Family Secrets

Chapter 2

The next morning Lois was sitting on the couch, where she had been the whole night waiting for Richard and Jason to come down. She hadn't been able to sleep, worrying over what they would think. A knock on the door shocked her out of her zoning out. She jumped up, and opened the door to see Clark. It was still unnerving to see the co-worker, and to realize that this mild mannered reporter was Superman, the father of her child and the love of her life. "Hi. Thanks for getting here so early."

Clark's eyes shown at her with compassion and she didn't know how she never could have figured it out before. "Honey?" She heard Richard call out from before. "Hi Clark, what are you doing here?"

Before Clark could answer, Lois turned to Richard, "Richard, Clark and I have something that we need to tell you and Jason."

"Alright." Richard said a little uneasy. He hadn't even thought that there was anything between them except for work.

"Jason, sweetie, could you come down here please!" Lois yelled up the stairs.

Five minutes later, the four of them were sitting at the kitchen table, and Lois was trying to figure out how to explain this to a four year old. "Richard, you know I love you, and I know that you love Jason and me."

"But?"

"Jason, you like Clark, right?"

"He's nice."

"Well, we have something to tell you. Before you were born, before I knew your father, Clark and I were involved, you are a very special boy. You have me, and I love you more than anything, and you have your father, and I know that he loves you. But you don't just have one daddy, you have two. Clark is your biological father."

Lois watched the men at the table. Richard was shocked, looking at her, but Clark and Jason were staring at each other. Jason got up, and walked to Clark, and whispered in his ear, "Can you take me flying."

Clark's eyes teared up, "Anytime you want." He looked at Lois, who gave him an encouraging smile, and he continued, "You have a grandma. Grandma Martha, and she will love you so much. She lives on a farm."

Richard, meanwhile was going from hurt to angry, "Lois, can I talk to you in the other room." While Clark told Jason all about the family farm, which had the kid en awed, Jason led Lois into the living room, and exploded, "Why didn't you tell me!"

"I didn't know how, you loved him so much, I didn't want to ruin it."

"You didn't even tell me that Clark and you were seeing each other, and what the guy takes off for five years, leaving you with a child, and you just let him back in here. What if he decides to leave again. I won't have him making promises to Jason just to abandon him again."

"He didn't abandon us, I knew that he was leaving, we had already broken it off, and I hadn't known that I was pregnant when he left. And he was traveling so much, I couldn't get a hold of him, and you came into my life, I gave up trying. But then he came back last week, and all of a sudden, you let him back in."

"He's Jason's father. I want Jason to know his father, but that doesn't change how important you are to Jason, and to me." Lois was pleading.

Richard saw the look in her eyes, and his face softened, "I'm sorry." was all he said, before bringing her into a big hug.

They walked back into the room, to find Jason had grabbed his globe and Clark was pointing at it, "The farm is right here, in the middle of Kansas. They grow more corn than any other town in the entire state. They're harvesting next month. What ya say, we go down and help your grandma out."

Lois saw the excited look on her son's face, "Yeah, Mom, can we go, please!"

Lois looked at Clark, "We?"

Clark looked a little uncomfortable, but confirmed, "All three of you are welcome. You never know, you could get another Pulitzer on the Corn Harvest Festival."

Lois nodded, "Off course we'll come. I'm sure Uncle Perry will allow us a few days off."

Richard looked out of place, the three of them looked like the perfect family, and he didn't miss the look on Lois's face when she looked at Clark. He knew at that moment, no matter how much Lois tried to convince him, hell, tried to convince herself, she would never love him the way that she loved Clark. And he couldn't live like that. "Lois, you and Clark take Jason, I'll probably have way too much work to do to get time off, but you take lots of pictures and tell me all about it."

That night...

Clark had flown home, after working and then being Superman saving the day for a while. He had to tell his mother that he was a father. He wish that his father was alive. He had so many questions about being a father that not even Jor-El could answer. He wanted to know how to keep Jason from using his powers in public, and yet not make him ashamed of his abilities. He wanted to keep his son safe, but he had no idea how to do it.

He barely knocked on the door when the door flew open and his mother through her arms around his shoulders. "I was so worried. I heard on TV that you were in the hospital in a coma, I went to Metropolis, but it wasn't like I could go up to them and tell them that I was Superman's mother."

"I'm okay mom, in fact, I have good news. Do you remember Lois Lane, who I work with?"

"Yes, I think you talked about her, a thousand times."

"Well, our relationship became... well, I have a son."

"Does he know?"

"I told Lois about me, and she told Jason. They're coming for the harvest next month."

"That's so wonderful, Clark. I know that you'll be as great a father as your father was. I can't wait to meet him."

"Just be careful when around people. He has shown certain feats, such as throwing a piano across the room, how did you and dad keep me from showing my powers to the whole town."

"Well, your father and I had always kept to ourselves, so when you came along, people didn't think it was anything odd when we kept keeping to ourselves. But, the biggest thing was that you were a good kids. Yes you had your odd temper tantrums, we had some holes in the walls, but you were a good kid, we just loved you."

"I'm just worried. Jason lives in the city. Lois knows about Jason's family history, the powers that he'll probably get, but what about Richard. He doesn't know, and I know that he loves Jason, but he's the assistant editor of the daily planet. What if he knows that his adopted son is the son of superman?"

"If this Richard truly loves Jason, than he'll protect your son like your father and I protected you."

"I'm also worried about him living in the city. When I was a kid, I could run as fast as I wanted in the corn field, there was no one around, no one to see. But Jason, he can't... what if he..."

"He'll be fine. You just bring Jason over to visit a lot."

Clark smiled at his mother, he knew that in his heart, the need to do good, had nothing to do with Jor-El. He may have given him the knowledge of the universe, but his heart was because of the love that a simple farmer and his wife had given him, when they found him in the middle of a corn field. "I have Jason this weekend. Maybe I'll bring him out here, so that you can meet your grandson."

Martha reached up and stroked his son's face, who she still thought of as her baby, "I can't wait."

TBC...

A/N: This story has a life of it's own already. What do you think. I have yet to bring in a bad guy. Maybe Tempus (from Lois and Clark) what do you think. REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!