Resistant • Jonathan Kent

iv. A Heavy Loss

Tiana was racing the fourteen year old Liliana around the town of Smallville, while Jon and Jordan were watching them go. Jon and Jordan, plus his wife were holding all of their kids and between them all, there must have been ten kids and Tiana was laughing as she skidded to a stop and she was grinning. Liliana stumbled over her own feet but she eventually stopped, before she was laughing along with the others.

After visiting Kyle and Chrissy, Lana and John Henry, and then Natalie and Matteo, they were heading over to the familiar house where Lois and Clark waited for them. The younger kids were running forward to speak to their grandparents, while Liliana waited back a little bit with Tiana, Jon and Jordan. "Let's be honest, how many kids did we ever expect to have when we were back in high school?" Tiana wondered out loud and Jordan scoffed.

"None." Jordan said right off the bat and Tiana nodded. "But it is the curse of twins." He reminded her and Tiana rolled her eyes, before she zapped him. "Ow, hey!" He said and she zapped him again.

"Jordan, the more that you go and complain about it--" Jon reminded him.

"The more that she will zap me, I know!" Jordan finished irritably and he swung at Tiana quickly, who ducked and it was only thanks to Jon catching his fist that he didn't put a hole in the wall. "Let go of me." Jordan said and Jon let his brother's fist go, before it was their turn to go and say hi to Clark and Lois. Lois, who looked sick and Tiana was hugging her carefully.

Tiana had heard the news along with the others, that Lois's cancer had come back and Tiana was hating it. She hated that she couldn't do anything, she had been trying to work with the DOD to use her DNA or willing metahuman DNA to cure it, but they hadn't had any luck and now Lois was dying again.

Tiana could tell that the tough reporter didn't have too much time left and she hated watching her like this, not being able to do anything to help. "Oh my gosh, who are these guys?" Lois asked as Tiana and Jon were each holding one of their youngest twins, who were a pair of boys and maybe, just maybe... These were the next Fraternals.

"Trevor and Cameron." Tiana murmured and Lois was grinning, before one by one, she was holding each of the twins and eventually, Tiana was sending Liliana out to the cleaned-up barn along with the rest of the kids and she trusted that her daughter would yell for help if it was too much for her to handle.

The kids were all tuckered out and they were crashing at the Cortez apartment building complex, which they had bought from Tiana a while ago and it was basically a business on its own now. Mateo was watching them all, while Liliana helped him and the others were still back at the Kent House.

"This is where it all started." Tiana murmured as she walked into the barn, where she found Jordan and Jon both staring up at the router and Tiana laughed. "You know, if you had just let me deal with the damn router..."

"Then none of this--" Jon began.

"-Would have ever happened." Jordan finished and Tiana shook her head with a smile.

"Yeah, no kidding." Tiana stared up at where they had put the steel pipes back up and she laughed. "For old time's sake, should I go up there and reset the router?" She wondered and they were both shaking their heads, while Tiana was looking up at the loft. "Oh look, it's my old bedroom." Tiana said as she was racing up the support beam, before she vaulted around it and landed smoothly in the loft.

Jon was flying himself up and he glanced around, while Tiana scoffed and she looked around at the old sofa bed setup that was still up here, since nobody had ever bothered to move it and she walked over to the counter, where there were two photos set up and Tiana was picking them up and wiping the dust off of the photos and the frames.