This story is set in the months after Crossfire and A/U in the fact that Kandor does not happen and Lois does not go 'away'. Rating; No more than PG13
The kiss had changed everything and oh boy what a kiss! Who would have thought Clark had it him, When they finally detached their lips from each other, there had been a round of applause from the crowd, which had gathered for a peek. Lois just freaked, emotional overload and ran to the photocopier room slamming the door after her. Clark was in hot pursuit. On trying the door he found it to be locked.
Clark shouted through the door, "Lois, I'm sorry if I have upset you."
Lois replied, " Clark, just leave me alone."
"Whatever it is, can we just talk about it, please open the door and we can just talk, no funny business"
Clark waited for what felt like an eternity, and then... the lock clicked, and the door opened slightly. There in front of him was a visibly upset Lois, tears in her eyes. She let the door go and walked towards the other side of the room. Clark entered the room, closing the door behind him.
"What is it Lois?, I thought this is what you wanted too. Do you not have feelings for me? If this is not what you want just tell me and we will forget it ever happened."
"I knew it." She said through her tears, " you want out of it now?". It's for the best, it would not have lasted anyway, nothing good ever does."
"Lois, I would not have kissed you if I did not mean. We have known each other over 5 years now and you should know I am not the type to wear my heart on my sleeve unless I mean it"
"I suppose not" she conceded.
"I could not stand it anymore – the looks, the tension between us, even you have to admit there something building between us over the past year or so" Clark said moving towards her slowly, meeting her gaze. He rubbed his hand against her cheek and caught her falling tears.
Their eyes locked, their lips met and produced the most passionate kiss, either of them had ever had experienced.
Things had moved quickly since that moment in the Daily Planet. It was never planned for things to move so quickly but to be honest it felt right. Within a week Lois had moved into the farmhouse, albeit in separate rooms, well at least for the minute. Lois could not bare to be away from Clark, she had to be with him 24/7. Some relationships would falter if couples spent all day together however the pair had spent so long dancing around our feelings they were making up for lost time.
Lois had never imagined Clark for the romantic type, but how wrong could she be. There was the one week anniversary, the one month anniversary and now here was Clark with a bunch of flowers at the door of the farm house.
'Happy 2nd (month) anniversary' he said with his cute smile.
That smile always gave her butterflies.
"Ready for our SAW movie marathon. " He asked
"God Clark, who said romance was dead" Lois replied, smiling
However underneath all this bliss, doubts were forming in Lois's mind. She had been able to dismiss them first, but they were growing. She was so confused. On one hand Clark was the most attentive, considerate and loving boyfriend a woman could hope for, but on the other hand there was SOMETHING... but what was that something... Lois could not put her finger on it. No, she was imagining things, things were perfect..., weren't they?
Lois and Clark cuddled up on the sofa and before the opening titles of SAW 1 had rolled, the movie was all but forgotten about. The heat was rising between them, clothes had started to be removed, then the doubts came back and hit Lois like a sledgehammer. All of a sudden Clark pulled away from her and sat bolt upright
"We agreed to take it slow didn't we" stated Clark, matter of factly.
Lois was exasperated. "Why do you keep doing that?, What is wrong with me? Do you not want me?
"Of course, I do but now is not the right time" he said looking distracted.
"When will be the right time – in 2 weeks, 2 months, a year" she asked
Clark stood up and said "I'm just going to let Shelby in?"
Then it hit Lois, "Clark did not love her after all, he realised he had made a mistake but obviously didn't know how to let her down gently."
What was she going to do about it. It felt like someone had plunged a knife in her heart...
Lois had made her mind up. Whatever Clark had to say would have to wait until the morning.
She was tired, she was emotional, her heart was broken. She did not prolong the conversation when Clark returned. She did not want to hear the words he was about to say.
She needed sleep, if she could get to sleep. She needed to recompose her strength and emotions to deal with the blow that would inevitably follow the next day.
She said a goodnight to a very confused Clark and took herself of to bed. Once in bed, she snuggled into bed and let the tears fall freely onto the pillow.
Clark was puzzled, what had just happened. Then it dawned on him, the double life he was leading was starting to affect the 'reason' he came back for. Lois meant everything to him. He never believed he could feel this complete as a person, this in love. Lois Lane was his world, his universe.
Whatever he had with Lana didn't even register when compared to what he had experienced with Lois for the past two months. Lois was the most annoying human being to walk the Earth, but god he loved her so much it hurt. Life without her would be unbearable...
But however important Lois was to him, he had another purpose, he was needed elsewhere. At first he was able to cover up his disappearances and absences when he heard a 'cry for help', but Lois wasn't stupid. She would not fall for his excuses forever and tonight proved this. Selfishly he sometimes wished his hearing wasn't so effective. On the other hand if he had not heard the distress calls tonight people would have died.
He wondered what was going through her mind as she lay in bed, and wished he still had his mind reading abilities to give him some insight. He wanted to go and lie next to her and experience things he could only dream about, but then there was a barrier...HIS POWERS.
Was this relationship destined to go the same way as it did with Lana. How could he expect someone as passionate as Lois go without ever being 'with' him. Maybe he underestimated Lois too much. She was selfless, always putting others first and always fighting for what she believed in.
This had been proved to him, before he reset time in the barn. She has accepted him, looked at him the same way as she always had. How many people would react that way when faced with the truth that your friend was an alien from a distant planet with special powers. Lois was not like other people, she was different, she was special, she was his Lois!
Then suddenly everything became clear. He would just have to tell her the truth!
Lois woke to warm breath on her face. She thought, finally Clark has realised he loves me after all. But then again, Clark did not have breath that smelt of doggy drops. It was Shelby!
"Shelby, what are you doing?" as the dog licked her face. "Well at least someone loves me."
Her thoughts went back to the previous night and her heart started pounding. She did not want to hear those words in the morning. She had considered leaving a note for Clark, sneaking out and making it easy for Clark. But then she thought 'why should I?' Clark is dumping me and I want to know why.
Since Chloe's wedding, Lois had never chased Clark, she had given him so many opportunities to explain that almost-kiss as a 'getting caught up in the moment' kind of thing. But he never did, in fact it was rarely mentioned.
It was more the looks he gave her, the way he touched her, always pretending it was an accident of course. He did say little things which gave her hope, but they never turned into anything.
Then finally that moment at the Daily Planet! She was in full Lois rant mode when he planted IT... Maybe it was the only way he could shut her up. But there had been so much passion and longing in that kiss. It like all the feelings that had built up over the past five years were being released in one go.
Perhaps things had moved to quick for Clark – moving in within a week was quick. But Clark had wanted it as much as her, he had her stuff moved over from the Talon within an hour and cooked her a special meal.
Then there was the sex issue, or lack of it. She had never seen Clark as the passionate type, more the steady and dependable type – the sort of boyfriend you could take to meet your parents. But their kisses/clinches had dispelled that myth and it was obvious he wanted to go further but there was something holding him back.
Lois could wait, but she wanted to talk about it. Clark seemed to change the subject every time she brought it up. In fact she was so sick of hearing the 'take it slow' routine. They were not 18yrs old anymore – they were adults!
She knew for a fact that Lana shared a bed with Clark when they were together because Chloe had made a joke about it. And she was sure that Lana and Clark had been at it like rabbits.
The one thing Lois really needed was someone to talk to – Chloe! Unfortunately Chloe was out of town with her new boyfriend, Stuart. They had gone to a computer exhibition in Star City for a few days – how romantic! Lois had never found out the full story about how those two had met, but the main thing is Chloe seemed like her old self again for the first time since Jimmy was killed.
Her thoughts came back to the upcoming events of the morning. She had a head full of questions of why and what went wrong to fire at Clark. He would not know what had hit him. She was not going to make it easy for him.
Her head was a mess of conflicting messages which needed to be put into order. Clark was like a Jekyll and Hyde. Which was the real him, and what were his true feelings.
On this thought she drifted off to sleep and dreamt about her dad telling her, ' A Lane would not give up without a fight'
She woke up at this thought and realised her dad was right. She had always been brought up to fight for what she wanted and to not give up. She was going to fight for Clark and she knew just how to do it.
Tonight, let the seduction of Clark Kent commence...she thought with a naughty smile.
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Clark was up at the crack of dawn like he was every morning since Lois moved in. Gone were the days when he could do the farm chores at superspeed. Finising all the farm chores in six seconds could have aroused Lois's suspicions. Now he was relegated to the slow lane, not that he minded because he could spend time thinking about having breakfast with the most beautiful woman in the world.
He briefly thought back to the time Lana lived with him, and how his life had turned into a boring routine of sameness. Life with Lana was a bit like one of those horrible liqueur chocolates – all sweet and sugar coated on the outside but when you got deeper it was bitter.
When thinking back he had realised how bored he was, there was not the passion he has with Lois. If Lana had not absorbed the kryptonite, he asked himself, where would we be now. Probably consigned to a passionless life of routine.
It had taken him the 9 months since Lana left to come to this realisation. All Lana was interested in was herself. No sane woman could put up with Lex Luthor's web of lies and deceit, never mind marry him.
He never worked out why he had restarted his relationship with her when she came back all those months ago. It was as though she had a spell over him. When she came back and clicked her fingers, he would go running like a lap dog.
When Clark consigned Lana's photo to the album, he also got rid of her out of his heart. Now all that matter was the realisation that had been right in front of him all this time. "Lois Lane was the love of his life, the woman he was destined to be with forever and nothing would change that" Her love was unselfish, served no other purpose and contained no ulterior motives.
Nobody messed with Lois and Clark and this announcement he was going to make tonight would only change things for the better...
