Title: Life goes on…but to what?
Author: alienangel19852003
Summary: AU story Lois and Clark twenty years in the future. Imagine having a dad who's a reporter by day and Superman by night. A mom who uses her laptop during dinner. Welcome to the hectic lives of Lois and Clark and their teenage twins, Cassandra and Kyle and their youngest daughter Sophie.
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I do not claim to own any of these characters except for Cassandra, Kyle and little Sophie.
Chapter 1
It was a typical Wednesday morning in the Kent home. Lois was looking at her published articles in the Daily Planet with three year old Sophie on her lap.
Clark was dashing around the house looking for things. And the twins were trying not to kill each other as usual.
Cassandra and Kyle were twins and they were very close but they had the tendency to argue. At fifteen they were both coming to their own, Kyle could be a little rowdy and rude, while Casey was more reserved and polite.
Kyle's gross out humor got on everyone's nerves but it seemed to bother Casey the most. And she was slightly more annoyed than usual on this particular morning. She had stayed up later than she should have watching some teen soap on television, and was rechecking her History assignment.
Lois didn't have to even look up when she heard Kyle yelp in pain.
"What did I tell you about using your heat vision on your brother?"
"Ummm….you said no powers in the house. I don't recall you saying anything about using heat vision on anybody." Casey said.
"Well, I'm saying it now DON'T do it." Lois said.
"My hand hurts." Kyle whined.
The twins like their father were impervious to pretty much all harm except Kryptonite and of course each other.
"I barely got you." Casey said.
"Still hurts."
Lois got up balancing Sophie on her hip and went to study the burn.
"Kyle quit being such a baby and toughen up. It'll be fine in like five minutes."
Kyle continued to pout.
Lois ignored her son and called her husband, "Clark."
"Yeah." Clark said speeding in from the living room.
"Are you gonna take Sophie to your mom's today, I've got to interview the Mayor about his plans to reopen the new plaza on the west side."
"Lois, I can't. I have to go to the office I have to make sure the Perry doesn't blow a gasket this morning did you even read the Times. We got scooped again." Clark said.
"Damn Chloe every since she fell in that vat of Kyrptonite and got those damn visions she's been a thorn in my side." Lois said.
"Damn!" Sophie said giggling.
"No sweetie, that is bad, bad word. And little girls who say it won't have any of Grandma's homemade cookies." Lois said.
"I won't say it no more." Sophie said.
"See she's a good girl Lois." Clark said.
"Daddy! Daddy. Fly!" Sophie encouraged.
"No sweetie your Dad's gonna drive you out to Grandma's." Lois said.
"Sophie wanna fly!" Sophie screamed.
Lois passed Sophie off to Clark.
"I can't do this today. I have to stop by the office and then go pick up my suit from the cleaners. I have to make sure the twins have their lunches. I have do a load of laundry before I go."
"You have to sign my math quiz." Kyle piped up.
"Can't you just forge my signature just this once?" Lois asked sounding tired as she loaded the breakfast dishes into the dishwasher.
"Lois." Clark said taking the paper from Kyle and scrawling his name on the bottom.
"All right." Kyle said.
"Uh oh. What did I just sign."
"You signed a 76 D." Casey said not looking up from her homework.
"Jonathan Kyle Kent, a 76? I am astonished at you." Lois said.
"Mom." Kyle said.
"Don't you Mom me you're grounded. You aren't going to see that new thriller this weekend with your friends. You're staying at Grandmas and helping her clean out the loft."
"Like you're one to talk Dad said, you failed your senior year and you had to retake it in Smallville and the only reason you got out of it was because Dad talked to Lex Luthor."
An ominous silence fell over the room. Clark and Lois looked at each other much like Clark's parents had glanced at each other one day when he was fifteen.
"I can't believe you two know the President of the United States!" Kyle said.
"We knew the President. He's not the same guy anymore." Clark said.
"I miss President James, he was nice to you."
"Well, check it parentals I gotta jet." Kyle said.
Casey rolled her eyes.
"Not literally I hope. Ms. Hendrix is already starting to suspect after what Sophie did to her rose bush." Lois said.
"I'm not running. David's got his car."
"You're not getting in a moving vehicle with that boy." Lois said.
"Come on Lois let him have fun with his friends let him live a little." Clark said.
"Those boys are arsonists. I do not want our son hanging out with that sort of juvenile delinquents. Why can't you hang out with some petty thieves or something?" Lois asked.
"At least then you'd get me something nice for mother's day." Lois said dryly.
"Sophie wanna Fly!" Sophie wailed struggling in her father's arms.
"Lois what are we gonna do about Sophie these tantrums are getting more frequent and more outrageous."
"Don't ask me you are the one who spoils her rotten."
"Aren't you the one who holds her all the time and never puts her down?"
"Isn't it your mother who mother who lets her get away with murder?" Lois asked.
"Isn't it the General who bought her a pony for her last birthday?"
"It was a very pretty pony, and you were the one who let her keep in the HOUSE!"
"Well, I think we should be off to school don't you think Kyle." Casey said.
"Yeah we're vapor." And with that the two teens speed off out of the house before their parents could tell them not to run.
"Look Clark we're both under stress. I wish we had some time alone with each other. All this being apart makes us fight more."
"I know but there was a nuclear warhead in downtown New York I had to go disable last night."
"Yeah and the night before that I was working late." Lois said.
"Do you think you can pencil me in for this afternoon we could go on a date. I know this really nice Mexican place. In Mexico."
"People are gonna think I'm cheating on you when they see me going around with Superman." Lois smirked.
"Well you can wear a costume too. It will be fun."
"Role play kinky." Lois said.
"So at around one okay, I'll come pick you up on the west side after your interview?"
"Yeah."
"Okay well, I've got to go." Clark said.
"Hold Sophie for a second while I change. Looks like we're gonna have to fly anyway to get to the office before Perry throws his coffee cup at Jimmy,"
"Poor kid."
"I know he always gets hurt," Clark said handing Sophie back to Lois.
He sped out of the kitchen and then back in again a second later wearing his Superman costume. Lois handed him Sophie and she watched them speed out the back door and then up they went flying into the wild blue yonder.
Lois watched for a few minutes thinking about her family and the strange journey that led her to be Mrs. Superman.