Martha's secret

Two months later of Martha left from Smallville, nobody (neither Clark and Lionel) have visited her in Washington. Of course they would have liked to do it, but when they rang her to tell Martha that they are going there, she asked them "Please!" to not come. They didn't understand at all, but... what could they do if she didn't want they there?

Instead of that, Lionel rang her every night after have dinner, and they spoke for hours... every day... until the they when Martha didn't answer the phone. Lionel thought that perhaps she had a meeting and she didn't remember to tell him, but he went to sleep very worried.

The next morning he tried again, but she neither answered. So, he get's his private plane and went to Washington to see what was the matter of those.

He arrived at Martha's apartment and he find the door opened and nobody in. Suddenly, the phone rang.

"Yeah?"

"I would never imagined you running as fast for a woman..." said the voice of the other side of the phone.

"Who's there? Who are you? What you want?..." Lionel was getting nervious.

"You don't know your son, daddy?"

"Lex! What's the matter. Where's Martha? If you hurt her I'll..."

"You'll what, daddy?" silence "Don't worry, I'm not hurting, I want she alive, even for some months..."

"What do you mean? Let me speak with her! What do you want?"

The voice changed, now it was a sweet one. It was crying, and nervous, and calm... at the same time:

"Lionel?"

"Martha! Dear... Are you ok? I promise I will help you... where are you? I will find you..."

"Oh sweeter, I know... don't worry... I'm fine... but I... you have to know that I..."

Silence againg. Lionel listened her shouting.

"I'm sorry daddy but that's all"

"No! Wait! What do you want? What can I do?"

"You can do nothing. This time... I want her... only her"

"no... but..."

"Maybe you'll see her again in nearly five or six months"

"Why? Why you need Martha? What do you..."

The ring was finished.

Lionel was really worried. He didn't understand anything. He rang Clark inmediatly, who arrived at Martha's apartment in less than fifteen minutes (from Smallville!). He was told everything, and he neither understand what was happening... Why did Lex wanted Martha?

While the water followed all her body while she was having a shower, Martha couldn't stop thinking that that would have not occurred if he had told all to Lionel two months ago. But she hadn't been able to change his life at that way.

Clark neither knew anything, he would never forgive her… they both would never forgive her.

And now there she was… kidnapped by her love-man's son, having a shower before having dinner with somebody who could kill her at any moment. She was afraid, and really worried about what was going to happened. What did Lex exactly wanted from her? She had to find the way to escape, or to tell her son where she was… but she really didn't know what she exactly was… she only knows she could see the sea from her room's window, and that she was in a big house which was looked after by so many men with guns.

"How can we find somebody if we don't know where she is?" asked Clark to Lionel while they were looking for clues in Martha's apartment.
"I don't know… but Lex might say us something else… he couldn't want only your mother… he must be searching something, but I don't know what it can be…"

"Don't you like the meal, mummy?" said Lex smiling to Martha, who hadn't eaten anything.
"I'm not hungry, thanks" answer she, with sarcasm.
"You have to eat something, ask what you want and the chef will prepare it to you" said him, being kind.
"I'm not hungry, thanks"
"O.K.! It's just fine! Eat! I said" shouted him very serious and stood up.
Martha, who was very fragile in that moment, started crying.
"Oh, please, no, do not cry now… I didn't want to scare you, really… Mrs. Kent, please…"
"Really, Lex, I don't understand, sometimes you're so kind, like now, another ones you do things like that and…"
"Like which?"
"Like kidnapping me to get your father angry."
"I don't want to get him angry, I want to hurt him and become him crazy, mad… I want to kill him hurting his heart using what he loves the most… you"
"That's not true" said her embarrassed, serious and smiling at the same time.
"Of course that's true… But, let me understand something now: why didn't you told him that?"
"Because I love him, and I didn't know if he would like it, or not…"

Three weeks after her disappear, Martha found the opportunity to advise somebody of her situation. She could take the mobile phone to one of the guards, and she rang her son from her room's bathroom. Nobody answered, so she rang Lionel.
"Yeah?"
"Lionel..." she said really amazing.
"Martha!? What's going on? Where are you? Tell me, please?"
"I'm in a big mansion near the beach, we came by plain so it must be far from Washington…"
"Right, but… are you O.K.?"
"Yes, don't worry, but please, come soon, I'm very afraid from Lex…"
"Don't worry, dear, Clark's here, we both will find you, O.K., I promise"
"Lionel, you must know that I'm…"
"Mum? Mum are you O.K.? Has he hurt you? Because if he has…"
"No, son, really, don't worry…"

At the other side of bathroom's door: "Martha! Open the door fucking bitch! I know what are you doing! Stop the phoning if you don't want to die today! Martha!"
One of the guards opened the door and took Martha. Lex took the phone.
"Who am I talking with?"
"It's Clark, Lex"
"Oh! Hi brother. Don't worry, I'm looking after our mummy very well, and after this call I'll do it better" and he said it smiling to Martha.

Martha was lying on the bed, thinking in the day after moving to Washington, thinking on that call which change all, thinking on what she should explained and hadn't done. She had bruises over her body, all hurt her, Lex got really angry with the call she did. Now she was tied to the bed, and Lex said she will not go out of the room until he got confidence again with her… but it would never pass.

"Do you thing he have hurt her?" asked Clark.
"Really… it's possible. But don't worry. We'll find her soon, and then Lex will know the real meaning of pain" some minutes later "Here!"
"Here where?" asked Clark, watching at the map that Lionel have in his hands.
"Here's your mother!"
"Really?!"
"We had had a beach house there, we used to pass the summer in it, but when Lex's mother dead I sold the house. They must be there!"

Clark went running and Lionel by plain. When Clarks arrived he started looking for the address Lionel had gave him. When he arrived to the front door of the garden, he started to become sick… it was made of meteor!
Lionel arrived an hour later. Clark told him this and that, so, he was right and Martha must be inside the mansion.
They might find another way to get in, so they enter flying.

Two months! Eight weeks and a half closed in those walls! Martha started to think she will never escape from Lex. Suddenly, he enter.
"Come on! We are leaving!"
"What?!"
"Your dear heroes are here and we must leave!"
"No, I'm not going anywere"
"I don't thing so…"
And two big men tied her arms and gagged her, and took her out. She couldn't say anything more that "mmmmmmmmmmmm!!". But she shouted the "mmmmmmmm!!" as loud she could.
Lex took one of the men's guns and said "Take her to the helicopter and wait there"

"Lex!" shouted Lionel
"Daddy! What's a surprise. I'm glad of your visit…"
"Where's her?"
"Her, who?"
"Do not play, Lex! Where's Martha?"
"Oh! Mummy is in the garden, waiting me in the helicopter, and if I don't go in five minutes, she will die."
"You're not my son, you're the evil!"
"Thanks"

While it was happening, Clark saved his mother from the two big men and discover her secret with no need of hearing anything…
He was helping her mum to go out the helicopter when they heart a shoot.
"Lionel!" shouted her "Clark, please, go to help him, come on!"
Clark run, and Martha went too, but more - really more - slowly.

When Clark arrived, Lex weren't there and Lionel was lying on the floor with the leg hurt.
"Where's your mother?"
"She's coming"
"But Lex…"
"Crap!"

And just when Clark was standing up, Lex appears with his gun aimed to Martha's tummy.
When Lionel saw her was as surprised as Clark when discovered the secret… she was pregnance!

"I'm sorry, Lionel, but I…"
"Shut up!"
"That was what I wanted, daddy… I want your dear woman to take your son and do you unhappy for ever. But this bitch rang you and then… all went bad…" Martha was really scared, she was crying. And near Lionel there was more and more blood.
"I want to grow up your son as it was mine, I want you to become you mad looking first for her, and then for the baby… but it couldn't be, so now I only can kill all you… happy family. Last word, mummy?"
"I love you, darling…" she said crying.
And when Lex went to shoot the gun, Clark run and stopped him, of course. And Martha run near Lionel.
"I love you. I want to tell it to you, but I didn't want to obligate you to change your life for a baby that maybe you don't want… I was really confused… I'm so old to have a baby, and…"
Lionel put his finger in front of Martha's lips and said:
"Martha, I love you, too. It doesn't matter if you don't told me about your pregnancy immediately, it doesn't matter, really… Martha I would do anything for you, I would give my live for yours, and now, also for our son… because I love you. An if you wants me to move to Washington, I will move; I only want one thing…"
"What?"
"You marry me"
"Oh! Darling… Oh! Yes! Of course! That's wonderful! I love you, Lionel Luthor…" she hugged him, and he kissed her, and she kissed him, and they touch Martha's tummy, and Clark did it too.

(The day Lionel went out from the hospital)

"I want you to know something…" said Martha.
"Say me…" said Lionel.
"I don't want you to move to Washington."
"Why not?!"
"Because I want to get back to Smallville"
"Really mum!" said Clark
"Yes, son. I want all we to be a family, and we must be together to be one"
"It sounds really good, dear" says Lionel
"And what about your politician career, mum"
"It could wait, now I'll have a baby to take care to"

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