For Kon

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Once he'd gotten Clark settled, Lex wanted nothing more then to go home to the comfort Anatoly would provide once he heard Lex's news. Whenever he thought of Clark's return to the island, he'd prepared himself for another disgruntled teenager or the man who would grow up to be Lex's enemy. This new, mature version was almost more then Lex could

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"Lex?" Kon came up from behind him. One of his surfboards was in his arm and he was in board shorts and nothing else. He frowned at the urgency in Lex's actions. "Hey, what's...Anatoly isn't hurt, right?" Oh god, he hoped that Anatoly wasn't hurt.

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At his name, Lex whirled around and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Kon. The concern for Anatoly brought a small smile to the corner of Lex's lips for a moment. "No...no, Anatoly is alright. I..." He hated Clark for a moment for putting him in this position. He still wasn't very good at things like this. "I have something I need to tell you."

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"Tell…" Kon frowned. What was so urgent that Lex would come banging down his door and it not be about Anatoly? Was it...he knew that Lex didn't like Cassie and he wasn't sure whether he liked Bart, but that didn't mean he wouldn't be concerned on his behalf if something happened to either of them, right? "Just tell me, Lex."

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Lex just looked at Kon for a long moment, wishing he knew a better way to say this, wishing he'd had a better role model for a caring parent. He even wished he could have let Anatoly do this, but Lex knew he owed Kon this much.

"Clark is back. The one from my universe. He's...he's not a teenager anymore, since he's from 8 years in my future." He and Clark were the same age, Lex would never be able to wrap his brain around that. But now wasn't the time to think about that. Now was about help Kon deal with this.