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Catheryne
20th June 2003, 01:12
When It Rains, It Pours


She had never seen him so pale and vulnerable. Chloe walked into the room and touched her father-in-law’s shoulder. The old man blinked one, twice, before turning his head and meeting her eyes.

“Lionel, are you alright?”

His lip twitched nervously. Lionel reached for his stiff alcoholic drink and lifted it to his lips. He drew one quick gulp and placed it down. Chloe frowned and reached for the glass. Before she even touched it, Lionel snatched it away with a snarl.

“This is getting out of hand,” she told him. “I want you to march to your room and rest. You look like you’re going to have a cardiac arrest. We don’t want to have to rush over to the hospital.”

Lionel nodded. He himself did not want Chloe going to Smallville General. With his daughter-in-law pregnant though, he did not have a choice. Helen was still working there. He really had to call in a few favors to get the woman transported back to Boston or wherever Lex mentioned she came from. Chloe denied having any problems with the doctor still in town, but Lionel had seen her when her hormone level was erratic. Those smiles would melt into tears and her confidence about her husband’s loyalty would metamorphose into insecurity about her appearance. He really needed to have Helen transferred.

“I’m fine, Chloe,” he rasped. Then, noticing only then that he was sitting comfortably in his chair while she fussed over him on her feet, Lionel shot up from his seat and ushered her into his own chair.

“Ummm,” she said. “Your seat is warm. I don’t like it.” Chloe squirmed uncomfortably because of the weirdness of sitting on the cushion when she felt her father-in-law’s butt print on the material. She gingerly stood.

Lionel rushed to the front of the desk and pulled another chair towards her. He patted the seat. “This one is cool. You can sit here.” He took Chloe by the elbows and sat her down.

Chloe found herself ensconced in the unneeded, albeit cooler, chair. “I really don’t want to sit down, Lionel.”

Lionel’s eyebrows furrowed. She watched her daughter-in-law leave the very expensive seat. “Do you not feel the backaches go away?”

“I don’t have any—“

She was interrupted when Lionel picked up his phone and started dialing. “I’m going to have a talk with your manager. I was told that the furniture I ordered is pregnancy-friendly. My daughter-in-law does not find your—“

Chloe snatched the phone from Lionel and turned it off. “The furniture is fine. I just don’t feel like sitting!”

He took a deep, steadying breath. “Chloe, you have to sit down.”

“My ass is growing mold,” she snarked.

Lionel closed his eyes, forcing any stray image away from his brain. He had done this job before. Talking to a pregnant woman was something a man should go through only with one woman. He had done his part with Lillian. Lex should be going through this one. Suddenly, a bulb lit in his head and Lionel brightened. Since Lex finally did something good and married someone Lionel can live with and not hit his head in the process due to witless drivel, he would exert all the effort he could. He liked his daughter-in-law. “Walk!” he exclaimed.

“What?” she asked blankly.

“You need to walk,” Lionel informed her. “Pregnant women rest or walk.” He took Chloe’s wrist and led her out of the room. They walked down the corridor, with his arm wrapped around the small of her back in support. “Okay, Chloe, we’re by the stairs now. Watch your step, watch your step.”

Chloe groaned and gently extricated herself from Lionel. “I can walk by myself! And who said I wanted to walk.”

“It keeps you from being restless, and aids your metabolism, so your muscles don’t cramp up,” Lionel recited, straight from the mouth of the doctor he hired a month ago to tell him all about pregnancy. He tried to hold her again, but Chloe glared at him. “Lionel Luthor, if you escort me around like I were a blind woman, I swear you will not be recognized as grandfather,” she warned.

“You might not see the stairs.”

“I’m five months pregnant!” she yelled. “I don’t have a stomach protruding so much that I am a cow who can’t see her feet.” Chloe’s words trailed off and her eyes widened. “Am I cow?” she gasped.

“NO!” Lionel cried out at once.

Chloe blinked and fearfully glanced down. “I can still see my toes,” she whispered.

“Of course you can, my dear. I was being a senile old man.”

The admission seemed to make her happy, so Chloe grinned and skipped the way down the stairs. Lionel almost drew blood with the way he dug his nails into his palm as she watched her merry descent.

Lionel shook his head and went in search of his son. After telling him the news earlier, Lex had decided that he needed to lie down and not go to work at all. Lionel could not blame him. Lex and Chloe’s recent visit to the doctor had made Lionel the paranoid wreck he had become. Much more so with Lex, he supposed.

His energetic wife downstairs, probably eating everything she could get her hands on, Lex Luthor remained inside his room, lying on the center of the bed. Lionel pushed the door open and saw his son, unmoving, staring at the ceiling.

“Lex.”

Lex remained very silent.

Lionel sighed and walked over to his son. It appeared like he was going to have to be a father now. He was a provider, always had been. But Lionel knew nothing about actually being fatherly. He sat on the bed and still Lex did not move. “Don’t be a ninny,” Lionel pronounced.

Lex blinked.

“Are you having a panic attack?”

Lex moistened his lips. “Did Chloe notice?”

“Judging by the way Chloe hopped down the stairs, I’d say it hasn’t registered to her yet that her husband is a ninny. She does seem to think that her father-in-law has gone insane.”

Lex finally moved. His head bobbed once in a curt nod. “Well it’s our turn. She’s had five months of acting crazy.”

“Technically, she deserves the crazy card in this one too because this development will affect her more.”

Again, Lex’s stringent nod. “That’s why while it hasn’t really sunk into her head yet, I’m taking the time to freak out. I’ll have to console her later when it dawns on her.”

“Good thinking, son.”

“Think I have a good hour of panic left?”

Lionel smirked. “The Luthors are not that lucky, son.”

The bedroom door swung open. Lionel turned. Lex sat up. Chloe stood there looking green and wide-eyed. “Oh my God,” she whispered. She tremulously held up the black and white digital picture. “Lex, there are two hearts here.”

Lionel and Lex waited. They watched Chloe’s expression as terrified became more terrified.

Lex took a deep breath. That hour was wishful thinking anyway. “Come here, Chloe,” he said soothingly.

Instead of walking to him tearfully, Chloe strode over and hit him on the head with the picture. “You’re making me give birth to two kids?!”

“You were hap—“

“Two big heads, Lex? Two?!”

Lex saw his father slip from the room surreptitiously. That coward. “Chloe… I love you,” he assured her. “And any pain you feel, I’ll feel twice. Right here.” He touched his chest. He prepared himself for another bout of being hit when he realized that he compared imaginary, emotional pain to expelling two human beings from her… ummm… body.

The flames of panic and fury dimmed and Chloe sat on the bed. Chloe wrapped her arms around him and allowed him to draw her closer to him. “We’re having twins…”

“Yes, we are,” he agreed.

“Wow,” she said.

Lex smiled and murmured, “Wow indeed.”


Fin

staysixkid
20th June 2003, 02:10
disgustingly sweet! I'm a sucker for that. well done....

:biggrin:

hfce
20th June 2003, 02:19
:lol: I love this. It was very good.


Hope :chlexsign2:

petriebird18
20th June 2003, 04:23
:yay: :worship2: YAY!!!!!!!!
only you do realize that you'll have to do another part now, right?
Because this is just SO FREAKING FABULOUS that you HAVE TO continue!
lol i love the hormonally crazy chloe and the freaked out Lex and Lionel, but where's GABE?? is he being smart and staying away?
~Deidre~
:chlexsign3:

roslyn
20th June 2003, 04:31
all i have to say is...more

plain and simple, now sit and write more.

:wub: roslyn

p.s. i loved thius by the way, i'm such a sucker for happy endings.

drina
20th June 2003, 04:48
LOL, both so funny and heartwarming...this is great.

hurlingturtles
20th June 2003, 05:15
whoa twins! i'd be freakign out, too. i'm sending a digital hug to all the characters in this one. they're so sweet, i can't help it!

Sunflow
20th June 2003, 20:27
Lionel is soooo sweet in this one ^_^
Love it, more!

xadie
25th June 2003, 21:46
Hooray! That was great! Please, please turn it into a series, I love snapshots of a Luthor pregnancy. I've also had a growing soft spot for Lionel ever since he refused to shoot Lex for Lucas. :biggrin: yay!

kidkarmina
29th June 2003, 02:49
:hehe: :lol: :worship2:

That was hilarious.

Are there more coming? :chlexsign3: !!

autumngold
29th October 2003, 07:59
I really hoped you would update this one more time and show Lionel and Lex at the babies delivery! ;) These two stories are so perfect that a third could only be spectacular! :chlexsign4: Please, please think about it; it's not too late!! :yay2: Please!!

sabby
30th October 2003, 03:59
Originally posted by Catheryne@Jun 20 2003, 01:12 AM

“Of course you can, my dear. I was being a senile old man.”


“Don’t be a ninny,” Lionel pronounced.


“Think I have a good hour of panic left?”

Lionel smirked. “The Luthors are not that lucky, son.”


Those are by far my favorite lines. God I love the Luthor men how you write them *snickers* Sooo sweet. It's close to saccharine but not quite there yet which makes it all the more perfect *still laughing* Can you write a sequel to that? This story is really, really growing on me *G*

hugs,
Sab

jaded-swan
30th October 2003, 15:22
LOL this story is so funny... love the fact that Lex needed to lie down when he realises he is going to have twins... although I am kind of puzzled why Chloe didn't know... :wub:

eurydices falling
31st October 2003, 04:07
AWWWW. That is just ten kinds of precious. Lex is a ninny, Lionel is a coward, Chloe is a crazy and the kid is a multiplying. I love it.

Might I suggest a trilogy sequel in which the whole family gets to be nuts together at say a first birthday party? :biggrin:

happy bunny
31st October 2003, 04:49
Aww... such a sweet ending. The rest of the story was hilarious!! The ninny lines and the bit when Lionel admitted to being a senile old man :pclol: hysterically funny!

Loved it!

Catheryne
2nd November 2003, 17:23
Wow. I had no idea this story went through a rereading by several people. And I will certainly consider creating a third for this but I was afraid I'd crap it up and totally ruin these two.

Anyway, I have an idea playing but I would have to iron it out.

Thanks for reading again :)

starmoon
29th April 2005, 02:09
i love this story is so funny.

~*~Tasha~*~
23rd June 2006, 21:08
I liked this short story. You relaly have the whole pregnancy switch around back and forth down right.

Nonhalema
18th June 2007, 12:40
Great...I loved Lionel and Lex in this one...loved their relationship with each other