**A/N: Sooooooo sorry this took so long. My muse just really hasn't been with this as much lately as it was when I started it.**

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Lex made no reaction to Chloe's comment. He had a suspicion that she had been about to say that.

Clark on the other hand, had begun to breathe heavier and was looking as if he was having trouble breathing. If it was his child, well, he didn't know what would happen. He was sure that things would happen during the pregnancy that really couldn't be explained unless he told Chloe. It was at this point that Lex came from behind his desk and over to Chloe.

"Chloe, I can get my lab to take a DNA test of the fetus to determine which of us is the father, if you would like that is."

Chloe pondered for a moment, then nodded. It would be better that way, knowing whose sperm had created the life inside of her. She looked at both men in front of her.

"Whoever this child belongs to, I am not ending the pregnancy. I am keeping this child."

Both Lex and Clark gave her an understanding look, although Clark had a harder time of giving it due to the nature that he wasn't sure what would happen to the child or Chloe if the pregnancy continued and it was his child. Lex just nodded.

"I will call the lab now then."

He left the room to use the phone in the room next to his office, knowing it might make Chloe uncomfortable to hear the conversation.

About 10 minutes later, he came back into the room where neither Chloe nor Clark showed any apparent signs of having moved. He stood for a moment before talking.

"The lab said they could do it any time. Would you like to do it now?"

Chloe looked at him with an almost horror-stricken face. Clark saw this and moved to her side as he took her hand.

"It'll be easier the sooner you do it Chloe, that way you can know and not need to worry about it."

After closing her eyes for a moment, she meekly nodded. She wrapped her around Clark and buried her head in his neck. She loved him, and realized that if she could choose who she wanted to be the father of her child, she wanted it to be Clark's.

Lex looked at them for a moment before he interrupted them

"Chloe, I can have the helicopter get us to Metropolis in about an hour. I assume you would like to come Clark?"

Lex knew he didn't really need to ask that question, seeing as he had already guessed the answer, but knew it was only polite to ask. His assumption was confirmed when Clark nodded.

"Ok then, it will be ready to go in fifteen minutes. You may use my phone to call your parents and make any excuses you need to."

With that Lex indicated the phone on his desk, then turned and left the room to get his people to prep the chopper and prepared himself to find out the paternity of the child Chloe carried. In his mind, he could tell that Chloe wanted it to be Clark's but, in his heart, Lex was hoping it was his. Chloe was the first woman to sleep with him without trying to get his money, so if the child was his, he knew that Chloe would want to raise the child properly, that is to say with the father. Lex would have the chance to raise a child that didn't follow in the Luthor path. He wasn't sure how Clark viewed the matter however, and that made him hope even more that the child was his.