The day after Thanksgiving was unsettling, sad and just plain bad.
Ella visited her ex husband, General Sam Lane at the military base they used to reside on. And she could tell by his barely disguised smugness, that he was going to make her grovel before he allowed her to see Jor-El.
"So what is this, Sam? All Kryptonians are guilty by association? Jor-El has done nothing wrong!"
Sam regarded her from behind his desk.
"You still don't know, do you?"
Ella folded her arms.
"You mean that crap about Jor-El's already being married? Did Moira and you cook that up?"
"Moira told you?"
"She uttered it. I think she needs to see a doctor again. But yes, she mentioned it."
"Which is why you need to see your...well...I was going to say 'husband' but that honor belongs to a Kryptonian woman, doesn't it?" Sam asked.
"Actually, I need to ask him something about Lois."
"What about her?" Sam frowned.
"She's sick. And not just from being hit with a chunk of meteor rock. She has some scab on her thigh that Kal-El put there! And she's been doing some unseemly things with him to get rid of the damned thing. But at this point, I think she's going to need a plastic surgeon." Ella informed her ex.
"What the hell are you talking about, Ella?" Sam asked, looking at her as if she had lost her mind! Then again, maybe she had. It didn't appear to him, that she wanted to deal with the fact that Jor-El had a wife. And chances are she was one of the many Kryptonians that had invaded this planet when Krypton blew.
Ella took a deep breath and set her purse down on the end of his desk.
"Lois told me, and Bruce seems to know all about this as well, that Kal-El grabbed her thigh one day. When he touched her he left some sort of mark on her. Lois says that ever since this happened she is tired all of the time. And apparently the only way to get rid of this scar and get Lois back to being energetic, is for her to have sex with Kal-El and give him a child. Now I know Jor-El can do something about this or at least confirm that Kal-El is full of shit. But this whole thing had come between Lois and Chloe. Now I need to see my husband." Ella said firmly.
"You're saying Bruce knows all about this? He seemed to believe it?"
"It gets worse, Sam. The reason Lois was 'marked' was because Kal-El slept with Lucy, Chloe and apparently someone else in the family and Lois accused me of being the culprit! I need to put a stop to this before our family is torn completely apart."
"I don't care about this fake family you've put together. And I can't believe you let the bastard stepson of yours, put his hands on Lois too!"
"Jesus, Sam! Lois is a grown woman now! And she and Kal-El fight like cats and dogs! I couldn't have guessed anything was going on!"
"This had better be some kind of joke that Kal-El is playing on Lois. I'll be damned if I'll watch my daughter give birth to some half alien scum!"
"Alright now calm down. Just let me in to see Jor-El and we can get this all settled. I'm sure it's a misunderstanding."
Sam hit a button and asked his secretary to send in to MP's. Yes, he damned well would go with her to see Jor-El! This had better be some kind of sick joke.
His secretary, a middle aged woman named Gladys, who didn't think much of Ella's running out on the General, ignored her and looked at Sam.
"The President is on the line for you." she told him. Sam nodded to her and Gladys turned to leave, leaving the door ajar for Ella to leave through.
"Sam, I need to see Jor-El!"
"And I need to talk the president. If you want to wait around, fine. I'll be finished when I'm finished. If you'd like to come back tomorrow..."
"No." Ella said curtly. "I'll wait. I very well remember how 'duty' comes before family with you, Sam."
Lois walked into the Gotham Police Station and demanded to see Bruce!
Yes, Bruce had been arrested after that messed up attack on the citizens in downtown Gotham! Rachel Dawes had issued a warrant and many in the media were baffled as to why Bruce would be blamed for such a thing? After all, it wasn't like he was Batman...
It was being assumed, however, that he knew who Batman was. And that was based on that other unfortunate shady bit of business, where Davis Bloom's creature was coincidentally on the Wayne Estate...
Now, Lois was in a visiting room with Bruce, who's lawyer had left the room to make some calls.
"Lois, I want you to stay out of this." Bruce told her.
Lois folded her arms and stared at Bruce.
"Kal-El did this, didn't he? He had Green Arrow's actual arrows when we were at the Fortress. I mean can't Rachel see that blaming you makes no sense? Why would Batman use Green Arrow's arrows when you...he has his own weapons?"
"I think that Green Arrow's identity will probably be compromised as well." Bruce said quietly. "That is why his arrows and my gadgets look like they are one weapon. And don't blame Rachel."
"Oh the hell I won't! She knows you wouldn't do this!"
"She knows my secret. She had no choice."
"Wrong! All she had to do was come to you and say 'hey, Bruce, did you do this?' And when you said 'no', then she and the lazy police around here, should have looked for the real culprit!"
"Who is Kal-El." Bruce said, exhaling. His lawyer returned and told them that Bruce had been able to get bail without going before a judge. He would be released shortly. His lawyer took another call and Lois spoke again.
"Okay, well I already picked up Alfred from the hospital. He's back at Wayne Manor. I'm going to stay there too."
"Really? Is this what you want?" Bruce asked quietly.
"I want to support you. And be with you. We're not going to let Kal-El get away with this crap!" Lois said, reaching for Bruce's hands. He pulled her towards him when...
His lawyer returned and his face was ashen!
"Your bail was revoked!"
"Why?" Bruce asked carefully. Lois squeezed his hands.
"Apparently the D.A. received information naming you as Batman and Oliver Queen as Green Arrow! I'm sorry, Bruce, but you'll have to stay here until we get this mix-up settled."
Lois snatched her hands from Bruce's, dug through her purse and pulled out her phone. Wherever the hell Kal-El was hiding now, she was sure that he was still using his phone-stupidly!
"I'm calling the Kryptonian that is responsible for ALL OF THIS!" she told Bruce and skulked out of the room! She could hear Bruce's lawyer asking him what she meant by that, before the door closed. She hit Kal-El's number and he picked up on the first ring.
"Hello, Lois. How are you?"
"How do you think I am? You framed Bruce and Oliver Queen? Oliver Queen is really Green Arrow?"
"Yes. Sad, isn't it? His parents died at a young age as well and instead of dressing like a deranged bat, he carries out some 'Robin Hood' fantasy."
"How could you rat them out?"
"Well that is easy to answer. I made a deal. With the local District Attorney and the federal authorities. And this deal supersedes the military."
Lois closed her eyes, then opened them.
"You gave them up for what? Amnesty for yourself?"
"And my parents, of course. I could not get a deal for my cousin, or my aunt and uncle. But that will come in time. I want to see you."
"Fuck off!" Lois snapped and hung up on him. Her phone rang a few seconds later and she knew it was Kal-El again. She answered anyway.
"What?"
"Were you cursing at me? Or was that an invitation of sorts?" Kal-El asked teasingly.
Lois did not answer. So Kal-El talked.
"I did what I did because eventually, this planet will be ruled by Kryptonians. And we want to cooperate with law enforcement. I promise you, Bruce will get the help he needs. Oliver too, if he's seen as unfit. I suspect he may be just a spoiled billionaire who is bored. I don't know. I am not a medical professional. I did what I did for us."
"Bruce and Oliver are not crazy. They just want to help people based on a sense of injustice they suffered from. I mean people are going to suffer out there with those two in jail!"
"There is Black Canary. And I'm sure others. Lois, I am back at the Talon apartment. I will come and pick you up." Kal-El told her.
But an idea of sorts came to Lois.
"How about a quid pro quo?"
Kal-El, on his end, raised a brow.
"You want to make some sort of deal?"
"Yes."
"Fine, Lois. If it will make you happy, then I will listen to this 'deal'. What is it?"
"I will marry you and even give you the child you want."
"In exchange for?" Kal-El asked suspiciously.
"You have to pick up the slack for Batman and Green Arrow."
"I don't follow you." Kal-El said shiftily.
"Oh I think you do. Since you're the reason Batman and Green Arrow can't help the innocent and abused, YOU will do it until they are freed."
"What makes you think they will be freed?" Kal-El asked coyly. "And I MIGHT agree to this Earthling, humanitarian endeavor, if you not only agree to marry me and give me a child, but to be happy about it as well."
Now Lois frowned!
"I don't get that last part?"
"I think you do, Lois. You will act happy to be my wife. You will be happy to be part of my family. You will be happy to be the mother of my child and any others we have AND I will not lift a finger to do anything heroic until we are married!"
"I don't welch! But I don't see why we have to be married for you to begin helping mankind!"
"Because I would feel better about it if we were. I will even call a press conference announcing that I am filling in during the incarceration periods of Batman and Green Arrow."
"How about you call a press conference and say that you lied?"
"That would be a bad example to set for our unborn child." Kal-El said solemnly. "Now, I have agreed to the terms. Will you?"
Lois sighed and closed her eyes. Bruce would be angry with her. Her father would be furious with her and Chloe would hate her for the rest of her life.
She opened them again.
"Fine. I agree."
"Good. I will now come to Gotham and pick you up."
"By car?" Lois asked.
"No." Kal-El said and Lois could almost hear him smile over the phone.
Kal-El met Lois in the Gotham City Police parking lot, then they both walked to a nearby alley, where he picked her up and flew back to Smallville with her.
Smallville and Metropolis, had had the worst meteor damage, from what Lois could tell from the sky. Kal-El flew to the roof of The Talon so they could enter Chloe's apartment from above rather than going through the restaurant.
They needn't have bothered.
The restaurant had closed for business, due to some damage on the first floor. There were a few, various repair trucks up and down the street, trying to access damage and cost. Kal-El unlocked the apartment door and Lois walked in first, looking around. Everything looked okay in here...
Suddenly, Kal-El slammed the door, turned her around and yanked her into his arms! Lois felt herself responding to his need and soon the two were kissing like sex starved teens going through puberty.
Despite Lois's anger at Kal-El, her confusion about the men in her life and her reservations about the deal she had just made with him, Lois found herself naked in his arms and eager to be one with him.
Kal-El quickly sat down on the sofa and pulled her down onto his searing length. His large hands rested on her hips as he began boosting her up and down at a furious pace. Lois yelled out, her breasts swinging wildly. Heat and lust were suffusing her body and she feared she would pass out! She had never felt as if she were going to pass out while making love to Kal-El before! Why was this happening now?
Lois's hips continued bucking up and down on the massive extension of Kal-El's manhood, while Kal-El continued to balance her upon him. Just before the moment that Kal-El exploded inside of her, the door to the apartment opened, and Orin of Atlantis walked in slowly, with two other men!
Orin grabbed Lois by the waist and yanked her off of Kal-El, while the other two men, used Kal-El's brief confusion to attach a collar, made from Kryptonite, around his neck! Kal-El was instantly weakened and dragged from the apartment.
Orin turned to Lois, his eyes running over her.
"Hello, Lois. It looks as if I arrived just in time."
Lois covered her breasts and gaped at him! Her surprise quickly turned to anger and she didn't care how naked she was!
"You KILLED yourself in front of me! What are you doing alive?"
"I am associated with Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen. And these Kryptonians will not be ruling this planet if I have anything to say about it."
Lois continued to glare at him and Orin's erection that was building at just the sight of her, was growing monstrous and most painful! The blood rushed through his veins as his eyes covered her entirely.
"I don't suppose you could cover yourself?"
"I could but I won't! Kal-El made a deal. He is not a prisoner. You can't just take him out of here!"
"That deal was reversed. I made sure of it. Now go and get dressed and then we are leaving. NOW!" he thundered.
Lois sighed with disgust, picked up her clothing and walked off to the bathroom to put on her things. She closed the door and began to dress, wondering what the hell kind of lie Orin was going to tell her? They had been swimming at Crater Lake when a shark showed up to eat them! No one knew where the hell it came from, but Orin grabbed it and tried to wrestle the thing!
Both the shark and Orin disappeared underwater. Lois was shocked and horrified. The authorities sent divers in to look for signs of him or the shark, but neither were found.
Lois swallowed her sorrow, returned home from the camp she had met Orin at, to find that her mother had met Jor-El, her parents were divorcing and she was getting a new step-brother.
If Orin was like Bruce and Oliver, what did that mean, exactly?
It didn't matter. And it honestly wouldn't, because something made Lois check the brand on her thigh...
It was gone.
"Oh." Lois breathed, now covering her mouth. Her mood was a mixture of shock, surprise and a small(VERY SMALL) sense of odd happiness at the thought of carrying Kal-El's child.
"How are you faring?" Orin called out, his manner no nonsense. He would ignore what he saw just now in this small place. He chose to believe that Lois hadn't especially looked as if she were enjoying herself anyway.
Lois went from thinking about her baby, to pure outrage! There had been a time when just the sound of Orin's voice was endearing, but now it just irked her! She hurried out of the bathroom, carrying her purse and bra, which she had not bothered to put on. She slapped him with the bra, before confronting him again!
"You don't look like you have one shark bite on you! I'm going to tell the police that someone that faked their death, just kidnapped someone!"
Orin reached out and forcefully grabbed her chin, his eyes meeting hers.
"Give me a chance to explain myself. And I will not stand by and allow that Kryptonian to use you to further his own kind. You deserve better than that."
Lois looked away, hearing naked caring in his tone. It was just too late. It was too late to stop anything and she had moved on. Orin slowly removed his hand from her chin
"I will be taking you to your home. Jor-El and Kal-El will not be there. Come."
Lois did not move and she looked around until she spotted Kal-El's clothing. She moved to pick up his things, but Orin yanked her away from the pile and tucked a brawny, possessive arm under the shelf of her thinly clothed, firm breasts, as they walked out of the apartment.
