Title:  Coming Home
Author:  Morgan
Rating:  PG-13 (there's a bad word, sorry guys no sex in this one)
Authors Notes:  This is unbeta'd except for by myself.  I, in typical fashion, procrastinated with this story and did not have time to have it beta'd.  If anyone would like to beta this please feel free.
Challenge:  Lex and Clark are caught having sex. Lex is put on trial for statutory rape. (kira-nerys)
Disclaimer:  None of these character are mine, I am borroweing them from the WB.  No profit was made from this story.
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Coming Home
By Morgan

12:00 p.m.

Lionel Luthor stalked into the private interrogation room of the Smallville Police Department.  His lawyer and Dominic were already seated across from the Kent’s and their son.  Lionel pulled out the chair next to Dominic and sat down, looking at the Kent’s for a moment.

"I won’t draw this out.  I’ve already had the paper work drawn up and all you have to do is sign."  Lionel began.

Jonathan Kent interrupted him.  "We’re not signing anything.  Your son is a child molester and a pedophile for what he did to Clark and he’s going to jail."

"It would be in your best interest and that of your son to listen to me Kent.  My son did quite a bit of research on your son  before he became…otherwise amused with him.  What he turned up were very few answers and dozens of questions.  Now you have two choices today Kent, you can sign these papers or I will release your sons name to the press as the one pressing charges.  And if you think the information Lex dug up was bad you wait until the press get a hold of him.  They’ll tare him and his questionable past apart.  I’m not being unfair in my offer.  Five million dollars to drop the charges and sign a press waver.  There is also a minor stipulation of young Clark here never having contact with my son again, but that shouldn’t be a problem for you."  Lionel leaned back waiting.  The Kent’s lawyer looked completely out of his depth.  That was good.

"Lex would never agree to that!  He wants to see me, I know he does."  Clark yelled, pushing his chair back and standing.

"I can assure you that after having him arrested and spending two nights in a jail cell Mr. Kent, his feelings for you have changed."  Lionel said cruelly.

"We’ll sign it."  Jonathan Kent said, looking at the table.

"Jonathan!"

"Dad!"

"We don’t have a choice.  Clark can’t be put in the spot light like that.  We want him to have  a normal life and it’s not like everyone in Smallville doesn’t already know Clark’s the one pressing charges.  You want people in other towns looking at him like they do too?  At least here people have enough respect for our family not to spread it around or outright say anything!  And it’s not like we couldn’t use the money."  Jonathan said, looking imploringly at Martha.  She had to understand, Clark’s secret was at risk too, but he couldn’t say that in front of Luthor.

Martha did understand, even if she didn’t like it.  "Do what you think is best, Jonathan."  She said quietly.

Clark looked at both his parents and sat back down.  They had done this, all of it.  If they had just left it alone he would be in Lex’s arms right now.  He closed his eyes and a tear slipped down his cheek.

"Where do we sign?"  Jonathan asked, uncapping a pen.

Lionel Luthor smiled and nodded to his lawyer.  The man removed a stack of papers from his briefcase and began to sort them.


4:00 p.m.

"Statutory Rape Charges Against Lex Luthor Dropped!"  The headline blared on the front page of the Daily Planet.

"How could you let this happen, Lex?" Lionel calmly put the paper down on the coffee table in front of him.

"It’s over now, leave it alone."  Lex took another drink from his fourth vodka tonic in the last two hours.

"I will not leave it alone.  This is completely unacceptable Lex.  There is no excuse-" 

Lex cut him off.  "I thought he loved me!"  He yelled.  "He said he loved me."  he murmured more to himself than Lionel.

Lionel heard him.  "Lex,"  Lionel began gently.  This was his chance, he knew, to make sure Lex was his.  To jade Lex to his emotions.  The boy had always been too emotional.  "I think you see now where your emotions get you.  Brought up on statutory rape charges because you were careless enough to let the boys parents catch you fucking their only son.  And where is this boy?  Nowhere to be seen.  He disappeared the second his name was threatened to be released."

"It wasn’t his fault.  His parents…"  Lex trailed off, getting up to get another drink.

Lionel followed him, took the glass from Lex’s shaking hand and fixed his son another drink.  "He ran out on you.  The Kent’s settled with five million dollars and the stipulation that you were never to be in contact with him again.  Even after he’s legal Lex.  He has effectively taken you for five million dollars and made sure you could never come near him again."  Lionel felt satisfaction as he watched Lex flinch away from his words.  Lex was breaking down now, soon his broken heart would turn to anger, and if Lionel was careful he could manipulate it directly at the Kent boy and win his son back.  Lex had always been a difficult child and later a difficult teen, but through it all Lionel had always been the one constant.  Since Lex had met the Kent boy however, he had been drifting further and further out of Lionel’s reach, going so far as to refuse to come back to Metropolis.  It was time to bring his heir home.

"He’s not like that.  He’s wouldn’t do that."  Lex finished off the last of his latest vodka tonic.

"But he did Lex, and you know as well as I do that money was desperately needed by the family.  Maybe he did it to help his family, maybe he was scared and thought that was his only out, maybe he had nothing to do with the settlement.  Any way you look at it Son, he left you."  Lionel gently drove that last bit home, watching his inebriated son take it in.

Lex’s shoulders slumped.  Clark had left him.  Maybe for money, maybe for an easy way out.  Either Lex would have given him had he only asked.

"I think it’s time you come back to Metropolis Lex.  I could use a right hand man and Smallville is below you now."  Lionel placed a hand on his sons shoulder and squeezed, an almost fatherly gesture.

Lex closed his eyes and swallowed.  When he opened his eyes they were harder, aged.  He had loved Clark Kent and Clark had betrayed him.  If someone as good at heart as Clark had betrayed him, what hope did he have for trusting anyone else in the world?  "You’re right."

Lionel smiled, his son was coming home.  He clapped Lex on the back, turned and walked out of the study.

The End.