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Babysitting in the Bullpen
Most people had to possess either great courage or great stupidity to ride in a passenger seat of the car that Lois Lane was driving. Cate and Johnny pondered this as they climbed into Lois' car, fastened their seat belts, and hung on to their young dear lives.
"So, why did you pick us up Lois?" Johnny asked as the car traveled down the road at a high speed.
"At work, Clark told me that you two were going to walk home," she said, "So, I thought that I would save you guys the long walk, and pick you up. Not all of us are farm boys like Clark, and enjoy walking more than three miles."
Johnny smiled. "So, you went all this way for little ol' us?"
"Not exactly," Lois explained, "I was meeting a source nearby."
"Well, this is sure nice of you," Cate said, "But we could've just walked."
Lois raised her eyebrows. "You would rather walk?" she asked, "The farm isn't exactly next door to school."
Cate squirmed in her seat. She knew that in reality, it would take less time for Johnny and her to run than to have Lois drive them. Even if Lois was speeding. But, of course, she had to keep their secret.
"You right," she said finally, "This much better than walking all the way up there."
Lois smiled. "Anytime, kids."
"So," Johnny said, "You're taking us back to the farm?"
"Yeah, why?"
Johnny looked out the window. "Oh, no reason. I just always wondered what a newsroom bullpen looked like."
"Are you asking me to take you to the Planet?"
"Yep."
Cate stared at her brother. He obviously didn't want to see a newsroom. He always complained when he had to go see their dad at work. So, what was his devilish plan?
Lois sighed. "No, way kid. I could loose my job."
"But, we won't be trouble," Johnny insisted, "You won't even know we're there."
Lois cocked her head as if thinking. "Fine, but I don't want any trouble!"
"Cool!"
"I guess it's bring your cousins to work day," Cate said.
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"What are you two doing here?" Clark asked when he saw the twins.
"They asked to come," Lois explained.
"What?"
"Lois picked us up from school," Cate explained, "So, Johnny asked her if we could come back with her to the Planet."
Clark sighed. "I guess it's fine as long as the boss doesn't find out."
"Okay," the twins said together.
"It's weird how you two can do that," Lois said.
"Do what?" they asked simultaneously.
"Say stuff at the same time."
"It's a twin thing," they explained.
Clark and Lois shrugged and went back to working on their stories. While they traveled to their desks, Caitlyn took this opportunity to question her brother. She dragged Johnny down the hall.
"Okay, what gives?" she asked, "Why did you want to come here?"
"Because," he said, "We need to do some matchmaking."
"Why? We aren't born for like another two years."
"Exactly," Johnny said, "I've been doing the math and…"
"Wow! You were doing math?" Cate asked, surprised.
"Yes, I know. It surprised me too," he said, "Anyway, with pregnancy, marriage, engagement, and dating, I figured out that Mom and Dad should at least be dating by now."
"Really?"
"Yep," Johnny said nodding, "Now I know how Marty McFly felt."
"Except that neither Mom, nor Dad has a crush on one of us," Cate said.
"Kay, so we divide and concur," He explained, "You take Mom and I'll take Dad."
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Unfortunately, before their master plan was to take place, Tess Mercer chose this horrible time to walk out of the elevator and see the two teenagers.
"Hey! What are you two doing here?" Tess asked walking up to the twins.
'Oh Crap!' was the only thing going through Johnny and Cate's mind at the moment.
"You kids shouldn't be here at the moment," she continued.
"Umm."
"Well?" she asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Sorry, Chief," a voice from behind said, "They're with me."
"Olsen," Tess said turning around to see Jimmy.
"Sorry about that," Jimmy said, "They were asking for a tour and they slipped away."
Tess looked hard at the three of them. "Okay," she said, "But next time keep them in the copy room. You're still on thin ice after interrupting me at Luthor Corp."
Jimmy nodded and directed the twins to the copy room.
"What are you guys doing here?" he asked.
"Matchmaking," Johnny said with a mischievous smile.
"What?" he asked, "Who?"
"Our mom and dad," Cate explained, "Apparently they're supposed to be dating now."
"What?! But who is your mom?" Jimmy asked leaning in.
Johnny smirked. "I thought that would be obvious," he said.
"Yeah," Cate agreed, "Especially, with Johnny's personality."
"Our mother is Lois Lane," they said together.
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Jimmy was speechless for a while. So, Johnny and Caitlyn waited for him to come back to earth for a while.
"You mean that I was right?" he finally asked.
Johnny chuckled. "Yes, Jimmy, you were right our parents had chemistry."
"And you never let us forget that you got them together," Cate said.
Jimmy smiled. "Then let's get those love birds together."
"Yeah," she said, "But how?"
"We need to get them in the same room together," Johnny said.
"They're always in the same room together when they work," Jimmy pointed out, "we need an atmosphere where their forced to talk to each other."
Johnny snapped his fingers. "I've got it!!"
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Clark sighed. It had been a long day of chasing down useless leads. He even had spare time to research time travel. Nothing he found was helping him. How was he going to get Johnny and Caitlyn back? He knew that his future self was working on the situation, but there didn't seem to be any progress.
Picking up his possessions, he lugged his body towards the elevator. And, of course, after a long day of work, who should be in the elevator with him, but Lois Lane.
"Hey, Smallville," Lois greeted him.
"Hello."
"All
the way down?" she asked gesturing towards the number plate.
"Yep."
She pressed the button and sat back as the elevator continued down.
"What about your cousins?" Lois asked, "How are they getting home."
"They already left," Clark told her, "Jimmy offered to take them home."
"That was nice of him."
"Yeah."
All of a sudden, the elevator stopped. Clark waited a while.
"I thought they fixed this," he said.
"They did," Lois said, "They must not have done a very good job, though."
She picked up the phone inside the elevator.
"Hello?" "HELLO!"
She hung up the phone and leaned against the railing.
"They said that they didn't know what was wrong. The elevator just stopped."
Clark sighed. He knew that he could just open the elevator doors and pull the elevator up himself, but with Lois here, it could ruin his secret. Who knew how long they could be stuck here. When boredom finally took its toll on the two of them, they had to resort to small talk. Something that they were both terrible at.
"So," Clark started, "Did you finish that piece on the jewelry store robbery?"
"Yeah," Lois answered, "But the store clerk was no help at all. She couldn't remember what the Red-Blue Blur looked like. Something about her memory failing after she fainted."
"Ah."
The silence continued.
"So," Lois said trying the horror of small talk, "How's Lana?"
"I don't know," Clark said, "She doesn't call me anymore after she left."
"That's weird," Lois said, "And why did she leave anyways? I thought you two were the Perfect couple."
Clark sighed. "It's for the best. As cheesy as it sounds, we grew apart. She was still in love with the teenaged farm boy, and I was still in love with the girl who rode horses next door."
"You're right," Lois said, "That does sound cheesy."
Clark laughed. After that, it was easier to talk. They started to chat about work, friends, junk mail that they received, and how evil Tess Mercer was. After a while, the elevator started to move while they were still laughing. Clark thought that he should have some of these elevator vacations with Lois more often. This one helped him to relax and have fun.
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Johnny and Cate lounged in the Kent farm's living room with proud smiles on their faces.
"I know that I don't say this often," Cate said smiling, "But that plan was GENUIS."
"Yeah," Johnny said as he laid on the couch, "It was a good plan."
"I guess that listening to Dad's old stories paid off."
"Yeah," he said, "That one about Jimmy and Chloe in the elevator gave me inspiration. I'm just glad that Chloe helped us stop the elevator."
"I wonder if it would've worked better if we put a bomb in there like with Jimmy and Chloe," Cate mused.
"Nah, dad would've just covered Mom. Then he would've said that it was some sort of prank, and would've never blown up anyways."
"Your right," Caitlyn sighed.
Suddenly, they spied their backpacks that they had put down. They both frowned when they thought of the mountains of homework that they hadn't even started.
"It can wait until tomorrow, can't it?" Johnny asked desperately.
"I don't…think…so," Cate answered somberly.
"UGH!"
"Catey! Johnny!"
"I DIDN'T DO IT!" Johnny yelled putting his hands up.
"Johnny," Cate said sighing, "It's coming from my V-watch."
"Oh"
"Catey! Johnny!"
"Wait a second," Caitlyn said, "Only one person calls me Catey."
She lifted the V-watch to her face to see a woman with dark hair and hazel eyes staring back at her, smiling.
"Mom," they said together.
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When Clark arrived for work, he could hear Cate and Johnny talking in the living room.
"I DIDN'T DO IT!" Johnny's voice came out from the room.
'Okay, that was weird,' Clark thought coming into the room.
The twins were staring into the V-watch with surprise on their faces.
"Mom," they said.
Clark was stunned. They were talking to his future wife. He slowly stepped forward. Then, the screen of the V-watch started to come into view until he could see a smiling woman with dark hair and hazel eyes. She looked slightly different from how he saw her only a few moments ago.
"Lois,"
He whispered causing the twins to turn towards
him.
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Yep, Clark finally finds out.
If you didn't know, the Marty McFly comparison was a reference on the movie Back to the Future. I love that movie!
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