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Clark had arrived into the Daily Planet newsroom that morning with a big smile on his face. He was happy. He wanted to float through the air and tell everyone about his terrific weekend and his wonderful new daughter. He greeted everyone he passed with a friendly smile and a warm, “hello.”

“Clark.” Perry stopped him. “You seem to be in a good mood. I hope it’s because you’ve got a hot lead.”

“Nope.” Clark smiled. “Great weekend though.”

“Oh?” Perry said, clearly expecting details. “Where’s Lois?”

“She told me to tell you she was too sick to come into work this week. Coughing, flu, highly contagious stuff.” He beamed.

“Really?” His boss raised a brow. “What’s she really doing?”

That stopped Clark short. He had never been good at the lying thing. He should have known that Perry wouldn’t buy an illness. “She was still in bed, asleep, when I left this morning, Chief. She hasn’t slept well all weekend and was up half the night last night.” All that was true. She was up half the night with Lara. He sighed. Lois and Lara. He had the best family. His grin slipped back on his face.

Clark had wondered at first how Lois was going to take to motherhood and those first twenty-four hours were tough for her. He had had months since his epiphany and discussion about Lucy El with his folks to mentally prepare. Lara was basically dropped in Lois’s lap.

On Sunday, he had caught Lois sitting on their bed talking to her daughter. She had turned and had beamed at him. “Clark, she smiled at me.”

He knew she would be fine from that point onwards. Lara had captured her heart. It was harder with Lois, since they couldn’t connect telepathically. Lois couldn’t feel her daughter’s strong bond between them, like he could. He almost pitied human parents who would never be able to feel with their children emotionally from the first touch what he had felt with Lara. He sighed again, before he realized that Perry was still watching him.

“You gonna explain this one, son? Your wife was so sick that she spent the weekend in bed and…” Perry stopped himself. “And you had a restful, quiet weekend for a change. No wonder you’re so happy.” He chuckled.

“I would like to introduce you to her birth mother, though.”

Originally posted by VirginiaR:
[b]Joan: I've got a semi-plot for a sequel which is more the alt-verse plotline. We've got to get those two sillies married at sometime. Whether he'll come back during this story... No comment. [/b]

“It’s clear to me and to Sam that Lara is not human.”

“The baby blanket with the big yellow ‘S’ on it for starters.

The card which was watermarked with the ‘Carter’ brand logo on the back, obviously from Earth.

And the fact that the baby’s heart rate is twice as fast a human baby’s.

Are you telling me that I’m the only one who noticed those things?”

“When is the time? When Lara starts flying around the living room?”

“Mom! That’s not going to happen,” Lois said, looking over at Martha. Was it?

Do you remember Lucy?”

“Oh, right, I’m sorry, Clark. Did I forget something important?” she asked.

people would come out of the woodwork to claim that the child was theirs. They didn’t want that to happen.

She loved Lara and she would fight to the death to protect her…

Who knew a baby, however old she was, would wake up every four hours wanting a bottle or a diaper change or a snuggle?

Who knew that once last night, Lois would be standing at her bassinette waiting for her daughter to wake up because she couldn’t wait to snuggle with her?

Love at first sight with his daughter.

It was almost as if they could read each other’s thoughts.

She opened the door and stared into the eyes of H. G. Wells.

“Mr. Wells?” She closed her robe tighter. “What are you doing here?” Then reality struck her. “No! Absolutely not. You cannot take my daughter. We just got her. No!”

“As you know, Lois, I dislike using that word,” said Mr. Wells at last.

“I didn’t have a relapse of amnesia last summer, did I?”

They both shook their heads.

Her future self opened the front door and Superman walked in. “Clark! Tell them how…” She looked closer at him. He didn’t stand like her Superman; he almost seemed embarrassed. “Clark?” She covered her mouth. “Oh, God! You’re the other Clark.”

He nodded.

“But he… we…” Lois’s eyes went wide as he glanced away. She point at him. “You kidnapped me!”

Okay, I’ll give her that one. Or the mother was doing coffee and chocolate during her pregnancy.

Well, I don’t know about Sam, but the rest of the gang didn’t notice a thing. Everything’s fine. Nothing to see. Move along. Move along.

Well, it’s custom on Krypton. Your best friend gets your first born. Your worst enemy gets a drei in the chest.

It does kind of make sense. Plus, his living cave in Eastern Africa isn’t really a place to raise a child.

History and fate are funny things, don’t ya think?

He did almost give up Lois over it…

Well…Lex *is* dead by now.

Well, they could do a maternity test…

/points to owner’s manual, page 3, paragraph 2.

And I actually needed to remember that she means Alt-Lois, not her older self who *also* kissed Lois’s husband. And did much more.

Well, it’s just a year or so…

/squints eyes/ Are the Alts trying to take over our dimension?

/Muttering about the crazy schemes that she has come up with in the past…future…ugh! Whatever. Now she understood why Clark was always close to a nervous breakdown when she got an idea/

Maybe she’s producing her own, now?

Maybe he should talk to Ultra Woman about it? Kal’s Lois was always good in helping Kal understand his feelings.

Anyway, Clark wasn't going to tell her to cut out both, would you have volunteered?

Really, honey, NOTHING happened between me on Zara while we were married!