex.Months For ever¡¡¡¡¡ Chapter 1.
“Clark?” Chloe called out his name.
“Clark. Please, open the door” he could her desperate calls from the other side of the door. Chloe had been with him as long as he could remember. She didn’t care if he acted like an ass when the Red Kryptonite influenced him, or when his superhero complex surfaced, or when his kryptonian anatomy problems hit him with full force. After his fight with Lex, she and his mother were his biggest support.
“Clark. Please.” He could hear in her voice, she was close to begging. “Come on, let me in, please.”
Clark was on his bathroom’s floor, sweating and fighting down dry heaves. That weren’t an abnormal occurrence for him, or at least not since three weeks ago, or so. At first he was sure the nausea, fatigue and headaches was caused by Lex and his upcoming wedding to Lana. He felt… heartache, like never before, like his sole was about to be ripped apart. Even now just thinking about them together brought fresh tears in his eyes, and felt his mount with acrid taste.
… So it was not hard to convince himself this pain caused all his problem. But now, now he wasn’t so sure, beside the horrible dizziness, pain in his chest and nausea there was something else wrong with him, but he was so scared to find out what, and he just wanted Lex to be with him.
“Okay. Okay, I’m coming.” Clark said finally as he climbed to his feet. He walked to the door very slowly because the pain in his chest and head, and the dizziness which made his vision blurry. When he opened the door, he could see the worry on his friend’s face. “Sorry” He says in a rough voice.
“Oh God, Clark. You need to lie down”. Chloe took his hands and guides him to his bed making him to lie down. She was so worried about him, this was not normal for Clark. All the dizziness, the change in his appetite, his loss of weight… Oh god, she doesn’t know what is wrong with him and it scared her so much.
“Here Clark.” Chloe covered him with three sheets his shivering form. “Sleep, ok?” Clark nodded, his eyes closing as he fallen to sleep.
Jor-El had told them some things about Clark’s body, and how he will responses to this world. He even mentioned the reproduction, but nothing he said could explain his correct syndromes. Nothing about loss of weight, rise in the appetite, paleness or nausea, there wasn’t apparent reason for Clark to be this weak. They tried going to the Fortress, in a hope to gain some answer, but Clark had been too weak for super speed to go to the cave, and Chloe was too concerned for him to leave him alone.
Chloe sat close to him and thought on a way to help Clark, there were two people that could help him. One was close to marry The Big Bitch of the world and after his fight with Clark almost a month ago which caused many tears and scream to come from Clark, it made Lex not a real opinion. So that left the second person, the man who had helped Clark in the last three years with all his medical problems, Dr Cadmus, but after what happened with Lex, Chloe was not so sure if she could trust the man because he works for the LexCorps. But Chloe was desperate, and Clark was sick, Mrs. Kent was in Washington and couldn’t help for them and Lex, Lex was with his stupid Lana, close to be a happily married couple…happy my ass, Chloe fumed in her mind.
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Chloe had called Martha and had told her everything that happened since her departure. After that she made a quick call, and Dr Cadmus had arrived in little while. He was checking on Clark now, the man’s face was neutral but all the things that he wrote in his note, didn’t look good at all.
He took out a needle and touches it to one of Clark's fingers, for a moment nothing happened then a small blood appears. The Doctor looked toward Chloe with a scared look on his face.
“Miss Sullivan, We have to take Clark to my hospital now. He would be much safer there” Dr Cadmus told her “What? Why? What is wrong with him?” And the blood, why was Clark bleeding, how could Clark be bleeding?
“Listen his pupil’s aren’t responding like I would like. They’re a little sluggish, and his body doesn’t seem to have the same invulnerability, so the best is take him to the hospital, my hospital, his pulse is too low and his breathing is very weak.” Dr Cadmus told Chloe.
Clark was taken by multiples nurses and doctor after they arrived to the hospital almost four hours ago. Clark didn’t wake up in the ambulance or in the ER, and that made Chloe even more worried, she was close to tears by the time they arrived to the hospital. What was happening with him?. A nurse had told her that they take Clark for testing and they would take some scans too; they were trying to stabilize him because his blood pressure was too low and Dr Cadmus was worried about his heart and his lungs, and that Clark still was unconscious.
“Chloe, Chloe,” Martha 3 hours later she heard Mrs Kent calling her name as hse runned toward her.
Chloe looked at her and her tears started to fall for the first time. “Mrs. Kent… Clark …” she choked on her tears, as she felt all her strange gave away as she almost collapsed to Martha’s embrace.
Martha now knew the situation was bad. She knew his son had been a little off lately after the disaster with Lex, but now she could clearly see in Chloe eyes that his son’s condition get worse. She took the young woman in her arms and hugged her.
”Chloe what is it? Where is Clark?” Martha tried to be gentle and patient, but it was almost impossible when his son was sick and she had no idea what was happening.
After some time, Chloe calmed down enough to be able to tell what happened. Martha’s heart felt like it was breaking and she was so desperate after she heard that his son was having trouble with breathing and was bleeding.
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“Mr. Luthor?” Lex’s secretary said with a strange light in her eyes that Lex couldn’t clearly read.
Lex looked her with cold eyes. “What’s it, Samia?”
“Uhh…Mr. Luthor one of your guards has called up and informed me about a patient who was recently brought in one of the Dr Cadmus’ laboratories. He reported the doctors and nurses had been with the patient for the last five hours and they were trying to stabilize him, his breathing is weak, he is bleeding and it looks like…-” Samia what interrupted by Lex’s cold voice.
“And it’s interest for me how?” Lex lately was so cold, Samia wondered what has happened to the man she knew once. “I have many things to do, so get to the point and tell what is going on in that lab?” He didn’t care for anything anymore, his love and passion disappeared with Clark. He tried to tell himself that Lana was the women who he loved, but all he could feel when he was with her, was emptiness.
Samia was nervous about what she would tell him, she didn’t knew anymore how he would react” Mr. Luthor, Dr Cadmus is with the patient and his name is …Clark Kent.” After those two last words she could see worry and pain in her boss’s face.
“Get out and put me through with the one who called. NOW!” Lex was worried and angry, he and Clark were nothing anymore, all was over, but God, he loved the younger man so much, and now Clark was in the hospital sick and apparently without his healing ability.
Dr. Cadmus was talking with Martha and Chloe, for Clark nothing looks good, there was to many things wrong with his body and it looks like he was not going to make it.
First they tested him for cancer but it come back negative, then they scent his brain but they found nothing wrong there either, but when his blood test come, all made sense, the dizziness, the loss weight, the fatigue, a rise in his appetite, the thirst…but in Clark’s case there was something wrong, his organs were not working too well.
And there was the big news, a baby. At first Cadmus thought that it was a mistake, Clark was a man after all, but all the tests come back as positive, confirming the baby’s existent. He was two month pregnant. It seem the pregnancy was the reason of the appetite, the thirst and the dizziness, but Clark’s body couldn’t adapting to the new life inside him, the why was a question yet unanswered.
Apart from that, for Martha and Chloe, the bigger problem was the identity of the baby’s other father, Lex Luthor. Martha knew how much her son have been suffering after his break up with Lex.
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Martha took in the sight of her son through teary eyes; she wiped her eyes, as sat down beside her son’s bed. An oxygen mask was placed on his pale face. She grabbed his hand and scooted closer to the bed. She was shocked, nervous and happy.
“Oh Clark … I thought I would never have to see you in a hospital bed again and now this…I just don’t know what to do, but you have to live so your baby would be ok. You should have told me that you became more sick, Clark. I would have dropped everything I was doing to come home to you. I love you, my son.
Please, please be okay baby, Clark. I missed you,” she cried. Martha laid her head on top of Clark’s hand, letting her tears fall to the bed.
Martha lifted her head to see Clark’s eyes half-open. His throat was raspy and he smiled as best he could. Martha stood and leaned over, embracing her son softly, her tears was falling.
Clark’s voice was weak as he said “Mom…What is wrong with me?” Martha swallowed hard, blinking quickly and looking down at her hands uncertainly before meeting his son’s sleepy gaze.
“Clark there is something I want to tell you OK? Just try to take it easy, I know that this is going to be very shocking for you, but try to relax ok?” Martha said slowly and Clark looked away, eyes shining for the fever. Martha felt herself floundering. She didn’t know what to do. What could she say to make this situation better? Her son was hurting and she was just sitting here and couldn’t really help.
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More that Months Chapter 2.
He had said to himself that Clark was out of his heart, head and life. He had said that the most important person now in his life is Lana. A month ago he swore that Clark was nothing more that a happy moment with a sad ending. Lex is supposed to hate Clark; he must hate him, not care for him.
So now Lex is mad with himself for has been sitting in front of the man that called informing about a Clark Kent in the hospital. The details are poor, nothing new, just that Dr. Cadmus arrived to one of Metropolis’s hospitals with a patient in critical condition, the medical staff worked on him for over five hours and the name was Clark Kent.
Clark has lied to him for six years, all his secrets and silly excuses left Lex completely tired of try to be close to him, be more that his friend, for a short time Lex thought that be trusted and loved for Clark was a possibility, but he realized that Clark always will lie to him.
Lex knows that Clark is a liar but the worst is that Lex himself is a liar too. Sometime he feels that nothing matters in his life. He has lied too. He is lying constantly. He has lied to Lana about her supposed pregnancy, he has lied to his father about 33.1, he has lied about Julian’s death, and he has lied to Clark about all the investigations about him, about all the incidents with some mutants.
Lex and Clark are both liars, they can’t trust anyone, Clark trusted his parents, Lex doesn’t know what is that, a father that can love him and support him not matter what.
Lex realized that Clark will always lie to him, and he will always lie to Clark.
Martha has explained everything to Clark with Dr. Cadmus’s help.
Cadmus said all about this unexpected pregnancy, about the baby and Clark’s current state. Clark’s body is very wake and apparently is not adapting to the baby inside him, Cadmus can’t say the reason, but this can get worse in the next future.
For Clark the idea of have a baby always come with Lana’s image in his mind. When he was with Lex he forgot that possibility and after his break up with him he didn’t feel like have a romance again. So now the fact that he was pregnant, being a male alien, without the father’s of the child next to him, and so sick was really something shocking and scarring for him. He was used to be the super alien with super power who can see through things and can almost fly, but the ability of can get pregnant and have a baby being a man is not something easy of accept or get used too.
After hours of thinking Clark come finally to realize that he is happy of be pregnant and terrified about his health. This baby is his child and well, Lex’s child too, and he can’t deny that is this fact that made all more easily and in the same time more complicated. And he is terrified because he is sick, he can barely breathe without a cough and that means that maybe he can’t survive this pregnancy and maybe his baby won’t survive and maybe he will die.
“You will take care of him, right Chloe?” Clark said. His weak voice broke through the silence private room. Chloe was next to him.
“What? What you mean, Clark?” Chloe asks.
“You will take care of him, right?My mom won’t can do it alone now and-…“ he was stopped for Chloe before he could finish.
“What are you talking about Clark?” Chloe said. She knows what he is talking about; the true is that she was thinking the same.
“Chloe, please. You … will…take care of…my baby, right?” Clark says weakly and breathless.
“Clark I’ll help you to take care of him. Ok? You will be with your baby, and both of you are going to be ok” Chloe really want to believe her own words, “Now you must rest. Ok?” Chloe said with a forced smile.
Clark looked her for a moment and with a sad smile closes his eyes and let’s his dreams take him away.
Chloe sat there looking to his pale face, caressing his hand. Dr. Cadmus told them, to Martha and her, that the baby is ok for now, its heartbeat is good and for now it looks stable. But the problem is Clark, his lung and very weak, and his heartbeat is irregular which means that his heart is not working well. She still has troubles accepting that Clark is going to have a baby. But Clark is her friend so accept this is easier. But is her friend's health the problem. She can’t stop thinking that maybe Clark will die and the baby too, or maybe just one of them will make it and she doesn’t which is more important that the other. Clark was asking her to take care of his child after it was born with his mother, and that just broke her hearth because she knows that that is a possibility. Clark can die and the baby will have no father, but Lex is the father too. And well, Lex is out of the idea because, well he is Lex and he has enough with LexCorp, Lana, their baby and Lex's wish of control the world.
For over two years Chloe is the only real friend that Clark has had, and because of that Chloe will make sure that Clark and his baby stay safe and alright.
Lex is sat in his office in the mansion. Lana is next to him, talking about her fantastic day with her new credit card and limousine. Is almost seven o’clock in the night, he is hungry, tired and bored but Miss Lana don’t seem to see this because she continues with her prattle non stop. Is in moments like this with a boring and simple Lana that Lex remember Clark, he never let past the dinner time because for Clark that is the moment in which the family sat together in the table and share their day at the school or the job, and he was used to that with Clark, he was used to come to their penthouse sit close to Clark, eat dinner made for him and talk about the school, some projects and how good was be there with each other.
He is with Lana because she is so naïve that can’t see the true even in front of her own eyes. Sometime he gets tired of her. With Desire and Helen he wasn’t looking for something different to love and somehow power. But with Lana everything is so simple, her face, her body, her honesty, her dreams, her actions. Well her actions not so much because she is with him now thanks to a horrible lie that now seems stupid to him. She is really annoying; she wants to know everything with the excuse that she is who always has been alone and never trusted for any of her friends or lovers. Sometime Lex doesn’t understand how Clark was in love with her for so many years and what Whitney, Jason, and all her dead boyfriends saw in her. God that woman is unbearable.
Lex wanted to know about Clark but Dr. Cadmus never answered his calls and any of his employees has seen or hear or read about Clark’s state.
Her baby is going to have a baby. Her son can die. Her grandchild can die. His son is in love with Lex Luthor. Lex Luthor is the father of her son’s baby. And Lex Luthor is the father of Lana’s baby.
God in moments like this Martha just wish have Jonathan to her side. She lost a husband, she lost a baby, so she knows how Clark can feel if he lost his baby. But she doesn’t want to know how it feels to lose a son.
For every mother her child is her child no matter what. Clark always will be her son not matter if he is a pregnant alien who is in love with a man that doesn’t know limits.
She is scares for them. But she has to be strong and fight hard for her family.
More that Months.Chapter 3.
It has been three long weeks, multiples test has been made and various treatments were applied on Clark. Clark has been stabilized enough for get back to his home, and the baby has almost three months now and looks good, well considering.
Dr. Cadmus has known the secret about Clark for a long time now. In the beginning he was skeptical about the existents of an alien that looks exactly like any human, but now when he looks to Clark’s pale and withdrawn face, he can see a normal person with many differences but with a great heart and a big personality. He knows that Lex is the father of the baby and that Clark is still in love with him, but his territory is only the medical so he never will say to Clark that Lana is not pregnant or that Lex is still in love with him too, and never will say Lex about Clark’s pregnancy and that he is being a big idiot.
For him seems ironic that Lex is with a healthy and boring Lana thanks to a superficial and false pregnancy and Clark is here almost dying with Lex’s baby alone.
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Clark usually is very tired; he can’t be awake for long moments, and his body has become lethargic and weak. The paleness in his face and the weakness in his voice are some signs of Clark’s current state. Since he arrived to the farm he just sleep, write and eat, well he eats when he can at least support his head. For him, his baby is going to be a boy, he just know it. He has been thinking in some names, he knows that his baby is just three months, but Clark also knows that he won’t last so much for know his child so he wants to chose his son’s name and buy some clothes and his cradle, in that way when his baby boy is older, he will know how much his father loved him.
He also has been writing some letter one for his mother, other for Chloe and a many more for his future baby and well he can’t help it, one or two for the father of his son, Lex. Lex, Lex, Lex. God, he can’t stop thinking and loving that stupid, stubborn, liar, manipulative, egocentric, and bald…sexy, tender, sometimes noble and very hot Lex. But when he remember that Sexy Lex is sleeping and close to marry the flaccid stupid bitch of the town, best known like Lana Lang, Clark just wish that she get fat and get grooves with her famous pregnancy.
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Martha is all smile and charm in front of her son, always is speaking to him in a gently and serene voice, but when she is alone the tears, desperation and grief are evident.
Sometimes when Clark is sleeping and his hand is close to his middle she can feel an immense happiness, a grandchild, a new life is grownup inside Clark and this can be the opportunity of a new beginning for all of them. But like she feels happiness, she can’t prevent all the bad thoughts about a dying Clark and an orphan baby. She can’t imagine a life without Clark and now a life without Clark and with a baby, is more difficult.
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Chloe has been working in the Daily Planet, trying to evade the intense Lana and his favorite part, buying baby’s stuff. She cried inconsolably for days in the hospital, but now she has decided that Clark doesn’t need more depression just happy moments so she is making everything for her friend can be happy. Clark told her that the baby is a boy, his X-ray vision is over, so she has to believe him.
A few clothes in little size, because the babies grown fast son is better big clothes. A few slight jackets, shirts of cotton without sleeves and little caps, sheets and curtains, shampoo, little combs, some toys….. She knows that Clark is just three months pregnant but never is too early for buy things for the baby and she really loves shopping. She was thinking in a blue cradle with stars and moons in the wood but that is just Clark’s decision.
More that Months. Chapter 4.
A month later. Metropolis City.
A month has passed and Clark has been feeling well enough to get out of the farm and hang out with Chloe. He is four months pregnant and is starting to show a little but nothing so big, the problem as usual is his pale frame and fatigue, but his mom, Chloe and Dr. Cadmus always made sure that he is resting, breathing and eating.
For Clark is so good be able to be outside the farm, he was beginning to stir crazy.
They have been in the mall for over two hour. They entered every store and always bought something thanks to Chloe and her Ohhh look at that, is so cute
“Ok. We have enough clothes for Little Baby; now let’s find something for Mr. Daddy” Said a happy Chloe with a big smile, credit card and like ten bags of clothes and toys in her hands. His friend has a problem, Clark has realized, Chloe is addict to the shopping, well yea, she is a women and every women has a compulsive obsession with the shopping, but god, Chloe is just a new level of compulsive chopper.
Clark snorts “What? Yea, Chloe we have many clothes for Little Baby. But we aren’t buying more clothes, I don’t need anything” He said almost pleading. He has just two bags of purchases in his hands because Chloe didn’t want to over weary him.
Chloe gives a small laugh “Yea right, very soon you won’t be able of use that jeans or yours horrible and pathetic flannels” She take his arm without saying more and both led to one of the stores of male clothes.
Finally after an hour and a half more, Chloe decided that this mall didn’t have more thing interesting to see so the best was go to home and visit another shopping mall maybe the next day.
“What surprise” Great, just fucking great. Of all the people that Clark Kent could meet in the Mall Lana Lang had to appear. Clark is cursed, yea cursed and forced for a mysterious entity to live in misery and embarrassing moment, like now. He is staring to believe it.
“Chloe and Clark, in shopping day¡¡¡” There was a sarcastic tone in her voice but Lana was a beautiful women, always so fashionable and her attitude worthy of a top model in a foot-bridge.
“Hello Lana” Finally was Chloe who talked first. Her voice was neutral but her eyes were throwing dagger. She noticed that Clark was paler that before if that was possible, he was trying to hide his stomach with all the bags, but his hands were a little shaking. “How are you?” Chloe really didn’t care.
Lana is watching Clark with a vicious look. He’s fat. Weird Clark never was a fat boy. He is pale. Weirder because Clark never get sick, God he even died and get back to life. Stop, I don’t care. Yea, Lana keeps living in denial. I love Lex, he loves me. Haaa, yea denial.
“You would know it if you had not left me in pre-start line every time I called to you” Lana answered a little hurt. “Oh well I has been really busy” Chloe quickly trying to avoid a fight. God, she really is staring to NOT like this girl.
Lana raised an eyebrow. “Really? Busy? Wow funny way of work, going of shopping and take almost half mall store, and with Clark” Lana said Clark’s name with a despised way.
“Well, Clark is good friend and good company. And I do like to be with him, pity many person don’t see that” Chloe said in a voice equivalent to a roll eyes.
Lana raised and eyebrow again, but before she opened her mouth something catched her attention “Is that baby clothes?” Lana asked a little surprised and a little happy.
Clark tried to be unaware of the conversation instead of being nice and lie to his ex-girlfriend he is getting all the bags in the car avoiding Lana’s eyes. The best is stay away of Lana’s comments and don’t start an argument because of Lana’s hurt felling and Clark’s lies and Chloe’s procuring, bla bla bla. Damn, this was a good day. Clark and Chloe thought. Happy ideas, Clark happy ideas…his baby, his baby.
Uh-oh.” Yea, baby clothes. Why?” Chloe said in an innocent voice and is trying to make up a lie.
“Uhh well, baby clothes….Ohhh Chloe is for my baby. Thanks” Lana’s face is bright with a big smile. Ohh clothes, presents, for me, my baby well for me. Ouch Chloe is so good and Clark well I’m the women that he loves after all, god can’t he be out of my life?, but well new clothes and it looks so pretty, wow Clark is good in buying clothes, well clothes for babies’ my baby.
Chloe take deep breaths and count to ten several times, is not good idea cut the head of Lex Luthor’s new toy called girlfriend, best know as Lana. Bitch Lana, Stupid Lana, foolish Lana. Chloe screamed in her head.
Her baby? Her baby? “Chloe, we better go” Clark said that. And the two girls are looking him, Chloe in a patient and knowing look, and Lana in an annoying and curious way.
He is trying really hard not burn her perfect and stylized hair.
“And Lana the clothes are not for your baby, Ok, Lana? You aren’t the only pregnant in the world; you should know that, after all, your boyfriend is Lex. Oh sorry fiancé”
To that, Lana’s bright face became a shadow and a frown took place.
Chloe trying not to laugh get quickly in car and without a good bye, she and Clark speed out of there.
Road to Smallville.
After their encounter with Lana they tried to make the rest of the day the most nice and calm possible. Is 4: 45 pm and Chloe better hurry up in get Clark to his house soon because anything good can happen if Mrs. Kent get mad. The road is almost dark and Clark is deeply slept in his sit, a hand in his stomach and the other in his side, is a cute scene. Chloe signed deeply but relaxed and continued driving.
Suddenly a car comes in front of her and she had to use the brakes sharply,
She yells Clark
Clark awake with a yelp
Both scream
The car rotates several times
And then…. The car stops
Both of them are breathing heavily, their heart are throbbing faster. Chloe is the first in recover of the scare.
“Clark, are you ok? The baby is ok? Do you feel any pain?” She says franticly, while touching his body looking for an injury.
“I think we are ok, but my chest hurts” He said in a breathless voice. Chloe smiled.
“Clark? Chloe?”
No, god, this can’t be happening, Lex? There are many so people who have cars and is Lex, exactly Lex who almost kills them.
Lex is looking though the windshield and he looks, concerned?
“Clark? Chloe? Are you two ok?” Lex tried to get a look to both of them, but she just can see Chloe’s face and Clark’s hair.
“He almost kills us, and asks if we’re ok? God he is dumb” Chloe said with anger, she take a look to Clark and open the door. When her feets hit the ground she started yelling.
“What the hell is wrong with you? Idiot. That car is too complicated for your minimal skills? You almost kill us. Is not the first time that you tried to kill someone with your car” She is red, she wants to kill him. Clark and the baby could have been wounded.
Lex took a breath. “Miss. Sullivan, it was not my intention tried to get you hurt. And I didn’t try to kill someone before with my car, Clark is always ok and you are ok, so please stop making a scene” Lex said in that I know everything and I’m more that you voice. Chloe rolls her eyes.
Inside the car, Clark is tried to take deep breaths, he didn’t need to go there and see Lex. He didn’t need or want talk to him, feel him; he had avoided Lex for three moths now and wanted to do it for more moths. His baby is ok and he is ok, at least for now. He didn’t want Lex for anything. He just wanted peaceful moments in his pregnancy, he wanted to feel the baby inside him, buy clothes and toys, he wanted his mom’s pie and cookies and her hugs and her kisses, and he wanted Chloe’s silly comments and her sweet presence.
Ok, all his life he has been an idiot who never fight for what he really wants, he is always running so he’ll do it again. Yea, why not all is better that to be in front of Lex now and talk to him. But like he is cursed he had to talk to him. Damn
“Clark” Is his flat voice. “Clark, you ok, right?” Clark turned his head and looked him. Lex is now in front of him. God, Clark missed Lex’s eyes and lips, and jaw and…hell, he missed him all. Stupid alien me.
“What, you care?” Clark asked in a sarcastic way ”Wow must be raining cows now” He decided that is not going to cry, scream, shake or pass out, not in front of him anyway.
Lex smiled sadly and shook his head. “You always so impossible, but I have to admit that I never imagine that your cowardice will make you use a women to defend you” Les’s face is serious, but there is something in his eyes that Clark not really can understand.
“Well, I’m not hiring mutant and killer like you, so points for me” Clark opened the door and pushed Lex to the side. Before get out of the car he adjusted his shirt and coat. “What do you want, Lex? Is not like you care for any of us” Clark is tired, he is wishing for his bed and his pillow in that moment.
Lex can see the paleness in his face, the weakness in his body and…the weight? Is he fat? Clark is fat? Alien can be fat? “Well you interrupt in my installations, make false news about me and my job; and is me who has a problem?”
To that both Chloe and Clark laugh really harder. Chloe is next to Clark, both facing Lex, they tried to stop their laughing but a look to Lex’s mad face and they can’t stop.
“Please, Lex, doesn’t even Lana would believe that. Ok, maybe Lana will” Clark said with a big smile. He is supporting himself in the car door.
“Why did you go to the hospital?” Lex asked and he knew that that will make them close their mouths. “I knew you couldn’t breathe, very weird in an alien like you”
And Lex was right; they stopped laughing and their face become serious. Clark’s eyes are filled with tears as he put his right hand in his middle and his left was trying to take the door and let the rest of his body fall. There is not way that Lex knows, Lex doesn’t know. Clark said desperately in his head. No, no no. He won’t take my baby, all is fine.
He got inside the car, his mind too scared for say something to Lex.
“You should let him alone Lex. He has enough” Chloe said in a surrender and sad voice. Tears are in her eyes but not falling. She got in the car and Lex was there alone.
More That Months. Chapter 5.
Three Days later. Luthor Mansion.
It was 6:25 am. Lana was making her last arrangements for her wedding dress; the entire mansion was full of flowers, presents, and employees. She wanted everything to be perfect and didn’t want any mistake; after all, it was her wedding. This was the day the she would became a Luthor, so this had to be a perfect day, every detail was important: candles, food, glasses, tablecloths, carpets, lights, music, color of the walls, even the priest’s clothes. She was not happy, however, with how slow her maids were working and the fact that her dress made her look fat-and she couldn’t look like that!-no matter if she was pregnant or not, she did have an image to preserve.
While Lana was making her maids and designer miserable, Lex was locked in his office with the excuse of working before the wedding so he would be free for the honeymoon, but the truth was that he was hiding from Lana and all of her nuisance. After his encounter with Clark he was more than sure that Clark was sick and hiding another secret already. Clark was so pale, his face was withdrawn, it looked like he could barely stand, since his feet and his hands were shaking. In spite of everything though, Clark had a glow in his eyes, despite his physical state his eyes were glowing and most surprising of all, he was a little fat. And talking about fat, Lana was getting fat as well, that made Lex shake his head, Lana was getting fat of a baby that was just hormones and synthetics drugs. It was his father, his father made all the plans and the tests, it was supposed to be something that he never would know; but Lex like a good Luthor, discovered everything so his father retaliated by blackmailing him all the time with 33.1. That project was over a long time ago because his love for Clark, but his farm boy didn’t have any idea and he didn’t want to lose him.
Now he didn’t have his Clark, or his project, or his freedom; he didn’t have anything except a tumor called Lana and a stupid baby composed of drugs.
Lex had tried to talk with Dr. Cadmus but the only response that he got the first few weeks was an ‘I’m really busy Lex, maybe another day’ but now it was ‘I can’t tell you anything, it’s not my place’. He could go to the Kent farm and ask what was happening because all his other tactics hadn’t worked not his investigator, spies, doctors, or his guards had been able to find out what the big secret was that Dr. Cadmus was helping to hide.
“Lex, did you finish? The wedding is tomorrow and everything needs to be ready so we can go to Bora Bora.” Lana’s voice startled Lex and he quickly closed his laptop. She was wearing a beautiful blue dress which made her breasts very distinct. “Are you ok? You have been really quiet these last days, I’m not even as quiet as you, even after what happened”, she said touching his cheek with her thumb.
“What do you mean, what happened to you? Why didn’t you tell me?” Lex asked looking directly into her eyes.
Lana shrugged. “Oh, well nothing important happened. I just had a encounter with Chloe and Clark in the shopping mall the other day and well we had a little disagreement, like always, but nothing big”, she said with a small smile, but she really wished to know why they were buying baby clothes, and although she wouldn’t admit it, she was worried for Clark, he really looked awful…and fat.
“What kind of disagreement? I thought you and Chloe never fight”, Lex asked, now intrigued. “Or was it between you and Clark? That would be nothing new.” After hearing of them fighting Lex knew that Clark wouldn’t let Lana marry him, maybe after all Clark did still love him.
“Well they were in the mall and I thought that the baby clothes were for the baby, our baby, but Clark suddenly became all angry and made Chloe get in the car and they both left”, Lana still was hurt that her baby was not important enough for her friend, Chloe was supposed to be her best and only friend, why couldn’t she be happy that Lana was going to marry Lex, have a kid, and be happy? Sometimes, Lana hated the way everyone pushed her to the side.
Lex frowned, “What baby clothes?” this is very weird.
“They were buying a lot of clothes for babies and even toys”, she answered.
“Maybe they were for Lois?” Lex asked, trying to think of a reason of why Clark would be buying clothes for a baby if he was so sick.
“Maybe”, Lana said with a shrug then kissed him and left.
Lex was then left alone in his thoughts and that was never a good thing.
Kent Farm.
“Why are you awake this early sweetie?” Martha asked her son who was sitting on the porch of the house with a cup of hot chocolate in his hands; he was wearing his pajamas and a hoodie that didn’t hide his belly very well. .
He smiled at her. “Hello mom. Well I was getting a little tired of staying in bed and I wanted a little of sun this morning”, he said, sounding very weak. After his little chat with Lex, it had been more than necessary to take him to the hospital again for a few hours; but he really didn’t want be there more than necessary. His blood pressure was very low and his breathing had been erratic; Dr. Cadmus had said that he was upset for his confrontation with Luthor and that it wasn’t any good for the baby.
So he had been in bed for the last three days. He had barely eaten any food; all he can do is sleep and Cadmus said that this could be a symptom of anemia, nothing unexpected in a pregnancy but very dangerous for Clark.
Martha smiled warmly to her son and touched his face. “That is good, baby. Now you need to eat some food, ok? It’s not good for the baby. I have cookies, more chocolate, salad, bacon, bagels and orange juice. What do you say?”
Clark smiled and nodded to her. “Ok mom. I think that bacon and juice would be good, maybe some cookies too?”
Martha laughed, glad that her son was finally going to eat something. “Whatever you want, baby. Come on, let me help you”, she said as she gave him her hand for support and Clark took it. His legs were always feeble and walking always left him wheezing these days. Slowly they entered the house and got to the kitchen.
“The clothes that Chloe bought are beautiful and the toys are really pretty. You are four months now and time flies so the best is to buy everything and think on every detail: food, milk, clothes, toys, shoes, sheets, diapers a lot of diapers”, Martha said happily, despite Clark’s health problems, she was awaiting her grandchild with open arms. Maybe this baby could make them all better but the most important thing would be that he would be loved.
Clark smiled and nodded to his mother. He was scared at first that his mother was going to freak out with all this but now he was more than certain that his mother would love his son and would take care of him-with Chloe’s help, he hoped-when he is not longer here.
He ate in silence while his mother talked on the phone with Washington. Clark was thinking of Lex, he appeared to be the same when it came to his face but it was his eyes that gave him away. Lex’s face was always cold and uncaring; but when he looked in his eyes three days ago, they showed something different, they were looking at Clark in the same way they did when both of them had been together.
They had been together for almost three years in secret, all about Krypton and Jor-el was said. It was when his father had died that his mother found out after she saw them in the car kissing. Chloe, Clark was certain, knew a long time ago. When he was with Lana last year while he was human, he had been fighting with Lex, he wanted a life together and didn’t want to be hidden and Lex wanted to say to everyone that they were together.
When Gabriel had shot him, Lex and him got back together and Lana was supposed to be forgotten; but of course, she couldn’t take no for an answer so she kept looking for him and when she realized that it really was over, she went to Lex. At first Clark tried to see it like a normal thing; and that it wasn’t that bad that his ex-girlfriend was living in the house of his secret boyfriend. Even when Lex was possessed by Zod and Clark and him slept in the mansion with Lana in the next room she didn’t suspect anything about them and she went directly to Lex’s bed. Lex ended up drunk after the party as he was dressed as Julius Cesar, but Clark went to his home because of his mother and Chloe, and Lana took Lex to the Mansion. Clark knew what had happened the moment he saw Lex, they argued for hours but in the end they finished in bed, panting and very happy. But the big bomb came with Lana’s pregnancy, Chloe was the first to know, then Lex, then Lois, later his mother, and he was the last; even Oliver and Jimmy knew about it before he did. They argued, yelled at each other, many painful things were said and in the end Lex went to his mansion where his future wife and son were and Clark to his farm with a broken heart and in immense desolation. The funny thing is that when Lana said that she was pregnant, Clark already was a month pregnant.
When even Zod didn’t destroy him with all his powers Lana had done it in just a few seconds.
Suddenly Clark stared to feel dizzy, his vision got blurry and his stomach hurt. With an agonized scream Clark passed out cold and hit the wooded floor.
The Talon. Chloe’s apartment.
Chloe Sullivan had big plans for her life and one of them was to be a reporter in the Daily Planet with a lot of respect and even more important contacts.
Well that was the plan because now, with Lana’s wedding, the phantom travelers and Clark’s pregnancy, her whole life was out of control, she could kick Lana’s ass and be there for Clark and support him with his pregnancy but everything was so hard now.
Her cell phone rang and she answered a little annoyed, “Yea?”
“Chloe?” It was Mrs. Kent and apparently she was crying.
“Mrs. Kent? What’s wrong?” Chloe asked, already making her way to the door after she picked up her coat and car keys.
“It’s Clark, we’re in the hospital. He passed out, Chloe. He’s unresponsive and...” Martha’s voice trailed off as she started to sob.
“Ok Mrs. Kent. I’m on my way, ok?”
“Ok, Chloe. Ok”
More that Months.Chapter 6.
Five Hours Later. Metropolis City. Hospital
“He has a very low blood pressure, his heart is behaving erratically causing a lot of trouble and his kidneys are not working normally. It appears he passed out due to his low blood pressure, and tachycardia and general pain in his body is causing for what looks like arthritis”, Dr. Cadmus explained, sighing deeply at the looks of horror of the two women in front of him. Both Martha and Chloe took a deep breath, preparing themselves for the worst. “It looks like Clark’s body is shutting down. I have been studying all my reports and all the notes about Clark that were written in the past few years. The only explanation for Clarks’ sudden critical state is that here on the earth he can’t find all the recourses and energy for being pregnant. He has lost all his power and his body is not invulnerable anymore”, Dr. Cadmus said with a sad voice. Due to all this misfortune it was looking as if the young Kent wasn’t going to survive and perhaps his baby wasn’t either. “We believe that four months are adequate for the baby to be strong and healthy enough, we have carried out multiple tests in the last few months and the baby presents a corporal structure of a human baby when it’s in the sixth month of gestation. If Clark has his pregnancy in normal terms he would give birth in his sixth month so…” Cadmus hesitated. “We believe that we can get the baby out very soon if Clark’s condition gets any worse”.
“Oh my god”, Chloe whispered and half hugged Martha.
“Isn’t there anything you can do for Clark?” Martha said in a tired voice, her eyes red from crying and her face pale.
“The baby looks fine, the only worry is that his heart beat is a little slow but that can happen. Right now we are giving Clark medication for his blood pressure and to control the tachycardia. We are monitoring his kidney and making preparations for a CAT-Scan”, Cadmus said, talking slowly and with a gentle voice so as to not frighten the two women at the mention of a CAT-Scan. “I assure you it’s necessary, the best would be to know if Clark can have a possible neurological problem, if he falls into a coma, the situation could become critical and uncontrollable”
Martha and Chloe nodded. “You can see him in a few minutes, but the best is let him rest and not disturb him too much. Oh and Clark was right; it is a boy”, he said with a sad smile and left.
“I can’t lose them”, Martha said, “I can’t lose either of them, this is so unfair”, She sobbed. Chloe just held onto her and hugged her as she cried silently as well.
Luthor Mansion. Lex’s Office.
“Mr. Luthor, the contact D-M5 has informed us that Mr. Kent is back in the hospital with Dr. Cadmus.”
“Are you sure?” Lex asked impatiently. His contact had finally found something about Clark and his health problems. “I want D-M5 in there, but I don’t want any troubles, Sullivan and Mrs. Kent should be there as well. I want to know everything”, Luthor commanded.
“Of course, sir”, A small click was heard as the conversation ended.
Lex took a deep breath. Soon he would know everything about Clark Kent. He just couldn’t imagine what could be so bad that would cause a man as powerful as Clark to go to the hospital on several occasions.
“You know you really shouldn’t be even thinking not to mention spying on your ex-lover when your wedding is tomorrow”, Lionel Luthor said as he made his way inside the room, a pleased smile in his face. “Lana could suspect something, and that is not good for our plans”.
“Our plans, Father? No, your plans, whatever twisted idea you have I’m not interested in helping you make them real”, Lex said angrily, clearly not in the mood in having one of the multiple mental games with his father. He wanted to know about Clark and why he was in the hospital.
“Oh, come on son. It surely can’t be more twisted than the project 33.1”, Lionel said, knowing what his son’s weak point was and that being Clark Kent. It was a stupid love between a billionaire and a farm boy but the young Kent had remarkable abilities, now more than never, so he wanted Clark just for himself, for experiments of course. “How is that boy that used to come with flannels and a pie and always finished his little visit in horizontal position on your bed?”
“I wouldn’t know. Someone made me leave him”, Lex said in a strained tone, he was dangerously close to kill his father with his cell phone. “But you tell me, you are dating his mother, Oh no wait, now that I remember, Clark almost threw you out a window because you kissed her, so that must be over. Sad”. Now he was smiling, it wasn’t a smile from the heart but it was enough to make Lionel angry.
“Ohh, Lex”, Lionel said with his best solemn tone but failing. “You shouldn’t lose time with that flannel boy. After all, he is more than gone now anyway”, he said, smirking when Lex reacted.
“What do you know about him? What do you mean with gone?!”, Lex had his father’s shirt clutched in his hands and they are face to face. ”Dad, what do you know about him? Dad?!”
“God Lex, calm down”. Lionel freed himself from his son’s hand and walked toward the desk. “I just know that after tomorrow you’re going to a married man, very soon a father and maybe happy?” Lionel smiled when he said the last part.
“A father? Do you even remember the truth about Lana’s baby?” Lex sometimes couldn’t follow his father’s games, despite everything.
“Yea exactly, you are going to be a daddy” The older Luthor smiled and turned to the door. ”What will Clark think about all this?”, Lionel said as he exited his son’s house with a big smile and very pleased with himself.
Some time later Lex sat in his office with tears in his eyes, he had read the report about Clark and he never imagined that Clark could have been in such bad health and would need so much attention. Echocardiograms, Cat-Scans, multiple blood tests, three spinal taps, a biopsy, and multiple ultrasounds. An ultrasound…why would Clark be having an ultrasound, he could help but wonder.
“Lex, honey. It’s time for dinner, Come on”. His beautiful and lovely future wife was waiting for him at the door. Yea, Lana was so lovely, like multiple hot needles piercing in his back, glass in his feet, and knives stabbing in the underside of his nails.
He smiled despite his thoughts and walked with her to go eat; but not before he quickly stashed Clark’s report in a secure place. He would investigate about the ultrasound later in the night.
Chapter 7.
Metropolis City. Clark Kent’s Room
Clark woke up feeling numb throughout his body, something in his nose, a pressure in his finger and wrists, and hearing a throbbing sound that refused to let him sleep.
He opened his eyes and the piercing light hit him hard so he quickly closed them again. A soft hand on his face made him open his eyes again. There was his mother, even with his blurry vision he could see the tiredness in her face and her bloodshot eyes what clearly indicated that she had been here for hours, waiting for him to wake up. Now that he realized he was in a hospital, he opened his eyes more, seeing the black walls and all the monitors and wires that were connected to his body.
“Hey sweetie. Glad finally you decided to wake up”, His mother said, smiling tiredly.
“Mom how is the baby?” he asked, his voice hoarse and barely audible. His right hand went directly to his tummy. “He’s ok, right?”
Martha smiled and touched his face. ”Yes, the baby is ok. And…well, you were right” She sighed happily. “That baby is a boy”
Clark’s smile grew as he touched his belly once again. Despite his weakness, his close to death situation, and his mother’s tears, the idea of his baby made everything better for him. He couldn’t feel his legs, his hands were shaking, his head was hurting, his breath was short, and he realized he probably had heart troubles but he decided that he was going to survive for his son, he would fight against this agony and his baby would survive.
“Samuel. Sammy” Clark said sleepy. He couldn’t be awake for long time, the doctor had said to Martha.
“What honey?” his mother asked.
“Please, call him Sam” he said almost in a whisper, his eyes half closed. “You will call him Samuel, mom. But tell him that I gave him his name” He closed his eyes and went to a peaceful sleep but his mother was left with feelings of grief and desolation.
“Yes my baby, Samuel is a beautiful name”, she said as she kissed his cheek and stroked his forehead gently.
Hospital’s Cafeteria.
It was close to midnight. Neither Martha nor Chloe had slept, both women too stressed out for try to relax. They were sitting in the cafeteria; Chloe sat, drinking a hot coffee while trying to finish a report for the Daily Planet and Martha had her face in her hands and a coffee in front of her. Both were thinking what the doctor said about the possibility of getting the baby out very soon, they knew that this possibility was more than likely to happen because of Clark’s serious illness and his chances of survive were minimal.
Martha couldn’t believe that her son who had superstreagth, superspeed and a body invulnerable to any force was now lying in a hospital bed; pregnant and practically dying. Her son was dying and she couldn’t do anything about it except be by his side and pray for the best. But while Martha was prying, Chloe was thinking options to help her friend, she and Clark had tried to talk to Jor-El but the fortress didn’t respond and she was lost about what to do. She could study if perhaps some meteor rock might cure him but that was just a desperate idea. Lionel was too dangerous and Lex was out of question because well, he was Clark’s ex-boyfriend, now Clark’s enemy, and he was soon to be a father of two babies, Clark’s and Lana’s.
“Are you going to the wedding?” Martha broke the silence. Chloe looked at her.
“Umm? The wedding? Oh, no I don’t think so. I’m not in the mood for a party”. Yea, Chloe didn’t want to go to a place where everyone would smile and put happy face and hug the newlyweds when none of them really cared for Lana and just were there because of Lex’s money. And well, she really wasn’t happy enough for Lana’s frivolity.
“You should go, Lana is your friend and a little cake and champagne can’t do any harm”, Martha said, trying to get Chloe out of the hospital. The girl had been with Clark since the very minute when he was brought to the hospital for the first time and she deserved a life.
“Don’t worry Mrs. Kent. I’m ok. I want to talk to Clark and maybe buy some chocolates for him”, Chloe said with a smile. Clark had been craving chocolate in all its forms.
“Oh, Ok.” The older women chuckled.
A day later. Luthor Mansion.
A nurse working with Dr. Cadmus had decided to talk with Lex Luthor. After a long night studying Clark’s files and talking with some of his doctors on the phone he was lost in knowing for certain what was wrong with Clark because all the tests that Cadmus had tested with Clark were for multiple and very different diseases. He lost his temper and had ordered to find someone who knew what was happening, he didn’t care if that person wanted to talk or not, he was going to know the truth no matter what. But Lex just wished that damn nurse would hurry up because his wedding would be in just three hours and he was really anxious.
Lana was in the penthouse in Metropolis. Her aunt had come and both had a nice time together in the morning before they went to the city.
Metropolis City. Luthor Penthouse
“This is so pretty Lana, the dress is perfect and you are more than beautiful”, Nell said, standing at her niece’s side, fixing her hair.
Lana was glad someone who she loved was going to be with her on her wedding day, that way she wouldn’t feel alone and have doubts that this could be a mistake. She was trying to say to herself that Lex loved her and he loved their baby and that she was going to be happy, Clark was in the past and her feelings for him were over. But the more that she said that, the more she felt that all this was wrong, that she loved Clark and that maybe everyone was right and Lex was a monster and he was just using her.
“Lana? Sweetie, are you ok?” Her aunt asked her. Lana smiled and blinked.
“Of course I’m ok”, the young women said. “I’m just a little nervous”, she added as Nell continued to fix her hair.
She put a stop to all those thoughts. Nothing good in her life had lasted very long. So far every entire thing that made her happy had disappeared; her parents, Whitney, her aunt Nell, Adam, Jason, Clark; but she wouldn’t lose this. This was the big opportunity for her to be happy. Clark and all those people were in the past. She loved Lex and Lex loved her, she had to believe in that and make sure of that.
Lana had since school never been without a boyfriend; first was Whitney, then Adam, later Jason and then Clark. Multiple men wished to be with her, many men died trying to be with her, and all her boyfriends had died, even Clark, but he had somehow come back to life in a mysterious way that Lex and Chloe had always known but didn’t want to tell her. Plenty men that come to her, had hurt her, used her, or abandoned her, so she wouldn’t let Lex do the same, he was hers from today.
Soon the time to go to the church had come. Lana was beautiful in her dress; her hair was perfect and her eyes glowed of happiness and anxiety.
Luthor Mansion.
It was soon time to go to the church and the nurse hadn’t come yet. Lex breathed deeply, feeling the strong urge to kill someone. He was supposed to be in the church fifteen minutes ago, but he was still waiting. His father called and screamed at him to hurry now and arrive in time, the Luthor’s didn’t need another scandal with his more recent intention of marriage. But Lex wanted to know what was wrong with Clark, in the last three months he never stopped loving him, maybe he couldn’t be with him, but Lex wanted to know what was happening with him.
“Mr. Luthor, the helicopter is waiting. Your limousine is ready for when you arrive in the city”, one of his staff said. Lex just nodded, took a deep breath, looked at Clark’s file once more before wiping a single tear and walking toward the door.
He was close to the helicopter when a woman appeared. He turned to her, and without thinking guided her back into inside the house.
“Mr. Luthor, certainly nice to be here despite one of your men threatening me to come”. Her name was Heidy Calluty. She was a young woman, with black short hair; she still had the nurse uniform on. “So what you want?”
Lex raised an eyebrow. Typical, Cadmus always worked with people that never were scared of anything and didn’t eat off his image. “Tell me everything about Clark Kent”, he said. Looking at her face, he saw her frown and shake her head.
“I don’t think you have enough time. Your wedding will be...” She looked to her watch. ”Ohh…your wedding was supposed to start forty five minutes ago”. Great, ten nurses and three doctors had worked on Clark Kent and it had to be her who was practically kidnapped and forced to talk about the young guy who had the heart of all the nurses that had contact with him. Poor boy, so young.
“Don’t worry”, Lex said as he sat at his desk, put his index finger to his lips, and looked her directly in the eyes. “Why is Kent having so many tests done and what is wrong with him?”, he asked, the wedding was left in second place.
“Well your ex-boyfriend is very sick”, she smiled when Lex’s face darkened a little at the word boyfriend. His eyes flamed. “Don’t worry Mr. Lex, that is not a secret anymore”, she said, stopping abruptly, she was a little scared of this man, he was insane but more in love than insane, she just knew that. She knew that Lex Luthor was still in love with Clark Kent.
“OK. You probably are going to kill me after I say what you need but well…” Heidy took a deep breath and closed her eyes for a minute. “Ok, Clark Kent is in critical state; he has organ failure, his heart rate is very low, his neurological response is very erratic, and he is not expected to survive the month”.
Lex stood still. His mind trying to process what this women had just said. His Clark was dying. That was absurd, Clark was invulnerable, and he could destroy the world with just a blink. How could Clark Kent be dying? He was sure his heart stopped beating for several seconds.
“Why?” he asked, almost scared of the answer.
“We both know that Clark Kent is not from this planet and that his body, internally, is completely different to ours”, she said breathing deeply. She probably would lose her job if Luthor didn’t kill her after this.
“Yea, so?” He was almost pleading.
“Clark Kent has four months of gestation”. She finally said it and to the confused face of the young man in front of her she continued, “Yes Mr. Luthor, Clark Kent is pregnant”. She perhaps was being cruel but she felt a little of satisfaction when a single tear rolled down Lex’s face. She had been with Clark in all these months and for her, it was unfair that he and his family were living a nightmare while Lex was living normally. Seeing Lex Luthor cry silently though, she was thinking that maybe the baby wouldn’t be so alone after all, maybe could have a father after all, after Clark Kent died.
More That Months. Chapter 8.
Three hour later. Metropolis City. Church.
Lex didn’t show up in the church, he never arrived there.
Lana was crying. Lana was mad. Lana was furious. Lana was irascible. Lana was desperate. Lana was left high and dry. Lana was single. Lana Lang was left waiting. Lana Lang was still Lana Lang. She couldn’t understand why Lex did this to her. She was so good with him; she was so patient, tender, and gentle with Lex. All the things that she had to formulate for him to finally be with her didn’t matter because he was just like the other Luthor. Lex left her alone and she was alone again and now with a baby. But this time she was left looking ridiculous in front of thousands of guests and for that Lex was going to pay. It was clear nothing mattered if he was the big Lex Luthor but Lana knew what and who was important to Lex. She wasn’t-despite everyone thoughts-a numb and gauche woman so she was going to use that person and make Lex pay.
Lionel tried to talk to him but his cell phone was off and nobody answered in the mansion. Lionel was close to a heart attack; all his plans apparently were being interrupted again for his son. Clark had to disappear.
Luthor Mansion.
His IQ was very high; his knowledge in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and literature situated him as almost a genius. He was the richest man in the country and LuthorCorp was the most powerful company. He could talk eight different languages and understand three more. He had ten houses, twenty three apartments, and a great car collection.
Lex Luthor on the outside was the man that many other people would like to be, but in the inside Lex Luthor was the man that these other people would be terrified of. In the inside Lex was a broken, empty, desolate, and completely hopeless man who lost the light and was walking in a wrong and dark road.
Three hours ago he was supposed to be married with Lana Lang but four hours ago he was told one of the most shocking and painful secrets he had ever heard which broke the superficial world in which had been living in the last few months.
Since Heidi walked out of the office Lex had been sitting on his couch, tears running down his face, a phone in his right hand and Clark’s photo in the other. The photo was showing a Clark with his bright smile and an innocent look in his eyes and the phone was showing Martha Kent’s number. For the second time in his life Lex had not an idea what to do. The first was when he found out about Lana’s “pregnancy”. The obvious action would be to go to the hospital, talk to Clark, beg him if necessary to stay by his side, work to find a cure, and get to know more about his baby. But he was scared of what could happen; if Martha and Chloe would fight with him, if Clark died and their child would be alone; and all of that made Lex want to hide in Antarctica. For a long time Lex tried to fight his feelings for Clark but that never happened, not Lana, Victoria, Helen, or Desiree could make Lex feel all that Clark did to him.
Lost in his thoughts he was startled when the door opened abruptly. His father entered and forcibly held his shoulder hard.
“What the hell are you thinking?!” Lionel’s face was red with anger. Lex knew that his father was wishing to have his neck in his hands in that moment. “You did the most stupid thing in your life. Now I’m sure that so many hits to your head are finally affecting you. This will cost us and Luthor Corp. All the people in the church, all the guest were furious, but again this is nothing new for them, they are aware of your childish actions”, Lionel said, letting go of him.
“I have my own reasons. I don’t care what you think”, Lex fixed his clothes.
“Think about Lana and 33.1”, Lionel said, preparing a scotch for himself.
Lex laughed at that. “Lana? Please Dad. The last thing that you care about is Lana. I think you are going to need to tell her the true about her ‘supposed’ pregnancy”.
“I care for Miss Lang”, Lionel said, trying to find a way to keep his son away of the idea and subject of Clark Kent.
“Yea. sure Dad. Lana is as important to you like the winter in Yugoslavia”.
“If Lana finds out the true we both will be in deep trouble”, Lionel said in a low voice, “She can’t know the truth”.
“Dad, she is going to know eventually someday very soon when her stomach stays in the same size and the symptoms stop appearing because the drugs would wear off. I mean it’s her body. She can be dim-witted but I don’t think she’s that much”.
Lionel took a gulp of his drink and shrugged. “She slept with Mr. Kent and then with you, and she couldn’t notice that both of you were gay”.
“Dad what do you want?”
“I want you to go away for at least for four months. It’ll be for the best. I’ll take care of 33.1”, Lionel was too calm for Lex’s liking. He never would be so calm after he put the Luthor name in shame once more time. And then it hit him. His father knew about Clark, his father always had knows about the pregnancy and the sickness.
“Ok”. Lex decided that he would play along with his father. “If it’s for the best”
Lionel smiled and sighed. “It’s for the best. Tomorrow in the morning, you will fly to England”. Well apparently everything could be saved after all, Lionel thought as he squeezed Lex’s shoulder more gently than before and left.
Yea, right.
Lex wasn’t the same boy who always did what his father wanted. He could now see beyond the words and actions. His father knew and always did know about Clark and his child. And he would be dammed if he let him do what he wanted once again with the people that he loved. Lex took his phone and his keys. He would go and see Clark. He would face what was happening.
Metropolis City. Hospital
“He didn’t marry her”, Chloe said in almost a happy way. “Lex never showed up in the church”.
Martha raised her eyebrows. “How you know?”
“It’s in the news and Jimmy was there”, Chloe answered with a small smile.
In someway Martha was glad. She knew that Lex didn’t love Lana and that Lana was looking for company more than love. And despite all that had happened, she still was wishing for Clark and Lex be together again, even if was just for Clark to die with Lex next to him. ”I can’t say that I’m sorry”
Chloe nodded. “Me either”
“Yea, me either”
A male voice startled both women. They stared at the person in front of them. Pale skin, bloodshot eyes, and dry tears on the cheeks.
Martha was the first in find her voice. “Lex”, she whispered.
“I want-…I want to see him”, He was ready to beg. “I want to see him please”, he said, a single tear making its way down his cheek.
Martha looked in his eyes and knew it was impossible that someone could lie like that. This was real pain. She nodded.
“But first I’ll go and see if he is fine to see you. I better be sure”, Chloe said sharply and went to Clark’s room. She wasn’t so happy that Lex was here. What? He thought that for being here all Clark’s suffering would vanish in a second? She would make sure that Lex wouldn’t hurt her friend again.
“Martha…” he began.
“No”, she interrupted him. “I don’t need to hear your excuses. It’s not me who loves you”.
“I love him”, he said, drying his face with his sleeves, “I’m sorry, I...I’m sorry”.
“I know. But I don’t care if you are suffering or not”, Lex looked surprised. “He is my son, and I will do everything to make him feel better. I don’t care about you; I care about my son and my grandchild. If you hurt him again I will kill you myself but in a slow and painful way. He loves you, I don’t know why after all this time he still loves you but I know that you would make him feel happy, just for that you are going to see him”, Martha hissed; her eyes cold and voice strong.
Lex was speechless. This was the first time that Martha Kent had ever acted like this. He realized that he was alive just because Clark still loved him. Because if not, he was sure that Martha and Chloe would have killed him a long time ago.
Chloe got back with a smile after had heard all what Martha said. ”You can go. He is resting and looks less exhausted”.
Lex nodded and walked toward the room. He took a deep breath before open the door and tried to prepare himself for what was about to come.