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Chapter 33 – Fuego !
"fuego!" was the last thing Lois heard before she switched off and looked around the apartment. "Cover your mouths, we're gonna have to go out there."
All five women ventured outside the apartment, covering their faces with sleeves and was pure pandemonium from other residents running for their lives.
Elena, one of the women Lois had interviewed began to hyperventilate. In her panic, the woman became incapacitated.
Eva,another women shook her,"It's not over til it's over,Elena."
"Exactly!" Lois smiled "Now c'mon..."
"Come Ladies,there's an exit on the ninth floor!" Said a man,running past them.
They all ran up the stairs and joined the rest of those trapped in the men had made a makeshift rope out of sheets and were lowering others out of the window.
Lois made sure the women and everyone else were lowered men tied the sheets to fixtures and offered Lois their hands.
In the corner stood a child crying .In the craziness he had lost his mother. Lois ignored the men ,raced to the boy and picked him men shrugged and shimmed down the makeshift rope.
Lois handed the child out through the window,slowly lowering him down Lois noticed a high beam above the window begin to shake as it caught on fire.
"Lois...come will support you!" one of the women called out from the ground.
Lois kept her eye on the beam,she could hear the roar of the flames demolishing the lower reached for the makeshift rope but jumped back as the beam fell and blocked her escape route.
"Sh**!" she backed away from the flames and raced down the hall,unable to see through the thick smoke she noticed another smaller window covered with a metal reached out and tried to lift the grill,she heard the sound of sizzling flesh and felt an unbearable pain shoot through her burnt screamed in agony and immediately released the grill.
The heat felt like a furnace against her heat seemed to eviscerate her energy and Lois slowly slumped to the floor in defeat.
She could feel smoke seeping through her lungs, slowly suffocating tried to keep crawling but could feel her consciousness seeping was becoming light headed and a male figure appeared in front of her she thought she was hallucinating,or maybe it was an angel.The angel of death?Lois pondered as she collapsed.
The figure picked Lois up as if she weighed nothing.
Lois opened her eyes her throat was dry ,she managed to whisper,"Superman?"
"Shh,Lois.I've got 're safe now."
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Clark paced the hospital tiles frantically. The smell of smoke soaked into his skin. He was angry, more than angry...he was wanted to kill Lex didn't often have homicidal thoughts but he had never experienced anger and hatred like this had put Lois in danger and he needed to began to imagine all sorts of scenarios that mostly involved tearing Lex Luthor limb from limb.
"CLARK!"
Clark snapped out of his thoughts and turned to find Lucy racing towards him,she had Durga in her stroller and she was a deadly shade of white.
"HAVE YOU HEARD ANYTHING? What happened?How is she!?" Lucy asked,panic resonating in her voice.
"I haven't heard anything yet."Clark said grabbed Lucy to him,and the two embraced for a good long were interrupted by Dr Lakhani's sudden presence at their side.
"Doctor?How is she?" Clark asked anxiously.
removed her stethoscope and placed it around her neck "She's going to be fine,Mr kent."
Lucy and Clark looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.
Lucy bent down to kiss the baby,"You hear that Durg? ,your mama is going to be just fine."
Dr Lakhani smiled. "We ran some tests ,Lois suffered minor burns to her hands and smoke inhalation but she'll be just fine...and the baby is fine,as course we'd like Lois to stay overnight so that we can monitor her and the foetus,but all things aside..."
Lucy stood mouth wide open.
"I beg your pardon?" Clark stopped. He was sure he'd misheard. After all it had been an eventful day.
Dr Lakhani's pager beeped."The baby's fine but don't worry we'll take care of can go in and see her now."Dr Lakhani smiled and went to answer her pager call.
Clark suddenly felt like he'd been sucker punched by a fist full of Kryptonite.
Walking slowly into the hospital room Clark watched as a nurse helped Lois sit hair was in disarray,she had smudges of ash on her face and her two hands were heavily bandaged.
"Hey babe."Lucy said throwing her arms around her sister. "You had us scared for a minute."
The nurse adjusted Lois's pillows then left the room.
Lois smiled. "I'm fine,really." She suddenly noticed a silent Clark standing in the heart was glad he had stuck around. "Pass me Durga."
Lucy undid Durga's straps and carefully handed her over. Lois smothered the baby with kisses and laughed."Shouldn't you be getting packed for Brazil?"
"My sister almost died today,I'm not going anywhere!" Lucy said sitting down at the end of Lois's hospital bed.
"I'm fine,Luce."
"Besides I can't go anywhere now that I know you're pregnant!" Lucy admonished Lois loudly."You really should have said!"
Lois stopped smiling down at Durga as she felt her guts drop and her stomach churn. She looked past Lucy to Clark whose eyes were now burning a hole through her soul.
Lois was speechless. "Umm, yeah....this isn't the way I wanted everyone to find out..."
Clark clenched his teeth and dug his hands into his jeans further than it was possible for them to gave Lois a look of disgust then exited the room.
Lois and Lucy simultaneously jumped as they listened to the swing doors of the hospital crash open,as Clark exited the hospital in anger.
"Hold the baby!" Lois said thrusting Durga into Lucy's unsuspecting arms.
"What!?"
"I have to go after him."Lois jumped out of the bed "I have to go explain."
Lucy cradled Durga. "Are you crazy!?Clark can take care of need to stay in the hospital tonight."
"NO!"Lois grabbed her jacket and put it on. "I'm discharging myself."
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Lois bent down on her knees and shuffled the bit her lip and tried to imagine herself as a key "Where would I be If I were a spare key?".Lois checked under the plant pot near the ,.She looked like she was going to have to do it the old fashioned pulled a bobby pin from out of her hair and bent it until it was the perfect shape.
Lois Lane had jimmied a lock or two in her time. Before she knew it the door to Clarks apartment sprung didn't bother to put the light on,she could tell that Clark wasn't she closed the door and decided to wait for needed to tell him the truth,she needed to tell him everything.
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Clark flew around trying to get rid of the incessant banging in his head. He was reeling from the news. Lois was pregnant! His Lois was pregnant not even a year after they'd lost their own baby.
When he had found Lois sprawled across the floor of that burning building he had gone into automatic was all he could do to stop himself from going insane. The thought of losing her to death drove him to distraction but this-
The thought that she could be pregnant by another man...more specifically Lex Luthor made him want to die.
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Lois sat in the couldn't see her watch but from her estimation she'd been waiting for close to two wondered if Clark would ever come up like a ball,Lois closed her tired eyes and began to drift off.
Suddenly a light breeze touched her face and Clarks balcony doors opened.
Lois opened her eyes and could make out a dark figure walking across the living room.
"What are you doing here?" Clark asked didn't need to put on the light,and although his back was turned to Lois he could smell her familiar scent,he could hear her heart beat racing. He walked into the bathroom, switched on the light and took off his shirt.
Lois stood slowly walked over to the warm glow of the bathroom and stood in the doorway watching Clark wash his face.
"What are you doing here Lois?" He still wouldn't look at her.
"I needed to talk to you." Lois said, silently willing him to turn around.
Clark reached for a towel and dried his face, but still wouldn't make eye contact "I have nothing to say to you." He edged past her and walked into the kitchen.
Lois sighed and followed him. "I almost died today."
"You might wanna take that up with your boyfriend." Clark rummaged around for some potatoes chips in the dark.
Lois sighed heavy hearted. " You can't spare a few minutes to talk? You loved me once..."
"You never loved me..." Clark cut in "...because if you did you would never have done what you would never have pushed me would never have tried your hardest to tear us apart!"
Lois bit her lip and swallowed the lump in her throat.
"Lois Lane doesn't do relationships. Isn't that what you told me the first time we met?" Clark asked sitting opposite Lois.
"That's not fair..." Lois cringed "... I was 21 when we met,a kid,a silly little kid..."
"Maybe I should have listened to you back then and saved myself a whole lot of heartache." Clark said coldly.
"Don't say that..."Lois pleaded
"...but I couldn't help myself because I wanted you.I wanted you so damn much..." Clark continued as he pulled out a seat at the breakfast bar and sat down.
Lois stared down at her bandaged shaking hands "And now..?"
Clark turned to face Lois,the shadow cast by the moon covering half his face "I've moved on."
Lois gasped as if she'd been physically would have left with her tail between her legs right then and there had it not been for the look Clark tried so desperately to conceal."You're a crap liar." Lois spat. "You Love me! You STILL love me."
"Well,that's all relative Lois." Clark poured himself a whisky."You wanted the wedding, the party, the 'look at Lois Lane, the kid's done good' amongst all your friends. But nothing that came with it. None of the hard work. For better or worse, those were our vows and I watched you piss all over them like they meant nothing, like I meant nothing."
Lois took the verbal beating,in part she knew she deserved it but she wasn't prepared to take all the blame."What about you!?" Lois flipped on the light switch.
Clark turned to Lois with fury in his eyes. "What about me!?"
"If you loved me you would have fought for wouldn't have given up as easily as you did..."
Clark stopped. "I tried as hard as I could."
Now it was Clarks's turn to feel verbally wounded.
"OH PUH-LEASE!" Lois scoffed "You're Superman; I've seen you fight harder to rescue a cat from a tree!"
"What does it matter now Lois?" Clark said, so much pain in his voice Lois flinched "I've moved on..and you.."Clark choked on the words "...you're having a baby with the man you love."
Lois was out there began to flush over more lies between them.
"I hope you and Lex Luthor are very happy together." Clark downed the rest of his whisky in one gulp. "Well,provided he doesn't try and kill you again." He added sarcastically.
Lois stopped. She was confused; then it hit her, unconsciously she placed her hands protectively over her stomach "You think this is Lex's baby?"
Clark's sad eyes met Lois's questioningly.
Lois swallowed back the tears she been holding in and remembered what one of the women she had interviewed had said It's not over til its over.
"I haven't been with anybody else....nobody, not since that night that you and I made love for the last time." Lois stepped forward.
Clark went visibly pale.
"I'm carrying your baby,Clark."Lois bit her lip. "Yours and mine."
Clark held on to the wooden counter top to steady hadn't been prepared for watched nervously ,unsure of what to wanted to go to him,but remained frozen on her spot.
A whole minute passed before Clark spoke,"I actually hoped it was Lex Luthor's baby."
Lois gasped "How can you say that?" tears began to stream down her turned on her heals and headed for the front door.
In a gust of wind Lois felt Clark grab her before she could make it to the screamed like an alley cat "GET OFF OF ME!",she began banging and clawing at Clark hoping that he would release her.
"I didn't mean it like that Lo-." Clark grabbed her to him,and Lois had no option but to calm down. "I didn't mean it like that." Clark gently tilted Lois's head upwards towards his own. "I love you so much.I always have and I always will."He gently wiped her tears away.
"Then why would you say that?!" Lois tension slowly releasing itself as she settled into his beautifully warm embrace.
"Because I almost lost you last time."His big beautiful blue eyes "Let me correct myself, I DID lose you."
Lois's heart broke right reached up and gently stroked Clark's face. "You won't lose me again.I promise."
Clark shook his head "How can you promise that?"
"Because I want to be honest with you." Lois took his hand and led him to the couch "I want to tell you everything...." she took a deep breath.
Clark could sense the tide about to change, so gently rubbed her back.
"When I was 14 I got pregnant..."
TBC
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