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Chapter 1
Five minutes later
Lois and Clark were in the elevator on there way up to the roof. Clark notices Lois press the emergency stop button. The elevator comes to a jeering halt. "Lo-Lois? What are you doing?" He asks nervously. Lois crosses her arms and looks, really looks, at Clark as if seeing him clearly for the first time. She's quiet and pensive. Clark knew that wasn't a good sign. She stayed like that for whatseemed like hours, but was only a few minutes. Lois sighs. "Clark." She says forming the word slowly in her mouth. She's nervous, she doesn't really want to know the answer to her next question, but she has to find out.
"Why were you affected by that sound?" There! She had said it. Clark looks up at her; he knows his instincts are telling him to lie, to make up an excuse. The voice of his father rang through his head. Never put one human above the rest. He knew now that even if he wasn't with Lois, she had always been put above the rest. He loved her.
"I know you'll be angry with me." He starts nervously, but soon he gains more confidence in himself. "I hope that you'll forgive me. But, I'll understand if you don't. I did what I thought was best, obviously I was wrong-"
Lois cuts him off. "Smallville, what are you babbling on about? Just get to the point." She says, a tad impatient. She hadn't called him Smallville since he had left over six years ago. He smiled at that but then it faltered as he remembered what they were talking about.
"Lois…" he sighs. "This is harder then I thought. I usually don't let my defenses down like this. Maybe it would be best if I just showed you." Before Lois could reply Clark had pressed a button which caused the elevator to keep going up. He grabbed her by the waist.
"Clark, what are you-" Then she noticed they were airborne.
"Cl-Clark? What?" Lois gasps. They were flying!
Realization dawned on her. "Of course." She says, shaking her head. "You were right under my nose the whole time. I'm such an idiot."
"No, you're not." He says firmly. She laughs bitterly.
"You're right. You're the idiot. You're the father of my child and you didn't even bother to tell me who you were." She says bitterly. As they flew above Metropolis Lois didn't say much else. She was eerily calm. A single tear crept down her cheek.
"Just a stupid human…" she whispers. That broke his heart. He wipes the tear away. Lois notices belatedly that Clark is in his suit, though he was still wearing his glasses. They were flying high in the clouds.
"Lois you're not a stupid human. I am." He stops short. "Well I'm not really human. But I used to think I was." This statement momentarily surprises Lois.
"Lois I did really love you. I still do." He whispers. He doesn't know if Lois heard the last part of his statement. Lois seems to be in a trance. She's stubornly staring at nowhere in particular, avoiding his pleading gaze. She turns her head suddenly towards him. His eyes lock with his in a death glare.
"How don't I remember?" Clark sighs. "It's my fault. I took your memories away because you had been so distraught over what had happened with Zod. Jor-El had told me I couldn't be with you if I still had my powers. I wanted you to move on, even if I couldn't. So I took your memories. But I couldn't bear going to work everyday and seeing you, knowing about what happened and you didn't. It hurt so much. When I heard scientists had found Krypton, I jumped to the opportunity. I had no way of knowing you were pregnant. If I had, I would've stayed." He hated seeing her so still and motionless.
"Is there a way of getting my memories back?" She asks, not looking at him. She hoped the answer was affirmative.
"Yes." He said. "But along with the memories you will also feel all of the emotions you felt during that time. I don't think that right now is the best time, because I think you'll break down if I tell you more. But, when you're ready I'll give them back to you." Lois wanted to know more.
"How did you do it? Take my memories I mean." He said something so low, she couldn't hear him. "What?" she said. "I kissed you."
"Did that happen every time we kissed?" she said sarcastically; that was a good sign. "No." he said. "When we –uh you know well uh. Let me start over. On Krypton, people that are related by blood have a connection to each other like telepathy. It also happens when two people fall in love. It's kind of like connecting two souls together. One knows instinctively what the other thinks and well… because of that I can suppress your memories. They're still there, just locked up in your subconscious. Once I give your memories back, the link… it'll be reestablished, so to speak."
"Oh." She breathes out. "That's why," he continues, "if you don't want your memories back then I'll understand." Lois nods. Clark heads back to the roof of the Planet.
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Marty spots them coming first. They land lightly on the roof. Marty coughs and scratches her nose, indicating that Clark forgot to take his glasses off. Clark's eyes widen and he lets out an "oh". He does a quick twirl and is back to being Clark. Lois looks at him with an awed expression.
"What took you guys so long?" The boy asks. Clark looks over at Lois who is looking down at her shoes.
"I had some explaining to do." He tells them. "Oh" Marty says. "She didn't know yet, did she?" Lois looks peeved.
"They knew and I didn't? Who are they anyway?" Lois pauses, she has a hurt expression on her face; he doesn't even have time to respond. "Is this the real reason you left? Are these your children?" Clark has a horror stricken look on his face.
"No. No! I don't even know them." He looks over at the kids, trying to take the heat of Mad Dog Lane's anger to someone else.
"Who are you and how do you know about me?" He crosses his arms, doing his signature Superman pose.
Marty and the boy whisper to each other.
"Did I say too much?" Marty asks. The boy scowls at her, giving her the universal da expression.
"What year are we in anyway?" she whispers another question. The boy looks up; he looks like he's doing a mental calculation.
"2006" Clark answers them. Lois has no clue what he's talking about, she hadn't heard there whispered conversation. "No point in whispering. I can hear you." He answers there wide eyed expression.
"I was five then." The boy states. Lois repeats: "Who are you?" The boy and girl look over at each other, they shrug. The boy says: "Might as well." He looks over at both Lois and Clark, so does Marty though a little reluctantly. The boy begins, "Well as you already know we are from the future. And, Lois you were right about one thing." He pauses, Lois quirks up an eyebrow. "We are Clark's children."
"What?" Lois and Clark shout at the same time. Clark looks overly bewildered, Lois looks a tad angry. Then, something clicks in Clark's head.
"Wait, you said you were five in 2006, so-" Lois interrupts him. "So before you left for Krypton you left another woman pregnant." She's fuming.
"Wh-what? No! Of course not, Lois. This might sound crazy, but I think he's Jason. Well, a future Jason." The boy, older Jason gives her a little nod.
"What? You're my son from the future? This is crazy." She lifts her hands up in exasperation and turns her back to them walking off in the opposite direction. Then she stops abruptly, her back goes stiff and she turns slowly around. "Clark?" she asks worriedly. "Then, who's the girl?"
Clark's eyes go wide; he knows what she's asking. Marty steps up then and walks a little closer to Lois, but far enough to give her space.
"I'm Martha Ellen Kent. I'm ten and a half years old and I'm…" she looks over at her brother, he nods. "I'm your daughter." Clark knew this was coming, but Lois was taken aback.
"But, but I'm with Richard. I mean that's impossible. How old are you uh, Jason?" she asks, scared to know the answer, he didn't look older then nineteen, though he did take after his father in height, he was only about an inch shorter then Clark, his hair had gotten darker and his eyes were the same blue as Clark's though she saw some of her features in him too. Jason hesitates, he doesn't want them to know too much of the future. Lois looks over at Marty for an answer, she notices for the first time how much the child really did look like her and Clark. She had the same blue eyes as Jason and Clark, though she had lighter, wavier hair like Lois' and similar facial features.
"He's seventeen." Marty says. She couldn't stand her mother's eyes boring into her; she had to answer. Lois' head reeled. Her boy was almost six!
"But, that, that's just over a year from now! That's not possible." Clark looks as baffled as she is.
"Marty! This is why I didn't want to tell them. You're going to ruin the future. Now, you might never be born." He fumes, Marty looks worried. "We need to get out of this timeline before we do any more damage. Can you help us?" He looks over at Clark. Clark nods. Then Lois gets one of those looks on her face, the kind she got when she caught Jason in a bad act. She turns to Marty.
"You're ten. Why in Sam's heck are you here, fighting crime in the past? I wouldn't let my ten year old fight crime and I know Clark wouldn't." Marty looks guilty and so does Jason.
"I told her not to come." He explains defensively, "But she wanted to be a part of the action. She doesn't even have all her powers, for one she can't fly yet and dad had said no." Marty glares at him.
"Dad said no to you too. He said that he was going to send the Green Arrow to do this. And I couldn't let you go alone."
"This isn't Green Arrows fight it's ours, dads." Jason retorts. Clark and Lois' heads turn from one to the other. As much as Clark wanted to break up the fight he wanted to know what had happened.
"But that's why he didn't want to send any of us here. Because we could change the future and the Green Arrow wouldn't because he didn't know them yet!" Marty yells back at him. Jason looks as though he realized he had done a terrible mistake.
"We are going to be in sooo much trouble when we get back home." He states worriedly. "Good thing John's too young to get involved in any of this or he too would've been grounded for life." Marty puts in. "Not helping." Jason mumbles.
"Who's John?" Both Lois and Clark ask at the same time. "No one." Jason adds quickly as Marty says: "Our little brother." Lois shakes her head; this was too much for one day.
"I'm going home. I'm going to go to bed and when I wake up this is all going to be a crazy dream." She mumbles as the door closes behind her. Clark has no clue what to say, until he realizes he has left the biggest question of all out. "Why are you here in the past?" Jason answers him first.
"We're here because of Brainiac. He was created on Krypton. In a way, he's like a walking, talking super computer that looks like a human. He has all your abilities and none of your weaknesses." Clark looks at him pensively.
"But why is he after us?" Jason explains to him furthermore: "He became one of your enemies when you sent him to the Phantom Zone. It's been years since we've heard of him. The Phantom Zone, as you have experienced, isn't the greatest place to be. I think it'd be smart to say that he held a grudge for years. We got word he escaped somehow and travelled to the future to kill me, you and mom. You and Oliver were making a plan, but my ego got in the way; I wanted to show that I was capable of doing it on my own." He looks down at his shoes. "Obviously I was wrong since we're stuck here."
"Where did you send Brainiac, anyway?" Clark asks. "To the Phantom Zone." Jason says. "But, if he got out the first time, then he knows how to get out this time. We only have a limited amount of time, if you'll help us get back home." Jason adds nervously. Clark crosses his arms; he nods slowly and then says: "Of course, I'll help you."
"Thank you. And for the future, I'm sorry." Jason says, he wants to hug his dad, but this isn't him, not the one he knows. But, Marty doesn't think the same and rushes to Clark, surprising him by knocking his balance off, her arms are wrapped around his back, her head comes up to his chest; she's just a few inches shy of being five feet tall. He hesitantly wraps his arms around her; she looks up at him and smiles. She shrugs, "Don't worry about it." She says confusing Clark. "You'll be better at hugging in the future." He chuckles and so does Jason. She lets go of him but stays where she is.
"Where do we stay until we figure out how to get back home?" Clark hadn't thought of this.
"Uh, I guess my place. Jason, you can stay in my room and Marty, you can stay in the spare room. I'll sleep on the couch."
"Okay." She says cheerfully, as Jason nods. "Uh, dad, I mean Clark can you fly with Marty; I can't hold her for that long." Clark nods and spins back into the suit, putting away his glasses.
"Are you ready?" he asks her. She nods. "I love flying! And you're better then Jason." Marty says smiling up at him. They take off. Jason is slower then Clark so he slows down, he's also a little wobbly.
"When did you learn to fly?" Clark asks.
"Only a month ago." He says.
"Well, you're about as good as I was when I started to learn."
"I know." He says, and then sees Clark's confused expression. "You tell me that all the time." He explains.
\S/
Lois storms her way down the steps to the bullpen; she had tried waiting for the elevator, but had gotten frustrated. Before opening the door to Perry's office she takes a deep, calming breath. Sheopens the door and Jason goes running into her arms.
"Hi munchkin." She says, kissing the top of his head.
"How was the interview?" Perry asks. Lois hesitates. "Good Perry. I'll have the article ready for tomorrow." Perry smiles satisfied.
"You mind if I go home to write this up? I can't really concentrate in all this." she says, waving her arms at the hole in the wall. Perry nods in understanding.
"Of course Lois, but I expect you back here early in the morning." Lois thanks him and heads to her car to drive home.
After ten minutes of driving Jason, who's sitting at the back in his booster seat, asks: "Mommy, did you figure out who does people were?" Oh boy did I, Lois thinks, but answers: "Yeah sweetheart." Jason waits for more.
"Well, who are they?" he persists. "They're visitors from the future, munchkin."
"Really? That's so cool! Can I meet them? Pretty please." Lois looks doubtful.
"We'll see, honey." He looks crestfallen; he knew I see meant probably not.
"Are they with dad?" he asks.
"Honey, dad's in Europe, they're not with him."
"No, not daddy! Dad; Clark, I saw him flying with them when we left." Lois' brow furrows.
"Munchkin, how did you know that?"
"I heard you tell him at the hospital." He says shyly. I said the wrong thing, I'm gonna be in trouble, he thinks. Lois didn't know what to say; her boy was so smart. Then she asks: "How did you know he was Superman?" He looks at her as though she was silly. "Doesn't everybody know?"
"No and you can't tell anyone, okay? This is top secret, only we can know." He nods at her seriously. "Okay."
\S/
Richard had gotten back from London an hour earlier. He was waiting for Lois at the airport, she was late. He went to the payphone and dialed the house, no answer. He called her cell, it was off. He finally came to a decision a few minutes later that he would phone Perry at the Daily Planet. As he had thought, there was also no answer. He called him at home and then called Jimmy's cell, no answer. It was like everyone had dropped off the face of the earth. He called a cab and stood at the doors. He looked over at the television as he waited. They were showing footage of the Daily Planet, which surprised him. He read the scroll at the bottom of the screen.
Just an hour earlier The Daily Planet was attacked by a madman. No reason has been determined yet on why this man came crashing through the window of the Daily Planet. Sources say he had powers, though they didn't know the extent of them. The Planet staff also confirms that there were two, get this, children that came after him, displaying powers like Superman and had the same insignia on there chests. They saved the staffs lives by making the man vanish into a ring. No one knows yet who any of the three strangers were. Later they left the scene and haven't been seen again. No casualties or injuries have been reported.
Richard looked away, that explained everything. He was angry at himself for blaming Lois. He sees his cab arrive and tells him: "312 Riverside drive, please."
First of all Clark did go to the Phantom Zone when he was younger and secondly, he has never met Brainiac before this.
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