Act X: Opposite Directions
Clark sat at the kitchen table talking to his mom, when he heard the roar of an engine in the driveway.
"Mom?" Clark said to Martha, wondering if she knew that anyone was coming over.
"Don't know dear" Martha said before wiping her hands on a towel and making her way toward the front of the house to see that there was now an SUV parked in the driveway.
"Mrs. Kent" Chloe said getting out of the SUV and waving to Martha.
"Chloe" Martha said walking down the steps of the house and making her way over to where Chloe seemed to be fighting with something in the backseat.
"Chloe" Martha called again, only to get a bag thrust in her arms.
"I did a bit of shopping for the twins" Chloe explained as she placed two more bags in Martha's arms. Chloe then closed the back door and opened the rear-hatch and grabbed a few more bags.
"Just how much shopping did you do?" Martha asked with humor and amazement in her voice.
"Oh ya know…" Chloe said before starting to make her way into the house with both Martha and Jimmy following her with bags. Once inside Clark called out to his mother.
"In here Clark" was Martha's response. Clark arrived to the living room to see the huge pile of bags sitting near the couch.
"What's this?" Clark said pointing to the pile.
"Did some shopping for the twins" Chloe said before taking out items and showing them to Clark. By the time she was done, it was dinner time.
"Jimmy are you going to stay?" Chloe asked her boyfriend.
"Sure" Jimmy said as he eyed the freshly baked pie that Martha had out for dessert today. After dinner had been made and eaten, Jimmy and Chloe made their way back into town for the night.
"Thank you" Clark said as he waved to Chloe and Jimmy as they left.
"That was nice of Chloe" Jonathan said as he sat in the recliner in the living room still looking over some of the items that Chloe had gotten for the twins.
"That it was" Clark said looking at the items and then bringing them to his room, where he and the babies slept.
Three months later….
"Lex we're going to be late!" Jourdan yelled through the closed bathroom door.
"I'm coming" was shouted back.
"Well, we don't have all night" Jourdan said now tapping his foot impatiently.
"Fine" Lex said throwing open the door and glaring at Jourdan. Jourdan on the other hand had his mouth hanging open and was openly checking Lex out.
"Close your mouth" Lex said smirking at Jourdan and his reaction to what he had on.
"If I soooo wasn't taken" Jourdan mumbled as he made his way over to the hotel's room door. Lex could only smirk more, as he followed Jourdan down to the lobby of the hotel. Many stopped and stared at Lex as walked he by in his black leather pants, with a white wife beater with two small fencing foils making an X. They met Ryder in the small bar area of the hotel, before heading out for a night on the town.
"Lex" Ryder said before making their way over to the hot club that they had heard about earlier that day.
"Yes" Lex said eyeing the people in front of him, and wondering how long it would take to get inside.
"Be careful" Ryder said worry lacing his tone. The last time that they had gone out Lex hadn't come back to the hotel until early the next day. Lex just waved away their concerns and entered the club once the bouncer let them in. As soon as they entered the club, Lex glanced over the bodies present to see if there was anyone that fit Clark's description, Lex had decided shortly after arriving back from Spring Break that he would move on with his life and put finding Clark on hold until he got back to the states; being in a different country made it even harder to find out any information, so the search had been put on hold.
"Lex" Jourdan yelled in Lex's ear to get the bald man's attention. Lex nodded his head to Jourdan to signal that he heard him call.
"Ryder and I are over there" Jourdan yelled pointing to a small booth in the club. Lex nodded his head and followed Jourdan over to the booth, where Ryder sat speaking to a man that looked like a male model.
"Hello" the man said once he noticed that there seemed to be two people joining the one person already at the booth.
"Hi" Jourdan said as he slid in next to Ryder, while watching as both Lex and the stranger checked each other out.
"Jourdan" Jourdan shouted over the music to the other man.
"Camdien" the other man said still eyeing Lex.
"That there is Lex and this is Ryder" Jourdan said making the introductions for the others even though it seemed that Camdien was only concerned about one person and that was Lex.
"Pleasure" Camdien said in a slightly British accent, while shaking Lex's hand and then holding on to it for a bit longer than necessary.
"Hmmm" Lex said as he made his way to the other side of the booth for a seat, but it seemed that Camdien had other ideas.
"Care to dance?" Camdien said holding out his hand for Lex to take.
"Sure" Lex said taking Camdien's hand and moving to the dance floor where the house DJ spun multiple tracks to make a heady blend of bass and treble. Once on the floor Lex was spun around so that is back was facing Camdien's front, once positioned Camdien began to sway his hips while holding onto Lex's hips. Lex let the music flow through him and he soon was swaying with Camdien as the tracks blended from one to the other. It was awhile later that found Lex and Camdien at the bar getting something to drink, due to the dancing that they had just done.
"So where are you from?" Camdien yelled to Lex as they sat on the bar stools that over looked the dance floor.
"Kansas if you can believe it" Lex said eyeing a guy on the dance floor that looked suspiciously like Tate Sullivan.
"Kansas" Camdien said stunned at Lex's words.
"Metropolis, Kansas to be precise" Lex said still watching the man on the floor as he walked from person to person asking something.
"Serendipity" Camdien said looking at Lex.
"Why do you say that?" Lex said now turning away from the dance floor to focus on Camdien fully.
"I have a friend that graduated from Vanguard Prep two years ago" Camdien said before signaling the bartender for another drink.
"I just graduated from there" Lex said stunned that he had met someone, who knew a person that had gone to Vanguard Prep in London.
"Small world" Camdien said smiling at Lex and then looking over his shoulder to see someone making their way over toward Lex.
"Lex" Ryder said as he reached Lex at the bar.
"Ryder" Lex said spinning on the stool to face Ryder.
"Jourdan and I are going to head back to the hotel; do you want to come back with us?" Ryder said while eyeing the man next to Lex.
"No, I think I might stay a bit longer if you don't mind" Lex said loud enough for Camdien to hear.
"Okay, if you're sure" Ryder said before heading over to Jourdan and then leaving the club.
"Fancy another dance?" Camdien said with a large smile on his face, there was just something about Lex that had Camdien in overdrive.
"Sure" Lex said walking back onto the dance floor and grinding up against Camdien. It was three songs later that Camdien whispered into Lex's ear.
"Fancy leaving?" Lex looked at Camdien for a moment before deciding that he was here to have fun and if Camdien was going to offer some then he wasn't going to turn it down. Lex didn't answer only grabbed Camdien's hand and began walking toward the door. Once outside, Camdien worked on getting a taxi for the both of them; it didn't take long and both were soon in the taxi and on the way back to Lex's hotel room.
"Nice" Camdien said once he entered Lex's room and had a bit of a look around.
"Can't complain" Lex said walking over to the in room mini-bar.
"Something to drink?" Lex said waving a small bottle of scotch around.
"Nah, think I'll pass" Camdien said sitting on the bed and watching Lex as he moved about the room. It was as Lex walked by for the second time that Camdien made his move, he grabbed Lex around the waist and pulled him into his lap.
"How about we drink later, love" Camdien said kissing the side of Lex's neck that had been calling to him all night. Lex put the empty glass on the floor and straddled Camdien's lap.
"So what do you have in mind?" Lex purred into Camdien's neck as he took in the scent of the man.
"Oh I would say something much more fun then drinking" Camdien whispered before finally kissing Lex full on the lips, Lex groaned for a moment before pulling back a bit to look into Camdien's eyes.
"I think I might be amenable to something a bit more fun than drinking" Lex said with a smirk on his face.
"Good, then let us begin" Camdien said before lying back on the bed and bringing Lex with him. It was many hours later that found Lex and Camdien lying in bed, when there was a loud and hard knock at the door.
"Alexander! I know you're in there." A male voice called through the door. Lex paid it no mind, due to the fact that Camdien had started up again with his stoking upon Lex's body. The knocking continued until the person the other side said:
"Alexander! Don't make me call security" by then Lex was so into what Camdien was doing that he didn't even hear the person on the other side of the door. Camdien on the other hand was busy at work on Lex's body. A few minutes later had Lex calling out a name in ecstasy.
"Clark!" Lex said his body arching into Camdien's touch. Camdien stopped for a minute to make sure that he had heard the name that had just come out of Lex's mouth. The pause was enough that made Lex reverse the roles that they were in. Camdien decided to play along to see if he would hear the name again, it was a few minutes later as Lex pounded into Camdien for the second time that night that the name came as Lex reached his peak.
"Clark!" Lex cried out again before slumping over Camdien's body to help the other man reach his peak. Camdien was stunned at the name that Lex had just called out for the second time that night, but he didn't have enough time to ponder on it due to the fact that the hotel door was slammed in by someone.
"Alexander!" the voice said angry and stunned at what they saw. Lex was lying on his side just sort of looking at the other man before he spoke.
"Is there a reason why you have now broken into my room, Sullivan?" Lex asked a little too casually for it to be safe.
"You didn't answer the first time, and I knew good and well that you were in here." Tate said still standing in the doorway.
"Well, come on in since you seem so keen on the idea" Lex said sitting up a bit with a sheet draped over his lower half. Camdien on the other hand looked around the room for his clothes and found them in a pile on the side of the bed.
"Excuse me" Camdien said before grabbing his clothes and making a mad dash to the bathroom.
"Who in the hell was that?" Tate said shrilly.
"That is no of your concern" Lex said coolly to Tate.
"It is too my concern, when my boyfriend is fucking some British fag" Tate said with a look of contempt on his face.
"Last time I check Sullivan, you and I were not together and I told you to remember that. I am not, nor will I ever be again your boyfriend" Lex said sneering at the term that Tate always loved to use.
"Alex" Tate said starting to whine already about how things were turning out. It was also at this time that Camdien came out of the bathroom fully clothed and still looking stunned due to the name that Lex had called him.
"Ah" Camdien said standing near the bathroom, not sure on what to due.
"Just get the fuck out" Tate said walking over toward Camdien; it was while Camdien looked to Lex to guidance that Tate made his move against Camdien. Tate swung at Camdien and punched him right in the jaw.
"What the hell?" Camdien and Lex said at the same time.
"That will teach you to not touch what is mine" Tate said smugly due to getting a shot in at Camdien. Lex sat on the bed with the sheet about his waist ready to inflict some serious wounds upon Tate.
"Get out" Lex said in a whisper, he'd had enough of Tate and if he didn't leave soon Lex wouldn't be able to reign himself in.
"You heard him" Tate said with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Sullivan I was speaking to you" Lex said from the bed.
"What?" Tate said confused about what was going on.
"You heard me. Get out" Lex said before grabbing the phone and dialing for the front desk.
"Alex what are you doing?" Tate asked worriedly.
"Removing you from my room" Lex said before asking the front desk person to have someone come and escort someone from his room.
"Alex don't do this, we can work this out" Tate said pleading with Lex.
"I don't want to "work it out" and furthermore there is nothing to "work out" in the first place." Lex said eyeing Tate and wondering if it would be worth the effort to ruin his name.
"Alex" Tate whined; it was while this all happened that Camdien made a quick and quiet exit from the room. Lex soon noticed the disappearance of Camdien and let out a sigh, because of Camdien's dismissal.
"Sullivan, get the hell out of my sight" Lex said wrapping the sheet more securely around his waist as me made his way toward the bathroom to clean him self up.
"I won't" Tate said stubbornly to Lex, as if Lex was giving him the option of staying.
"I don't think you understand me" Lex said at the doorway to the bathroom.
"This isn't up for debate, you will be gone from my room by the time I am done with my shower or you will find yourself not only kicked out of the hotel but possibly unable to return back to the states in the near future." Lex said closing and locking the door behind him. He wouldn't put it past Tate to try and come and shower with him. He had done it before when they were a couple, he didn't like it then and he sure as hell wouldn't like it now. Twenty minutes later found Lex walking out of the room to see that Tate had not taken his words seriously.
"Sullivan" Lex said coolly as he made his way over to the phone.
"Alex let's work this out" Tate said coming to stand by Lex trying to entice Lex with his now uncovered top half.
"How about no and put a shirt on" Lex said before slamming the phone down due to Tate pressing the button the phone to end the call.
"Alex I know you are hurt and I can understand that, but this is no way to act" Tate said in a slightly chiding voice.
"Sullivan, are you hard of hearing? Get the hell out of my sight and do it quickly" Lex said making his way over the mini-bar for a scotch. It seemed that when ever he dealt with Tate these days he had to be semi-drunk.
"Alex" Tate whined full out now.
"Sullivan, get out" Lex said through gritted teeth. He could only hope that security would be there soon to escort Tate away.
"Aaah Alex" Tate said wrapping an arm around Lex. That was the worst thing that Tate could have done.
"Do not touch me" Lex said at the same time that a knock came through the door.
"Mr. Luthor" a deep British voice called out. Lex could now sigh in relief that security had arrived and would take care of Tate. Lex walked over to the door, with Tate protesting Lex leaving his arms.
"Yes" Lex said to the man that stood on the other side of the open door.
"I got a call that you were being disturbed."
"Yes, come on in" Lex said opening the door a bit wider and pointing to where Tate stood still topless.
"What's going on?" Tate asked confused as Lex spoke with the man in a hushed tone.
"Alex, answer me" Tate said after he got no response from Lex. It seemed that the man that was with Lex would answer Tate's question for him.
"Mr. Sullivan, how about you come with me?" The large man said walking over toward Tate and then grabbing his arm.
"Let me go" Tate said trying to shake out of the man's hold.
"Alex; tell him that this is just a misunderstanding" Tate said looking to Lex for him to explain to the man that Tate should be allowed in.
"Thank you for removing him, if you could also make sure that he does not in the future try to come into my room I would appreciate it" Lex said watching as the man nodded his head and made his way to the door with Tate is his grasp.
"Alex" Tate said in a panicked voice, due to the fact that Lex was not speaking up for him. The man pulled Tate out of the room and then closed the door behind them. Lex stood on the other side of the door with a smirk on his face that would show Tate never to mess with a Luthor. A few nights later found Ryder, Jourdan and Lex at the same club again.
"Ready" Ryder yelled as the three of them walked into the club again for the second time. It seemed that since Lex went that first time, he had been spending every night at the club trying to find Camdien again, with no luck. Ryder and Jourdan had begun to get worried due to Lex's habits, which seemed to be affecting his fencing. They thought that going with him would maybe slow him down, but it only seemed to speed his partying up.
"You know it" Lex said before sauntering off to the dance floor to grind up on a guy that looked strangely like Camdien, but wasn't.
"He's getting worse" Jourdan yelled to Ryder.
"I know" Ryder said sadly while looking at Lex dancing on the floor. It seemed that since Lex had arrived in Great Britain that the search for Clark McBride had stalled and didn't look to be picked up anytime in the near future if the habits that Lex seemed to have taken up were any indication.
"What do we do?" Jourdan said looking at Lex as well, and the new body that had slid up to grind against Lex.
"I don't know, if we try and help he will just push us away but he has to know that what he is doing isn't the best thing either." Ryder said watching Lex as he spoke to a man that nodded his head once Lex finished speaking.
"Where is he going?" Jourdan said as he watched Lex leave the club and go out into the night.
"I think you know the answer to that already Jourdan" Ryder said humor and sadness lacing his tone. Jourdan watched Lex's frame disappear into the night and he had to wonder on what Lex would do when it was time to go back.
Meanwhile back in Smallville…
"Clark"
"Yeah" Clark yelled from the greenhouse that he was in, toward the house.
"Chloe is here to see you" Martha yelled back to Clark.
"Send her on back, I have to finish getting Mr. Tomlinson's order ready" Clark said moving around the greenhouse picking out produce that the man in question had ordered.
"Clark" Chloe said while barreling into the greenhouse.
"Be careful" Clark said pointing to the large pile of produce that sat by the greenhouse doors.
"I still can't believe you farm" Chloe said shaking her head.
"Well, believe it" Clark said going back over to where he was before Chloe came into the greenhouse.
"So where are my two favorite children?" Chloe said looking around the greenhouse for any hint of the babies.
"Mom has them while I get the orders together." Clark said wiping his hands on a rag and then taking the couple of boxes of produce toward the house.
"So is there anything I can have?" Chloe said trying to look in the boxes that were in Clark's arms.
"No, at least not right now" Clark said as he brought the hose over to where the boxes were so that he could wash off the produce before they would make their way into the baskets that Martha had found at Fordman's on sale.
"Come on Clark" Chloe whined as she eyed the raspberries that Clark was now carefully loading into the small, round disposable Tupperware containers.
"Chloe how about I check when I get back from my deliveries" Clark said as he loaded up his truck the produce.
"Sure thing, can I come?" Chloe said bouncing around in place at the idea of making deliveries with Clark.
"Don't see why not, let me let mom know I am leaving" Clark said before walking over to the backdoor and letting Martha know that he was going to go.
"Good to go" Clark said before jumping into the truck and starting it up. Chloe watched the passing scenery once they made it off the Kent's driveway.
"Where to first?" Chloe said eyeing the list of names that Clark had to deliver for. There were over ten names on the list and most of them seemed be requesting fruits from Clark personally.
"Ms. Anderson, I think" Clark plotting out the route for deliveries in his head.
"'K" Chloe said distracted due to her phone ringing. Clark continued driving but watched Chloe's face from the corner of his eye.
"Hold on, let me get this straight. You get kicked out of the hotel you are staying at, and now you want me to try and talk to someone to let you back in?" Chloe said in a disbelieving tone. Chloe paused for a moment, letting the other person speak before speaking again.
"What do you mean, you lost him? He isn't that hard to lose, hello he stands out in a crowd, bald head" Chloe said not refraining from using the bald head comment. Clark heard those words and his heart rate picked up, he had tried on multiple occasions to contact Lex, but had been fruitless in his quest. Maybe Chloe knew something, and would be willing share.
"Oh this is rich" Chloe said shaking her head, just as Clark pulled up to Ms. Anderson's house. Where the woman in question was standing out in the front yard with a white sundress that hid nothing; Chloe's eyebrows raised as she caught a glance of Ms. Anderson.
"Be right back" Clark mouthed to Chloe before hopping out of the truck and going to the back to get the order. Chloe just watched, fascinated on Ms. Anderson's behavior toward Clark. Chloe could honestly say that the woman in question had the hots for Clark and was doing everything in her power to get Clark to notice her, but if the behavior of Clark was any indication he was not interested. Of course Chloe knew he wasn't interested due to the fact that he had slept with Lex, and had two children by the same man, if that didn't signal gay she didn't know what did. Clark smiled and nodded a few times, before saying his goodbyes and making his way back toward the truck, where Chloe had tuned out her brother and his whining.
"So" Clark said before noticing that Chloe was still on the phone.
"Look Tate, I gotta go. How about you call Scott McBride? Maybe he can help you out" Chloe said before hanging up the phone, not waiting for a response from her brother.
"That your brother?" Clark said as he pulled the truck into traffic and to the next stop on his list.
"Yeah" Chloe said with a sigh. It seemed that whenever her brother called he always brought with him mayhem.
"How go things with him?" Clark said stopping at a red light.
"Well he is in Great Britain right now for the summer, and he has some how gotten kicked out of the hotel that he was staying at. From what I gathered, he broke into his ex-boyfriend's room and decided to berate not only the ex-boyfriend but the guy that he was with at the time. All very messy, but here's a kicker; he had the audacity to tell the guy that was with the ex-boyfriend to get out. Oh and let us not forget the coup de grace of this whole situation, and that would be that he still thinks that they are still together." Chloe said shaking her head before jumping out of the truck with Clark this time to deliver the produce to yet another sexily dressed woman in the front yard.
"You have to be kidding me" Clark said while giving the woman the produce and not really paying much attention to her.
"Nah" Chloe said while eyeing the woman in front of her, while she got angry that Chloe had taken Clark's attention away from her.
"Ms. McDermott" Clark said politely, hoping that the woman wouldn't be mad that Chloe had come along.
"Clark, so good to see you; you just must come into town more often" the woman said as she made her way closer to Clark while giving Chloe the evil eye.
"I try to but it is pretty busy these days" Clark said walking with the woman to her front door so that she won't have to carry the heavy boxes.
"Come on in" she said eyeing Chloe in a way that told Chloe, that if she stepped foot inside the house there would be hell to pay.
"Be right back" Clark said trying to make this visit as short as possible, because whenever he delivered to her she always wanted him to stay as long as possible, which is why he worked the delivery such that she was in the middle and he would have to leave quickly.
"So who's the girl?" Ms. McDermott asked in a tone that tipped Clark off that she was not happy about Chloe being there with him.
"Oh just a friend, she came over while I finished getting the orders ready and she asked if she could come" Clark said putting the produce basket on the table and then standing in the kitchen waiting for a check.
"Here you go" Ms. McDermott said handing over the check and walking with Clark back to the front door.
"Thanks and just call the house if you need anything else" Clark said before waving and making his way to the truck.
"She had the hots for you" Chloe said as Clark got into the truck
"No she doesn't" Clark said not believing a word of what Chloe was saying.
"Yes she does and so did Ms. Anderson" Chloe said laughing at Clark as he turned bright red.
"No they don't" Clark said still not believing Chloe. It was an hour later that found Clark and Chloe making their way into the Kent Farm's driveway.
"So about those raspberries" Chloe said now concerned about the fruit in question.
"Yeah" Clark said distracted for the moment, due to his mother leading him over to where both Zaiden and Arianna lay in a crib crying.
"They just won't stop" Martha said frantically, due to the fact that the babies had not stopped crying since Clark had left.
"It's okay" Clark said picking up Arianna only to have her quiet down immediately.
"You just wanted daddy, didn't you?" Clark said hugging Arianna to his chest. Zaiden still lay in the crib but seemed to have stopped crying.
"How do you do it?" Chloe asked in amazement at the way Clark handled his children. Clark only shrugged his shoulders in response, for he didn't really know the reason.
"Clark" Martha called out from the kitchen a few minutes after the twins had stopped crying.
"Yeah, mom" Clark said walking through to the kitchen with Chloe on his heels.
"I'm going to drop this pie off at Mrs. Abernathy; can you watch the house until I come back?" Martha said loading up the pie for transport.
"Sure no problem" Clark said before heading back toward the living room where the twins slept. Once Martha had pulled out Chloe started again about the raspberries.
"So Clark about those raspberries" Chloe said trying but failing to sound causal about the fruit in question.
"Chloe what is it about you and these raspberries?" Clark said eyeing Chloe as she shifted foot-to-foot.
"Well you see" Chloe started out only to be stopped by the ringing of her cell phone.
"Hello?" Chloe said before her face became a stony mask.
"What do *you* want?" Chloe said before looking over to where Clark was with the children.
"No Lex I don't want to talk to you" Chloe whispered into the phone so that Clark wouldn't hear Lex's name.
"You want to know why?" Chloe said in disbelief. Chloe was silent for a spell before she started speaking again.
"Are you drunk, because you aren't making a lot of sense here" Chloe stated before glancing over in Clark's direction again.
"Lex just call me when you are sober" Chloe said before ending the conversation and then turning off her phone, because she knew that Lex would call back and she didn't want to deal with him while in the presence of Clark.
"Everything okay?" Clark asked standing in front of the changing table that was set up in the corner next to the crib.
"Could be better if I had some raspberries" Chloe said still trying to get some of the fruit.
"Ah" Clark said before putting the onesie back on Zaiden.
"So" Chloe said sounding way too hopeful about the raspberries.
"Come on" Clark said before grabbing the baby carriers that Martha had bought for when he needed to take the babies out and he didn't feel like putting them into a baby seat. Once Clark loaded both babies he made his way over to the back door and then out to the greenhouse, to see if there were anymore raspberries to be had for Chloe. It seemed as if she was in luck, and when she heard the good news from Clark she about squished Arianna in the hug she gave Clark.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you" Chloe thanked Clark profusely, while jamming raspberries into her mouth and she spoke.
"Any time" Clark said wrinkling his nose at the way Chloe was chowing down on the raspberries.
"These are the best raspberries I have ever had" Chloe commented to no one in particular, as she made her way back to the house with Clark following in her wake.
"They're organic" Clark answered as to why they tasted so different than the regular raspberries that you could buy at the store.
"Ah" Chloe said standing by her car now, with red finger tips.
"Had your fill and then you dash? I think you are using me as your raspberry pimp." Clark said laughing at what Chloe looked like. She looked like a fat kid that had way too much cake and it managed to get all over their face, Chloe had red splotches on her face and hands.
"Sure did" Chloe said smug about getting some free raspberries out of Clark. She had heard in town that Clark had the best produce to come out of Smallville in a long time, and he did especially well with fruits.
"Okay" Clark said confused at Chloe's smug look.
"I'll talk to you later" Chloe said before jumping into her Scion tC and making her way back into town.
"I worry about her" Clark said to the two babies that were strapped to him. The only reply he got from them was a gurgle from Zaiden on his back.
"My thoughts exactly" Clark said as he climbed back into the house and un-strapped the babies. It was a few minutes later that Martha came whirling in.
"Well I never" Martha said distain in her words.
"Mom" Clark said looking over to Martha from his spot on the floor where the babies had taken up root and were kicking there legs in the air.
"Clark, do you know that Mrs. Abernathy had the gall to tell me that it was totally unnecessary for me to drop off the pie to her?" Martha said wrinkling her nose at the next words that were going to come out of her mouth.
"What do you mean?" Clark asked confused while he still played with the babies.
"She told me that you delivering the pie would have been enough"
"Enough!" Martha shouted making the babies stop what they were doing.
"Mom" Clark said giving his mother a look that promised pain if they started crying.
"Clark that woman, that *old* woman has the hots for you" Martha said eyeing her son, to see if maybe she was missing something.
"Second time today" Clark mumbled, but Martha caught it.
"What do you mean, second time today?"
"Well Chloe seemed to think that Mrs. Anderson and Ms. McDermott and half of the woman population of Smallville have the "hots" for me." Clark said shaking his head and then tickling both Zaiden and Arianna and then heard baby gurgles to signal laughter. Martha watched her son for a moment and had to wonder how on earth the McBride's couldn't see what a gem Clark was.
"Well, I am of the mind set now that Chloe may not be off the mark on that." Martha said before being interrupted by the phone ringing.
"Kent Farms, Martha speaking" Martha said in a pleasant voice, only to get a confused look on her face the next moment. Clark heard the long pause and turned toward where his mother was standing with a phone attached to her ear.
"You would like to speak to who?" Martha said again, just to make sure that she had not heard wrong. The voice on the other end repeated the name and Martha then looked at Clark.
"Uh, sure" Martha said walking with the cordless phone over to Clark.
"For you" Martha said before mouthing, 'be careful' to Clark. Clark just nodded his head and then took the phone.
"Hello" Clark said curious to know what was going on.
"Clark my man" a male voice said over the line, Clark felt like he had been punched in gut.
"Kal?" Clark said stunned at the voice that was speaking to him.
"Clark, what are you doing in Smallville, Kansas?" Kal said with humor in his voice.
"How did you find out?" Clark asked still stunned that one of the few people that he had kept in contact before he was deemed not worthy of being a McBride had found him.
"Well a friend of mine had a run in with someone who shall we say had some amorous affair with you." Kal said before laughing a bit at the image of Clark and Lex in bed. After a moment though, he had to admit it was sort of hot, if he were gay. Clark blushed at the mention of his one time with Lex, but then perked up due to the fact that someone had been in contact with Lex.
"Ah yeah" Clark said at a loss as to what to say.
"So duuuude, Alexander Luthor?" Kal said drawing out the dude, as he was known to do.
"Yeah" Clark said not sure if he should give Kal an explanation as to what was going on.
"Details!" Kal burst out with. Clark had to laugh at the way that Kal was acting, it was the same as it was when he was in the 4H with Clark.
"Uh, well not much to tell" Clark said claming up at the idea of telling someone about his children, and then being told that he was a freak as his ex-family had done.
"Duuude, you are so lying" Kal said getting his emotions under control, he had thought of Clark as the little brother that he never had and he was a bit concerned on what was going on.
"Okay, so maybe I am" Clark said laughing at the ease at which they fell back into their roles from before.
"So spill" Kal said sounding caring in his regards to Clark.
"Promise not to get mad?" Clark asked worriedly as he looked down to his now sleeping children. He didn't know if he would be able to take Kal thinking of him as a freak.
"You know I won't, little brother" Kal said using the nickname that he called Clark before he left for Great Britain, and the world renowned agriculture programme that they had.
"Okay, promise not to cut in?" Clark said stalling for time, so that he could make up his mind on what to tell Kal.
"You know it" Kal said wondering if Clark would ever trust again because of what had happened with the McBride's. He may have not known all the details, but from what he understood now, Clark had been kicked out of the family either due to his liaisons with Alexander Luthor, or due to Scott McBride, Jr. finding out and then having his parents jumping on board. He wondered for a moment, if maybe his family could adopt the teen. He had always wanted a little brother and his parents were in love with Clark from the moment they saw him, with his soft spoken manners and shy demeanor.
"Okay, well as you already know I, uh, you know with Alexander Luthor." Clark started out, at the mention of Alexander Luthor, Martha swiveled her head and had to wonder if this was going to bite Clark in the butt in the end. She of course would do battle with anyone that hurt her baby and her grandchildren, but she first had to see how it would play out.
"Dude" Kal said amazed, it was one thing to hear it from Camdien but to hear it from one of the sources was another thing.
"Yeah" Clark said laughing; he was still amazed to this day about his dealing with Lex.
"Come on, you're killing me" Kal said wanting to know what else had happened in the short time that he had been gone from Metropolis for his second year at college.
"Okay, okay" Clark said getting serious now that he had come to the major part of the story. Martha walked over and tapped Clark on the shoulder; she wanted to make sure her son was doing the right thing.
'You sure' she mouthed to him. Clark nodded his head in approval that this was the right thing to do. Martha nodded her head and went in the kitchen to start making dinner.
"Clark?" Kal asked worried that Clark had hung up the phone.
"I'm here, just thinking" Clark said serious. Kal knew then that what he was about to be told would not be pretty.
"Go ahead when you are ready, this call is sooooo on the 'rents dime" Kal said making sure that Clark had all the time in the world.
"Still over there?" Clark asked semi-stunned by the news.
"Yeah got a job at one of the farms and I couldn't pass up the experience." Kal said realizing that he hadn't spoken to Clark in months it seemed.
"Neat" Clark said smiling at the thought of Kal running around with his chickens following.
"Yeah I thought so" Kal said somberly at the idea of Clark dealing with a major family issue with no help from his "big brother".
"Kal don't worry about it, 'cause I know what you are thinking" Clark said stopping Kal from thinking that he had been not only a bad friend but a bad brother.
"Okay" Kal said happy that Clark wasn't too mad at him. He would get the riot act later from Clark, but right now he wanted to know that his little brother was in good hands.
"Well, it started about thirteen months ago" Clark said calculating the time since his pregnancy and the months after his children's birth.
"Okay" Kal said listening to what Clark was saying.
"Well….it started out with me being nauseous all the time and throwing up, I just thought I had a stomach bug" Clark said taking a deep breath for the next bit of the story.
"I am assuming it wasn't" Kal said wondering what was going on.
"Not even on the radar to what it was" Clark said before continuing.
"Well the McBride's decided that they were tired of me being sick, so they sent me to Dr. Kent." Clark smiled at the thought of the Doctors Kent.
"Great guy" Kal said interrupting even though he had promised not to.
"That they are" Clark said, laughing at Kal's interruptions.
"So I had a work up, and well after a couple of visits it was pinned down what was wrong" Clark wondering if Kal would be amazed by what happened.
"Well?" Kal said in suspense, he didn't hear everyday stuff about Clark.
"Well yeah, I was pregnant" Clark said and then stopped to see if Kal would explode. He didn't have to wait long for that.
"Pregnant!" Kal yelled so that even Martha in the kitchen heard. She came quickly out to see if Clark was okay.
"Yeah, I have a rare syndrome called Olanwsky's; that allows males to become pregnant." Clark said blushing at the information.
"You didn't use protection!" Kal then yelled angry at Clark for having sex with someone and not using protection.
"Well…." Clark said trailing off, not sure why they hadn't use protection, because there were rolls of condoms sitting on the side table.
"We will talk about that later Clark, now continue" Kal said fuming at Clark.
"Well by then I had to tell the McBride's, well none of them were happy about it and Jessica and Scott, Sr. decided to emancipate me." Clark said looking over to Martha for support. She hadn't heard all the gory details, but he wanted to be sure that she still cared; the look on her face was one of a mother ready to do battle. Clark grinned at her to show that he was okay, for now.
"You have to be kidding me, I mean I always thought that they were crap parents but to do that to you and you still only fifteen is totally unacceptable" Kal said ready to get on the next plane home and see Clark.
"Well a bit later I found out that I was having twins, a boy and a girl" Clark said proudly looking over his two children.
"Wow" Kal said amazed at the information, he was now an uncle and he didn't even know.
"Just what I said" Clark said smiling even bigger at the lack of hatred from Kal.
"So, those two got names?" Kal asked interested.
"Sure do, Arianna Maelle Kent and Zaiden Nicholas Kent" Clark said proud as can be.
"So why Kent?" Kal asked interested to hear that story.
"Well, I was told that I had to change my name, due to me sullying the McBride name, so since Dr. Kent was so nice I changed it to Kent. Well just as a bit of an aside, there are two Dr. Kents and the other lives in Smallville. Well things have a way of working out, and I am now a Kent with a Kent family." Clark stated before beaming a grin to his mother.
"Well I'll be" Kal said before slumping in the chair that he was in.
"Yeah, and well I made a friend, named Chloe Sullivan too" Clark said wondering if Kal might have known Chloe.
"Sullivan? Wasn't Tate seeing Alexander?" Kal said and when Clark heard the words he could breathe for a moment.
"They were going out?" Clark asked just trying to make the pain his chest go away.
"Last I had heard, but I haven't been around to get all the details"
"Well Chloe states very emphatically, I might add, that Tate and his boyfriend are broken up. Tate seems to think that they are still together and she just got a call today from Tate saying that he got kicked out of the hotel he was staying at because he broke into the ex-boyfriend's room and found him with someone." Clark stated the pain in his chest increasing due to the fact that it seemed as if Lex had moved on.
"No worries big guy" Kal said due to knowing the whole story now, he would make plans to visit one Alexander Luthor, but he would make darn sure that he protected Clark in the process.
"Kal" Clark stated broken just from the news that he had now figured out.
"I'm on the next flight, don't you dare go anywhere" Kal said before hanging up the phone and then making flight arrangements for the next flight that would get him back to his little brother. He was needed and no job would keep him here.
"No need" Clark said to the dial tone, and he knew it was a waste of breath but he still said it.
"Clark" Martha asked worried.
"I'm okay, just found something out that I had sort of suspected but now know as truth."
"What?"
"Tate Sullivan was going out with Lex at one point in time, and now the latest news is that Lex was with someone else in Great Britain and Tate found out and was not happy." Clark said looking at his mom with tears in his eyes.
"Oh Clark" Martha said coming over and hugging her son from the back due to him still sitting in front of the babies.
"I guess I had a hope that one day we would all be a family" Clark said now crying openly and wondering if he should have told Kal anything.
"I know dear, I know" Martha said soothing her son, she had seen the spark of hope in Clark's eye every now and again at the hope that Lex would come for him but it never happened.
"Mom" Clark said snuffing and then looking down at his children.
"Clark listen to me, you have your children, and your family. Don't worry about what Lex is doing; maybe he is doing it for a reason." Martha said holding out hope that she was right.
"You think?" Clark said with a cautious hope.
"You never know" Martha said pulling back from her embrace and looking at Clark to see that he had stopped crying.
"Okay" Clark said pulling himself together.
"I have a dinner to finish, how about you get these two cleaned up and meet me back in the kitchen?" Martha said standing and waiting for a response from Clark.
"Sure thing" Clark said looking over his children and seeing that something amazing had come from their short time together and he wouldn't change it for the world.