This follows Wonder Woman #170, an amazing read. This is my imagined aftermath of a Day in the Life with Wonder Woman.
I do not own Wonder Woman, Clark Kent, Kal-El, Superman, or Lois Lane (not that'd I want to). LOL JK.
She came home to find him sitting in his favorite chair.
"I hope you haven't been waiting long Clark."
"No, I just got in myself. A volcano in Indonesia erupted. "
"I see. You had a busy day."
"I won't bore you with the details, I'd much rather hear how your day was. You are coming in at 6 am, so it must have been an eventful time with Diana."
"You could say that."
"How was it?"
"She is everything I thought she was and then again she wasn't. I talked to Steve and Etta Trevor where I learned about her past. We were in France for a lecture where she assumed the role of teacher, Africa where I witnessed her compassion, the Watch Tower where I recognized her brilliant mind. I went with her to D.C. where I saw her diplomacy in action. I saw her with Donna as a sister. Oh get this, she was rejected by some guy and I was reminded that she is indeed still a woman."
"Well stupid guy." He mused with a smirk which somehow unnerved Lois.
"That is the common consensus it seems. There are a lot of pro Wonder Woman supporters out there."
She debated the merits of what she was about to do all over again, but if there was one thing that Lois Lane learned from the Woman of Wonder today
it's that the truth is everything. So, she continued in spite of her reservations.
"But there is one person I neglected to interview to learn all I should."
"Who is that?" Clark asked.
"The person who knows her better than anyone. Her best friend, Kal-El of Krypton." Lois replied. He noted the slight hitch of her voice at using his other name
but did not call her on it.
"I see well maybe I can help," he replied as he removed his glasses.
"You never told me about Asgard." Lois started knowing who she'd be talking to.
"She told you about that?" Kal-El questioned.
"She mentioned it in passing over a game of pool, assuming you had already told me about it of course. What I don't understand is why you never did."
"I…" He stammered before continuing, "didn't want to hurt you."
"What hurts me is that there is a part of you that I will never know. That you hide. Three men in one. Clark Kent, Kal-El, and Superman.
What I gathered today is that she sees more of you than I do, you let her."
"Lois…"
"No don't argue, just let me finish. I'm just stating a fact."
"Lois, nothing happened in Asgard."
"Don't you see? If it were that simple, then you would have told me. I know Clark would never be unfaithful to me but after 1,000 years together I'm not sure even I could consider that a betrayal. Physically maybe nothing happened… She offered me her lasso you know. I knew in that moment I could have asked her anything and she would have answered truthfully. But I realized the one question I wanted to ask I already knew the answer to."
Superman was reluctant to ask what was expected of him, "What question would that be?"
"Is she in love with her best friend, the man she spent a millennium with? It would be quite the scoop if it was a secret, but it is not. A woman knows these things
because it is written all over her face, how she speaks of him, and in her actions. Can you honestly say Kal-El that you both are just friends?"
"It's a non-issue. Besides, I'm Smallville remember? She's a princess for crying out loud!"
Judging by her grimace, he surmised this was not the right retort to give.
"You don't usually call me by my Kryptonian name," He dimly noted.
"It is probably as difficult for me to address you as Kal-El as it is for her to call you Clark. There is power in a name.
You know, she said that you would have died with my name on your lips there, but I am not as convinced as she is."
He made no reply, silently wishing to Rao somehow she would not ask what he knew she would.
"What name would you have spoken if you hadn't won that battle Kal-El. Hers or mine?"
"That place changed me Lois. There were things we saw in that war, I wouldn't wish that on a single soul. We had to rely on each other to survive."
"That's not a reply."
"I'm not sure how to answer your question."
"Then tell me how did you end up defending Asgard anyway? What brought you there?"
"I followed her Lois even when she told me not to, so don't hold it against her. I couldn't let her go through that alone."
"Do you regret it?"
"No," he answered honestly.
"And if she had been the one wounded… if her life had been in danger that day? If your forces had been overwhelmed?"
"Then, I would have stayed and fought at her side to the last as she did for me. I would have died with her."
"Thank you for your honesty. That was the answer I was looking for."
"What do you mean?"
"I know you don't plan it, but when push comes to shove you put her first. You always have. I may have Clark in name.
But Kal-El's heart and Superman's soul are with Wonder Woman."
"Lois, I was happy to come back. To see you again."
"But were you completely unhappy in Asgard? Were you lonely with her there?"
He gave no verbal answer.
"I need time to think about all this Clark, and you should too. One thing your 'friend' taught me is that nothing is worse than living a lie. I'll contact you later, meanwhile I have a story to write about the woman the whole world loves. God I can't even hate her, not all of her. Just the part that calls you Kal, and the part of you that answers."
He knew it would be no use to try and stop her, so he let her go.
