Chapter Two

Clark froze as he looked at the man in front of him. He would respect their wishes despite what they might want to do to him. His wife and his son were most important to him. Maybe he was selfish in that but didn't he deserve to be selfish when it came to his family? He could see all eyes drawn on him as the glasses landed on the ground but he continued to stare at them.

"So," the man said as he leaned forwards and tore off the buttons of Clark's button up shirt, the reporter still staring at him as the man took a step back seeing the costume. Everyone could see the truth now. Everyone could see how this mild manner reporter defeated criminals in his spare time.

"Whatever you do to me, I will not allow you to hurt my son," he said as Lois managed to run over to him, touching his shoulder as she saw tiny green crystals in his handcuffs. There was still Kryptonite in them. She kissed his cheek affectionately before pressing her forehead to his shoulder.

"I'll find a way to solve this and bring everything back to normal," she promised him before feeling others to drag her away. She wanted to be with him. She hated to see him exposed and in so much danger. "Clark! I love you! Hold onto that strength for me," she told him and Clark faced the man opposite him.

"So, now the world sees that you are Superman, disguised as Clark Kent," the man laughed and Clark glared at him, unable to use his powers due to the handcuffs.

"Now the people in this room know that I am Clark Kent, sometimes disguised as Superman," he argued with them with his chin raised. He needed to act like the protective father he was. He needed to preserve the good in his nature and the image that his son had of him. "So take me away. Do whatever you want to me, I'll permit you that, but do not ever risk the life and safety of my child. That I can never forgive."

Clark could see the way that the people he had worked with for years were staring at him as if he had become someone else and he was shoved backwards and pushed into the van that they had waiting for him. He could see Lois's desperate face and offered her a quick look of apology before he was driven away and the non-Planet workers left the building.

"Did you know?" Jimmy asked as the wounds that Johnathan had had healed once the Kryptonite was removed from the building. Lois took hold of her son, wrapping her arms around him securely.

"Of course I knew," she argued. "I knew before I agreed to marry him."

"So you were keeping this story under wraps?" Perry asked her in shock. Lois turned to him, her eyes with tears in them as she tried to protect their child.

"It's not exactly headline news or at least…it wasn't…whatever they are doing to Clark, I need to report on it. I need to get as close to the case as possible," Lois urged and Perry turned to her. Lois was scared when she saw a sense of being betrayed in his eyes.

"I can't let you do that, it would go against the journalist's code," he said and Lois stood firm. They were not going to get away with this.

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After a long plane flight, which Clark was considering ironic that he had had to board a plane surrounded by armed guards and military officials whilst wearing his Superman outfit with the ability to fly, they arrived at Washington DC. Clark took slow breaths before one of the officers shoved him.

"According to tests, your ice breath isn't going to work under the effect of that much Kryptonite," he said and Clark looked at him. His eyes snapping open and looking at the man beside him with anger showing beneath the surface.

"I don't intend to escape," he told him and the officer rolled his eyes before pushing him onto his feet.

"Likely story," another military official said and Clark closed his eyes. He had to steady himself somehow. He had no idea what they would be doing to him but it wasn't good. It wasn't good that they knew his true identity. It wasn't good that Lois had no idea where he was or what was happening to him. This was a situation he had tried to avoid for many many years and yet he was faced with it now.

"I wouldn't dare to even attempt to escape," Clark told them as he felt them shove him forwards and guide him out of the jet. He bowed his head before having his chin forced up. Wouldn't they allow him to have the freedom to do anything?

"How can we trust that?" the Sergeant Major said and Clark looked at him with exhaustion in his eyes. It wasn't only the Kryptonite that was weakening him but the idea of giving himself up unwillingly.

"Because you hurt my son," Clark told them honestly. "Because I choose to prioritize my son. I choose to be a father first. I would do anything to protect him and that means I can't escape knowing that you won't stop at just hurting him one time."

"Correct," the sergeant said and Clark had to calm himself to not go on the offensive due to his need to protect his son. "If you don't comply with our plan, we will take your child into custody of The United States government. I'm sure that children with half-Kryptonian DNA will be an interesting study." Clark shifted as he heard those words but felt them tap on his wrist where the cuff was and the pain from the Kryptonite surged through his body. For Johnathan's sake, he wouldn't allow himself to act on the anger he was feeling. Who knew what they would do to his child.

"You must be breaking some kind of law," Clark argued with him. "There will be peop-"

"Our laws only cover humans," the sergeant sneered at him, "Not aliens. We'll show you what we do to alien lifeforms soon enough," he said and Clark looked at him and then saw a few more top-ranking government employees as well as some scientists. His eyes widened. What were scientists here for?

"We need to get him to the lab as soon as possible," one of the scientists said and Clark turned pale. "We have to start with the experiments as soon as possible before his body starts to break down. We need to start with the vivisection before the dissection."

"Di-dissection?" Clark asked his heart pounding in his chest. They couldn't be serious, could they? "I have rights. I must have some kind of ri-"

Clark felt a sharp shock to the back of his neck and collapsed, something had paralyzed him. It didn't matter how weak he already felt, as the drug went through his body, he felt himself falling. As his eyes closed, he said only one word, "Lois."

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Lois paced the apartment, looking like a complete mess as she tried to find the files which she had on Clark, anything that could help him or save him or protect him. This was bad. This was better than him being dead or nearly lost in time or sent scattered around the universe, at least he was alive to her knowledge. Still, this was very very bad.

Lois knew that she looked like a complete mess but she couldn't just stand by and not do anything. She knew that she had married someone who wasn't from this planet but that didn't matter. She had heard about the Roswell experiments and despite Clark looking human, they would still hurt him for their own sick purposes.

As she heard a knock on the door, she grabbed a frying pan and walked towards the door before sighing. She opened it to see Johnathan Sr. and Martha standing there. They eyed the frying pan and then her anxious face.

"What's wrong?" Martha asked as Johnathan tried to figure out the situation. Lois looked sadly over at the crib and then pulled Johnathan Jr. into her arms.

"I need you to take care of Johnny," she said as she kissed her son's forehead. "It's a riskier thing to ask. I understand if you consider it too risky but I just need for Johnny to be taken care of," she said with tears in her eyes. "You two are the only ones I can ask. His powers are developing and I'm assuming that when Clark was young -"

"There was a lot we were able to learn from him, of course, his powers didn't all develop so early on," Martha said as she looked to her grandson. Despite them not being related biologically, her love for him didn't change. It wouldn't be different if he was connected to them by DNA, he was their son's son, he was their amazing grandchild.

"What happened?" Johnathan asked as he saw Martha take Johnny from Lois, bouncing him lovingly. "Something happened."

"Clark got seized by the government," Lois said as she looked to the shocked Kents. "They removed him from Metropolis, the only thing I know is that they are taking him to Washington DC and that they know his secret. I know he's not going to fight against them or attempt to escape so I need to get as close to him as possible."

Martha looked at her nervously and Johnathan placed a supportive hand on her shoulder seeing his own wife pale.

"Why wouldn't he fight back? He knows the dangers that he's putting himself through especially if they know the link between him and Superman," she said as Johnathan closed his eyes. His worst fear was his son being tortured in a lab and treated as some kind of an experiment.

"Johnny was at risk," Lois said as they all turned to the tiny and defenseless infant. "They used his safety to get to Clark and of course…"

"Clark would prioritize you and Johnny over anything," Johnathan said as Martha tried to hold back some sobs. "No matter what it means for himself."

End of Chapter Two

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