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Things moved rather quickly in the following ten minutes after Lois revealed Superman’s true identity as her husband and father of two- soon to be five. Jason was discreetly moved into the quarantine ward, joined shortly by his father. Dr Higgins gave no explanation to his staff, only telling them that if they informed anyone outside the hospital about what was happening they would be fired without hesitation.

“Is that going to be enough?” Lois asked worriedly. “I know how valuable information like that would be to the press, what if someone thinks it’s worth their job?”

“I don’t know,” Dr Higgins admitted. “But all the doctors and nurses working this case are ones I trust personally and only a very few are allowed to see them, the rest are just under the impression we missed something and maybe the virus is harmful to humans.”   

“Will they believe that?” Lois asked as they made their way back to Dr Higgins’ office.

“Well,” Dr Higgins shrugged, “It is an alien virus, they’ll probably believe anything.” His pager beeped and he checked it, “Mr White and your daughter are waiting with Miss Sullivan in my office.” He informed her.

Lois cursed silently to herself. She had forgotten that she still had to look after Skye, the girl couldn’t stay in the hospital that much was obvious. There was no way Lois was leaving Clark and Jason. Jimmy and Sarah, the kids’ usual babysitters had enough to deal with right now what with their own pregnancy complications, her parents were out of town, Perry was in New York and Martha and Ben were in Kansas with no fast way out.

That just left Richard and Chloe, but they would want to stay and help and, although Lois' irrational pride would never let her admit it, she didn’t want to be alone at a time like this.

Skye grinned when she saw Lois and ran over to her, waving a pair of bent scissors, “Look, look,” She jumped up and down excitedly.

Lois raised an eyebrow at the pair on the other side of the office, Chloe looked confused and Richard looked…guilty? She turned back to Skye, trying to look happy for the girl, “Hey, sweetie. Careful with those,” She warned, nodding towards the scissors, “you might hurt yourself.”

“Nuh-uh,” Skye shook her head, “Not any more-“ she broke of suddenly, looking wide-eyed at Dr Higgins as if she had only just noticed him.

“I think he knows who your Dad is,” Richard told Skye, nodding in Dr Higgins’ direction.

“Knows?” Lois asked in confusion wondering what that had to do with what Skye was so excited about.

“I’m- in- in,” Skye started excitedly before pausing and scrunching up her face in concentration, “In-vul-n-er-able,” She sounded out slowly before returning to her usual million-miles-an-hour pace, “We were in Uncle Richard’s car but the lady hit us and the scissors almost cut me but instead they bent like this, see?” She grinned expectantly at Lois, clearly hoping for her to show some excitement as well.

Lois stared at the bent scissors as her mind caught up with Skye’s revelation. She was invulnerable, already? According to everything Clark had told her and everything they had experienced with Jason, Skye shouldn’t be invulnerable for another few years. A stray thought entered her mind but she pushed it aside, it would be unlikely that what was happening with Clark and Jason was related to this, Skye was just developing faster because she was a girl. Lois nodded, that was all, she told herself.

“Mom?” Skye asked and Lois pulled herself back to the present to find her daughter and the three adults looking at her with concern.

She forced herself to smile and look happy for Skye, even though it was the last emotion she had after the last two days, “That’s brilliant, sweetie,” She praised the girl. Skye didn’t seem to notice her heart wasn’t in it and lit up with pride, still holding the scissors aloft like they were a trophy.

“Why don’t we all sit down,” Dr Higgins suggested, looking at Skye strangely as she twirled the evidence of her unique heritage around her finger, Richard and Chloe took the office chairs and Lois remained in her wheelchair.

“Before I forget, you need to eat this,” Richard pulled out a wrap from the bag he was holding and passed it to Lois, “Chloe mentioned you had a dizzy spell earlier.”

“Thanks,” Lois took the wrap but merely placed it on her lap, she knew she needed it but she was too worried to have any appetite left. “We have to find somewhere for Skye to stay,” Lois told Chloe and Richard before Dr Higgins could start, the girl needed to know the doctors were helping her brother and father but she didn’t need to know the details.

“I wanna stay here and help,” Skye protested, “I wanna see Daddy and Jason.”

“You can’t, sweetie,” Lois tried to explain, “Daddy and Jason are very sick-“

“I wanna see them,” Skye interrupted her voice rising dangerously close to a whine.

“Skye,” Chloe tried, “You can’t stay here right now, you can come home with me and we can come back tomorrow, okay?”

“No!” Skye yelled, the day finally getting to her as she threw her scissors on the ground and crossed her arms, “I want to see Daddy!” She yelled, her face reddening, Lois knew she was revving up for a full-blown tantrum, clearly over tired and not liking being unable to see her Dad.

“Skye Annabel Martha Kent,” Lois snapped, drawing herself up in the chair as much as she was able and fixing her daughter with a stern gaze that the 6-year-old tried to match, “Stop this. Both your father and brother are very sick right now and no one knows why. I am trying the best I can to help the doctors find out what’s wrong but his is not helping, so shut up and stop being so selfish!” Lois finished, her voice rising nearly to a yell.

Instantly she could tell she had been too harsh, if not from the looks Richard and Chloe were giving her then from the way Skye’s face crumpled and her eyes filled with tears. Almost immediately all of Lois’ anger disappeared only to be replaced with a hollow guilty feeling, “Oh, sweetheart,” She said softly as Skye begin to sob, “I’m so sorry, come here.” She held her arms wide and Skye ran into them, throwing her arms around her mother as best she could with the added bulge of the triplets. Lois rubbed her daughter on the back as her small shoulders heaved with tears, “I’m sorry dear, I didn’t mean that, Mommy’s just under a lot of stress lately, okay?”

Skye pulled her head away and nodded, “But why can’t I see Daddy?” She whispered, understanding her mother's stress but not why she was being kept away from her father.

Dr Higgins cleared his throat, causing the four others in the room to jump, he had been sitting in his chair, observing the scene so quietly they had completely forgotten he was in the room. “Skye,” He said softly, drawing her attention, “You can’t see your Dad or brother because we’re afraid you might get sick too,” He explained, “You know what Kryptonian means don’t you?”

Skye nodded, “Something from Krypton. That’s what Daddy is,” She whispered, wiping her eyes, “And me an’ Jason too, but half of us is Mommy as well.”

“Exactly, now this thing that’s making your Dad sick,” Dr Higgins continued, “It’s Kryptonian too, and that means that you could get sick too. So that’s why you can’t see them, okay?”

“I could get sick too?” Skye asked softly, looking fearful. She seemed calmer now that she had an explanation and Lois wondered why she couldn’t have done that rather than snapping and driving her to tears. “But Daddy and Jason are going to get better, aren’t they?” She looked hopefully at Dr Higgins and Lois, “Like I did today?”

“That was just the flu, sweetie,” Lois told her, stroking her hair, “Your Dad and Jason have something far more serious.”

“But they’re going to get better aren’t they?” Skye asked again, this time looking to Dr Higgins for an answer.

He didn’t have one.