Abandoned
After Lex and Lana's wedding, Lionel walked towards Martha, who was really pretty with that pink dress. Clark had left, Lois and Chloe were going out with their boyfriends… so Martha was alone.
Lionel: Have I said you that you look really pretty today?
Martha: No… - she blushed – but thanks… - she smiled.
She started to walk, and Lionel went with her.
Lionel: Are you going anywhere?
Martha: At home… Clark maybe needs his mum today…
Lionel: Or maybe not… he's a man, now, he had grown… - Martha looked at him not understanding – Maybe he need some time to be alone…
Martha: Well… anyway… I'm going home… I have nowhere to go…
Lionel: How about a dinner?
Martha: With you?
Lionel: Yeah… you… and me… on a restaurant… or wherever you want…
Martha: Wouldn't a restaurant mean a kind of date?
Lionel: Well… how about a dinner at my home? Lex will not be at the mansion today… and you have invited me at the farm too many times… and it's not a date if you don't want!
Martha: Ok.
They went by Lionel's limousine, and the Luthor's servants prepared them a delicious dinner.
Lionel took Martha's hand just when she left the glass of vine on the table. For a while she remembered the day when he had given her the diamond watch, because he hold her hand like then.
Lionel: Martha… these last weeks I have been thinking a lot about us…
Martha: It shouldn't be a date – said she scared of what he was going to say, but he ignored her words.
Lionel: … It has passed nearly half year since thanksgiving and… well… I just need to know if I'm able to still waiting for you or if I should try to forgive you…
Martha: NO! – she blushed.
Lionel: What?
Martha: Don't forgive me! Don't leave me!
Lionel: Of course I will not do it if you don't want… but… these last months I felt that our relationship haven't gone anywhere…
Martha: I'm sorry…
Lionel: Sorry? For what?
Martha: It's my fault! – she started to cry and took her hands to her face – I… I have tried to ignore you! I have tried to put distance between us!
Lionel: Why? I you don't want me to go…
Martha: Because I was frightened… we had already said that we felt something for each other… so I thought that if I wasn't careful we could find it out soon…
Lionel: But that wouldn't be bad…
Martha: It would be, because I was scared, and if that had happened… I would run away from it… and then I would had lost you… and I really didn't want that!
Lionel hold her hands again and dry her tears.
Lionel: Stop crying, please. What do you want now?
Martha: I like being with you. I like you taking care of me. I don't want to lose you… And I… I know that… that I… I love you…
Lionel laughed.
Martha: Is it funny?
Lionel: No! It's great! It's wonderful!
Martha: Why?
Lionel: Because I love you too… and I just need you to allow me to show it you… Martha, please… let me love you, let me show you that you can love again!
Martha: Lionel, I…
He didn't let her finish her sentence, because he put himself closed to her and joined her sweet lips…
Lionel: What were you saying?
Martha: I… I want another kiss…
TO BE CONTINUED…