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Poison- 1/?
Aug 24th, 2008 at 11:06pm
 
Title: Poison
Author: repmetsyrrah
Characters/Pairing: Clark/Lois, Chloe/Richard
Rating: G
Summary:Set 7 years post SR, Lois and Clark are happily married but when a virus that only targets Kryptonian DNA attacks more than one person the Kents find themselves fighting not only for their lives but their secret as well.
Disclaimer: DC own Superman
Author's Notes/Warnings: SR spoilers. And a few other things before we start:

Major things
-This story takes place 7 years after SR. Lois and Clark are married.
-Jason is now 11 and has super-strength, x-ray vision, super-speed and invulnerability.
-Their daughter, Skye, 6, has shown signs of super-strength, super-speed and heat vision.
-Lois is 71/2 months pregnant with triplets (Yes, triplets!)

Minor things
-Richard is still good friends with Lois and Clark (he also knows about Clark) and is known to their children (Jason too) as Uncle Richard.
-Richard and Chloe Sullivan have been dating for about 2 years.

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Lois Kent groaned as she got up awkwardly from the couch and waddled in the direction of the toilets. "I swear these kids think my bladder is some sort of trampoline."

"What’s a bladder?" Her daughter, 6-year-old Skye, asked from her place on the floor. Her older brother, Jason, looked up from his Playstation game.

"It’s where all your pee is before you go to the toilet," Skye made a disgusted face.

"Ew, why would the babies want to jump on that?" Jason just shrugged and returned to his game. They sat in silence for a moment before Skye got bored again.

"When’s Dad getting back?"

"Dunno," Jason frowned as he concentrated on his game.

"When are we going to Uncle Richard’s?"

"Dunno"

"Why doesn’t the moon fall out of the sky?"

"Dunno, be quiet"

"Can I play?"

"No"

"Please?"

"No, now shut up!" He yelled as his distraction cost him one of his lives.

Unfortunately, Lois had just returned from the bathroom and heard him."Jason, don’t talk to your sister like that," She snapped, Jason tried to look sorry. He’d only just gotten his PS4 back from the time he’d locked Skye on the roof of the apartment building.

"I’m sorry, Skye," He said, putting on his best apologizing voice. However, Skye was no armature at this game either. She sniffed and stuck out her bottom lip.

"Mommy, why is Jason so mean?" She asked, turning her big, blue eyes to her Mom. Normally, Lois would not have fallen for it, but lately her hormones had been fluctuating wildly. She walked over to the TV and yanked the plug out of the wall.

"MOM!" Jason yelled ",She made me lose a life!"

"Go to your room now or you may lose your life," His mother snapped. Jason glared at her then ran to his room and slammed the door. But not before he saw Skye shoot him a triumphant smirk from her new place on the couch, under the sympathetic arm of her Mom.

He stomped to his bed and flopped down on it, staring at the ceiling. Why did Mom have to be so weird when she was pregnant? She had been like this with Skye too, only nicer, in Jason’s mind. She certainly hadn’t ever yelled at Jason or sent him to his room for no reason.

Maybe it was worse this time because there were three babies inside her. Jason didn’t know much about babies. He knew how they were made and kind of what happened when people got pregnant. But he didn’t know what other people were supposed to do with someone who was pregnant. He’d only been 5 last time.

A shout of laughter came from the living room and Jason let out a sigh of frustration. Skye was so annoying. She was almost never in trouble with their parents and everyone they meet said how cute she was. He hated her.

Immediately, Jason tried to take back that thought. He didn’t hate her, not really. Normally they had lots of fun together. Almost always, really. Skye adored Jason and would pretty much do anything he asked. Dad had warned him about not taking advantage of that and he didn’t. Much. Skye was really fun to play with, even if Jason would never admit it to his school friends. But sometimes she could be so damn annoying.

He heard his mother get up and go into the kitchen. Making a mental note not to eat anything until he got to Uncle Richard’s house (pregnant moms ate really weird things), he slipped out of his room and down the hall.

Skye was playing on his Playstation and had already lost two more lives. Jason resisted the urge to yell again and simply took the controller away from her.

"You can still play," He assured her, as she opened her mouth to call for Mom. "But we’ll make a new game for you okay?" Skye didn’t say anything. "It’ll even have your name on it." He promised.

"Really?" His sister asked, looking excited.

"Uh huh" Jason exited his game without saving. He would have to redo some parts but at least he’d still have those three lives. "We’ll call it ‘Skye’s game’ and no one else will be allowed to play it, okay?" He explained, selecting ‘New Game’ on the start menu.

"Okay," Skye replied happily. The last ten minutes were soon forgotten as brother and sister bonded over high-tech shoot outs and alien enemies intent on wiping out all life on Earth.
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When Lois returned from the kitchen she paused for a moment, taking in the wonderful sight before her. Jason was on the couch, jumping up and down and yelling commands at a hysterically giggling Skye.

"Jump! NO, don’t go in there!...Ahh!" He jumped off the couch in an over dramatic fashion, jumping up again almost at once "watch out he’s got a grenade. No, you can’t do that...Quick, switch weapons, No, he’s on your team! Oh! Oh! Shoot that guy!" Skye shrieked with laughter as Jason jumped of the couch, threw his arms in the air and yelled "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" when she lost her last life.

"Can I play again?"

Lois walked over and picked up the remote. "Not right now, sweetie.
Richard is coming over soon to take you to his house. Now, I just want to see if your father will be coming to the doctor’s with me okay?" She looked at the clock and, deciding that 10 minutes of sitting with her children was worth the effort it would take to get up, sat down.

Skye nodded, still grinning, and settled on to the couch beside her Mom. Jason put the Playstation away and joined them. Both the children loved hearing about their Dad’s heroic acts as Superman. Although, they both knew how important the secret was and never to call him Dad when he was in his Superman cape.

Lois turned the TV off the video channel and rolled her eyes as cartoon network came on. The kids cheered but she quickly changed the channel. Usually she would have to flick through several news channels, depending on the importance of the disaster. Sometimes it wasn’t even reported at all. But today every single channel had the same images with the same blazing headline.

Superman Injured!

Lois felt her insides go cold and the remote slipped from her grasp. Skye started to ask something but Jason shushed her as they listened to the news report.

"- still unsure exactly what happened" A young man was saying as he stood at the site of a now extinguished apartment building fire. "All I can tell you at the moment is that Superman has indeed been rushed to hospital. We have no word on his current condition nor what caused his sudden collapse earlier this afternoon." The scene changed to a smartly dressed woman in a studio. She cleared her throat slightly before addressing the camera.

"That was James Morrison reporting live from the scene of this breaking story. For those of you just joining us-"Skye tried to ask something again. But both Lois and Jason yelled at her as they almost missed the next sentence. "- hours ago Superman rescued the last tenant and put the fire out before landing to talk with Sam Olden, the fireman in charge of this blaze. We have no footage available of the event but eye witnesses said that Superman appeared to stumble before collapsing on the ground, unconscious. Mr. Olden yelled for medical assistance. We are informed that Superman was not breathing at the time-" Lois heard Jason gasp slightly beside her "-but the medics were able to resuscitate him. He is currently at Metropolis General Hospital. No official statements have yet been issued but unofficial reports tell us that the Man of Steel has yet to wake up." Lois turned the television off. She needed to do something but she couldn’t think.

The sound of quiet sobbing brought her back to the present. She glanced to her left and was horrified to see her little girl in tears. She shouldn’t have let them find out like that. But, then again, she hadn’t known what she was going to see either.

"Skye, sweetie, what’s wrong?" She asked scooping her up under her arm. The triplets didn’t leave any room on her lap and Skye was getting too big for that anyway.

"Is Daddy dead?" She asked looking up at her with tearful eyes. The same blue as her father, Lois thought.

"No he’s not, he’s just-" Actually, she didn’t know what he was. Sick? Hurt? Was it kryptonite? "Not well," She decided.

"But- but," Skye sniffed again, "The lady said he wasn’t breathing and Jason told me you can’t live without breathing-" She burst into a new fit of sobs. Jason slipped off the couch and around his mother.

"Do you know what ‘resuscitate’ means?" he asked, taking her hands. Skye shook her head. "It means that the doctors made Daddy breathe again. He’s alright." He gave his sister a hug.

"Really?" Skye asked, looking at her big brother with complete trust. Lois knew that Skye idolised Jason and would accept his word without question.

Jason nodded, "Really, really," He promised.

Skye sniffed and wiped her eyes. "But why did they take him to hospital? Daddy can’t get sick; he’s Superman." Lois took a deep breath and tried to clear her mind as she considered how to answer her daughter’s question.

Clark was in hospital. No, she realised suddenly, Superman was in hospital. So far as everyone was concerned Clark Kent wasn’t anywhere. How was she going to explain that to Perry?

The doorbell rang. Skye and Lois jumped at the sound. Jason looked startled for a moment then ran over, opened the door and pulled Richard inside.

"Are you ok?" Richard asked walking over to her "I just heard on the way over here," Lois felt relief flood through her body and knew it showed on her face. Without a word Richard drew her into a hug. Jason quietly took Skye to her room to get ready to go to Richard’s house and the two adults sat in silence for a moment.

"What are we going to do?" Lois asked, suddenly, "Clark Kent’s gone missing, Superman is in hospital and no one knows why, the triplets could be born any moment-"

"Lois, calm down," Richard commanded quietly. "Relax, we’ll figure it out okay? You’re only seven months and-" He held up his hand as she started to talk, "I know triplets are more likely to be born premature but your doctor thinks it's unlikely. As for Superman," He paused for a moment before looking her straight in the eye, "You’re Lois Lane," Lois knew that he, like her, was recalling the last time, almost 7 years ago, when they had been in the same situation. He smiled, "They’ll let you in."
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