The Brother He Had Always Wanted	The Brother He Had Always Wanted

 by mobiusklein

 

 

  

 For Alexander Joseph Luthor, his day started out horribly when he had to
spend a day with the father who thought he was the most pitiful son ever.
It got worse when he lost his hair and ended up in the hospital. The
finale was when his father was struck down by a meteorite, looking for him
out in the cornfield. 

 A farmer and his wife had taken him to the hospital along with this
little naked boy who kept hanging on to him. They assumed that they were
related to each other because he seemed to like Lex so very much even
though they couldn't have looked more different if they had tried. 

 His nurse Pamela and his mother Lillian came as soon as they heard.
Lillian looked at her son in his hospital bed, unconscious and his hair
gone, and wept to see him in such a state. Doubly hard on her was hearing
about the death of her husband, a man for whom she had mixed feelings.
While she was looking at her child, a little boy ran in and crawled up on
the bed. Alarmed, Pamela picked up the child to take him out of the room
only to have him squirm out of her grasp and end up at the foot of the
bed. 

 The farmer and his wife ran in, saying that they had believed that the
boy was Lex's brother since they seemed so close. 

 "No, this child is not my son," Lillian said. 

 The farmer's wife looked almost relieved, even delighted. 

 Lillian, however, saw how much adoration the little boy had for her son,
reminding her of how much Alexander had begged and pleaded for a little
brother. "Pamela, call the lawyers. If this child is not claimed by any of
the residents of this town, I would like to take him in. Alexander needs a
reason to wake up." 

 The farmer's wife looked crushed at the news. Upon hearing that this
child was not the brother of the sick child, she had hoped that she could
take him home. "Please," she said desperately, wracking her brains for
some reason that her claim over this child would take precedence over this
wealthy woman's. "I was hoping that I could claim this child if he didn't
turn out to be yours. That is if nobody from our town claims him. My
husband and I found him so . . ." 

 Lillian, however, saw the child put his hand on top of Lex's hand and
Lex's answering squeeze. Her mind was made up. Lex was going to have the
brother he had always wished for. 

 The End   
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