Hey everyone! So here's my next chapter. I'm one day early but whatever. It's another short one but the next one will be longer.
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Chapter 4
Lois and Richard practically run into the hospital demanding the nurse at the front desk to see their son. As Lois opens the curtains to where her son is sleeping, she sees Clark sleeping next to him, holding his hand.
"What is Clark doing here?" Richard asks in a harsh whisper.
Just then Clark slowly opens his eyes; he sees Lois first and straightens up in his chair while never letting go of Jason's hand. Then he notices Richard staring daggers into him. Clark had only been waiting at the hospital for five minutes before he fell asleep next to Jason. He hadn't realized how exhausted he had become; staying up two nights in a row saving people had its toll on him.
"Lois, Richard?" he says startled; he hadn't been asleep for more than ten minutes.
Before Lois could thank him for staying, Richard cuts in. "Clark what the hell are you doing here and how the hell did you get here?"
Jason stirs in the hospital bed, but then goes back to sleep; his oxygen mask was no longer on his face.
"Superman told me what happened. He knew we were friends from work; I asked him to bring me here. He owed me one, so he agreed, but then he had leave to go to a rescue." He lies; Lois is almost impressed, usually he was a horrible liar. Richard still wasn't convinced.
"But, why didn't he bring Lois or me with him?"
"He had to go to another rescue; my nephew also had an asthma attack." He explains. Lois gives him a worried look.
"Don't worry he's fine." Clark gets up from his chair and says: "I'm gonna go check on him. The doctors say that Jason can go home anytime now. The doctor also came to tell me that he needs an inhaler with him at all times." He explains; he looks guilty.
"Dad?" Jason's little voice asks. Clark looks down at him. Richard walks over to Jason's side.
"I'm here, munchkin." He says, grabbing the hand Clark had been holding. Jason looks up at him confused and then smiles up at Richard. He knew he couldn't tell Richard because his mom had told him that it was a secret.
"Daddy!" he says, jumping up into Richard's arms. Lois looks up at Clark apologetically.
"We'll talk about Jason" he says moving his eyes from younger Jason to the curtain next to him where older Jason was, "at The Planet tomorrow." Lois nods at him, looks over at Richard and simply says: "Okay."
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Jay and Marty listened to their parents and Richards conversation. Jay felt sorry for his father. He couldn't wait to get back to his own time. Jay got up from his bed and super sped into his clothes. Clark walks in and goes up to Jay. He rests his hands on the boys shoulders.
"Are you okay?" Jay nods and tells him he's ready to go. Clark hands him an inhaler.
"Just as a precaution." He explains. Jay reluctantly takes it and they walk out of the hospital into the alley they had first arrived in.
At the apartment, Jay tells Clark what he thinks happened to cause him to have an asthma attack.
"I think because I had, younger me I mean, an asthma attack that it caused me to have one too. Whatever happens to one me happens to the other. I think it's the universe trying to balance itself out."
"Do you think that's possible?" Clark asks doubtfully. Jay shrugs and says: "Anything's possible and we've got to think of all the possibilities; this seems to be the most likely explanation." Clark nods.
"But, Marty isn't in this timeline, so how is it possible that she's able to be here?" Jay shrugs.
"I don't really know time travelling stuff. But the longer we're here the more dangerous it becomes for her. For any of us."
"We need to get you guys back home." He looks worried. They both nod.
"I can't go the Fortress because Lex Luthor took all the crystals and-" Jay cuts him off.
"Wait, the Fortress crystals are there. When I was around seven you found a way to regenerate the crystals, but you never told me how you did it." Clark looks pensive.
"We can go to the-" his sentence is cut short when he hears a far off noise. Jay and Marty both hear it too.
"Go." Marty says. "We'll be waiting here for you when you get back." Clark nods at them appreciatively and quickly flies off to the source of the noise.
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After tucking Jason into bed and checking on him several times Richard decides to put away the contents of his suitcases. Lois doesn't talk to him and tells him she's going to sleep in the guest room. She's too calm for his liking. He's worried, she's never been this angry towards him. For most of the night he's restless because of his guilt.
Lois sits on the guest bed contemplating on what to do next with her relationship with Richard. She knows he deserves to know about Jason but she wasn't going to tell him about older Jason and Marty. Richard had always been a good man and she knew she didn't deserve him; he deserved someone who loved him as much as he loved her. He was out of line earlier that evening, but he had a reason to be suspicious. She decided that tomorrow night she would tell him what he deserved to know. She would give him another chance; he deserved that much.
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Superman put out a fire, saved a woman from careening into a tree with her car, rescued a cat from a tree and stopped a few hostage situations. All in all it was pretty quiet night. He got back to his apartment at one o'clock in the morning and walked to his bedroom to change. He puts on the light and jumps back finding someone in his room. Then the events of the night come rushing back to him. It was Jay; he was sound asleep in his bed. Clark shut the light off in his room and made his way to his dresser to get his pajamas and a blanket. He lies on the couch with the blanket on top of him. His legs were hanging off the couch and he felt squished. He lightly hovered over the couch and soon fell asleep in the air.
Hey! Thanks for reading. I know, I know Lois is giving Richard a second shot. You'll see. All in good time. Please review and tell me what you think.