Chapter 2 - Sedated
Lois Lane had gotten all of the instructions from her doctor, including prescriptions for prenatal vitamins. She couldn't stop smiling and touching her stomach. She was pregnant!
Then the freak out started. I'm Pregnant! How can I be a Mother! I have no idea on how to be a mother!
She walked into the office, her mind was still spinning, when she bumped into Perry.
"Are you alright?" Perry asked. "You look distracted."
"Can we talk in your office?" Lois asked. She knew that she needed to tell someone, and if she told anyone, word would eventually get back to Perry.
"Of course."
When the door was closed, she blurted it out, "I'm pregnant."
Perry looked up, "Well, that's a pleasant surprise. It's Kent's I assume."
Lois smiled, "It is. Clark would have made such a great father."
"Yes, he would have. When are you going to Smallville?"
"You know me so well," Lois said. "I was planning on flying there tonight, it's Friday, so I can take the weekend."
Perry looked at the clock, "It's noon, why don't you take off now, I'm sure you can find a seat on the commuter flight to Smallville this afternoon."
Lois left Perry's office, on the phone with the airline that had direct commuter flights close to Smallville. An hour later she was on the plane. Lois was pregnant with her dead lover's child. She had to tell Martha. At least her child would have one good grandparent. Unlike her parents, a workaholic career military man and an alcoholic control freak. The trip to Smallville was a blur, as she thought about telling Martha, and imagining what Clark would have said if he had been alive to experience them having a child together. He would have been over the moon!
The AI system taking care of Kal El, son of Jor El noticed that the pulse rate had increased in the past few days. Ever since his super hearing had come back, his vitals had come close to normal, it was an anomaly as far as the AI was concerned. The super hearing shouldn't have come back for a month at least. Something triggered Kal El to force past normal physical limitations.
He was forced to give Kal El sedatives to keep him from injuring himself. Kal El was fighting his restrains. There was something out there that he would get to, if he died in the process. At the rate that the sedatives were wearing off, he would have to bring Kal El out of the healing tank sooner than he had planned.
When Lois finally got a rental at the airport, and made it to the Kent farm in Smallville, she found the house empty. Martha must still have been at work.
She decided to go and visit Clark, tell him about their child. Lois took in the autumn leaves and the bright brisk air as she made her way to the grave sites. She took in the names, teared up as she came up to the graves marked for father and son, Jonathan and Clark Kent. "Hi Clark," She said, leaning down onto her knees, sitting on the ground next to the grave market, which said Clark Jerome Kent. Lois caressed the name on the gravestone as if she was caressing the cheek of the man that she loved more than life itself. "I have some good news. You are going to be a father…"
Clark broke through the sedatives that he had been given, as a familiar voice came to him out of the ether, "You are going to be a father. I just found out this morning, that I am pregnant. Your mom gave me the ring that you were going to give me. I have worn it ever since. You know that I would have said yes in an instant."
Clark knew that he couldn't stay here anymore. He had to get to Lois, had to be there for him, for his child.
The AI knew the moment that Kal-El's conduct changed. He couldn't keep him in there. And if Kal-El left the healing shell now, he would not survive. The AI entered a demand in the system. To get Lois Lane and bring her in. She was the only one who could calm Kal-El down and ensure his survival.
TBC…