This chapter is a long one. I could have skip some thing now and then but I believe it makes it more real like that. I didn't forget Kara, she will be there in the next chapters :) Don't forget to review.


Chapter 3

Perry's house was big enough for 10, but he was staying alone with his wife since his 2 sons left, almost 10 years ago. Alice, his wife, has retire 3 years ago and was putting pressure on her husband to do so. But Perry wasn't ready. As much as he loves his wife, he feel closer to his job then to her. He consider Lois like a daughter. Richard was like a son. Somehow he felt an even more father/son love with Clark. The first time he saw Clark, he was impress by his writing and reporter skills. The shyness and clumsiness of the man had soften Perry over the years. When Clark Left 5 years ago, Perry was sad at first to lose a good reporter. Later he was angry. His anger surprised him. Clark wasn't the first reporter to quit the Daily Planet, so why was he, for the first time, angry? The reason was simple…He felt like a father betrayed by his son. When Clark calls some weeks ago, asking to takes his job back, Perry almost said no. But Norm Palmer died 2 days before and Clark was a damn good reporter.

When he saw him for the first time since his 5 years travel, he almost didn't recognize him. He seems leaner but his smile was as big as in his souvenir. It didn't take long that Perry start to feel the same toward Clark, that he was feeling before his departure. Now Perry was doing circle in his living room, waiting for a man he taught he knew and for some explanation. Five minutes before 7, the door bell rang. Perry got up and opens the door. Clark was standing there in his brown three pieces suit. His big rims glasses were fold in his pocket. Perry wonder how he didn't connect the dot before.

Perry: Come in… The other aren't arrives yet.

Clark: Thanks.

Perry: Alice is at a friend birthday party, so we shouldn't be disturb tonight.

As they talk they reach the living room. The TV was playing on mute. Perry gestured the couch and with a nod Clark sat down.

Perry: Want anything to drink? A beer? A glass of water?

Clark: No thanks Mr. White.

Perry: Are you nervous?

Clark: A little…

A sad smile cross Clark face as the door bell rang again. Perry leaves Clark to open the door. As soon as the door open :

Lois: Sorry if were late, the babysitter was late and Jimmy was…

Jimmy: I wasn't…

Lois: Yes you were!

Richard: Lois Hun we're not late…

Lois: I'm sure we are…

Perry: No you're not.

They enters the living room and the silence fills the house. Clark was standing near the window, facing it, looking outside. The tension was almost unbearable. Clark was the one to break it.

Clark: I think I should start by saying that I'm sorry that I couldn't tell you all the truth and…

Lois: You couldn't… YOU COULDN'T!

Clark turns around to face them. He looks questioningly at Lois.

Lois: You're so hypocrite! You play with us! Yes you could have…

Clark: I never play with you…

Lois: Yeah right… I'm sure you enjoyed tricking us and laugh at how dumb we were not seeing what was in front of our nose. Glasses!

Clark: I never, ever, laugh or play with you, any of you… Remember Lois I never lie!

Lois: That's the biggest lies I've ever heard!

Clark: When did I lie to you Lois?

Lois: You lied everyday single day since you came on Earth, damn alien!

Clark looks at her, his eyes almost pop out of his head.

Richard: Calm down Hun…

Lois: No I won't calm down. I don't even know why I follow you here.

Richard: Let him explains himself… Let him a chance…

Lois: A chance… (sigh) You have 5 minutes, after that I'm leaving. So explain yourself Cla… Whoever you are.

Clark: I'm Clark Kent.

Lois: Yeah…

Clark: My birth name is Kal-El. I was the only son of Jor-el and Lara of the house of El of krypton. My father was a scientist and he knew that Krypton was doom. He tried to convinced the council to leave Krypton but they didn't believe him. The council make him swear not to leave Krypton nor spread the word of his doom theory. So he build a small spaceship to send me on Earth. I was nothing more than a newborn when he send me here. I have no memory of him, my mother or Krypton.

Lois and Richard sat down near Jimmy on the couch.

Clark: My spaceship land in a field near the kent farm. They found me. They decided to raise me as their son. My parents weren't able to have children of their own, so I was like a miracle baby for them. So I was raised by Martha and Jonathan Kent on a farm, without knowing my true origins.

Clark turns back to the window, like lost in his souvenir.

Clark: At the age of 3, I was able to lift the farm truck with a single hand. At 8 I was running faster than the wind and I was jumping higher than a house. I start to fly when I was nothing more than a teenager. I always knew I wasn't from around here, but I never knew exactly where I was from, until…

Clark shakes himself and turns back to them, lean back on the frame of the window.

Clark: When my father died I found my spaceship in the attic. In it there was a crystal. I left my mother to follow the crystal. With the crystal I built the fortress. It's where I learn everything I know about my origins. So if you ask me, I'm Clark Kent.

Richard: But the shyness and clumsiness, that was a lie?

Clark: No… not really. I mean… I grow up knowing that I wasn't like everyone else. I was afraid that someone finds out about me, so I didn't really fit in. When I grow old, it became more like shyness. For the clumsiness, it's almost the same story. It's start when my super hearing kick in. I had trouble control it. So I was hearing so much noise in the same time, that I wasn't able to concentrate right. After that, I realise that being clumsy was handy. The people around you avoids you to be sure not to be knock or splash with coffee. And since my molecular structure is heavier than yours, it was a good way to avoids contact and risking to hurt someone unintentionally.

Lois: And the glasses?

Clark: I needed them in high school. When my X-ray vision kick in it force my eyes to stay steady. After that it was my heat vision. By the time I control those two, everyone was used to see me with glasses. When I learn about my heritage, my father told me that I could help here but that if the people knew about me, about who I really am, that they will ask my help even for problem they can solve by themselves. He told me that you were capable of great thing, you only need the light to show you the way. That's why I came to Metropolis. My mother and father believe I could help you, guide you. They died so that I could live here, and accomplish this mission on Earth. I hold on to Clark Kent because that's who I am… but I save the world as Superman to fulfill my birthparent wishes.

Lois: But you lied to us…

Clark: Never…

Jimmy: What about this 5 years travel around the world?

Clark: Everything I told you happens. Just not in the last 5 years. When my father died, I travel around the world and everything I told you was from this trip. I never lie…

Lois: What about Jason?

Clark: It's complicated…

Lois: I can't wait to hear it all… How could I had your child without even remember the conception?

Jimmy: What Jason is his?

Lois: Yeah he throw a grand piano to protect me on the Gertrude. And yesterday he got rid of two armed man in a second. So explain… You had choose me to be your breeding female before leaving me…

Clark looks like he was about to throw up or something like that.

Clark: I would never had leave if I had know you were pregnant Lois. I swear I didn't know.

Lois: Oh great that makes the two of us. I wasn't aware I was pregnant. Jason didn't create himself.

Clark: No… Do you remember our assignation in Niagara Falls?

Lois: Not much.

Clark: You find out who I was.

Lois: WHAT?

Clark: Yeah… you had your suspicions and you try almost everything to proves it right. I felt on a fire and you find out you were right. I took you to my fortress. You have met my birthparent…

Lois: Wait… I don't remember any of this.

Clark: Let me finish please you'll understand…

Lois: grrrr… ok… but you just lied. You said I met you birthparent.

Clark: Kind of. My mother's hologram. She told me that kryptonian an human weren't compatible for reproduction. And that I should give up my powers to be with you.

Lois: So you choose your power over me and somehow makes me forget about all this…

Clark: No… I gave up my power for you. We were engaged… On our way back here, we heard on the news that the general Zod was taking control of the white house. So I had to get back to try to get my powers back.

Jimmy: So that why you weren't there at the beginning of this story…

Clark: Yes. After Zod, we decide that it was too risky for the faith of the world that I gave up my power again. You were a wreck. It made you suffers to share me with the world. Not being able to love me in the daylight. I decided to erase all your memories of me so that you could be happy.

Lois: If we were engaged that means that you had feeling for me, don't you?

Clark: Yes…

Lois: So if you erased my memories you had yours?

Clark: Yes… The week after, the astronomers taught they had found remains of Krypton. You weren't even looking at me, so I decided to go see for myself.

Lois: How could you erase my memories!

Richard: Lois… I think I understand why he did that. If I could and if I knew you were sad and unhappy I would have done the same.

Lois: But I was pregnant!

Clark: I didn't think it was possible. Kryptonian and human weren't suppose to be compatible for reproduction.

Lois: You could have known if you had stay.

Perry: Enough Lois. I have all my memories. And now that I know what happen I can tell you something. When you got back from Niagara, you were on the edge. Always crying. Then all the sudden you were the happy bad dog Lane again. Chasing lead and running. Clark seems lost and tear apart. When he came in my office telling me he needed to go, taking some long term vacation. I knew there was more to the story that what he was telling me. I ask Richard to come help at the Daily Planet the same day. You start at the Daily Planet 2 days after Kent dismissal.

Richard: And we start dated the next day.

Lois: Yes I remember.

Jimmy: Guys look!

Jimmy got up pointing the TV. Perry took the control and opens the sound system.

TV: The high speed train that travels from Paris to London id out of control. The authority says that…

Lois: Clark do something…

Clark: I wish I could… But I've lost all my power.


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