Luthor (2020)

“I don’t know about this.” Lena whispered. 

“She gave us some really good points. I agree with her. We can’t hold her back anymore. She can do so much more.” Kara stated. 

The ravenette sighed and looked back at the screen. “Why do our kids always use presentations to ask us for anything?” she sighed.

“Because they are the kids of a Luthor who always needs valid reasons to do anything.” The blonde teased. “They also know you enjoy them.” she added with a chuckle. 

Lena sighed and nodded. “I truly do enjoy their presentations.” she looked down at her notes. “Okay.” she nodded and Kara’s face lit up. 

The two women turned around and walked closer to the kids. “Luna, your Jeju and I discuss your sugges-” 

“I’m going to highschool!!?” Luna excitedly asked when she noticed her Jeju’s face. 

Lena sighed with a smile. She raised her hand and grabbed her wife’s chin and turned it to her. “Couldn’t you hide your excitement for a few more minutes?” she asked with a glare.

“Nope.” the taller woman said, popping the ‘p’. “Luna is going to highschool.” she announced louder and everyone cheered. 

“Welcome to Highschool.” Alex announced as he opened the doors dramatically. “Now, remember.” He continued and placed his arm around his little sister's shoulders. “If someone bothers you, call me. If you are lost, call me. If anyone is bullying you because you are 11, call me. If you need anything, and I mean anything,” he paused and looked into his sister's blue eyes. “Call me, okay?”

The girl nodded with a huge grin. It was hard to convince her parents to let her skip not one but three years ahead. She promises them that she will keep up with her classes, which they have no doubt, but also to be careful who she hangs around with and always ask Alex for help. She even pinky-promised to show her moms how important this was for her.

On the other hand, Alex was responsible for her safety. Luna was a genius but she was still a child. While she could keep up with the studies, her interests were different from most highschoolers. 

“Can we go to my locker before the first bell?” She asked with excitement as she looked around the school. 

A lot of students were staring, not sure why a kid was in their school, but she didn’t care. She was too excited for all her classes. 

“Sure.” Alex answered and checked the paper Luna was holding. “Oh, nice we will pass by my locker.” he said and started walking to the direction of the stairs. He tried not to grab Luna’s hand as he didn’t want the other students to see her as a child.

They passed Alex’s locker, where he dropped off his stuff, then to Luna’s locker before dropping her off to her first class. 

The teacher entered the class and placed his briefcase on the desk. He picked a marker and started writing on the whiteboard. “My name is Greg Wilcox. You will call me Mr Wilcox, anyone that doesn’t I will remove points from their tests.” He announced before turning back to his briefcase, not even glancing at the students. He found a paper and leaned on the desk as he started calling out names. 

“Davis Aiden.”

“Here.” 

“Eliton..” the teacher paused and looked up. 

“Here.” Luna raised her hand with a huge smile. 

The teacher furrowed his brow. He placed the list with the student names back on his desk and crossed his arms. “Does your brother think he is funny?” he asked. 

“He is most of the time.” the young girl answered with a shrug. 

“And he thought it would be funny to send his little sister to my class instead of showing up for himself.” the teacher suggested with a serious voice. 

That caught Luna off guard. She was so used at how nice the teachers in middle school were. “This is my class, not his.” She answered, fidgeting with her pencil. 

The man laughed loudly. “How old are you? Ten? You can not possibly be in this class.” he scoffed. 

“First of all, I’m eleven.” Luna spoke with a steady voice. “Second of all this is my class because I skipped three years.”

The man scoffed again and looked at the ravenette. “You skipped three years?” He asked. The girl nodded and he smiled. “Very well. Then you won’t mind simplifying this algebraic expression. Something that is taught in 8th grade.” He stated and wrote on the whiteboard. 

“You have till the end of the period.” he added and passed the marker to the young girl. 

Luna walked to the whiteboard with confidence. 

“Romano Frankie.” The man continued. 

“Here.”

“Santorio Mar-”

“I’m done.” Luna announced.

The man turned surprised. He read the whiteboard and frowned. “hmm..I will write another one and this time I want to see your work.” he said as he moved closer to the whiteboard. When he finished he leaned on his desk and looked at the young girl as she was writing.

“Done.” she announced again with a smile. She enjoyed the shocked expression on the man’s face. 

“Very well.” He cleared his throat and looked back at the catalogue. “What did you say your name was?” he asked. 

“Luna. Luna Eliton.” The girl answered as she sat back on her chair. Her mothers’ overprotectiveness of having a different name at school is a great way for teachers to treat her and her siblings like ordinary kids.

“A week before our winter holiday, the class with the highest grades will go on a trip to L-Corp. The winners not only will get to see the labs but they will also get to talk with the one and only Dr Lena Luthor.” He announced and Luna could swear he actually said her mother’s name in a dreamy voice. 

“Are you a fan of her?” One of the students asked. 

“Of course. That woman is a genius, meeting her would be an honour.” He declared. “But that's quite hard to accomplish so do not have high expectations.” He said with a disappointed voice like he already lost the challenge.

Little does he know that he has a young Luthor in his classroom.

A Luthor that always loves the shock expression of adults after she shows her smartness.

A Luthor that loves maths, physics and science.

A Luthor who enjoys spending time with her mom in the L-Corp labs.

“Sup with the kid, Eliton?” someone asked and Alex turned around and waved. “Hey, guys. This is my little sister, Luna.” he introduced.

“Hi.” the girl waved with a smile at the group of boys. 

“Okay? We are heading to the locker room. You coming?” one of the boys asked. 

“I will be right there. Just have to show my sister where her classroom is.” Alex answered as he started walking in the opposite direction with Luna.

“Don’t be late or the coach will make you run ten laps.” one of them yelled and laughed. 

“I can find the classroom on my own.” The young girl whispered.

“It’s fine. I will just speed back to the lockers room.” Alex said with a wink.

Luna stopped and turned to her brother. “You know every time you remove your red sun watch it alerts mom, right?” she asked and by Alex surprised look, the answer was no. “She will also ground you if you remove it five times with no valid reason.” she added.

“How do you know that?” he asked with a worried expression.

“I wanted to listen to the fifth-grade class and also test out my theory about the alert. Why do you think she ground me for a week?” she replied. “You should go to your class. I can find mine, just tell me where to go.” 

“Fine. Straight ahead, go up the stairs to the second floor, turn left then right.” He moved his arms while talking.

“Okay. Now goooo.” Luna said and pushed her brother to the other direction.

Alex started walking to the locker room, glancing back at his sister until she disappeared at the staircase. “She will be fine.” he whispered as he entered the lockers room. 

There was a big commotion in there like always. He quickly changed into his gym clothes while glancing at his phone. A puff of air left his mouth as he received Luna’s message that she got to class. 

“Eliton!” A boy, Jonathan, exclaimed and put his arm around the blonde’s shoulders. “Come with me. The boys and I have a surprise for ya.”

“Sure.” Alex shrugged and placed his phone in his locker before closing it.

Jonathan took him to the back of the showers where three other guys were. One of them seemed to kick something and Alex rolled his eyes. They probably stole another ball from the storage room. 

“Your full name is Alexander, right?” Jonathan asked. 

“Yeah.”

“Did you know my dad works at the prison your uncle is?” the boy asked again and Alex stopped walking. 

“What?” Alex whispered confused. 

“Yeah. A few days ago I went to my dad’s work and I managed to sneak around and take a selfie with him. He saw my Instagram feed and pointed out you are his nephew.”

Alex awkwardly chuckled and fidgeted with his glasses. “I..I’m not..”

“Come on Luthor.” Jonathan groaned and dragged the shocked boy towards the others who were laughing. “Look, we get you probably hiding your last name because of all the haters, but don’t worry. We are on your side.” 

Alex and Jonathan arrived close to the others. The three boys parted to let Alex walk between them. The blonde boy gasped at the image across him.

A young alien boy was on the floor of the shower. He was wet from the water dripping above him, he was crying and his nose was bleeding. Nick passed Alex a bat with a smile. “We didn’t hurt him much. We thought you would enjoy beating up a cockroach more than us, Luthor.” he said. 

Alex was shocked. He knew these guys for a few years and not once did he suspect that they were alien haters. But to be fair none of them know of his true origin as well. He tightened his grip on the bat as he stared at the freshman who was crying on the floor. The boys around him cheered, as they thought the anger was directed to him.

He removed his watch and put it in his pocket. 

With a swift move, he turned around and hit one of the boys in the stomach. He stood protectively in front of the boy on the floor and looked at his shocked ex-friends.

“I don’t know who you think I am, but I’m sure not a loser like you who thinks bullying someone is a great accomplishment.” He snapped. 

“What the heck, Luthor?” Dave asked and took a step closer. Alex gave a warning swing towards him and took a step back. 

“Thought you were one of us. Your freaking name is Alexander Luthor.” Jonathan added angrily.

The blonde scoffed. “My name is Alexander because of my aunt. You should also check who Lena Luthor is.” 

“What’s going on back there?” A loud voice echoed in the locker room.

The coach started walking up to them and the boys across Alex smiled. 

“He is beating up someone, sir.” Dave shouted as the man got closer. 

“We are just trying to stop him.” Nick insisted. “But he started swinging that bat, at us.” he added and pointed to Cole on the floor, holding his stomach.

“What did you expect. He is Lex Luthor’s nephew after all.” Jonathan hissed his last name.

The coach looked at Cole on the floor and then the kid behind Alex. He hummed. “You four go run your laps. Now.” He yelled and the four boys ran outside. Jonathan glanced back with a smirk. 

“Move.” The coach spoke and the teen moved to the side, the bat firm in his hand. The man kneeled down and looked at the kid on the floor. “Lex Luthor’s nephew, huh?” he asked. 

“They don’t know what they are talking about.” the blonde boy murmured. 

“I know they don’t know.” The man turned around and lowered his black mirror glasses. Alex tried to hide his shock at the man’s purple eyes. “Obviously they don’t know how much good your mom does for our community.” he whispered and pushed his glasses back. “You think you can take him to the nurse?” he asked. 

“Yes sir.” Alex nodded and let the bat fall on the floor. He moved closer to the boy and easily lifted him up, forgetting that he wasn’t wearing his watch. 

“Tell the nurse I sent you. Stay with him until his parents arrive.” The man said and placed a piece of paper on Alex’s shirt pocket for the nurse.

The teen nodded and rushed outside the locker room.

“Come in.” Lena answered at the knock of her home office door. 

Alex opened the door and entered with Kara. 

“What’s going on?” The CEO asked and looked at her wife who shrugged. 

“Lex knows about me.” The teen stuttered with a worried face. He slowly broke into tears and his mothers rushed to him. They moved to the couch where they hugged him as he told them what happened in the locker room. 

Lena’s heels echo in the hallway. She ignored the men catcalling her as she had one goal in her mind. The guard opened the door to the private cell.

“Lena. Here for a game of chess?” The cold voice of Lex welcomed her when she got closer to his cell. 

“Do you know why you are still alive, Lex?” The younger Luthor asked.

“Because you are too weak to kill me?” he answered with a smirk. 

“You are alive because you have to suffer for what you did to all those who you hurt.” Lena provided the correct answer. 

“You know I heard one of the guards got fired. No one knows why but I have a theory. Would you like to hear it out?” Lex changed the subject. He continued when all he received was a glare. “I believe the owner of this prison,” he pointed to Lena. “got mad that a guard's kid showed me a picture of my nephew.” he continued. “He has your eyes, by the way.” he finished with a smirk.

Lena bit the inside of her cheek as she tried to not react as her brother wanted. 

The bald man walked closer and placed his arms between the bars. “I wonder. Do the twins look like you or her?” he bellowed. Suddenly electricity passed through the bars and Lex was shot to the back of the cell, falling to the floor.

He coughed and looked back at his sister who was holding a small controller. “Deep down, you enjoy this.” he said and slowly stood. “That’s because you are a Luthor. You have our father’s blood running through your veins and you know what kind of monster he was.” he laughed. “No matter how much good you think you are doing, everyone will always remember the Luthor name as the cause of evil.” he growled as he got closer. 

“I’m changing this world. I’m making it into a better place.” Lena answered. 

“I was making the earth a better place too, but look where I am.” the older Luthor snapped. 

“You are where you belong.” The ravenette snarled back to him. 

The man sighed. “Why are you really here, dear sister?” he asked with a softer voice.

“Wanted to remind me who I’m not.” He looked at her brother one more time before she turned around and started walking away. 

“Congratulate my niece for going to high school at such a young age.” He shouted. 

He probably expected a reaction. Maybe a pause in her step. Or her shoulders tensing. He even expected her to simply ask him how he knew. 

He wanted to see her weak and scared.

But Lena did not stop her walk. Her shoulders did not tense or even show any acknowledgement to Lex's statement. She knew that Lex would know that. Doesn’t matter how he found out right now. She can think about it later, in her wife’s arms. 

Now she had to be a Luthor and show no emotion. 

No weakness.

No mercy, as she passed the controller to the new guard. 

Lena rarely drinks anymore, especially in front of her kids. But Kara passed her a coffee that had alcohol in it and she couldn’t deny it. The two women explained to their kids who Lex was, that night. They told them about what her brother did and how it damaged their name and maybe even their future.

She could see their worried faces but she didn't know if it was because of what Lex did or because of her stone-cold face. Something only her board members see.

Her face softens when the kids wish her goodnight before they headed to their rooms. 

“Do you think we should have waited more?” the ravenette asked.

“No. They are smart kids. They need to know about this.” Kara whispered and kissed her wife’s forehead. 

“I should have gotten your last name. The kids would have your last name and be happier.” she whispered and her eyes filled with tears. 

“Oh, :zhao.” Kara whispered. “It doesn’t matter if you got my last name or not. It wouldn’t stop those who hate you.” She hugged her wife. “You change the Luthor name to something good. You heard what Alex said about his coach.”

The younger woman nodded and let her wife carry her to their bedroom where she could sob without worrying her kids would see her.

Alex’s laptop pinged and he leaned closer to see who messaged him. It was a new friend request from the boy he helped in the locker room. He accepted the friend request and opened the messages.

Lakren

Hello

Thank you for helping me today.

I told my parents what happened and they told me

I was lucky you are one of the good Luthors. 

The blonde stared in surprise for a few minutes before screenshotting the message. He opened the family chat and sent it there before answering back to Lakren.

Alex

Hi

Anyone would do that. 

How is your nose?

and arm?