Title: Nightmares
Author: Fuer Grissa Ost Drauka
Rating: PG-13 (T)
Pairing: Clois
Summary: Lois tells the Kents about her nightmare. (4:22- 'Commencement')
Disclaimer: I don't own any of it.
"I can't help but feel this is some kind of warning," Clark said as he anxiously tapped the mug in front of him with his thumb.
"Clark," Martha said reassuringly as she poured some milk into a mug, "it was nothing but a bad dream."
"You used to have them all the time when you were little, remember?" Jonathan said.
"This time's different. It felt so real, and if it is a warning," Clark turned his head towards Martha, "I need to do something."
"What you need to do is get some shut eye so you're not half-asleep tomorrow when they hand you that diploma."
"Your dad's right. Don't let a nightmare spoil your high school graduation."
The soft thump of footsteps accompanied the inquisitive voice of Lois Lane. "Nightmare?" she asked as she walked down the stairs. "So that's what all this commotion is about."
"Lois," Jonathan greeted her as she made her way over to them.
"You know, if it makes you feel any better, I have them all the time."
Martha looked on, amused, as Lois continued.
"I had this one last week, really scary, this, uh, guy wearing a red cape," she said with a slight shudder.
"Wow, that sounds horrible, Lois," Clark said sarcastically.
Lois leveled a look at him, when she noticed that he didn't understand how truly terrifying everything that the man in the red cape symbolized was for her. "It's the same thing every time. In my nightmare," she explained, "I'm falling off a building. I close my eyes as the ground rushes up to me, but then the falling sensation ends. I open my eyes slowly, wondering why I didn't hit the pavement, but all I can see is a blue, spandex clad chest. I pull away enough to look around and see that we're flying- or he's flying, I guess.
"We land on a roof-top, and he sets me down gently, allowing me to get a good look at him."
Clark unconsciously leaned forward slightly, wondering what part - other than the falling - could have been considered scary.
"He's wearing this… ridiculous looking costume: a blue, spandex body suit with bright red boots, underwear -outside his clothes-, and a red cape. There's a symbol on his chest, but it's blurry - just like his face.
"He starts reprimanding me for going after some drug-lord without him, but I can tell he's only worried, so it doesn't really bother me." The corner of her mouth twitched upwards slightly. "According to him, I'm always putting myself in unnecessary danger."
The slight grin she'd been wearing quickly disappeared.
"Then everything begins changing to a seemingly endless white room. I look all around, finding nothing but whiteness, but when I turn back there's a woman standing there. Even though it's blurred, I can tell that the symbol on her chest is the same as the one the guy in tights is wearing. She tells me that she simply wanted to meet the woman her son will one day marry," Lois said awkwardly. "I try to tell her that she's mistaken, but she keeps talking about me and the guy in the red cape being soul mates. After a minute, I yell at her, saying -in more colorful words- that there's no way in hell that she's right about any of this and that I'm going to wake up from this nightmare at any moment. She stops speaking and looks at me with this weird, amused- proud look and just says that she can see why Kal-El will fall in love with me," she said in a slightly aggravated tone.
"What?" she asked when she noticed the stunned looks in each of the Kents' faces.
The End.