"FUCK, SHIT, GOD THIS HURTS!" Lucas screamed in pain as he lay in his hospital bed in the east wing of Luthor manor and gripping Clark's hand. "SHIT!" He squeezed his eyes shut and laid against the pillows as the latest contraction passed. "Is it over? Is it out?" Clark smiled wearily at him as he mopped the sweat off his forehead with a cool wash cloth, he felt so bad that Lucas was in pain, apparently they were wrong about the threshold for pain in human males. "Don't fucking smile at me Kent! I am not having anymore of YOUR kids!"
"Okay." Clark said, trying to school his features to be more serious.
"Lucas man I want you to push on the next one." Toby said from his place at Lucas' feet.
Only Lucas, Toby Clark and Martha were in there, upon Lucas request. There was no fucking way that Lucas was going to have anyone else privy to this.
"OH SHIT!" Lucas yelled as another contraction hit him.
"Push!" Toby urged.
"I am!" Lucas said through grit teeth as he pushed with all his might. He had no clue how women did this voluntarily and multiple times no less.
"It's crowning." Toby said.
Clark tried to look down to see but Lucas grabbed the collar of his shirt. "Eyes up here buddy!"
"Clark talk to him." Toby said as he cradled the infants head.
"You're doing great." Clark said to Lucas. "We're going to meet our kids in a few minutes. Relax okay." He took Lucas' hand again. "Squeeze when you need to. Immediately Lucas began to squeeze Clark's hand.
"It's a boy!" Toby said triumphantly as he cradled the infant in his arms. "Martha get me those surgical scissors." Toby ordered, Martha brought them over, with a huge smile on her face as she saw the baby boy. Toby cleaned off the infant and held the scissors out to Clark. "Do you want to do the honors dad?"
"Uh y-yeah." Clark said as he nodded his head and took the scissors from Toby and snipped his son's umbilical cord.
Martha walked to the head of the bed and took Lucas' hand. "He's beautiful." She said softly.
"Let me see." Lucas said weakly.
Clark walked over with the baby in a light blue blanket. "Hey there." He cooed at the infant. "We're your dads. It's a long story."
Lucas turned his head tiredly and looked at his new son. "God Clark look at him." His adoration of the infant was cut off when a new pain came. "Is that her?"
"No, you have to deliver the placenta." Toby said. "Martha push on his stomach here and here." Toby said as he placed her hands where he wanted them.
After the placenta was delivered Lucas laid back on his pillows and waited for his daughter to make her appearance.
----Earlier that afternoon----
Lucas had to pee yet again. It was a very common thing lately, sit down gotta pee, try to nap gotta pee, stand up gotta pee…you can see the pattern. Lucas waddled to his ensuite bathroom and was about to relieve himself when he realized that his favorite external organ was missing. He tried to look down to see what was going on down there but his protruding belly ruined his line of sight. He walked over to the mirror and examined his new anatomy as best he could. "Oh god," he said as he looked at himself in the mirror. A quick kick to the abdomen from one of the twins snapped him out of his shock. "Right, gotta pee." Lucas relieved himself and made his way back to the bedroom. He contemplated calling Clark who was currently in his afternoon class but quickly changed his mind. 'Well aside from that startling change nothing seems to be out of sorts, no need to worry anyone.' So he laid back down and resumed his nap. Two hours later he awoke with a sharp stabbing pain in his stomach. He could only assume this was a contraction, he couldn't say he hadn't been warned. After a slight struggle with the sheets he made it out of bed and downstairs. 'Please someone be home.' He thought desperately to himself as classes had resumed 2 months ago and it was Tuesday so Clark wasn't expected home for 3 more days, and although Lex had curtailed his work schedule once Lucas had come home for good he wouldn't be home for hours if he was even in Smallville today, but maybe he decided to work from home today hopefully... Lucas made his was to Lex's office and opened the door, finding it empty, he was about to cross the room and use the phone to call his absent elder sibling when a bone crushing contraction tore through his abdomen. "Oh god." He whimpered as he doubled over in pain and clutched his stomach, tears of pain slid down his cheeks.
Suddenly there were two arms around his waist and someone was talking to him, blindly he let whomever it was lead him over to the couch. A few minutes later the pain went away and he was able to focus again. To his surprise it was Clark who was sitting on the coffee table across from him.
"How'd you know?" Lucas asked.
"I was sitting in class and I had one of those feelings so I packed up my books and ran here as fast as possible. Are you alright?"
"I-I think so. Thank god Clark. I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't come when you did."
Clark leaned forward and kissed him on the forehead. "It's okay. I'm here. Everything' going to be fine." He took out his cell phone. "I'm going to call Toby and then the rest of them."
"Okay."
----Back to the present----
Toby looked up at Lucas. "Okay one more push and you will have yourselves a set of twins. On the count of three. One. Two. Three."
Lucas pushed down with all his might and Clark stood next to him, holding his hand the entire time.
Toby guided the infant out of Lucas's body and into his waiting hands, but when he looked back up at the expectant fathers the mirth in his eyes was replaced by alarm.
"Toby what is it?" Clark asked.
"She's not breathing. You all stay here." Toby said, and just as quickly he was off giving the newest member of the Luthor clan baby CPR.
Clark was about to go over and help but a firm hand on his chest from his mother told him otherwise. "Let him work Clark. Besides we need to stay here and help Lucas." He looked scared and helpless but she knew it was best, Toby knew what he was doing and Clark would have been a hindrance.
"But." He stammered, his eyes welling with tears.
"I know Clark. But we need to stay here."
"What's going… Oh crap!" Lucas called from the bed, snapping Martha and Clark out of their moment and sending them rushing back over to him.
"What's wrong dear?" Martha asked.
"I…think…the other…placenta is…coming."
"Oh right." Martha stood by his feet and instructed Clark to push on his stomach as Toby had her. A few seconds later Lucas' anatomy was back in place and they heard the sound of two crying babies from across the room. But before they could rejoice Lucas was screaming in pain yet again.
"Clark what's wrong with him?" Martha asked near tears as she helplessly watched the boy clutching his sides in the bed.
"I---I don't know." Clark stammered, clearly frightened because they were not warned nor prepared for this.
"Lucas what's wrong?" Martha asked as she grabbed his shoulders and tried to get him to lay still.
"Don't know…just hurts…" He said as he fought against her.
Clark joined her in holding Lucas down and trying to comfort him at the same time. He x-rayed his body. "It's his hips. They're re-narrowing. I bet that's what happened in the office earlier." Clark moved his hands down from Lucas; shoulders to his hips and tried to massage them to ease the pain.
"Will someone just give me some drugs please?" Lucas moaned.
"Toby can't we do something for him?" Clark pleaded.
"No can do boy-o." Toby said from across the room where he had the twins. "You've already had enough today. If I gave you anymore it might be lethal."
"But it's already worn off and I'm beyond caring."
"I can't do it I'm sorry."
Lucas grumbled something under his breath.
"You did it earlier you can do it again." Clark urged him.
A few minutes later the pain had stopped and Lucas could lay comfortably. He'd changed into a pair of black pajama pants and a t-shirt and was holing one of the babies while Clark held the other. The rest of the family was getting restless to see them but Martha was keeping them at bay while the boys had a private moment with their new family.
Clark, holding a blue bundle, slid into the king sized bed next to Lucas, who was holding a pink bundle. "We never decided on names." He said as he pressed a kiss to the other boy's temple.
"I know." Lucas sighed as he leaned against Clark. He shifted the little girl in his arms so he could run a finger down the cheek of the sleeping baby in Clark's.
"We did have a few good ideas though." Clark said with a smile.
"Yeah we did."
----One hour later----
Clark and Lucas finally emerged from the room to an anxious group. This time Clark was holding the baby girl, feeding her a bottle, and Lucas was holding the boy, feeding him also.
"Well it's about time." Chloe said sitting next to Lex on the couch, with a mischievous smile.
"I'd like to see you do better Sullivan." Lucas said with a smirk.
Martha and Jonathan were sitting together in a chair smiling.
Even Lionel looked pleased.
"This is Danielle Rachel Luthor." Clark said as he handed his mother the pink mass in his arms.
"Oh Clark." Martha said, her voice caught in her throat. "Thank you sweetheart." She took Danielle and gave her a kiss on the forehead. "You are beautiful." She gazed at the dark brown hair and big blue eyes, and the slightly pink skin. "Clark she looks just like you."
"Mom she's an hour old. She doesn't look like anyone."
"No. I can see it." Chloe said. "She's all Clark."
Lucas walked over to his father. "Lex can you come here?" Lex looked puzzled but got up and walked over anyway. "This is Julian Xavier Luthor." He said proudly of the baby boy with sandy brown hair and blue eyes, still pinkish in color.
Lionel had to clear his throat before speaking. "Lucas that's a…um… that's a wonderful name. A strong family name." He said looking from his youngest down to his sleeping grandson.
Lex still couldn't speak so he just nodded his approval.
"Dad do you want to hold him?"
"Oh I oh…" But before he could answer Lucas was already putting Julian in his arms, bottle and all. "Just like I remembered." Lionel said as he marveled at the tiny person in his arms.
Just then Lex did a very unexpected thing. He reached over and gave Lucas a hug.
----Six years later----
Clark and Lucas had both graduated from Metropolis University, Clark double majoring in English and journalism with a masters in journalism. Lucas Majoring in English, minoring in psychology with a masters degree in English Literature. The boys had been married in a small, family and friends only ceremony when the twins were a year old and couldn't be happier. Clark was Superman, which was still taking some getting used to on everyone's parts. At least Lex had stopped making fun of the costume. Danielle had dark brown hair, green eyes and a tan complexion like Clark. Julian had sandy brown hair, with green eyes, still Clark, and olive skin like Lucas.
A black Mercedes Benz pulled up in front of the Luthor estate.
"Well kids." Clark said from behind the wheel. "Are you ready to go home?"
"It's not like we don't come here all the time dad." Six year old Julian said from the backseat.
"Yeah, but this time we're not going back to Metropolis." Lucas said. "Remember the talk we had before we left? This is home now."
"We're not going back ever?" Danielle asked, her emerald green eyes growing wide with fear. What would grandpa Lionel do without them?
"No stupid, we have to go back sometime. How else is dad supposed to go to work." Julian said disdainfully to his sister.
"Daddy!" Danielle yelled.
Lucas was daddy, this was his cue. "Julian, stop it right now."
Julian turned to his sister. "Daddy." He mocked in a high whining voice. "You're such a baby."
Instead of yelling for help she unbuckled herself and slid across the seat and kicked him in the thigh.
"Owwww!" He howled in pain. "Dad she kicked me." He bellowed, fighting back tears. He reached out to punch his sister in the arm but she swatted him away.
"Who's the baby now?" She said as she stuck her tongue out at him.
This was Clark's cue to jump in. "Both of you stop it right now or neither one of you are going to grandma and grandpa's house tonight!" Immediately both children stopped what they were doing and stared back at him in shock through the rearview mirror. "And Danielle get back in your seatbelt right now, you know the rules!" The kids had been on each others nerves all week and being cooped up in a car together for over an hour today was not helping one bit.
Quietly she slid back to her side of the car and put her seatbelt on.
Seconds later they were pulling into the garage and piling out of the car.
As soon as they entered the house a mass of red hair came streaking down the hall toward them. "Dani!" A small girl shrieked. "Hi Uncle Clark. Hi Uncle Lucas. Hi julian."
"Hi Lilly!" Danielle said to her cousin.
"Hello Lillian." Clark said.
"Hey Lils." Lucas said.
"Hi Lilly." Julian said. He still didn't like playing with the girls too much.
"Let's go play!" Danielle Said
"Okay!"
Danielle looked up at her fathers. "Daddies we're going to go play."
"Alright sweetheart. But not before kisses." Clark scooped his daughter and give her a kiss then handed her over to Lucas who gave her a kiss too, then put her back down.
The two girls tore down the hall and nearly collided with Lex and Chloe who were on their way in to see the rest of their family.
"Hi auntie Chloe Hi uncle Lex." Danielle said as the two girls went racing by.
"Hi girls." They said in unison.
"Hey wait for me." Four year old Alexander yelled as he appeared from behind his mother and father.
"Come on Alex. Julian's here go play with him." Lilly said. She was sick of playing baby games with her brother, she needed girl time with Dani.
"Oh never mind then." The boy took off running ahead of his parents in the direction of his other cousin.
Chloe became pregnant with Lillian the following spring, completely by accident. Then ten months after Lillian was born she was pregnant with Alexander. Her and Lex were married while she was pregnant with Lillain. It was the large over the top society wedding that everyone expected, but Lex never left her side the entire night. Even with two kids she managed to finish school in the top of her class and get a masters degree, and do so in 5 years.
The boys left to go play somewhere and the adults went to go talk in Lex's office.
"So are you ready for this?" Chloe asked Clark.
"Ready for what?" Clark asked. "Raising kids. I've managed to do that so far. Be, you know who. We're working on that. Work at the Planet. I've interned there twice."
"All child's play compared to what I'm referring to." Chloe said.
"Chloe what are you talking about?"
"Raising the kids in Smallville." She said with a 'duh' look on her face.
"Oh that." Clark said. "They'll be fine. Plus mom and dad are here. They're crazy about all the kids."
"Chloe everything's going to be fine." Lex said as he came up behind his wife and wrapped an arm around her waist. "LuthorCorp has been cleaning up meteor rocks in the area for years."
"Yeah, Lex but we don't know how many are out there. Or any other residual effects they've had."
Lucas saw the worried look start to creep into Clark's eyes and put a comforting hand on his back. "Um Chloe can we save the shop talk for later?" He said, with a slight jerk of his head in Clark's direction.
"Yeah sure. Oh so I was signing Alex and Lilly up for school yesterday and they gave me Dani and Julian's stuff too. Guess who their teacher is." Usually Luthor Children would never go to public schools but ever since LuthorCorp started sinking more and more money into Smallville and the county in general, they had the best public schools in the state and their test scores rivaled even the best private schools. With that fact in mind, plus the fact that neither set of parents wanted ther kids to have the upbringing that Lex had they decided to let the kids go to the Smallville public schools as long as they lived there and it was working for them.
"I have no idea. I've been away so long I don't know who even teaches there anymore." Clark said.
"Well I'll give you a hint. No one from our childhood teaches there anymore."
"Well that narrows it now doesn't it." Lucas said.
"No other than Ms. Lana Lang."
A ghost of a smile crossed Clark's face. "You're kidding."
"Nope." Chloe said with a smirk. "Except it's not Lang anymore, it's um, Teague. She met him in college or something."
"When'd she get back in town?"
"A few weeks ago I guess. She was teaching in England and decided to take a position here."
Lucas was rubbing his temples, Clark looked over at him, concerned. "What's wrong?"
"Well Danielle and Julian run circles around most people. I doubt Lana will be any match for them. They're going to be expelled before Christmas."
"It won't be that bad. I promise."
As if on cue Daniel the butler came in carrying Lilly and Dani, one under each arm, both covered head to toe in flower and frosting and eggs.
"Girls what happened?" Lex asked, trying not to laugh.
"We were in the kitchen." Danielle tried to explain.
"And it exploded?" Lucas asked, looking over at his daughter.
"Not exactly, now daddy don't get mad, but my soccer ball got punctured."
"On what?"
"Cook stabbed it." Lilly said.
All the adults began to laugh. Lex walked over and retrieved his daughter and Lucas followed suit to get Danielle. Daniel the butler left.
"Why were you two playing soccer in the kitchen?" Clark asked.
"We weren't." Danielle tried to explain. "We wanted something to drink. And I went to put my ball on the counter, and it hit the bowl of flour…a-and then the eggs…then cook yelled…" Danielle started to cry and Lucas hugged her tighter and stroked her goopy hair, oh that was going to be fun to wash.
"Then the eggs fell then cook slipped and dumped the frosting then she stabbed the ball. Then she started screaming and Daniel came to get us before she threw us in the oven with the cake."
"Lilly cook would never actually cook you." Chloe reminded her daughter.
"Well she stabbed Dani's ball."
"And I will talk to her about that." Lex said. "But for now I know someone who needs a bath."
"So do I." Lucas said to Dani. "Then maybe a nap." Dani just nodded from where she had buried her face in his shoulder.
And the adventure of raising the four youngest Luthors in Smallville began!
Possible sequel to come later!