Ok here it is at last! All I can say is sorry it took so long and that I can only hope you have remained interested in the story. The next chapter will really focus on brainiac, Clark and Lois, so bear with me for now. It will also bring Jor-El into the picture at long last so you may look forward to that.
Please enjoy.
Jack stared at the girl skipping carefree along the path before him, her long curly blonde hair bouncing around behind her. This whole thing was so messed up that it was beginning to frighten him. Agh who the hell was he kidding, he had rocketed from a little fear to the way the first King Kong victim had felt just before they were eaten or trodden on the moment she had called him Daddy.
The last thing he could remember was throwing that car off of himself, and then kind of just falling. The rest was blurry until not five minutes ago, when he woke up on the floor in the Luthor mansion, Lex unconscious adjacent to him, and facing a terrified little blonde girl who had a weird urge to call him Daddy. He shivered at the name, the title, the meaning behind it.
The moment he had seen his surroundings upon waking up, he had used his heat vision on the still active machine, destroying the main accelerator, having recognised it from the machine he had used. It was like a light switch had gone off in his head when his eyes fell upon the machine part.
It was the reason they had stormed the mansion, his home, meaning that they didn't have another one. After all, the mansion that night was one of the most dangerous places to be. Once he had destroyed the accelerator, he super sped towards the girl, picked her up, and sped all the way to this mini park.
He was going to have to figure a way out to build another machine to get her back, but he didn't even know what year she had come from, what month or day. Without these he couldn't take her anyway, so for now he was just going to have to deal with…Christ he didn't even know her name.
He concentrated hard, harder than he could remember concentrating before, trying his best to remember how he ended up in the Luthor mansion when he was almost dead next to his once beautiful car. He remembered falling after he had thrown the vehicle and being caught by Leila, then the sound of a gun firing ringing through his head.
Had the bullet really penetrated his supposed steal chest? Because if so, then unfortunately the answers were not going to come easy. Did everyone think he was dead? Or were they all out looking for him? He sighed and ran his hand through his jet black hair. Why couldn't he have been born into a normal family? Why had this crazy shit always happened to him?
When he was five it was not being able to tell the world that his Mother, father, uncle and pretty much everyone he knew were super powered ass-kicking crime fighters. Not to mention he was half alien, oh yeah! Did he not mention that!? His thoughts were interrupted when the little girl came to a halt in front of him. He also froze and stared at her, trying not to show his fear. Children could smell fear.
"Daddy?" The blonde bundle asked suspiciously, wrapping her arms together behind her back and attempting something that resembled a puppy. His eyes narrowed.
"What?" He replied cautiously.
"If I'm really really really good yeah?" She drew out the 'yeah' at the end as she began to sway from side to side. She waited for her fathers nod before continuing, which eventually was given.
"Yeah?"
"Can we get ice cream?" Her eyes seemed to grow, her shoulders slumped and her entire body tensed.
Jack almost laughed. Here she was trying to give him the puppy dog eyes, trying to give him the puppy dog eyes. He had been in meetings with presidents before, turned down men who had even offered him their daughters for a night, and she thought she could just give him the puppy dog eyes and have whatever she wanted?
"Sure what flavour?" Wait what? What the hell was that? Was that him? Did-did he just say yes to ice cream. Then again when had he ever said no to ice cream?
"Yay! Can I have chocolate please? With chocolate chip and chocolate sauce?" She asked, clearly becoming excited at the thought of ice cream. There was a long pause before Jack answered her.
"So I'm gonna say you like chocolate, right?" He asked, answered by her enthusiastic nod. "Well how about this, I'll ask you a few questions and if you get it right, we'll get ice cream, that sound good?" She nodded once again.
"You promise?" She asked, narrowing her eyes. Jack snorted. The girl was suspicious of him, she had been trained well.
"I promise. Now first question, what's your name?"
"Katy!" She yelled, causing him to jump a little.
"Ok. Who's your Mommy?" He asked expectantly. She seemed confused by the question, as if he should know. He guessed it must be weird to have your father ask who your mother is.
"Your wife" She answered as if he was an idiot. "You're such an idiot Daddy"
"Alright but what's her name?" He tried once more, hoping that she wouldn't provide him with another answer that would sicken him.
"Mommy" He let out a long sigh and put his face in his hands. He was going to do some serious damage to someone if he didn't get a real answer soon.
"Ok but what do I call her?"
"Well sometimes you call her Lois" She answered as if it were the simplest thing in the world. Jacks mouth dropped open, his eyes growing to new limits.
"Shut up!" He yelled out before he could stop himself. He quickly flung his hand to his mouth as the sudden fear seemed to stab at his chest. He watched the little girl giggle behind her own hand as she watched her father behave stupidly. "Erm…what I meant was excuse me?"
"Yeah, you call her a lot of things. You actually call her wannabe-Lois" Jack let out a relieved breath of air. For a second there he was about as close to a heart attack as he had ever been. "And honey, butterbean, Barbie, sweetheart, naughty, shorty, midnight horror, freak, Sean, banana, minty, man-love, fish-face, skeletor, He-man and beast" Jack stared at her in utter shock.
"Where did you-"He began but was interrupted.
"Yorkie, Mrs Broom, blondy-locks, Iceman, Bin dweller, foot stall, big foot, Dr Die, smelly, beautiful, pig breath, butt face, a good boy, horse, the grim weeper, dipstick, fat lips, meals-on-wheels, dog lover, toenails and the loose moose" She finished and greedily took in a huge mouthful of oxygen. Jack simply stared, his eyes wide with horror. He could only hope that she didn't know the meaning of half those names.
"Where the hell did you learn to talk like that?" He asked, the look of horror still clearly etched into his facial features. Katy seemed to look around for the answer, as if she shouldn't say anything.
"Uncle Clark" She answered, her eyes clenching shut at the stupidity of her answer. Jack crouched down so he was eye level with her and tried the look his father had given him so many times before hand.
"You know kiddo, when I was your age I was told a secret by my Daddy. Do you want to know what it was?" He asked, watching as her eyes grew wide with anticipation and nodded rapidly. "Well, he told me that if I lied it would alert the liar fairies. Now the liar fairies don't like liars, so when they get alerted they become very angry. Want to know what they do?"
"Yes please" She replied, her eyes now the size of saucers.
"They wait until you're asleep, and then they sneak past your Mummy and Daddy, and eat your face!" He yelled the last part, causing the little girl to scream.
"But you have super hearing! You'll hear them!" She cried desperately, and Jack knew he had her in the palm of his hand. Shame he had to scare a little girl in order to get his way, but sacrifices had to be made.
"You'd think! But their extra quiet you see. Now bearing that in mind, what does Uncle Clark call Mommy?" He tried once again, secretly enjoying torturing her.
"He calls her Leila" She answered terrified. Jack froze. His face felt like stone all of a sudden, his eyes felt like massive boulders just wanting to hit the floor and his head, well that was another story. That just wanted to come clean off altogether. "Daddy?"
Jack shook his head, trying his hardest to focus back on the child, but he couldn't. Leila Olsen, Barbie as he had called her before, was his wife and mother of his child. It was inconceivable. He suddenly regretted what he did to Lois and Clark, to introduce them to their children like that, because if they felt half as freaked as he did right now, he was a heartless bastard.
"Daddy? Are there anymore questions?" Katy asked, a little frightened at her fathers expression. Jack shook his head once more, still feeling as if he had a major fever.
"Yes, yes. How old are you and when's your birthday?" He asked, though his voice was distant and dry.
"I'm 7 and a half, born on the 18th of November, 2034. Grandma says I'm a big girl" She chirped. Jack just nodded absently. "Ice cream?"
"Sure, but then we're stopping at Gran and Grandpa's" He answered, reeling in the past 20 minutes. Katy held her arms up to him, signalling she was ready to be picked up. He did so and looked around for any signs that people were watching. Noticing no one else was around; he shot up into the air towards the Wayne Mansion.
Lois, future Lois, and Leila stood in silence in the living room. It had been like this now for a while, but only one seemed uncomfortable with it.
"So!" Cried out the younger Lane girl, clapping her hands together simultaneously. The two other women slowly turned their heads to her, both with raised eyebrows. The older Lane smirked, realising what was about to happen.
"So?" Asked Older Lois.
"So you married Smallville huh?" Said Younger Lois. Leila rolled her eyes and went back to the article she was reading in the paper dedicated to Jack Wayne. She was particularly interested in the people saying they had seen the boy only hours ago. Some saying he was walking in Smallville, some said in the park with a little blonde girl and the rest just plain random.
"Yes, I married Smallville" Older Lois answered, crossing her arms over her chest and keeping the smug smirk. Oh how she loved to torture herself.
"Right. That's what you did. You went and married Clark Kent, Smallville, Farm boy, captain corn, prince of plaid, Dr Mystery. But here's the thing see, before I found out a few things, he was endearing at most. When does he start liking me?"
"Oh honey if you want to keep your feelings to yourself then at least learn how to be subtle. Look I'm you, isn't that enough for you to trust me?" Older Lois tried, knowing straight away that that was her way of fishing for answers, answers concerning Clarks current feelings.
"That's exactly why I don't trust you" Replied younger Lois, now crossing her arms and smirking. It was then that Future Clark (still in the superman get-up) Past Clark, Kara and Chloe burst into the room, ready to tell everyone what their plan was. However, upon entering the room and seeing the almost mirror images of the two Lois's staring at each other, froze.
"Dear God" Clark whispered so quietly only his future counter part could hear him.
"Tell me about it" He whispered back.
"Look erm…Lois" Future Lois coughed awkwardly, the two of them having not noticed the stampede of people standing at the door. "I know that you've started having feelings for Clark since you arrived here…"
"What!?" Was Clarks reaction, his voice echoing around the room. He stepped forward towards Lois, his hands showing his disbelief. "What did-?"
"Sledge hammer!" Younger Lois yelled out unrepentantly. Clark closed his eyes and violently shook his head. He was trying, he really was, but the present occurrences were beginning to confuse him.
"Sledge hammer?" He asked, not quite believing his super powered ears. "Lois, what the hell?"
"Sledge hammers. We were just talking about hitting you with a sledge hammer" She answered. Clark's jaw was now hitting the floor. Future Lois stared at her younger self with bemused and very wide eyes.
"You know I've always wanted to do that but never had the courage to ask" The older Lois trailed off, staring at the roof. Older Clark rolled his eyes while his younger self was still staring at Lois like she had an axe through her head. Leila didn't even flinch during all this, having grown up with it anyway. Lilly suddenly ran screaming through the living room, followed closely by her older brother John.
"Come on Lil', just have a quick look!" Before running out again. Kara and Chloe looked at each other and sighed as one.
"Why can't we just have one normal day?" Chloe asked her blonde Kryptonian friend who offered her a friendly smile. It was then that Jack Wayne waltzed through the double doors opposite them, carrying a little blonde girl and wearing a broad smile.
"Hey guys! Meet my daughter"
No-one moved, nobody spoke. Not one person even had the courage to blink in case he was a hallucination. Lilly and John had stopped running frantically around the room, the two Clarks just stared opened mouthed next to their timelines Lois Lane, Kara and Leila could feel hot tears beginning to slide down their cheeks, and Chloe was….smiling.
The tap from behind a door leading to the kitchen became the only noise in the whole manor, as it let slip a few tired droplets and watched them splatter against the sink. Jack's broad smile faded from his face at their expressions. Katy, who had her arms wrapped round his neck, was staring at them all shamelessly. Obviously not caring that her father had just introduced her to her family, for the first time ever.
"J-Jack?" Kara pronounced, stepping cautiously forward, almost as if afraid she would frighten him off. Jacks smile seemed to fade even more as he stared at everyone around him, watching as they seemed unable to turn away, unable to blink.
"Yeah mum. I've only been gone 24 hours and already she's forgotten my name" Jack sighed, staring at the others in mock exasperation. This seemed to clear the air, and before they knew it, everyone was smiling. Kara suddenly lunged forward and embraced her son, kissing him all over.
"Mum!" The boy billionaire yelled in protest, but was unable to stop his frantic mother.
"Oh honey!" Kiss. "My little-"Kiss. "Baby! My big brave boy!" A particularly wet kiss to his left cheek. She suddenly stood back and slapped him before placing both hands on her hips.
"Ouch! What the hell woman?"
"Don't you EVER do that again you hear me!" Kara ordered. She raised a quivering index finger and pointed it right in his face. "EVER!" She repeated firmly, before going back to squeezing the hell out of him.
"Ok Mum I'm going to have to breathe eventually" Jack croaked, his mother cutting off his air supply with increasing speed. Kara reluctantly let go and stared into his eyes, her own containing unshed tears of joy.
It was then that Chloe and future Lois dived forwards for the assault, almost pushing Kara to the floor in their haste. They both clutched him momentarily at the same time before a thought hit future Lois like a sandbag to the face.
"Bruce!" She gasped before rushing of in search of the man.
"So did you all think I had croaked it then or something?" Jack asked staring around the room, at the beaming that surrounded him. No-one seemed to have noticed the blonde girl he was carrying yet.
"Uh YEAH!" Lilly screamed, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "You took a kryptonite bullet to the chest, this is before your pulse disappeared and you stopped breathing. Their playing a tribute to you on all the news channels for God sake!" This seemed to cause him to jolt a little in shock.
"A tribute?" He asked disbelievingly, raising his eyebrows.
"Yes a tribute dude!" John answered, positively ecstatic now.
"H-How?" Came the faint voice of Leila Olsen from behind the crowd. They seemed to part in order for Jack to see her, and he realised that she wasn't smiling. In fact hot streams were flooding down her cheeks as she stared at him, sobering Jack up at once.
"Erm…well, I'm not sure exactly" Jack answered, assuming she was talking about how he had risen from the dead. "The last thing I remembered was seeing you and then….and then I was in the Luthor Mansion, feeling like I had been thrown there"
"The Luthor mansion?" Past Clark asked.
"Yeah" Jack answered, not able to take his eyes off of Leila "It's where I met this thing" Jack raised Katy into the air, and for the first time everyone noticed her.
"I'm sorry this thing?" Chloe asked, astounded he could call a child a thing.
"Who's that?" Past Lois asked, expecting the people around her to know. When she received no response from them, she turned to Jack.
"Well – well it's a bit of a weird story…." Jack recounted everything that had happened until he had arrived in front of them. Tactfully leaving out the point where Leila was the mother. "And so – I guess I'm her father" Jack finished shortly. Everyone seemed to be in shock, their eyes as wide as saucers, staring at the girl.
"How do you know it wasn't a trick?" Future Clark asked quietly, trying to understand what had just been said.
"I think this gives it away. Katy, who am I?"
"Daddy" The little girl answered very quietly, obviously becoming shy at everyone staring at her. She buried her face into the crook of her father's neck bashfully.
"And who's that?" Jack asked her, pointing to his mother. Katy raised her head and squinted at Kara for a bit, making the blonde a little uneasy.
"It's Grandma!" She yelled, suddenly gleeful at seeing her grandmother. Katy raised her arms towards Kara, who seemed to silently struggle for a moment, but conceded to take her from Jack and held her. The little clung to her, looking in a much more comfortable position that she was with her father.
"Right" Said Lois. "Good enough for me. But for now we have another mission to do. Er….future Clark person, Future me and Chlo would you mind staying behind to watch them, while me, Clark and Kara go and see if Jor-El has anything to do with this?"
They all nodded. It seemed that Leila was once again the odd one out, as she didn't nod. She couldn't take her eyes of the girl, and as soon as Katy had seen this, smiled at her unsuspecting mother and waved. Leila simply waved back.
"Wait! Wait! Wait!" Leila yelled, stopping everyone. "Who's the mother?" She asked, gazing directly into Jacks icy blues. She watched as he gulped and averted his eyes. Lois watched him carefully, almost reading his face like a book, before turning to Leila and stating:
"Time waits for no-one Leila, let's go!" And with that, everyone marched towards the door. That was until Katy's voice rung through the air, stunning everyone freezing where they stood.
"Bye Mommy"
DO tell me what you thought won't you, otherwise you know I can't really be held responsible for my actions. -Cough- Murder -Cough-
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