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TWO YEARS LATER (Diane is about 10 years old)
"Pssst. Papa. Are you awake?"
"ughhh. What time is it?" Lex Luther rolled over and squinted at the clock on his bedside table. It read 2:30 am. He flopped facedown into his pillow letting his eyes close one more.
"Papa I made breakfast!" A gleeful voice sounded too happy for that early of the morning.
Lex Luther raised his head again to see his adopted daughter sitting on the edge of his king size bed holding a tray of what looked to be buttered toast, orange juice, and some unrecognizable form that might have once been scrambled eggs.
"The sun hasn't even come up and you want me to do what now?" Lex groaned shifting so that he was sitting up, he rubbed the palm of his hand into his eyes trying to wake up a bit more.
"We can share this breakfast I made! It will be perfect! It'll be just me and you, no dumb butlers to tell us that our manners are imperfect." She said happily plopping the tray of "food" on the bed between them.
"That's because you have the table manners of a wild ape, and stop getting crumbs all over my bed." Lex snapped trying to brush the crumbs away from himself and his down blankets. He looked up to see Diane pouting, looking sadly as the food. Lex sighed and pulled her over to his side and grabbed the plate of food putting it on his lap.
"Fine. We can have your Breakfast." Lex sneered poking at the burnt food. "How did you even make this without setting off a smoke detector or getting caught by the security?" He glanced down at the child in his lap and smirked at the guilty expression on her face.
"I.. Well you see… I kind of.. swung on the chandeliers to the servant's kitchen." She was looking down at the bed, "Please don't be mad." She desperately glanced up at his face hoping to escape reprimand.
"Well I'll have to improve security, but I think eating this horrible breakfast with me might be punishment enough." Lex chuckled, although he would never admit it, throughout the two years that Diane had lived with him, she had grown on him to the point that he thought of her as his own child.
"You can have the eggs, I want the toast." She childishly declared which picking up one piece and chomping into middle of it. Rolling his eyes Lex picked up the only thing that looks actually editable, the orange juice. After two years of living with the tiny acrobat Lex had gotten use to be woken at strange hours. The girl suffered from nightmares, which ranged from waking up suddenly to screaming and not waking up until hit with cold water in the tub. Tonight he guessed it was a lower scale because of how calm she was acting.
"Pan eye pum wib youb to wook todway?" Diane asked around the mouthful of toast.
"No talking with a full mouth, but yes you get to come with me to work today. Now if you excuse me I'm going to back to bed because I don't have to go to work till seven." As he was talking he set the tray of food on the bedside table, brushed the crumbs off his bed, and laid back down on his bed.
"Papa?" Lex felt Diane shift on the bed next to him.
"Hmmm?" He was almost asleep.
"…uh it's nothing." He felt her shift again.
"What." Lex was tired, he wanted to go back to sleep. He did not want to have to deal with adorable little girls at this moment. He wondered if he she would forgive him for calling security to take her back to her room.
"It's just…Did you just adopt me as a charity case?" She was suddenly still as if her life depended on her answer. Lex sighed. She had read those newspapers he had tried to throw away. Over the past two years Lex had tried to keep Diane away from media as much as possible. This meant private tutors, indoor gyms and pools, nannies, and higher security. It had been the anniversary of the adoption in the past week and two reporters had gotten through, Lois Lane and Iris West. Both reporters had been thorns on Lex's side for years, and everything he did to try to detour them just made them push at him harder. He had to give it to them though, it was because of them that Diane was able to get close to him. He had wanted to prove to them that he had not just adopted her to make himself look better in the eyes of the people, which is exactly what he had done. He had gone on dozens of events and taken Diane with, only to prove them wrong. Soon however, Lex found himself missing the chattering child, and started taking her with him because he surprisingly enjoyed her.
"Yes." He said simply but before the girl could burst into tears that were threatening to spill over, Lex grabbed her chin lifting her face so they were looking eye to eye. "But you changed my mind. I never thought I could love someone as special as you or hopefully have someone like you love me. Basically Yes but you showed me that that was the best decision of my life." Lex let go of Diane's chin and ruffled her hair awkwardly before turning around and flopping back into his bed.
"Now stop waking me in the middle of the night."
"Thanks dad." And with that the two curled into the bed, not knowing that the future would only hold trouble, backstabbing, and heartbreak.
OK So Voting time! I have a plan but I got to know who do you want Diane to be with? Your choices are: Wally West AKA Kid Flash, Jason Todd as either Robin or just a street kid, or maybe a super villain teen. Tell me if you have someone else in mind! Hope you like this! I wrote this really late cause I am a mess sorry! Love you all! Don't forget to rate and review! I promise it will get better once I get going! 3 Bless you!
