It was definitely past twelve. Lana and Clark sat on the couch in the Loft. Clark was holding his new baby sister Linda, who was wrapped in a blanket asleep. Lana smiled at Clark, who looked at peace and was smiling at the baby.

"Clark?" Lana asked, "What are you thinking about?"

"Linda" He replied "All the things I want to show her. All the things that I'm going to protect her from" His voice became humorous "All the big brother teasing I'm going to do to her"

He and Lana laughed. Lana looked at the baby.

"Look how peaceful she looks. Just think, one day she will be our age. One day she'll fall in love"

"And then her heat vision will burst into action" Clark joked

"Clark!" Lana giggled "Where you really thinking about me when that happened?"

Clark grinned "Yep, you are the reason I almost set the school on fire.. Hey, um, thank you again for not freaking out"

She smiled at him and looked him dead in the eyes "I always knew there was something different about you. Not this extreme but..."

He laughed and looked back at Linda.

"Now I'm not alone anymore" He whispered "Now I have someone else with my abilities"

"That bond will be so strong, Clark" Lana said seriously "You'll be the only two people in the world with those special abilities"

"And when she needs to have a girl friend to talk to, she could always come to you.."

Lana was touched and put her hand on Clark's shoulder "Clark, I have no idea what the future hold for us. But even if we aren't together in the end. We will still be friends right?"

Clark nodded "Of course. You and me.. We're going to be close no matter what happens" Lana ran her hand gently across the baby's head "Just think, Clark. She's so little and she has her whole life ahead on her..."

"I look at her little face" Clark said softly "And I just want to protect her all the time. I just want to.. I don't know, Shield her from all the pain in the world.. But then I think about all the fun times she is going to have. All the love that she has right now..."

Lana smiled, He was so adorable talking like that. He was going to make an amazing big brother.

They both looked over to see Martha standing on the stairs.

"Hey Mrs. Kent" Lana said smiling "I suppose you want Linda back"

Mrs. Kent smiled "Yeah, that would nice"

She went over to Clark and picked the baby up.

"Hey Linda" she said softly "Did you have fun hanging out with you're big brother and your sister-in-law?"

Clark and Lana laughed at the same time. He put his arm around her.

"Well, I should put her to bed, she has had a big day" Martha said, holding the baby

"Bye Linda" Lana said, waving at the baby

"Yeah, Bye Linda" Clark repeated

Martha held Linda's tiny hand up and moved it in a waving motion.

"Goodnight guys" She said and left.

"Goodnight" they said in unison

Lana turned to Clark "You know" she said seriously "That you can talk to me about anything"

He smiled gratefully "I know"

"You don't have to keep anymore secrets from me. Let me help you if something is bothering you"

"You've helped me more than you'll ever know the other day"

He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her "Thank you so much for making me open up to you. I was going to make the worst mistake of my life.. And I would have missed out on all this great stuff"

She hugged him back "You know what? Let's stay here for tonight."

"Really?"

"Yeah.. We both don't want this night to end.. So why does it have to? Mr. Sullivan is out of town so theres no way I could get in trouble"

He smiled "I'd like that more than anything"

They kissed passionately.

"I am so in love with you" He said to her, in between kisses

"Ditto" She said back

He laughed "Ditto? Is that all you can say?"

She laughed too "I am so in love with you too"

"Don't ever leave me," He said, his eyes pleading and sounding like a little boy

She smiled and hugged him "I'm not going anywhere. We have a right to be happy now, Clark"

"I'm so happy"

"So am I" She said and they went back to kissing

Soon they found themselves lying down on the couch, half-asleep. Clark couldn't be happier. Everything was amazing. He had a new baby sister, Lex Luthor was alive, his mother and father had forgiven him and to top it off. Lana Lang, his dream girl, was lying down on his abs. He held her tight. He long had he dreamed of a moment like this. Now it was happening. She looked up and smiled at him .

"What are you thinking about now?" She asked him sleepily

"I'm thinking" he said, "How long I've wanted this"

"What?"

"To be with you. For you to love me as much as I love you"

She smiled, running her fingers through his hair "I've always had feeling for you, but so many things always prevented me from being with you"

He pushed thoughts of the decease Whitney Fordman out of his head.

"Now" she continued "Here we are, right in each others arms.. Right here where we belong"

"It's you and me.." He whispered to her

"Til the end" she whispered back and dozed off