A Summer in Love

Chapter Fifty-Two:


"Don't come Lois!" Clark screamed out, loudly, hoping that the love of his life could hear him, and prayed upon every god imaginable that if she did hear him she wouldn't come. The last thing he wanted was this man to find out about his unborn child, and he wanted her to stay safe, even though he was in quite a predicament himself.

Lex grinned, widely to himself, as he ended the phone call with the lovely Lois Lane, knowing full well that she would come, even if her fiancé had attempted stopping her from coming he knew that she would anyways not only because she would do whatever it took to protect the people she cared about, but also because she didn't have a choice in the matter.

It was a trap.

She knew that, but that wouldn't deter her, and it was exactly what he expected from her. She would walk straight through those doors just like Clark and Kara had done.

He glanced over at Clark and Kara, who were standing in their separate steel cages, and walked towards them, his menacing gaze landing on him. "You shouldn't have done that, Clark, you just might have ruined my perfect plan."

He glared, heatedly at him. "You and your plan can go straight to hell!"

Kara gripped the steel bars in her hands, tightly, attempting to muster enough strength to break them, but every single one of her abilities were too weak. "You're sick, Lex, this plan of yours isn't going to work. She wont come."

"I wouldn't be too sure about that." He smirked, devilishly between the two of them. "She is quite fierce and protective on a normal day, but I have a feeling that her emotions are a little off today. She'll make the right choice."

Kara frowned at him. "What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about the fact that she isn't just worried about your welfare she also wants revenge, and she probably believes that's what she's going to get once she arrives, but she would be wrong about that."

Clark furrowed his brows, in confusion. "What do you mean she wants revenge?"

A heavy sigh escaped past his lips. "She didn't just realize that the man she loves, the woman she sees as her own sister, her cousin and son were taken, but she also found her best friend…dead."

Kara took several steps back until her back bumped against the concrete wall, his words causing her heart to break inside of her chest, as thoughts of her friend consumed her mind. It didn't take a genius to figure out who he was referring to.

Lana.

She shook her head from side to side, vehemently, the tears rolling down her cheeks, as she whispered, "No…"

For five years she had bonded with her, watching her transform into the loving mother and caring wife that she was. In that time they had experienced so many things together. From the first moment they met she saw a light inside of her heart—a light that had been buried until she had found herself, and now she was gone.

Her friend was gone.

That thought alone caused a multitude of emotions to consume every fiber in her being, but the most prominent one was pure anger.

She charged towards the bars, gripping them, tightly in her hands, as she glared at him. "What the hell did you do?"

"I can see that I've hit a nerve, but I didn't do anything to the lovely Miss Lang, but she is dead because I ordered it. It was time she payed for turning her back on us."

"She didn't deserve to die!"

Clark staggered backwards from the realization that was slowly dawning on him, and honestly, he couldn't believe that this was happening. He not only kidnapped almost everyone he cared about, but he also had the woman he was slowly starting to become good friends with killed.

It was unreal.

From the moment he was ten years old he had a crush on the small, bubbly brunette until he realized that she wasn't the one for him, but even though they had been estranged before he left for his training she was just starting to become someone he could trust—someone he could see being a big part of his life, but now she was gone.

Dead.

His emotion filled eyes landed on the man responsible for everything, and glared, heatedly at him before slamming his entire body against the steel bars, wanting nothing more than to escape and strangle this man with his bare hands. "What the hell is wrong with you? She was a mother! She was a wife! She was my friend!"

He rolled his eyes at him. "Like that is supposed to bother me. She betrayed me, and she payed for it with her life. It was always going to end this way, Clark."

"It's going to end, but not the way you think it is. When I get out of here, and I will escape I'm going to end your pathetic life."

Lex laughed, coldly and cynically before his expression transformed into a more serious one. "I'd like to see you try."

"I will."

"No, you won't. You won't because it goes against every moral inside of your body, but your fiancé on the other hand doesn't hold the same moral grounds as you do. She wouldn't hesitate to kill me or Murphy. She's tried killing him before, but it doesn't really matter since none of you will survive long enough."

Kara glared at him with an expression of pure venom spreading out across her face. "You won't get what you want, Lex, we'll stop you."

His eyes landed on her before he stalked towards her. "Really? That seems like an impossible dream, sweetheart, these cages are built to withhold your abilities. There's no way your getting out…alive."

Clark growled low in his throat. "You won't get away with this, Lex."

"I will and there's nothing you can do to stop me." He slowly walked away from them towards the wall directly across from them, and flipped the large metal switch, activating the Kryptonite radiation in their cages.

"AHHH!" They screamed, loudly in pain before collapsing to the ground, every inch of their bodies feeling like it was being electrocuted over and over again, as the effects of the meteor rock caused them to squirm, relentlessly on the floor, both of them wishing that the pain would just stop.

A slow smile spread out across his face, as he watched them scream and squirm in complete and utter agony before he turned off the radiation, and walked back over towards them. "That should keep you down for a while."

Kara slowly reached through the bars, grasping his hand in hers, and squeezed, smiling, faintly when he squeezed back, both of them mentally telling each other that they were alright. She glanced over at him. "Y-y-you can hurt us all you want, but it won't change any-anything. You're still going to d-die."

He chuckled at her. "Keep dreaming. You'll both be dead before any of your friends come to your rescue."

A loud beeping sound came from one of the computers on the far side of the room, alerting him that one of the several security cameras had picked up movement on the property. He quickly walked over to see his first guest of honor standing nearly a mile away from the warehouse.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Miss Lane herself. I wonder how she got here so fast without a vehicle." He smirked over at Clark, who had a terrified expression plastered across his face. "You don't waste any time, do you?"

He glared at him. "Leave her alone!"

"I can't do that, you see, she was probably expecting to sneak in here to save you both, but she is about to get one hell of a surprise." He opened a drawer, and pulled out a large chuck of green Kryptonite before making his way out of the room, feeling more than a little excited about catching the lovely Miss Lane off guard.

Clark slammed his fists against the bars several times. "Dammit Lois!"

Kara quickly rested her hand on his arm, and squeezed, reassuringly. "It's going to be alright, Clark."

"How is this going to be alright? He knows that she's pregnant. Why couldn't she have just listened to me?"

"When does she listen to any of us? She is just trying to protect you, Clark, she probably thought that she could hide the fact that she was pregnant."

A soft sigh escaped past his lips. "I know what she was trying to do, but now she's in danger, and I can't do anything about it."

She smiled over at him. "We'll all get out of this. I promise you Lex won't get away with this."

He smiled back, knowing that she believed her confident words, and so did he, but the fact that his fiancé was walking into a more than dangerous situation terrified him like no other.

It didn't matter, he thought to himself, she was only trying to protect him, and he intended on doing the same, but first they needed to figure out a way to escape from the confines of these cages.


Lois came to a complete stop roughly about a mile away from the warehouse, her eyes scrutinizing her surroundings before she slowly started walking towards her family and friends.

It was extremely risky using her superspeed ability to get here as fast as she had, knowing full well that Lex and Murphy could easily figure out the truth, but she hadn't exactly been thinking clearly after she had found her friend bleeding out on the field.

But, she was now.

It was obvious that this was a trap, and she was walking straight into it, but if she could manage to trick them into believing that she didn't have any abilities—that she wasn't pregnant than maybe, just maybe she could get her family out of this very dangerous situation.

Hopefully it worked, she thought to herself.

As soon as she was standing a few feet away from the warehouse she narrowed her eyes at the building, wishing that she had super hearing or X-Ray vision since it would make this a lot easier to find them, but she didn't, and knew that she would have done this whether she had any abilities or not.

Her family was in danger, and she'd be damned if she allowed anything to happen to them.

All of a sudden, she felt a sharp, painful stirring in the pit of her stomach, and clutched her hands across her stomach, wondering what the hell was going on, as the pain started getting worse and worse by the second. She slowly turned around, shock filling her hazel orbs, as soon as she had realized that Lex was stalking towards her with a large chunk of green Kryptonite in his hands.

In that moment she knew that her plan had literally been shot to hell.

He knew.

The closer he moved towards her the more intense the pain became. It was slowly spreading throughout her entire body, mainly her stomach, and her head was beginning to feel lightheaded, but quite honestly, she wasn't worried about her own well-being she was worried about the child growing inside of her.

"AHH!" She screamed out in pain when he was a few feet away from her before collapsing to the ground, her hands clutching her stomach.

Lex smirked down at her, as he kept moving closer and closer to her. "I have to say that your little plan was creative, you know, walking the rest of the way here to convince me that you had actually driven here, but the mere fact that you arrived before your cousin and son only proves that you have abilities—that your pregnant."

She glared at him.

"Your fiancé looked at me the same way when he found out, except he was a little more terrified than you are, but I guess that's why you make a perfect match. Your fierce and he's not. You balance each other out. Too bad that connection is going to end very, very soon."

"W-w-where are they?"

He crouched down next to her, purposefully bringing to Kryptonite closer to her body, enjoying the way she scrunched up in her face in pain and twisted her body, attempting to move away from him. "Don't worry, Lois, I'll bring you to them. Clark was right. You shouldn't have come, but now that you're here we can get started."

He quickly pulled her off the ground, and wrapped his arms around her body, pressing the Kryptonite against her stomach, knowing that they only reason she was feeling any pain was because of the baby growing inside of her.

As he dragged her into the building her entire body felt like it was on fire, every single nerve inside of her was burning with a sharp pain she had never felt before, and knew that even though she was the one feeling pain her baby was the one that was in danger.

There was a part of herself that wanted to struggle—wanted to escape from this man, but the other part of herself couldn't muster the strength to do anything.

The pain was agonizing.

All thoughts of her pain vanished in the blink of an eye when she noticed the man she loved, and friend locked up inside steel cages directly next to each other. "Clark! Kara!"

Kara roamed her eyes over every inch of her body, instantly realizing that the Kryptonite was affecting her, but mostly it was her little niece or nephew that was being harmed. "Get that away from her!"

Clark curled his fists around the steel bars, his eyes staring deeply into her own before he glared, heatedly at Lex. "Let her go!"

He slowly removed the meteor rock from her body, and pushed her down to the ground, hard, causing her to groan, loudly in pain. "You might as well say your goodbyes."

She quickly crawled over to the two people she loved with all of her heart, the pain lessening the further she moved away from him, but could still feel a dull pain spreading throughout her entire body, and once she reached the cages she reached through the bars, grasping his hand in hers. "I'm sorry, Clark."

He squeezed her hand, reassuringly, and rested his other hand on the side of her face, immediately feeling how sweaty her skin was. "You shouldn't have come, Lois."

Several tears fell from her eyes. "I know, Clark, I'm so sorry. I couldn't leave you hear with him." She glanced over at Kara, who was smiling, softly at her. "I couldn't leave either of you here. I had to do something. I tried to stop him from finding out, but he knows."

His eyes fell down to her stomach, worry lingering on his face before his eyes collided with hers. "Are you alright?'

More and more tears cascaded down her cheeks, as she shook her head from side to side. "T-t-the baby…the Kryptonite is so painful. What if something happens to—"

"Shh." He attempted moving closer to her, but the bars were making it impossible. "Nothing is going to happen, Lo, but you shouldn't have come. You would have been safer that way."

"I'm so, so sorry, Clark."

"I promise you, Lois, we will get out of this. All of us will."

She nodded at him, believing every would that he was speaking before she glanced over at her friend. "Kara are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Lois. What the hell happened?"

"I don't know. I was in the barn when Jacob and Jessica came running from the field. They told me that Murphy and Steve stabbed Lana before taking Chloe and Kaleb. I wanted to stay with her, but I knew that the ambulance would be there soon. I needed to come to the both of you."

Kara' eyes widened, slightly. "Do-do you think she's still alive?"

"I don't know. She was when I left. I can't lose another person close to me."

Clark squeezed her hand. "We're all going to get through this."

Lex grinned ruefully at the family moment, knowing that this was going to be their very last moment together before he slowly walked over to the metal table, preparing the Kryptonite laced syringe he was planning on using on Kaleb.

It might not kill her, but it would slowly kill her baby within hours, and that is exactly what he wanted.

The last thing they needed was another one of them running around this planet, he thought to himself.

"Lois!"

Lois quickly spun around when she heard her cousin' voice lingering from directly behind her, her eyes widening when she noticed that she was holding her nearly unconscious son, and rushed over to them, pushing down the pain she was feeling before glancing down at her little boy, who smiled, faintly up at her.

"I-I-I knew you'd come for me, mommy."

"I'll always come for you, baby." She glanced at her cousin, roaming her eyes over her entire face, and instantly realized that she had a pretty decent sized bruise on her cheek. "Are you alright?"

She nodded. "Kaleb isn't doing so good."

Her eyes landed on her little boy, and noticed how pale and sticky his skin seemed to be before she brushed her fingertips across his forehead. "It's going to be alright, Kal, I promise."

He stared deeply into her eyes, the tears rolling down his cheeks. "I don't feel good." He slowly stretched his arms out towards her, wanting nothing more than to be in her arms right now, and clung onto her for dear life, as soon as she had picked him up, his eyes landing on his daddy and aunt when she started walking towards them.

Clark quickly reached through the bars as soon as he was laying on the ground directly in front of him, and glided his fingers across his heated skin. "Kaleb…My baby boy…"

"Daddy, I thought they were going to hurt you."

"I'm alright, and you're going to be alright too. We all are."

He glanced over at his aunt Chloe before locking eyes with his mommy. "I promised that I would fight, and that's what I'm going to do."

"That's my boy." She clutched him tighter to her chest, hugging him, fiercely, and rocked his body back and forth, hoping that they could get out of this situation before she lost anyone she loved.

"Well, that's all the time that we have." Lex smirked at them, as he walked closer to her, and injected the needle into the side of her neck, causing her to gasp, loudly before her eyes rolled to the back of her head, her body slowly crashing onto the cold ground.

"LOIS!" Chloe screamed out before she started running towards her, but was stopped by Steve grabbing her arms, holding her in place against his chest. "Let me go!"

Clark slammed his body against the bars, attempting to get as close to her as possible, and grasped her hands in his, squeezing them, softly. "Lois! Lois, baby, please!"

Kaleb slowly crawled over to her, staring down at her with tears building in his little eyes. "Mommy! Mommy! Please come back to me! Please! Don't leave me!" When she didn't respond to his cries he glared over at the man responsible for this. "You hurt her!"

"And you're next." He nodded his head towards Murphy and Steve. "Get them out of here."

Murphy smirked, as he walked over to her, and lifted her limp body into his arms before making his way out of the room towards another room on the other side of the warehouse with Steve walking directly next to him with a struggling Chloe in his grasp.

Kaleb quickly stood up, ignoring the pain inside of his weak body, and rushed towards the open door, intending to go after them, but stopped dead in his tracks when Lex stood directly in front of him, blocking his way, holding a meteor rock in his hands. "I don't think so."

He staggered backwards when the affects from the Kryptonite surged throughout his entire body before collapsing onto the ground next to his daddy, and glanced at him with curious and worried eyes. "W-w-what's going to happen to mommy?"

That he didn't have an answer for.

A part of himself wanted to tell him that everything was going to be alright, but the other part of himself wasn't sure that was true anymore. She was already weak from the Kryptonite exposure, and now she had it running through her veins, probably harming both her and their child.

"I don't know, Kaleb."

Kara slowly moved closer to her nephew, and stretched her hands through the bars, grasping his little hands in her own. "Your mommy is going to be alright. I promise you that we'll all get out of this."

"Don't make promises you can't keep." Lex quickly flipped the switch on the wall, and watched in amusement, as all three of them screamed, loudly in pain, their bodies twitching on the ground.

It was a beautiful sight, he thought to himself, before quickly turning off the Kryptonite radiation, and walked over to Kaleb, lifting him into his arms. "Say goodbye to your son, Clark."

Clark quickly stood up, fighting off every inch of pain that was encompassing him, and slammed his body against the bars over and over again. "No! Stop! Don't do this! Lex! Please! Just take me! Take what you want from me! Leave my son out of this! He's just a child! Please!"

Kara widened her eyes at her cousin. "Clark…"

Lex stepped a little closer to him with an inquisitive gaze lingering in his eyes. "You would sacrifice yourself for your son?"

"Yes. I've lived a full life, but his has just begun. Please just leave him alone."

He pretended to think about that for a few seconds before smirking, evilly at him. "Sorry, Clark, that would beat the purpose of seeing your face when you realize that I have murdered your only son."

Clark banged up against the cage over and over again, attempting to escape—attempting to get to his son, as he walked out of the room with him. "No! Kaleb! Kaleb! Dammit Lex! Bring back my son!"

His heart pounded, rapidly inside of his chest, as he slowly collapsed to the ground, the tears rolling down his cheeks faster and faster, and whispered, "My son…"

Kara slowly reached through the bars, and grabbed his hand, forcing him to look at her. "Listen to me, Clark, we're going to get them back. We're going to stop him."

"How? We're locked inside this damn cage! We have no powers! How the hell are we supposed to save my son—save the woman I love?"

"I don't know, Clark, but we will." She glanced around the room, hoping to find something that could help them get out of this situation, but there was absolutely nothing they could get their hands on.

They were weak.

They had no abilities.

They were completely helpless.

She lifted her head, slightly, staring up at the ceiling for a few seconds before she closed her eyes, softly, and prayed—wished that someone would find them sooner rather than later.

It was the only way they could save the people she loved with all of her heart.

It was quite obvious that their friends and family would have figured out that something had went horribly wrong, but the question was…did they know where they were?

She didn't know, but she wasn't going to lose hope now.

They would be saved.

Lois and her baby would survive.

Chloe would make it through this.

Kaleb would be alright.

They just had to be.


Bruce, Oliver, Bart, Arthur, Victor, Dinah and J'onn J'onzz were standing in the main conference room at Watchtower, every single one of them feeling more and more worried as the minutes continued to tick by without any contact from Clark and Kara.

They had started to become nervous thirty minutes ago, but now that it's been a little over an hour they were becoming more and more worried, all of them wondering if something had went terribly wrong.

The plan was simple.

But…

They still weren't back yet, and even though they had tried keeping a calm composure it was quite obvious that something was wrong.

Bart groaned, loudly. "What the hell is taking them so long? They should have been back by now."

Arthur nodded, completely agreeing with him, and glanced over at Dinah. "Check the security systems again."

She sighed, heavily, knowing that nothing was going to change since she had been watching them very carefully, but did it anyways, and frowned at what she was seeing. For the past hour Lex had been sitting in his office, while Murphy and Steve had been in another room down the hall, and the systems still showed the same thing.

At first it had seemed completely normal, but now it was peculiar, and she had a pretty good feeling what was going on. "I think we have a problem."

Victor frowned at her before walking towards the computers, and immediately noticed the same exact thing she had. "It's on a loop."

Oliver furrowed his brows, in confusion. "Are you telling me that Lex knew we would be watching?"

"That's exactly what I'm saying."

Arthur narrowed his eyes at them. "How did you not notice this before."

She glared at him. "It doesn't matter. We need to figure out what is really happening over there."

"Can you hack into the computer systems, and override their program?"

"No, I'm not Chloe. She's the one that was able to hack into their systems."

Bruce stepped closer to every single one of them, feeling a deep fear starting to overtake his entire body, but quickly pushed it down. "If Lex purposefully put a loop on his own security systems than that means he is probably gone, and it's safe to say that Murphy and Steve are gone too. What about Clark and Kara?"

"I'll find out." J'onn disappeared in the blink of an eye, reappearing inside the mansion not even one minute later, and glanced around the room, his eyes narrowing at everything, but as he walked further and further inside he realized that something wasn't right.

It was quiet.

Too quiet.

There wasn't a single person here, which was weird since Lex usually had people scattered all over the place.

He quickly made his way into the office, where he was supposed to be, but was pleasantly surprised when all he found was an empty room. He slowly walked over to the desk, and picked up a small metal device before pressing the miniscule button on the side of it, his eyes widening when a side panel on the wall across from him opened, revealing a Kryptonite room.

It didn't make any sense.

Lex wasn't supposed to know about their weakness, but as he made his way closer to the room he noticed the crystal laying on the ground, and it had turned from a light blue color to a dark grey from the exposure of Kryptonite.

It wasn't much, but it did answer many of the questions that were rattling through his head.

He had gotten the upper hand on them.

He had been expecting them.

And, now every single one of them were gone, but where did they disappear to?

"We have more than a little problem," He muttered, as soon as he had arrived back at Watchtower.

Dinah stepped closer to him with a worried expression plastered across her face. "How bad?"

"Lex must have gotten the drop of them. They are gone. I found a Kryptonite room in his main office. I'm guessing that he somehow figured out their weakness, and waited until they came to him before making his move."

Bart groaned, loudly. "What about the crystal?"

He slowly revealed the defective crystal. "I found this in the room. The Kryptonite destroyed it."

Victor sighed, heavily. "What the hell are we supposed to do?"

"Find them."

Dinah glared at him. "Like that's going to be easy. He could have taken them anywhere."

Bruce started pacing back and forth, completely ignoring the words coming from them, as his emotions were beginning to get the better of him, which was something that never happened, but when it came to his wife he had absolutely no control over it, especially when she was in danger.

She had brightened his darkened world.

She had brought him out of the shadows and into the light.

She was everything to him.

He couldn't lose her.

The mere thought of losing the one person he needed the most caused his breath to catch in his throat before he staggered backwards until his back brushed against the wall, and slowly slide down to the ground, as emotion after emotion consumed his heart, mind and soul.

He whispered, "No…Not my Kara…"

Dinah quickly walked over to him, and rested her hand on his shoulder, reassuringly. "We'll get her back, Bruce, we'll get them both back."

Oliver sympathized with his friend, knowing that she has been the only woman he has ever loved this deeply, and slowly started walking towards him, wanting to console him, but stopped dead in his tracks when a horrible thought occurred to him. "If Lex was able to capture them than that means…"

He trailed off, as thoughts of his family consumed his mind, and quickly pulled out his phone, dialing her number, but when it continuously went straight to her voicemail a deep fear consumed him before he chucked his phone against the wall, shattering it into a million pieces. "Dammit! She isn't answering!"

Bart walked towards his friend. "I'm sure she's fine."

"Just like Clark and Kara are fine? She always answers my calls. Something is wrong. I swear to god if he touched her I'm going to—"

"You're not going to do anything." Bruce interrupted him, as soon as he came to his senses, and locked eyes with J'onn. "I need you to go to the farm. If Lex was able to take Clark and Kara than it wouldn't be hard for him to take Chloe and Lana, possibly even Lois and Kaleb."

J'onn nodded before disappearing, and as soon as he reappeared directly in front of the barn he noticed an ambulance a few feet away from him, along with several EMTs rushing around the house. He quickly rushed over to find his friend, Lana, laying on a gurney, unconscious.

It was quite obvious that something had happened.

"J'onn? What are you doing here?"

He quickly turned around towards him, confusion lingering in his eyes, as he made his way over to him with a slight frown lingering on his face. "Pete, what the hell happened?"

A heavy sigh escaped past his lips. "Steve stabbed her."

His eyes widened, slightly. "What?"

"I don't know, man, Jessica and Jacob came running into the house after it happened."

"They were there?"

He nodded. "I guess they were all in the field a few miles away from here when Murphy and Steve showed up. He stabbed her before taking Chloe and Kaleb."

This wasn't good, he thought to himself, not only did they have Clark and Kara, but they also had Chloe and Kaleb.

"What about Lois? Is she here?"

"No, she's gone too. Jacob told me that she went out to the field, but by the time we got out there she was already gone." He quickly started walking towards the ambulance. "Look, I need to get her to the hospital, but please, call me if you find them."

"I will."

Pete quickly jumped into the back of the ambulance with his two crying children, and wrapped his arms around their bodies, as they cried into his chest, while he stared down at his pale wife, hoping and praying that she would be alright because he wasn't sure if he could get through any of this without her by his side.

As soon as he walked inside the farmhouse he found Martha, Jonathon and Sam having a very heated argument in the kitchen. It was quite obvious that their emotions were all over the place.

Just like everyone else, he thought to himself.

"I knew this was going to happen! It was too damn easy, and now that bastard has my niece and grandchild!

"Sam, you need to calm down. We'll get them back."

"How the hell are we supposed to do that? They were supposed to be taken care of already!"

Martha was about to put in her two sense when she noticed J'onn standing a few feet away from them, and walked towards him with a slight frown on her face. "J'onn? What are you doing here?"

He took a few steps towards them. "Oliver and Bruce wanted me to check on everyone, but it's obvious that we have bigger problems than we had before."

Jonathon frowned at his words. "What do you mean bigger problems? What happened?"

A heavy sigh escaped past his lips. "Lex somehow knew what we were planning. He took Clark and Kara as soon as they arrived at the mansion."

"He took them? How is that even possible?"

"Green Kryptonite."

Martha gasped, slightly. "How did he even find out?"

"I don't know, but we need to find them before anything happens. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Lois went after them, but how did she know where to go?"

Jonathan sighed, softly. "I don't know. According to the children, she was with Lana, but when we finally got out there she was already gone."

That's exactly what Pete had told him, he thought to himself, it didn't really answer any of his questions, but he had a pretty good idea where they could start.

"Do you have her phone?"

She shook her head from side to side. "I'm guessing that she still has it."

"Good. We can track her that way, and hopefully it will lead us to the others."

Sam took several steps towards him with complete and utter determination lingering in his eyes. "I'm coming with you."

"No, you're not." When he attempted arguing against that he stared at him with a serious and affirmative expression. "Look, Lana needs all the support she can get right now. All of you should get to the hospital. We'll handle this." He locked eyes with every single one of them. "I promise you we will bring them home."

He quickly left the house, intending to get back to Watchtower as soon as possible not only to tell the rest of them team what had happened here, but also to find their friends and family, and he knew exactly what they needed to do.

It was time they ended this for good.


Chloe stared down at her pale, sickly looking cousin with tears filling her emerald eyes, as she squeezed her hands, hoping that she would just wake up—hoping that she would survive this—hoping that her little niece or nephew would survive this.

She slowly pulled her cousin into her arms, the tears slowly cascading down her cheeks. "Lois, please. Please, I need you to wake up. I can't do this without you. I need your help. Please, come back to me."

There was a part of herself that was starting to wonder if her cousin was going to wake up, but the other part of herself refused to believe that. Not only because she believed that she would come back to her, but also because she had faith that her cousin—that her niece or nephew would fight this.

Her eyes fell down to her stomach, where she knew that little baby was fighting for their life, and hoped against all hope that her cousin was able to fight off the Kryptonite poisoning because that would mean that her little niece or nephew would survive as well, but the only way that could happen was if she opened her eyes.

"Come on, Lo, you have to fight this. I can't do this without you. Just open your eyes, please."

They needed to get out of this.

They needed to escape from this room.

They needed to save the people they loved.

They needed to end Murphy and Lex for good.

But…

The only way they could do that was if she had her partner—her cousin—the only person that has literally been there through everything.

They would get out of this, she thought to herself, no matter what they had to do.

Several minutes later, Lois slowly blinked her eyes open, gradually becoming aware of her surroundings, but quickly snapped them closed when an unimaginable pain surged throughout her entire body, causing her to groan, loudly.

Chloe snapped her head towards hers. "Lois? Lois?"

She slowly opened her eyes, and rested them on the worried face of her cousin. "Chloe? What happened?"

"Oh my god! You're awake!"

An expression of confusion crossed over her features before she started pulling herself off the ground, which Chloe was quick to help her settle her back against the wall behind her, and glanced around her surroundings, realizing that they were in a small, confined room. "What the hell happened?"

"Lex injected you with Kryptonite."

Her eyes widened before she placed her hand on her neck, exactly where he had injected her with that needle, her mind instantly remembering what had happened, and rested her other hand across her stomach. "Oh my god! My baby!"

Chloe glanced down at her stomach with a worried expression plastered across her face. "Are you feeling alright?"

"No, Chloe, I'm not feeling alright. I was injected with Kryptonite." At the look she received from her cousin she took a deep breath, calming down her nerves. "Sorry. I'm a little worked up. I'm in pain, but it's manageable." Her eyes widened to the size of saucers as a horrible thought crossed her mind. "What if something is wrong with the baby? What is Lex killed him or her?"

"Shh. Lois, I don't think you'd be in pain if that little one wasn't alive, but that doesn't mean they aren't in danger, which is why we need to get you the hell out of here."

A part of herself knew that her cousin was right, but the other part of herself knew that she couldn't leave until she found her family—until she stopped Lex and Murphy.

She slowly stood up, feeling a little dizzy, but quickly shook it off. "No. Not yet. I need to find Clark and Kaleb."

"Woah! Lois, just hold on a second!" She rested her hands on her shoulders. "You need to relax for a few seconds. You were just unconscious—"

"I can't, Chloe, I can't just sit here and wait for them to kill my family. I have to stop them."

"And we will."

She frowned at her. "You have a plan?"

A grin spread out across her face. "Of course, I have a plan, but first we have to find something that we can use that could help us."

"Something like this." She slowly lifted her jeans, revealing a switchblade that was holstered against her calf. "Even though I was positive that this plan would work I still decided to carry this just in case, and good thing that I did."

"I guess we can thank Uncle Same for raising you the way he did."

A soft chuckle escaped past her lips before her expression became more serious. "How the hell are we going to do this?"

"We're going to kill him, Lo, he was carrying a gun on him when he dragged us in here. If we can get the drop on him then we can end this, and get the hell out of this room."

"We could save them."

"And end Lex."

They smiled at each other.

It was a good plan, and one they were more than willing to commit to. For years they had dealt with Lex and Murphy, and even though their original plan was more proactive this was their only option left, honestly, they wanted this over as soon as possible.

As soon as he walked through those doors they would be prepared to end this for good this time around.


Lex, Murphy and Steve were standing in another room, staring down at their subject with menacing, vindictive eyes, as he was strapped down to a metal table, squirming, relentlessly, attempting to escape from them.

"You'll never escape."

Lex grabbed his arm, tightly before shoving a Kryptonite needle into his arm, making him, groan, loudly in pain. "Have any last words, kid?"

Kaleb glared, heatedly at him, attempting to wiggle his out of the straps that were pinning him down to the table, but every single time he moved more and more pain surged throughout every nerve in his body, making it hard to breath. "My family will hurt all three of you!"

Murphy and Steve laughed, coldly at him, while Lex grinned down at the little boy. "You would be wrong, you see, your daddy and aunt are weak, and your mommy and her child are already on the brink of death. As soon as you take your last breath my friend here is going to hurt both your mommy and aunt really, really bad before he kills them, and then I'm going to kill your daddy and aunt. There is no escaping your fate. You're all going to die."

His eyes widened to the size of saucers, his hot, sticky tears cascading down his little cheeks at the mere thought of what was going to happen not only to him, but to his family. "No…No…No…"

Lex ignored his cries and pleas, and turned on the switch on the very large machine, which made a loud clunking sound before it started draining the blood from his body.

"AHHHHHH!" He wiggled back and forth, side to side, attempting to escape, as he could feel the blood from his body being drained, and it was so, so painful.

"The more you move the faster you bleed out."

He stopped moving, the tears rolling down his cheeks faster and faster, as his hope to be saved started to relinquish from him.

He was going to die.

His mommy was going to die.

His daddy was going to die.

Everyone he loved was going to die.

And there was nothing he could do to stop it from happening.

A sliver of himself wanted to keep fighting, just like he promised he would, but it was getting harder and harder to hold on.

He croaked out, "P-p-please stop."

"This is where your story ends."

Kaleb stared up at the ceiling, feeling his strength slowly disappearing—felt his body becoming weaker and weaker—felt his heart lessen in beats, and knew that he wouldn't be able to see his mommy or daddy again.

"I love you mommy…I love you daddy…" A faint smile graced his lips before his eyes slithered closed, his body falling limp against the metal table.

As soon as Kaleb closed his little eyes Murphy frowned down at him. "Is he dead?"

Lex quickly shut off the machine, unhooking it from him, and grabbed the one thing that would make the last part of his plan possible. "No. Not yet. But, he will be soon." He glanced over at Steve. "Take this to the lab and get everything prepared."

He nodded, and quickly left the room.

He glanced over at Murphy. "I think it's time you paid your little friends a visit."

A satisfied smirk spread out across his face before he walked out of the room, feeling excitement rush throughout his entire body at the mere thought of torturing those two women, who had ruined his life all those years ago, one last time.

A few minutes later, he slowly unlocked the door, and walked into the room with an evil smirk plastered across his face, as thoughts of what he was going to do to them before he ended their lives consumed his mind. His smirk grew even wider when he noticed them both standing on the other side of the room, leaning against the wall.

"Well, look who is finally awake. This is going to be so much more fun with you aware of your surroundings."

She glared, heatedly at him. "Go to hell, Murphy! You're not going to touch either of us!"

"Is that what you think?"

Chloe glared at him. "It's what we know."

He started making his way towards them, wanting his first victim to be the mouthier one, but when her cousin stepped directly in front of him he quickly slapped her across the face, sending her flying to the ground.

"CHLOE!" She rushed towards her, but he quickly grabbed her, pulling her into his chest before knocking her down to the ground, causing her head to bang, violently against the concrete floor, and smirked down at her, as he loomed over her.

"Now this is more like it."

She glared at him, ignoring the pain that was throbbing through her head, and tightened her hand around the blade, waiting for the opportune moment to make her move against him. "You won't get what you want, Murphy."

"Oh, but I will."

"No, you won't." She quickly headbutted him, causing his head to fall backwards, and loosen his grip around her body before she plunged the knife deeply into his chest.

"AHH!" He screamed out in pain, as he rolled off her body onto the cold ground, and attempted pulling the knife out, but Chloe appeared above him, her foot stepping on the knife, sinking it deeper into his chest.

He yelled out, "You bitch!"

She smirked down at him. "Doesn't feel so great when you're the one that's getting tortured, does it?"

"Screw you!"

Lois slowly crawled over to him, pushing her foot away from him before pulling the knife out of him. "You deserve to die, Murphy."

"I'd like to see you try."

"This is for everything you've done to my family." She plunged the knife back into his chest, causing him to scream out in pain, and when he attempted to reach for her Chloe quickly grabbed his arms, pinning them to the ground above his head. "I don't think so."

Lois smirked down at him, as she twisted the knife deeper and deeper into his chest. "How does it feel getting a taste of your own medicine? You beat me. You tortured me. You stabbed me over and over again. And now I'm going to relish in the fact that you're finally going to experience what that was like."

She twisted the knife even deeper into his chest, causing him to scream out in pain. "I should have done this years ago, but you stopped me—you beat me a bloody pulp, and that ruined me for years. Do you have any last words?"

To say that he was surprised by their sneaky attack was an understatement, actually, he hadn't expected this at all, but it didn't matter if they killed him right here and right now it didn't because they had already taken away the most important person in her life. "Your too late…"

They both frowned at each other, both of them wanting to drag the answers out of him, but when they glanced back down at him he was already gone.

He was dead.

Lois pulled the knife out of his chest before slowly standing up, and glanced over at her cousin with a worried expression plastered across her face. "What the hell did he mean by that?"

"I don't know, but it's finally over, Lo, he's really gone from our lives forever."

She grinned at her. "About damn time too. Now, let's get the hell out of here, and save our family."

She nodded before grabbing the gun from his waistband, and rushed out of the room with her cousin, intending to end this for good and save their family.

Not even five minutes later, they were rushing down one of the many corridors heading towards the room they had last seen Clark, Kara and Kaleb when they noticed the very man that was next on their list walking a few feet ahead of them. They glanced at each other, knowingly before Lois chucked the knife directly into his back, a move she had learned from her father no less.

"AHH!" Lex screamed out in pain before collapsing down to the ground, and slowly turned his head, feeling completely and utterly surprised by the two women, who had literally caught him off guard. "I'm guessing that Murphy is dead."

Lois quickly closed the space in between them, and ripped the knife out of his back, making him groan in pain, loudly before she kicked him onto his back. "I killed him."

A strained chuckle escaped past his lips, as blood poured out of the corners of his mouth. "I knew you had it in you, Lois, I even told your fiancé that. I wonder how is he going to feel about this new and improved you."

"Where are they?"

"Wouldn't you like to know…"

Chloe glared down at him before pointing the gun directly at his head. "You're done, Lex, might as well just give up now. Where are they?"

"You're both so worried about them, but they aren't the ones that are in the most danger." He locked eyes with the woman who had literally stabbed him in the back. "You should be more worried about your son."

Her heart started beating, rapidly inside her chest, as thoughts of what his words actually meant, but quickly pushed them down, believing that her son was alright.

He had to be.

"What did you do to him?"

"Nothing he didn't deserve."

Chloe growled, menacingly at him before cocking the gun, but right as she was about to pull the trigger, and end his miserable life she heard a familiar voice screaming from down the corridor. "Chloe! Stop!"

She slowly turned towards him, feeling emotion after emotion consume her from the sight of her husband and friend, and lowered the gun, slightly, as she looked between the two of them, who had worried expressions plastered across their faces. "Ollie, I can't just let him live. He has caused every single one us so much pain."

Oliver took several steps towards her. "We can deal with him another way."

Dinah took several steps towards her. "J'onn can erase his memories. He can send him far away from here. None of us would ever see him again."

Lois shook her head from side to side. "That might have been the plan, but plans change, and there is no way in hell we're letting him live another day."

Chloe nodded her head in agreement. "This has to end…now."

He glanced between the two of them, his heart beating like a jackhammer inside of his chest from the mere thought of them doing something that neither of them could come back from. "Lois, Chloe, just stop and think about what this is going to do to you. It will ruin you forever."

He locked eyes with his best friend. "Lois, think about Clark and Kaleb. They are both believers of having morals that stop them from doing anything like this. What are they going to think when they find out that you blindly killed someone? No matter who that person is."

He glanced at his wife. "Think about our daughter, Chloe, this isn't only going to affect her, but this will change you too. Trust me, I know, and you know exactly what that did to me."

There was a small part of herself that wanted to listen to his words, knowing that he had a very valid point, but the other part of herself wanted this over with, and she wanted it over right now.

"I'm sorry, Ollie." She raised the gun, aiming it directly at his head, and pulled the trigger, the bullet going straight through his head, his body collapsing to the ground, unmoving.

It was silent for several minutes, as they all stared down at his lifeless body, and even though this was finally over, none of them felt any better about what had just happened, especially Chloe and Lois, who knew this was going to affect them later on, but right now they didn't care.

It was finally over.

Oliver quickly closed the space between them, and rested his hands on her shoulders. "Are you alright?"

Her facial expression didn't change. "I'm fine. We're both fine. Where is Clark, Kara and Kaleb?"

"I don't know. Bruce and J'onn are looking for them."

Lois frowned, slightly. "Where is everyone else?"

Dinah took several steps towards her. "Outside. They are ensuring that none of them escape. Where is Murphy?"

She stared directly into her eyes with a resolve she had never, ever seen before. "I killed him."

Dinah and Oliver shared worried glances with each other, knowing that they were probably in shock right at this moment, and also knew that as soon as this was over that all consuming guilt was going to hit them like a freight train, but no matter what happened they would be there for them.

Just like the rest of their friends and family would be.

"Let's go find our family."

All four of them rushed down the corridor, wanting nothing more than to find the people they loved with all of their hearts.


Clark and Kara were sitting down, in complete and utter silence, with their backs leaning against the wall, as their minds thought about the situation they were in.

They needed to get out of here.

They needed to save Kaleb.

They needed to save Chloe.

They needed to save Lois and her baby.

But…

There was nothing they could do.

They could feel their strength—their bodies—their abilities beginning to become stronger and stronger by the second, but they still weren't strong enough to get out of these cages.

It was irritating as all hell.

Clark banged his head up against the wall, and sighed, heavily. "Anything yet?"

She rolled her eyes at him. "No, Clark, I feel the exact same way I did two seconds ago when you asked."

"Sorry, I just want out of here. I need to get to my son and Lois before Lex and Murphy have a chance to hurt them anymore than they already have."

"We will."

"How? We're still locked up in these damn cages, even if we do get out we don't even know where to look for them."

A soft sigh escaped past her lips. "We'll find them. We just have to have a little faith. Everything is going to be alright."

They stopped talking, almost immediately, and turned their heads towards the door when they heard faint voices—voices they recognized all too well lingering directly outside of the door before Bruce and J'onn walked inside, stopping in their tracks when they saw them sitting in cages.

As soon as Bruce saw the love of his life sitting on the ground, locked up in a cage he rushed over to her, screaming out, "Kara!"

She smiled, softly at him, as she stood up, and walked closer to him, her hands finding his. "You have no idea how happy I am to see you."

Clark glanced between the two of them, and smiled, softly, as he made his way towards the confining bars. "About damn time you got here."

J'onn quickly walked over to him. "We've been looking for the both of you."

He frowned when he noticed there were a few missing people. "Where is the rest of the team?"

"Oliver and Dinah are searching for Lois and Chloe. Everyone else is doing perimeter watch."

"Good. Now, will you get us the hell out of here."

His eyes narrowed, slightly at the cages, analyzing them before he gripped the bars in his hands, and ripped them off their hinges, sending them crashing into the other side of the room.

Kara quickly rushed out of the cage, and into her husband' arms, who tightened his arms around her body, lifting her off the ground, slightly, twisting her from side to side, as pure and utter happiness consumed him. "Oh god, Kara, I thought I was going to lose you."

She pulled away from him, slightly. "I'll never leave you, Bruce, you're stuck with me for life."

They kissed, softly and tenderly, pouring everything they had felt while being away from each other and everything they felt now that they were back in each other' arms into that one kiss.

Clark smiled, softly at them, feeling extremely happy for his cousin and friend, but honestly, it only made his heart break inside his chest from the fact that he didn't know where the woman he loved, or son was, and quickly started rushing out of the room, intending on finding them as soon as possible.

Steve appeared in the doorway before he could escape with an aggravated expression plastered across his face. "You're not going anywhere. Your fiancé and best friend might have ended this, but I won't go out until you're dead."

He frowned at his words, wondering what the hell he meant by that, but his thoughts escaped from him when he pulled out a gun, and fired it directly at his chest.

J'onn immediately realized that it was Kryptonite bullets, and quickly shoved Clark out of the way, causing him to crash into the wall before he appeared directly in front of him, his hand hovering over his head, as a red beam shot out of him, knocking him unconscious. "I'll take care of him."

The three of them nodded at him before rushing out of the room, intending to find Kaleb as soon as possible, and when they made it to the room he was in they were completely and utterly speechless. Kara and Bruce stopped dead in their tracks at the sight of him, their hearts shattering into a million pieces, while Clark felt like the entire world was crashing down around him when he saw his son laying on the metal table, unconscious.

"KALEB!" He screamed out before rushing towards him, and quickly ripped the straps off his body before lifting him into his arms. "Kaleb! Kaleb! Come on, buddy, you need to wake up!" When he remained limp in his arms he collapsed onto the ground, holding him close to his chest, as tears rolled down his cheeks.

"Please, Kaleb, come back to me…"

As he glanced down at his little boy his heart dropped into his stomach when he noticed just how horrible he looked.

He was so cold.

He was so sickly looking.

His little chest was barely moving.

He dropped his head down to his chest, listening for his heartbeat, and it was faint.

He was dying!

His son was dying!

The tears rocked his entire body, as they streamed down his cheeks, and he clung onto his son for dear life. "Kaleb…Kaleb, please come back to me. You can't die on me. Please, baby boy, don't leave me…"

He couldn't lose him.

He had just found him.

He couldn't die.

He needed him more than anything.

He was the light in his life.

He couldn't lose his son—his baby boy.

The feel of a hand on his shoulder caused him to tear his eyes away from his son, and up into the emotion-filled eyes of his cousin. "I can save him. My abilities have returned. I'll take him to the sun. It's the only way to heal him."

"Save him, Kara, I can't lose him."

She quickly lifted him into her arms, holding him close to her chest before super speeding away, hoping against all hope that this would save his life.

Her nephew had to survive.

Bruce walked closer to his friend, unable to imagine what he was feeling right now—what was going through his head or heart right now, but had faith that his nephew would survive.

He had to.

His wife would save him.

He rested his hand on his shoulder. "He's going to be alright, Clark."

He just nodded, wanting to believe that with all of his heart, but couldn't get the image of his dying son out of his head.

Lois and Chloe rushed down the corridor with Oliver and Dinah directly behind them, searching for the people the needed—wanted to make sure they were alright—alive, and came to a complete stop when they entered the room, where Bruce was attempting to comfort a distraught Clark.

"Clark!"

Clark quickly glanced up when he heard her voice, happiness encompassing throughout his entire body, as soon as he had laid his eyes on her, and quickly stood up, catching her in his arms. "Oh god, Lois, I thought-thought I was going to lose you."

She pulled away from him, slightly. "I'm right here, baby, I'm never going to leave you."

He glanced down at her stomach. "Are you sure you're alright? He injected you with Kryptonite."

"We're fine, Clark."

It was a lie, of course, but she didn't want to worry him anymore than he already was, even though she could feel a sharp pain spreading throughout her entire body she wanted—needed to make sure that her family was alright.

"Where's Kaleb? We need to find him."

An expression of pure dread crossed over his features, at the thought of what he had to tell her before he glanced to the table where he had found his son. "I-I-I found him on that table." He locked eyes with hers, tears filling his aquamarine orbs. "He was barely breathing, Lois, he was so cold. I-I thought he was g-g-gone, but Kara took him away. She's going to save him."

Her heart clenched in the worst pain she has ever felt before, at the mere thought of her son dying, whether or not her friend was able to save him or not.

Her baby boy was dying.

Tears filled her hazel orbs before they cascaded down her cheeks, and screamed out, as she slowly collapsed to the ground, "No…No…Not my baby boy…Not my little Kal…Not my son…"

He fell down to the ground with her before pulling her into his chest, wrapping his arms around her body, as he cried into her shoulder, and whispered, "He's going to be alright, Lois, he has to be."

Chloe, Oliver, Dinah and Bruce were feeling completely and utterly heartbroken at what they were witnessing right now, but every single one of them held hope that he would be alright.

He had to be.

There was no way they were going to lose the one person who brightened all of their lives every single time he smiled at them.

Chloe stepped towards them, cautiously. "I think you should get home. Wait for Kara to come back with him. We'll clean this mess up."

As soon as Lois stood up her head became extremely dizzy, the pain she had been ignoring hitting her like a freight train, causing her to clutch her stomach in her hands, as her vision faded into complete darkness before slowly collapsing to the ground.

"LOIS!" Clark caught her in his arms before she hit the ground, and stared down at her beautiful face with more and more tears streaming down his cheeks. "Lois! Lois! Baby, please! Please, wake up!"

Chloe quickly rushed over to her, kneeling down next to them, and felt her skin, realizing that she was a lot worse than she had claimed to be. "You need to get her to the Fortress, Clark, she told me that she fine, but I think the Kryptonite is affecting her and the baby more than she claimed it was."

He didn't hesitate.

He quickly swooped her up into his arms, super speeding them away, praying—wishing—hoping that his biological father could help them, and as they were soaring through the sky, high above the clouds he whispered, "Lois…Lois…Baby, please come back to me…"


This was such an emotional chapter to write, even editing it got me all emotional. It might seem a little harsh or out of proportion to kill Murphy and Lex, but that was how I always pictured their story ending, besides Chloe and Lois would be the one people who were capable of doing it, especially after everything they've been through. The next chapter is the wrap up to everything that happened in this chapter, and the next two are much lighter.

I hope you enjoyed chapter fifty two!