My World
A/N: I am using plot details from the 1990s comic plotline, which is similar to the movie where Superman is killed by Doomsday in the process of defeating him. The ideas in the story below are a combination of the comic books and my own imagination.
Epilogue: The Death of Superman
Superman was dead. By any human measure, he was dead. The Kryptonian technology that had been exposed to Jor-El's AI program triggered the moment Kal-El's pulse stopped. Their primary function was to ensure the survival of the last son of Krypton.
They could tell that while he seemed dead, Kal-El's body entered into a hibernation state in which to heal. The two weeks after the battle with Doomsday, the AI watched from a distance as two funerals happened. One in metropolis where a crowd of strangers buried an empty box, and one in Smallville, where the body of Clark Kent was buried with hundreds of friends, family members and neighbors.
The AI calculated the best way to help Kal-El recover. The body must be moved to the Kryptonian facility in the Arctic. Once there, the body should be placed in the hibernation chamber. The AI calculated that Kal-El should be recovered from his injuries if he were to spend 4 months in the hibernation chamber.
The AI watched as the human known as Lois Lane alone remained beside the grave that contained Kal-El. When she turned to walk away, the AI used the window to enter and take the body in a flash, too quick for any human eye to see.
A Month Later
Lois Lane was back at the planet. She had spent a week with Martha Kent, and then had tried to come back to work, but kept chickening out as she couldn't face Clark's empty desk. But she couldn't take any more sick time, and found herself back here. She looked down at her hand, and saw the diamond engagement ring. The ring that Clark never had the chance to place on her finger.
After a morning of working on a small time story that Perry had assigned to her, to allow her to 'Warm Up,' or at least, that's what Perry said, she went into the break room. When she walked into the room, she got a whiff of someone's lunch, and any hunger that she had experience went away and was replaced by a surge of nausea.
That night, she was back in their apartment. She opened her computer, and looked at her calendar. She wasn't one to keep track of her period, but when she looked at the calendar, she realized that she hadn't had her period since before she returned from the middle east.
Lois's brain froze, realizing the possibility that she could be pregnant. She and Clark had never spoke about children, other than the fact that they didn't know if it was even possible for them. Because of this, Lois and Clark never bothered with birth control.
But apparently it was. "Oh Clark," Lois said to herself, "Could it be true, can I be having your baby?"
Two days later, Lois had finally broken down and bought an at home pregnancy test. She paced back and forth during the entire three minutes that the instructions told her to wait. When the timer dinged she jumped. And turned, slowly, almost afraid to look. She wasn't sure if she was scared that it might be positive, or that it may be negative.
"Come on Lois, you've faced armed gunman, you can handle a simple home pregnancy test." With a large intake of breath, she picked up the test, and looked down, to see a plus size. "It's positive…" Lois said in a whisper. "I'm Pregnant!"
TBC…
