You're insane, Men do not have babies

YOU’RE INSANE, MEN DO NOT HAVE BABIES


Lois scowled she had never wanted to be anywhere else that wasn’t the Daily Planet so much in her entire life. She knew this was going to turn out bad. And the fact Richard had insisted Clark was to be there, well that didn’t sit well with Lois. What the hell did this have to do with Smallville? And since when had Smallville and Richard been best buddies?

She thought to herself as she walked towards Richard’s office, hopping he couldn’t hear her. ‘God there is so much I need to tell him that I’m not ready to tell and may never be ready for. The fact Smallville is in there isn’t helping at all’

She startled badly when she heard Richard’s voice inside of her head, bite out sarcastically ‘Tough, you should have thought of that before you treated Clark like shit and unknowingly made it his businesses

Lois seethed and went to turn the door handle only to discover it was locked. She banged her hand irritably on the door. It flew open by it self. She stifled a scream. She looked up to see Richard glaring at her.

He commented sarcastically “If you’d smashed that I would have more then willing seen to it that you paid for it to be replaced. Now lets get down to business, close that door behind you whilst your there.”

Clark was suddenly over come with the uncontrollable urge to burst out into laughter, as he watched Lois close the door behind her none too gently. He had to bite down on his lower lip when Richard snapped “Damn it Lois I meant what I said about breaking that door, you break it you replace it. Now sit the hell down for crying out loud.”

Lois glared and seethed as she sat in the chair on the opposite side of the office from Clark and Richard. Richard rolled his eyes at how childish she was acting. She was only in a snit because she was cornered and she knew it. No one had forced her to come clean for three years, and now that she was being made to spill, she was pissed.

Lois seethed and glared murderously at her ex-fiancée. How dare he make a fool out of her in front of Smallville of all people? She nearly howled in frustration when she jumped for the third time that morning, her heart in her mouth as the sound of Richard White’s voice entered her head yet again.

‘You brought this on yourself Lois. And I don’t care whether I made a fool out of you in front of Clark Kent. I guess its pay back on his part. Well, considering how many times he has sat there and tolerated you making him feel like he was less then three inches tall. He told me what you did when he asked you out. How could you be so spiteful and unbelievably blind and moronic?”

Lois screamed at him “GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HEAD YOU FREAK’ Lois instantly wished she hadn’t said that, especially when she took in both the expressions on Clark and Richard’s faces.

Clark actually looked disgusted and ashamed his face was a wash with disappointment. While Richard looked just about ready to snuff her out in pure rage. Lois swallowed, as she could clearly see Richard was seething.

He slowly walked up to her until he was standing over her, his nose an inch from her own. He hissed from between clenched teeth. “The only freak in here Lois is you. Not only are you a freak your also a liar and a good for nothing stinking hypocrite.”

He continued, with pure venom and revulsion littering his tone of voice. “I have it on good authority that you once said to your precious flying lover, that you would still love him and want him if he were a mere mortal man.”

Lois sneered and asked “Where did you hear that and what the hell as it got to do with you or Smallville especially?” Richard returned her sneer and replied “It has everything to do with Clark. And you made it my damn business when you lied about not being in love with Superman damn you.”

He smirked “Oh by the way you also lied to Superman when you told him you would still love and care about him even if he were a mere mortal. Well guess what sweet heart; you are a one hundred percent pure hypocritical class 'A' bitch.”

Lois growled “What the hell are you are on about?” Before Richard could truly lay into her Clark spoke up. “You once told Superman that you would love and still care for him if he were only a supposed mere mortal. You had said ‘I will love and care for you even if you were a normal man. I don’t care it is you I love and not your abilities’ Clark revealed, a cool edge to his voice.

Lois paled as she listened to Clark quoting exactly what she had said word for word. She asked with a tremble to her voice “How the hell do you know I said that. You quoted it as if you were there when I actually said it. Or did he tell you what I said, because if he did he betrayed me?”

As soon as she uttered the word betrayed, Clark lost it. How bloody dare she accuse him of betraying her? Richard moved back just in time, he had caught onto and heard everything Clark had been thinking, Oh boy was the mild mannered Clark Kent about to let rip. God help Lois Lane.

Clark took Richard’s place and leaned over her and spoke in a fashion and tone of voice unbefitting of Clark Kent. She had gone too far. Mild mannered Clark Kent had had enough.

“Betrayed you? You must be delusional Lois. You have not been betrayed by anyone, if anyone should feel betrayal then it is Richard and I.” He glared heatedly, his nose almost brushing hers.

Lois was suddenly very uncomfortable. She looked deeply into Clark’s eyes and could not help but be reminded of both Superman and her son. She had never realised how unnaturally blue Clark’s eyes were, hidden behind the large thick and ugly frames.

Clark told her his voice chillingly cold “I was not told anything by anyone. I quoted you word for word because Lois I was there. It was me who you said those words to. The one who you told you loved and would love if he were a normal man with no super powers.”

He reached up and slowly removed his glasses. He looked her in the eye and said with a voice laced with both pain and anger. “You said you would love me if I was a normal man Lois. But guess what, you lied. The normal man you promised you would love and did ask you out and you subbed him as if he were dirt under your shoe.”

Lois looked horrified. She looked as if someone had slapped her. For once Lois Mad Dog Lane was rendered completely and utterly speechless. She was mortified as well as truly sickened with guilt.

Lois was trembling as Clark leaned back and retook his seat just as Richard had also. Lois felt rage begin to build up inside of her she sprang to her feet and screamed at the top of her lungs “YOU FUCKING BASTARD YOU LIED TO ME.”

Clark couldn't help it and barked “Well guess what, here are a few more lies for you. You wish to know how our son was conceived well love here you go.” Clark then grabbed her by the face and kissed her hard but not enough to hurt her.

After a few moments memory after memory came bursting to life inside of her head. Lois quickly pushed Clark away, he let her. If he had wanted to he could have stayed put, but at that moment he did not feel a maddening desire like he usually did to be near her or touch her.

Lois had paled and a look of horror that soon turned to rage and hatred spread across her beautiful face. How dare he do that to her without her consent? She was enraged over the fact he took the memories she had of him and her together, when Jason had been conceived and her knowledge of knowing who he truly was.

Before she could speak Clark spoke up. “I am and I am not sorry for what I did. I’m sorry that you don’t remember how and where our son had been conceived. But I can never be sorry for taking away the memory of the pain you felt and suffered afterwards when I had my powers returned to me and you feared you’d give away my secret to the world.”

He added sadly but firmly “I also knew you hated the fact you had to share me with the whole world. And that Lois is why you and I would have never worked. You need a man who can constantly be there for you who can love you and does not have an obligation to the entire world at large.”

He added “I’m sorry Lois. But I cannot help but feel that back in Niagara Falls that you only accepted me because I was Clark Kent, because you discovered I was also Superman. I got my proof after, that you weren’t interested in me as Clark Kent when I asked you out on a date. I was testing you Lois. If you had said yes it would have proven to me that you loved me for me and not for something I could do.”

He concluded cutting her off when she went to protest. “Clark Kent is who I am Lois. Superman he isn’t real he is what I can do, he is a disguise a second job that allows me to save others and still enable me to have a private life as Clark Kent.”

Richard spoke up “You’re in love with a disguise Lois, a mere job. You were far too smitten by the Super powers and the spandex. You could not see the mild mannered man with a heart of gold. He was the one who saved you and others countless times. He is Jason’s father and not Superman. Those powers belong to Clark Kent, and not Superman.”

He added “I’m pretty damn certain if he wanted to, he could just as easily go around saving the world in an old fashioned three piece frumpy suit and a pair of milk cap glasses. The spandex is just a costume and nothing more; it is not the main base of his powers. Those powers come from Clark Kent, farm boy from small town Smallville.”

He went on “All along as you treated Clark Kent like shit you were doing it to Superman. You might as well have insulted the poor man when you said to his disguise that you loved him and would continue to do so if he were normal man. But you instead insulted the real man who was trying to lead a normal life and save the world.”

He concluded “Clark Kent was the man you slept with and conceived Jason with. Clark Kent is the man who loved you and saved you when ever you got yourself into a mess.” He added “If you want to discount Clark. You could say it was Superman who wore the milk top glasses, Superman who stuttered, and whose tie ended up inside of his coffee mug. Superman one of the best damn reporters that either I or my Uncle have ever encountered.”

Lois was eyeing Richard in stunned disbelief. He was defending Clark like he would that of a lover. Richard spoke up “Yes I would willingly have him as that if he was willing, just you think about that Lois.”

Lois’s jaw dropped as her face reddened. Clark frowned and asked “What did you say to?” Richard replied “Simple. She claimed I was defending you like I would if you were my lover. I simply told her I would willingly have you as that if you were willing and that she should really think about that.”

Clark blushed slightly and surprised Lois by chuckling and shaking his head. Lois had expected him to be a stuttering mess. But then she realised as she looked at Clark Kent without his glasses, that that was who Clark Kent truly was. That the man she and everyone had seen in the new room had been an act. She realised with a deep sadness that she truly did not know the father of her son.

Also now she thought of it, she never truly knew the father of her daughter either. She never knew he had such a callous streak, or that he had the abilities he had just displayed. She realised she would have to tell Richard about his daughter. Clark already knew seeing as she had told him everything when he had been Superman.

Lois cleared her throat and said “Well, in that case seeing as we’re all currently in the habit of telling the truth and spilling out secrets. Then I guess Richard I should inform you of the fact, that a month after you disappeared I discovered I was three months pregnant. I know for a fact that Halle Melissa Lane-White is your daughter.”

She went on at Richard’s look of stunned disbelief and Clark’s nod of approval. “I hadn’t slept with anyone but you, even after Superman-“she trailed off and pinched the bridge of her nose and finished “I mean even after Clark had returned.”

She concluded “I guess you and Clark have more in common with each other then you ever imagined. You’ve both got powers no human has or can ever hope to have. And of course you both had no idea you had up and left me behind pregnant with your children.”

Richard swallowed and leaned back in his chair and asked in a small voice “I have a daughter, a daughter with you? You mean to tell me after all of those years and after I left that I actually managed to get you pregnant with my baby? That I have a child that is truly mine in the full biological sense?”

Lois sighed and closed her eyes and replied “Yes Richard Halle is your daughter, our daughter. It would be impossible for her not to be. She is a female version of you; she even has your eyes. The only thing she inherited from me was my mouth and my ears and I suspect my temper as well.”

Lois shook her head and asked “Do you suppose she will end up like you?” Richard asked “Do you mean will she was be a mutant like me Lois. Then yes I suspect she more then likely will then not at all.”

Lois scrubbed a hand across her face and said “I know what possible powers to expect from Jason due to who his father is and what he is capable of. I know he is only part human. But tell me, can I consider our daughter to be only part human as well?”

Richard replied “Lois I am a mutant and I suspect Halle will be one too. I will of course with your permission take her to a mutant Doctor in New York to see if she has a mutant Gene.” He added “Lois I am a mutant and as a mutant I am not considered to be human at least not your typical brand of human that is.”

Lois asked “What can I expect her to be able to do?” Richard replied “If she isn’t a late bloomer like me or even yet an early bloomer, her mutation if she is even one, should manifest by the time she reaches puberty.” He added “I am a telepath and an empathic and I also have telekinesis.”

Lois frowned and asked “And what will she be able to do with these powers if she even gets them at all?” Richard replied “Telepathy enables me to read your thoughts and look into them as if I were watching a movie. It also enables me if I saw fit to do so, to control you. For example I could tell you do whatever I wanted with my mind alone.”

He went on “I could cause someone brain damage or give them an aneurism or just simply killed them with little none effort at all.” He went on at Lois’s look of horror. “Telepathy can be considered as a gift or a curse. I curse because not everyone has mental shields that stop people like me entering their mind. Meaning people who do not put up a mental shield are broadcasting everything. It can give a telepath a headache. It is telepaths worst nightmare.”

Richard closed his eyes and commanded Lois with his mind to start singing the national anthem. And much to Lois’s horror and amazement she did just that. Clark covered his mouth with his hand and stifled a laugh of delight and wonder.

Richard released her with a mental command for her to stop singing. She complied instantly. Lois blinked and then glared “Don’t you dare make me do that again, especially not in front of the whole news room” Lois exclaimed indignantly. Clark and Richard snorted.

Richard chuckled and said “You can end up being subjected to things a hell of lot worse and more degrading then what I just made you do Lois. Also you can end up hearing things that you were never supposed to or never wanted to know.”

He added at their questioning looks “For example back at the mansion I was living in back in New York, it was a school for mutant children. Some of the children did not have mental shields meaning I can read their thoughts and feel their emotions.”

He laughed and flushed slightly. “A few of the older girls who had graduated, I accidentally caught them trying to imagine what I or my twin brother and our younger brother would look like naked in the shower.”

He added “Most of the boys had a crush on one of the female teachers. She has pure white hair. Most of the males wondered if it were natural, and if so, was it the same colour between her legs.”

Lois snorted and shook her head, while Clark shook his head and flushed slightly, but was still clearly amused. Richard smirked and said “Now that is what I mean when I said it could be embarrassing and considered a curse.”

Lois nodded and said “Well that’s telepathy what about the other two you mentioned. If Halle inherits them what can she expect to encounter whilst learning to control and adapt to such powers?”

Richard replied “I’m Empathic. Meaning I can read and sense your emotions as if they were my own. I can feel them as clearly and as painfully as if they were my own. This can be a blessing or a curse. At times it can be embarrassing.”

Lois asked “How so?” Richard flushed “Lois how would you feel if you could sense and feel teenagers in their lustful hormonal period, especially the boys? How would you feel if you could sense and feel a girl suffering from PMS?”

Lois burst out laughing as did Clark. They couldn’t help it. The thought of being able to do that made them both inwardly cringe in mortification. Clark shuddered at the thought of being able to sense and feel, such a personal and intimate female detail. He truly did pity Richard and did not envy him in the least.

Lois grimaced and commented “Oh how off putting. I dealt with the consequences of male hormones being thrown my way back in high school and in college. Actually being able to feel what they feel, their wet dreams for example in my opinion would be seriously disturbing.”

Richard snorted and replied “In that case be grateful that neither of you is me. And hope and pray our daughter if she receives that power in particular has better luck then I had when she comes to learning how to control it.”

He added “And finally I have telekinesis, meaning I can move objects or even people with my mind.” He concentrated and lifted Lois up with her still sitting in the chair. Lois was stunned and yelped as she gripped the arm rests on the chair.

Richard slowly and carefully lowered her back onto the carpet still sat securely in her chair. Lois exclaimed “Oh my God that is unbelievable.” Clark smiled and nodded his agreement and said “Now that is one power I wouldn't mind having.”

Lois nodded and added “Yes me too. It looks like your least embarrassing power Richard.” Richard smirked and shook his head and commented “Yes I suppose you and everyone else would think that. I’m used to it after constantly having the ability twenty four seven for the last three years. Its second nature the marvel novelty worn off for me a long while a go.”

He added “Although I will admit it is the power I enjoying having the most. I have less embarrassing encounters with it. The only truly embarrassing thing to happen to me was when I was learning to control and harness it.”

Clark, Richard and Lois continued to talk for a while longer before Lois and Clark had to get back to work. They discovered without much more fighting that neither had meant to hurt each other and that neither was necessarily the bad guy or in Lois’s case the bad woman from hell.

And they all decided that they would get together with each other and discuss access between Jason and Halle.