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( he doesn't know what to say — doesn't want to feel so frustrated and helpless and scared with this first mission he's being thrown into. poisoned is not something he thought would happen as a means to show his world is worth saving and willingly done so at the behest of echo. jeez. he REALLY wants to talk to them and give them a piece of his mind for this!! because it's not just him, it's others, too. he can't be the only one who feels this way about it — who feels scared about what could happen.

so he doesn't say anything as lois approaches him and, when she pulls him into her for an embrace, he lets her, face burying itself against her as she does. )

[newsbeat]

[Sometimes Clark feels like he forgets how young Jon really is. Not completely, not exactly, because that's not possible when looking at him. But he seems so confident in himself compared to what Clark remembers of being that age.

He is just a little boy in the end, though. Their little boy. In one way or another.

Clark steps closer and slips his arms around both of them. A family hug. Not for the first time, probably not for the last. As much as he wishes it wasn't because of Jon being upset, he thinks — he could get used to it.]

[thisisontherecord]

( Lois allows herself to rest her head against Clark to whatever degree is practical. However many looping twists and turns have led here, she's here, and so are they. Her boys. Jon gets the benefit from that firm, holding hug. Her words, soft and equally firm: )

We will get through this. Scary as all of it is.

( And it is, on various levels. Lois believes she's grounded enough that the worst extremes of paranoia will push her more toward a lack of trust instead of anything remotely violent, and even then... these are the two people she doesn't know that she truly can't believe, no matter what happens. )

And knowing all of us, we'll do everything we can to help the people around us too.

( One of the best ways to handle fear, and the unknowable, and the out of control in their lives. Do what they can. Be normal super heroes. It might be harder for her Kents, given they're used to being the kind of superhero that the world bleeds in weeping joy for, but she knows they'll manage this too. What she hopes is they don't end up horribly hurt where she can't reach them in the process, but — that too is a fear to handle. In the end, Lois is annoyed by being aware that this isn't something any one of them can prepare enough for. So what she can do, what she can say, is what's honest, even if it's nascent compared to what it may be one day. )

I love you two.

( Love will never be enough to right a worlds wrongs. But it can be enough, knowing. Inadequate as she feels she is for Jon, she can admit that after a month and a half of knowing him, and struggling with all the shades of what he could mean to her, doesn't diminish learning she does love him. She doesn't know anyone who couldn't reach that conclusion after having him be part of their lives. Maybe it isn't the fierce, maternal force she hears some women talk about, but she's fierce enough as she is, and her ovaries don't need to have commentary for her to choose that love over the various denials of it.

To be fair, three months into dating Clark (and sure, knowing him for three years before, but still, three months into dating) she'd faced herself on the fact that she loved him too. Must be a Kent thing. Hell, she kind of thinks she loves Clark's parents and their carefully kept room of Clark's exploits from childhood to his cusp of adulthood, but that too is a thought for some other time. )

[newsbeat]

[Clark doesn't doubt it for an instant. He can't say what he really thinks will happen in the days ahead, and all he knows about the danger is that it'll be considerable. Based on what Aurora described, a lot of damage can be done — and there's no guarantee it'll be limited to the mental and emotional.

But when he thinks of them on the other side of it, he can only think of them together. A family, in whatever unconventional way they are one. Together. Having done whatever they can for others, and for each other.]

Same. I love you, Lois.

[He shifts around so he can rest his hand on Jon's head. Lois is already holding him, and Clark is holding them, but he feels the need for that extra bit of connection.]

And I love you, Jon.

[He knows, or thinks he knows, that they can only be his parents for so long. Until their universes are saved and they go home, or his real parents show up in Etraya, or...any number of possibilities. There's no guarantee they'll ever have a Jon of their own, and even if they do, it wouldn't be the same. That doesn't change the here and now. He's thought so much about what it would mean for him to have a child, what it means for him to have this child, but in the end Clark can only go by what he feels in this moment.]

We'll make it through what's coming.