I also want a baby - 4

Martha was on an old chair, staying on her tiptoes, trying to open the little blocked window of the basement. Suddenly the door was opened and she felt back.

"What fuck are you doing?!" exclaimed Mary Anne's voice "Do you want to kill my baby?!"

She run downstairs and helped Martha to rise up.

"Let me go… please…" begged Martha.

"Shut up!" shouted Mary Anne pushing Martha on the bed as she screamed "You're making me mad!" she rushed on her grasping hard her wrists "You're dead, Mrs. Kent… you still alive just for born my little son… after that we'll make you disappear… and nobody's going to notice it… because you're already dead!!" exclaimed laughing crazily.

"What's going on here?" asked Mike coming downstairs.

"Nothing, dear… she was trying to escape, so I had to tell her the next months plans…"

"You shouldn't scare her, Annie… it's bad for the baby…" said him removing her from Martha holding her waist and kissing her cheek.

"How could she survive to that if she isn't who we buried yesterday, Clark?" asked Lionel as they were looking to the burnt car of Martha.

"You're right… but maybe she didn't drive it…" said Clark.

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know… but that body isn't her, Lionel… trust me!" he looked to Lionel's eyes, which were full of tears that he didn't want to let fall "You were going to have a baby… don't you really want to believe she's alive?!"

"Of course I want, but… Clark… maybe… maybe it's just that… maybe you just WANT to believe that…"

"No, no… it's true… I saw it… there wasn't any baby there… and… I've seen her body enough to know that it wasn't my mother, Lionel…" This time it was Lionel who looked at him and saw the force on his look.

"I trust you"

"Do you?"

"I do" he smiled "But what should we do now… I mean… where should we begin to search?"

"I'll look for her around the world if it's necessary"

"I know you would… but… this is serious, Clark… there are hundreds of places she could be, just if she still in Smallville… what about if she's in Metropolis… or if she's farer… what will we do then?"

"You're right… we need more clues…"

"Come on! You need to have shower!" exclaimed Mike waking up Martha.

"What?" she asked still asleep.

"Get up!"

When she had stand he pushed her to make her walk upstairs. When they were up he took her to the bathroom, and there was Mary Anne with the bath full of water.

"I prepared a relaxing bath for my baby…" she said touching the water.

"Undress and go in!" he ordered. But Martha didn't want to take her clothes off with him there… "Ok… ok… I'm leaving. I have to go to the town, so… take an eye on her, ok, sweetie…" he said kissing his wife forehead and leaving.

The water was hot and Martha really enjoyed having a bath, instead if it was with Mary Anne's hand caressing her six-weeks-pregnant belly all the time. But she stopped when the phone rang, and left to answer it… Then Martha went out the bath, completely naked and run to the door trying to make any noise… it was lock… she began to look for the keys at the hall, but… there was nothing… Then she saw the big windows of the living room and she thought she could broke one and escape through it… but when she was just walking into the living room, Mary Anne appeared behind her.

"Go back to the bath, bitch!" she shouted.

"No. I'm leaving from here."

"You're going nowhere…" and she opened a drawer and took a gun from it "… or I'll kill you"

Martha was frightened, but she had to make herself free from that house.

"Would you really hurt you baby?" asked her caressing her own belly. Then Mary Anne's hands trembled and Martha pushed her arms as the gun fell on the floor. Then she punched her, and Mary Anne tried to hit her back, but Martha seemed to be stronger. She was suffocating her when the door was opened and Mike came in. He grabbed Martha under her shoulders and lifted her from the floor and his wife, who was on the floor. Then he carried her downstairs and threw her on the bed after had closed the door. Without say anything he handcuffed her to the bed and sat astride on her thighs. She was looking at him really scared, when he suddenly punched her… after he began to caress her naked body.

"You shouldn't do that to Mary Anne" advised him as his fingers draw a line from her knee to her belly "She's just trying to take care of you and the baby" he said sliding his hands up to her breasts "and that's the way you pay it to her? Trying to kill her?" he was now grabbing hard, nearly hurting her, and when she tried to yelled, to scream… he took his hand to her mouth and whispered on her ear: "If she listened you I will kill you before the baby's born…"

And she nodded as some cold tears felt on the cushion under her head.

TO BE CONTINUED…