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CHAPTER 4

Lois made her way down the stairs and ran her hand through her hair nervously. She walked into the living room and saw that Clark wasn't where she left him. She walked into the kitchen when she noticed the light on inside the barn. Oh god their discussion didn't send him into a state of brooding did it? She threw on a jacket and went out to find her farmboy. She walked in and stopped in her tracks. He was looking underneath a tractor, the surprising thing was he was holding the tractor up and over his head with one hand. He must have heard her gasp because he looked up at her.

"Oh sorry Lois" he said gently setting the tractor down and taking a step away from it.

"No don't be" Lois said as she walked closer to him her eyes still full of awe. "I mean you told me you could do all these things, it's just another thing to see you actually do them." Lois said she was right in front of him but her eyes were on the tractor.

"You want a demonstration?" he asked and Lois looked at him and shook her head.

"No Clark, I don't want you to do things for me, I mean this is who you are, you're not some party trick." She said and he chuckled.

"Well thank you for that, but really I don't mind." Clark said. He watched as she thought it over.

"Ok, but only the stuff you want to and if you get tired or something just stop." She said and he grinned.

"Hmm well you saw my strength, uh look over at that lantern hanging on the post." Lois glanced over and watched as he lit the lantern with fire from his eyes. "Don't want a fire?" he asked her and he blew and the lantern quickly went out. "There is my x-ray vision but there isn't much I can do to show you that one."

"What color underwear am I wearing?" Lois asked and they both blushed at her boldness.

"Are you sure you want me to look?" he asked and she rolled her eyes.

"Come on Smallville show me what you've got." She challenged. Clark gave her a shrug and focused on her body he stopped and looked up at her.

"Any particular place you would rather me look." He gestured towards her chest and then below. Lois blushed realizing just how intimate this request of him was.

"Well you've seen it all before." She said with a cough remembering when he caught her coming out of the shower. "You're choice."

Clark focused and then looked up at her. "Wow Lois I didn't know"

"What?" Lois said her mind raced, she was wearing underwear wasn't she?

"Blue with red dots?" he asked with a raised brow. Lois blushed, holy crap he just looked at her through her clothes.

"Have you ever done that before?" she asked. "I mean to me?"

"No" he shook his head seriously. "I would never invade your privacy like that." He said.

"So uh what about super speed?" she asked.

Clark looked at her thoughtfully. "If you could be anywhere in the United States right now where would you want to be?" He asked. Lois thought for a minute.

"New York City" she said. Clark stepped in front of her.

"Do you trust me?" he asked.

"Of course I do" Lois said with a roll of her eyes. She let out a squeal when Clark scooped her up into his arms. She thought she heard him tell her to 'hang on' but she wasn't quite sure because the next thing she knew the wind was blowing in her face as the most fantastic feeling swept through her body. When she realized they had stopped. She looked to see they were in an alley. Clark set her down gently on her feet and took her hand. He led her out and she found herself looking up at the billboards and lights of Times Square.

"Holy…" she couldn't explain how she felt. She looked over at Clark who was watching her with a smile on his face. Lois felt her heart leap into her chest he looked so handsome underneath the lights. She shook her head clearing the crazy thoughts.

"You want to look around?" he asked and Lois nodded and he took her hand and they walked the sidewalks of New York City.

Later that evening

Lois laughed gleefully as they came to a stop on the Kent Farm porch. She would never get tired of the feeling of his speed. From now on he was taking her everywhere. He set her down and she sat on the porch swing catching her breath. There was a chill in the air but she wasn't ready to go inside yet. He sat down beside her.

"Any other awesome abilities?" she asked and he looked at his hands and he sighed.

"I can't right now, but I will eventually begin, eventually to um fly." He said.

"Fly" shrieked Lois. "Oh my god that's so cool, promise me when you learn you will take me for a flight," she said her eyes lit up in excitement.

Clark chuckled and leaned back in the swing. Lois followed suite and they unconsciously leaned against each other.

"You got a deal" he said and she grinned.

A few minutes went by in a peaceful silence when Lois spoke again. "I haven't changed my mind."

"About what?" Clark asked looking up at the sky and the stars.

"I still want to have your baby." She said. Clark looked at her with his mouth dropped open.

"Lois did you not hear anything I said to you tonight?" he asked standing up and pacing the floor. "I'm an alien."

"Yeah Smallville and did you hear when I told you that you being an alien didn't matter to me." Lois said.

Clark stopped mid placed and looked at her as if she had suddenly sprouted another head. "Lois it's not like I told you I was from another country. I'm from another planet. My DNA is different than yours. Chances are we couldn't even have kids anyway." He said frustrated, he thought she understood.

"Do you know that for sure?" Lois jumped up and stood in front of him. "I mean in all this time that you've been talking with your Kryptonian father did you ever ask him? Didn't it ever cross your mind about your future of hey I wonder if I could ever have kids?" Lois asked her arms were crossed in front of her and her foot was tapping impatiently.

"Well no" Clark said backtracking slightly. He had thought about it when he had been with Lana, but when that relationship had ended so long ago he just gave up on any chance of a future with a wife and kids and the white picket fence. He didn't want to be alone but he was slowly accepting it as part of his fate. Lois was throwing a huge wrench into it though. "Jor-El and I don't discuss those kinds of things, we usually discuss what a screw-up I am or what word shattering threat is around the next corner."

"So you don't know." Lois said with a smug grin. "So first thing tomorrow you can go ask Jor-El."

Clark sighed and rubbed his eyes. This was too crazy. Lois watched his frustration and sat down next to him. "That is if you are even willing to do this. I mean if you don't want to have a baby with me just say it." Lois said.

"Lois it's not that." Clark said. "What you're asking of me is something that I have always have wanted but never dreamt I could have. There are so many factors that could go wrong and I don't think you're thinking this through. I'm super powered and what if my child is. What if while you are pregnant the baby hurts you? I don't want to risk that. And let's talk about the fact that this will completely change our relationship. Lois you want us to have a baby and we're not even together, I know that may work for some people but I'm not built that way. I look at having children as something you do with someone you love. I know you said we could work out a custody arrangement, but what if that isn't enough. I don't know if I can only spend half of my time with my child. Plus this child will be half Kryptonian which is a huge responsibility as it is, can you handle having a super powered baby?" he asked.

Lois looked at him thoughtfully. "I know it may not seem like it but I have thought about it. Smallville, I want to have a baby and I could have a baby that god forbid could have disabilities and could need constant care. Would that child not deserve to be loved as much as any other child?"

"Of course not?" Clark said indignant.

"So why wouldn't a baby with a little special powers not deserve that as well?" Lois asked. "And yes I agree that having a baby out of wedlock isn't something a girl really plans and hopes for but I've accepted it my fate. And you're my best friend and I would move into this farm tomorrow to raise this baby with you if that's what it took. At first I thought I could just do it alone have a baby, no father needed and just do it. I realized that those things could be different with you." She stood up and looked out at the nighttime sky. "You think you're destined to be alone and so am I. So why can't we be alone together, or well you know what I mean. We're best friends and best friends can raise a baby without being together."

"Lois what are you saying?" Clark asked standing behind her. Lois took a deep breath all the feelings she had for him were bubbling to the surface. All these feelings that she had stuffed down deep inside were becoming uncovered. She took a deep breath and pushed them down hard. Those feeling were for a Lois Lane a long time ago. Things have changed and she and Clark were just friends and that was the way things were supposed to be.

"I'm saying." She turned to look at him. "I'm saying I want to have your baby."

Clark stared deep into her eyes and felt something in his chest, something indefinable squeeze his heart.

"I will go see Jor-El and see what he says." He said and Lois broke out into grin and launched herself into his arms. "If he says no Lois then you have to let this go, we'll find a donor and I promise even if I'm not the father I will still support you."

"Thank you Smallville, thank you. You won't regret this." She said hugging him tight. He hugged her back and she pulled away. "I have to go tell Chloe" she squealed as she ran back into the house.

Clark looked up into the sky and shook his head, what had he gotten himself into. He turned and started to walk into the house when a thought hit him upside the head. He couldn't just go to a doctor and make a 'donation'. Which means for he and Lois to have a baby they would have to…

Ok so there it is. Sneak preview. Lois calls Chloe and Chloe tries to figure out Lois and Clark's true feelings for one another.