THANKSGIVING-
No, Kal-El did not take Lois to Krypton.
Yes, Lois was pissed off! He had told her it was a life or death situation and that he didn't want to put her in peril! Lois suspected what Kal-El really didn't want was for her to tell his mother, what was really going on with her husband!
Needless to say, Lois gave him a piece of her mind before he left her in Chloe's apartment. Then, she boxed up the Kryptonian relics that he had left for her, so that she could function outside of the Fortress and went back home to the mansion to resume her life.
But it had not been easy.
Lois was worried about Kal-El, whether she liked it or not. He had left two days ago! Either the crystal worked or it didn't! And she was beginning to suspect it hadn't. If Kal-El had been blown up along with everyone else from Krypton...
Lois shook that thought out of her head. She also erased Kal-El from her thoughts. What the hell did she care if he came back or not? She and her mother were nothing but objects of lust for Kryptonian men. And she had half a mind to tell her mother herself, about Jor-El's true marital status!
She was in her room, packing up a special 'Get Well' basket for Alfred, who was coming home from the hospital today Chloe was also coming home as well. And dinner was later on in the day. Lois just felt like she had a lot to deal with today.
One: Moira told Chloe about Davis and now Moira was banished from the house! Ella arranged for her sister to stay at a local inn, until Chloe could come to terms with the fact that Davis was her brother. And according to Ella, Chloe was heartbroken over Kal-El's absence from her life during this painful moment in her life.
Lois wanted to be there for her and she intended to. But she felt bad for Davis. He had wanted to be here today and now that everyone knew who he was, he could not even go over to the inn and be with his mother on this day.
Two: Cat was being detained by the military. Lois knew Bruce had tried to intercede on her behalf with her father, but General Lane was determined to do things the way he had wanted to do them in the first place! So Cat's holiday was probably pretty crappy too.
Three: she needed to find some time to talk to Perry about her story! There didn't seem to be any point in hiding her relation to Davis. And she felt like her cousin's story had to get out there. Basically that he couldn't help what he was, but that he was TRYING to seek some kind of cure.
Lois suspected that Davis was back at the Fortress with Jor-El and Dr. Hamilton, since she hadn't seen either of them, since the last time she saw Kal-El. It was as she was thinking along those lines, that the door to her room opened and her mother stepped in. Lois watched her close the door and give her a hard look. Uh oh, Lois thought...
"Lois, we need to talk."
"Mom, can this wait? I'm headed to Gotham to give this get well basket to Alfred and..."
"I heard you were arrested in Gotham. Arrested AGAIN, Lois! What happened?"
"Nothing, Mom! Bruce's ex girlfriend works for the D.A.'s office there. I was at the hospital with him and Alfred when the report came through on TV about who Davis was. I admitted he was my cousin and she went ape and arrested me! She said I'd been hiding him." Lois exaggerated.
"Oh my God! So do you think this was really about Davis? Or her trying to get Bruce back?" Ella asked, her hopes that Lois would marry Bruce, starting to creep up again.
"Probably a little of both. And I wasn't in jail long. Kal-El posted my bail." Lois said.
Now Ella frowned.
"Kal-El posted your bail and not Bruce?"
"Yes." Lois answered, as she turned away from her to take in Alfred's get well basket again. Ella moved closer to her daughter.
"Honey, don't you think it's odd that he would do that, when the woman he loves has been blinded and hospitalized?"
Lois turned back to her mother.
"He's Kryptonian, Mom. You can't tell where they are coming from on the emotion scale."
"Moira seems to think that something is going on between yourself and Kal-El. Is there any truth to that?"
Lois took a deep breath. She didn't think her mother was ready to hear the true extent of what was going on. So she sugar coated it.
"Bruce is helping me deal with something that has happened. Something that has caused a relationship with Kal-El to begin, that I didn't necessarily plan on."
"What does THAT mean? And stop the double talk, young lady! Have Kal-El and you been sneaking around behind Chloe's back?"
"Yes."
"Oh my God. Moira was right then. I thought you hated Kal-El? I thought this relationship you were supposedly having with Bruce was going someplace!"
"Mom, it's too much to get in to. But I can tell you that what Kal-El and I have, will never go beyond being some kind of fling, okay? Bruce is aware of everything and you'll just have to trust me about this."
"I do, Lois. But you have to be honest with Chloe. Kal-El has to be as well. Where is he, by the way? I haven't seen him in days and Jor-El has been coming and going..."
"Jor-El is trying to help Davis cure his monster problem. I don't know where Kal-El is." Lois lied.
"Will Kal-El be here for dinner? Chloe will fall apart if she does not see him."
"I don't know, Mom." Lois said tiredly.
"Alright, dear. I'll drop this for now. I just don't want it to ruin our holiday. But I do have to ask you something else: I called Wayne Enterprises looking for Jor-El and was told he no longer worked there. Why? Did Bruce fire him?"
Oh Mom, Lois thought, there is just so much you don't know!
Before Lois could come up with a semblance of an answer, there was a knock on her door and Ella called out for the person to come in. A maid peered in.
"Miss Lois? Mr. Wayne is downstairs. He is asking to see you."
"Bruce is here?" Lois asked more to herself than the maid.
"Yes. If you can't see him, I'll tell him that." the maid replied.
"No. I just was expecting to go to him. I didn't think he would be in Smallville. I'll be right down." Lois replied. The maid nodded and closed the door. Lois turned to her mother.
"Maybe you can ask Bruce yourself about Jor-El." Lois told her, as she picked up Alfred's gift basket.
"No. Maybe I'll just ask my husband directly." Ella told her daughter. She sensed that Bruce's arrival was unexpected. And with all of this trouble with Kal-El as of late, she decided it would be better to not interrupt whatever was going on between her daughter and the Gotham billionaire.
Ella walked over to Lois's standing mirror and straightened her own hair. She herself was headed to the hospital to pick up Chloe and bring her back home. A teacher that worked with the blind had been hired to come here and stay until either her niece's eyesight returned, or she got the hang of her new life in darkness.
Bruce didn't know how he was going to tell Lois what he needed to tell her. He didn't even know if it mattered at this point. He had wrestled with these thoughts ever since Dr. Emil Hamilton told him what he had learned from Lionel Luthor.
Lionel Luthor...Bruce wasn't comfortable going with any information supplied by him! But he had decided something. If Lois told him who her source was, the original person that knew about Lor-Zod and that crystal, and it turned out to be Lionel Luthor, then yes, Bruce was going to tell Lois what he had learned.
He pulled himself out of his thoughts, as he watched Lois come down the stairs carrying a basket, from the sitting room. He stood up as she moved through the hallway towards him. Lois smiled at Bruce, setting the basket on a table before walking up to him.
"How is Alfred? You aren't here because he's taken a turn for the worse, are you?"
"No. Alfred is actually on the mend."
"Good! You know I was just headed to Gotham to see him. I put together a basket for him..."
"I'll take it to him later. Why don't we take a walk on the grounds? We can walk and talk, okay?"
Lois just stared at him.
"What?" Bruce asked, forcing a smile.
"Something's wrong, isn't it? And it's kind of cold to be 'walking and talking' outside around here."
Bruce moved to wrap his arms around her.
"I will keep you warm, I promise. But we do need to talk."
"Okay." Lois said quietly, not really wanting to do this. She knew Bruce well enough to ascertain that whatever he had to tell her, he was dreading having to say it. And she was dreading having to hear bad news-especially on Thanksgiving.
Lois was not cold as she and Bruce walked in the woods. But that was because he was worried. He seemed to want to go deep into the forest, as if being further from the house would somehow make his bad news somewhat bearable. Or at least that was the way Lois was seeing it. She finally just stopped walking, which made Bruce stop as well.
"I can't stand this! Just tell me what you want to tell me!"
Bruce closed the space between them and placed his hands on her shoulders.
"I need to know who your source was for that story you wanted to write? The source that knew that Davis Bloom had stolen that crystal from Krypton?"
Lois tried to pull out of his grip, but Bruce's hands tightened on her.
"I really need to know, Lois." Bruce said firmly.
"Why?"
"Lois, honey, does it matter? I mean we aren't going to be doing that story anyway."
"Who says? After this whole creature/Davis thing dies down, people will still need to know about he Kryptonians." Lois told him.
"You're telling me that after all that has happened, you are willing to hurt your mother this way? And whether you want to admit it or not, you care what Kal-El thinks. He won't like your story. Now Lois, this is important. I need to know if your source was Lionel Luthor?"
Lois's facial reaction was all the clarification Bruce needed. He exhaled, let go of her then turned away to stare aimlessly into the woods. Lois moved so that she was in his line of sight.
"I'm a big girl. Whatever it is, just tell me."
Bruce's eyes locked on hers.
"Lionel Luthor paid Dr. Hamilton a visit while he was working on your problem. He said that the Kryptonian elder that came up with the theory as to how you got that brand, was wrong."
Lois raised a brow.
"I don't follow you." she said.
Bruce rested his hands on her shoulders again.
"Lionel says that a Kryptonian has to get THREE women in an earth woman's family pregnant, before that brand will appear. Lois, if this is true, then Kal-El slept with someone else in your family besides Lucy and Chloe. Do you have another relative on your father's side?"
Lois shook her head!
"No! I mean my father was an only child. Are you sure? Because there is no one left. Kal-El's version has to be true."
Bruce took a deep breath before responding.
"No. There is another woman."
Lois shook her head.
"You mean my Aunt Moira? I don't think Kal-El even knew who she was before now. But you're thinking that because she had Davis with Zod, right? No. I don't think Kal-El would have sex with a catatonic woman, Bruce. Come on!"
"I was referring to...your mother, Lois." Bruce said quietly, hating to even say the words! He hadn't slept since the night Dr. Hamilton told him about this! At this point, yes, Lionel Luthor could be lying or mistaken. But the only way they would know that for sure, is if they could find out whether Ella Lane ever had any sexual contact with her step-son.
Lois backed out of his grip!
"No. My mother and Kal-El? That is so stupid and ridiculous..."
"Lois, I WANT to believe that this is stupid and ridiculous! But if Lionel Luthor was your source this whole time, then he's never been wrong about anything else, has he?"
Lois began to shake her head wildly!
"No! No, my mother wouldn't do something like that! Not even if she had been drunk or something!"
"We have to find out for sure." Bruce said.
"No we don't! What does it matter? If Dr. Hamilton finds a way for me to live the rest of my life without having to have Kal-El's child, then none of this matters, does it?" Lois asked in a desperate tone. Bruce pulled her to him and Lois began to shake in his strong arms. If what Bruce was saying was true, then she had almost fallen in love, and had a baby by a man that had betrayed her in a way too awful to imagine. Lucy and Chloe were one thing, but mom...
Lois pulled out of Bruce's arms and looked him in the eye.
"Mom went to go get Chloe. I can't ask her something like this on Thanksgiving."
"But you could ask Kal-El when he comes back?" Bruce pressed her.
"He's not going to admit that!"
"Lois, how long have we known these Kryptonians? I think you'd be surprised by what they think they need to lie about. I can easily see Kal-El confessing and shrugging this whole thing off. But you need to know. God help Dr. Hamilton and myself if we can't find a way out of this for you."
"Don't say that! Just don't. I can't think about this right now. When Chloe comes home, I have to somehow not tell her anything about any of this. And yet she knows SOMETHING is going on between Kal-El and I. Then there's Krypton."
"What about Krypton?" Bruce asked.
"My Aunt Moira gave Kal-El the crystal Davis had been hiding. He went back there to try and keep the place from exploding. So if he doesn't come back..."
Bruce could see that Lois was torn. And he hated that. Hated that he had let Kal-El get one foothole in Lois's life, heart or mind. He was about to say something to her, when the first chunks of meteor, whipped past them and exploded onto the ground! Bruce grabbed Lois and the two of them began to run for cover!
"WHAT WAS THAT?" Lois screamed, as chunks of green rock exploded into trees and the ground around them! Bruce got a quick look at one of the many meteor rocks. Good God! They looked like the ones that Davis had brought with him from Krypton, to make the weaponry that would stop his people!
This could only mean one thing: Kal-El had not gotten to Krypton on time.
