The next afternoon Clark was sitting on one of the black leather chairs in Lex's office with his forearms resting on his knees and his head in his hands. Lex was sitting behind his desk trying to talk some sense into him.

"He's going to kill me." Clark all but groaned.

"He won't kill you, not to say that the thought won't cross his mind and yeah he may try. But he can't." Lex said with a chuckle.

Clark sat up and looked at Lex seriously. "Lex this isn't funny. How the hell am I going to tell him? I mean he's freaked out enough as it is, this may send him screaming from the room." 'And my life,' Clark added mentally.

"Well you have to tell him sometime Clark. He's going to notice when things start disappearing." Lex stifled a chuckle as Clark glared at him. He cleared his throat and regained his normal business like composure. "And you know when other things start to happen. Like when your kids start to shoot fire out of their eyes."

"Yeah, I just don't know how to do it. This isn't exactly something they make cards for."

"Well figure it out because you're going to have to tell him sooner than later and I'm not going to do it for you."

"And I wouldn't expect you to." Clark insisted, although the idea had crossed his mind a few times. But he squashed those thoughts because this was not Lex's problem, he had to be responsible here.

Lex thought for a minute, he knew this was going to be hard for Clark because he had lived his entire life being scared of rejection and Lucas had every right to reject him after this. Although he doubted his brother would do that, he'd seen the way they were together and Lucas was never happier than when Clark was around. "Alright just get him relaxed and be completely honest with him. Don't gloss over anything. And listen to what he has to say about it. Don't argue just let him vent if need be and give him some space."

Clark nodded his head. "Thanks Lex. I'll come by later to pick him up." Clark said as he got up to leave.

"Later Clark."

Chloe's house

Chloe sat in her desk chair mouth agape and blinking. She, keeper of the wall of weird, mistress of the meteor mutants, had no idea how to react to what Lucas had just laid out before her.

"Chloe say something." He said from where he was sitting on her bed. "Yell, throw something, just stop looking at me like that. You look like you've had a stroke and it's not a good look on you."

"Well I don't know where to start." She said using one of her Chloe grand arm sweep gestures. "The part where Clark was in love with you the entire time he was dating me, the fact that you've been dating and sleeping together for almost 2 months and decided not to tell anyone or the part where one of my male friends is pregnant by another of my male friends." She ran a hand through her short blonde hair.

"I'm sorry for not telling you sooner about me and Clark. We weren't really sure where we were headed. This took us by surprise to say the least."

"Not that I'm surprised he chose you over me. I'm always the one he tries to date when he's deciding how he feels about someone else." She said a little bitter.

"Chloe it's not like that. You are all he talked about when you were dating, he cares about you. He never meant to hurt you and neither did I. I'm sorry you had to find out like this."

Chloe nodded in understanding. "It's okay. Being in a same sex relationship in Kansas can't exactly be easy. So why are you telling me all of this anyway?" Chloe asked, yeah she was happy to know the truth but she was still confused as to why Lucas had confided in her.

"I need to know everything you know about the meteor rocks and what they do to people. I want to know why this happened to me and what I'm going to turn into."

"Turn into?" Chloe asked perplexed.

"Yeah, like shape shifter girl, or bug boy, or teleportation chick, or the doublemint twins. I want to know how long I have before I start to change into some kind of monster and have to be put into a mental institution or…" He stopped talking, they both knew how that sentence ended, although Chloe had seen more of it than Lucas ever would. He dropped his head and started pushing around one of Chloe's frog slippers with his foot.

"Lucas…" Chloe stopped, not knowing what to say. They both knew there was some truth behind what he said. She got up and sat next to him on the bed. She wanted to put her hand on his shoulder or give him a big hug but she didn't know how he'd react to that, they hadn't been friends that long and she knew guys did not do vulnerable or sympathy very well, added to the fact that Lucas was a Luthor made it even more unpredictable. "From what I know about the meteor rocks it's not likely that you will turn out like the rest of those people. Somehow the rocks healed some physical ailment they had previous to their exposure to them. And sometimes they had wish granting capabilities, like Harry Volk and Bob Rickman. Almost like a fairy godmother. But it came in a trade off. The effects of the rocks warped their personalities a bit. That's when they started to turn. But there are people who didn't go all Freddie Kruger. There was this man named Kyle Tippet and this woman named Cassandra who could see the future."

"Oh, and where are they now?" Lucas asked darkly.

"Good point, but that still doesn't mean you'll turn out to be dangerous."

Lucas turned to look at her. His face was serious but soft as was his tone. "Let's think about this logically Chloe. Someone who has never had any semblance of family a day in their life moves to Smallville and all of a sudden finds out they are going to have a baby with the first person in their life that they have ever felt anything resembling a real relationship. Which wouldn't be out of the ordinary if both parties weren't guys. Yeah that doesn't have wish granting trade off written all over it." He said the last sentence sarcastically.

Now it all made sense to her. Lucas was finally getting the only thing he ever wanted out of life and yeah it was through meteor mutation, probably, no wonder he was scared. She put her hand on his forearm, figuring it was a safe place. "Well what about Lex? He's your family too."

"You know what I mean Chloe. A mom, dad, 2.5 kids, an SUV in the driveway and a picket fence. Not just me and my half-brother, who were almost strangers 3 years ago suddenly bonding in our rather opulent castle. Not that I'm not grateful for him."

"Alright. Let's go figure out what those meteor rocks have done to you."

They went over to Chloe's desk and she pulled up all of her information on meteor rocks while Lucas poured through the cartons of news articles, medical files and stolen Luthorcorp project analyses, concerning meteor rocks and their effects on people. Three and a half hours later they had nothing.

Lucas had moved from his chair to sitting on the floor, against the wall, with his legs stretched out in front of him, with papers stacked into piles around him. "Have you found anything remotely resembling what's going on with me?" He asked as he rubbed his eyes.

Chloe swiveled her chair so she was facing him. "The only thing I have is a cat birthing a litter of Scottish terrier tabby mixed. You're not having a Scottie dog are you?" She asked with a perky smile.

Lucas laughed in spite of himself. "I doubt it. I didn't notice Clark drinking out of the toilet. And although he does have a habit of drinking milk straight out of the carton I don't think it makes him part cat, just thirsty and lazy." They laughed again. His cell phone started ringing, when he looked down at it he saw that he had a text message from Clark. It read, '7:00 okay?' He replied with a'Yes.' And looked back up at Chloe and started packing up the boxes. "Well I've gotta get going. Thanks for trying to help me out Clo."

She smiled at him using her nick name. "No problem Luc." She tried to kid back.

He just looked at her shook his head 'no' with a smile on his face. "No one calls me Luc, Sullivan."

"Fine then I'll just have to use my other, rarely used nickname for you."

"Oh, and that would be?"

"Luthor spawn number 2." She said with a giggle and her 100 megawatt smile.

He rolled his eyes. "Luc is fine. But if it catches on I'm going to tell people what I saw in here today."

"And that is?"

"You my dear own a Brittney Spears CD." Lucas said with a smirk.

Chloe's jaw dropped. "That was from my misguided junior high days." She tried to defend herself.

He pursed his lips together as he pretended to think. "Sorry babe, I've got proof." He showed her the screen of his cell phone.

"Damn camera phones." She grumbled behind him as they walked downstairs.

He stopped as they reached the front door. "Seriously Chloe thanks for listening to me and believing me and not trying to beat the hell out of me."

"Well why would I beat you up? I mean you are carrying my little niece or nephew." She teased him. "After all I will be auntie Chloe."

He just chuckled as he opened the front door. "Later Sullivan."

"Bye, Luc." She called after him as he jogged down the porch steps.

He stopped and was about to say something to her but thought better of it and headed to his waiting car.

"So where are we going exactly?" Lucas asked as he looked out the window of the pickup truck that Clark was driving.

"If I told you it wouldn't be a surprise." Clark answered.

Lucas looked over at Clark. "Do you really think extra surprises are a wise decision?"

"This won't be a bad surprise don't worry." Well he was half telling the truth, where they were going was a good surprise, what Clark had to tell him may not be seen as such. That was part of the reason that they we're going where they were, he wanted to show Lucas that he was telling the truth if need be. Clark reached over a put a large, warm hand on Lucas' thigh. "Are you alright?"

"I'm still digesting this whole thing. But yeah I'm good." Lucas put his hand on top of Clark's and relaxed a bit more.

Clark couldn't even begin to imagine how Lucas felt right now and wasn't about to insult him by guessing. They drove in comfortable silence for the rest of the trip with Clark watching the road and Lucas reaching over to either change the radio station when he didn't like the song or turn the volume up when he liked it. This made Clark smile because Lucas was always in charge of the radio. They pulled up to a secluded patch of wood and Clark parked the truck.

Lucas didn't say anything he just followed Clark out of the truck and hopped up into the bed when he did so. Clark opened up 2 sleeping bags and laid them out flat, overlapping, to make the bed a bit softer to sit on, and also took out a blanket, just in case they were out there late and it got cold. It was summer so neither of them were wearing jackets and nights in Smallville could get really cold. Lucas just looked at the sleeping bags then at Clark with a raised eyebrow and a smirk. Clark looked over at him and shook his head. "No we are not doing that." Then he added, "Right now at least." He sat down and Lucas sat down next to him and fiddled with the fringe of the blanket next to him. Clark reached over and wrapped his arms around Lucas' waist and dragged him into his lap settling him between his legs with his back against him and head on his chest.

"That feels better." Lucas said contently as he burrowed further into Clark's chest, enjoying the feeling of Clark's arms around him, and throwing one of his legs over Clark's.

Clark gently kissed the top of his lovers head, enjoying the feel of the soft brown locks on his cheek, and moved one of his hands down to settle where the babies were and Lucas laid one hand on top of his. "You know how much I love you right?" Clark asked.

"Yeah." Lucas answered, hadn't they gone over this last night.

"Well I have something to tell you. A few things actually and I need you to not say anything until I'm done. Then you can yell and scream and hate me all you want."

"Clark what's wrong?" Lucas asked as he craned his neck to look into troubled green eyes.

"A lot actually." Clark stopped and took a breath. "I'm not from around here. I really don't know where I'm from actually. You see I came here the day of the meteor shower. Actually I came with the meteors." Lucas started to move so he could see Clark better but Clark just tightened his grasp around him preventing any further movement. "Please." Clark asked in a quiet, scared voice. Lucas nodded and laid his head back on Clark's chest, knowing this was important. "I know everyone's always wondered what my secrets are. The truth is I'm from a planet called Krypton, and it blew up. I was sent here in a space ship. My parents found me in a field, very near the biggest meteor strikes where the worst damage was. They keep my ship in the storm cellar. It's not your fault that you're pregnant. It's mine."

Lucas couldn't listen to Clark blame himself for this. "Clark you didn't make me do anything…"

"No, no I know that. What I mean is. Apparently where I come from both men and women can have babies and I came specially equipped to impregnate the first person I had sex with. Which was obviously you."

"Clark stop. You're not making any sense. You actually expect me to believe you're an alien, and your parents keep your spaceship in the storm cellar." Lucas said with disgust in his voice. "Look if you're having second thoughts and don't want to be with me anymore because I'm a meteor mutant then just say it. Stop with these ridiculous lies, they are an insult to both our intellects." With that he pushed himself away from Clark, with more force than he would usually use and hopped off the back of the truck and took off toward the woods.

Clark just watched Lucas walk away, fighting against the tears building up in his eyes. Suddenly Lucas was falling into the ground. In a flash Clark was out of the truck and grabbing Lucas in mid air, placing his body between Lucas and the hard cave floor they landed on.

Lucas lay there, face to face with Clark, in shock for a few seconds before speaking. "So about this being an alien thing…" Lucas trailed off.

"I'd never lie to you."

"I'm sorry." He kissed Clark softly. Then the room they were in started to glow. "Umm Clark…" Lucas pushed off Clark's chest and stood, then helped Clark to his feet.

"I see you have returned with your life mate Kal-el."

Lucas looked around the room to see who was talking, but it was just him and Clark. "Clark what the hell?"

"That's my biological father, or his spirit at least."

"And his spirit lives in the caves?"

"Yeah."

"Good to know."

A blue light shot out of the wall and began to scan over Lucas. "He is in fine health and carries strong genes. Your children are also well."

Lucas blinked a few times. "Children?" He asked.

"Has Kal-el not told you Lucas Luthor? You were implanted with 2 embryos and are carrying within your body two children. A male and a female. They will be born 4 months from now."

Lucas looked up at Clark who looked down at him sheepishly. Lucas simply grabbed his hand. "Yeah about that. How are they going to come out? Because I'm a guy."

"Kal-el have you told him nothing? You should not keep information from your life mate." The voice admonished Clark. "Upon the onset of the birthing process your male genitalia will withdraw into your body and an opening akin to that of a female's will appear. Your children will be born like that of any other human child."

His feeling of relief that he was not in fact a meteor mutant was quickly replaced by panic. "MY WHAT IS GOING WHERE!" Lucas yelled.

"Yeah about that." Clark said. "As soon as it's over the birthing slit closes up and your stuff comes back."

"Oh, okay." Lucas was relieved once again.

"Why do you keep calling him my life mate?" Clark asked, only because he and Lucas never discussed making an entire life together and he didn't want to scare Lucas off.

"All Kryptonians have a life mate and seek them out throughout their lives. They may try to have relationships with others but they do not feel comfortable or complete in these relationships so they move on in search of their life mate. Then they settle with them, conception does not occur until they have met their life mate. Tell me Kal-el did you have other relationships before meeting Lucas Luthor?"

"Yeah."

"And they did not work out."

"No. I always felt like something was missing." He looked over to where Lucas was standing, still holding his hand. "I had thought about having sex with the others but when it came time to actually do it I just couldn't. Not until Lucas."

"That is because your body would not let you engage in intercourse until you met your life mate, because you and your life mate both needed to be a constant presence in your children's lives in order to help them through life and understand their abilities."

"But I'd had other relationships before him and we did have sex." Lucas said bewildered.

"And those relationships did not work out either. Am I correct?"

"Yeah."

"You and Kal-el are life mates." Another ray of light came out of the wall and scanned them both, this time the light was red. "Your essences complement each other and I can ascertain from your hormone and mood levels that you are at peace with each other. Each of you can make the other whole."

The boys shared a smile.

"Kal-el can I am trusting you to further inform Lucas Luthor about your origins and what I have told you about your children."

"Wait!" Lucas called out to the voice. "How many more children after these 2 are we going to have?"

"That is for you and Kal-el to decide. If you are ready to have more children after the birth you can come to me and I can further equip either you or Kal-el with more embryos." With that the light went away.

"Why did he keep calling you Kal-el?"

"Because that's my birth name."

"Oh."

"Why did you ask about more kids?"

"Because since i'm going to be with your sexy self for a long tim to come I needed to know if I can ever have sex with you again after these two are born." Lucas said with a smile as he rubbed his hand over his abdomen. "I didn't know I was looking for you my entire life but I'm glad you found me."

"So am I."

"I bet the sun's set by now. What do you say we go make use of those sleeping bags?" Lucas said with a smirk as he walked towards the cave exit.