Author's Notes: Marcy, Marcy & Marcy, Attorney's At Law are relentless in their pursuit for more updates. But here it is. And I hope it turns out as well as I hope it does. I need Exposed to air right now so I can be inspired. Aqua was great and all, but it wasn't enough. Okay, here's the update. Enjoy!

Metamorphosis – Chapter 37

When Clark first saw Lois at the farm, the last thing he expected to do was fly them out of Smallville and to Metropolis so he could meet his son.

His son.

Clark couldn't help but smile at the recently known fact. Every once in a while, he would sneak a glimpse at Lois as he held her in his arms as they flew high above the clouds where it seemed like they could almost reach the moon.

So much as changed in so little time.

"Clark." Lois suddenly interrupted his thoughts and he looks at her, noticing the distress on her face. "I need you to put me down," she requested as politely as possible.

"What? Why, what's wrong?"

"Please," she softly pleaded.

Clark immediately slows down and descends to the nearest building in sight and away from curious eyes. They've been flying above the clouds for several minutes and he was lucky that they were so high up, no open would notice them landing on a nearby roof, especially as the night came creeping behind them.

"Are you okay?"

Lois shook her head, brushing past him, throwing up in the corner. "I'm sorry, I'm just… motion sickness I guess"

Clark moved right besides her, kneeling down, his eyes filled with concern.

"Since when do you get motion sickness?" Clark asks both worriedly and with a curious gaze. He held his hand out for her to take.

She does and he helps her up as she explains. "About midway through my first trimester, morning sickness took on a whole new meaning. I thought it was just the flu but, when the General saw me unconscious on the floor well… that raised the red flag"

Clark didn't know what to say. "I had no idea, I'm sorry." He stuffed his hands in his pocket, looking ashamed.

"Don't go all guilty on me now, I'm not," Lois waves off.

"Lois…" Clark began in a soft voice. He has asked before and she sort of tip-toed around the answer, but he wanted to know now. Clark is ready for it. "Why'd you stay away?"

Lois breathed in, knowing the question wasn't far along. "After our… our last night together, I met back up with my dad and he flew me to Anchorage. He was still really angry that I dodged him the day before so he gave me the silent treatment until we got there."

Clark remained silent and waited for her to continue. He didn't want to say anything that might push her away from him anymore than she already was. As great it is having her close by, and knowing they created a life together, she still kept a certain amount of distance between them.

"Turns out that he'd been on a classified assignment overseas and that their cover was blown, prompting him to order his team on an immediate extraction."

"What did any of that have to do with you?"

"Isn't it obvious? I'm the General's daughter. My bylines are all over the Daily Planet, the most widely circulated paper in the world which also happens to be published in over a dozen languages. When they figured out who was behind the schematics of the operation, it wouldn't be long till they come knocking on my door"

"So he ordered you away," Clark finally understood why she left in the beginning, but he still wasn't liking it. There are still a lot of answers he wanted.

"Yeah. Ever since my mom died, he's been in this never-ending protective kick. About the only thing he's consistent with between me and my sister"

"You could've at least called"

"I know"

"Why didn't you?"

"A month later after the situation was neutralized… or at least that's what he said… anyway, when the threat was minimal that's when the pregnancy threw me unconscious…and you can just imagine my surprise"

Nodding, it was definitely a surprise. Clark lifted his hands from his pockets and crossed his arms in front of his chest.

"Were you hurt?"

"I honestly don't remember," she answers truthfully.

"I wished you didn't stay away. I would've been there for you"

"I don't doubt that"

Clark sighed, frustrated at the situation.

"I'm FURIOUS with you!"

"Yeah, I kinda noticed," she says blankly. Lois looked out into Metropolis, the lights bringing back memories of her time there. Her face saddens. "Lex knows what you're capable of"

Clark's head turned abruptly.

"What do you mean?"

She looked down on her hands, interlacing them and then pressing them firmly atop the ledge that separated her from the hearth to nothing at all.

"Before I found out I was pregnant, Lex visited me. I don't know how he found me, but he did, right outside my door at four in the morning." Clark balled his fist, angry that Lex may have threatened her but Lois's caring hand to his shoulder proved that wasn't the case. "He didn't hurt me... at least, I don't think so. He just came to talk"

Clark gulped, fear threatening to claim him.

"About what?" he managed to ask. Lex Luthor doesn't just come by and want nothing in return. It's not in his nature.

"About the meteor shower. The manifestation of the civilians that came across those meteor rocks. He shared with me everything he discovered about the town. All of it. The octagonal key. The stones. The cave walls… He knows Clark"

Clark shook his head, it's not possible.

"He remembers," she adds, and what he thought was not possible comes tumbling out.

"He knows?"

"He remembers you stopping that car right before the time Lionel committed him. He knows that you're capable of a lot of things even though he doesn't know where you come from."

"Is that why you stayed away?"

"No," Lois denies wholeheartedly. "It's one of the reasons why I came back"

"Eleven months later!"

Lois stopped herself from saying anything further until he has some time to process everything she just revealed. She knew he was going to be more upset when she reveals to him that during Lex's sudden visit, he brought with him the green rock, Kryptonite, to show her… and that exposure started a chain of events she hadn't expected… or was prepared for.

Or maybe she was just over exaggerating the whole thing. Sure, after seeing the small fragment of Kryptonite in Lex's hand, her stomach started getting queasy and upset to the point that she felt like she was dying inside.

She recalled the sudden bead of sweat that appeared seamlessly out of nowhere in such an air cooled environment. The nausea. And as she forcefully kept her composure in front of him, as soon as he left with the Kryptonite, she collapsed on the floor as the room quickly faded into darkness.

Several days later, she woke up one morning attached to a lot of monitors along with a headache and a craving for rocky road. Her father sat asleep besides her the entire time. And as she tried to make herself a lot more comfortable, she notices that the monitor she was hooked up to read a different set of heartbeats.

And that's when Lois knew.

To be continued…