"Chloe.." I shook my head at him so he knew I no longer went by that name, "Lois, we need to talk."

I don't want to talk is all I can think to say, "What is there to talk about Clark, and how did you get my address?" I fold my arms across my chest and lean up against the door frame.

"You know what, just can I come in please?"

He knew I wouldn't deny him with that face and try as hard as I might I just couldn't. "Fine, come in and sit. Want anything to drink?" I walk away from the door and let him come in and close it behind him. He sits in the living room and shakes his head in rejection to any drink.

"Lois, just come and sit so we can talk about everything." He patted the chair across from him and looked at me with that face. Damn him.

I slowly walk over and fall into the old lazy chair, "You still never told me how you got my address." I stare him down like I do anyone I am interviewing, I am not going to break just because it is Clark Kent.

"Well I could only get Lex to tell me your new name and I looked up your new address in the phone book. Don't be mad at Lex though, he only gave it to me because he knew I would find out on Monday when I start at the Planet." He sat back like he was trying to get more comfortable.

I want to be mad at Lex but I know he wouldn't just give it away if he knew I would be mad about it, plus he did have a point with the whole Planet thing. "I am not mad at Lex, but I have to be to work early and am getting tired so lets talk about what you want to talk about and part ways."

His face changed to a sadden look, was he actually hurt that I wanted to hurry this up? "Lois, why did you never tell me about Laura? When did you have her, and where is her father?" Ha, I laugh at that, where is her father you ask? Look in the damn mirror!

"Well I had Laura when I was nineteen and as for the father, take a right down the hall go into the bathroom and look in the mirror." I was certainly not going to be nice about this one bit, after all did I really have to be?

His eyes widened and mouth dropped open a bit at my sarcastic truth. He sat there and thought about it, then looked back up at me. "But when? And how come you never told me?"

The look on his face was priceless, I wish I had a camera. "Well you remember our five month anniversary? The picnic, and more, under the stars? That just so happened to be the first time we didn't use a condom and the miracle that is reproduction happened that night. Then your dad passed and you went home to be with your mom, and I never really found out till a month and a half later anyways. I was going to tell you but the night I finally got the courage up to tell you, ironically you decided that would be the night you tell me about you and Lana." I look away from him, I pick invisible lent off my pajama shorts.

"Lois, I am so sorry," I let out a small chuckle at that I mean I knew it was coming. "If I had known…"

"What Clark? If you had known would you have come back to me in pity that you just couldn't leave poor Chloe to have the baby alone. You just leave what you had finally wanted, Lana, you would give up your wildest dream?" I was doing my damnedest to hold back my tears, they wanted to so badly to come though.

"No Lois, I would've came back because it was the right thing to do, I have a daughter that I don't even know about, I should be here for her." He was just about at a shouting level and that scared me.

"Yeah but I wouldn't have wanted you to come back just because it was the right thing, I wanted you to come back because you loved me. Because you want to have this baby with me and love it as much as you had always loved the dream of being with Lana. But I knew that now you had your dream, I knew you were beyond happy and I was not going to make you come back out of pity and miss the dream you left!" I was shouting now, I knew I should keep it down but there was just so much that had bottled up inside me in the last five years I couldn't help it.

Clark leaned forward and grabbed my hands, "Lois you know I would never come back out of pity, I wouldn't put you through that. Sure I was happy with Lana, but I was always happy with you too, do you remember our first five months of college? I felt more happy with you then I had any other girl ever. I hated leaving you, I didn't want to but I had to be there for mom. I also didn't want to fall for Lana again, but she was giving me signs even when I would tell her we were still together. Then I got to thinking, I didn't know how long mom would need me and I didn't want you putting your life on hold for me so I thought it be best to break it off. I was never really dating Lana when I broke it off with you, just my sad excuse."

I was bawling now, I had held in these tears for five years now it was time to let them go. "Clark do you ever think I could forget those five months? They were my dream come true, you had no idea how long I had waited for you to grow into me. But you outgrew me just as fast, and you have no idea how much that hurt me. I did put my life on hold for you, well actually for your child. But Clark she is the one good thing to come out of our relationship. I don't see how you could look into that girls eyes and not feel like you are looking in a mirror. Did you not see she has your eyes, I see them every day and think of you."

Clark was no kneeling at my side wiping the tears away from my eyes and rubbing my back. "Shh Lois, I never meant to hurt you. I missed you more than anything in the world, when you just stopped keeping in touch I felt as if I had just lost a part of my world. I had no one to talk to, Lana was never any good with talking about my abilities as I never told her until recently and she took it as I had always expected. I just wanted to pick up the phone and hear your voice. I don't think I ever stopped loving you."

"Don't Clark! Don't even say that, you married her so don't you ever say that you still loved me because is bull!" I shook him off me and walked over to the kitchen counter/ bar that we ate at on occasions when I actually made something for us to eat. I bent over it with both hands on the counter top. "Clark you can't just marry someone and say you love another, that isn't right."

Clark walked up behind me and put his hands around my waist and I shivered, I should back away and not let him do this to me again. "Lois, I know it is wrong, I never should have married Lana. I thought that if I did then maybe I could force myself not to still love you, but it didn't work."

No, he wasn't supposed to be so damned caring and sweet to me, why does he always make it so hard for me to hate him. I turn to face him, he is just looking down at me with those gorgeous green eyes that still make me week in the knees. "Clark, this isn't right. You are married and I just can't do this right now." I walked away from him and sat back down on the chair.

He turned and leaned against the counter, "Lois you heard me at Lex's tonight, I told Lana I want a divorce. I can't handle her anymore, she freaked when I finally told her and she won't let me get near her anymore. She will sleep in the guest bedroom just to get away from me and I am sick of being treated like a freak. I know I am one but to be treated like one is another thing."

I whip my head to look at him, "Clark you are not a freak, you have more heart than most people I know. Lana is just to dumb and idiotic to think of you as one, as far as I am concerned she doesn't deserve you."

I see a smile play across his face and I know he agrees with me on some level. He would never come out and say those things about Lana but it was the way he was feeling. "You know Lois, I would like to get to know my daughter. I mean have you even told her about me?"

I chuckle at that, "Well she once asked me why she didn't have a daddy, I told her she did but I never told him about her. She of course asked why and I told her to ask again when she was older and I would tell her everything." I smiled at her quick thinking tonight as I got ready to explain the rest to him. "Well then when you came to Lex's tonight she knew you were her daddy."

Clark again got a surprised look on his face, "But how did she know?"

"I guess my poker face isn't so strong when it comes to you Clark. She saw the look in my eyes when you came and noticed it as the same one when I would talk about you before. She put two and two together."

"And got four, I must say she is quite the kid. Smart, gorgeous and outgoing. Looks like you had the more dominating genes." I blush at him as he compliments me and nod.

"Well, she did get your amazing eyes and your "hero" complex." I wanted to give him a little credit to what we had made together.

Then a look of worry came over Clark, "Has she possessed any of my abilities?"

To be honest I had never thought about them, she never showed any signs yet so I hadn't worried yet. "Actually no, she hasn't. I am sorry if you wanted her to have them. Maybe if we give her time she will develop them, I mean maybe Kryptonian girls develop their abilities slower than boys."

He shook his head, "No if she would have any she would have showed them already. I showed my strength and speed as young as three, the rest never came till later but she should have them at least. It would've been nice to have her have my abilities but Jor-El told me once it might not pass to my children. I am just glad to hear she is a happy and healthy child."

I could see a little disappointment in his features, I felt for him but was to happy that I had a healthy girl. "Another thing, she knows your Superman."

This time Clark just smiles, "I should've known, how could she tell this time?"

"I didn't ask, I just took it to be her hunch. I think that is why she gave you her drawing. She was so proud of that drawing, she idolizes you Clark." I feel another tear betray me and fall down my cheek.

"I get that from a lot of people, they all tell me their kids love me when I am saving someone." He chuckles to himself, and I grin again, his smile always gets to me.

"Well I hate to be a party pooper, but I have to be to work early as I said earlier and it gets to be early mornings around here with Laura." I stand and walk to him and open my arms to let him know we are okay.

He greatly accepts and squeezes me tight, "Will you see me for dinner, tomorrow?"

I back away from the hug, "Clark I don't know, it is so short notice and there is Laura."

"Have Lex watch her, I know he would enjoy it. He couldn't stop talking about her, he loves her like his own Lo." Nobody had ever called me that, Clark always used to call me Chlo so it only figures he would shorten this name too.

"I Know, he is so good to her, he helped me raise her in a way so he had a protective thing over her. She adores him because she grew up with him and he spoils her rotten so that doesn't hurt either. But I will ask him and get back to you, can I have your number?" I knew this was risky, but it was Clark and he showed a true desire in getting to know what he had missed.

"Yeah, I'll give you my cell so you don't have to deal with Lana maybe picking up the home phone." He walked over to the counter and wrote his number on the memo pad.

"Thanks, and I am sorry for never telling you Clark. I just figured it was for the better." I walk him to the door and again lean up against the door frame.

He gives me a peck on the cheek and smiles, "Don't worry Lo, I can understand where you might think that and I don't blame you for not telling me after how I treated you. Just one more question though?"

I smile at how sweet this man is to me, "Yeah?"

"Where did you come up with Laura?"

I have to be honest not the question I was expecting but I tried to explain it the best I could. "I am not sure, I had my heart set on the name Nicole so I could call her Nikki if it was a girl and the name Adam for a boy. But as I was sitting in labor the name Laura just popped into my head and when I was asked what I wanted to name her I blurted out Laura. But I never regretted it, I love it. Why do you ask?"

A smile played across his face, "Well it was my biological mother's name, and she was a good person unlike my father. I was just amazed that my daughter was named that, but I love it too. And Patrica is mom's middle name, why did you never chose a name from your side of the family?"

I was amazed that I had picked the name of Clark's birth mother, I somehow don't think that was by accident either. "Yeah, well at the time I didn't know Laura was also from your side, but your mom was more of a mom to me then my own so I figured that she should be named after her in a way."

He just nods and gives me one last hug, "Alright, and if you don't mind can I tell mom about you and Laura?"

I am not sure if I should let him, but I am sick of hiding from my home. I want to be able to bring Laura there and show her were I grew up for most of my life. I am sick of running, I nod, "Yeah, in fact I would love to take Laura to Smallville sometime and show her the town."

The biggest smile plays across his face, "That would be great, mom would love it. She always teases me that she would die and I would never give her a grandchild. But I better let you since you have work." He kissed my cheek again and walked down the hallway.

"Bye" I whisper and watch him walk away. I finally go back in my apartment when he gets in the elevator and gives me a final wave. God I feel like a kid in high school again. I put all my dishes away and snuggle up in bed, I couldn't wait for the next day to arrive.

-x-So for the question I got about Laura not having any of Clark's abilities got explain.To be honest I had never thought about it, don't know how it slipped my mind but it did. So I hope this clears it all up, I hope you all like this update and I hope to get update again soon. Keep the reviews a comin'!